This is Exactly How You Should NOT Raise Your Kids! | Neil deGrasse Tyson on Impact Theory

I was in Central Park, we had just finished watching one of the Shakespeare performances in the park and it was processed a little early so there were puddles in some of the hallways. I saw a woman walking with her son. The boy has galoshes and a raincoat. and they were coming down the walkway and there was a big puddle of juicy mud right there and I said, please let the boy jump in the puddle, you know the boy wants to jump in the puddle, the boy is like three or four years old, you know the child and what does the mother do?

He throws the boy away to prevent that from happening. It is an experiment on the formation of craters. That's what craters happen. That way you splash the water. There is mud. It's fun. You can see the cause and effect of a downward force operating. in a in a fluid disappeared that was a bit of curiosity at that time that died out Hello everyone, welcome to the

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. Today's guest is arguably one of the most important scientific voices of our time. A Harvard and Columbia educated doctor of astrophysics with an impressive chain. of best-selling books to his credit, he has been instrumental in creating some of the most influential works of popular science the world has ever known from his entertaining and informative talk about the stars of the show, who in their first year on television was nominated for an Emmy for best From news programming to executive editor and on-camera host of the groundbreaking television series Cosmos, which won four Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, two Critics Choice Awards, was translated into 45 languages, was performed in 181 countries and has been viewed by more than 750 million people, helping to inspire.

Entire generations of budding scientists around the world for his rare ability to spark curiosity and guide public scientific discourse has not only made him one of the most sought-after public intellectuals, but has also seen him amass an astonishing list of accolades. including more than 20 honorary doctorates awarded by NASA. About him his Distinguished Public Service Medal The International Astronomical Union recognized his contributions by naming an asteroid after him He has had multiple presidential appointments He was named Research Associate of the Department of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History and was named Fifth Chief of the World Famous Planetarium hayden in new york city, as well as its first occupant of the frederick pro rose address, so please help me welcome the man people magazine named the sexiest living astrophysicist the astrophysicist letter writer the legendary dr

neil

degrasse

tyson

How are you man, okay, thanks man, it's a pleasure, thanks for being on the show, what an introduction you gave me there, but first I need to clear something up, the People magazine distinction, uh, the sexy astrophysicist which was 50 pounds ago for the first time, okay? just make that clear, second, I don't think it's one of the most competitive categories they have there, I will say that you are now sexier in astrophysics and whether it's a big category or not, you are very distinguished uh, I don't know how I won, you know, at that time, you know Stephen Hawking, you know, I don't know, I don't know what victory, but that year I think was the only year that

this

was in 2000.

I think it was the only year that they actually had that category. They have these fun categories that they include just for entertainment purposes, but they're the recurring categories like sexiest action hero, sexiest athletes, sexiest actors, so that's really it. competitive categories and my year, the cover that transcends all categories was Brad Pitt and he was the sexiest man in the world beyond the category, so there you have, literally, the epitome of the sex symbols of yesteryear, for sure, like that that you were in good company, that's good. I want to get started, so by the way, the book is great and I really enjoyed it.

It's a wonderful pick and mix, as they call it in the UK, of different topics that sometimes you dive into very quickly and other times much longer, yes. depending on the topic and/or depending on how much I knew about the topic that was brought to me and that I could then comment on equally fair, yeah, one of the ones that really struck me was that you talked about

your

father, you called it a compliment. in a way and you went over some of the things that he did, which I actually didn't know anything about

your

father before reading that, what was it about your father that

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ed you so much that you still carry today, so it's not so much, oh? he is my dad, I love my dad, that's all true, but at the end of the day what matters is who and what you become in life, for me at least it was what level of wisdom he gained in his life and then He contacted me successfully. for example or just by an explicit statement and that combination of those two means of delivery had some major impacts, impact, see what I did there, impacts on my life, just for example, and I gave these examples in the sense that that p

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was a letter to him during At the memorial service he died a couple of years ago at age 89 so it wasn't a tragic death but you still miss someone even though you know they're ready to go and I'll just give an example if I allows, in high school. in gym class and they were standing in line and they were about to enter the next athletic unit and it was track and field and the gym instructor pointed at my dad in line and said cyril

tyson

, everyone look at him, he doesn't have the type of body that excel in track and they used him as an example and he says what no one is going to tell me what I can't do in my life and he used that as a reason to start running and he started running at that moment, I mean at that moment Exacto decided that one of his next tasks in life would be to start running and excel at it.

Within a few years of that, he became world class and at one point had the fifth fastest time in the world in the middle distance. don't run

this

600 yard race anymore and he, in 1948, the olympic games were not yet ready to come back to us because we are still recovering from the second world war, instead, there were still some olympic games that were called olympic games gi and it was held at hitler's stadium so he competed at hitler's stadium in the late 1940s and it's just one of the great memories of his life but the reason I say all that is because there's a friend of his named johnny johnson with whom they were competing against In the New York athletic club at that time it mattered that you had amateur status, no one thinks about that anymore, but back then you couldn't compete in the Olympic Games if you were a professional and there is such a professional kind of esteem in which you were contaminated. in a way and it's hard to think that that was how people thought, but that's how it was, in the past, once you graduated from college, you needed some sanctioning body to compete with, so there are sports clubs that the athletic club of New York accepted at that time. only white protestants, so there's another club called the pioneer club that took everyone who wasn't accepted to the new york athletic club, which was basically black and jewish, and some catholics, but basically black and jewish, competed alongside the Jews. athletes, so there they are competing against the new york athletic club and his best friend, johnny johnson, he was fine, he was coming down the stretch, it could have been the quarter mile down the stretch and a runner from the new york athletic club York is a few steps behind.

He and Johnny Johnson hear the running back's coach say "catch that" and he heard this and then what did he say to himself? He said this is one he's not going to catch and he extended his lead to the finish line and tells this story. Not in a bitter tone as you might think, any story like that today would certainly be told with great remorse and dismay, so he never had that kind of tone when he shared those stories with us. This is an occasion to analyze what could happen today. being called a microaggression in a reason to excel even more than you expected of your own abilities and talents, that's why I took that lesson away, he was just telling a story he didn't tell, let me teach my children a lesson today, no.

These are just things that happened in his life and in my kind of letter to him at his death, I tell the audience several of these examples and among them, yes, that story is really powerful for me and in the book you frames a lot of his My own success is that you know, especially when I was starting out, the astrophysics system certainly didn't open its arms to me. NASA was born the same year I was born and there was no welcome to people of my color, so in some ways the amount I've outperformed the average is a result of having to fight that friction, but again, no.

There is bitterness in your voice, so how did you go about making that a positive thing in your life? Yes, I think I dare suggest that. It is possible to draw a line in the sand between transgressions, whether racial, cultural, religious, I mean, today we live in a very fractured world, I don't know if it is the most fractured of all time, but I am referring to the first war. world and the second in which they were fractured. times, so I don't want to claim that we are unique in how fractured we are, but what is clear is that the Internet has allowed social media to allow people to tribalize, you may go your entire life without finding another person who think that the Earth is flat.

You go online and you see them all and they have conventions and they meet here, even if it's just virtual, so you have ways of saying why you're different from other people and I don't know if that's always a healthy place to be in a pluralistic land wants to celebrate differences instead of going out of its way to establish differences and then claim that one group is better than another; It is the very motto of the United States, among many, the pluribus pluribus unum, you can wear that Looking forward to immigration and ethnicity, the melting pot of ethnicities that was the goal or at least the vision of what we thought would be a future of the United States and I don't feel like it's going in that direction right now, but you can draw a line. in the arena between people who transgress but have no power over you of those who transgress and do it the coach who said catch that he has no power over johnny johnson unless you allow him this is a famous quote from martin luther king Just tell you they can ride if your back is bent, so in the early days not only when it was less known but also because the racial climate was different.

The yellow cabs in New York City would not pick me up if I was going downtown in the direction where Harlem is whether I intended to leave earlier or not, so this would not pick me up. I'd have to change sides of the street, pretend I'm going downtown, then they pick me up and then I'm like, please get on this, so I'd have to pay an extra 50 cents for that change, but that taxi driver, whatever his preference is , was not between me and my goal of becoming an astrophysicist, so I distributed my emotional reactions where they really mattered for the trajectory of my life.

A lot of people, when they encounter adversity, they break down and either because it's hard to be good at something or because of something like that, where prejudice holds them back and they never get over it, and you said and This is so interesting and exciting to me. , especially in today's world, which worked almost like a gravitational slingshot that launched you further, so how do people capture that energy? I see what you did there, the sling is very good, so the sling in case everyone does it. I don't know, what happens is that all the planets go in the same direction around the sun because we are all formed in a disk that spins a gaseous disk and the planets condense from that, so they all move in the same direction from above, counterclockwise. the top, so if you launch a spaceship and you don't have enough fuel to go the distance you want, what you can do is come behind a planet and fall towards it and the act of falling towards it is that its gravity attracts you .

That's fine, but the act of being pulled in also gains the speed of the planet's orbit, so by falling into gravity you now have to come out the other side which will eat up the speed you gained by falling due to its gravity because it's symmetrical, but during the whole process you get the orbital speed of the planet coming out the other side, it's called gravitational assist and you can do it like a pool shot with multiple cushions in the solar system to get enough energy to get to Pluto or beyond. and almost all of our spacecraft that went to the distant solar system, instead of launching huge rockets, which are expensive to transport, they use a smaller rocket and what they do is steal orbital energy from other planets, which is not known. they'll lose, they'll be fine unless you've done it all along, then they will, you can screw them up, but Jupiter versus our spaceship Jupiter doesn't care so I just want to explain orbital assist.

In case others didn't know, yes, these microaggressions turn into eagerness to excel and dare I say something that I think many people today think that older peopleirrelevant from that um exercise and because if people say this is true. because tyson said it so I failed that's not how you teach someone that's teaching them by authority you don't know that that's I don't want to I want to teach you how to think about the world and then you say I have a new way to understand the world and you just walk away. , you don't even look back because a new level of hunger has descended upon you and the methods and tools to feed that hunger are now accessible to you, so my impact would be for others to do so as well. shocked and they don't even remember I had anything to do with it on my tombstone I want the epitaph to be ashamed to die until you've won some victory for humanity oh that's Horus man I can back that up and a victory for humanity humanity.

It's not a victory for you It's not statues It's not your name It's just that humanity is better off You want the world to be any of us I think you

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want the world to be a little better for having lived in it That doesn't mean people praising you because Not that, it's not even about that, so what do you have to give without expectations of returning to duty? I get it, that's what it is, it's beautiful, yeah guys, there are some people who become famous through hype and there are some people. who become famous in substance, I'm telling you right now, this man has gotten to where he got to. substance is incredible immerse yourself in his world you won't regret it follow his instagram account it's absolutely incredible read all his books I can attest to several of them and they are amazing if you haven't already make sure to subscribe and until next time my friends be legendary take care

neil

degrasse

tyson in the house thanks friend with all these equations there was that pot of gold out there I wanted to understand einstein I wanted to understand quantum

theory

I wanted to be up to date the cutting edge of science even if it meant I had to sit in my chair and just do the math.

You have to pay your dues.