Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson presents a map where the sizes of the countries are determined not by geography, but by how much science is being done:
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This is one of the best videos I’ve seen this year. Phil Plait, Pamela Gay, Lawrence Krauss, Bill Nye, and Neil deGrasse Tyson, discuss the future of human spaceflight:
It’s long, but it’s definitely a must-watch.
Neil deGrasse Tyson puts into words perfectly the danger of halting manned spaceflight, and cutting funding to NASA, one of the few, if not the only government agency in America which children admire and use as inspiration for their possible future careers as scientists, engineers, mathematicians, etc.
This is oddly entrancing and definitely the most creative use of the technology that I’ve seen. Speeches by well-known scientists.. auto-tuned and set to music! It’s The Symphony of Science:
More songs, videos, and MP3/FLAC downloads. Awesome stuff.
Stephen Hawking recently stated that the human race should refrain from trying to make contact with any alien life out there. Why? Because they just might run us over and take our ‘resources’, that’s why. I think Neil deGrasse Tyson makes a very important observation in this interview:
The assumption that an intelligent, alien race would be as primitively hostile as we have been is based entirely on us looking at ourselves in retrospect, not on any actual knowledge. Urging us to ‘just hide’ based on a sample size of one doesn’t seem very constructive. We won’t know before we’ve made contact; trying to hide is probably only going to delay that a little.
