http://fora.tv/2009/02/04/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson_The_Pluto_Files#fullprogram
Chapter 18 is especially interesting. On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 7:28 AM, Constance Warner <cawar...@his.com> wrote: > Well, my main point was that you really need to tell your congressperson > and senators that you want GPS and other space programs to continue. If > not, they will go away. (And we will all go away if, in 2036, the asteroid > turns out to be headed straight for earth and we haven't spent the money to > figure out how to deflect it and we haven't built the hardware to go up > there and actually do it.) > > NASA is heavily dependent on political factors to get the funding for basic > programs that you would think would need no justification. Like the > national parks, they are chronically underfunded. (You would think that > funding the national parks is another no-brainer, but they've suffered > greatly during the last 8 years, and they weren't exactly rolling in the > dough before that.) > > And I DO think the manned space program is important. I hope NASA--or > someone else--gets the funding to do the basic research to make more manned > space flight possible, to the moon and and beyond. (For example, I've heard > of work on an engine that would get to Mars in less than a quarter of a time > than current hardware could. It's a step in the right direction.) > > Robots are great, but they are no substitute for humans. > > --Constance Warner > > On Sep 11, 2009, at 9:43 AM, Chris Dunford wrote: > > Actually, there are quite a few reasons to be in space >>> >> >> Constance, I might have missed something, but I didn't see anyone >> disagreeing with this. The disagreement is about the manned space program... >> >> >> ************************************************************************* >> ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** >> ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** >> ************************************************************************* >> > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
