Bill Nye

Nobody's quite sure what causes the galaxies to move the way they do.

There is nobody making money.

Nobody's cashing in on looking for where this dark matter, this gravity, comes from.

There's no business case to look for evidence of life on the ocean of Europa, twice as much seawater as Earth and a moon of Jupiter.

Yet these discoveries would change the world.

Well, I don't think it's what people want.

I don't think most people in the United States, most U.S.

citizens would be joyful that another space organization was able to put people on the moon again without the U.S.

having a presence or to put people to send spacecraft or other missions to these more distant destinations, Jupiter, Mars, Europa.

Titan, moon of Saturn.

Also, you guys, the plan now is just turn these spacecraft off.

Just turn them off.

I mean, we have spent at least $12 billion on the spacecraft which are flying right now.

And in the case of Mars, we've spent about $23 billion.

to find this place, to look for these rocks, to bring them back.

Talk about a waste of money.

Just turning them off.

This is extraordinary.

The idea is just hard to imagine, really, at first.

And that's why the Senate and the House have rejected these cuts and pushed back.