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Bill Nye 'the Science Guy' Urges Letters To Obama To Restore NASA Budget Cuts
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.'"
excuse me but, NASA is a private government corporation. they don't do anything for the public besides showing us some bullshit screenshots. How do we know how much information NASA is holding from the public? they are obviously allowed to do this. we shouldn't let NASA do the exploring for us, we need a public NON government corporation for the people, by the people. I want a website of a LIVE video camera that shows what these telescopes in orbit are showing these scientists looking in deep space, like the Hubble telescope. These observatories are completely capable of showing us by video LIVE everything they are looking at. Today If I want to explore space I have to buy a bullshit cheap telescope, google edited videos, documentaries, and screenshots. This isn't space exploration, and I shouldn't have to be a millionaire. so funk NASA.