Look at the facts. We need you to change things, not deny what's happening. - Bill Nye

Please, you don't want to raise a generation of science students who don't understand how we know our place in the cosmos, who don't understand natural law.

Nye, who earned a mechanical engineering degree from Cornell University, combined his love of science with his flair for comedy when he won a Steve Martin look-alike contest in Seattle.

Spacecraft sent to Mars, Saturn, Mercury, the moon, comets, and asteroids have been making incredible discoveries, with more to come from recent launches to Jupiter, the moon, and Mars. The country needs more of these robotic space exploration missions, not less.