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NASA's "Awesome" Webcam Video Tells Us Why We Pay for NASA

Posted by Videodrome on Friday, Apr 29, 2011

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Hank Green, one half of Youtube stars Vlogbrothers, explains why giving .45 of a penny of each of your tax dollars to NASA is worth it. He makes some very compelling points. Just point your browser at Spacevidcast at around 3:45 PM Eastern Standard Time today, and you’re likely to see one of them. NASA put the video on their YouTube channel, with a possibly new tagline for the space agency: “Decreasing the Suck. Increasing the Awesome.”

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