Neil deGrasse Tyson On Coronavirus: Will People Listen To Science?

Ladies and gentlemen, my first guest tonight is the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, the host of the cosmos, and he is my favorite astrophysicist. Please welcome Neil deGrasse Tyson. Thanks, but first, yes, confess, how many astrophysicists do you know? I'm your favorite, I don't know what many others are, okay, Neal spoiler alert, you're an independent scientist and I'm legally obligated to ask you what you think about the corona virus. Oh, and I understand you're not a virologist. You're not an immunologist, you're not an epidemiologist, but Isis Jim. I suspect that you have an opinion, a point of view, okay, okay, I would say that I have scientific knowledge in general terms, but what I

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say about this virus, I think we are in the middle of a massive experiment around the world and they are pigs.

Indians, but maybe the experiment is,

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to scientists? In this case, referring to medical professionals, say Anthony Fauci/infectious technology, for example, are you washing your hands and are you taking these precautions? They are warnings offered by the scientists around us for our own good and it seems to me that if we all

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ed and paid attention don't be scared okay don't live a life lived in fear like a life half lived so don't I don't want to so that it would be interesting if we all paid attention to what the scientists say, maybe the corona virus will just disappear hmm and with a minimum of cases and then we kick its ass for obeying the scientists' recommendations. on how to minimize your chances of getting it, it would be an interesting experiment that we are in the middle of, I hope we win, the knowledge comes to light yes, okay, yes, last week it was announced that scientists have just discovered or observed the larger.

Explosion from the Big Bang What was it? Where was it and why? So we didn't see the explosion, yeah, or the hole, the huge hole it left, so they ate or something like that. 40 million light years away is a galaxy cluster. and the medium in which these galaxies move is a very hot gas. Most cumulus clouds have this hot gas. You can detect it in X-rays because it shines, it shines so much that it shines in X-rays. You see it in an understood at first and we realize that at some point in the past there was a black hole explosion in the center of that galaxy and it blew a hole through this cluster how big on a super galactic scale the numbers don't mean anything it's like how much money did Mike Bloomberg waste diameters of our entire galaxy on the whole set that came out of this galaxy cluster and but here it is A fun point here is that you can ask how big that explosion was and if nothing else was that big, then your adjectives They are challenged by this.

What do you mean? Okay, for example, we had horses, right, yeah, okay, listen button. I understand what horses are. then we invent cars and say, well, how do we know how powerful the car engine is? We measure it in horses, whose powers we see because before there were engines more powerful than any other, it was only measured in horses and to this day NASA will continue to report the power of rockets in horsepower, which is completely absurd because it does not matter how many horses you put together, they won't rise into space, okay, so it doesn't make any sense, it's just that my horses lined up in here, that's not how God approved, so others. news closer to home, how far away was this, by the way, four hundred million light years, very good, good distance, yes, a four-way, also news from our solar system, which I'm quite excited about, there is a mini moon out there, the second ever discovered. you don't like this question why you don't like this question called or there is no honeymoon excuse?

You could call it a mini rock, that would have been more accurate. It's okay, you're a poet, it's orbiting us. Yes, but so is space junk. and we also have our entire real moon, okay, she's still competing for your affection. I pay attention to a rock that passed by. Come on, the interesting thing is that the orbital paths in the solar system are such that occasionally we can capture a wayward rock. so this thing was just drifting along a trajectory that allowed most of those that pass through to come out unscathed, but this one we captured, so this orbit will degrade and eventually enter, it's not clear.

I didn't study orbital mechanics and it is possible. I bet I think it's unlikely. Of all the things to worry about in the world today, don't worry about it, don't worry, don't worry, there's also supposed to be something about the size of Mount Everest hitting in April that would be bad, yeah, okay, two and a half miles wide, kind of like the dinosaur, the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, was the size of Mount Everest, so you don't want one of those coming. down, so should I make peace with a God who may or may not be there?

No, this is not going to hit us. No, no, I'm not worried about how you know this, because we have physics. Why did I look at the ball, this rock, if it is not? I'm going to hit Ash, okay, okay, second, but they have talent for me, this will come, it's called clickbait, I get it, I get it, because I'm just thinking if this will happen, if it would hit us on April 22nd. like why am I Purell in my hands on Earth Day, oh it's that you would hope it doesn't come in April so that it's ever just embarrassing, how can we all try to protect the Earth and nature kills the Earth, what Is this, this is day 50? okay, 50, a good round here for a good year, yes, Earth Day, so what should we do this 50?

So anyway, we are treating the Earth, should we celebrate it as a day or just apologize for this time? I should do both, yes, first apologize and then tell the Earth. How are you going to improve things? Do you know when the first Earth Day was in 1970? Do you know why I was in 1970? How come he didn't go in 1960? 1865 1980. I have a feeling you're about to tell me that yes, we were actively going to get and walk on the moon in 1970 with this spacecraft, the Saturn 5, so, sorry, all of us didn't get to the moon, we just a little over the top here with the astronauts, oh yeah, because you need fuel to do it. so we go to the moon to explore the moon and we turn around and discover the earth for the first time and all this in its entirety 'the earth does not have enough guests the earth brings visual aids I'm just saying that the earth then was alone in the void dark space and if you don't see it that way, the globe in the social studies classroom showed you that there were no color coded countries, all you saw were blue oceans, dry land and clouds, and in that moment everyone changed, everyone said Oh.

My God, pollution is not just this river behind my house or this lake, it is global, we have to think of the Earth as a planet and you know what happened in 1970, Earth Day was founded, the environmental protection was by the way, a Republican president voted for the intention to exist. What else happened during those years when we walked on the Moon? I'm awake until 1973. Leaded gas was banned. What else happened? The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was founded to take a look. about the climate on earth no one had ever thought about connecting the oceans and the clouds before and they are both in the same title of that agency the comprehensive Clean Air Act Clean Water Act everything that happened while we were going to the moon and

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were asking people were asking why are we going to space, if you don't worry, it works out because it can, it can adapt, maybe you're going to do something about it and we're on the fiftieth anniversary of that and we have to move on. doing it Neal, can you run for president?

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