I was recently linked by a friend to a video on YouTube. Someone decided that NASA's inability to promote its work and space exploration at large to the public was a travesty. They thought that such programs were instrumental to the future of humanity, and that the space agency's failure to popularize them again was a major problem. So they produced this, using quite beautiful imagery, minimalist but moving music, and one of Carl Sagan's most famous and enduring quotations. To put it simply, the video moved me.
So I think, our sci-fi love aside, we need to have a serious discussion. With all the problems on Earth, with all our poverty and war and famine and disease, is it necessary or even right to give greater funding to organizations like NASA? Or, on the flip side, knowing our species is quickly eclipsing our homeworld's ability to provide for us, is it imperative that we find new ways to explore and hopefully colonize the stars?
So I think, our sci-fi love aside, we need to have a serious discussion. With all the problems on Earth, with all our poverty and war and famine and disease, is it necessary or even right to give greater funding to organizations like NASA? Or, on the flip side, knowing our species is quickly eclipsing our homeworld's ability to provide for us, is it imperative that we find new ways to explore and hopefully colonize the stars?
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