NASA's Lack of PR

Whatever we decide to do as a group, I think we should seriously consider what we can do to make sure that the first thing people do when they think of teaching as a profession they think of it as important, positive and prestigious. I still think that our ability to accomplish any other objective will be based on that.

I ran across a similar argument made about NASA. Here's a great quote:

NASA is the most fascinating, adventurous, epic institution ever devised by human beings, and their media sucks. Seriously. None of their brilliant scientists appear to know how to connect with the social media crowd, which is now more important than ever. In fact, NASA is an institution whose funding directly depends on how the public views them.

In all of their brilliance, NASA seems to have forgotten to share their hopes and dreams in a way the public can relate to, leaving one of humanities grandest projects with terrible PR and massive funding cuts.

Doesn't this apply to us as well?

A fan of NASA even made this promotional video (look below) since NASA seems uninterested in doing it themselves. We need to do this sort of thing, effectively.