Neil deGrasse Tyson - We Stopped Dreaming (Episode 1)

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*FOR THOSE SAYING THE MUSIC IS TOO LOUD* This is the adjusted one http://youtu.be/Fl07UfRkPas

The intention of this project is to stress the importance of advancing the space frontier and is focused on igniting scientific curiosity in the general public.

I give immense credit to The Sagan Series for providing the inspiration for this video.
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MUSIC:
Arrival of the Birds and Transformation by The Cinematic Orchestra http://www.amazon.com/The-Crimson-Wing-Flamingos-Soundtrack/dp/B001QI49RK/ref...

Credits
When We Left Earth http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/nasa/nasa.html
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart http://www.thedailyshow.com/
HUBBLE 3D http://www.imax.com/hubble/
NASA TV http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
The Amazing Meeting http://www.amazingmeeting.com/TAM2011/
"US Mint" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZzKDLriCow
"New $100 Note" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgaytKcx2NI
Real Time with Bill Maher http://www.hbo.com/real-time-with-bill-maher/index.html
Pale Blue Dot - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot
STS-135 Ascent Imagery Highlights http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikzxtwrUZ1o
CSPAN State of the Union Address http://www.c-span.org/
The Sagan Series http://www.facebook.com/thesaganseries
The Asteroid that Flattened Mars http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgMXPXdqJn8
University of Buffalo Communications http://www.communication.buffalo.edu/
Mars Curiosity Rover http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnlvvuzeIN4
Spectacular Milky Way Galaxy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN5gYywjfdk

Here's what happened in the 1960's

we were at war with the Soviet Union,

Cold War,

and a little bit Hot War over in Southeast Asia.

So we fear them because they put up Sputnik,

which by the way, people forget,

was an emptied out casing of an intercontinental ballistic missile.

And Sputnick itself means "fellow traveler" so it was all peaceful.

But it was a ballistic missile head without explosives.

So that a signal and we freaked in America.

So NASA got founded on the fear-factor of Sputnik.

Alright so, we then go to the moon

on the fear-factor that Russia will control the high ground.

Then we go to the moon, space entusiasts say

"oh, we're on the moon in '69 we'll be on Mars in another 10 years."

They completely did not understand why we got to the moon

in the first place.

We were at war.

Once we saw that Russia was not ready to land on the moon,

we stopped going to the moon.

That should not surprise anyone looking back on it.

Meanwhile, however, that entire era galvanized the nation.

Forget the war, it galvanizes all to dream about tomorrow.

To think about the homes of tomorrow,

the cities of tomorrow,

the food of tomorrow.

Everything was futureworld, futureland.

The World's Fair, all this was focused on enabling

people to make tomorrow come.

That was a cultural mindset that the

space program brought upon us.

And we reaped the benefits of economic growth because

you had people wanting to become scientists and engineers,

or the people who enable tomorrow to exist today.

And even if you're not a scientist, or a technologist,

you will value that activity.

And that in the 21st Century are the foundations of tomorrow's economies,

and without it we might as well just slide back into

the caves, because that where we're headed

right now, broke.

I'm tired of saying this, but I have to say it again!

The NASA budget is four-tenths of one penny on a tax dollar!

If I held up the tax dollar, and i cut horizontally into it

four-tenths of 1% of its width it doesn't even get you

into the ink.

So I will not accept a statement that says

"We can't afford it!"

Do you realize that the $850 billion dollar

bank bailout, that sum of money,

is greater than the entire 50 year running budget of NASA?

And so when someone says we dont have enough money

for this space program,

I'm asking, "No, it's not that you don't have enough money,

it's that the distribution of the 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.

The home of tomorrow, the city of tomorrow,

the transportation of tomorrow, all that ended in the 1970's.

After we stopped going to the moon, it all ended,

we stopped dreaming.

And so I worry that decisions that Congress makes

doesn't factor in the consequences of those decisions on tomorrow.

They're playing for the quarterly report,

they're playing for the next election cycle,

and that is mortgaging the actual future of this nation.

Tomorrow's gone!

If you double NASA's budget

,right now it's half a penny on the dollar,

make it a penny, go ahead,

make it a penny!

Be bold!

That would be enough to go Mars soon, with people.

And go back to the moon, and go out to asteroids.

NASA as best as I can judge

is a force of nature like none other.

And so what worries me is that if you take away

the manned program, a program which if you advance frontiers,

heroes are made!

There is a force operating on the educational pipeline

that will stimulate the formation of

scientists, engineers, mathematics, and technologists.

You birth these people into society.

They're the ones that make tomorrow come.

A half a penny!

That buys the space station, the space shuttles,

all the NASA centers, the rovers, the Hubble Telescope,

all the astronauts, all of that!

Nobody's dreaming about tomorrow anymore.

The most powerful agency on the dreams of a nation

is currently underfunded to do what it needs to be doing,

and that's making dreams come true.

How much would you pay for the universe?