Bill Nye 'the Science Guy' Urges Letters To Obama To Restore NASA Budget Cuts

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday October 13, 2012 @10:57AM from the or-send-twenties dept.

MarkWhittington writes "Bill Nye, once known as 'The Science Guy' for his 1990s PBS educational television show, has cut a YouTube video in his current capacity of CEO of the Planetary Society urging people to write to President Obama to restore cuts to planetary science. The budget cuts were enacted by the president last February, causing consternation in the scientific community. Nye writes, 'If that proposal continues the steep decline in funding to NASA's planetary program it will gravely endanger the unique capabilities and outstanding people that have delivered U.S. leadership in space. We will lose a capability that took decades to develop and may never be replaced.'"

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Not sure I care what Bill Nye thinks by sumdumass · 2012-10-13 11:04 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Maybe Bill Nye the science guy would have more of an audience if he didn't talk about creationism and religious doctrine under the guise of science and stuck with science.
I'm afraid this might backfire with religious groups now associating NASA with anti-religion because of his earlier comments and create a backlash against the government wasting money on NASA.