What NASA Does for You
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- Опубликовано: 4 фев 2025
- Is NASA a waste of money? Should we defund NASA?
(no)
NASA brings huge benefits to the average person, and needs more funding, not less.
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footage in this video taken using Space Engine
I would give 1% of my taxes if it means not being stolen by some corrupt politician and it is invested in doing cool shit.
I just want to clearify: the reason because nasa isnt getting a higher budget is because government and funders dont see immediate profits rom its existence. The reason why china is achieving so much more than usa in the recent decades is because profit motive from its space program isnt considered a priority.
well go figure there is more cost to something than any return it would be a waste
@@Matt-uk7zqlike this video has explained, the benefits of NASA are immeasurable because of how much its' technology has influenced our daily lives. How would you even begin to calculate potentially saving all of humanity from nuclear annihilation? But there aren't immediate real benefits to NASA itself and the people directly involved.
There's a similar issue with science as a whole, where science as a whole is a significant net benefit to humanity as a whole but the benefits of a single scientific study are difficult to gauge. For example, a study on massaging baby rats ended up being crucial for helping newborn human babies.
@@maksrambe3812 right but none of those benefits could be attained BECAUSE nasa exists. Companies do not have access to taxation and the federal reserve like the US government does, they can evidentially fund whatever they want without fear of repercussion or bankruptcy. Only recently has the private sector been able to finance investments in space because nasa and spacex (government funded) made so much progress in furthering profit margins.
It’s the same reason why the US practically holds monopolistic power in space - it’s realistically the only country with the resources to spare until recently. And thank you for summarizing the video I already watched.
Profit motive being the bane of improving human existance once again (but people still argue religiously that it is the only and best motive for society to use)
nasa needs a higher budget for sure
Agree!
Take 10% from military and give it to NASA.
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Don’t they only get like 0.5 of the us budget?
I concur, America mostly puts their budget on military spending, so that's expected. Most space programs are very expensive nowadays anyway
Discovery you is like discovering Astrum back when he only made videos based inside of our solar system
Now they just make clickbait titles to get views.
@@alexaang9814 doesn't subtract any value from all the previous videos though
@@alexaang9814 It was sad to watch him turn into a clickbait channel in real time.
@@doctorrobert1339 what are some of his best videos
Who's Astrum?
This channel is such a diamond in the rough. Sick of RUclips recommending AI trash. Commenting in hopes that the algorithm will show kyplanet to people like me
Antrofuturism is a cool channel in/near this field
Highly revolutionary youtube channel that's not AI or overfocuses on things that aren't relevant in space expedition.
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Cool Worlds and Astrum are also good, non-AI channels
yeah man, I really feel good that I found a channel that revived my long lost interest of space! I hope he stays that way
I'd be happy if even a quarter of what we spend on the Military was put into improving NASA and space tech as a whole. Imagine how useful having a proper base on the moon would be!
discovering how to keep astronauts from having their bones decay on a trip to mars, or finding ways to keep astronauts alive during a long duration trip to mars could have alot of benefits, if there is life on mars that somehow is alive ( under the surface or in water sealed away from the surface ) that is still alive, discovering it and researching it could possibly open up new breakthroughs in biology and the medical field
What of we find a disease that could potentially cause problems?
@@boravedat2931 Diseases that evolved on the Earth already have massive trouble transferring between two different species. No alien disease would be able to infect us if they used any mechanism that we know to be possible.
mars is not where we should be focussing our efforts. It's good to have and continue the rover programs, but mars is a dead world far enough away to be a death sentence for humanity if we keep blindly believing the hype of techbro startups clamouring to "terraform" a planet that couldn't support life with centuries of human effort dedicated to it. The moon is our best bet to begin with, because for all that it is a carcinogenic dustbowl it at least is achievable to resupply with it orbiting a mere 3 day trip from earth, something which is necessary for every possible settlement we hope to build in the near future. We will never terraform another sol planet to habitable levels given another 10,000 years of human occupancy - the timescales of life supporting planet or moon conversions necessitate us doing things the much harder way first, with settlements that are utterly reliant on Earth for constant resupply and support. We need to at least try to improve our ability to make efficient artificial habitats before we even think about going to mars in person, and for that the moon is *king*
It's rare to see a channel on youtube talk extensively about these issues, keep doing what you're doing.
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also, if nasa continues to get more funding, we could eventually start asteroid mining, which are much more material dense than the ground here in earth. This would very much benefit the economy.
wouldn't it make the price of those materials extremely low due to the fact we mined so many asteroids, thus having a LOOOOOOOOOT of those materials? (if we ever did that)
@@ivandjordjevic6025 if prices of those materials drop, then they'd see more use in production and manufacturing, which could lead to both betterment of existing products and creating new products
It wouldn't benefit the economy, just rectifying the need for scarce minerals on earth soil
It would actually cause severe damage to the economy
@@ivandjordjevic6025 That is true, however we won’t be able to mine anywhere near the amount needed to fully flood the market. If we asteroid mine in moderation, we should be fine. Also, if we do flood the market in the future, there are many materials found on earth that are not found in asteroids. These could become the new gold standard for countries all over the world in the event gold reserves are made worthless by asteroid mining, although this is unlikely to happen for the next few hundred years.
Impossible
a vid on how 0 gravity affects the production of things would be super interesting
A video on how it affects the human body too
what they certainly NEED to do is have a team to finalize and color process every photo from important missions, and to animate them into motion. The raw data is nice, but reaches such a far smaller view...
I'm gonna start boosting your video, this is a critical problem that most people in the U.S. don't even know about and this is a great explanation that is pretty short but perfectly ties up why NASA needs more money and why people won't do it.
As a Navy veteran, the budget thing is so true. We had to throw out thousands of dollars worth of equipment regularly because if we didn't spend a certain amount of money the budget would be cut. The Navy is 10,000 sailors undermanned, we can't fully crew the ships we already have, and yet the government insists on building more of them and recently turned down a pay increase for all E-1 to E-3 ranks in the military because the money it'd cost to pay us for being worked to death could fund more ships.....ships, again, we can't crew.
The obvious solution to this predicament should be to follow in the footsteps the UK took back in the 80s: Decrease ships and specialize the sailors more. This is not the answer neither the U.S government nor the Admirals want to hear, though, so we burn even more money on impossible endeavours rather than fund useful things like NASA. The undermanning and expectations of the higher ups have gotten so bad that when underway on a deployment it's very common to work 12+ hours a day 7 days a week. In the pacific, the largest U.S naval fleet, those poor guys will live under those working conditions for 8+ months just because of China.
Would love to see a future mission involving a Kuiper-Belt spacecraft (perhaps something like Voyager III) happens where it’s primary goal is aimed at the flyby of the other dwarf planets like Orcus Quaoar Haumea Makemake Gonggong Eris and Sedna
I think part of the reason the focus is on defunding nasa instead of the military is because it economically benefits the companies and wealthy individuals that profit most from continuing as "normal" to limit knowledge and attention given to climate change and ways to stop it
I love this channel. You're doing much needed and amazing work.
Short version
NASA is good and never done anything bad (wink wink) and you should appreciate them
Thanks for this banger Kyplanet! A video like this is a great resource for me to introduce someone to the topic of why NASA is such a fundamentally important force for guiding humanity into its future. Now i can better do my part in spreading the word :). Keep up the great work! 😄
Nasa gives us cool posters also😎
This channel is sooooo awesome. THANK YOU!
This is such a well worded video. Thank you for making this, I think that a lot of people need a wake up call about NASA.
nasa should have a donation site (ik 99.9% of people don't give a crap, would be cool to help a company that sends cute little rovers to space!)
Is this video only focused towards americans? Or worldwide
Imo, u shd do more vids bout worldwide space projects too
Medicine, weather prediction, international communication, internet, those benefit the whole world
Idea's for nasa: send cassini like satellites to the ice giants and voyager 3 to the planetoid belt.
Your videos are so good!
awesome video as always🤞
As much as I agree with expanding NASA's budget, the thing a lot of channels like these always fail to understand is why the American military budgets are as big as they are in comparison. A lot of people like to look at China's expenditure as a "see, why doesn't America do that" without taking into account the circumstances unique to each side. It is not cutting corners like people like to spout so ignorantly either. China is a modernizing power & one that has decades of reference material from the US & Soviets to analyze & emulate its doctrine around. It has an established route to follow in & unlike the US, does not need to maintain a massive expeditionary capability instead only needing to focus everything at its own theater. As China begins to catch up, sooner or later it is going to have to stop being the imitator & start being the innovator & all the baggage that entails. This is something that is starting to be observed in PLA watching circles.
The US, being the premiere superpower of the world, needs to spend what it does to maintain its hundreds of overseas bases complete with numerous forces on high readiness mode to ensure it is able to respond to any global threat quickly & efficiently. To maintain the global order of free trade & commerce we have all grown so accustomed to. This shit ain't cheap. America's expeditionary capability is still something that is unparalleled by any other nation in human history & for good reason. It maintains the very standard of living you & I take for granted. When you are at the cutting edge of military innovation, excessive spending is to be expected as by sitting on top, you by default have to figure out what will work & not work for a future battlefield that is everchanging & doesn't exist yet. That is going to be a money sink no matter how you look at it. Its kinda shit sure but that is just the reality of defense economics.
What NASA does as an organization is absolute peanuts compared to what the defense sector needs to manage & coordinate on a daily basis. However, I do agree that with the ever expanding importance of space both to the civilian & military sectors in the 21st century, it seems rather ignorant of the US to cut funding of their core space agency. Space is going to become an increasingly important asset to all & the US should be at the forefront of dictating that policy.
lmao
The US military is absolutely laughably overfunded and this comment is just complete copium.
lol this fucking cope, like half of the military budget is being skimmed off by middlemen and contractors that know they can get away with it by occasionally holding a PowerPoint presentation with the most fucked up incomprehensible graphs you've ever seen
@@OutbackCatgirl - I mean, I am not coping anything but I guess you do you?
Look, I wish NASA & other scientific institutions had more resources funneled to them as much as the next guy here but this is a sentiment that I see echoed repeatedly amongst channels like these; understandably so as most people who talk about stuff like this don't usually venture too far into defense economics or military stratagem. It is an honest mistake that I have observed over many years now & there isn't anything inherently wrong with that. I don't disagree with you on the corruption aspect either but that is something that is inevitable in any large organization. Its going to happen no matter how much we all wish we could flick a finger & make the scary boogyman go away. The US MIC for its size, has honestly done a good job in minimizing it as much as it has. It does happen, but that is more a feature, not necessarily a bug.
There are plenty of arguments among amateur analysts & military experts alike that even suggest the US MIC is underfunded for what it is expected to do both domestically & from our allies abroad. Maintaining several hundred overseas bases complete with the amenities to support tens of thousands of personnel at a professional standard is going to be a very expensive venture no matter how you look at it. That isn't even factoring the R&D aspect of naturally being the guy on top, the need to anticipate for a war that may never be & the logistics over maintaining & projecting that capability anywhere in the world at a moments notice. There is a reason why the US is the only nation that has the expeditionary capability that it does because it is literally too expensive for just about any other nation & most rather not have to foot the bill. Why should they? After all, someone else is doing it for you. Might as well use those funds for some more blackjack & hookers. This is reflected by the US itself regularly pressuring its overseas allies to fulfill their treatybound defense obligations to cover the holes where America cannot be at. Even with its tremendous budget, it cannot be everywhere everyone else is expecting it to be. Most of what makes up the "free world" has ridden off the US for far too long growing complacent in the process even openly negotiating with our adversaries only to have it bite them in the ass years down the line. This is a sentiment that isn't just exclusively shared by Americans but even European groups.
People really overestimate the US military. It is a behemoth sure, but when you are expecting it to singlehandedly hold its own between two planetary hemispheres against increasingly belligerent & evolving foes, suddenly, things don't begin to seem so easy.
NASA is the tip of Human development and advancement. Research 🔬 is always needed for new innovations 🧑🏿💻👨🏿⚕️👨🏿⚕️🤷🏿♂️
NASA is desperate for more funding. Imagine spending years building a lunar rover only to scrap it the moment it is built and plan to send a block of metal to the moon instead. Very sad.
You have convinced me. Good job
Thanks NASA
One does not ask what NASA does, for the one who does will Nazi it coming.
Hahaha good video
I, as an ordinary 24yo Chinese citizen and fully aware of how small I am as an individual, though, am still willing to give certain amount of donations to NASA or any other space administration for the purpose of developing interstellar travel technology so that we might have a slight chance to experience space travel within our lifespan.
higher budget
btw do you have any intentions on making a discord server?
i already have one discord.gg/uppYNpCG
Temperature monitoring satellites are useful sure, but they also are less accurate because they can only monitor the upper atmosphere, and besides, we've known the earth was warming long before the first climate satellite was even launched
im gonna keep funding my landlord 🗣🔥
at least they beat ROTSAR
solarballs mentioned?
Thank you Ky!
Could you do a video regarding people who oppose space exploration based on "moral objections"? What I mean by this is people who claim that we should "focus on problems here".
The argument of "we should focus on problems here" is stupid, because space exploration helps us solve problems here.
Do you know if theres still time to save the viper?
it’s probably going to be bought by another company
Thanks for letting me know
I got a question! Is the GJ 504b planet real? The a bubblegum pink planet or something. I won’t believe it until I hear it from you 😔
it’s a real planet but not pink
@@Kyplanet893 oh thank you! But where does the whole pink thing come from? Sorry for asking these all questions 😅
So VIPER is definitely cancelled? No more any chance to save it?
it looks like other companies are going to try to buy it instead
This channel is great.
Can you do a video on why the rovers have to be sterilized that’s very interesting
0:01 the only other i know of is Seti
I thought Venus was visited only by Soviets
Hey they take pictures for starfield.
Hard sciences are being co-opted by dei initiatives.
lmfao are these "dei initiatives" in the room with you now? point to where they hurt you
@@OutbackCatgirlI'm going to bet you uploaded your own comment due to your sheer amount of narcissism.
you said you can ruin wishes
okay
i wish that exoplanet and solar system misinformation will be banished from reality
nice try fed, I still ain't paying my taxes
Elon Musk is worth 10 NASAs yet NASA gave money to help keep SpaceX afloat?
he wasn’t worth nearly that much when spacex was founded
@@Kyplanet893 Ah gotcha, that makes sense
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Nice video! Seriously, though; why _does_ the military have so much money?
Because America cares more about war and being both defensive and offensive simultaneously
Ok, lets start a petition to give NASA a trillion dollars
NASA needs more money, the simple fact that NASA only has 1/20th of the budget of the military is disgusting and honestly somewhat terrified me as to the motives of our government. It seriously should be boosted to 1/10th or 40 Billion because they'd more than make good use of that money more than any other organizations on this planet, NASA is the best one to trust.
In America, are the democrats or republicans more likely to offer NASA a higher budget?
they’re pretty much even from what i can tell
Maybe if a new space race were to happen then either political group would want to increase the budget but don’t expect either major party to even care.
Believe it or not, most flat earthers are Republicans. This leads me to believe that Republicans are less likely to offer nasa a higher budget.
respectfully, all of these things can be done by NASA without giving it a bunch of money for space exploration projects
Boosting for algorithm
spittin' fax!!!
Early
I wish I could choose where my taxes went, I'd send 100% to NASA.
ok nasa employee
We haven’t visited any planets other than Mars and Venus
MESSENGER visited Mercury, Galileo and Juno orbited Jupiter, Cassini orbited Saturn, and Voyager 2 visited Uranus and Neptune
as well as this Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to visit Jupiter, followed by Pioneer 11 which went to Jupiter and Saturn, Voyager 2 visited all 4 outer planets and Voyager 1 visited Jupiter and Saturn, and New Horizons flew by Jupiter on its way to Pluto
@@Kyplanet893 I did not visit Canada when flying in an airplane over the country.
oh you’re just trying to do some semantics stuff
point is nasa says they visited these planets, the international community agrees they visited these planets, astronomers agree they visited these planets, so that settles it
“oh but they didn’t touch it” who cares, they entered their gravitational spheres of influence. “visiting” a place on earth and “visiting” a planet are 2 different things
(but even using this logic you’re still wrong, Galileo and Cassini both entered the atmospheres of jupiter and saturn, so at the bare minimum you have to include those 2 as well)
@@Kyplanet893 if you do not think there is a large difference between actual touching down on a celestial body and just photographing it from orbit i do not know what to say.
of course there’s a difference, that’s why there’s categories of missions (landers, orbiters, spacecraft)
landing, orbiting, and a flyby are all different subcategories included under the larger umbrella of visiting
some forms of visiting just take more effort than others, and some get closer than others, but it’s all visiting
NASA propaganda😭😭
No
the only propaganda worth listening to
@@Shockblade95 true that
The best kind of
Yeah but it's based
dude you've got to drop the climate change nonsense. your channel has some good info but, sigh, 'globalcooingwarmingclimatechange' is NOT the biggest issue facing humanity. not only has there ALWAYS been climate change, all of the climate alarmist predictions have ben wrong. remember it was global cooling (70's) but natural climate cycles turned to a warming trend so it was then global warming (80's), but then it strangely got cold again for awhile so they went with the catch all climate change.
How’s it not relevant basing on the possible consequences
@ed8377 Sure, the media does exaggerate climate change and it isn’t some huge threat to humanity, however, it does exist and is caused by human influence. This has been proven countless times and is consistent with artificial greenhouse gas emissions.
The point of climate change is not that whether it exists in the past or not whatever, the point is that humans are speeding up faster than the usual pace of change, causing nature to be less able to get along, yes the media has politicized and exaggerated climate change but it is true that mankind sped up climate change faster than it can cope
Let's ignore the fact that the United States federal government spends almost 1.4 trillion on welfare. Of that 220 billion goes to illegal immigrants every single year.
That doesn't even have anything to do with this video.
As a BIG scifi defienitily Space fan NASA does everything for me so thank you NASA the BEST Space company just as ESA and Space X too I really LOVE Space and your AWESOME videos about it thank you too Kyplanet I hope someday scientists found a new Planet and name it by your name Kyplanet! 🌌🪐