Helping NASA science - Planetary Science Caucus

Recently, Bill Nye and our Space Policy & Advocacy team met with 18 congressional offices to discuss the new Planetary Science Caucus.

The caucus will promote investment in planetary science, support the search for life, and raise awareness of the benefits of planetary exploration for industry, academia, and STEM fields.

Thanks to investments made by its members, The Planetary Society serves as the founding partner of this caucus.

[amazingsparckman]

If I was president, I would reduce 597 billion military budge to only 150 and use the 447 billion toward science and space. In believe in the future there will be no politicians, there will be a committee made up by scientists.

Government will be run by computers, A.I can make better decisions about mundane tasks such as road repair, energy, environment, commerce, trading without all the messy politics.

Wallstreet already does that and everyone is fine with it.

[summs]

another idea for high school is to have 2 full say 3 hour blocks with a extracurricular so you could have on the first day science and English then switch to the other 4 majors then on certain weeks do 2 or even 4 days in a row to 1 branch to do intensive work

[Adamstankevitch]

Its great to see these kinds of actions taking place, but to think that I may get to see other life that has evolved on another planet/ moon!

[cobwebbyargos]

Hopefully Congress won't be ignorant

[mremington]

Yawn... If the Planetary Society really wanted to support space exploration, you'd be funding private organizations. NASA has been guzzling $18 Billion per year, for what? It took Elon Musk creating SpaceX out of his own pocket, to create an quasi-affordable replacement for the Shuttle. And rocket technology is over a 100 years old! I should know, I used to build them. This organization could be doing so much more, as there is way better technology out there just waiting to be funded.

[summs]

I have an idea for getting kids interested in science
k-5 starter remote controlled cars for every student, the old tamiyo models that you had to put together all the gears and stuff
don't have just races have different competitions like synchronized movements or without control ai or any basic things (rocket engines)
6-8 higher level programming of remote control stuff like cars or cars in a machine shop
9-12, all sorts of trade classes that have the second half of the day on say mon wed fri because having 5 days of monotonous classes is stupid no matter how much you all think that system works its really really dumb auto repair classes
ti 89 calcs for everyone
do specific examples of math on the vehicles or anything you make in one class and in other classes like history or English use time to cross synergize like giving a English technical paper on the design of the car, then use English and history in the car designs to show how it gets more complicated

[JungleJargon]

Looking for aliens again? It figures, object credit giver.