Neil deGrasse Tyson - We Stopped Dreaming (Episode 1)

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ButchDriveshaft · 2014-11 · Strong recommendation

I had to create an account just to thank you for this response. I always recommend anyone wondering about whether or not space exploration is worth it to view the following amazing video compilations. "We Stopped Dreaming - Episode 1": [VIDEO] "We Stopped Dreaming - Episode 2": [LINK]

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shagie · 2022-08 · Recommendation

There's a Neil deGrasse Tyson video titled We Stopped Dreaming that gets into the NASA budget (and the related society changes) [VIDEO] The part about the NASA budget is at 2:00 though it's all a good watch.

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dudurocha · 2012-05 · Recommendation

I got to disagree. Not in the part that Facebook was important to Arab Spring and reconnect people long seen. I desagree in the part that rockets doesn't give benefits. Rockets and all 'complicated' science, push the human race forward. Your cellphone is only able to connect to the internet because of the rockets that were send to the atmosphere, long time ago. Better than me, I have to people to talk about this. Read Science and Culture, by Thomas Huxley : How often have we not been told that the study of physical science is incompetent to confer culture; that it touches none of the higher problems of life; and, what is worse, that the continual devotion to scientific studies tends to generate a narrow and bigoted belief in the applicability of scientific methods to the search after truth of all kinds. How frequently one has reason to observe that no reply to a troublesome argument tells so well as calling its author a "mere scientific specialist." And, as I am afraid it is not permissible to speak of this form of opposition to scientific education in the past tense; may we not expect to be told that this, not only omission, but prohibition, of "mere literary instruction and education" is a patent example of scientific narrow-mindedness? source: [LINK] And the great Neil deGrasse Tyson , in the pretty "We stopped Dreaming": [VIDEO]

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