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Audacious Visions For Future Spaceflight
New submitter nagalman writes "There is a very powerful video out that takes the audio of words from Neil deGrasse Tyson, receiver of the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, and meshes it with powerful images of the history and successful outcomes of NASA. Through Penny4NASA, Dr. Tyson is pressing for the budget of NASA to be doubled from 0.5% to 1% of the federal budget in order to spur vision, interest, dreams, public excitement, and innovation into science and engineering. With Kansas stating that 'evolution could not rule out a supernatural or theistic source, that evolution itself was not fact but only a theory and one in crisis, and that Intelligent Design must be considered a viable alternative to evolution,' and North Carolina's legislature circulating a bill telling people to ignore climate science, maybe it's time we start listening to experts who have a proven record of success, rather than ideology that has only been 'proven' in the mind of elected politicians."
What do you mean "maybe it's time we start listening to experts?" To which hypothetical phantasm are you directing this question? Since when has any reasonable individual listened to a politician over a scientist, to ideology over reason? This person you imagine does not exist. Therefore I suppose you might be addressing someone who has done something like the aforementioned. First, I doubt they're reading Slashdot. Beyond that, if one is an adult and hasn't come to these conclusions on their own then a burial permit is the right thing for them, not a Neil deGrasse Tyson lecture. There's some downright optimistic individuals out there and you seem to be one of them - I'm afraid you're misguided. Let the cynicism flow. Maybe then we can get some real change happening.
Sorry, SpaceX is the Bitcoins of space exploration: A libertarian pipe dream at best.