"First of all, let’s clarify what the NASA budget is. Do you realize that the $850 billion dollar bailout, that sum of money is greater than the entire 50-year running budget of NASA? And so when someone says, 'We don’t have enough money for this space probe,' I’m asking, no, it’s not that you don’t have enough money, it’s that the distribution of money that you’re spending is warped in some way that you are removing the only thing that gives people something to dream about tomorrow."
Seriously, friends. As an American, you should be proud of NASA. As an intelligent American who cares about the future, you should be fighting for the funding of NASA and its role as the cradle of scientific advancements and discoveries (among many other things).
And it's relatively easy to help, too.
This may be an outrageous suggestion, but writing your congressmen is better than sitting on the Internet and whining about how your own thumb is up your own ass. If the progression of humanity means anything to you, then you'll stop this endless circlejerk of agressive slacktivism and do something about the future of NASA in the United States.
Now go outside and say thank you to the Earth. Neither of us will be here forever, you know. (Especially us mortals with our paltry 70-ish year lifespan. Ha. That's laughable.)
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"We came all this way to explore the moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth."
-Astronaut Bill Anders, Pilot, Apollo 8
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