At work last night I was lucky enough to talk to one of the pilots of the NASA Sofia mission. I never really knew about Sofia before, so I looked it up, it is a pretty cool idea. It is a 2.5 meter telescope mounted to a 747 that observes around 41000 feet. I'm not nearly as smart as most people here, but I think any investment we make in education/learning is very worth it. The pilot mentioned that even on the day of their first flight people were trying to cut all their funding, then suggested that I go like their facebook page. I thought it was interesting that something like Facebook likes is something that could help determine future funding, but that seemed to be what he was implying - although it was hard to make out exactly what he was saying as the radios were very poor. I told him that I would post here and see if I could get a few more likes. So if you feel like supporting the mission, just go to their facebook and push "like". https://www.facebook.com/pages/SOFIA-Stratospheric-Observatory-for-Infrared-... Here is their main page http://www.sofia.usra.edu/