for military protection purposes, doesn t really seem that committed to space? yes. it is a lowered national priority and part of it is because we all bought into a narrative that was delusional. all of us. especially americans. in 1960 we told ourselves we are americans, explorers, we are discovers, it is in human dna especially in american dna we re going to the moon. all right, i can tell you based on my read of history that is insufficient driver to spend the hundred billion dollars in modern money that that required. insufficient driver. you need a better driver than that than just because you want to do it or because you re feeling that that is the right thing. 0h, remember what it is, we re at war! oh, my gosh! we had a cold war with the soviet union. kennedy s speech where he said, let s put a man on the moon and returning him safely, that is what we quote, that s the quote that s in the front entrance
that the united states government, which was so committed, if we think back to the 60s and 70s, in pushing for space exploration, as a national priority, spending more than 4% of national income on the space programme, why is it that today that figure s down to 0.5% and the us government, frankly, apart from the notion of building a space force for military protection purposes, doesn t really seem that committed to space? yes. it is a lowered national priority and part of it is because we all bought into a narrative that was delusional. all of us. especially americans. in 1960 we told ourselves we are americans, explorers, we are discovers, it is in human dna especially in american dna we re going to the moon. all right, i can tell you based on my read of history that is insufficient driver to spend the hundred billion dollars
from jupiter s gravity and the tugging of other moons, deep beneath the frozen surface there s oceans of liquid water. and every place on earth we have liquid water, we have life. so one of nasa s mantras, and the european space agency, among others in this group, is follow the water . maybe if we look for where the water is or once was, we will have evidence of life that is or once was. and that s all being lined up in the coming decade. yes. why is it that, if we bring this down to the prosaic human level, that the united states government, which was so committed, if we think back to the 1960s and 1970s, in pushing for space exploration, as a national priority, spending more than 4% of national income on the space programme, why is it that today that figure is down to 0.5% and the us government, frankly, apart from the notion of building a space force for military protection purposes, doesn t really seem that committed to space?
income on the space programme, why is it that today that figure s down to 0.5% and the us government, frankly, apart from the notion of building a space force for military protection purposes, doesn t really seem that committed to space? yes. it is a lowered national priority and part of it is because we all bought into a narrative that was delusional. all of us. especially americans. in 1960 we told ourselves we are americans, explorers, we are discovers, it is in human dna especially in american dna we re going to the moon. all right, i can tell you based on my read of history that is insufficient driver to spend the hundred billion dollars in modern money that that required. insufficient driver. you need a better driver than that than just because you want to do it or because you re feeling that that is the right thing. oh, remember what it is, we re at war! oh, my gosh!
from jupiter s gravity and the tugging of other moons, deep beneath the frozen surface there s oceans of liquid water. and every place on earth we have liquid water, we have life. so one of nasa s mantras in the european space agency, among others in this group, is follow the water. maybe if we look for where the water is or once was we will have evidence of life that is or once was. and that s all being lined up in the coming decade. yes. why is it that if we bring this down to the prosaic human level that the united states government, which was so committed, if we think back to the 1960s and 1970s, in pushing for space exploration, as a national priority, spending more than 4% of national income on the space programme, why is it that today that figure is down to 0.5% and the us government, frankly, apart from the notion of building a space force for military protection purposes, doesn t really seem that committed to space?