Space Exploration is the Worst | Emily Calandrelli | TEDxIndianaUniversity

Opening for TEDxIndianaUniversity was Xploration Outer Space producer and star, Emily Calandrelli’s tongue in cheek summary of why space exploration is actually a misguided and empty pursuit, upon which billions of dollars are wasted every year.

Emily Calandrelli is a producer and the host of FOX's Xploration Outer Space, a nationally syndicated educational program about the space industry. She is also a writer for TechCrunch where she covers
technology topics with a focus on commercial space companies.

Emily graduated from MIT with a Masters in Aeronautics and Astronautics and second Masters in Technology and Policy. While at MIT, Emily was awarded the Rene H. Miller Award for the best piece of Systems Engineering work in the AeroAstro department. She received her bachelors in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from West Virginia University. As an undergraduate, Emily received the Truman
Scholarship, Goldwater Scholarship, and placed on USA Today's All-USA Academic First Team.

[OgarnijmytoRazem]

The genre of this video is Hard Sarcasm. I like it, but I wouldn't share it because too many of my friends would get confused and go into existential crisis.

[maximkazhenkov]

Never overestimate the intelligence of your viewers...

[ShivamPatel-msub]

She can be a successful super lady villain in hollywood sci-fi movies.

[brian_mcnulty]

This woman had me so triggered at the beginning. What a genius!

[sayenko]

WATCH THE VIDEO SHE LIKES SPACE ITS OK.

[eliyasne]

9:30
Well, it's 2020 and OneWeb is bankrupt.
But SpaceX is doing pretty well with nearly five hundred Starlink satelites.

[Smico]

I like the approach, but it's strenuous watching an entire talk based on sarcasm.

[manofqwerty]

That one clap at the mention of Matt Damon

[jamie]

This isnt complaining about space exploration, its complaining about climate change and the government's lack of action towards it

[masonicrl]

Oh man, for a second there I thought she was actually saying that Space Exploration is the Worst, but she was being sarcastic the whole time.

[evilpandakillabzonattkoccu]

this talk had a Poe's Law issue....Poe's Law: "without a clear indicator of the author's intent, parodies of extreme views will be mistaken by some readers or viewers for sincere expressions of the parodied views."

she, obviously, was clear about her sarcasm but not until a certain point (which was the point, obviously).

[andersondossantoscruz]

In my humble opnion, we human beings are explorers by nature, we try to understand and get answers of everything that surrounds us, if we thought that way, we hadn't created airplanes, ships and so on to help us explore new places

[deefazhion]

At 9 minutes her incredibly intelligent humour is so over-the-top that people miss it she's so smart that people miss it. Nothing but bell curves of understanding

[freemnn]

I gotta give it to her, she has this special thing (besides her look) switching between the right information and beeing the cute girl. I bet she could run the world with her knowledge and charisma.

[jasonlast]

I have been so profoundly stunned by the amount of stupidity and ignorance among the world's population that she honestly nearly had me at the start there.

[Rohitspc]

2 min silence for those who left in between

[denimhawke]

Spoiler alert: she is for the space exploration, but you should listen till the end anyway.

[lucho]

As soon as she says she has a degree from MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics you know it can only be sarcasm ...

[nicholasmacrury]

I admire her courage to use irony to the max but the title was misleading

[PuckLokin]

I was really trolled by her first few minutes before I figured out she was being facetious, haha. Great talk!