Bill Nye

I remember well the Vietnam War.

The mall was shoulder to shoulder, much as it is today.

Traffic stopped citywide.

The protests moved and expanded.

There were protests around the country.

And the war was ended.

We are protesting in the same fashion today.

Only today, the stakes are higher.

Rather than abandoning a war against an elusive, perhaps sometimes imaginary foe, we are confronting the possible end of our republic.

We are here to tell our lawmakers that what's going on in our government is wrong.

They must stop the abuses of this petulant president and his circle of sycophants.

No thrones, no crowns, no kings.

Well, Congress has been great.

So both the Senate and House have pushed back, rejecting virtually all of the proposed cuts.

So 20% overall to NASA and 47%, almost half, to NASA science.

And if you cut NASA science in half, you pretty much end it.

So the expression is extinction level for science.

And so the reason this matters is...

Every dollar you spend with NASA, it goes into the economy about a factor of three.

It inures to a benefit about three X of what you put in.