Here’s a clip from Colbert’s piece on Obama announcing the end of the Constellation program, the thing that was supposed to take us back to the moon. You know, that place that we managed to go to 40 years ago before iPads or cellphones or the internet.
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Even more interesting is the interview with Neil DeGrasse Tyson, who gives an awesome speech and explanation that manned space flight is the best recruiting tool to get kids interested in science. Unfortunately I can’t embed that (nor can you watch this on Hulu – thanks Viacom) so you’ll have to view it in the whole episode, which you can see here.
