Neil deGrasse Tyson on Earth Day

jgouge996 · 1 month

Thanks for Reddit's characteristically energized interest in all things cosmic. For context on that Earth-day tweet, join my speech from last week at 21m41sec: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLzKjxglNyE#t=21m42s

NDTyson New York City

ngregge · 1 month

Impressed by all the attention the small exchange on my Facebook page has generated. A few comments:

1) Thanks to "bsolidgold" and others who noticed my placement of etcetera in the sequence. Sometimes things like that happen by accident, but not in this case.

2) "DivineRobot" - I did have tons of typos in my AMA sessions. Some were so bad I went back to correct them. My preference, however, was to blow through as many Q's as possible in the time I had allocated, without the normal proofreading that would occur in a composed piece. I'm betting that more answers with typos were preferred over fewer answers with none.

3) "DiaperParty" - I learned long ago that the dictionary does not define our language. Instead, it describes the language that we come to use. Donut is a misspelling of Doughnut. Just as Thruway is a misspelling of Throughway, and Draft is a misspelling of Draught. But no one in America will say it's wrong. The simplified spelling trend was sensible and caught on. In your spare time, have a look at this short essay by Isaac Asimov, titled "The Relativity of Wrong".http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm

-NDTyson

neiltyson · 2 months

I'm being called for dinner right now, and so I must end the session. Sorry that this time was only 1/3 the length of my first two, each of which were nearly 3 hours. This was a good set. Thanks for your persistent interest in my work and for your energy to spread the love of science literacy. Signing off. -Neil deGrasse Tyson, New York City

neiltyson · 2 months

Would have to be Ripster

neiltyson · 2 months

[90 sec] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeqrN3Bfro8

neiltyson · 2 months

Be just to one another, and never forget how to dream.

neiltyson · 2 months

Without an new understanding of the fabric of the space-time continuum, enabling wormhole travel, the answer is never.

neiltyson · 2 months

Answers are a luxury enjoyed only every now and then. So early on, learn to love the questions themselves.

neiltyson · 2 months

You mean a type 1 Civilization, I presume? I'd give us another century. We already control rivers and coastlines. That's a start on our way to a thorough program of geo-engineering, where we tap the thermal energy of volcanoes and exploit the cyclonic energy of hurricanes, and extract the tensile energy of earthquakes.

neiltyson · 2 months

The astronaut selected to take the first steps on Mars.

And thanks for getting Space Chronicles. It's here if anybody else is interested:

http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/buy/books/space-chronicles

neiltyson · 2 months

I am currently internless. What I currently do does not make good use of one.

Best decision I ever made? To be true to my lifelong interests even in the face of naysayers who are always there to tell you what you cannot or will not achieve.

neiltyson · 2 months

"I need my space" too!

neiltyson · 2 months

Hang out with others who are also aspiring scientists. That way the huge supply of interstitial time in your life is spent not on watching American Idol, but on geeking out on things like memorizing digits of Pi, or testing each other on obscure science trivia. The most successful people in life are those who recover all those lost hours per day and use them for enlightenment.

neiltyson · 2 months

Scripting is a bit delayed - about 6 months. if that affects everything else in the accordion, then it won't air before the fall of 2013, perhaps as late as early spring, 2014.

neiltyson · 2 months

Take them to a planetarium show.

neiltyson · 2 months

I think they are a bit over-rated. It's certainly fun to do -- for all parties involved: Students, Teachers, Parents. But robotics is such a narrow slice of the totality of STEM that I worry other dimensions of learning might get sidestepped in the process.

neiltyson · 2 months

Write letters to the editor and OpEds. The easiest way for broad audiences to learn about, and if well-argued, agree with your sentiments on any subject at all.

neiltyson · 2 months

Thanks for the compliment. I pay close attention to the body language of who I am communicating with. While I am speaking, are they bored? excited? indifferent? curious? If you don't take notice of all this then you are just lecturing. If and when you do, then you are empowered to discover the conduits of contact that can maximize the value and meaning of what you are saying to others.

neiltyson · 2 months

Rush Holt. Representative from NJ. He's got a PhD in Physics. I have an interview in queue with him for StarTalk radio. Will likely air in march or April. In it we talk about all the Members of Congress who are scientifically literate -- and all those who are not.

neiltyson · 2 months

Fully funded mission to multiple destinations in space. Which reminds me:

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea..." - Antoine de Saint Exupery

neiltyson · 2 months

Threaten to no re-elect them. That works every time.

neiltyson · 2 months

That within one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) than all humans who have ever been born. Yet many people continue to assert that it is we who are in charge of the world.

neiltyson · 2 months

Watching and listening to people in power who believe they know what they are talking about but do not.

neiltyson · 2 months

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. Back when I was in shape, I had the body fitness that he has. And we are about the same size. So perhaps it's a bit narcissistic. Also, I've always been enchanted by Jamie Lee Curtis.

neiltyson · 2 months

StarTrek. For the warp drives. And the story lines were often deep, and rich in social consciosness and accountability. I was also impressed that Captain Kirk could have sex with aliens.

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