Bill Nye Needs You to Help Save Planetary Exploration

Bill Nye needs your help! We're writing the President of the United States, asking him to restore the funding cuts to NASA's planetary exploration program. Learn more and write your own letter at: http://planetary.org/SOS

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[LiberatedGodlessness]

I came here because I like planetary exploration.

[MrBobman15]

I came here from psychicpebbles

[evhantheinfidel]

Or, starting or getting involved in wars that spur work, I suppose. That doesn't always work and is ethically unthinkable, however.

[evhantheinfidel]

We have the money now, people just like to pretend that we don't. NASA hasn't made significant effects on the economy in the last ten years, and it's also been longer since people have gone anywhere more significant than geosynchronous orbit. I honestly think that politics and economics are too fuzzy and uncontrolled to draw any good causal relationships from retrospective analyses, but getting people excited about science and increase in technology are the best ways to fix any economy.

[Jeff Wright]

Name one, just one significant thing in the past ten years NASA has done to stimulate our economy. Honestly it's not going to create another Tech boom, that already happened. I think space exploration is a good thing, but we need to get the government back on track before it's a priority. Back in the 60's we had the money to spend to start space/science programs. We don't have that money now. Find something to cut and then fill it in with space exploration.

[evhantheinfidel]

Jeff Wright the uneducated, incurious, myopic guy. Jeff! Jeff! Jeff! Jeff! Jeff Wright the forget the intellectual crest and subsequent tech boom of the 60s through 90s guy.

[Kevin Tarvin]

You are incorrect sir. You see, there are things about space exploration that we can figure out....

[nightwolf725]

I came here to bitch at my government, in the name of mars.

[Jeff Wright]

Bill Nye the bad economics guy. Bill Nye. Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill Nye the forget the trillion dollar deficit guy.

[john mcclure]

I'll start writing when Bill Nye starts liking kids

[jrzy49]

Space exploration stimulates the economy. Our country will fall behind if we do not continue to explore the most fundamentally important questions of our existence.