28 AUG 2011 by ideonexus
Neil deGrasse Tyson on NASA Funding
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. You rem...The economic bailout was more than the entire history of NASA's budget. America is prioritizing toward the next quarter instead of the future.