Bill Nye

And then the other thing everybody you guys were talking about.

China and our relationship to China.

China National Space Administration, rather, is doing amazing things.

They have some very smart people, and they're exploring space for the same reasons we are.

And I predict if nothing is done, there will be at least two more what I like to call Sputnik moments when the Western world wakes up to, oh, my goodness, this remarkable capability from Asia.

And so they're going to land guys or gals on the moon.

in 2030, four and a half years from now, and they will almost certainly send spacecraft to Mars to look for geologic samples, rocks, that may bear signs of ancient life, and they will bring them back around 2033.

Meanwhile, with the cuts to NASA, none of that would happen here in the States.

Instrumental.

Oh, no, no, no.

So everybody, we're having this conversation right now because of so-called space assets.

We would not be able to predict weather.

We would not be able to have situational awareness for the military.

We would not have satellite Internet service.

We wouldn't have any of these things without exploring space.

Everybody knows the expressions, Big Bang.

Everybody knows black hole.

These are a result of space exploration.

And I predict it's not extraordinary.

If we were to find evidence of life on another world, it would change this world.