1. Notes: 26 / 10 months ago  from thirddeadlysin (originally from complex34)
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   Nobody’s dreaming about tomorrow anymore. NASA knows how to dream about tomorrow. If the funding can accommodate it, the funding can empower it, the funding can enable it. Yeah you need good teachers, no doubt about it, but the teachers come and go cause I go to the next grade. Teachers can help light a flame but I need something to keep the flame fanned. It’s about the effect of NASA on who and what we are as a nation.

   What we have been as a nation, perhaps for a while there, we took it for granted. I see the most powerful particle accelerator in some other country. The fastest trains are built by Germany and are running in China right now. I see our infrastructure collapsing. No one dreaming about tomorrow and everyone thinks they can put a bandaid on one problem or another.

   The most powerful agency on the dreams of a nation is currently underfunded to do what it needs to be doing and that’s making dreams come true. And at a half-a-penny on the dollar… How much would you pay for the universe?

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   - Neil deGrasse Tyson on NASA (via complex34)
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2. Notes: 7 / 10 months ago 
   

   It would be funny if it weren’t so sad.

   (Source: mytechnologyworld9.blogspot.com)

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3. Notes: 40 / 1 year ago  from inothernews
   "Science literacy empowers you. It innoculates you from charlatanism."
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   NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON, on doomsday scenarios like 2012, Y2K et cetera, during the World Science Festival.

   I just remembered he said this.  And it’s an utter truth.

   (Edit: hey, thanks for the typo catch, rakinghavage :-)
   

   (via inothernews)

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4. 2 years ago 
   

   The center of the magnificent barred spiral galaxy NGC 1512 reveals a stunning 2,400 light-year-wide circle of infant star clusters. Astronomers generally believe that the giant bar, which is too faint to be seen in this image, funnels the gas to the inner ring, where massive stars are formed within numerous star clusters. NGC 1512 Located 30 million light-years away, is a neighbor of our Milky Way galaxy.

   Courtesy: Hubble/NASA

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