Neil deGrasse Tyson continues his onslaught on the government’s betrayal of science
When Astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson was on Bill Maher last week, he laid into the plans to slash NASA’s budget. When the topic of the James Webb Space Telescope came up, he broke in and said, “Don’t get me started.” Maher had him. “No, I want to get you started…” What followed was intelligent, eloquent, passionate, and truthful – all of the qualities of a rant worth watching. We posted the video he had produced about it last month, but this one is even better because it came off the cuff, from the heart. Today, he continued the attacks with a little humor in the tweet above. Go ahead, click through and retweet him if you believe he’s right. Here’s his original rant from last week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_F3pw5F_Pc
I think the majority of the reason (other than the U.S. being stuck in corporate greed) is that there is no major competitor that the U.S. is racing with, so they don’t give a fart. I think all our Astronomers and Astrophysicist, as other scientists should get onboard with a country that cares.
The man speaks the truth, and people need to listen.
We need more people like him. This country is dumbing itself down day-by day and we are falling by the wayside. So may people these days are content to take things as they are told and at face value and forget to use our greatest asset……… our brain. The sad thing is that those in power want a dumb general public since it is so much easier to exploit. Lets face it, our greed has finally surpassed our ability to dream and we as a race are now on the downward path to our own destruction.
That was awesome and so true…