@mythicc Also, it doesn't matter if the asteroid comes in one piece or a hundred, the same amount of mass is entering the Earth. You'd probably have to cut said asteroid into very, very small pieces to increase the surface area by enough to burn all, or most, of it up in during entry. I still can't promise there won't be some "Heat Shield" effect going on to protect the rear sections of said asteroid sushi.
@mythicc That's fantastic, but wrong. The average temperature of "empty" space is about 3 Kelvin, not 0. 0 Kelvin is where there's zero energy floating around in the molecules to get anything done. NASA has a nice little explanation. First result for "Temperature of space".
@lardtaziumwadmaster y not?... its like his catch phrase. Strangely enough i ended up saying / writing it in my science class and never realised where it came from until seeing this video and realising iv got it from him lol
Simplest way to obliterate an asteroid, no matter how large: Construct an energy source capable of supplying cutting lasers fashioned to satellites, which are then deployed as a network designed to literally cut the asteroid into pieces small enough to burn up in the atmosphere. Perhaps this would require 100 satellites capable of functioning in extra-orbital space. It seems to me smarter people than I could figure out a way to make it work.
@mythicc The thing to keep in mind is that whatever is floating around in space eventually becomes as cold as space, which is absolute zero (or about minus 450 Fahrenheit), so anything like a laser beam at 10,000 plus degrees Fahrenheit is going to have explosive effects. Lasers are capable of literally vaporizing steel, so I would think that an asteroid, even if it's made of iron, would not be a problem.
Neil deGrasse Tyson - "OUR COLLECTIVE FREE TIME NEEDS TO SHIFT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE TO EDUCATION. WHETHER YOU'RE A YOUNG STUDENT OR FINISHED SCHOOL LONG AGO, GET OUT TO THE LIBRARY WHENEVER YOU CAN AND WORK HARD TO LEARN EVERYTHING YOU CAN ABOUT THIS WORLD. EACH INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY WILL BENEFIT FROM BEING ABLE TO SOLVE MORE PROBLEMS AND MAKE BETTER DECISIONS. EDUCATION IS AN AMAZING DISCOVERY PROCESS THAT REPAYS YOU ENDLESSLY."
@creapah From what I understand, it could potentially miss the keyhole according to current reckoning (this is to say the accuracy of the plotted trajectory isn't fine enough to definitively say it will make the keyhole)... so a series of rather critical miscalculations could theoretically cause that. But it's a stretch.
Actually, I disagree with him that its the better group that are researching deflection methods. If you've read some of sagan's works then you'll know what i am on about- Carl sagan opposed the development of deflection technology because if a mad dictatorship or super villain... whatever. Got hold of this technology then it would be a true doomsday weapon. Imagine the most powerful nuke. Imagine a hundred of them. One asteroid, moved towards earth. That far surpasses any nuclear arsenal.
@benhunt3 that's a circumstantial drawback that can only be attributed to human fault, and plus it would require the said dictator to
A. grab hold of sufficient tech and resource to do it (which is massive)
B. do so without ANYONE else knowing it (yeah right)
if whoever this villain is somehow able to do so then i don't think he actually needs a super MWD really, he would've had resources to do whatever he wants really.
@2:40 yeah, who cares if a bunch of shacks r blown 2 peices. it was only poor people, not real americans /sarcsm directed@ corporatist palin. just occured 2 me when they were talk bout it
@TheAdrenalineEffect because it would result in an economy even more dire than what we see today. The amount of spending on science and research would be astronomical and from that we would glean nothing but knowledge and a few disease cures.
@tcginn the current economic condition is a problem with the underlying base of the economy system itself, not the funding of research on science or anything of the sort.
in fact part of the reason why major countries in the world are what they are (and held to it) is the simple fact that they invest more on the frontier research than others.
why do we not have super large scale LCD factories that made LCD production cheap in japan? because they jumped to it first, and now we pay for that.
@tcginn the same with any part of the frontier science area where other countries have overtaken the US, and now the US are starting to pay for that because if they made investment into them it would be more expensive as others would prefer to use the already existing one in other countries.
if anything, the US is falling behind partly because they are losing ground in the cutting edge tech race.
Shutting money to research is not going to fix the economy, that would kill it instead.
@TheAdrenalineEffect Tell me about it the only people who ever run are morons or never have our interests at heart.I think it will actually take someone like him for president before we make any real progress.(Sigh) Politics is so depressing nowadays.
Soo true. Americans think explosives will solve anything. Like that time back in the 60s when they used TNT to get rid of a stranded blue whale. Meaty burned pieces the size of a person flew in all directions, destroyed cars, houses... it was funny.
@LesPaul2006 Hahahahaha. Funny you should mention that video seeing as how I just watched it last night. As they started talking about the highway departments bright idea of wanting to blow it up with TNT I chuckled and started shaking my head thinking " Oh yeah, this is going to turn out real well ". lol
@LesPaul2006 Wow, thanks for showing your train of thought for what it is, ignorant, because everybody of a certain country thinks the same? It's no wonder the world can't make any progress.
@LesPaul2006 Well I mean, we defiantly know our TNT though. Sure some of our TNT experiments may have not gone according to plan, but look at we did with Mount Rushmore! Beauty and precision!
@Raajur well technically they only used TNT to remove the difficult pieces and still carved anything that require precision manually of course.
a more impressive feat of controlled explosion would be building demolitions, but that's unfortunately also not quite a guarantee either as the explosion is only used to destroy the supporting structure and what they can calculate precisely would be the structure collapse and not exactly where the blasted structure goes.
DeGrasse said; "we'll just parallel park a space craft next to the hemorrhoid". I think he's got a serious asteroid bothering him. He can just put a stick of dynamite up his ass & blow it up. Personally, I like the "blow it up" plan much better. DeGrasse said; "one needs to move the hemorrhoid only a small degree". That obviously means the operation needs to take place at quite a great distance from the Earth. Thus far, we've been to the moon & orbit around the Earth. Lets get this straight, we
@Chuichupachichi did you consider that the spacecraft doesn't have to have humans in them? like when we sent the lander to Mars? maybe the astrophysicist in the video thought this out more than the YT douche...
{did you consider that the spacecraft doesn't have to have humans in them? like the lander to Mars?}
Did you consider that Mars is merely the planet next to Earth & not very far? Did you consider the length of time it required for the lander to reach mars, while considering the speeds at which asteroids travel? Whether manned or unmanned, the level of space travel technology which is disclosed to us by government, is hardly anywhere near capable of "parking next to a asteroid"
@Chuichupachichi " the level of space travel technology which is disclosed to us by government, is hardly anywhere near capable of "parking next to a asteroid". Take space mission Dawn for instance. In July, Dawn will rendezvous with asteroid Vesta4 which at its closest pass to the Sun is 199,947,573 miles away. The craft will orbit and study Vesta during 2011~2012 before moving off to orbit and study the dwarf planet Ceres in 2015 with its closest pass to the Sun being 236,479,573 miles away.
( cont'd ) Taking the " for instance " that I have given you serves to amplify the fact that you clearly haven't a clue. Other examples are the NEAR and Hayabusa missions. Both missions LANDED on asteroids. So, is the technology available and are bright enough minds available to create a mission to " park " alongside an asteroid ? Absolutely !!!
{maybe the astrophysicist in the video thought this out more than the YT douche}
Maybe if the Astrophysicist in the video more competently possessed that title, he'd be funded to work as a Astrophysicist? Rather than given the task of dusting off museum pieces & attending scheduled appearances for the purpose of speaking to the Cretin Choir on the "National Atheistic Slandering of Christianity Tour"
Maybe while on tour, DeGrasse & Dennett will converge upon 1 locale & compete for the title in the "World's Most Retarded Intellectual" competition? Of course, they'll compete within the "Retarded without Down Syndrome" class. If I were a gambler, I'd put my money on Dennett... since DeGrasse can at least speak. Boy can he ever speak... all that jive turkey bunch of bullshit
@Chuichupachichi well you're obviously a troll, but just for clarity Daniel Dennett's sperm could think circles around your insignificant brain, Niel Degrasse Tyson and Daniel Dennett are two of the greatest intellectuals of our time, what the FUCK have you done with your life? oh right, you're a troll on the internet...
need to go much further into space than any manned mission has ever gone, casually parallel park next to a hemorrhoid thats traveling at perhaps, tens of thousands of miles per hour & simply use rocket thrusters to push the space craft away from the flaming hemorrhoid & have it come along in tow? Has DeGrasse heard that movement is relative. How does he know that the craft will push itself away, rather than push the hemorrhoid away. Thereby, towing the space craft. I guess either way will work?
Because I figured that if I'm going to engage with vaginas, it would be far better to do in the manner which does a douche, than to engage with YT Atheist Evolutionist Vaginas that can't find the fortitude enough to directly address what they believe to refute with a mere assertion, consisting of only ad-hominem
"reason"... "logic"... "science"... spare me the pathetic delusion!
But thats only after achieving the Disneyland Space Mountain Fantasy Land other details. It sounds much more feasible to simply do what we're already good at doing... just blow the MotherF#@&er Up into a million little pieces
DeGrasse: "We might split it in half"? Oh yea sure, just like we made 4 Japanese cities from 2
Why dont we simply nudge it into the orbit of the hemorrhoid belt that used to be the Capitol planet of Satan's kingdom & that when it blew up, chunks pelted Mars' pyramid civs
@Chuichupachichi I admire your confidence in your own thoughts but last time I checked he is freaking Neil Tyson and you're some schmuck on youtube. Neil Tyson's thoughts > Youtube Scmuck
{I admire your confidence in your own thoughts but last time I checked he is freaking Neil Tyson and you're some schmuck on youtube}
I know... isn't it great? Their great degree of credibility, prominence & prestige is what makes it all the more fun. You should check out my channel's videos. (currently producing DeGrasse video)
Its especially fun to be simply some everyday "schmuck" (as you refer to me) because when after intellectually manhandling PhD scientists, Professors, nationally renown lawyers, judges & Harvard US Presidents, if any of them had behaved particularly offensive, I like to reveal that I'm a high school dropout, just so they can cry
@Chuichupachichi I admire your confidence in your own thoughts but last time I checked he is freaking Neil Tyson and you're some schmuck on youtube. Neil Tyson's thoughts > Youtube Schmuck
@MrGrevy I think we're past that joke...this dude could crush you with his brain AND his fist. And if we're going for the 'black' joke, I'm sure he could crush you with his dick too
@MrGrevy@MrGrevy I think we're past that joke...this dude could crush you with his brain AND his fist. Oh and if we're going for the 'black' joke, I'm sure he could crush you with his dick too
{A black physicist? Now I've seen everything. What has the world come to?}
From what I've been observing, a Caucasian, Atheistic, Humanistic, Evolutionary scientist in any field, doesn't usually fare any better...intellectually speaking! Or those of any other race, for that matter.
Its the detriment of Secular Humanism & pitting oneself directly against the Creator that causes the strange, but Biblically foretold, phenomena of highly educated stupidity to occur
@Chuichupachichi Wow so you're a Bible banger. That really bodes well for your critical thinking skills! I can tell you're a high school dropout. Disgraceful.
This is the only man on the earth Id let into my snake dungeon and feed my venomous vipers apples via tethered gravitational pull. After he got rid of the apple id throw all the vipers into the air at 7m/sec and watch those fuckers head to the farthest corners of the galaxy.
@Boazisi 7m/sec is 7 meters per second. I can probably throw a football that fast. 7mi/sec is 7 miles per second and is the approximate escape velocity for the earth. It's actually around 6.96 miles per second
@mistymoobones The more rocket fuel you take into space, the more expensive the trip will be, because of the additional weight of the craft. If the asteroid can be deflected by just parking a spaceship next to it, this save could many billions of dollars.
@mistymoobones Of course not. But if they can get the same result more cheaply, that's what they'll do. As Neil said, they are doing the sums now, and it may turn out that extra thrust attached to the rock will be needed. The physics will dictate what's needed.
@OmegaDude22 Yes, it would...thats how you establish the tether. In the near vacuum of space the asteroid would gravitationally incline toward the ship. The ship would need such jets to push it along, as it is also going to be pulled backward by the gravity of the asteroid. These jets will work to push the ship along as well as prevent the asteroid from colliding with the ship. You need action/reaction to form the tether.
@killerinavaluble that is the best solution anyone has come up with yet the only problem is that Chuck couldn't get to it because by the time it knows who is coming, it will reverse directions and head straight into the nearest star
ok, stop the infighting! people want to blow the sucker up or nudge it away with mutual grav tether, NO, FLY AHEAD OF IT PARALLEL TO IT'S TRAJECTORY, DROP AIR TANKS WITH EXPLOSIVES STRAPPED ON, CREATE AIR POCKETS TO ALTER IT'S COURSE, THEN MANEUVER IT TO HIGH ORBIT FOR SPACE MINING
Those military buffoons don't factor in the material asteroid is made off. What if it's really dense material their nukes would do no damage because the yield of the nuclear weapon is not factored in.
When I first saw him on TV I was really impress by his ability to explain science in Lamen's term. But a quick search on him revealed a pretty thin resume in real science work. He's IMDB profile has more listing then his work in the science field.
U know what I don't understand? If they say the world is gonna end in 2012, why would we wanna know what's gonna happen in 2029? Does anybody else have the same thought? We're not gonna be there in 2029 (sarcasm) so why would we care if an asteroid is gonna hit that year? Somebody explain that to me.
@blacknerdking13 you're truly insane if you believe that the world will end in 2012. People worry about 2029 because we know that doomsday "prophecies" are, were and always will be scare mongering tactics of the church. The Mayan doomsday was probably instigated by their equivalent of a "pope" because that person wanted to feel important or was on some crazy jungle drugs and had visions. Also the Mayans got their date wrong... their doomsday already happened... hundreds of years early.
@blacknerdking13 That doomsday was yet another show of religious ignorance and tyranny. Thank fuck there are those of us who have some little intelligence these days. Pfft religion. It has ruined humanity and civilization so so many damn times. I say down with ignorance, down with religion, down with irrationality!!!
@1PintLasher UP FOR... science, enlightenment, civility toward your fellow humans, knowledge, education and advancement!! There are lots of sub species of humanity but under it all we have the same anatomy, the same intelligence and we all have hearts and a thirst for knowing the unknown... Let's not make stuff up to deal with things like that. Let's use our heads logically both logically and rationally. Magic? Giant super-being? Looking over everything and enjoying the show?
@1PintLasher Omnipotent, All-Powerful and yet looking over all the pain and suffering in our world and never intervening? If there is a God He/She is a sick, twisted, cruel and evil individual. That's a simple FACT. If there was a God we wouldn't have such a vile thing as religion.
lmao wtf how can a little spaceship tow a 40,000 ton asteroid? it would need incredible fire power to move the asteroid away from the keyhole dont you think?
@bl33dal0t Not really, since all we have to do is deflect it a few feet if we do it early enough. It is a question of trajectory and ballistics. Let's say you shoot a bullet straight ahead at a target 200 ft away and you hit the target dead center. If you alter your aim for just 1 degree left or right of the bullseye, the bullet will land 3-4 feet left or right of the bullseye at that distance.
@bl33dal0t Now consider an asteroid 200,000 miles away from earth. An 1-degree deflection would make it stray 30-40000 miles from its intended path-The diameter of the earth at its largest (equatorial radius) is 13,500 miles. Even a 1 degree deflection could-theoretically- make the asteroid miss it's "target" by a factor of 20-30 thousand miles. Of course, there are other factors, such as the Earth's and Moon's gravitational pull, etc. But you get the point.
Deflecting asteroids would be more important than colonizing mars/moon right now. I would love to see them both accomplished this century!! Although not necessarily have a city on mars/moon, but atleast a handful of people living there.
2. We have the theory to deflect the trajectory with a shuttle
3. We should know where it is roughly and when
Could we not change the trajectory so the thing gets sent on a path directly into the sun? Can we not simulate where the shuttle would need to tug this thing to do that? The sun seems like a pretty large target with a lot of gravitational pull.
@Kdnce We don't really need to aim it at the sun, just anywhere other than us. We can aim it at the aft end of the solar system, that's a bigger target than the sun.
The bigger issue is convincing our government that it's important enough to fund, they're already cutting NASA's funding to go to Mars. They're gonna wait last minute on this thing I bet.
2. No. Shuttles can't leave low-Earth orbit. We'd have to build a completely different space ship. Shuttles are in fact designed to "shuttle" back and forth between low-Earth orbit and Earth.
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AlexanderIsaacConan 12 hours ago
watch out, we got an astrophysicist here!
EnworbMailliw 2 days ago
Look out, we got a plan over here!
YouAreABunghole 1 week ago
"you would be unpopular" so god must be super unpopular,you know..with the genocides and floodings and stuff
blindedby2monkeys 1 week ago 2
@blindedby2monkeys Yeah. What a dick.
TheSuperSmashBrother 4 days ago
this guy makes science so fun xD
Areyourealythatdumb 2 weeks ago
This should be titled "How to Deal With a Badass".
ColorfulHyena 3 weeks ago 3
i like
onedoteen 3 weeks ago
If we had superman, we'd be all good.
katiesbuttadmuffin 3 weeks ago
Tyson describes the situation in cinematic detail, and the best part is, it's all TRUE!
AlanCanon2222 3 weeks ago
@mythicc Also, it doesn't matter if the asteroid comes in one piece or a hundred, the same amount of mass is entering the Earth. You'd probably have to cut said asteroid into very, very small pieces to increase the surface area by enough to burn all, or most, of it up in during entry. I still can't promise there won't be some "Heat Shield" effect going on to protect the rear sections of said asteroid sushi.
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@mythicc That's fantastic, but wrong. The average temperature of "empty" space is about 3 Kelvin, not 0. 0 Kelvin is where there's zero energy floating around in the molecules to get anything done. NASA has a nice little explanation. First result for "Temperature of space".
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hksin11186 1 month ago
In the keyhole? Send the locust nukes!!!!
Redeemedsinner17 1 month ago
I am on the unusual a part of Youtube again.
oshuabailey38j 1 month ago
The only thing I don't like about Neil is how much he says "it turns out".
But this guy is a boss.
lardtaziumwadmaster 1 month ago
@lardtaziumwadmaster y not?... its like his catch phrase. Strangely enough i ended up saying / writing it in my science class and never realised where it came from until seeing this video and realising iv got it from him lol
connorp2402 1 month ago
lmaoo "itl be a warm night" ><
A801506 1 month ago in playlist Neil deGrasse Tyson
Watch out, we got a badass over here!
bestefarendin 2 months ago 4
It'll be toasty...
4ashks 2 months ago
Simplest way to obliterate an asteroid, no matter how large: Construct an energy source capable of supplying cutting lasers fashioned to satellites, which are then deployed as a network designed to literally cut the asteroid into pieces small enough to burn up in the atmosphere. Perhaps this would require 100 satellites capable of functioning in extra-orbital space. It seems to me smarter people than I could figure out a way to make it work.
mythicc 2 months ago
@mythicc The thing to keep in mind is that whatever is floating around in space eventually becomes as cold as space, which is absolute zero (or about minus 450 Fahrenheit), so anything like a laser beam at 10,000 plus degrees Fahrenheit is going to have explosive effects. Lasers are capable of literally vaporizing steel, so I would think that an asteroid, even if it's made of iron, would not be a problem.
mythicc 2 months ago
@mythicc Space isn't at absolute zero.
Aviatorsmith 1 week ago
@mythicc you are full of shit in many ways.
livapoodin 5 days ago
@livapoodin How so?
mythicc 5 days ago
What about the option of building a giant network of mirrors and aim the light of a thousand sunbeams put together to burn the asteroid for years?
underdogg20 3 months ago
if it miss the keyhole the it will be in your hole
bahrainTVchannel 3 months ago
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Neil deGrasse Tyson - "OUR COLLECTIVE FREE TIME NEEDS TO SHIFT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE TO EDUCATION. WHETHER YOU'RE A YOUNG STUDENT OR FINISHED SCHOOL LONG AGO, GET OUT TO THE LIBRARY WHENEVER YOU CAN AND WORK HARD TO LEARN EVERYTHING YOU CAN ABOUT THIS WORLD. EACH INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY WILL BENEFIT FROM BEING ABLE TO SOLVE MORE PROBLEMS AND MAKE BETTER DECISIONS. EDUCATION IS AN AMAZING DISCOVERY PROCESS THAT REPAYS YOU ENDLESSLY."
TheLogicalBrain 3 months ago
Why not simply have all the people on earth blow in the same direction?
MomoTheBellyDancer 3 months ago 3
if its headed towards the keyhole how could you accidentally drag it into the keyhole?
creapah 3 months ago
@creapah From what I understand, it could potentially miss the keyhole according to current reckoning (this is to say the accuracy of the plotted trajectory isn't fine enough to definitively say it will make the keyhole)... so a series of rather critical miscalculations could theoretically cause that. But it's a stretch.
basmithtx 3 months ago
"did someone say shh, like we're going to wake the locusts" xDDD lol
TheDrakaan 4 months ago
Neil is awesome, but who the hell is this host? He's horrible.
killerbee317 4 months ago
Neil is awesome, but who the hell is this host? He's horrible.
killerbee317 4 months ago
Man this guy is awesome.
BlockisticStudios 4 months ago
But that would make a boring movie....
BostonSportsGuy567 4 months ago
Omg this guy is so funny
Akwon872 4 months ago 2
@TheAdrenalineEffect because there would probably be BETTER ones that just aren't as popular on YouTube.
AssistingHealth 5 months ago
@TheAdrenalineEffect Yeah! I would also add Michio Kaku
udipta21 5 months ago
Actually, I disagree with him that its the better group that are researching deflection methods. If you've read some of sagan's works then you'll know what i am on about- Carl sagan opposed the development of deflection technology because if a mad dictatorship or super villain... whatever. Got hold of this technology then it would be a true doomsday weapon. Imagine the most powerful nuke. Imagine a hundred of them. One asteroid, moved towards earth. That far surpasses any nuclear arsenal.
benhunt3 6 months ago
@benhunt3 that's a circumstantial drawback that can only be attributed to human fault, and plus it would require the said dictator to
A. grab hold of sufficient tech and resource to do it (which is massive)
B. do so without ANYONE else knowing it (yeah right)
if whoever this villain is somehow able to do so then i don't think he actually needs a super MWD really, he would've had resources to do whatever he wants really.
IonoTheFanatics 5 months ago
@benhunt3 compare that with the likelihood of an asteroid piece to smack your continent after a nuclear blast impacts it.
IonoTheFanatics 5 months ago
@benhunt3
using analogy: knifes should be outlawed, genetics etc.
technology is not bad - people are
jeffz2010 5 months ago
@2:40 yeah, who cares if a bunch of shacks r blown 2 peices. it was only poor people, not real americans /sarcsm directed@ corporatist palin. just occured 2 me when they were talk bout it
cruelbusiness1984 6 months ago
@tcginn
You underestimate the benefits of science funding.
taicleis 6 months ago
Im liking this guy more and more.
Wassamattawityou 6 months ago 137
Tyson has the ability to discuss and explain (potentially) the end of the world, and turn it into a light hearted talk.... I love it! :D
Chlevans 6 months ago
TOASTY!!!
Flokkerdude 6 months ago
@TheAdrenalineEffect because it would result in an economy even more dire than what we see today. The amount of spending on science and research would be astronomical and from that we would glean nothing but knowledge and a few disease cures.
tcginn 6 months ago
@tcginn the current economic condition is a problem with the underlying base of the economy system itself, not the funding of research on science or anything of the sort.
in fact part of the reason why major countries in the world are what they are (and held to it) is the simple fact that they invest more on the frontier research than others.
why do we not have super large scale LCD factories that made LCD production cheap in japan? because they jumped to it first, and now we pay for that.
IonoTheFanatics 5 months ago
@tcginn the same with any part of the frontier science area where other countries have overtaken the US, and now the US are starting to pay for that because if they made investment into them it would be more expensive as others would prefer to use the already existing one in other countries.
if anything, the US is falling behind partly because they are losing ground in the cutting edge tech race.
Shutting money to research is not going to fix the economy, that would kill it instead.
IonoTheFanatics 5 months ago
@TheAdrenalineEffect Dont forget Lawrence Krauss
willd3rbeast 6 months ago
Indy: "Whose working on this?"
NDeGT: "Top People...."
johnycannuk 6 months ago in playlist Neil deGrasse Tyson
You would be UNPOPULAR. lol
razzlefrog 6 months ago 110
@razzlefrog Not for that long though
myvidutube 3 weeks ago
@TheAdrenalineEffect Tell me about it the only people who ever run are morons or never have our interests at heart.I think it will actually take someone like him for president before we make any real progress.(Sigh) Politics is so depressing nowadays.
DastardlyDereK 7 months ago
@TheAdrenalineEffect what a wonderfull world would that be
aandreya 7 months ago
@TheAdrenalineEffect
And have Sagan's portrait on the money...
mamafiloh 7 months ago 4
Soo true. Americans think explosives will solve anything. Like that time back in the 60s when they used TNT to get rid of a stranded blue whale. Meaty burned pieces the size of a person flew in all directions, destroyed cars, houses... it was funny.
LesPaul2006 7 months ago
@LesPaul2006 Hahahahaha. Funny you should mention that video seeing as how I just watched it last night. As they started talking about the highway departments bright idea of wanting to blow it up with TNT I chuckled and started shaking my head thinking " Oh yeah, this is going to turn out real well ". lol
ReneeNme 7 months ago
@LesPaul2006 Wow, thanks for showing your train of thought for what it is, ignorant, because everybody of a certain country thinks the same? It's no wonder the world can't make any progress.
smockdoiley 7 months ago
@smockdoiley Not everybody. The majority. You guys love your TNT. Don't deny it.
LesPaul2006 7 months ago
@LesPaul2006 Well I mean, we defiantly know our TNT though. Sure some of our TNT experiments may have not gone according to plan, but look at we did with Mount Rushmore! Beauty and precision!
Raajur 6 months ago
@Raajur well technically they only used TNT to remove the difficult pieces and still carved anything that require precision manually of course.
a more impressive feat of controlled explosion would be building demolitions, but that's unfortunately also not quite a guarantee either as the explosion is only used to destroy the supporting structure and what they can calculate precisely would be the structure collapse and not exactly where the blasted structure goes.
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@TheAdrenalineEffect
"Gotta love Tyson! Why can't we have a world government thats ran by him, Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris and Dennet? WHY!? lol"
Because that would push politicians into science ... bad science! XD
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Futurecop2012E 8 months ago
Why are the Morons, I mean Mormons running ads on science videos?
HybridD91 8 months ago
Nice comedy speech over something so serious for the future :)
RyokoLam 8 months ago
I like this guy.
FrisianDude 8 months ago
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@TheAdrenalineEffect Because he possesses too much integrity to delve into politics, that's why. He would never succeed in politics
Pigroota 8 months ago 43
@TheAdrenalineEffect What about Stephen Hawking you can't forget about him.
someguy001001 8 months ago
@someguy001001 If the world had more visionaries like those guys... we would focus on science, and advancing our species.
AgrivatedKillah 8 months ago 3
@CutaayHaroldaj911 That sucks.
FrostyTheSnowball 8 months ago
@TheAdrenalineEffect And don't forget Richard Feynman!!
HeroicBard 9 months ago 2
At least he doesn't bore people with the actual physics behind everything he says, it gives us the 4th grade version of the scenario.
viancu 9 months ago
Send Chuck Norris at it!
Jordanloveshardcore 9 months ago
Friday the 13th. Greeeeaaaaattttt.
jericsynergy 10 months ago
The Bronx Bomber doesn't want to bomb any incoming, "Attack Of The Killer Hemorrhoids From Outer Space"
Chuichupachichi 10 months ago
DeGrasse said; "we'll just parallel park a space craft next to the hemorrhoid". I think he's got a serious asteroid bothering him. He can just put a stick of dynamite up his ass & blow it up. Personally, I like the "blow it up" plan much better. DeGrasse said; "one needs to move the hemorrhoid only a small degree". That obviously means the operation needs to take place at quite a great distance from the Earth. Thus far, we've been to the moon & orbit around the Earth. Lets get this straight, we
Chuichupachichi 10 months ago
@Chuichupachichi did you consider that the spacecraft doesn't have to have humans in them? like when we sent the lander to Mars? maybe the astrophysicist in the video thought this out more than the YT douche...
hempartist420 9 months ago
@hempartist420
{did you consider that the spacecraft doesn't have to have humans in them? like the lander to Mars?}
Did you consider that Mars is merely the planet next to Earth & not very far? Did you consider the length of time it required for the lander to reach mars, while considering the speeds at which asteroids travel? Whether manned or unmanned, the level of space travel technology which is disclosed to us by government, is hardly anywhere near capable of "parking next to a asteroid"
Chuichupachichi 9 months ago
@Chuichupachichi " the level of space travel technology which is disclosed to us by government, is hardly anywhere near capable of "parking next to a asteroid". Take space mission Dawn for instance. In July, Dawn will rendezvous with asteroid Vesta4 which at its closest pass to the Sun is 199,947,573 miles away. The craft will orbit and study Vesta during 2011~2012 before moving off to orbit and study the dwarf planet Ceres in 2015 with its closest pass to the Sun being 236,479,573 miles away.
ReneeNme 7 months ago
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ReneeNme 7 months ago
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( cont'd ) Taking the " for instance " that I have given you serves to amplify the fact that you clearly haven't a clue. Other examples are the NEAR and Hayabusa missions. Both missions LANDED on asteroids. So, is the technology available and are bright enough minds available to create a mission to " park " alongside an asteroid ? Absolutely !!!
ReneeNme 7 months ago
@hempartist420
{maybe the astrophysicist in the video thought this out more than the YT douche}
Maybe if the Astrophysicist in the video more competently possessed that title, he'd be funded to work as a Astrophysicist? Rather than given the task of dusting off museum pieces & attending scheduled appearances for the purpose of speaking to the Cretin Choir on the "National Atheistic Slandering of Christianity Tour"
Chuichupachichi 9 months ago
@hempartist420
Maybe while on tour, DeGrasse & Dennett will converge upon 1 locale & compete for the title in the "World's Most Retarded Intellectual" competition? Of course, they'll compete within the "Retarded without Down Syndrome" class. If I were a gambler, I'd put my money on Dennett... since DeGrasse can at least speak. Boy can he ever speak... all that jive turkey bunch of bullshit
Chuichupachichi 9 months ago
@Chuichupachichi well you're obviously a troll, but just for clarity Daniel Dennett's sperm could think circles around your insignificant brain, Niel Degrasse Tyson and Daniel Dennett are two of the greatest intellectuals of our time, what the FUCK have you done with your life? oh right, you're a troll on the internet...
hempartist420 9 months ago
need to go much further into space than any manned mission has ever gone, casually parallel park next to a hemorrhoid thats traveling at perhaps, tens of thousands of miles per hour & simply use rocket thrusters to push the space craft away from the flaming hemorrhoid & have it come along in tow? Has DeGrasse heard that movement is relative. How does he know that the craft will push itself away, rather than push the hemorrhoid away. Thereby, towing the space craft. I guess either way will work?
Chuichupachichi 10 months ago
@Chuichupachichi - why are you such a douche?
jericsynergy 10 months ago 2
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@jericsynergy
{why are you such a douche?}
Because I figured that if I'm going to engage with vaginas, it would be far better to do in the manner which does a douche, than to engage with YT Atheist Evolutionist Vaginas that can't find the fortitude enough to directly address what they believe to refute with a mere assertion, consisting of only ad-hominem
"reason"... "logic"... "science"... spare me the pathetic delusion!
Chuichupachichi 9 months ago
But thats only after achieving the Disneyland Space Mountain Fantasy Land other details. It sounds much more feasible to simply do what we're already good at doing... just blow the MotherF#@&er Up into a million little pieces
DeGrasse: "We might split it in half"? Oh yea sure, just like we made 4 Japanese cities from 2
Why dont we simply nudge it into the orbit of the hemorrhoid belt that used to be the Capitol planet of Satan's kingdom & that when it blew up, chunks pelted Mars' pyramid civs
Chuichupachichi 10 months ago
@Chuichupachichi I admire your confidence in your own thoughts but last time I checked he is freaking Neil Tyson and you're some schmuck on youtube. Neil Tyson's thoughts > Youtube Scmuck
jmeyerhead 9 months ago
@jmeyerhead
{I admire your confidence in your own thoughts but last time I checked he is freaking Neil Tyson and you're some schmuck on youtube}
I know... isn't it great? Their great degree of credibility, prominence & prestige is what makes it all the more fun. You should check out my channel's videos. (currently producing DeGrasse video)
Chuichupachichi 9 months ago
@Chuichupachichi says the person that has faved the video "transitional fossils don't exist"...
hempartist420 9 months ago
@jmeyerhead
Its especially fun to be simply some everyday "schmuck" (as you refer to me) because when after intellectually manhandling PhD scientists, Professors, nationally renown lawyers, judges & Harvard US Presidents, if any of them had behaved particularly offensive, I like to reveal that I'm a high school dropout, just so they can cry
Chuichupachichi 9 months ago
@Chuichupachichi lol you're simply a delusional lunatic and couldn't intellectually manhandle teri fucking schiavo.
jmeyerhead 9 months ago
@Chuichupachichi You are embarrassing yourself. Please stop. No one respects you. Get a GED loser.
MrGrevy 9 months ago
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@Chuichupachichi I admire your confidence in your own thoughts but last time I checked he is freaking Neil Tyson and you're some schmuck on youtube. Neil Tyson's thoughts > Youtube Schmuck
jmeyerhead 9 months ago
A black physicist?? Now I've seen everything. What has the world come to?
MrGrevy 10 months ago
@MrGrevy I think we're past that joke...this dude could crush you with his brain AND his fist. And if we're going for the 'black' joke, I'm sure he could crush you with his dick too
Cromaxus 10 months ago
@Cromaxus What??
MrGrevy 10 months ago
@Cromaxus Grow up and quit worshiping the black man!
MrGrevy 9 months ago
@MrGrevy NEVER!
OpakeArawra2 9 months ago
@MrGrevy @MrGrevy I think we're past that joke...this dude could crush you with his brain AND his fist. Oh and if we're going for the 'black' joke, I'm sure he could crush you with his dick too
Cromaxus 10 months ago
@MrGrevy
{A black physicist? Now I've seen everything. What has the world come to?}
From what I've been observing, a Caucasian, Atheistic, Humanistic, Evolutionary scientist in any field, doesn't usually fare any better...intellectually speaking! Or those of any other race, for that matter.
Its the detriment of Secular Humanism & pitting oneself directly against the Creator that causes the strange, but Biblically foretold, phenomena of highly educated stupidity to occur
Genetics are irrelevant
Chuichupachichi 9 months ago
@Chuichupachichi Wow so you're a Bible banger. That really bodes well for your critical thinking skills! I can tell you're a high school dropout. Disgraceful.
MrGrevy 9 months ago
"That would be bad " LOL
cr4yv3n 11 months ago
This guy off camera needs to shut the f*ck up!
planetsaver1 11 months ago 3
Remember I was here.Thai
universetechnique 11 months ago
This is the only man on the earth Id let into my snake dungeon and feed my venomous vipers apples via tethered gravitational pull. After he got rid of the apple id throw all the vipers into the air at 7m/sec and watch those fuckers head to the farthest corners of the galaxy.
Boazisi 1 year ago
@Boazisi ~7mi/sec, "m" would be meters and is no where close to escape velocity for earth :D
fatsomamacheese 11 months ago
@fatsomamacheese That's not what Tyson said in his video. Meh
Boazisi 11 months ago
@Boazisi 7m/sec is 7 meters per second. I can probably throw a football that fast. 7mi/sec is 7 miles per second and is the approximate escape velocity for the earth. It's actually around 6.96 miles per second
fatsomamacheese 11 months ago
I want him to be my science teacher!
simonejoan 1 year ago 3
Why don't they attach a large booster rocket to the surface of the asteroid to thrust it away from the earth, like a back up plan kind of thing.
mistymoobones 1 year ago
@mistymoobones The more rocket fuel you take into space, the more expensive the trip will be, because of the additional weight of the craft. If the asteroid can be deflected by just parking a spaceship next to it, this save could many billions of dollars.
ToxicWastoid 11 months ago
@ToxicWastoid I seriously doubt that cost would be an issue when saving the planet from extinction do you? but i see what you mean in one way.
mistymoobones 11 months ago
@mistymoobones Of course not. But if they can get the same result more cheaply, that's what they'll do. As Neil said, they are doing the sums now, and it may turn out that extra thrust attached to the rock will be needed. The physics will dictate what's needed.
ToxicWastoid 11 months ago
makes scientific things fun and easy to undestand
betlejuice247 1 year ago
Damn this guy loves himself!
pkearne 1 year ago
this guy is smart serious and funny what more could you ask for in a scientist????
nicko198718 1 year ago
you would be unpopular
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MrBioPuppet 1 year ago
I actually find this very comforting...
FeelingFreshSon 1 year ago
Won't the expulsion from the thrust of such a thing blow the asteroid away by as much is you move the ship? Action/reaction and all that :P
OmegaDude22 1 year ago
@OmegaDude22 Yes, it would...thats how you establish the tether. In the near vacuum of space the asteroid would gravitationally incline toward the ship. The ship would need such jets to push it along, as it is also going to be pulled backward by the gravity of the asteroid. These jets will work to push the ship along as well as prevent the asteroid from colliding with the ship. You need action/reaction to form the tether.
EppurSiMuove419 1 year ago
Neil is very listen-able, a credit to his country.
happyidiottalk 1 year ago
This solution seems more reasonable than "praying" for god to intervene...
pugnacitas 1 year ago
how much do you guys want to bet this guy cannot hoop
kaligrs 1 year ago
This is wrong, I am a scientist and would have a more accurate way to "destroy" a meteor.
Get Chuck Norris
killerinavaluble 1 year ago
@killerinavaluble that is the best solution anyone has come up with yet the only problem is that Chuck couldn't get to it because by the time it knows who is coming, it will reverse directions and head straight into the nearest star
MrBioPuppet 1 year ago
@MrBioPuppet
That's good then :) Chuck Norris won't have to do anything! :D
I was hoping no one put a comment like mine before me :)
killerinavaluble 1 year ago
Screw this, if the asteroid did get through the Keyhole i'm leaving the west coast for good^^
aznpride0 1 year ago
"You don't want that."
I love when scientists say that.
lekotar 1 year ago
ok, stop the infighting! people want to blow the sucker up or nudge it away with mutual grav tether, NO, FLY AHEAD OF IT PARALLEL TO IT'S TRAJECTORY, DROP AIR TANKS WITH EXPLOSIVES STRAPPED ON, CREATE AIR POCKETS TO ALTER IT'S COURSE, THEN MANEUVER IT TO HIGH ORBIT FOR SPACE MINING
DavidPennable 1 year ago
This guy is a beast!
CRISNCHIPS12398 1 year ago
"Well, It would be a warm night... while it fells" LMAO
Lekeeon 1 year ago
This guy is so smart its funny :D
bongalala123456789 1 year ago 2
I love this guy.
laurarox01 1 year ago
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laurarox01 1 year ago
tyson is awesome!!!
5*****
00MORDRED 1 year ago
He is more than just a scientist, he is a trained comedian, lol,
behnamasid 1 year ago
"We, Americans, are very good at blowing stuff up. We're less good at understanding where the pieces go after it blows up."
From now on, I'm going to use this quote everytime I get into a debate with someone over concealed carry.
JRserver 1 year ago
Is he the only scientist who can make mass exctinction event enjoyable? =P
mpawlak10 1 year ago 83
@mpawlak10 I would say, hell yeah he is!!!
JRserver 1 year ago
Those military buffoons don't factor in the material asteroid is made off. What if it's really dense material their nukes would do no damage because the yield of the nuclear weapon is not factored in.
PhotonicDoctor 1 year ago
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LvnAction 1 year ago
lfmao.."you would be unpopular"...more likely lynched on the spot!
savvas74 1 year ago
@savvas74 yea if someone can survive to do that :D
ddennis911 1 year ago
When I first saw him on TV I was really impress by his ability to explain science in Lamen's term. But a quick search on him revealed a pretty thin resume in real science work. He's IMDB profile has more listing then his work in the science field.
gsvkck 1 year ago
my freaking INSPIRATION~! ahhh~
haengbok007 1 year ago
This guy is my new favorite person!
enjoiskaterguy 1 year ago
U know what I don't understand? If they say the world is gonna end in 2012, why would we wanna know what's gonna happen in 2029? Does anybody else have the same thought? We're not gonna be there in 2029 (sarcasm) so why would we care if an asteroid is gonna hit that year? Somebody explain that to me.
blacknerdking13 1 year ago
@blacknerdking13 you're truly insane if you believe that the world will end in 2012. People worry about 2029 because we know that doomsday "prophecies" are, were and always will be scare mongering tactics of the church. The Mayan doomsday was probably instigated by their equivalent of a "pope" because that person wanted to feel important or was on some crazy jungle drugs and had visions. Also the Mayans got their date wrong... their doomsday already happened... hundreds of years early.
1PintLasher 1 year ago
@blacknerdking13 That doomsday was yet another show of religious ignorance and tyranny. Thank fuck there are those of us who have some little intelligence these days. Pfft religion. It has ruined humanity and civilization so so many damn times. I say down with ignorance, down with religion, down with irrationality!!!
1PintLasher 1 year ago
@1PintLasher UP FOR... science, enlightenment, civility toward your fellow humans, knowledge, education and advancement!! There are lots of sub species of humanity but under it all we have the same anatomy, the same intelligence and we all have hearts and a thirst for knowing the unknown... Let's not make stuff up to deal with things like that. Let's use our heads logically both logically and rationally. Magic? Giant super-being? Looking over everything and enjoying the show?
1PintLasher 1 year ago
@1PintLasher Omnipotent, All-Powerful and yet looking over all the pain and suffering in our world and never intervening? If there is a God He/She is a sick, twisted, cruel and evil individual. That's a simple FACT. If there was a God we wouldn't have such a vile thing as religion.
1PintLasher 1 year ago
lmao wtf how can a little spaceship tow a 40,000 ton asteroid? it would need incredible fire power to move the asteroid away from the keyhole dont you think?
bl33dal0t 1 year ago
@bl33dal0t Not really, since all we have to do is deflect it a few feet if we do it early enough. It is a question of trajectory and ballistics. Let's say you shoot a bullet straight ahead at a target 200 ft away and you hit the target dead center. If you alter your aim for just 1 degree left or right of the bullseye, the bullet will land 3-4 feet left or right of the bullseye at that distance.
savvas74 1 year ago
@bl33dal0t Now consider an asteroid 200,000 miles away from earth. An 1-degree deflection would make it stray 30-40000 miles from its intended path-The diameter of the earth at its largest (equatorial radius) is 13,500 miles. Even a 1 degree deflection could-theoretically- make the asteroid miss it's "target" by a factor of 20-30 thousand miles. Of course, there are other factors, such as the Earth's and Moon's gravitational pull, etc. But you get the point.
savvas74 1 year ago
I once accidentally dragged my asteroid into the keyhole and I got slapped. :(
haynakaw999 1 year ago 4
what was the word this awesome gentleman said that a person did SHHHH?
Locus? what's the word and what it means? :P
YourBossHere007 1 year ago
@YourBossHere007 Locusts, its a type of insect. Considered a plague in large numbers.
salinval 1 year ago
@salinval
Thanks a lot. I learned a new word :)
YourBossHere007 1 year ago
@YourBossHere007 .wikipedia Plagues_of_Egypt - 3rd plague from the bottom is "locusts" -
jesseshulman 1 year ago
I love this man!
capoman1 1 year ago
lol, he is hilarious.
OSHUNLIDE 1 year ago
Wow this guy is good lol... he's amazing at teaching his things!
krux00 1 year ago
u will be...un popular XD
senglit 1 year ago 7
fanfuckintastic. April 13 is my birthday. FML
Flyingnifozro 1 year ago
Deflecting asteroids would be more important than colonizing mars/moon right now. I would love to see them both accomplished this century!! Although not necessarily have a city on mars/moon, but atleast a handful of people living there.
D4R3W 1 year ago
lets blow the sucker outa the sky
AsG1989 1 year ago
1. We can calculate its trajectory
2. We have the theory to deflect the trajectory with a shuttle
3. We should know where it is roughly and when
Could we not change the trajectory so the thing gets sent on a path directly into the sun? Can we not simulate where the shuttle would need to tug this thing to do that? The sun seems like a pretty large target with a lot of gravitational pull.
Kdnce 1 year ago
@Kdnce We don't really need to aim it at the sun, just anywhere other than us. We can aim it at the aft end of the solar system, that's a bigger target than the sun.
The bigger issue is convincing our government that it's important enough to fund, they're already cutting NASA's funding to go to Mars. They're gonna wait last minute on this thing I bet.
ndwolfwood5268 1 year ago
@Kdnce
2. No. Shuttles can't leave low-Earth orbit. We'd have to build a completely different space ship. Shuttles are in fact designed to "shuttle" back and forth between low-Earth orbit and Earth.
PencilsAreAwesome 1 year ago