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The put a man on the moon but barack obama led us to a new space frontier where we pay the russians for a seat on their spacecraft so we can hitchhike to space. they'll add that later. i hope there is room on mt. rushmore for another face because now i'm convinced, that the 5th face on mt. rushmore is the current occupant of 1600 pennsylvania. i decided that he should be known, this way: instead of calling him mr. president, barack obama, maybe simpler to refer to him as the 5th face. i have noticed that while president obama loves to refer to ronald reagan as if they got a connection, the sty...

The put a man on the moon but barack obama led us to a new space frontier where we pay the russians for a seat on their spacecraft so we can hitchhike to space. they'll add that later. i hope there is room on mt. rushmore for another face because now i'm convinced, that the 5th face on mt. rushmore is the current occupant of 1600 pennsylvania. i decided that he should be known, this way: instead of calling him mr. president, barack obama, maybe simpler to refer to him as the 5th face. i have noticed that while president obama loves to refer to ronald reagan as if they got a connection, the sty...

Specific political party that is out to demonize science in some ways, to undercut the faith in it. >> but don't you think his point that if it was in our face culturally, the vacuum of c conspicuous science in our culture -- >> i want to talk about richard glasser's private money coming into this. >> but he's not advancing a space frontier, he's not leading a hacharge to mars. he can't because it's expensive with unknown costs and unknown risks. when you combine those three factors, you cannot establish a capitalization of that. that's why the government does the first big steps. once routine...

We bring him for that reason. what are the stakes? obviously, we could talk about going to space. you're not going to space, but you're making a broader point which is, if we don't have a rapidly moving forward culture that values science and technology when our rate of change is high, then we got problems. i'd like to know what you think the stakes are. >> i have very little to add to what you just said. >> what can we learn here? >> the point is, it's not just are we in space, it's are we advancing in space frontier? because when you advance in space frontier, you have to innovate in a way y...

>> the original title of the book was "failure to launch: the dreams and illusions". they said that's too depressing. no they will not advance the space frontier because the frontier of space is expensive. it's dangerous. that's not right for a capital market to value. the history of human exploration is one where government takes the first step. they pay for the first patents. they draw the maps. government paid for columbus voyage and louis and clark. that's who figures out what's going on and then private enterprise comes. >> not according to newt gingrich. >> he got it wrong. private secto...