Neil deGrasse Tyson | Stories from “Cosmos” | Your Personal Astrophysicist

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: At the time I became friends with Seth

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: McFarlane.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: He came up to me and says you know, I came

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: into some money recently.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Is there any good I can do?

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: And I said, oh my gosh, why don't you, you

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: know, fund a pilot for Cosmos so we can

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: show people what it's gonna look like?

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Announcer: Welcome to Story and Craft.

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Announcer: Now here's your host, Marc Preston.

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Marc Preston: Alright, here we go Back again.

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Marc Preston: Story and Craft.

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Marc Preston: How are you?

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Marc Preston: I'm, Marc, Pleasure to have you here.

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Marc Preston: If you're coming back, another episode.

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Marc Preston: Thank you so much for joining me once again.

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Marc Preston: If you're brand new, this is your first

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Marc Preston: episode, Boy, did you choose a good one to

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Marc Preston: check out?

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Marc Preston: Thank you for stopping by this episode.

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Marc Preston: Neil deGrasse Tyson he doesn't need an

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Marc Preston: introduction.

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Marc Preston: I mean, who doesn't know Neil deGrasse

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Marc Preston: Tyson?

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Marc Preston: Astrophysicist from the Hayden Planetarium

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Marc Preston: and just a real cool personality.

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Marc Preston: Really enjoyed this chat.

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Marc Preston: We discussed a lot of things.

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Marc Preston: Of course, his new book, Welcome to the

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Marc Preston: Universe in 3D, a visual tour, Kind of an

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Marc Preston: interactive book.

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Marc Preston: We'll discuss that also.

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Marc Preston: Just generally, his origin story.

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Marc Preston: What kind of sci-fi movies he enjoys.

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Marc Preston: Which ones does he think are on point and

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Marc Preston: accurate scientifically speaking?

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Marc Preston: And of course, we're going to discuss Carl

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Marc Preston: Sagan and the chance meeting he had with

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Marc Preston: Seth McFarlane that brought Cosmos back to

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Marc Preston: TV.

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Marc Preston: And if you want to learn anything at all

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Marc Preston: I mean, just love the fact you're here.

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Marc Preston: Thanks so much for being a part of the

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Marc Preston: mischief that I am stirring up twice a week

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Marc Preston: now.

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Marc Preston: Don't forget Tuesdays and Thursdays.

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Marc Preston: We are releasing an episode.

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Marc Preston: Let's get right after it.

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Marc Preston: It is Neil DeGrasse Tyson Day right here on

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Marc Preston: Story and Craft.

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Marc Preston: Well, Dr Tyson, thank you for taking time

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Marc Preston: out.

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Marc Preston: And Neil, please, I got to be honest, I did

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Marc Preston: very little prep for this because I'm like

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Marc Preston: I don't want this to be an interrogation.

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Marc Preston: I'm going okay, Marc, you can ask a

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Marc Preston: gazillion questions you really want the

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Marc Preston: answers to and it was really funny my

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Marc Preston: daughter, Emma, my 16-year-old.

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Marc Preston: We were talking.

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Marc Preston: I was like you know, I got some interviews.

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Marc Preston: I got to talk to actors, directors, Like,

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Marc Preston: do you think I should talk to you?

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Marc Preston: She grew up as well as my other two kids on

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Marc Preston: Cosmos.

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Announcer: She's like Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

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Marc Preston: I was like, obviously, so here we are.

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Marc Preston: So my 16-year-old executive producer just

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Marc Preston: arranged, but congratulations on the new

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Marc Preston: book.

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Marc Preston: What a cool idea for a book though 3D

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Marc Preston: visual tour.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Yeah, it was a little bit audacious because

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: in the world of very high production value,

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: visualizations in movies and TV and

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: immersive video games, so to have like this

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: thing, which is kind of a retro technology,

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: it's two images merged into one in your

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: brain with the help of this viewer.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: But people don't do this with cosmic

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: objects, right, and we did it with cosmic

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: objects.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: So the moon pops and the moon goes from

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: being a picture of the moon to being a

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: place called the moon that is there in

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: front of you and it becomes more real and

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: visceral and you end up feeling the

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: universe in addition to thinking about it,

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: and I think that's its value.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Just, welcome to the universe in 3D.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: By the way, the, as I said on the on that

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: show, we decided kind of at the last minute

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: that I would narrate every caption and load

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: that up to bonus content in the Welcome to

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: the Universenet web page and in that bonus

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: content as you go through one picture at

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: the next, and then I use my planetarium

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: voice to narrate each caption.

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Marc Preston: That brings up a really interesting point.

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Marc Preston: My my kids are like is he always like that

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Marc Preston: in interviews?

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Marc Preston: Like, is there so used to you on Cosmos

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Marc Preston: being this wonderful narrator, this tour

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Marc Preston: guide, is it worth?

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Marc Preston: I was like no, I love his enthusiasm and

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Marc Preston: I'm like that's, that's Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Marc Preston: that I've grown to love.

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Marc Preston: And they're like wow, that's kind of cool.

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Marc Preston: You see, you're still kind of a kid?

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Yeah, I mean Cosmos.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: There's so much that had to come together

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: to make that work.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: We thought of possibly filming it, just me

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: ad-libbing all the content.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: But the timing of everything had to fit.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: With the animations, with the, with the

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: special effects, with the, with the, the,

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: the, the, the narrations, above other

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: storytelling, all that was this huge puzzle

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: that had to fit together.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: So every word had to fit the timing

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: perfectly, and so that's that's what we did.

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Marc Preston: It reminded me of something a seven, maybe

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Marc Preston: eight years old, somewhere between six and

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Marc Preston: eight, we'll call it that, and of course,

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Marc Preston: at that point in time we're the same age,

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Marc Preston: probably.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: So I'm thinking I'll remember.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Whatever, if it's a social-cultural thing,

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: I'd be right in the middle of that.

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Marc Preston: Well, it was actually just kind of a

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Marc Preston: personal thing, because you're young, you

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Marc Preston: see the sun, you see the moon, you know

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Marc Preston: it's just there.

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Marc Preston: And I remember my parents got me a hardback

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Marc Preston: book.

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Marc Preston: It was about Ye Big.

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Marc Preston: It was a big, big glossy cover and it's a

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Marc Preston: big picture book.

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Marc Preston: It wasn't kind of cartoony illustrations

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Marc Preston: but of the universe, and I remember it was

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Marc Preston: the very first time I had a sense and it's

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Marc Preston: almost an intimidating way of the bigness

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Marc Preston: of the universe.

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Marc Preston: It was the first time I was exposed to that,

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Marc Preston: but at the same time I became deeply

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Marc Preston: intrigued by it, you know.

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Marc Preston: So to the point that I've still never

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Marc Preston: gotten a telescope.

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Marc Preston: That's been something that's been on my

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Marc Preston: agenda since I was six.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: No excuse there, but I can tell you my

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: version of that was I realized just how big

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: the Earth was all right, the fact that you

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: had to get into an airplane and fly for

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: hours at hundreds of miles an hour just to

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: go to another country.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: To me Earth was huge.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: And then to realize that Earth is small

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: compared to the universe, I was already

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: getting my huge mojo going there, you know,

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: trying to contemplate things much larger

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: than your backyard.

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Marc Preston: You know another thing?

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Marc Preston: I did, do a little bit of research, Found

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Marc Preston: out you went to UT I'm a native Texan and I

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Marc Preston: was like wait, you're a longhorn, let's

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Marc Preston: complete the origin story.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: So I was born and raised in New York City,

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: attended the public schools all throughout

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: the K through 12.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: My high school, however, was the Bronx High

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: School of Science.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: I was born and raised in the Bronx.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: That high school boasts eight Nobel

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: laureates among its graduates, so it's

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: quite the place for stimulating creative

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: thinking.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: There I went on to major in physics at

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Harvard and then afterwards went to the

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: University of Texas at Austin and got two

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: master's degrees.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: From there I went to Columbia University

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: for my PhD in astrophysics and from there

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: then I was called a postdoc, which is what

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: you do after your PhD.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: You spend a few years in sort of free

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: research, unfettered research.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: I postdoc at Princeton University so that's

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: probably how that showed up in your tally

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: and from there I was courted by the

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: American Museum of Natural History, who

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: wanted to do something about the

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: planetarium, which was growing long of

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: tooth, and so I helped them rethink and

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: reimagine the new place, got in some very

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: creative architects, exhibit designers, and

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: then I became director of that facility,

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: which was the first place I'd ever seen a

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: dark sky was the Hayden Planetarium.

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Marc Preston: It begs the question of were you wanting to

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Marc Preston: do this at a young age, or is that

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Marc Preston: something your parents like?

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Marc Preston: Let's get him to this school.

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Marc Preston: He's a smart guy.

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Marc Preston: Let's see where this takes us.

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Marc Preston: Or was that more something?

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Marc Preston: Was that a path that you kind of initiated,

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Marc Preston: you know, like you wanted to go to this

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Marc Preston: school.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: So my parents would never put things ahead

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: of us to try to attract us into one path of

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: interest or another.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Instead, what they did was expose us to all

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: manner of things that talented adults do.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Every weekend, my brother, my sister and I

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: went as family with my parents to some

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: other place in the city.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: That was at the Art Museum, the Aquarium,

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: the Science Museum, the Natural History

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Museum, the Planetarium, even sporting

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: events was it hockey, basketball, football,

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: the ice capades.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: These are all grown-ups with high-level

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: talent, doing things beyond just if you

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: want to be a doctoral lawyer when you grow

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: up.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Out of that came an expression of my

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: interest in the universe when I was nine

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: years old, in a first visit to the Hayden

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Planetarium.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: My brother got interested in art from very

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: early.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: He ended up attending the High School of

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Music and Art and I ended up attending the

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Bronx High School of Science.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: It's not more complicated than that.

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Marc Preston: Was that the one they based the TV show

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Marc Preston: Fame off of Almost?

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Fame.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: They had telescopes in West Texas and it

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Marc Preston: Texas is certainly that monolith, I think

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Marc Preston: You go to Austin or Dallas, totally

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Marc Preston: Is Lubbock in my rear view mirror?

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: So it was first books.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: It was the first encounter with the night

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: the books were 50 cents, 25 cents, 75 cents.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: My parents bought every book that had

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: These books were my window to the vast

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: And then I would take many more visits to

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: There's, there are classes that are taught,

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: lecture series, and I would consume all of

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: And among that were educators and

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Planetarium who I knew I wanted to emulate,

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: and when I ever became an educator I wanted

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: You couldn't help but smile as you listened

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: And there was a scientist there who just

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: And here I am, at age 14 and 15, saying to

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: in graduate, 11 years focusing on something.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: So I didn't have.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: I couldn't grasp how much I could learn

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: But so you want to think of role models?

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: A mind were assembled a la carte and I

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: never wanted to be any single person.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: I think that's a flaw in the role model

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: The role models I want to be you.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: No, you want to be.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: You want to have their expertise or you

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: want to have their talent.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: You want to have this thing about them.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Do you want to actually be them?

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: No, you are an individual.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Stay that way.

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Marc Preston: That's how I've always felt you kind of

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Marc Preston: translated the knowledge, the experience

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Marc Preston: You know, start talk.

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Marc Preston: How did you decide it's like, okay, you

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Marc Preston: know you've got this wonderful education,

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Marc Preston: you're doing your thing.

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Marc Preston: Did you have an itch to just kind of find

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: No, no, I just enjoy knowing the universe

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: and studying the universe, and that joy

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: You know, as Carl Sagan once said famously,

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: And so I, you know I'd be on an airplane

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: and some.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: So what do you do?

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: I do astrophysics.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Oh, tell me about black holes and quasars

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: and the big bang in God.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: And you know all these questions.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: And I would monitor their eyebrows, right,

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: and I would monitor their eyebrows like up

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: and lit or are they looking sleepy while

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: actively and passively, a catalog of things

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: that distract them or they get bored

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: And I would hone future conversations with

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: curiosities that I was able to glean from

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: And I would do this.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: And then, you know, the press asked me a

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: people saw that after it aired and they

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: the best friend of everybody who wants a

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: good story on the meteor shower or the

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: that if I had declined these overtures, I

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: authentic interest expressed by the public,

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: and here, in my chosen field, who am I to

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: deny them the same pleasures that I have in

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: So that's really how that unfolded.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, I really like that quote.

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Marc Preston: If you're in love, you want to tell the

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Marc Preston: I've got to remember that one.

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Marc Preston: I love that.

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Marc Preston: One of the things that I'm curious about is

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Marc Preston: what are your thoughts on lost knowledge?

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Marc Preston: You look at the Egyptians or you look at

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Marc Preston: Fast forward to now.

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Marc Preston: Do you think there are things that we are

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Marc Preston: previously, and that information is just

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Marc Preston: What are your general thoughts on that?

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: I think there is certainly cultural

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: There is certainly information, regional

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: civilizations came and went and are just

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: So something died with them and you kind of

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: want to know what that is.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: But to wonder whether they somehow had

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: that is not a feasible suggestion.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: That is not plausible Only because I'm not

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: because I want it to be true, but it

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: sensibly stated as fact, because it's a

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: we do know about the world was only enabled

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: by the invention of methods and tools of

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: science the telescope, the microscope, the

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: particle accelerator, space travel, space

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: probes.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Ancients had none of this.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: They only had their five senses, which are

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: At best, Science and technology,

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: engineering didn't take off until we could

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: replace our five senses with machines that

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: could do it better and faster and more

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: accurately and more reliably.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: So no, there's not a bit of science that

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: I'm imagining was known by the ancients and

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: the lost, and we're still going to have to

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: discover it one day.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: I don't think that for a minute.

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Marc Preston: Well, very good, well, that kind of tethers

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Marc Preston: The second part of the question is I'm

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Marc Preston: without sounding at all political, because

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Marc Preston: it's not, but you can sound political, I

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Marc Preston: don't care.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: We live in a world that has politics right,

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: so let's not stand a denial of that.

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Marc Preston: Well, in the US, depending on the century,

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Marc Preston: the idea of anti-intellectualism.

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Marc Preston: You're a scientist, Like you said.

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Marc Preston: Over the course of hundreds of millennia

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Marc Preston: we've come up with a scientific method.

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Marc Preston: What do you think about generally

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Marc Preston: anti-intellectualism?

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Marc Preston: Do you think there is an aspect of that in

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Marc Preston: where we could be?

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Yeah, anything, if we recognize science and

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: technology as the engines of progress,

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: however we might define that and we could

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: debate even that.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: But let's assume progress in civilization

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: is something that's in the interest of your

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: health and longevity and harmony with the

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: world.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: And what civilization has done enabled,

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: empowered by the methods and tools of

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: science, especially since the Industrial

505

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Revolution has greatly enhanced human

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: health, wealth and well-being.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: So if anyone wants to stand against the

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: intellectual foundations that bring these

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: discoveries to civilization that, by the

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: way, in a free society, sure go ahead and

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: do that.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: But if you rise to power and then you have

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: the power to legislate anti-intellectualism,

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: then that's a regressive force on

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: civilization and you will delay future

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: discoveries on what would happen.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: By the way, you can ask why would someone

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: like that even arise in the modern world?

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: And I don't remember there being much

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: anti-intellectualism in the 1960s, for

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: example, when we were going to the moon.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: But I can tell you this that I know a lot

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: of people who are intellectuals and they

524

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: have like a disdain for those who are not,

525

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: and that's not good.

526

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: That can't end well.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: That's because intellectuals are

528

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: outnumbered by non-intellectuals, so that's

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: not going to end well.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: But if you're an intellectual and you can't

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: have a conversation with someone without

532

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: having them feel inferior to you, then you

533

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: should just shut the fuck up, okay, go back

534

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: to the lab and get out of the public.

535

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Pardon my language.

536

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: I'm just saying that you're.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: The attitude that so many people have who

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: would count as intellectuals is

539

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: counterproductive if you want people to

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: embrace what it is intellectuals do.

541

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: The very title of intellectual carries a

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: value judgment, and so when I give public

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: talks, well, we introduce you.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: No, don't just say you're personal

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: astrophysicists.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: How about your degrees?

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Don't even put the degrees.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: How about your PhD?

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Don't that's irrelevant.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: You know why it's irrelevant?

551

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Because if you need to know what degree I

552

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: have to decide whether you're going to

553

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: listen to what I say, then my arguments

554

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: can't really be that compelling.

555

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: The burden is on me to be compelling to you,

556

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: without regard to status, educational or

557

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: otherwise.

558

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: So that's how I think about this.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: So I think the intellectuals are half to

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: blame for the intellectual, the

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: anti-intellectual climate that we've seen

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: in recent decades.

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Marc Preston: You had a wonderful quote.

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Marc Preston: I found this somewhere.

565

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Marc Preston: Don't even ask me where, because I don't

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Marc Preston: remember.

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Marc Preston: But if I'm misquoting you please let me

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Marc Preston: know.

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Marc Preston: But I love this.

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Marc Preston: You said the problem in society is not kids

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Marc Preston: not knowing science, the problem is adults

572

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Marc Preston: not knowing science.

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Marc Preston: They outnumber kids five to one, they wield

574

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Marc Preston: power, they write your legislation.

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Marc Preston: When you have scientifically literate

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Marc Preston: adults, you have—I'm sorry—when you have

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Marc Preston: scientifically illiterate adults—I need a

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Marc Preston: better glasses here—you have undermined the

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Marc Preston: very fabric of what makes a nation wealthy

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Marc Preston: and strong.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: For context, that came off of a question.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: I've said that multiple ways and different

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: ways, but often it comes off of the

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: question what do we need to do to get our

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: kids interested in science?

586

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: And I said kids are born curious about the

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: world.

588

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: They're born scientists.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: I'm not worried about the kids, I'm worried

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: about the scientifically illiterate adults.

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Marc Preston: And then it leads into that entire set of

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Marc Preston: sentences that you accurately conveyed,

593

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Marc Preston: like coming out with this book again—let me

594

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Marc Preston: go and make sure I say a title—Welcome to

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Marc Preston: the Universe and 3D Visual Tour being

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Marc Preston: turned on by what's out.

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Marc Preston: There is such an easy thing.

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Marc Preston: It's infinite curiosity, there's infinite

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Marc Preston: bigness, you know.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: I got good material.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: The Universe is good material.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: So, by the way, that book is one in a

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: series of four books.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: I don't know if I said it at the beginning.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Welcome to the Universenet.

606

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: That website has all four books, the most

607

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: recent one in 3D and that's the one that

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: has my narration of the captions.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: But that entire series is an attempt to

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: make the Universe accessible to you in many

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: different formats, because not everyone

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: receives knowledge in the same way.

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Marc Preston: When I was younger I remember watching the

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Marc Preston: movie the Right Stuff.

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Marc Preston: That era of space travel and that

616

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Marc Preston: excitement—you know about the 60s that

617

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Marc Preston: predated me a little bit, you know to where.

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Marc Preston: I wasn't as aware of it, but I was really

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Marc Preston: loved that movie.

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Marc Preston: It brought me to NASA.

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Marc Preston: I was always intrigued by NASA.

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Marc Preston: Now we're living in an era where you've got

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Marc Preston: private industry getting involved more

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Marc Preston: directly.

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Marc Preston: What are your thoughts about that kind of

626

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Marc Preston: mix?

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Marc Preston: How much should NASA be doing?

628

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Marc Preston: Our billionaires are getting involved.

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Marc Preston: Should NASA always be leading the charge,

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Marc Preston: you think, or do you think that private

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Marc Preston: industry really is going that direction?

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: That's a simple answer, actually.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: So you want NASA to do things that have

634

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: never been done before?

635

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Private Enterprise has no business model to

636

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: justify doing things that have never been

637

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: done before.

638

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: If that thing that has never been done

639

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: before is expensive and dangerous and has

640

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: no obvious return on the investment, then

641

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: they just simply won't do it.

642

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: But you could do it as a vanity project,

643

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: right?

644

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: So Bezos and Branson can get together and

645

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: say let's put humans on Mars.

646

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: They could do that, they have enough money

647

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: to do that.

648

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: But the shareholders, in whatever pocket of

649

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: money that's coming from, would definitely

650

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: object because there's no return on that

651

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: investment.

652

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: A nation can do that, because a nation has

653

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: geopolitical reasons for doing things and

654

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: they have a much longer time horizon for a

655

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: return on their investment.

656

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: In fact, they might not even need a return

657

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: on their investment.

658

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: The return might just be soft power

659

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: projected around the world.

660

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: It could be economic power, it could be

661

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: anything.

662

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: It could be an actual literal enemy, as we

663

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: had in the Cold War.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: So you need NASA to do things that have

665

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: never been done before and then, once you

666

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: can characterize the cost, the risks, the

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: benefits, then Private Enterprise comes and

668

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: does it.

669

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: I was just so surprised when Elon Musk had

670

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: a ship to cargo resupply to the

671

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: International Space Station and the

672

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: headline was new era in space, the Private

673

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Enterprise taking over the thing they're

674

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: doing, what NASA's been doing for 30 years.

675

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: So yeah, let Private Enterprise do the

676

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: routine things and with proper business

677

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: models they could probably do it more

678

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: cheaply and more efficiently and grow the

679

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: industry.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: So the mix is very simple If it's never

681

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: been done before, you let NASA do it.

682

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Once NASA figures out how to do it, private

683

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Enterprise comes in see if they can make it

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: work.

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Marc Preston: You mentioned the moon and Mars.

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Marc Preston: I don't know why, I don't know this, but is

687

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Marc Preston: there any kind of set like, ok, we're going

688

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Marc Preston: to go to moon, the Mars, beyond that, I

689

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Marc Preston: don't know what.

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Marc Preston: Is there a plan?

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Marc Preston: Is there a discussion?

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Marc Preston: For where are we going?

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Marc Preston: What's the objective once we do get the

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Marc Preston: Mars?

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Yeah, you're thinking linearly, as are most

696

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: people, so I'm not accusing you of that.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: I'm highlighting that fact.

698

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: If, instead, you think in terms of

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: capability rather than sequences of

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: destinations, imagine a future where we

701

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: have a warehouse of launch vessels of all

702

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: combinations, and you tell me what you want

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: to do.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: You want to look for life in the craters of

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Mars.

706

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Well, that's this combination of rockets

707

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: and it's a science mission.

708

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: So you get funding for that from the

709

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: National Science Foundation or from NASA,

710

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: and then you go look for life on Mars.

711

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: You want to set up an amusement park on the

712

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: moon where all the rides are in 1-6th G.

713

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: That would be kind of fun.

714

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: So that's this set of things.

715

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: And now you need habitat modules and you

716

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: want to mine an asteroid for its natural

717

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: resources and the rare earth elements that

718

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: are common on an asteroid, even if they're

719

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: rare on Earth.

720

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: That's this combination of launch vehicles.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Oh, you want to sell water to everyone else

722

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: who is in space without having to bring it

723

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: from Earth.

724

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: So you're going to lasso a comet.

725

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Okay, let's go ahead and do that.

726

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Put the ices sell liters of water to

727

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: whoever needs it in orbit.

728

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Wait a minute.

729

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: There's an asteroid headed our way.

730

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: We need somebody to deflect it.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Oh my gosh, maybe the military is involved.

732

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: That's a different set of vehicles, a

733

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: different set of launch parameters, a

734

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: different set of tools necessary once you

735

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: arrive there.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Oh, you want to beam energy from the sun

737

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: back to Earth from a special Lagrangian

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: point, that's, you're going to build that

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: in free space.

740

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: That's not on the surface of anything.

741

28:10 ,430 --> 00:28:11,535

Neil deGrasse Tyson: That's a whole other task.

742

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: You add all this up.

743

28:14 ,070 --> 00:28:16,176

Neil deGrasse Tyson: These are capabilities brought to you by a

744

28:16 ,276 --> 00:28:17,680

Neil deGrasse Tyson: warehouse of launch vehicles.

745

28:18 ,510 --> 00:28:21,196

Neil deGrasse Tyson: That's what I imagine the future of our

746

28:22 ,499 --> 00:28:23,882

Neil deGrasse Tyson: relationship to space will be.

747

28:24 ,452 --> 00:28:25,700

Marc Preston: Yeah, it's kind of sort of like, instead of

748

28:25 ,760 --> 00:28:27,069

Marc Preston: just like a lab, we kind of look at our

749

28:27 ,109 --> 00:28:29,794

Marc Preston: solar systems as one just big lab kind of A

750

28:29 ,814 --> 00:28:31,525

Marc Preston: backyard, I wouldn't have to say lab.

751

28:31 ,545 --> 00:28:32,595

Neil deGrasse Tyson: you might want to just joyride.

752

28:32 ,896 --> 00:28:34,081

Neil deGrasse Tyson: That's not a lab, you know.

753

28:34 ,737 --> 00:28:35,439

Neil deGrasse Tyson: You don't have to think of this

754

28:35 ,480 --> 00:28:36,102

Neil deGrasse Tyson: scientifically.

755

28:36 ,162 --> 00:28:38,162

Neil deGrasse Tyson: If it can make a buck, I'm all down with

756

28:38 ,805 --> 00:28:40,455

Neil deGrasse Tyson: going to that amusement park on moon.

757

28:40 ,535 --> 00:28:42,280

Marc Preston: That actually, it seems like you know you

758

28:42 ,300 --> 00:28:43,042

Marc Preston: get Disney enough.

759

28:43 ,062 --> 00:28:44,747

Marc Preston: You know Disney, I got a couple bucks.

760

28:44 ,775 --> 00:28:45,981

Marc Preston: They'll figure it out one way or another.

761

28:46 ,276 --> 00:28:48,098

Marc Preston: Yeah, exactly Exactly when you were talking

762

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Marc Preston: about.

763

28:48 ,278 --> 00:28:48,901

Marc Preston: That reminds me.

764

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Marc Preston: I don't know if you ever have seen the TV

765

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Marc Preston: show the Expanse.

766

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: So that's on my list.

767

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: By the way, in the next month I'm going to

768

28:54 ,764 --> 00:28:56,283

Neil deGrasse Tyson: binge and I probably get.

769

28:56 ,586 --> 00:28:57,515

Neil deGrasse Tyson: I expect to get through all of them.

770

28:57 ,575 --> 00:28:59,547

Neil deGrasse Tyson: I know that several years of them but it's

771

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: on my list, it's not going to spoil it for

772

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: you at all.

773

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Marc Preston: I just think it's the most eloquent blend

774

29:02 Living on Mars

29:03 ,740 --> 00:29:06,607

Marc Preston: of science, sociology, psychology.

775

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Marc Preston: I mean it's you know.

776

29:07 ,999 --> 00:29:09,564

Marc Preston: You look at it like what if I was talking

777

29:09 ,584 --> 00:29:10,738

Marc Preston: with my kids the other day about it?

778

29:11 ,336 --> 00:29:12,922

Marc Preston: What if we put humans on Mars?

779

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Marc Preston: Hopefully, I mean it's going to happen one

780

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Marc Preston: day.

781

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Marc Preston: But let's say they're there a few decades,

782

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Marc Preston: 100 years, I'll say a generation.

783

29:18 ,275 --> 00:29:20,114

Neil deGrasse Tyson: But, by the way, they said that in 1969.

784

29:20 ,415 --> 00:29:22,254

Neil deGrasse Tyson: We'll have people on Mars by 1985.

785

29:24 ,038 --> 00:29:25,682

Neil deGrasse Tyson: So you have to ask yourself what is

786

29:25 ,762 --> 00:29:28,208

Neil deGrasse Tyson: motivating you to presume that to be true.

787

29:28 ,837 --> 00:29:31,345

Neil deGrasse Tyson: And once you do that analysis, don't be so

788

29:31 ,445 --> 00:29:32,850

Neil deGrasse Tyson: certain that we'll just have people

789

29:33 ,291 --> 00:29:33,973

Neil deGrasse Tyson: frolicking on Mars.

790

29:33 ,993 --> 00:29:34,495

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Just don't be so certain.

791

29:34 ,938 --> 00:29:36,772

Marc Preston: I'm trying to be infinitely optimistic and

792

29:36 ,812 --> 00:29:38,646

Marc Preston: just hoping one day I'll say I'll hope one

793

29:38 ,686 --> 00:29:39,553

Marc Preston: day we actually get the better.

794

29:39 ,573 --> 00:29:39,835

Neil deGrasse Tyson: That's better.

795

29:40 ,357 --> 00:29:41,743

Marc Preston: That's the more accurate thing to go.

796

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Marc Preston: Let's say we land there decades or a

797

29:46 ,786 --> 00:29:47,568

Marc Preston: generation or two.

798

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Marc Preston: I'm fascinated by the sociology, the

799

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Marc Preston: psychology of it.

800

29:52 ,086 --> 00:29:54,732

Marc Preston: We're there, but what's their connection to

801

29:54 ,772 --> 00:29:55,761

Marc Preston: generations down Like?

802

29:55 ,862 --> 00:29:57,075

Marc Preston: Do they consider themselves Martians?

803

29:57 ,541 --> 00:29:58,515

Marc Preston: If you're born on Mars, you're a Martian.

804

29:59 ,017 --> 00:30:00,704

Neil deGrasse Tyson: You'd have to ask what is your citizenship?

805

30:01 ,497 --> 00:30:02,683

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Do you have a citizenship?

806

30:03 ,377 --> 00:30:04,904

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Is it a Mars government?

807

30:05 ,718 --> 00:30:08,269

Neil deGrasse Tyson: If you know, if it's not Earth government

808

30:08 ,349 --> 00:30:09,574

Neil deGrasse Tyson: and someone kills somebody else, is it

809

30:09 ,594 --> 00:30:09,715

Neil deGrasse Tyson: murder?

810

30:10 ,236 --> 00:30:13,044

Neil deGrasse Tyson: If there are no laws that say it's murder

811

30:13 ,204 --> 00:30:14,528

Neil deGrasse Tyson: on Mars, is it a Wild West?

812

30:15 ,244 --> 00:30:16,035

Neil deGrasse Tyson: These all need to be resolved.

813

30:16 ,517 --> 00:30:17,723

Neil deGrasse Tyson: By the way, I love the.

814

30:17 Science in Movies and Space-Time Concept

30:17 ,924 --> 00:30:19,531

Marc Preston: it was one of those things I put off and I

815

30:19 ,611 --> 00:30:20,395

Marc Preston: finally started binging it.

816

30:21 ,242 --> 00:30:22,235

Marc Preston: I thought it was so well done.

817

30:22 ,417 --> 00:30:26,062

Marc Preston: I'm kind of a nerd, so I it satisfied that

818

30:26 ,102 --> 00:30:27,877

Marc Preston: side as well as me being an actor, I can

819

30:27 ,917 --> 00:30:29,040

Marc Preston: confess being a nerd.

820

30:29 ,361 --> 00:30:30,505

Marc Preston: Be where it proudly.

821

30:31 ,675 --> 00:30:33,540

Marc Preston: But the thing I'm curious about is what

822

30:33 ,600 --> 00:30:36,948

Marc Preston: sci-fi show, movie, what do you think has

823

30:37 ,035 --> 00:30:39,243

Marc Preston: gotten it pretty right in terms of the

824

30:39 ,343 --> 00:30:39,784

Marc Preston: science?

825

30:40 ,216 --> 00:30:41,681

Marc Preston: What has come out of Hollywood do you think

826

30:41 ,721 --> 00:30:42,444

Marc Preston: has been on point?

827

30:42 ,755 --> 00:30:44,737

Marc Preston: Who's gotten the science right so?

828

30:44 ,937 --> 00:30:45,681

Neil deGrasse Tyson: definitely the Martian.

829

30:47 ,617 --> 00:30:49,624

Neil deGrasse Tyson: No, there's almost no contest there.

830

30:50 ,295 --> 00:30:54,100

Neil deGrasse Tyson: The author was an engineer, I mean Andy

831

30:54 ,140 --> 00:30:54,400

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Weir.

832

30:54 ,440 --> 00:30:57,306

Neil deGrasse Tyson: He's an engineer and he thought long and

833

30:57 ,366 --> 00:31:00,039

Neil deGrasse Tyson: deep and hard about how to keep Marc Watney

834

31:00 ,099 --> 00:31:03,857

Neil deGrasse Tyson: alive for two years on Mars, the, the, the

835

31:03 ,917 --> 00:31:06,324

Neil deGrasse Tyson: botany, the engineering, the astrophysics,

836

31:06 ,364 --> 00:31:08,760

Neil deGrasse Tyson: the mathematics, the all of this.

837

31:09 ,575 --> 00:31:11,821

Neil deGrasse Tyson: And for me that film, which had Marc he

838

31:12 ,383 --> 00:31:15,016

Neil deGrasse Tyson: director and Marc he actors in it, was the

839

31:15 ,096 --> 00:31:18,624

Neil deGrasse Tyson: first of its kind, in that science itself

840

31:18 ,725 --> 00:31:20,028

Neil deGrasse Tyson: was a character in the film.

841

31:20 ,659 --> 00:31:22,071

Neil deGrasse Tyson: You wanted to know what the science was

842

31:22 ,091 --> 00:31:25,486

Neil deGrasse Tyson: going to do next, more than you cared about

843

31:25 ,948 --> 00:31:26,089

Neil deGrasse Tyson: the.

844

31:26 ,109 --> 00:31:27,174

Neil deGrasse Tyson: You know the you know every one of these

845

31:27 ,234 --> 00:31:27,838

Neil deGrasse Tyson: space movies has.

846

31:27 ,878 --> 00:31:29,488

Neil deGrasse Tyson: There's the astronaut in there and there's

847

31:29 ,508 --> 00:31:32,028

Neil deGrasse Tyson: they have a newborn back on earth and

848

31:32 ,048 --> 00:31:34,787

Neil deGrasse Tyson: they're touching the video screen and look

849

31:34 ,828 --> 00:31:36,078

Neil deGrasse Tyson: at your new, your new daughter, and I'll

850

31:36 ,098 --> 00:31:37,115

Neil deGrasse Tyson: think could you hurry that up please?

851

31:37 ,236 --> 00:31:38,549

Neil deGrasse Tyson: I want to know if Marc Watney is going to

852

31:38 ,589 --> 00:31:39,155

Neil deGrasse Tyson: live another day.

853

31:40 ,980 --> 00:31:44,232

Neil deGrasse Tyson: So, other than one scientific flaw, which

854

31:44 ,252 --> 00:31:45,437

Neil deGrasse Tyson: was necessary, otherwise that was not a

855

31:45 ,457 --> 00:31:47,553

Neil deGrasse Tyson: story the rest was just brilliantly done.

856

31:49 ,521 --> 00:31:52,753

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Another one is deep impact, very good

857

31:52 ,773 --> 00:31:56,149

Neil deGrasse Tyson: asteroid science, in fact, excellent

858

31:56 ,170 --> 00:31:56,754

Neil deGrasse Tyson: science, asteroid science.

859

31:58 ,681 --> 00:32:01,029

Neil deGrasse Tyson: And another one very close in time to that

860

32:01 ,110 --> 00:32:02,334

Neil deGrasse Tyson: one was contact, based on the Carl Sagan

861

32:02 ,354 --> 00:32:02,495

Neil deGrasse Tyson: novel.

862

32:02 ,975 --> 00:32:04,133

Neil deGrasse Tyson: That doesn't take place in the future.

863

32:06 ,004 --> 00:32:07,190

Neil deGrasse Tyson: It's in the present, but it's an

864

32:07 ,210 --> 00:32:08,956

Neil deGrasse Tyson: exploration of how we might all respond to

865

32:08 ,976 --> 00:32:10,709

Neil deGrasse Tyson: such a discovery if it happened in our

866

32:10 ,729 --> 00:32:14,033

Neil deGrasse Tyson: times and not all of it is pretty.

867

32:16 ,442 --> 00:32:19,952

Neil deGrasse Tyson: I think Carl was very honest with ourselves

868

32:19 ,972 --> 00:32:20,835

Neil deGrasse Tyson: about how we would treat that information

869

32:20 ,835 --> 00:32:22,264

Neil deGrasse Tyson: and the sociology of and they had the you

870

32:23 ,190 --> 00:32:26,284

Neil deGrasse Tyson: know, of course, matthew McConaughey, you

871

32:26 ,304 --> 00:32:27,770

Neil deGrasse Tyson: have something, somebody theological, you

872

32:27 ,790 --> 00:32:28,071

Neil deGrasse Tyson: got science.

873

32:28 ,091 --> 00:32:29,267

Marc Preston: You have, you know, money involved, and I

874

32:29 ,359 --> 00:32:31,454

Marc Preston: love movies that have you asking questions

875

32:31 ,546 --> 00:32:33,041

Marc Preston: afterwards, you know, and have you

876

32:33 ,061 --> 00:32:34,135

Marc Preston: contemplating things you didn't before.

877

32:34 ,155 --> 00:32:35,834

Marc Preston: Well, that way they get you to see it twice.

878

32:35 ,871 --> 00:32:37,509

Marc Preston: You see, and then you get they get twice

879

32:37 ,529 --> 00:32:37,955

Marc Preston: the revenue.

880

32:38 ,757 --> 00:32:39,441

Neil deGrasse Tyson: What I love, having kids.

881

32:39 ,562 --> 00:32:40,045

Neil deGrasse Tyson: I got three teenagers.

882

32:40 ,065 --> 00:32:43,362

Marc Preston: I can go back to this whole bank of like

883

32:43 ,383 --> 00:32:44,808

Marc Preston: movies and I'm like you must watch this

884

32:45 ,210 --> 00:32:45,632

Marc Preston: movie.

885

32:45 ,692 --> 00:32:46,054

Marc Preston: It's so good.

886

32:46 ,798 --> 00:32:47,964

Marc Preston: I'm realizing all these movies came out

887

32:47 ,984 --> 00:32:49,639

Marc Preston: they still haven't seen but interstellar.

888

32:49 ,659 --> 00:32:50,704

Marc Preston: I remember taking my oldest, who's now 19,

889

32:50 ,724 --> 00:32:53,600

Marc Preston: to go see that and because of some level

890

32:53 ,620 --> 00:32:56,213

Marc Preston: that was to me it's kind of a daddy

891

32:56 ,273 --> 00:32:56,635

Marc Preston: daughter movie.

892

32:56 ,635 --> 00:32:57,861

Marc Preston: At some level there was a storyline in

893

32:57 ,882 --> 00:33:00,717

Marc Preston: there, but it really was intriguing the way

894

33:00 ,737 --> 00:33:02,268

Marc Preston: they address black holes.

895

33:02 ,288 --> 00:33:03,135

Marc Preston: Which brings me to the question.

896

33:06 ,064 --> 00:33:08,211

Marc Preston: The idea that black holes destroy data and

897

33:08 ,231 --> 00:33:09,255

Marc Preston: information is one thing.

898

33:09 ,275 --> 00:33:11,903

Marc Preston: That information is one theory and then

899

33:11 ,923 --> 00:33:12,605

Marc Preston: there's no other theory.

900

33:12 ,675 --> 00:33:14,495

Marc Preston: It's like no, it's just it still exists, it

901

33:14 ,576 --> 00:33:16,162

Marc Preston: just goes somewhere.

902

33:16 ,435 --> 00:33:18,821

Marc Preston: What is the current theory on what?

903

33:18 ,861 --> 00:33:20,606

Marc Preston: What happens when something goes into a

904

33:20 ,646 --> 00:33:21,227

Marc Preston: black hole?

905

33:21 ,535 --> 00:33:24,903

Neil deGrasse Tyson: We're leaning towards the idea that black

906

33:24 ,923 --> 00:33:27,096

Neil deGrasse Tyson: holes do not destroy information, that all

907

33:27 ,116 --> 00:33:29,100

Neil deGrasse Tyson: of the information that passes through the

908

33:29 ,140 --> 00:33:32,876

Neil deGrasse Tyson: event horizon is remembered and, in fact,

909

33:33 ,056 --> 00:33:37,246

Neil deGrasse Tyson: encoded on the event horizon itself All

910

33:37 ,286 --> 00:33:37,727

Neil deGrasse Tyson: information.

911

33:38 ,116 --> 00:33:40,547

Neil deGrasse Tyson: This is, this is the emergent understanding,

912

33:40 ,607 --> 00:33:42,979

Neil deGrasse Tyson: based on what the theories of physics are

913

33:42 ,999 --> 00:33:44,890

Neil deGrasse Tyson: telling us that these are theories of

914

33:44 ,910 --> 00:33:46,498

Neil deGrasse Tyson: physics that are well tested in other

915

33:46 ,800 --> 00:33:50,043

Neil deGrasse Tyson: realms, and so we're extrapolating into new,

916

33:50 ,244 --> 00:33:53,175

Neil deGrasse Tyson: new realms with the same theories.

917

33:53 ,536 --> 00:33:57,269

Marc Preston: So the confidence we have derives from how

918

33:57 ,911 --> 00:33:59,298

Marc Preston: successful these theories have been in

919

33:59 ,399 --> 00:34:02,200

Marc Preston: other, in other regimes, because isn't

920

34:02 ,220 --> 00:34:04,451

Marc Preston: there a theory that that there was, in turn,

921

34:04 ,632 --> 00:34:06,158

Marc Preston: what we call it the multiverse, or

922

34:06 ,198 --> 00:34:08,145

Marc Preston: alternate universes that may exist?

923

34:08 ,636 --> 00:34:10,323

Marc Preston: Isn't there a theory that black holes may

924

34:10 ,383 --> 00:34:13,378

Marc Preston: be some kind of portal or link, or is that?

925

34:13 ,459 --> 00:34:14,775

Marc Preston: Is that still just purely theoretical?

926

34:15 ,036 --> 00:34:16,802

Neil deGrasse Tyson: If you look at the what's all, it's all

927

34:16 ,983 --> 00:34:17,384

Neil deGrasse Tyson: theoretical.

928

34:17 ,776 --> 00:34:19,323

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Don't just say it's just theoretical,

929

34:19 ,384 --> 00:34:21,655

Neil deGrasse Tyson: because equals MC squared is Einstein's

930

34:21 ,936 --> 00:34:24,564

Neil deGrasse Tyson: theory of relativity and it you make bombs

931

34:24 ,624 --> 00:34:24,905

Neil deGrasse Tyson: out of that.

932

34:25 ,256 --> 00:34:27,746

Neil deGrasse Tyson: So there's never an occasion to denigrate

933

34:27 ,786 --> 00:34:29,875

Neil deGrasse Tyson: something being theoretical if it's been

934

34:30 ,078 --> 00:34:31,075

Neil deGrasse Tyson: tested and supported.

935

34:31 ,616 --> 00:34:33,520

Neil deGrasse Tyson: So so his.

936

34:34 ,782 --> 00:34:39,351

Neil deGrasse Tyson: If you follow the, the math into the black

937

34:39 ,391 --> 00:34:42,999

Neil deGrasse Tyson: hole, what happens is an entire other space

938

34:43 ,059 --> 00:34:46,026

Neil deGrasse Tyson: time opens up in front of you as the one

939

34:46 ,066 --> 00:34:47,289

Neil deGrasse Tyson: behind you closes off.

940

34:48 ,757 --> 00:34:51,546

Neil deGrasse Tyson: And so, yes, black holes may indeed be

941

34:51 ,626 --> 00:34:52,930

Neil deGrasse Tyson: portals to whole other.

942

34:52 ,950 --> 00:34:56,445

Neil deGrasse Tyson: I guess we can call them universes, sure,

943

34:56 ,908 --> 00:34:58,174

Neil deGrasse Tyson: because they don't connect with the one you

944

34:58 ,194 --> 00:34:58,959

Neil deGrasse Tyson: just came from.

945

34:59 ,946 --> 00:35:02,699

Neil deGrasse Tyson: But it's intriguing, and this is highly

946

35:02 ,900 --> 00:35:05,267

Neil deGrasse Tyson: untapped material for science fiction.

947

35:06 ,519 --> 00:35:08,409

Marc Preston: What do you think is a good book, or a

948

35:08 ,510 --> 00:35:09,455

Marc Preston: movie or explanation?

949

35:09 ,575 --> 00:35:11,022

Marc Preston: It's, let me say, time space.

950

35:11 ,856 --> 00:35:13,159

Marc Preston: It's kind of hard to get.

951

35:13 ,920 --> 00:35:15,264

Marc Preston: Even I sometimes have a hard time getting

952

35:15 ,284 --> 00:35:15,845

Marc Preston: my head around it.

953

35:16 ,005 --> 00:35:16,747

Neil deGrasse Tyson: No, it's easy.

954

35:16 ,887 --> 00:35:17,388

Neil deGrasse Tyson: I'll tell you why.

955

35:18 ,156 --> 00:35:20,241

Neil deGrasse Tyson: If I say, hey, let's, let's go have lunch

956

35:20 ,301 --> 00:35:24,876

Neil deGrasse Tyson: tomorrow at 12 noon, you say sure, what's

957

35:24 ,896 --> 00:35:25,699

Neil deGrasse Tyson: your next question to me?

958

35:26 ,160 --> 00:35:28,488

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Where, where, where.

959

35:28 ,595 --> 00:35:31,180

Neil deGrasse Tyson: You intuitively know that the time

960

35:31 ,240 --> 00:35:36,129

Neil deGrasse Tyson: coordinate is incomplete in order to assure

961

35:36 ,335 --> 00:35:38,720

Neil deGrasse Tyson: that the two of us meet up for lunch.

962

35:39 ,923 --> 00:35:41,566

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Okay, I'm in New York City.

963

35:41 ,586 --> 00:35:44,177

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Those are sirens, right, you know that

964

35:44 ,277 --> 00:35:44,839

Neil deGrasse Tyson: intuitively.

965

35:45 ,943 --> 00:35:50,503

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Okay, so now I say, hey, let's go meet at

966

35:50 ,563 --> 00:35:53,509

Neil deGrasse Tyson: the corner deli tomorrow for breakfast.

967

35:54 ,535 --> 00:35:55,620

Neil deGrasse Tyson: And what's your next question to me?

968

35:56 ,116 --> 00:35:57,681

Marc Preston: Uh, corner deli tomorrow for breakfast.

969

35:57 ,801 --> 00:35:58,062

Marc Preston: It'd be.

970

35:58 ,102 --> 00:35:58,905

Marc Preston: What time, what?

971

35:58 ,965 --> 00:35:59,286

Neil deGrasse Tyson: time.

972

36:00 ,476 --> 00:36:03,844

Neil deGrasse Tyson: So the first case, I gave you a place a

973

36:03 ,884 --> 00:36:06,399

Neil deGrasse Tyson: time but not a place, and you said I need

974

36:06 ,419 --> 00:36:06,781

Neil deGrasse Tyson: the place.

975

36:07 ,176 --> 00:36:08,721

Neil deGrasse Tyson: And next time, I gave you the place but not

976

36:08 ,761 --> 00:36:09,945

Neil deGrasse Tyson: a time, you said I need the time.

977

36:11 ,096 --> 00:36:13,223

Neil deGrasse Tyson: This is evidence that we live in a space

978

36:13 ,283 --> 00:36:13,624

Neil deGrasse Tyson: time.

979

36:13 ,684 --> 00:36:17,341

Neil deGrasse Tyson: World, space and time only have meaning in

980

36:17 ,441 --> 00:36:22,733

Neil deGrasse Tyson: our lives when they connect in what we call

981

36:22 ,874 --> 00:36:23,455

Neil deGrasse Tyson: world lines.

982

36:23 ,857 --> 00:36:25,847

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Your world line is your movement through

983

36:25 ,907 --> 00:36:27,515

Neil deGrasse Tyson: space and time at all times.

984

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: It's why, when you cross a street, you're

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: not flattened by the truck that was in the

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: very same spot.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: You are because it's not in the same spot

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: at the same time.

989

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: So world lines are this ingenious way to

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36:44 ,325 --> 00:36:47,775

Neil deGrasse Tyson: understand the world, so that everything

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: doesn't all happen in the same place at the

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: same time.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Now, one thing that zoom calls have done

994

36:53 ,469 --> 00:36:55,075

Neil deGrasse Tyson: during the pandemic a silver lining there

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: is.

996

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: It has removed the time coordinate that is

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: normally required for people to connect All.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Oh, I'm sorry, it's removed the space

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: coordinate.

Speaker:1000

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: All you need is a time coordinate zoom call

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: tomorrow at noon.

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37:10 ,035 --> 00:37:11,795

Neil deGrasse Tyson: I don't care where you are in the world,

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37:12 ,617 --> 00:37:14,735

Neil deGrasse Tyson: you dial into the zoom call and we're there.

Speaker:1004

37:17 ,685 --> 00:37:18,708

Neil deGrasse Tyson: So it's a reMarcable.

Speaker:1005

37:18 ,728 --> 00:37:20,133

Neil deGrasse Tyson: If you want to think about it on a deeper

Speaker:1006

37:20 ,213 --> 00:37:20,575

Neil deGrasse Tyson: level, a zoom call.

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37:20 ,595 --> 00:37:24,949

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Is our space time coordinates intersecting

Speaker:1008

37:25 ,771 --> 00:37:26,634

Neil deGrasse Tyson: without space being a parameter in that

Speaker:1009

37:26 ,654 --> 00:37:26,915

Neil deGrasse Tyson: intersection?

Speaker:1010

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Marc Preston: When I hear space time, I never really got

Speaker:1011

37:29 ,508 --> 00:37:30,755

Marc Preston: a full definition to where I understand it.

Speaker:1012

37:30 ,978 --> 00:37:32,034

Marc Preston: No, yeah, just you overthink it.

Speaker:1013

37:34 ,460 --> 00:37:34,861

Neil deGrasse Tyson: It's simple.

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Marc Preston: Now Cosmos.

Speaker:1015

37:43 ,596 --> 00:37:46,040

Marc Preston: My kids grew up on it and it's funny

Speaker:1016

37:46 ,081 --> 00:37:48,344

Marc Preston: because I remember being younger in Carl

Speaker:1017

37:48 ,364 --> 00:37:48,625

Marc Preston: Sagan.

Speaker:1018

37:49 ,030 --> 00:37:50,274

Marc Preston: Did you ever have a chance to sit down and

Speaker:1019

37:50 ,314 --> 00:37:51,318

Marc Preston: spend time with Carl Sagan?

Speaker:1020

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: So people like to describe him as my mentor,

Speaker:1021

37:55 ,241 --> 00:37:57,408

Neil deGrasse Tyson: but I was probably only in his company

Speaker:1022

37:57 ,970 --> 00:38:00,817

Neil deGrasse Tyson: maybe four times in my life, maybe five

Speaker:1023

38:00 ,957 --> 00:38:04,995

Neil deGrasse Tyson: times in my life, and so again, I don't.

Speaker:1024

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: It wasn't about role models as people.

Speaker:1025

38:07 ,570 --> 00:38:10,342

Neil deGrasse Tyson: It was about whoever they were and whatever

Speaker:1026

38:10 ,382 --> 00:38:10,864

Neil deGrasse Tyson: they did.

Speaker:1027

38:11 ,085 --> 00:38:12,290

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Was it something worth emulating?

Speaker:1028

38:12 ,330 --> 00:38:14,291

Neil deGrasse Tyson: And then you emulate it, Whether or not

Speaker:1029

38:14 ,311 --> 00:38:16,237

Neil deGrasse Tyson: they're standing next to you as a coach.

Speaker:1030

38:17 ,430 --> 00:38:18,739

Neil deGrasse Tyson: You know, if you study someone hard enough,

Speaker:1031

38:18 ,779 --> 00:38:20,270

Neil deGrasse Tyson: you can figure out how they do it and why

Speaker:1032

38:20 ,491 --> 00:38:23,441

Neil deGrasse Tyson: and what motivates them and what they do.

Speaker:1033

38:23 ,522 --> 00:38:25,509

Neil deGrasse Tyson: That would best fit for how you do it or

Speaker:1034

38:25 ,529 --> 00:38:26,313

Neil deGrasse Tyson: how you want to do it.

Speaker:1035

38:28 ,153 --> 00:38:29,797

Neil deGrasse Tyson: So, yeah, so we were never beer drinking

Speaker:1036

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: buddies, but we knew each other.

Speaker:1037

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Marc Preston: Yes, Well, did Seth MacFarlane?

Speaker:1038

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Marc Preston: Did he approach you with this idea?

Speaker:1039

38:35 ,506 --> 00:38:37,493

Marc Preston: Or who knocked on whose door about the idea

Speaker:1040

38:37 ,553 --> 00:38:39,759

Marc Preston: of bringing back cosmos and its current

Speaker:1041

38:39 ,859 --> 00:38:40,401

Marc Preston: incarnation?

Speaker:1042

38:40 ,930 --> 00:38:43,818

Neil deGrasse Tyson: So Andrewian is the Carl Sagan's widow.

Speaker:1043

38:44 ,690 --> 00:38:46,596

Neil deGrasse Tyson: She's the secret sauce of all three

Speaker:1044

38:46 ,656 --> 00:38:47,258

Neil deGrasse Tyson: cosmoses.

Speaker:1045

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: She's, though, not a scientist herself.

Speaker:1046

38:50 ,194 --> 00:38:53,822

Neil deGrasse Tyson: She's deeply connected to what it is to be

Speaker:1047

38:53 ,882 --> 00:38:58,094

Neil deGrasse Tyson: scientifically literate, and she doesn't

Speaker:1048

38:58 ,314 --> 00:39:00,520

Neil deGrasse Tyson: simply know the universe, she feels the

Speaker:1049

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: universe.

Speaker:1050

39:01 ,850 --> 00:39:04,535

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Almost every amazing line to come out of

Speaker:1051

39:04 ,575 --> 00:39:07,421

Neil deGrasse Tyson: cosmos, all three cosmoses, almost every

Speaker:1052

39:07 ,481 --> 00:39:10,534

Neil deGrasse Tyson: line where you just have to pause and say

Speaker:1053

39:10 ,594 --> 00:39:13,333

Neil deGrasse Tyson: wow, I feel that it's traceable to

Speaker:1054

39:13 ,413 --> 00:39:20,123

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Andrewian, and so she and I met as serving

Speaker:1055

39:20 ,303 --> 00:39:22,929

Neil deGrasse Tyson: on the board of the Planetary Society, an

Speaker:1056

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: organization that Carl Sagan co-founded

Speaker:1057

39:24 ,997 --> 00:39:27,770

Neil deGrasse Tyson: back in 1980.

Speaker:1058

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: And the conversation came up about whether

Speaker:1059

39:30 ,116 --> 00:39:31,379

Neil deGrasse Tyson: cosmos would be resurrected.

Speaker:1060

39:32 ,890 --> 00:39:35,639

Neil deGrasse Tyson: And then she asked would I be interested in

Speaker:1061

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: hosting that?

Speaker:1062

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: And I said no, there's probably a dozen

Speaker:1063

39:37 ,774 --> 00:39:38,897

Neil deGrasse Tyson: people who want to host that.

Speaker:1064

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: I don't need to host it.

Speaker:1065

39:40 ,730 --> 00:39:41,473

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Then I thought wait, I have certain

Speaker:1066

39:41 ,493 --> 00:39:44,223

Neil deGrasse Tyson: memories of Carl Sagan, though we only

Speaker:1067

39:44 ,665 --> 00:39:46,331

Neil deGrasse Tyson: spent four occasions together.

Speaker:1068

39:46 ,974 --> 00:39:49,141

Neil deGrasse Tyson: That first one was hugely influential,

Speaker:1069

39:50 ,145 --> 00:39:51,570

Neil deGrasse Tyson: which was when he sent me a letter when I

Speaker:1070

39:51 ,650 --> 00:39:54,095

Neil deGrasse Tyson: was in high school to ask me to visit

Speaker:1071

39:54 ,156 --> 00:39:55,960

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Cornell to see if I want to go to Cornell

Speaker:1072

39:56 ,180 --> 00:39:56,741

Neil deGrasse Tyson: for college.

Speaker:1073

39:58 ,012 --> 00:40:00,448

Neil deGrasse Tyson: It was a stupefying thing.

Speaker:1074

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: It was like what is it?

Speaker:1075

40:03 ,290 --> 00:40:04,054

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Who would do this?

Speaker:1076

40:04 ,630 --> 00:40:05,092

Neil deGrasse Tyson: He did it.

Speaker:1077

40:06 ,090 --> 00:40:08,819

Neil deGrasse Tyson: To this day, I treat students the way he

Speaker:1078

40:08 ,859 --> 00:40:11,889

Neil deGrasse Tyson: treated me, giving them time in the middle

Speaker:1079

40:11 ,949 --> 00:40:13,876

Neil deGrasse Tyson: of your day, no matter how busy your day is,

Speaker:1080

40:15 ,010 --> 00:40:17,035

Neil deGrasse Tyson: and so can't do that with all students, but

Speaker:1081

40:17 ,516 --> 00:40:22,058

Neil deGrasse Tyson: when the time I do it, and so he probably

Speaker:1082

40:22 ,078 --> 00:40:23,844

Neil deGrasse Tyson: did it better and more consistently than

Speaker:1083

40:23 ,945 --> 00:40:24,607

Neil deGrasse Tyson: I've been able to.

Speaker:1084

40:24 ,988 --> 00:40:26,815

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Just if you want to rank that.

Speaker:1085

40:27 ,810 --> 00:40:30,977

Neil deGrasse Tyson: But I said okay, if you want me, I'd be

Speaker:1086

40:31 ,037 --> 00:40:31,678

Neil deGrasse Tyson: happy to do this.

Speaker:1087

40:33 ,910 --> 00:40:37,400

Neil deGrasse Tyson: So then we all agree we'll resurrect Cosmos.

Speaker:1088

40:37 ,750 --> 00:40:39,734

Neil deGrasse Tyson: We've got the original co-writer, Steve

Speaker:1089

40:39 ,754 --> 00:40:44,183

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Soder, and along with Andrew Ian, and so

Speaker:1090

40:44 ,423 --> 00:40:44,824

Neil deGrasse Tyson: there it was.

Speaker:1091

40:44 ,870 --> 00:40:46,195

Neil deGrasse Tyson: But then we started knocking on doors to

Speaker:1092

40:46 ,235 --> 00:40:46,978

Neil deGrasse Tyson: see who would.

Speaker:1093

40:48 ,183 --> 00:40:50,050

Neil deGrasse Tyson: We went to PBS, we went to Discovery

Speaker:1094

40:50 ,150 --> 00:40:53,497

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Channel, we went to a bunch of places, and

Speaker:1095

40:53 ,537 --> 00:40:56,342

Neil deGrasse Tyson: they all wanted to assign their own writers

Speaker:1096

40:56 ,443 --> 00:40:56,703

Neil deGrasse Tyson: to it.

Speaker:1097

40:57 ,250 --> 00:40:59,035

Neil deGrasse Tyson: I think they felt that the original Cosmos

Speaker:1098

40:59 ,095 --> 00:41:00,680

Neil deGrasse Tyson: needed some sprucing up.

Speaker:1099

41:01 ,410 --> 00:41:02,815

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Get a young writer in there, they'll know

Speaker:1100

41:02 ,855 --> 00:41:04,571

Neil deGrasse Tyson: what to say and how to do it, and Andrew

Speaker:1101

41:04 ,592 --> 00:41:05,575

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Ian would have none of that.

Speaker:1102

41:07 ,070 --> 00:41:08,675

Neil deGrasse Tyson: She knew she had a vision statement of what

Speaker:1103

41:08 ,695 --> 00:41:11,310

Neil deGrasse Tyson: she wanted and how it would look, and

Speaker:1104

41:11 ,491 --> 00:41:15,041

Neil deGrasse Tyson: though she was 35 years older than when she

Speaker:1105

41:15 ,141 --> 00:41:17,448

Neil deGrasse Tyson: first co-authored it, she was not

Speaker:1106

41:17 ,608 --> 00:41:20,597

Neil deGrasse Tyson: responsive to their requirements to do this.

Speaker:1107

41:21 ,790 --> 00:41:23,337

Neil deGrasse Tyson: At the time I became friends with Seth

Speaker:1108

41:22 Cosmos on Disney Plus

41:23 ,377 --> 00:41:25,466

Neil deGrasse Tyson: McFarlane through something called the

Speaker:1109

41:25 ,527 --> 00:41:28,456

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Science Entertainment Exchange, an actual

Speaker:1110

41:28 ,496 --> 00:41:30,160

Neil deGrasse Tyson: branch of the National Academy of Sciences.

Speaker:1111

41:30 ,650 --> 00:41:33,203

Neil deGrasse Tyson: We got to know each other and he came up to

Speaker:1112

41:33 ,243 --> 00:41:34,489

Neil deGrasse Tyson: me and says you know, I came into some

Speaker:1113

41:34 ,509 --> 00:41:35,092

Neil deGrasse Tyson: money recently.

Speaker:1114

41:35 ,132 --> 00:41:36,115

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Is there any good I can do?

Speaker:1115

41:37 ,010 --> 00:41:40,877

Neil deGrasse Tyson: And I said, oh my gosh, why don't you fund

Speaker:1116

41:41 ,338 --> 00:41:43,482

Neil deGrasse Tyson: a pilot for Cosmos so we can show people

Speaker:1117

41:43 ,962 --> 00:41:45,612

Neil deGrasse Tyson: what it's going to look like, and then

Speaker:1118

41:45 ,713 --> 00:41:46,476

Neil deGrasse Tyson: sponsors would come.

Speaker:1119

41:47 ,111 --> 00:41:48,294

Neil deGrasse Tyson: He says no, I have a better idea.

Speaker:1120

41:48 ,314 --> 00:41:49,898

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Why don't I just take it to Fox?

Speaker:1121

41:49 ,918 --> 00:41:51,221

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Because all his shows are on Fox?

Speaker:1122

41:51 ,831 --> 00:41:53,236

Neil deGrasse Tyson: And I said no, that's a terrible idea.

Speaker:1123

41:54 ,090 --> 00:41:56,476

Neil deGrasse Tyson: I was thinking in my head you know, cosmos

Speaker:1124

41:56 ,516 --> 00:41:57,779

Neil deGrasse Tyson: on Fox, that's not going to work.

Speaker:1125

41:58 ,080 --> 00:41:58,782

Neil deGrasse Tyson: This is a mistake.

Speaker:1126

41:59 ,190 --> 00:42:02,173

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Sorry, I asked, but then I thought about it

Speaker:1127

42:02 ,233 --> 00:42:04,219

Neil deGrasse Tyson: for 10 seconds.

Speaker:1128

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Wait a minute.

Speaker:1129

42:05 ,491 --> 00:42:10,211

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Fox is huge, way bigger than PBS, and a lot

Speaker:1130

42:10 ,231 --> 00:42:12,379

Neil deGrasse Tyson: of liberals think of Fox as just Fox News.

Speaker:1131

42:12 ,459 --> 00:42:15,571

Neil deGrasse Tyson: But Fox is Fox flagship, which has the

Speaker:1132

42:15 ,771 --> 00:42:18,600

Neil deGrasse Tyson: liberally acerbic Simpsons on it and Family

Speaker:1133

42:18 ,640 --> 00:42:22,479

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Guy, and they had what's that highly

Speaker:1134

42:22 ,519 --> 00:42:23,722

Neil deGrasse Tyson: progressive show, glee.

Speaker:1135

42:24 ,451 --> 00:42:26,536

Neil deGrasse Tyson: All right, these are all Fox programings.

Speaker:1136

42:26 ,597 --> 00:42:28,040

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Another show called In Living Color.

Speaker:1137

42:29 ,250 --> 00:42:30,957

Neil deGrasse Tyson: And so I said this is a brilliant idea.

Speaker:1138

42:31 ,050 --> 00:42:33,590

Neil deGrasse Tyson: So we took it to Fox and they bought in and

Speaker:1139

42:33 ,610 --> 00:42:36,234

Neil deGrasse Tyson: they said we'll do 13 episodes and we trust

Speaker:1140

42:36 ,274 --> 00:42:37,116

Neil deGrasse Tyson: that you know what you're doing.

Speaker:1141

42:38 ,290 --> 00:42:39,534

Neil deGrasse Tyson: And so they didn't even want to put a

Speaker:1142

42:39 ,594 --> 00:42:40,156

Neil deGrasse Tyson: writer on it?

Speaker:1143

42:41 ,079 --> 00:42:42,894

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Okay, and so that's how it landed on Fox,

Speaker:1144

42:44 ,270 --> 00:42:47,863

Neil deGrasse Tyson: and Fox bought National Geographic, and

Speaker:1145

42:47 ,903 --> 00:42:49,409

Neil deGrasse Tyson: then it landed on Fox and National

Speaker:1146

42:49 ,429 --> 00:42:50,614

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Geographic at the same time.

Speaker:1147

42:51 ,330 --> 00:42:53,097

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Then Disney bought both Fox and National

Speaker:1148

42:53 ,117 --> 00:42:54,634

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Geographic, and now you want to find Cosmos?

Speaker:1149

42:54 ,835 --> 00:42:55,577

Neil deGrasse Tyson: It's on Disney Plus.

Speaker:1150

42:56 ,613 --> 00:42:58,420

Marc Preston: As a parent who's I've always been really

Speaker:1151

42:58 ,440 --> 00:43:00,749

Marc Preston: into the space, learning is something I've

Speaker:1152

43:01 ,070 --> 00:43:03,491

Marc Preston: always drunk up really easily and I'm

Speaker:1153

43:03 ,611 --> 00:43:06,599

Marc Preston: jazzed that my kids kind of got that same

Speaker:1154

43:07 ,300 --> 00:43:08,042

Marc Preston: bug a little bit.

Speaker:1155

43:08 ,330 --> 00:43:09,775

Marc Preston: Like I said, my daughter said, why don't

Speaker:1156

43:09 ,795 --> 00:43:10,999

Marc Preston: you talk to Neil deGrasse Tyson?

Speaker:1157

43:11 ,171 --> 00:43:13,954

Marc Preston: And I was like sure, I certainly appreciate

Speaker:1158

43:13 ,974 --> 00:43:14,958

Marc Preston: you being generous with your time.

Speaker:1159

43:15 ,030 --> 00:43:17,632

Marc Preston: This means a lot to me, certainly, and I

Speaker:1160

43:17 ,652 --> 00:43:19,559

Marc Preston: got these seven questions I like to ask.

Speaker:1161

43:19 ,810 --> 00:43:21,757

Marc Preston: The first question is what is your favorite

Speaker:1162

43:21 ,817 --> 00:43:22,459

Marc Preston: comfort food?

Speaker:1163

43:22 ,650 --> 00:43:24,941

Marc Preston: That thing that like brings you back to

Speaker:1164

43:24 ,961 --> 00:43:25,483

Marc Preston: your center.

Speaker:1165

43:25 ,544 --> 00:43:27,091

Marc Preston: You know, you just can sit down, munch on

Speaker:1166

43:27 ,151 --> 00:43:28,896

Marc Preston: it, whatever, or maybe a thought it brings

Speaker:1167

43:28 ,917 --> 00:43:29,378

Marc Preston: you back home.

Speaker:1168

43:30 ,090 --> 00:43:31,536

Neil deGrasse Tyson: You said munch and implied something

Speaker:1169

43:31 ,556 --> 00:43:31,877

Neil deGrasse Tyson: crunchy.

Speaker:1170

43:32 ,330 --> 00:43:34,997

Neil deGrasse Tyson: A strawberry multi-milk solid food, a New

Speaker:1171

43:35 ,058 --> 00:43:37,011

Neil deGrasse Tyson: York pepperoni pizza, those two?

Speaker:1172

43:37 ,031 --> 00:43:39,298

Neil deGrasse Tyson: I could go to Mars on those two food groups.

Speaker:1173

43:40 ,231 --> 00:43:41,696

Neil deGrasse Tyson: I have them every single day and I would

Speaker:1174

43:41 ,736 --> 00:43:42,217

Neil deGrasse Tyson: not get tired.

Speaker:1175

43:42 ,297 --> 00:43:43,381

Neil deGrasse Tyson: I'm not quite tired of them.

Speaker:1176

43:43 ,590 --> 00:43:44,876

Marc Preston: Now, if you were going to sit down and have

Speaker:1177

43:44 ,916 --> 00:43:48,130

Marc Preston: a cup of coffee three people either alive

Speaker:1178

43:48 ,290 --> 00:43:51,195

Marc Preston: or in history, just to talk story for a few

Speaker:1179

43:51 ,295 --> 00:43:53,860

Marc Preston: hours who would those three people be?

Speaker:1180

43:54 ,541 --> 00:44:00,248

Neil deGrasse Tyson: I would say Joan of Arc, isaac Newton and

Speaker:1181

44:04 ,594 --> 00:44:05,896

Neil deGrasse Tyson: maybe Martin Luther King Jr.

Speaker:1182

44:07 ,606 --> 00:44:11,710

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Yeah, these are people who represent sort

Speaker:1183

44:11 ,730 --> 00:44:12,713

Neil deGrasse Tyson: of extreme.

Speaker:1184

44:12 ,733 --> 00:44:14,759

Neil deGrasse Tyson: You know, two of them gave their lives

Speaker:1185

44:14 ,920 --> 00:44:18,444

Neil deGrasse Tyson: right for what they believed in, and I just

Speaker:1186

44:18 ,504 --> 00:44:25,592

Neil deGrasse Tyson: want to know what it feels like to think so

Speaker:1187

44:25 ,693 --> 00:44:28,356

Neil deGrasse Tyson: strongly about something that your life

Speaker:1188

44:28 ,396 --> 00:44:31,667

Neil deGrasse Tyson: doesn't even matter because the cause is

Speaker:1189

44:31 ,728 --> 00:44:34,804

Neil deGrasse Tyson: greater than your own life and that cause

Speaker:1190

44:34 ,985 --> 00:44:36,509

Neil deGrasse Tyson: is for the progressive.

Speaker:1191

44:37 ,150 --> 00:44:40,218

Neil deGrasse Tyson: You know, the cause is a good cause, not

Speaker:1192

44:40 ,418 --> 00:44:41,060

Neil deGrasse Tyson: some other cause.

Speaker:1193

44:41 ,642 --> 00:44:42,905

Neil deGrasse Tyson: You know, the Nazis had a cause.

Speaker:1194

44:42 ,925 --> 00:44:44,229

Neil deGrasse Tyson: That's not the kind of cause I'm talking

Speaker:1195

44:44 ,249 --> 00:44:46,885

Neil deGrasse Tyson: about here, and so, and Isaac Newton, just

Speaker:1196

44:46 ,925 --> 00:44:48,390

Neil deGrasse Tyson: for his sheer brilliance, I think he's the

Speaker:1197

44:48 ,470 --> 00:44:51,659

Neil deGrasse Tyson: smartest person I ever walked the face of

Speaker:1198

44:51 ,679 --> 00:44:51,940

Neil deGrasse Tyson: the earth.

Speaker:1199

44:52 ,782 --> 00:44:54,547

Marc Preston: Now, as a kid growing up, who is your

Speaker:1200

44:53 Childhood Crushes and TV Shows

44:54 ,607 --> 00:44:55,450

Marc Preston: celebrity crush?

Speaker:1201

44:56 ,823 --> 00:44:56,883

Marc Preston: I?

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: didn't really have celebrity crushes.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: I wasn't really into that.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: I like baseball players I wanted to be.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Ron Bloomberg was the very first designated

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: hitter in all of baseball for the New York

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Yankees and I loved how often he hit home

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: runs and logs.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: So you know, as a kid growing up in the

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Bronx home of the Yankees, of course I

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: wanted to play for the Yankees.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: When I grew up I wanted to hit the way he

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: hit the ball.

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Marc Preston: I enjoyed the baseball.

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Marc Preston: You answered my second question Mets or

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Marc Preston: Yankees?

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Marc Preston: So that's.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Oh, you got the Did I sound like the Bronx

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: dude.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Okay, so no, I didn't really have a

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: celebrity crush.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: I had a crush on my seventh grade math

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: teacher.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: How about that?

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: You?

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Marc Preston: know I had one of my eighth grade English

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Marc Preston: teacher but she was a Dallas Cowboy

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Marc Preston: cheerleader, so you know it was.

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Marc Preston: Let me tell you eighth grade boys and a

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Marc Preston: Dallas Cowboy cheerleader as a teacher.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: That's a bad mixture right there, yeah.

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Marc Preston: Indeed.

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Marc Preston: Now let's say you're going to be going to

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Marc Preston: an island.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Or let's say you're going to go to the

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: resort.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Sorry, no, let me back up.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: I had a crush.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: I guess we could call it a crush.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: I was a big fan of the TV series I Dream a

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Genie and it couldn't have just been a

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: crush on Barbara Eden, because he was an

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: astronaut going into space at NASA and I

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: was already interested in the universe.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: So this was like double dipping for me,

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: right?

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Because she's beautiful and she has huge

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: powers that are just mind-bogglingly,

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: staggeringly amazing, and he's an astronaut.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: So I guess I had a crush.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: I enjoyed the show.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: For all of those reasons combined, I was

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: kind of honestly.

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Marc Preston: I was kind of the same way.

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Marc Preston: I was into the space thing and you know.

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Marc Preston: And then when I was a kid, one of the first

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Marc Preston: acting jobs I ever did was Dallas.

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Marc Preston: I was seven years old.

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Marc Preston: It was kind of wild seeing him.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Oh, with my old guy.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Yes, Major Nelson was a star of Dallas.

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Marc Preston: yes, yeah, he was.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, the 80s in Dallas.

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Marc Preston: That was a whole different story.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Tell me his name on that show again.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: His name was JR Ewing.

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Marc Preston: JR.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, who shot JR?

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Marc Preston: I remember that.

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Marc Preston: Now, if you were to go, from the time you

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Marc Preston: get up to the time you put your head down

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Marc Preston: to go to sleep, if you have a perfect day,

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Marc Preston: what are some of the component parts of

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Marc Preston: that perfect day for you?

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Oh, so I would make a brunch for the whole

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: family and then we might go somewhere fun,

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: just somewhere with nothing to do, like to

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: the beach or hiking.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: I'm less a fan of hiking than I am laying

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: on the beach doing nothing.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: There's that.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Curl up altogether, make popcorn with

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: slightly too much butter on it and watch a

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: movie that none of us have seen yet, and

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: then have a nice barbecue dinner and that's

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: a day with family.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: A day at work I would wake up, knock out

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: about 500 emails I would get 1500 a day or

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: so and then check my calendar, get some

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: things done, allocate three or four hours

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: for quality writing.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: I enjoy having written, as they say, and so

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: you need good time slots for that.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: There's an old saying, which I didn't want

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: to agree with, but I think it's deeply true

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: If you want to be creative, you have to

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: become less productive.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: So don't think of your day as a good day if

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: you've got a lot of stuff done.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Think of a day where you don't get anything

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: done, but you did a lot of thinking, a lot

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: of creative thinking.

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Marc Preston: There's no substitute for that it's kind of

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Marc Preston: like the Greeks back in the day.

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Marc Preston: They probably sat around just contemplating.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Thinking yes, yes, so on, where you just

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: sort of trade ideas in ways that you don't

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: fight about the ideas because you really

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: want to know how the other person thinks.

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Marc Preston: Man, we need more of that, yes.

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Marc Preston: Now, if you were not doing what you're

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Marc Preston: doing now for a living, what would be

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Marc Preston: choice number two, what would you be doing?

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Well, it doesn't work that way for me.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: It'd have to be another universe, because I

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: don't have the talent to do what I would do

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: next.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: So it'd have to be another universe where

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: I'd have that talent.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: I would write songs for Broadway musicals.

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Marc Preston: So do you check out musicals regularly?

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Marc Preston: Yeah, I love them.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: I love the perfectly composed sentence,

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: sung in a way that rhymes but doesn't feel

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49:35 ,679 --> 00:49:38,165

Neil deGrasse Tyson: forced, and it communicates information and

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: advances the plot.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: That takes brilliance to do that,

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: especially when it's perfectly scored

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Correct, correct, yeah, and I can't score

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: music.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: So this is a whole other world that I'd be

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: in, a music world that I'm not in right now.

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Marc Preston: Well, I've got one last question for the

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Marc Preston: young and has a question for you.

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Marc Preston: But, delorean, jump in.

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Marc Preston: You're going back to when you were 16 years

Speaker:1337

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Marc Preston: old and you have a couple minutes to share

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Marc Preston: a piece of wisdom, guidance, advice,

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Marc Preston: whatever have you that is going to put you

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Marc Preston: maybe on a better rail or maybe get you

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Marc Preston: where you want to be faster, better, more

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Marc Preston: comfortably, whatever you want to put it.

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Marc Preston: But what's that piece of advice to your

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Marc Preston: 16-year-old self?

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: I object to the question because it assumes

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: yeah, yeah, I know, I'll tell you why.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: It assumes that there's a lesson that I

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: could be told about instead of experience,

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: and having been told about it would be as

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: impactful on my life as having experienced

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: it.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: My life is anybody's life is only about the

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: sum of your life experiences, and your life

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: experiences define who you are.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: The mistakes you made, the triumphs you've

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: had, the turmoil, the struggles all of

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: those go into who and what you are.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: If someone says, do this, don't do that, do

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: this, don't do that, then what am I at the

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: end of that, Having not experienced it,

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: just being told it.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: So I will not trade my life experiences for

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: anything.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: So no, I would go back to my 16-year-old

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: and say keep going doing what you're doing.

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Marc Preston: That would be the advice if you want to

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Marc Preston: think of it that way, or maybe don't doubt

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Marc Preston: what you're doing, just keep on going.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: No, that's not, no doubt.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Is you need to doubt sometimes.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Am I really into this?

Speaker:1372

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Do I really want this?

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Doubt has value because it can strengthen

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: your resolve for having had doubt in the

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: first place.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: You can't have someone come up to you and

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: say don't doubt it.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Okay, therefore, I'm not going to doubt it.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: The question is flawed in the actual real

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: world.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Unless you're a person who keeps making the

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: same mistake, then you could use a Someone

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: slap you in the head, say don't make that

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: same mistake nine times in a row.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: But if you learn from your mistakes, that

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: is the character profile of who and what

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: you become as you get older.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Period.

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Marc Preston: Very good.

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Marc Preston: Well, when I was speaking with a good

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Marc Preston: friend of mine who is the ultimate Star

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Marc Preston: Trek fan, loves everything space, he had a

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Marc Preston: good friend of mine, trey Elliott, back

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Marc Preston: home in Texas, whose son is going to your

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Marc Preston: alma mater right now, ut.

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Marc Preston: He had one question.

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Marc Preston: Two parties said just quick thought not the

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Marc Preston: men and women serving, but the idea and

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Marc Preston: concept of Space Force and the idea that

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Marc Preston: they're using the Star Trek logo.

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Marc Preston: What are your?

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Marc Preston: Do you have any thoughts on that?

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: It's a variation on the Star Trek logo.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: It's inspired by the Star Trek logo.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: They're not actually using the Star Trek

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: logo.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: We've always had a Space Force.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: It was called the Air Force Space Command

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: and we've had it since the dawn of

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: satellites.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: So this is like an accounting shift.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: People say, oh my gosh, we'll militarize

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: space.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: The military has been in space ever since.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: We've had satellites.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: That's what spy satellites are.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: That's what any of that, that's what GPS is

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: was launched by the Air Force to give

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: coordinates for missiles and anyone else

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: navigating where there aren't navigation

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: lines, street signs like, for example, the

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: ocean or the desert.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: So don't overreact to the existence of the

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Space.

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Marc Preston: Force.

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Marc Preston: So you said it's just an accounting shift.

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Marc Preston: I got you.

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Marc Preston: I got you, we'll tell you what, if you

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Marc Preston: don't mind.

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Marc Preston: I have one question.

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Marc Preston: My little one here.

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Marc Preston: The little one this is my height has for

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Marc Preston: you.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Oh cool, Hello.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Hey, how old are you?

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: 17.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: 17.

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Marc Preston: Cool, cool.

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53:42 Time Travel and Paradoxes

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Marc Preston: If time travel is theoretically possible,

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Marc Preston: does that mean our pasts and our futures

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Marc Preston: are?

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: currently existing right now.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: So if we can imagine traveling both forward

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: and backwards in time, since the time is

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: just like a coordinate, like you walk out

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: on the street and you can go up town or

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: downtown, right, we go east and west.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: If time is just a coordinate, then it makes

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: sense to think of your life as always

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: existing.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: You're always being born, you're always

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: being 17.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: You're always a grandfather, you're always

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: dying, and then you just reoccupy that same

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: timeline, worldline, if you will, and then

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: you live out your life, that it preexists

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: in the same way the street preexists.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: It doesn't change every time you go out

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: there.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: But if, let's say, you cannot go backwards

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: in time but we know you can go forwards in

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: time with relativity there had to be some

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: rule that's preventing it.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: And Hawking imagined what we call it time

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: travel conjecture, where if you go back in

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: time and prevent your parents from meeting,

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: then you're never born, so that you can't

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: go back in time to prevent your parents

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: from meeting.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: So that's a paradox.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: So he said there must be some law of

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: physics of the universe that prevents you

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: from going back in time because you can't

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: let that happen.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: So if that's the case, then you can think

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: of us as, not on a preexisting timeline,

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: but always, forever transitioning from an

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: inaccessible past to an unknowable future.

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Marc Preston: Dr Tyson.

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Marc Preston: Again, thank you for being generous with

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Marc Preston: your time.

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Marc Preston: Best of luck again.

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Marc Preston: The book Welcome to the Universe in 3D a

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Marc Preston: visual tour, part of four books and it's

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Marc Preston: Welcome to the Universenet, correct?

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Marc Preston: You can find them all there.

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Marc Preston: Exactly what a cool guy.

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Marc Preston: Really enjoyed the chat with Neil deGrasse

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Marc Preston: Tyson and very cool, my son had a chance to

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Marc Preston: you know, come in, ask a question.

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Marc Preston: My kids grew up watching Cosmos so this was

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Marc Preston: kind of a neat thing for him and of course,

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Marc Preston: for me and of course for you as well.

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Marc Preston: So if you're kind of a space nerd like me,

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Marc Preston: this had to be a lot of fun.

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Marc Preston: Don't forget the book he has out.

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Marc Preston: It is really neat.

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Marc Preston: It is called Welcome to the Universe in 3D

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Marc Preston: a visual tour.

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Marc Preston: It's an interactive book, a little

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Marc Preston: something different than you're used to.

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Marc Preston: I think it's something kind of neat to get

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Marc Preston: a kid who is into space stuff space stuff

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Marc Preston: that's the technical term, you see, and, as

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Marc Preston: he mentioned, you want to catch Cosmos.

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Marc Preston: Disney Plus is where you can find Cosmos

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Marc Preston: right now.

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Marc Preston: Once again, thank you very much for being

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Marc Preston: here for this episode.

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