Bill Nye's Open Letter to President Barack Obama
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Stand with the Planetary Society and with Bill. Write the President and your elected officials and tell them to #FundPlanetary: Support our Space Advocacy Program: https://secure.planetary.org/site/Donation2?df_id=4404&4404.donation=form1 Bill Nye's letter full text: Mr. President, The space program, NASA, is the best brand the United States has. Everywhere in the world, people respect and admire what NASA does. Right now, what NASA does best is explore the Solar System through the Planetary Science Program. People around the world shared the seven minutes of terror as we lowered an extraordinary car bristling with extraordinary instruments onto the surface of Mars from a crane held aloft in that alien sky by rockets. Many thought it was impossible because nothing like it had ever been done before. You and your family remember applauding as a replica of that rover rolled by in the inaugural parade. Over the last few years, Congress has added back funding for the planetary program that the Office of Management and Budget has cut. We all understand it's a push and pull process–a negotiation. But planetary science deserves special attention, because it is special. It is a remarkable value in which we should maintain or even increase our investment. We recommend that planetary science receive $1.5 billion dollars a year. That's less than 10 percent of NASA's budget, which in turn is less than 0.5% of the federal budget. The planetary science division of the space program accomplishes extraordinary things, because it is extraordinary. We want to look for signs of life on other worlds, places like Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus. That work is done by our planetary explorers, scientists and engineers, who really are seeking signs of life on another world. Such a discovery would be astounding. It would, as so many astronomical discoveries have, change the course of human history. Planetary exploration not only brings us astonishing discoveries from other worlds, it inherently leads to innovation, because we invest in solving problems which have never been solved before. That in turn creates new businesses and economic growth. But more importantly, supporting a robust space program raises everyone's expectation of what's possible. With a space program, everyone in our society comes to believe and expect that any problem we face can be solved. It's inherently optimistic. It's part of our national character. So Mr. President: we strongly recommend that you make sure that funding for the planetary science program is at least $1.5 billion dollars per year. It will keep our current missions flying, ensure we create new missions, and it will lead to amazing new innovations, new businesses, and new discoveries for our future. Investing in planetary science changes the world. Thank you. Bill Nye Chief Executive Officer The Planetary Society Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: http://planet.ly/ytsubscribe Follow us! Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/planetarysociety Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/exploreplanets Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/planetarysociety On the web: http://www.planetary.org About The Planetary Society: The Planetary Society has inspired millions of people to explore other worlds and seek other life. With the mission to empower the world's citizens to advance space science and exploration, its international membership makes the non-governmental Planetary Society the largest space interest group in the world. Carl Sagan, Bruce Murray and Louis Friedman founded the Planetary Society in 1980. Bill Nye, a longtime member of the Planetary Society's Board, serves as CEO. Join us: http://www.planetary.org/join
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is space program is important now ?
i am one of space lover
and why only AMERICA ? I THINK ASTRONOMY SCIENCE IS FOR ALL OVER WORLD ? -
Amen Bill. Amen
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I'm terrified at how the moron that's about to take over is going to attack science.
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He killed he space program......to give money too his muslim brotherhood.....
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An important message. History is ugly, progress is forever.
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OPEN LETTER TRUMP!!!
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i live in poverty everyday in usa and you want to waste cash on stupid spaceships .i need 10000 so i live on welfare program mr.president look at the americans live in the country before sending money to somewhere else
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Thanks Bill. Instead of cutting defense spending to pay down the $20 Trillion debt or reducing the budget deficit, or spending money to decrease waiting lists for subsidized housing or improving class sizes in public schools, you decide to use your brainpower to help us explore new worlds. Not only are you my hero, but you also are in touch with the problems of the working class.
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space exploration is cool but 1.5 billion is a lot of money. tough decions for the president.
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Should get all the funding ever!!!! OH well kickstarter has started!! lol
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Clearly he's not a political scientist.... It's not the president's job to set the budget. He's got a bad habit of wading into areas beyond his 'expertise'
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You are definitely barking up the wrong tree, Bill. Obama HATES NASA. He has slashed its already meager budget to the point that we don't fly in space any more. Only Elon Musk and the Russians can do that now.
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Bill... YOU need to run for President...
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You've done it
http://futurism.com/its-official-were-going-to-mars/ -
Bill Nye planetary CEO. This fruit cake has a monetary motive for taking the side of global warming. He does not even know scientific method. He just babbles. The real variable is temperature (independent variable -- x axis), and dependent variable CO2 levels (y axis). This little fuckhead has the model backwards. Temp drives CO2 out of the oceans. Also when carbonate minerals are heated CO2 s liberated. Got it little fairy???
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Planetary exploration is vital. We need to make spacecraft to put lunatics like Bill Nye and send them to Pluto.
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Bill is my dad
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Yes, NASA is one of the best things in our world today. I agree that we need to keep funding NASA, but not just to figure out our universe. NASA would be needed if something were to happen to the Earth, or if our planet runs out of resources and NASA has been cut funding years ago, then what are we supposed to do. Not only is NASA our amazing research project, it is our backup plan for our world.
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Nah this isn't important, what's important is spending $600 billion dollars a year to bomb arabs and flex at china... Our priorities are so fucked up.
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Imagine being a starving child in whatever and hearing shit like that. Still outstanding the rest of mindcancer-media, sad enough.
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