Neil Degrasse Tyson The Elements: Forged in Stars

[Joshden1]

@specter290 Yes b/c its so hot and there is so much available energy in the "explosion" of the star to use to fuse other elements heavier than iron

[specter290]

so after the super nova, all the elements are created

[brt5470]

Science without religion is a utopia of achievement.

[bombarderoazul]

science explains our universe so much better than religion.

[ORACLE063]

im sure when super blue giants go super nova they must fuse even denser elements then we may know!! Too bad none of us will be around to find out.

[gimletdrinker]

Ok, I post one comments after happy hour and the replys keep coming. Some advice. Get a Life! Crawl out of your of your parents basement,get some sun on your pale asses! Go to a park, go to a bar, try to meet some female companions. And remember when all else fails, the new Star Trek movie will be out soon and you can all move on!

[CaptMorgasm]

@gimletdrinker Your implying that if you have a basic intelligence about science and well just general knowledge then you must be the stereotype of a nerd?. Idiot.

[Dealjobber]

We are star stuff.

[gimletdrinker]

My question would be for Mr Tyson. If you are an expert on astronomy, or whatever, do you have any proof that mercury is really there? Have you touched a part of it?Did you meet someone from there? Did you travel ther yourself? If not then how can you say that they really are there?

[jsnsykes]

Yes, of course Mercury is really there, I have an old thermometer full of it stupid!

[slavyanka77]

gimletfdink,

You're a fucking moron.

[irresestable]

gimletdrinker ,,,

the most stupid point ever made !!

you cant see me .. you can`t feel me . you cant even predict the way i look .. does that mean .. i do not exist ?

lol !!

just look into the sky .. open your eyes .

[reekee7]

Sweet video, informative and to the point! I dont know what hole people are pulling the idea that this is related to religion, but this video is in no way analogous to a theory of "beginning" or the creation of life...

my two cents, think about it ;)

[FuriousCoder]

It's amazing when you think of all the iron on the Earth that it had to have come from some nearby destroyed stars billions of years ago. It really gives a sense of scale as to how much of this element must have been produced and how little of it just happened to coelesce onto this cold rock we call home.

[bdf2718]

Iron is to JHVH as kryptonite is to Superman. JHVH could not sabotage Pharaoh's chariots because they had wheels of iron, so JHVH had to drown them instead

[FuriousCoder]

Perhaps the FSM is scared of iron because it reminds His Noodleness of a boiling pot.

[Zotoaster]

I like how he said within the first few elements that these are the basic elements of life. Doesn't that just take "Life will form wherever it can" to the next level?

[snuman06]

interesting, i never knew that

[KajmanPVZ]

hjb

[NiteCrawla90]

With science going the way it is now, religious people are going to be the minority someday.

[trublu832]

That would be excellent, unfortunately it seems like religion is a rejection of logic and is unaffected by science. Eventually you just can't ignore the evidence though.

[GeneralLazySpoon]

Science is just a way of explaining and defining what it is that God has done. I just would like to point out that science isn't a replacement for religion, but instead, an understanding of the language of reality. Just because we know how to speak it (be scientists) doesn't mean we know how it was put here or who (if anybody) did it. The questions don't seem to have an end because the particles get smaller, the forces get smaller, and discoveries are made all the time. "Too soon", I think.

[knoxvilleguy2]

Religion without science is blind, science w / out religion ( or faith ) is hobbled, or something like that.

There are limits to what each can tell us about our Universe.

[MrMacSunshine]

@GeneralLazySpoon It seems to me that science does replace religion. I feel that the entirety of science opposes religion because it functions on skepticism.

The scientific perspective would be to disregard the concept of god because of it's lack of evidence.

[GeneralLazySpoon]

@MrMacSunshine Granted, there's not a lot of physical evidence provided for the whole "God" thing, and there's a lot of people out there that assert based on faith alone. That sort of view ruins it for the rest of us, sure, but I think there's something to be said about the lack of evidence /against/ the notion of God. Religions may have a skewed view of something that is actually there, providing a faulty description of what to look for. That might be drawing us away from evidence, sure.

[GeneralLazySpoon]

Gave your comment a thumbs up, though, because I still think that thought has some merit ;D.

[copyvio]

@NiteCrawla90 Specious. The progress of science itself has little to do with popular opinion; as education becomes more the province of the élite and the growing global underclass - for whom life is cruel and unstable - seek certainty in a society that shifts rapidly and violently within a lifetime, I expect the numbers of those seeking solace in tidy narratives will only grow as well.

[SechyoolarYOOESAY]

@copyvio

Nice poetry.

[MrPetersaysstuff]

@NiteCrawla90 I would hope so.

[JMRabil675]

god didn't do crap

[cayetanoluis]

The lazy bastard.

[kev3d]

So much for Kent Hovind's "you can't fuse past iron, therefore God did it"

[SuperNerd1973]

The reason is that the fusion of iron, unlike the lighter elements that do undergo fusion, is would be endothermic. Fusion of the lighter elements are all exothermic processes, spontaneous endothermic fusion would violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics, which deals with the entropy of a system.

A supernova would be more like a fission reaction than a fusion reaction, as the core of the star reaches critical mass(more matter in a given volume than can exist in that volume).

[TeenageAznBoy]

Wow, that is just awesome.

The sun is truly the ultimate alchemy.

[holywdtughguy]

I gave you 5***** please do the same for my " hydrogen cold fusion free plasma electrolysis Reactor "

thanx HWOOD

[tigeroak]

Everything on Earth is recycled,why not in space? Makes sense to me,the elements have to come from somewhere.