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Neil deGrasse Tyson: “We Stopped Dreaming”
“Do you realize that the $850 billion bank bailout — that sum of money — is greater than the entire fifty-year running budget of NASA?”
“We go to the moon. Space enthusiasts say, ‘Oh, we’re on the moon in ’69, we’ll be on Mars in another ten years.’ They completely did not understand why we got to the moon in the first place: we were at war. Once we saw that Russia was not ready to land on the moon, we stopped going to the moon. That should not surprise anybody looking back on it. Meanwhile, however, that entire era [of space exploration] galvanized the nation — forget the war as a driver, it galvanized us all to dream about tomorrow.”
Read the full text here: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/123408#ixzz1rwEoONS4
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Great quote.
Mike Wallace interviews Salvador Dali, 1958 (Part 2)
Mike Wallace plugging P-funk’s and Salvador Dahli? I wish I had been alive for this.
(Source: openculture.com)
Music For Your Monday: NPR Music is streaming M. ward’s ‘A Wasteland Companion’ in its entirety. Enjoy!
Hear that? That's the sound of my childhood being blown to bits in an over-the-top Michael Bay explosion.
Michael Bay says Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will not actually be mutants in the upcoming live-action film… but aliens.
I saw this picture, chuckled, and now I can’t get that dumb ass song out of my head. Way to ruin my morning tumblr….
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