 Hey guys, welcome to another video. What I want to discuss today? Space exploration. One of my favorite topics is space exploration, outer space, pushing the frontier, and all the innovation it eventually leads up to, the positive impact it has on a community, on a society, and on the global culture in general. What is your perception of the value of space exploration, of going into outer space, of funding, the branches of government, or the projects that lead to this? It might vary. It depends on what kind of things you value, on on how you think the distribution of funds of a particular government are, whether you think they're doing it right or wrong. That can vary from person to person, so I have no idea what you think. But here's just what I think as of now. I think that for my position of where I am today, I want to make this clear. I'm just a student, another college graduate in debt that I'm gonna have to pay off. My parents are immigrants. They've worked and worked. They're citizens and they've worked their asses off for me, for my younger brother and really, they've just been working for all these years, saving up money here and there so me and my younger brother could have it well and they put themselves through a lot. With their work ethic, I literally always ask my dad how come he doesn't choose to start his own business. He definitely has the work ethic to do so. That's my current position right now. I'm not from the best part of Philly. I'm from Philadelphia and so I'm just another person. I just want to make that clear. I have a lot to learn. But I think it's very true that space exploration is really valuable. One of my favorite speakers on the topic and if you know him, you probably enjoy listening to him as well is Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, the astrophysicist. He has a lot to say about NASA and I really, really respect the way he puts himself out there about it. I think it's important as well. I definitely agree with his views on it, which is essentially that it's really valuable that it changes the society when it's one of the core innovations that are in progress. That people are valuing it changes the culture and it has a positive impact. Space exploration pushes the frontiers of knowledge. It pushes the frontiers of modern-day investigation and this is the stuff that our dreams are made of. We're not gonna find it anywhere else than pushing the boundaries of what we know of what of where we've been. Some of the logic behind it, and you can find this in a variety of speeches, of talks, debates. Space exploration leads to innovation inevitably and what I find most disappointing, especially seeing the debates on Facebook, where the merits of the program and of space exploration are minimized simply because you don't really see the immediate effects of exploration. Usually when you learn how to build technologies for, say, how to operate in the vacuum of space or how to travel a certain distance, these aren't technologies directly built for any other particular reason, but the physics behind it, the technology behind it, it is often used in modern-day society in ways we could have never predicted. And you can find examples all over the place, there are a myriad of examples of this. Where would I be interested in seeing the research go next? I would love to see travel, potential travel for further distance. I remember hearing one thing that was said, I don't want to misquote, so I'm just going to approximate what I remember and it might be off and you can call me out on it, you can call me out on anything. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. I think it had something to do with what the president said about the future of space exploration and about how we would be on Mars in 18 to 20 years. And then I saw Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson's response to that and I loved his response. His response was basically that pushes the innovation away, the pushing boundaries gets played by that. 18 to 20 years, we could literally do that much sooner. No, we could really do that much sooner. Oh, and this also has a funny effect. This pushes the innovation in a place where it's not during the president's potential terms of his time served in office. Something that I think Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson said was when John F. Kennedy said we were going to the moon, his estimation or his projected time for accomplishing that was when around the time he was still president. So when he foresaw his goal of accomplishing this was still during that period, but this just sort of pushes it out of the boundary and it delays it for such a long time. So it'd be great if we could go to Mars, but it'd be great if we could do it sooner. Here's a question I posted myself that I think it's fun and I think it'll be fun for you to consider for yourself too. If you had the opportunity to go to Mars or anywhere else to the moon, but I think it's more interesting when you push the boundaries to beyond where we've been. So to Mars, there's a risk involved in that. There's an implicit and maybe an even explicit risk that because we haven't been there. Something could go wrong. Would you take that risk? Would you want to be one of the explorers to push the boundaries? And originally I thought no, it's the scariest thing ever. But the more I think about it, the more I realize how much I value exploration and how I would love to be that person, to be one of the people pushing the boundaries of exploration. So would I go to Mars if I could? Hell yeah, I would. I would love it. And it's scary. It really is. To think about being a person taking that sort of risk being somewhere no one else has been. But I think it'll also be one of the most fascinating, one of the most great experiences a person can have. But in the end, it's space exploration is not over and pushing the boundaries of it is not over. So long as civilization exists for a long enough time, if it continues to exist and progress, then pushing the boundaries in space exploration is an inevitability. It's one of the next frontiers and whether it's today or a hundred years from now, a thousand years from now, it's going to happen. And for me, I really hope that I can help or contribute in whatever action I can in space exploration, even if it's miniscule. I want to help assist that progress. And so long as that progress is positive as well, I can't wait to see what happens.