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Is it me or is Neil really pissed off before they even start...?

>> ^Lendl:

Is it me or is Neil really pissed off before they even start...?


Ya know--I wondered that myself. And did Bill Nye look upset that he didn't get as much applause as NDGT?

NDT is on coke or what!? Chill out, guy. It's obvious at the start of the video something is bothering him.

Degrasse, based on his mood, definitely did not get any TANG before this panel.

I suspect he had a massive argument with krauss before hand...the tension between them in this vid could be cut with a sledge hammer.
Anyone got a link to the NDT speech after this one?

Never really been a fan of NDT. Those who say he is the next Sagan just piss me off. I find him preachy, overly dramatic, and somewhat of an attention whore. Just something about his delivery, I guess. I don't disagree with him, necessarily. I just don't care for him.

And his whole "don't say we can't afford it" spiel was comparing the current NASA budget to a dollar bill, not a future manned Mars mission. When you understand that, his rant falls flat. I understand the point he was trying to make, but his conclusion had nothing to do with it.

Neil misappropriated Kraus on the the whole terra-forming/space travel issue.

I don't think Krauss meant that we'd go to Mars or somewhere else close by in case of an asteroid (or that it was an either/or proposition, of course we would still try to deflect a potentially catastrophic object, presence on Mars or not) or to avoid one, but in preparation for the inevitable death of our sun or to take it much further into the future, the isolation of our galaxy from the nearest galaxies due to the expansion of our universe.

Galaxies will still be producing life-giving stars for awhile even when they exist in total informational isolation from each other, so we best start spreading human goo everywhere, just to be safe.

Though it may be pure hubris to think humanity would still be around when that time comes, it still makes for interesting thinking. Great, thought provoking Sift.

>> ^Fletch:

Never really been a fan of NDT. Those who say he is the next Sagan just piss me off. I find him preachy, overly dramatic, and somewhat of an attention whore. Just something about his delivery, I guess. I don't disagree with him, necessarily. I just don't care for him.
And his whole "don't say we can't afford it" spiel was comparing the current NASA budget to a dollar bill, not a future manned Mars mission. When you understand that, his rant falls flat. I understand the point he was trying to make, but his conclusion had nothing to do with it.


I think he could be the next closest-we've-got-to-Sagan but yeah he's a bit too enamoured with himself, or maybe a better way to put it is that his persona seems a bit overly cultivated to me... like he's an actor.