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Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.83,0:00:06.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's what happened in the 1960's
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.71,0:00:08.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we were at war with the Soviet Union,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.41,0:00:09.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cold War,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.59,0:00:11.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a little bit Hot War over in Southeast Asia.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.82,0:00:16.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we fear them because they put up Sputnik,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.21,0:00:18.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which by the way, people forget,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.50,0:00:22.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was an emptied out casing of an intercontinental ballistic missile.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.30,0:00:26.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Sputnick itself means "fellow traveler" so it was all peaceful.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.46,0:00:30.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it was a ballistic missile head without explosives.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.41,0:00:33.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that a signal and we freaked in America.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.54,0:00:38.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So NASA got founded on the fear-factor of Sputnik.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.08,0:00:40.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Alright so, we then go to the moon
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.66,0:00:43.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the fear-factor that Russia will control the high ground.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.79,0:00:47.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then we go to the moon, space entusiasts say
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.08,0:00:52.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"oh, we're on the moon in '69 we'll be on Mars in another 10 years."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.58,0:00:55.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They completely did not understand why we got to the moon
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.87,0:00:57.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the first place.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.02,0:00:58.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were at war.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.29,0:01:01.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once we saw that Russia was not ready to land on the moon,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.50,0:01:03.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we stopped going to the moon.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.04,0:01:05.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That should not surprise anyone looking back on it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.91,0:01:10.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Meanwhile, however, that entire era galvanized the nation.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.24,0:01:13.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Forget the war, it galvanizes all to dream about tomorrow.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.99,0:01:16.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To think about the homes of tomorrow,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.58,0:01:17.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the cities of tomorrow,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.79,0:01:18.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the food of tomorrow.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.96,0:01:21.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything was futureworld, futureland.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.25,0:01:26.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The World's Fair, all this was focused on enabling
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.50,0:01:29.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people to make tomorrow come.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.66,0:01:33.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was a cultural mindset that the
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.71,0:01:35.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,space program brought upon us.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.33,0:01:39.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we reaped the benefits of economic growth because
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.07,0:01:42.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you had people wanting to become scientists and engineers,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.32,0:01:47.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the people who enable tomorrow to exist today.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.04,0:01:50.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And even if you're not a scientist, or a technologist,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.70,0:01:52.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you will value that activity.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.54,0:01:56.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that in the 21st Century are the foundations of tomorrow's economies,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.83,0:01:58.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and without it we might as well just slide back into
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.83,0:02:00.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the caves, because that where we're headed
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.58,0:02:02.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right now, broke.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.96,0:02:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm tired of saying this, but I have to say it again!
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.00,0:02:11.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The NASA budget is four-tenths of one penny on a tax dollar!
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.41,0:02:16.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I held up the tax dollar, and i cut horizontally into it
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.66,0:02:18.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,four-tenths of 1% of its width it doesn't even get you
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.96,0:02:21.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into the ink.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.67,0:02:25.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I will not accept a statement that says
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.05,0:02:27.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We can't afford it!"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.08,0:02:33.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you realize that the $850 billion dollar
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.33,0:02:35.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bank bailout, that sum of money,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.91,0:02:40.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is greater than the entire 50 year running budget of NASA?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.92,0:02:42.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so when someone says we dont have enough money
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.88,0:02:44.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for this space program,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.38,0:02:45.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm asking, "No, it's not that you don't have enough money,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.99,0:02:49.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's that the distribution of the money that you're spending
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.40,0:02:53.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is warped, in some way, that you are removing the
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.33,0:02:56.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only thing that gives people something to dream about tomorrow.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.82,0:02:59.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The home of tomorrow, the city of tomorrow,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.75,0:03:04.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the transportation of tomorrow, all that ended in the 1970's.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.30,0:03:05.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After we stopped going to the moon, it all ended,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.80,0:03:08.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we stopped dreaming.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.25,0:03:09.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I worry that decisions that Congress makes
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.83,0:03:14.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doesn't factor in the consequences of those decisions on tomorrow.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.83,0:03:16.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're playing for the quarterly report,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.83,0:03:18.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're playing for the next election cycle,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.54,0:03:22.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that is mortgaging the actual future of this nation.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.66,0:03:24.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tomorrow's gone!
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.24,0:03:35.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you double NASA's budget
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.82,0:03:37.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,,right now it's half a penny on the dollar,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.38,0:03:38.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,make it a penny, go ahead,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.88,0:03:40.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,make it a penny!
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.33,0:03:41.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be bold!
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.79,0:03:43.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That would be enough to go Mars soon, with people.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.16,0:03:44.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And go back to the moon, and go out to asteroids.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.100,0:03:47.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,NASA as best as I can judge
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.83,0:03:51.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a force of nature like none other.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.62,0:03:54.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so what worries me is that if you take away
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.37,0:03:58.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the manned program, a program which if you advance frontiers,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.12,0:04:00.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,heroes are made!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.87,0:04:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a force operating on the educational pipeline
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.00,0:04:08.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that will stimulate the formation of
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.55,0:04:12.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,scientists, engineers, mathematics, and technologists.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.24,0:04:14.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You birth these people into society.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.38,0:04:18.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're the ones that make tomorrow come.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.96,0:04:22.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A half a penny!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.47,0:04:23.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That buys the space station, the space shuttles,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.66,0:04:26.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all the NASA centers, the rovers, the Hubble Telescope,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.58,0:04:28.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all the astronauts, all of that!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.83,0:04:31.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nobody's dreaming about tomorrow anymore.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.12,0:04:33.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The most powerful agency on the dreams of a nation
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.88,0:04:39.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is currently underfunded to do what it needs to be doing,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.33,0:04:42.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's making dreams come true.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.50,0:04:48.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How much would you pay for the universe?