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SciShow: Curiosity: Mars’ Next Visitor
Plutonium powered robot car! With a laser gun! That’s (kind of) what’s hurtling through space right now as part of NASA Mars Science Laboratory heads for the Red Planet. Hank walks you through this historic mission, with the help of some kick ass animations (thanks NASA!).
Mars Science Laboratory
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html
http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/
SciShow: Solar Storms
Solar Storms! Moaning Myrtle! Wondering what the frick is behind the solar flares that slammed Earth earlier this week? Hank lays out how that juicy ball of plasma we call the sun causes us trouble from time to time.
SciShow - Tardigrades: Adorable Extremophiles
Hank explains why NASA and the European Space Agency are in love with tardigrades and how these extremophiles are helping us study the panspermia hypothesis.
NASA: Increasing Awesome
(the vlogbros cut of this video)
In which Hank talks about the 0.45% of the federal budget devoted to space education, and what NASA is doing with that money.
Just an aside, my friends often say that we shouldn’t be spending money on space when we have so many problems here on Earth. And I understand that argument. But I think that mentality is flawed. We can’t wait until all of our problems are solved (which they will never be) before doing amazing, inspiring, ambitious things.
If we have nothing great to aspire to, nothing great to fight for, then what do we have? Will we spend the time and energy necessary to make the world a better place if we don’t have great things to aspire to?
I know it’s a complicated issue, it’s almost like talking about the psychology of an entire planet. But I know what drives me to make the world better, and it isn’t knowing how horrible it is. The greatness of the world is what makes me want to make it better, and NASA has done more to uncover and create awesome than any other government agency.
That’s just how I feel.
Thanks to NASA for their help with this video, it was really amazing to work with them.
NASA: Increasing the Awesome
Contemplating the ritual of sending Washington a check every April 15, popular Internet vlogger Hank Green of Vlogbrothers explains why he believes NASA is worth every .45 penny of your hard-earned tax dollar.
If you click “Watch on YouTube” you’ll see that this is on the NASAtelevision youtube channel! Wow, Hank.
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