Quarantine has got me watching Neil alot lately...

If you ask me, I believe Pluto is happier with his new family. They are neighbors and are similar in size and function. Pluto is no longer an outcast but one of many in his new family. Awwww 🥰

I can listen to him for hours!! We are lucky that he is here, on earth, with us at this time!

"You spend a year teaching them to walk and talk, and the rest of their lives telling them to shut up and sit down." Probably the best quote I've ever heard to explain why most children lose their thirst for knowledge as they grow.

You don't have to teach your kids to love science, they already do! You spend a year (with your kids) teaching them to walk and talk, and the rest telling them to shut up and sit down! I LOVE HIM.

I don't know why but listening to Neil deGrasse Tyson always calms me.

I have to say that i have watched quite a lot of videos that Mr. TYSON has been on and find them very mind exspanding at the least. I get the feeling that if teachers were made to sit and watch how he goes about rendering facts and figures in a way that everyone can understand the world would become firstly a very interesting place to live but more importantly i think people would be better equiped to talk to one anther. I can recall so many things that I have done my best to explain about what I am doing spending my money on my optical equipment and what results I have so far, only to find that i had left them behind after the first sentance, not because i used big words, but because they did not understand the simple ones right at the beginning. It never ceases to make me cring when you ask someone how many times does that stick that is stuck in the snow at the north pole complete a circle and what its called. If they do not know that then explaining other things a bit more detailed becomes very hard for them to get their heads round, like why curtain things happen while using a telescope of one sort do not happen when using another type. We live in a very small place in a huge universe but.it should not stop us all from wishing to learn more about all of it.

"the accessibility of the cosmos to the public is magnified by the fact that vocabulary is not in the way" 1:10:11

21:58 Jan Oort was dutch, not danish. I have corrected Neil, I can take on the universe now!

I love his passion and his charisma, one of the most important men in science today. His greatest contribution, more than any of his other works, is making science seem more accessible and fighting for a scientifically literate culture :)

Such an intelligent human. He gets it. Love listening to him talk

"Why can the worm breathe under the rock?" somehow struck me as such an intelligent thing to wonder

i liked this interviewer. best interviews are done when you just get neil started and watch him go off on his own thing.

Amen to that! Even with the volume all the way up, I can barely hear the questions.

1:26:50 an extremely important 5 minutes of wisdom that everyone should listen to

I love this man! Thanks for the upload!

He has an amusing method of delivery while making valid points.

Love your spreading of knowledge so much.

Every time I fall asleep KZfaq puts on these videos.

Luved it, learned a lot also....wish i could have heard the questions in the audience,...Had to guess what their questions were by his answers

at about 0:10:35 I swear I expected Dr. Tyson to start singing "one of these things is not like the others...can you tell which one."

I have gained so much respect for dr Tyson after listening to this talk. Amazing talk and absolutely breathtaking breath of knowledge. Wish he could visit India and enlighten the kids here who have lot of thirst for science and good teachers like Dr Tyson.

Read the book, very funny and informative too.

I remember hearing about it in my High school science class.

The South African /African was so smooth.

Yes, DGT ain't all that in the pure sense, but everything else he does to get people to relate, which is key to the mission, he hits every note. Let him do what he does well and everyone benefits. Funding? Check. Please do not mess this up Mr. Poster, we are all on the same team, which is to learn new things; DGT does a great job of keeping this in the forefront of everyone's mind. And they vote. And when he is in the educational science groove and not thinking policy, he is rock solid on topic. l tilt my hat to scientists who try to break through to politicos, especially effective ones. (footnote: so I don't have to :-) )

I like this guys humour. A very bright man!

Audience questions with no sound. Reeeely great idea!

100% right about astronauts being super celebrity omg amazing ppl

It was a brilliant move on Walt Disney's part naming that dog.

To m😢me, Pluto will always be a planet!

I honestly thought the video was paused or hanged up or something, but I checked and found out someone from the audience was giving a question only they could hear... bugs me...

I just wan't to say im very bad at math but I also know im very smart when it comes to space and the cosmos. I love science, Im always thinking about it and I also never read books but im going to get YOUR book Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson I love your speeches your lectures. im very fascinated about what you talk about.

He is great

I feel like Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson is like the Banjamin Franklin of our day and much like Benjamin Franklin was he should be an internatiol superstar, I feel like in today's age we have lost that ability for scientific inquiry and also to be captivated by what is around us.

It's sad that the narrator guy didn't get the culture talk around 30:00 (35:05) minute mark, because that shows that even rather intelligent people can still be such blunt instruments, and that it's still such a great leap to DeGrasse kind of level of just understanding, not knowledge but understanding

I think it is not just all about dog, It's about people that afraid of change, afraid of new things, people with old thinking, and do nothing good for innovation, or kids.

Do you notice without looking at the screen the host voice sounds similar to Chris Hadfield??

the part about culture (starts around 31:40) is a really interesting to look at it.

Obrigado

They need a cordless mic so you can hear the questions

Does anyone know if it is possible to have two planets one orbiting the other not being the primary body in orbit that would still be considered a planet? Would any definition qualify it as a planet? Can't find anything on that.

21:58 Jan Oort was Dutch (just like Gerard Kuiper from the Kuiper Belt), not Danish. It's wrong in Neils book Death by black hole as well, on page 80.

I think the reason we quit paying attention to astronaughts in space, is because we stopped expanding into space. It's been 50 years, and we havn't gone, with humans, further than the moon. We should of been mining asteroids by now. Either in orbit of Earth, or in the belt.

He’s absolutely correct about Pluto

if you put earth where pluto is it would freeze solid and it too would have a tail as it approached the sun.

Yes

Does the Pluto thing vary by state? Thought it was a national thing. :/

Mankind has now arrived at PLUTO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

34:00 If there was no toilet paper there would be a riot... oh... hang on!

Yes I know his LIFE has been very atypical, I was talking about his character, what he's like compared to Neil as a public figure. How he's generally seen and the attitude he carries that is so loveable about him. It was not a description of Stephen it was a description of his public persona as seen by the general assumptions and views of him.

Here goes another 1 hour and 40 mins of my life again

Why record this if the people listening to it cannot hear the people asking the questions?

I think you’re the smartest person around, Dr. Tyson.

Hmmm... I haven't seen this one yet. Yay!

I always liked Pluto because it is so far out that it is way out there in the darkness in the edge of the Solar System, where the sun is just a dot in the sky, and so cold that its atmosphere is frozen to the ground. Being named after the sinister Roman god of the underworld just added to its badassery.

BTW Clyde Tombaugh is from Burdett, KS.... My grandmother went to school wi him there. There is also a plaque there on the highway.. :).

Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, i think you are the only smart ones that didn't lose ur humour. Thank u and that makes u a special person, someone enjoyable to watch and learn from. But i am hesitantly and respectfully correcting you for saying that Marianas trench is in the Philippines vice Guam(USA).

"Planet" is just a word. What is strange is that people are disturbed to use the same word for Mercury and Pluto while they are not uncomfortable to use the same word for Mercury and Jupiter.

You start learning the minute you emerge

How many Kuiper belt objects have influence on the orbits of the existing planets? Pluto was discovered by noting its gravitational effect on the planet Neptune. Maybe Pluto needs a special category of which it is the only known member so far. I'm upset that it's not a planet although I understand why not but lumping it with Ceres seems kind of odd, too.

The part in the big bang theory when sheldon is mad at him for the killing Pluto 😂😂

3:31 I learrned greek and roman mythology first than the cartoon when I was a kid...

Where is that store that has an entire aisle dedicated to pasta? I can never find the specific types of pasta I’m looking for in any grocery store. (Yes, I’m serious!)

BTW, if you haven't seen the documentary "The Pluto Files" you need to. It's Dr. Tyson at some of his best.

The Universe expands in all directions

Pluto is still a planet to me

There is no doubt about that.

Save Pluto!

1:06:28 "Half the schools in this district are below average." I think that this statement is not trivial, but gives us the information that median equals the mean value in this case.

So, since the asteroid Ceres is round, could you call it the World Ceres?

Question? He says something like is it more cost effective to deflect a comet from earth or to ship a billion people to a terraformed mars? Short term deflect comet, long term something bigger that cant be stopped will inevitably hit us (real long term example andromeda galaxy right?) so we need to get to Mars and beyond is the only real answer... Basically building a hammer would secure any current life span battle, theoretically? But to insure survival, we need to focus on like intergalactic civilization or something? Just interested me and wanted to share... Gnite! :)

actually one could argue that mathematics was created to explain the phenomena observed in the world of physics so really, mathematics was built on physics.

We have a soda isle in the UK supermarkets. Didn't realise that it was weird :/

But they are closely linked. Physical deals with things like quantam mechanics ( amongst other topics) and sub atomic particals.. chemsitry also deals with atom and molecules etc. And then as far as biology goes -- many biological process are chemical processes.. like the how the body metabilised carbohydrates.

59:30 I'm European and I never say I'm European when someone asks me where I am from, I think almost no European does this.

It's kind of different though, because despite what people often think, Stephen isn't really a scientific-based orator like Neil is. Stephen is more of a cultural icon, more a publically adored idol of a sort of representation, an almost imagined ideal of the Typical British Older Man. Neil is an incredibly imaginative genius in a field of science. Whole different package. I'd say the only way in which Neil and Stephen were equal is they're both awesome smart people.

What you just told me about Pluto has made me even madder at you now... Pluto is special.... Yes I still haven't forgiven you all these years later... And I'm 38

get microphone in the audience next time...

Megillah comes from the Hebrew word "liglol", which means "to roll" because books and stories were recorded on scrolls. Lengthy ones were called, "Megillot", the singular of which is Megillah. When someone says "the whole Megillah". he means the whole story.

I'm enjoying this conversation a lot so far, but I'd like to say that Jan Hendrik Oort, who came up with the hypothesis of the Oort Cloud, is Dutch, not Danish.

“Not even the geologists!” 😂😂😂

Woke me up, but the Greek God PLUTO is no doubt feeling disrespected!

46:50 - infinity

is the white guy the radio host that interviewed dr cooper?

i feel a dim veil stupidity lift from my head every time i hear this guy speak. i feel my synapses firing, my brain growing. i feel a little smarter. it really is amazing. and im always a little bit more in awe of the world after i hear him speak. how many people can u say that about in the world?

Neil could be to America as Stephen Fry to UK. Such a fun to listen to him

I was 5 I named my pitbull German Shepherd Chow Chow Pluto after Mickey Mouse's dog. When I got older I then found out Pluto is the god of the underworld IE hell. Which was a much more fitting name for this bad ass dog. I still miss him ,but now he's guarding Hades.

I think it is also the "underdog" fact too. Americans always want to fight for the rights of the underdog. and that we learned our solar system had 9 planets and to "loose" one makes us feel we are now smaller or less.

Asteroid Ceres was briefly a planet too. Not that briefly. About 50 years, from it's discovery in 1801. As far as I know, there wasn't an uproar when it was demoted from a planet to an asteroid.

Super confused European thinking how he gets his water to boil till 212 degrees.Until he realises, yeah Fahrenheit...

So - here's a question - if Pluto isn't a planet because it hasn't cleared it's orbital area of other things..... but we know that it intersects the orbit of neptune .... is neptune a planet?

Smart guy!

Are there moons that also have moons? Anyone knows?

Clyde tombaugh was born in streator, illinois

he said the US dominated Astrophysics last century, by quoting big bang as American created words. Sorry mate, that was a British person, Fred Hoyle. In fact a huge amount of discoveries were from the UK, Germany etc so I wouldn't say dominated.

Neil deGrasse Tyson, the American Harald Lesch! Both are capable to bring Astrophysics to the general public in an understandable way!

I would like to hear his opinions now that we have detailed pics of pluto...

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damn its so annoying when the audience asking questions and they dont give them a mic so we can hear them