Neil deGrasse Tyson: Life, The Universe and Everything

"American Museum of Natural History's Director of the Hayden Planetarium, Neil deGrasse Tyson, hosted "Life the Universe and Everything: A Conversation with Neil deGrasse Tyson" at the Museum on June 2, 2010 as part of the ongoing free SciCafe series.

Tyson hosted the casual conversation about stars, planets, the universe, and beyond in the Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and Space. The popular SciCafe series takes place at the American Museum of Natural History." - YouTube
GenjiKilpatricksays...

The last five minutes are probably the best thoughts this man has sown in my head.

If humans can build Mars rovers, and we are only 2% more advanced than Chimpanzees.

What will a 2% advanced post-human society look like? [!?!?!?]

Exaltedsays...

>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:

The last five minutes are probably the best thoughts this man has sown in my head.
If humans can build Mars rovers, and we are only 2% more advanced than Chimpanzees.
What will a 2% advanced post-human society look like? [!?!?!?]


Agreed the last 5 minutes was probably the best, but what really got me is the "walking by the worm" thought. That there could of very well be the species 2% "above" us been here before and we're too stupid enough to recognize it. That got me thinking, woah.

jansays...

I feel like in watching a Disney version of astronomy 101.
I find him entertaining enough, but humans are ingenious in all forms not just the formerly educated state.

There are engineers that can not fix there own house plumbing.
Survival within the technological boom means we may have to resort to a more practical understanding of our needs.

I'm only one hour into it, it may win me over yet.

Trancecoachsays...

Na, Pluto had it coming.

I've seen him do it before. In this particular video, he turns that woman's question about the BP oil spill into a case for studying the stars. That's not at all what she asked. In fact, she was agreeing with him that the study of astronomy has real practical world applications. She wanted to know how this applied to cleaning up the oil spill.. and instead of addressing her earnestness, he used it to make a point I've heard him make several times before.

>> ^Yogi:

>> ^Trancecoach:
as good as this is, he's got a bad habit of bending what other people are saying in order to speak to the talking points he already has in mind.

Don't see where that happened...you're probably just mad about Pluto

Trancecoachsays...

astronomy ≠ astrology

>> ^jan:

I feel like in watching a Disney version of astrology 101.
I find him entertaining enough, but humans are ingenious in all forms not just the formerly educated state.
There are engineers that can not fix there own house plumbing.
Survival within the technological boom means we may have to resort to a more practical understanding of our needs.
I'm only one hour into it, it may win me over yet.

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