She's probably too stupid to know. You know, cause she's a girl.
Perhaps because the idea of space travel is so inaccessible and a bit abstract to the average person? I wonder if more people would express interest if they became more cognizant of the concrete ways space travel benefits their daily life. Maybe someone should rent out some billboards and plaster them with some of these facts... http://www.spaceexplorationday.us/benefits/space-benefits-ma...
I think the better idea is to make the case to private companies-- they've already got some pretty good marketing corps that can convince the people AND we'd have an explosion in exploration. Look at how much SpaceX alone has contributing to interest in space.
They have been some moves towards it lately. I remember reading around a year ago about a company that was planning on a one way trip to Mars with some early colonization methods where they were asking for volunteers. Don't know if the company held together or the plan continued, but at least there is some interest in it.
For me to enjoy a piece of fiction (keyword here being fiction) scientific accuracies aren't terribly important. However, I did enjoy reading Tyson's tweets. As a nonscientist it is interesting to know what is and is not accurate. I've not seen the film yet, has anyone here seen it? Story should trump science when making fiction. It's not a documentary -where story should never trump accuracy (unless you're Michael Moore, then you get a pass)
I "saw" it. Read as: it was background noise to whatever I was doing at the time. As a story? I don't know, I just thought it was over the top... The end of the movie... Shouldn't whatever she was in at the time have burned up on re-entry or broke (catastrophically) when she landed? Maybe I'm wrong and should go give it a serious watch just to make sure I caught all of the major plot points. Which as far as I know seem to be "FUCK I'M FLOATING AROUND THE BLACK!", again I could be wrong. Going to rent it again and watch it at some point.