Anything helps! Share the website and this video with your friends in the states.

You can help by following the steps on savechandra.org it would be a great help for the telescope

@@EventHorizonShow Awesome! Thank you! I hope we can make a difference

Agree. Wars. Student loan forgiveness. ACA with 50% obesity rates... I quit working for money at 38. Lost interest

I wish we were a direct democracy, like Switzerland. Of course, seeing how much of the population is insane and/or imbeciles... Nah, still would be better to have a true democracy.

@@TylerAnderson-fv9jh How do you survive?

I don't know, I can think of at least one crackpot whose been a guest on John's show.

@@brick6347 yeah but at least they try to back up their clames with science. artbell for as much as I loved his show he would take ANYONE so long as they had some crazy claim about ghost or aliens.

Leave Art Bell alone or you’ll be haunted by flying humanoids!

@@vinnerdinner 🤣🤣🤣🤣

And all of those wars have been set in motion by the US deep state.

Complain to comrades Putin and XI! I as a European understand that we have to fight those dictators, if we want to be alive in order to explore space.

Yet you’ll vote for Biden again.

@@friedrichjunztand they say Americans have terrible education.

​@@friedrichjunzt you can.. I'm sick of paying for war..

That's basically how I feel when I have to use a porta-potty.

It’s a hard time out there. We are happy the show helps people relax and learn something.

No, what's frustrating is that it seems the only source of money is the feds. From another conversation this site: Why not allow NASA programs to get funding directly from ordinary citizens? Or have space-themed postage stamps help support space research? And make sure people know themed postage stamps help support the theme? Reply: You just described the concept of private charities funding public works. Perfectly reasonable. But it also exposes the irrelevance of most state run projects. You don't need coercive state debt and tax funding for astrophysics or anything else. But let's start with low hanging fruit like this. Reply Friendly One to @r0sal3sr: Some private nonprofits becomes VERY profitable (think the Red Cross). We don't need to reinvent the wheel. Postage stamps would take an act of congress (but maybe an easy act when we push it as an effective way to learn what's important to voters), but we should be able to "adopt" a satellite, & do a Go Fund Me now. Every astronomical and science themed KZfaq and other broadcast platforms could promote it. I bet we could help Chandra's promoters accumulate an embarrassment of riches.

Chandra functioning without the post docs processing its revelations, is a complete waste of that functioning.

@@friendlyone2706 Don't sell me there isn't a ton of fat on that payroll. Everyone outside who has ever looked into this kind of program knows this. I'm not saying shut it down, just focus on a few high value initiatives that actually produce results.

and Sean Carroll

Is that the guy from MASH? If so i thought that too. Then i was expecting Radar to turn up. Then i couldn't get the MASH theme tune out my head and had to restart.

Just googled it. I was wrong.

It's because politicians are concerned only with re-election, not the needs of their constituents. It would be nice if the things that are important got funded because of the benefit to all of us, but your typical politician will not be moved to action unless they see personal near-term benefits for themselves. So, let's let 'em know we *want* this and they will see the benefit to potential re-election in backing something popular.

Corruption 101

Well said my man. Well said. It’s pathetic and short-sighted.

A good pair of binoculars with a tripod gets you a long way. Easier to bring, and can be used in the daytime aswell.

@BozoBear1 what kind of binoculars that's a good idea 🙃

Now 34 Trillion. Interest is out of control.

Yeah 34 Trillion debt. USA is broke. This pooy sounds entitled!

Thank you Ozzy!!! It helps us make the show.

No this is a major issue why in the world would an already launched satellite need 70 million year? Even 30 a million a year sounds insane for a 30 year old already launched satellite… While researching this I see scientists complaining but not one explanation logically of why they need that much money a year.. Thats billions over the life of the satellite where is that money going? Scientists don’t cost 70 million a year on payrolls

​@@Josecannoli1209space is expensive, ya twat

How does $40m buy peace?

I'm guessing it's more like 40 million for 20 people to fly around the world, stay in 5 star hotels and attend confrences while a few interns translate and distribute the data coming from an existing telescope that needs no physical maintenance.

@@Josecannoli1209 exactly.

We need to get better at cross promotion but he does mention it quite often.

And you do have quite a lot to catch up on!

@@EventHorizonShow funny the last video is the first time I noticed him mention it. Maybe I should watch more of the outro

Agreed! Although that rules out everyone except perhaps Cornel West, Jill Stein and Claudia De La Cruz. Even if you're fortunate enough to reside in a state where those candidates achieve ballot access, without ranked-choice voting they are essentially just protest votes. Really a revolution towards public funding of elections and ranked-choice voting is required. Organizing against the system is obscenely hard and voter-shaming in the meantime is counterproductive, insular Clinton-speak! 👍 Not that I think your comment is voter-shaming, I'm just sayin'.

You’d think someone with a good cat profile picture would have a better comment to make.

@@EventHorizonShowhow about 1 single explainable answer about why a 30 year old satellite that has been launched already needs 70 million a year… pay roll and facility’s don’t remotely cost that much so I have 0 sympathy until someone actually explains why that much money is even needed. Thank god they cut the budget because this sounds like massive miss management of funds

@@Josecannoli1209 I can explain it. 70 million per year operating costs is on the low end for a space telescope. Right now Hubble's running on a budget of 98 million per year and also facing a more modest reduction of its own, and James Webb at 187 million per year. You have to remember, there are not just scientists involved here. The research scientists often get their grant money based on their research itself, the telescope is just the instrument they book time on. But with a space telescope you need a facility, a team of in house scientists, a team of engineers and a team of programmers to deal with all of the technical aspects of the instrument just to keep it operating.

Explain your thoughts, and specifically how you can remove politicians, congress, from having control?

@@EventHorizonShow, if it is a line item on the budget then congress is requiring that amount of money to be spent on that specific purpose. If it is not a line item then it is part of the general budget allocation which makes it then up to NASA to decide how much to spend on it. Congress is politicians, NASA is not. The potential for backfire is that if congress is deciding what specific things to spend money on then it may be influenced by more by political considerations than by scientific considerations e.g. a project might be based in someone's congressional district or maybe it is just who is making the most noise. Furthermore, it is possible that someone who has some other preferred scientific project (e.g. sample return) may make a similar appeal to this one and result in the allocation to this project being reduced in order to increase the other project. I would be more comfortable with these types of decisions being made by NASA than congress.

@@EventHorizonShow , and how to remove congress? By having as few line items as possible and having as much as possible funded out of a general allocation that NASA has the discretion to manage.

How about people donate themselves. USA is broke: 34 Trillion. +1 trillion every 3 months of interest. We are sunk.

He sounds like an entitled @!%.

You just described the concept of private charities funding public works. Perfectly reasonable. But it also exposes the irrelevence of most state run peojects. You dont need coersive state debt and tax funding for astrophysics or anything else. But let's start with low hanging fruit like this.

@@r0sal3sr Some private nonprofits becomes VERY profitable (think the Red Cross). We don't need to reinvent the wheel. Postage stamps would take a act of congress (but maybe an easy act when we push it as an easy way to learn what's important to voters), but we should be able to "adopt" a satellite, do a Go Fund Me now. Every astronomical and science themed KZfaq and other broadcast platforms could promote it. I bet we could help them accumulate an embarrassment of riches.

@@friendlyone2706 It's not reinveting the wheel. As you say, there are BIG non-profits out there. Even for-profit science megaproject grant companies are possible. But going to congress and expecting different resultshas been returning inconsistant results for decades. I was just reminded in another Event Horizon episode how the Viking lander labeled release experiment was never followed up due to a change in administration. It's OK to let go of a bad funding model when there are so many good ones we use everyday.

what's frustrating is that it seems the only source of money is the feds. From another conversation this site: Why not allow NASA programs to get funding directly from ordinary citizens? Or have space-themed postage stamps help support space research? And make sure people know themed postage stamps help support the theme? Reply: You just described the concept of private charities funding public works. Perfectly reasonable. But it also exposes the irrelevance of most state run projects. You don't need coercive state debt and tax funding for astrophysics or anything else. But let's start with low hanging fruit like this. Reply Friendly One to @r0sal3sr: Some private nonprofits becomes VERY profitable (think the Red Cross). We don't need to reinvent the wheel. Postage stamps would take an act of congress (but maybe an easy act when we push it as an effective way to learn what's important to voters), but we should be able to "adopt" a satellite, & do a Go Fund Me now. Every astronomical and science themed KZfaq and other broadcast platforms could promote it. I bet we could help Chandra's promoters accumulate an embarrassment of riches.

It's like no-one understands compound interest / debt. USA OWES 34 TRILLION! WE ARE SCREWED.

Wow congrats will put you forward for the medal of valour mate

@@gavingreensmith1110 well, usually never happens since I am European and John uploads at times that I am in bed😅. Was kinda surprised.

@bertdemeulemeester yup am from uk myself but am a night owl. Not trying to be a d!ck, i just find it hilarious how there is always a "first" comment like its a big flex lol, so i tend to lamp the comment as i am a sarcy smegger irl.

Or convince the Vatican to let the Jesuits fund it.

It's illegal. US government agencies and programs can't usually take donations because it exceeds what Congress allocates them and thus circumvents oversight.

He is entitled. Lost all credibility with me.

The money would just be spent on wars and padding political pockets.

Contrary to political rhetoric -- or how their type of returns look -- the richest 1% fund over 50% of the government.

@@friendlyone2706 can you elaborate on that

Learning what mysteries exist -- and always the expectation one new fact from the stars might be the clue we need on earth to solve earthly problems -- Dig deeply and eventually all knowledge is connected -- or spend gazillions more money blowing things up and killing people? How dare you imply we peons should even have a choice?