Selfish *promote because I love the perspective he shows about the height of the space station, and it's Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Self promoting this video back to the front page; last published Monday, July 21st, 2014 11:52pm PDT - promote requested by original submitter jimnms.

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I'm not worried if we're too stupid for aliens... I'm worried we're too stupid for humans

If you think humans are stupid, try teaching a monkey how to do brain surgery.

And as usual, Lantern misses the point and contributes nothing to the discussion.

A monkey? How about anyone who has taken more than one selfie in a week?

Ladies and gentlemen... exhibit A

... Laughing at the discussion...

Upvote for the painting behind him! (one of my all-time favorites!)

Also upvote for the hilarious discussion.

I like him, but... I don't step on the worm. I in fact try to avoid it if directly possible, though if I can't avoid it I'm not going to cry. I'm not going to dodge the car to avoid a worm, but I would step out of the way, and not just for any sort of gross factor in stepping on the worm and having worm parts on my shoe, but out of respect for another living thing. I feel a little bad if I use a worm for bait (less bad oddly for using a maggot).

The aliens won't care. They will step on you anyway. Nice try though.

"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." --Calvin

Neil must be reading the comments on this site.