I dare you to watch and not shake your head.

Ted Turner interviews Carl Sagan (CNN/1989) from love on Vimeo.

[...]]]> This video from 1989 is extremely depressing. Herein is covered every single problem we are dealing with today; a decay and disrespect of science, abuse of natural resources and climate change.

I dare you to watch and not shake your head.

Though the bill effectively cancels the delayed and [...]]]> The Senate subcommittee charged with NASA oversight will present a $19 billion bill this week that kills President Barack Obama’s proposed shakeup of the agency’s human-spaceflight program, in the process cutting billions from commercial rocket and technology projects that supporters say would have benefited Kennedy Space Center.

Though the bill effectively cancels the delayed and over-budget Constellation moon-rocket program — as Obama requested in his NASA budget — it would repurpose that money to build a new heavy-lift rocket while largely ignoring the president’s call to fund new space-faring technology and commercial rockets that would send humans into space.

A draft of the bill, obtained by the Orlando Sentinel, was presented to NASA last week by the committee, chaired by Florida Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson. So far the White House has not commented on the bill, but several Florida Space Coast leaders have expressed concern about its impact here.

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This footage from 1979 featured a very well informed group of reporters that were asking very smart and relevant questions. The people they were [...]]]> I want everyone to watch these vintage news reports from Walter Cronkite and compare them to the reports we see today on the ecological tragedy currently out-of-control in the Gulf of Mexico.

This footage from 1979 featured a very well informed group of reporters that were asking very smart and relevant questions. The people they were asking questions of were real, honest-to-God nuclear scientists and engineers, speaking in front of a white board and doing so without a PR minder or some corporate attorney.

In disasters like these, the more you separate the viewing public from the scientists in the know, the more distrusting, skeptical and disengaged the viewing public becomes. Sometimes, it is easier to believe a purposefully misinformed lie than it is facts that have been filtered by the PR flacks and corporate attorneys.

Citizens were better informed in the 70s by the media than they are today.

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