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http://youtu.be/oY59wZdCDo0

The Professor says

Brought to you by your tax dollars courtesy of NASA.

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Our planet is so beautiful and fragile. This video makes it obvious that we are impacting our finite world.

When I was young America went to the moon. We were promised a future world of flying cars, trips to mars, and unlimited possibilities.

Instead we have endless wars, increasing uneasiness, and a poverty of vision.

Why aren't we expanding out into the universe?

I propose that we declare victory and end all the wars (terror, poverty, drugs, Afghanistan, etc.) and start getting off this little planet.

It is the only way growth can continue.

After you my friend. Can I have your house when you don't make it back?

The Professor says

Brought to you by your tax dollars courtesy of NASA.

To be interpreted as: Our funding is drying up because we squandered our budgeted billions of dollars on stupid space stations, shuttles and sophomoric math errors.

The Professor says

Our planet is so beautiful and fragile. This video makes it obvious that we are impacting our finite world.

So do ants.

The Professor says

When I was young America went to the moon. We were promised a future world of flying cars, trips to mars, and unlimited possibilities.

I'll bet you bought into Santa Claus too. Can I interest you in a hydrogen economy?

The Professor says

Instead we have endless wars, increasing uneasiness, and a poverty of vision.

5000 years and counting.

The Professor says

Why aren't we expanding out into the universe?

Because its nothing but rocks, freezing vacuum and uberhot plasma as far as the eye can see.

The Professor says

I propose that we declare victory and end all the wars (terror, poverty, drugs, Afghanistan, etc.) and start getting off this little planet.

Bush tried that - didn't work.

The Professor says

It is the only way growth can continue.

Or we can make and sell stuff we can actually use right here on earth.

Seriously man, put the crack pipe down.

It's amazing what science and engineering can do, and what religion and superstition cannot.