Interstellar Video

 https://youtu.be/6E4_qKgvxMs


This is a link to our video regarding Interstellar, and we are people coming back from the future to give an urgent message to society today. I acted as a politician from the future, and talked about how in the year 2072, we saw an increased voter turnout rate to more than 95%, based on increases that had been seen decades before in 2016 and 2020. My overall message to future political scientists was to always vote, and never doubt that your vote matters. 

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