Why don't any of the scientists talk about the fact that Ceres went through the SAME THING?! First asteroid discovered, called a planet, then other objects around it were discovered, it got demoted. By the way, it's now considered a dwarf planet like Pluto :)
Isent time slowing down as one aproaches a black hole . IE as the mass increases or the gravitational pull increases time slows down . So a trip past the event horizon into a black hole wil cause time to slow down more and more. I wonder if this translates equally to earth , and living in the mountains dosent prolong your life expectancy because your breathing all that fresh air , but because your actually ageing slower then the people living "lower" down towards the center of the earth.
Also, computers develope at a rate of doubling its power every 18 months. I want to be able to enhance that speed and I also want to used these enhanced super computers to find more Earth - like planets and life sustaining planets, similar to the Kepler space mission that is currently in operation.
@MofoWoW Here he claims there are 6k. In another video (I can't remember which one, I watch a lot of NdGT videos ;) he says 7k. I read the other day on a website about astrophysics that there are 20,000 astrophysicists worldwide. What's the real number? Who knows. Even if there are 20,000, they're still relatively rare. It doesn't matter, if you really want to be an astrophysicist then that's what you should be. Good luck :)
My 5 year old niece is extremely angry about Pluto no longer being a planet,although it happened before she was born. I was very surprised to learn that.
This would have been significantly better if the sound tech decided to ring out (kill the resonant frequencies of the room) the mics/PA system. This problem persists through the video. I suggest training your sound techs on this.
This is incredibly interesting, but it makes me wonder if there is some kind of upper limit to knowledge. If there is a limit to how intelligent a life form can innately be.
Speculative Fiction writers have occasionally featured our existence in terms of schooling, in which, eventually, and for a variety of reasons, we are "introduced" to higher learning...graduated, if you will.
I admit to a yearning for a mentor which will show the way out of the neurotic tribalism eddy we have become stuck in over the past couple hundred thousand years. We've been illuminating with electromagnetic radiation for some time now............
@gre8 Tyson in a later interview shares that when Cameron released his digital director's cut of Titanic, he consulted Dr. DeGrasse to fix the sky in the release.
@reaperinred11 The kid is curious, but let's not go crowning that yet. Awful education budgets/organization don't really help those kids along anymore.
@MagicksMage obviously he's not necessarily a genius. that's called exaggeration. but what is evident is he has a much keener mind and interest for the sciences than most people his age, and that was my point. was it realyl that hard to understand?
@TheEpicPaco Science IS like rock music. one upon a time everyone liked rock music, once upon a time everyone liked science. Then along came religion...
pluto=ceres. when ceres was discovered, it was considered a planet for around 50 years (like pluto) ceres was later discovered to inhabit a region that a WHOLE bunch of other stuff was also inhabiting (like pluto). later ceres was "demoted" when it was found to be part of a family called the asteroid belt.
we dont see so much controversy about ceres anymore, in fact, most people know ceres as the largest asteroid. in time, people will know pluto to be similar.
my son will be that 1% difference between humans...perhaps all it takes for humans to take that 1% step it to have 2 parents that have peaked their intellectual strength
@lifemetall Interesting, but I disagree, its like saying that all that takes to make the leap from apes to human is just two apes that have peaked their intellectual strength. I'm with Neil in the point that he makes, that species will be far far ahead from us , frightening and amazing, makes you wonder how many limitations we have and how will be interpret things in some many diferent ways if those limitations didnt exist. Just imagine: intuitive undertanding of string theory.
@lifemetall That's not how it works. It took millions of years of evolution and genetic mutations to separate us from the great apes by just that 1%. It would take just as long to separate us by an additional 1%. What you're proposing sounds like Lamarckism. You can't pass on acquired traits to your offspring. That's impossible.
he says "if you move pluto where earth is, it would evaporate"....SO , if you put jupiter where mercury is, you would definitely make some changes to a jupiter, probably ignite some gases over a period of time, he also said that he crosses the path with neptune, SO? it has been like that for millions of years otherwise something would collide ...they kinda invented the rules for pluto to not be a planet
@lifemetall i think what he meant was that if pluto were near the other terrestrial planets, half its mass would evaporate etc - since planets are grouped by like properties (terrestrial, gas giants, etc)
@lifemetall Pluto was classified as a planet because they had nowhere else to put it. You can't have a group with just one member in it. Now that we've discovered other bodies that are very similar to it, we can place it in that category. If we were to keep Pluto as a planet, then what about those other ice-covered planet-like bodies that NDT mentioned that are larger than Pluto? Wouldn't they deserve to be classified as planets in our solar system as well?
Holy shit! Isn't that one of the songs from Crysis 2 at around the 10:35 point? I've seen this 20 times and never realized it. Unless I'm just mistaken this time.
it has something to do with our mind being able to think and wonder
it has to do with us seeing with our eyes and them being spherical which distorts the universe..
telescope lenses...
and what if our universe only expanded until there were enough black holes created to suck it all up back together. have another big bang and start it all over again.
a black hole might be able to think just as we are able to think.
we have not figured out what makes us wonder. have we?
I'm not so sure about making the assumption that the 1-2% difference between humans and primates is the level of intelligence. It would seem more logical to assume it was the physical differences (thumbs, no tail, upright way of walking). If you say one rock is 1% different from another you don't go assuming it's far more intelligent and start asking the rock advance calculus questions, you look at it's physical appearance compared to the other rock.
@Canoni450 You're one of those people that like to assume things quickly, I didn't say anything about being smarter...and that's a stupid argument to try to come it with. My question was common sense any kid could probably ask it and it's quite a logical question which ever way you try to hit it from. Feel free to bash away though if that's what helps you sleep at night, sorry for trying to give any new ideas...I mean that's illegal in science right?
@lattask8er Your idea is "If you say one rock is 1% different from another you [...] look at it's physical appearance compared to the other rock.". No you don't.
@nilbud Most people would, even geologist who study them. I guess you could compare there masses or weights, prehaps even their density...but those are sort of physical properties as well. However if you say they don't, then enlighten me on what they would start with?
Mr. DeGrasse said that the universe is expanding and that it begin to expand so fast that we would lose sight technically of it's horizon. There are also other universes out there, what would theoretically happen if two or more (maybe) universes were to come into contact with each other.
@shwcis666 Well know in about 5 billion years or so since that's about the time that the Andromeda galaxy is supposed collide with ours. :D probably nothing though, since stars tend to be really far apart. might create some quazars though. and some dwarfs if collisions were to happen.
@shwcis666@MrEasynote3296 I saw an episode of "Through the Wormhole" [season 2 episode 2 maybe], that was talking about the Soap Bubble Multiverse Hypothesis [universes are like soap bubbles in a dish pan and are touching]. They said that they've detected a distinct "drift" of matter [a drawing by gravitational force] in the direction their calculations suggest another Bubblerverse should touch ours. I wonder what NdeGT thinks of this.
@Adamantium9001 because monks had far too much free time on their hands during the middle ages, that's also why most high quality booze has an St in it.
@wtfpurepwned you litany of posts would have way more interesting if a: you knew wtf you were talking about and b: whatever it is you were talking about had any relation whatsoever to reality... big words don't make you smart, just a troll that can use a thesaurus...
It's nice to know that when the stupid people of the world get me down, A search for Michael Kaku, deGrasse Tyson or Carl Sagan, I can start feeling better again
Arthur C Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Carl Sagan, Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Compare them to our politicians and it's like comparing humans to chimpanzees, humans and chimps are 98% identical but I've got a feeling the politicians and the chimpanzees are 99% similar.
@andyx1205 are you kidding me? politicians don't even come close to the moral, intellectual, emotional, superiority of chimps. It would be a good idea to check the DNA of politicians, I think we'd find that those numbers don't apply to them. like a rare genetic mutation with characteristics that only seem human on the surface. ;)
@wtfpurepwned [infinity would mean a pattern of repetitive thought]
'Repetitive' in terms of infinite cycles (cycles within cycles), with no two cycles being identical. Creation/Oneness can draw its awareness from no other source but itself. Effects of this are clearly revealed as Creation eternally 'recycles' itself ('as above, so below'), which will manifest itself clearly in the material realm (as fractals, vortex & torus patterns, Fibonacci patterns, flow forms, eddies, convection, etc.).
@wtfpurepwned [but FIRST you must have scanned my writing right? if you never read a thing I wrote, how would you reply accordingly?]
Right. However there exists infinitely possible sequences (eg, where I or you do not reply). These can sort of be termed 'parallel universes' or 'parallel dimensions'...where 'doubles' of oneself are simultaneously exploring infinite variants/paths of the same body/life. In this dimensional variant I'm replying to you. In others, I'm not.
@wtfpurepwned [I'm now not sure of what you mean my by " INFINETLY possible events", but I would assume it is just a pattern of thought you have memorized and constantly reinforced by recall or thought or by events happening to the pattern, reinforcing it]
Basically yes. This 'pattern of thought' you speak of is essentially a sequence of awareness. You are the ship...your thoughts, the rudder...the ocean, infinite awareness. You never know where you'll end up, though you have an idea or plan.
@No1warp9 So you ship and my ship are not exactly alike? Is this ship the body or mind or both? And this thoughts..arn't they really just being conscious? And what were conscious of is predetermined by what? So your saying were all in a common ocean, which is "infinite" awareness..so how can one be conscious and inifnite aware at the same time? One would have to be unsconscious to be infinite aware I would think..
@wtfpurepwned [if say you just decided to write something out of the blue..how do you know if it was directed towards my question? you wouldn't unless you've come across it before]
Again, I'm not clear on what exactly you're asking. Are you asking whether anything I write out of the blue has to be the result of having encountered your question on some level other than on a conscious/material level?
@No1warp9 conscious? or did you mean UNconscious/NON-material level? I think it's like what you said "where 'doubles' of oneself are simultaneously exploring infinite variants/paths of the same body/life. In this dimensional variant I'm replying to you. In others, I'm not.", I was getting at those times when you were not(In others, I'm not), so how you know if they were directed at my questions?
@wtfpurepwned then again this "unique-ness" is really relative to personal sequenced reality "personal sequenced reality" :) only you would know what that means..hell I never would've said that line if it wasn't for you..
@wtfpurepwned [how do you know that the SEQUENCE is not choosen for us, and that we have no control? Like saying we have influence over each other]
(1) Would it matter? Some unit of awareness still needs to experience that sequence. (2) Sequences are a function of the experiencer. How could anyone/thing completely control the infinite choices I have at my disposal without giving up its own being? (3) What need would there be for an experiencer to have its own thoughts if it is controlled?
@No1warp9 Can you rephrase (2)..for (3) When you are choosing the sequence you are choosing what has already been choosen by your "ship", in "ship" I'm not sure what you meant by it, but yea..the need to control wouldl be like an ego no? It is an illusion for at this very moment, while you are experiencing this, thoughts are coming to you, now you can structure it into a sentence to reply to me with, but how much control is that? COmpared to other forms of control, like environment and other..
@wtfpurepwned I think i get what you mean by (2), although I would like to read it in a different way still. The infinite you have in your disposal is but a little iddy widdy bit if the inifinite that surrounds you/us, like you said before, we are emerse in an ocean of inifinity, but like i said, your infinity is different then my infinity, and infinity influences infinity..we wouldn't be giving up anything much in "being"..for (3) yes..what need is the question..maybe it's not about control..
@wtfpurepwned [so really your fate and my fate are intertwined in some way..this goes baCk to the old yin/yang idea]
Yes. How could it not be? All is One. Even if you lived on another planet in another galaxy in another dimension, your fate (sequence choices) and my fate would still be intertwined. This is why astrology works. All things, seen & not seen, in the universe influences (but does not control) us...and we them.
@wtfpurepwned [how would one minimized this illusion?]
There is the use of psychotropic drugs & herbs, meditation, hypnosis, death of the physical body/vehicle, or simply practicing to expand one's conscious awareness. There are also psychics & mediums who are born with thinner 'filters' and less 'amnesia'...and are thus aware of multiple dimensions/realities. The question remains, can the illusion of separation be completely eliminated? I don't see how without also sacrificing awareness.
@wtfpurepwned although as a baby or newborn, we were quite dead(unaware), so was did we form a filter as time passed or are we born with a really thin one and then it gets shaped as time passes and then possible hardens? So the filter would be the brain? and the body(senses) are the channels that allow the "infinite" to shape the filter(brain)
"There are also psychics & mediums who are born with thinner 'filters'" so your basically saying some people are more dead..or that's what I'm saying..
@wtfpurepwned and how sure are you of this filter theory, being born with a filter that untimely determines are levels of awareness of the unaware? If what you say is true, that we are born with something that can't be changed and also it limits us to certain sequences of experience, WHY even try all these "expand your consciousness" bullshit that goes on..well maybe its just or more like "learn to accept this limited piece of shit your born with" but in a more nice way
@wtfpurepwned [Im aware that there are things we are not aware of..or things that I am not aware off due to limitations..but what are these limitations?]
These limitations can be viewed as self-imposed 'filters' by the Oneness, and come in infinite forms. Without these limitations, no-thing would exist. Thus, any-thing that one is aware of is a filter since it reveals one's limitations...and hence, the Self.
@wtfpurepwned [if these limits that separate use can be removed, would be able to say..switch bodies for a day?]
Switching your point of awareness by simply 'tuning into' another body would be entirely possible, but you'd only be switching one limitation (filter) for another. As long as you're aware on some level, there will be some measure of limitation you are subject to. Awareness could in one way be viewed as infinite points of 'finiteness'.
@wtfpurepwned [again..so why this body? why not another body? another family? if we are able to be THAT aware..or unaware in my case? why the separation in the first place]
Awareness emerges from separation. Separation = self-imposed filters/limits. So why not ALL bodies, families, etc? Many souls can rightfully claim to have 'lived' the life of Julius Caesar. Yet, when carefully examined, none of those lives will be identical.
@No1warp9 If this(aware) or now(aware) emerges from separation, and separation = filters/limits(degree of awareness), then these limits/ filters would really be just preventing us from the infinite(unaware)..but how does this(aware) come to be? How is this(aware) here now(aware)?
@wtfpurepwned and not somewhere else, like at the moment you reply to this? This won't know when it will be replied too...this won't know how the medium(computer?) looks like to the person(no1warp?)..
@Typho0n86 Actually, if there was a YouTube for the dumb stuff, the music, and this intellectual stuff, it would be great. I like the idea of being able to post videos and "broadcast yourself". Lets me take advantage of the free speech I have (well, before SOPA gets passed, if it ever does. Hopefully not)
@rhinnawi95 it is a website that has a lot of talk in different fields from literature to mathematics. It is brilliant! :) just google it ted talk and pick your topic and then be productive by not being productive lol, i.e., not be productive by listening to good talks and speeches :)
@TGTE [Yeah, I've had cool thoughts like these when I'm high, too]
I suppose you could reach the same conclusions being 'high', but you'll come across a lot more poetic and eloquent than me. I use pure logic, going step by step (from A comes B, then C, etc.)...so I come across more mechanical in my approach. Nevertheless...it boggles even my mind, despite my very logical approach. The only ones it will not boggle are those who do not question...but simply accept what is.
@No1warp9 yes..like calm you mind type things. but my wondering minds just wants to know..when you say that we are experiencing ourselves "When you see a tree, you are really looking at yourself. Reality is nothing but Creation/Oneness experiencing/exploring itself...infinitely.", then that means what I am donig at this very moment has nothing to do with what your about to type to me..untill you come across this with your eyes..or are we somehow connected true this "oneness"?
@wtfpurepwned if that is the case than we arn't experiencing ourselves, but each other? this would imply that you can actually tell when I am typing this? or does it not work that 'UNIVERSALLY" yet because our "oneness" doesn't extend beyond the body? your thoughts...
@wtfpurepwned because if it did, that would mean everything, my LIFE, is just like something of a movie that has already been finished..I think im starting to get a little light heading (high) atm..although im not on weed but starting to feel the effects..brb
@wtfpurepwned so this oneness or infinite is just our ability to "think" im assuming at this point, if we don't "consciously" "think", then we just disapear or maybe just turn into a vegetable state..I mean one can go on infinetly with thoughts untill one memoriz
The amazing show Firefly and the film version Serenity have very realistic physics and no sound in space. The science is only the icing on the cake.
TheRevolutionYeah 2 hours ago
*Giving a standing ovation in front of my computer*
se7en214 16 hours ago
I think the kid at 0:48:04 just got his mind blow.
chiseenchinaman 1 day ago
lol "I think Pluto is happier that way", not being a planet :)
nathaliegirl 1 day ago
@nathaliegirl I agree with him. Pluto is the King of the Comets!
TheRevolutionYeah 2 hours ago
Why don't any of the scientists talk about the fact that Ceres went through the SAME THING?! First asteroid discovered, called a planet, then other objects around it were discovered, it got demoted. By the way, it's now considered a dwarf planet like Pluto :)
metalElvalover 4 days ago
Isent time slowing down as one aproaches a black hole . IE as the mass increases or the gravitational pull increases time slows down . So a trip past the event horizon into a black hole wil cause time to slow down more and more. I wonder if this translates equally to earth , and living in the mountains dosent prolong your life expectancy because your breathing all that fresh air , but because your actually ageing slower then the people living "lower" down towards the center of the earth.
MrLakseManden 4 days ago
@MrLakseManden The difference in time is very tiny.
Morophin3 2 days ago
is dark matter the waste of black holes? ...being digested and excreted into other universes?
sethmusic 4 days ago
Also, computers develope at a rate of doubling its power every 18 months. I want to be able to enhance that speed and I also want to used these enhanced super computers to find more Earth - like planets and life sustaining planets, similar to the Kepler space mission that is currently in operation.
MofoWoW 1 week ago
@MofoWoW The power doesn't double every 18 month, just the amount of transistors in a cpu.
username200203 5 days ago
Knowing that there are only 6,000 Astrophyisicists, it makes me want to become one even more than I did yesterday.
MofoWoW 1 week ago
@MofoWoW Here he claims there are 6k. In another video (I can't remember which one, I watch a lot of NdGT videos ;) he says 7k. I read the other day on a website about astrophysics that there are 20,000 astrophysicists worldwide. What's the real number? Who knows. Even if there are 20,000, they're still relatively rare. It doesn't matter, if you really want to be an astrophysicist then that's what you should be. Good luck :)
ProgHead777 5 days ago
What the hell was the point of this "panel"? It was a one man show!
bneyens 1 week ago
Truly Profound, especially that bit at the end.
utubesux222 1 week ago
My 5 year old niece is extremely angry about Pluto no longer being a planet,although it happened before she was born. I was very surprised to learn that.
Oberonjames 1 week ago
So I keep hearing Neil deGrasse Tyson call James Cameron "Jim"... mistake or is that what James Cameron prefers?
iz2sicc 2 weeks ago in playlist Neil deGrasse Tyson
Wow I love neil degrasse tyson, he is so full of life and humour.
SliceOfTitch 2 weeks ago
55:50 Someone show this bit to that histor channel bloke.
foda23 2 weeks ago
I'm sure Tyson doesn't loose sleep over the decision. :) zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
WxMan18 2 weeks ago in playlist Science Topics
This would have been significantly better if the sound tech decided to ring out (kill the resonant frequencies of the room) the mics/PA system. This problem persists through the video. I suggest training your sound techs on this.
dumbo800 2 weeks ago
This is incredibly interesting, but it makes me wonder if there is some kind of upper limit to knowledge. If there is a limit to how intelligent a life form can innately be.
burlong01 3 weeks ago
@burlong01 Maybe the limit is self-imposed.
Speculative Fiction writers have occasionally featured our existence in terms of schooling, in which, eventually, and for a variety of reasons, we are "introduced" to higher learning...graduated, if you will.
I admit to a yearning for a mentor which will show the way out of the neurotic tribalism eddy we have become stuck in over the past couple hundred thousand years. We've been illuminating with electromagnetic radiation for some time now............
xlsyor 3 weeks ago
That final comment was pretty fascinating o.0
SomeAnimeOtaku 3 weeks ago
pluto :<
branahawk 3 weeks ago
I hate those 1% smarter alien chimps ¬¬
nachoijp 3 weeks ago
@nachoijp I'd be careful on hating them.. Their children could probably destroy us without much problem.
scylericaa 3 weeks ago
Dear StPetersburgCollege, thanks a bunch for uploading this. I never get tired of listening to Tyson.
45iceopen 4 weeks ago
@gre8 Tyson in a later interview shares that when Cameron released his digital director's cut of Titanic, he consulted Dr. DeGrasse to fix the sky in the release.
rdarne01 4 weeks ago
Let's see if Cameron will fix the sky in this new titanic movie hahah
gre8 1 month ago
That guy is amazing, he can do his own stand-up act.
thedarkone123123 1 month ago
''I could have hooked them up big time with cool black-hole stuff'' lol
Rdburnzy 1 month ago
they shorted me 27min.34sec.
HighscoreBoy 1 month ago
1:14:40 for the best part of his lecture
LookHereForBlueWords 1 month ago 2
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LookHereForBlueWords 1 month ago
Yeah Clayton!
Way to ask a killer question!
stringthrory81 1 month ago
HAHAH!!! His James Cameron story is killing me.
Zebonka 1 month ago
the kid at 45:44........he has a beautiful mind, and i believe he's going to become the next isaac newton or deGrasse Tyson.
reaperinred11 1 month ago 2
@reaperinred11 That's Clay! YAAAAY! Little cousin! Best kid ever! (His bedroom door is the Tardis!)
thekatrid 1 month ago
@reaperinred11 The kid is curious, but let's not go crowning that yet. Awful education budgets/organization don't really help those kids along anymore.
RebMightyMouse 1 month ago
@reaperinred11 "what happens if two black hold collide"
oh god that kid must be a genius!
No.
He probably has an interest in science and saw black holes and thought they were cool and was like, dude! what would happen if two combined??
MagicksMage 1 week ago
@MagicksMage obviously he's not necessarily a genius. that's called exaggeration. but what is evident is he has a much keener mind and interest for the sciences than most people his age, and that was my point. was it realyl that hard to understand?
reaperinred11 1 week ago
Brilliant! Every kid should have a teacher like Mr. Tyson is. Science should be popular like rock music is.
silvercoin1111 1 month ago in playlist Neil Tyson 71
@silvercoin1111 it so would be if he taught it. I dont want to go into physics, but im a hell of a lot more interested in it post-Tyson discovery
reaperinred11 1 month ago
@silvercoin1111 rock music isnt popular anymore even though it should
TheEpicPaco 2 weeks ago 12
@TheEpicPaco Science IS like rock music. one upon a time everyone liked rock music, once upon a time everyone liked science. Then along came religion...
nedladdy 4 days ago
@silvercoin1111 but this way it's easier to find the good stuff.
tr1bute1 1 week ago
If only half of Americans could think as logically as Neil, this country would be a cutting-edge, 21st century powerhouse.
ReligionIsBULLSHlT 1 month ago 2
@ReligionIsBULLSHlT TESTIFY! :)
geligniteandlilies 1 month ago
pluto=ceres. when ceres was discovered, it was considered a planet for around 50 years (like pluto) ceres was later discovered to inhabit a region that a WHOLE bunch of other stuff was also inhabiting (like pluto). later ceres was "demoted" when it was found to be part of a family called the asteroid belt.
we dont see so much controversy about ceres anymore, in fact, most people know ceres as the largest asteroid. in time, people will know pluto to be similar.
stehedman 1 month ago
my son will be that 1% difference between humans...perhaps all it takes for humans to take that 1% step it to have 2 parents that have peaked their intellectual strength
lifemetall 1 month ago
@lifemetall Interesting, but I disagree, its like saying that all that takes to make the leap from apes to human is just two apes that have peaked their intellectual strength. I'm with Neil in the point that he makes, that species will be far far ahead from us , frightening and amazing, makes you wonder how many limitations we have and how will be interpret things in some many diferent ways if those limitations didnt exist. Just imagine: intuitive undertanding of string theory.
otrobutcher 1 month ago
@lifemetall That's not how it works. It took millions of years of evolution and genetic mutations to separate us from the great apes by just that 1%. It would take just as long to separate us by an additional 1%. What you're proposing sounds like Lamarckism. You can't pass on acquired traits to your offspring. That's impossible.
acsoldat 1 week ago
he says "if you move pluto where earth is, it would evaporate"....SO , if you put jupiter where mercury is, you would definitely make some changes to a jupiter, probably ignite some gases over a period of time, he also said that he crosses the path with neptune, SO? it has been like that for millions of years otherwise something would collide ...they kinda invented the rules for pluto to not be a planet
lifemetall 1 month ago
@lifemetall You mean like "they" invented the rules for pluto to BE a planet?
BobMcCob 1 month ago
@lifemetall Pluto is a comet in waiting. It even has a ton of others just like it beyond. Deal wit it.
kinderstrudel 1 month ago
@lifemetall That was not his main point. Plus, there's a big difference between a frozen comet and a gaseous planet where it's not supposed to be.
TakoMan02 1 month ago
@lifemetall The only reason Pluto was declared a planet was because America hadn't named a planet. Just plain old dumb american provincialism.
nilbud 1 month ago
@lifemetall i think what he meant was that if pluto were near the other terrestrial planets, half its mass would evaporate etc - since planets are grouped by like properties (terrestrial, gas giants, etc)
detahdomo 1 month ago
@lifemetall Pluto was classified as a planet because they had nowhere else to put it. You can't have a group with just one member in it. Now that we've discovered other bodies that are very similar to it, we can place it in that category. If we were to keep Pluto as a planet, then what about those other ice-covered planet-like bodies that NDT mentioned that are larger than Pluto? Wouldn't they deserve to be classified as planets in our solar system as well?
acsoldat 1 week ago
Skip the first 15:00 of introductions.
yourmum3121 1 month ago 2
I love hoe NGT can make things so much more interesting and fun, a real inspiration for education. where was he when i was young?
THEDISABLEDFERRET 1 month ago
Holy shit! Isn't that one of the songs from Crysis 2 at around the 10:35 point? I've seen this 20 times and never realized it. Unless I'm just mistaken this time.
ZyklonB95 1 month ago
"except that maybe thats where the dark matter is" is cute
MediumNothinFull 1 month ago
it has something to do with our mind being able to think and wonder
it has to do with us seeing with our eyes and them being spherical which distorts the universe..
telescope lenses...
and what if our universe only expanded until there were enough black holes created to suck it all up back together. have another big bang and start it all over again.
a black hole might be able to think just as we are able to think.
we have not figured out what makes us wonder. have we?
My name is Kyle White.
MediumNothinFull 1 month ago
@MediumNothinFull Bollocks.
nilbud 1 month ago
1 is pleased to know that
2 they all are icy
3 in the theatre at the time
4 Gravity
HOLD 5 !! ided that.. NASA
6 would look like and smell like
7 ahahahaha Then,
8 could you get closer to the microphone
9 fast
MediumNothinFull 1 month ago
@MediumNothinFull what the fuck are you talking about
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MediumNothinFull 1 month ago
I'm not so sure about making the assumption that the 1-2% difference between humans and primates is the level of intelligence. It would seem more logical to assume it was the physical differences (thumbs, no tail, upright way of walking). If you say one rock is 1% different from another you don't go assuming it's far more intelligent and start asking the rock advance calculus questions, you look at it's physical appearance compared to the other rock.
lattask8er 1 month ago
@lattask8er So your saying that your smater then him? oh sorry way dont know tell us ...
Canoni450 1 month ago
@Canoni450 You're one of those people that like to assume things quickly, I didn't say anything about being smarter...and that's a stupid argument to try to come it with. My question was common sense any kid could probably ask it and it's quite a logical question which ever way you try to hit it from. Feel free to bash away though if that's what helps you sleep at night, sorry for trying to give any new ideas...I mean that's illegal in science right?
lattask8er 1 month ago
@lattask8er Your idea is "If you say one rock is 1% different from another you [...] look at it's physical appearance compared to the other rock.". No you don't.
nilbud 1 month ago
@nilbud Most people would, even geologist who study them. I guess you could compare there masses or weights, prehaps even their density...but those are sort of physical properties as well. However if you say they don't, then enlighten me on what they would start with?
lattask8er 1 month ago
Than you see bearpoo, I'd say: thats an imposter too.
RzzRBladez 1 month ago
"What he said"
mucknfold 2 months ago
Wow, I really loved the ending statements by Dr. Tyson. Very enlightening.
Casanova646 2 months ago
28:15... LMAO! "not only wrong, but it was lazy"
SLewis958 2 months ago
I could listen to him tell interesting anecdotes all day
AssailantLF 2 months ago
my brain got worked with the comparison of humans to chimps and humans to intelligent life out in space that we havent discovered yet. loved it
hobotechMASTER 2 months ago
This is Grade A brain porn.
TheEspionageUK 2 months ago 19
@TheEspionageUK my brain is jerking off right now!
ElderScrollsObbsed 1 month ago
This man thinks so correctly
killa4eva50 2 months ago
1:13:00 Neil is a good man. "Let the little children come, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
SuperDrRockzo 2 months ago
Photoshop has a UFO button...LMAO
TomVodkaCollins 2 months ago
deGrasse Tyson 2012
3xAmigosProductions 2 months ago
15:30 for the Skip
MrEasynote3296 2 months ago 47
Mr. DeGrasse said that the universe is expanding and that it begin to expand so fast that we would lose sight technically of it's horizon. There are also other universes out there, what would theoretically happen if two or more (maybe) universes were to come into contact with each other.
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shwcis666 2 months ago
@shwcis666 Well know in about 5 billion years or so since that's about the time that the Andromeda galaxy is supposed collide with ours. :D probably nothing though, since stars tend to be really far apart. might create some quazars though. and some dwarfs if collisions were to happen.
FranciscoShreds 2 months ago
@shwcis666 - They exist on top of each other but in higher dimensions,
MrEasynote3296 2 months ago
@shwcis666 @MrEasynote3296 I saw an episode of "Through the Wormhole" [season 2 episode 2 maybe], that was talking about the Soap Bubble Multiverse Hypothesis [universes are like soap bubbles in a dish pan and are touching]. They said that they've detected a distinct "drift" of matter [a drawing by gravitational force] in the direction their calculations suggest another Bubblerverse should touch ours. I wonder what NdeGT thinks of this.
TomVodkaCollins 2 months ago
@shwcis666 i read some theory that this is what caused the big bang to occur, when two universes touch
rameez92 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
Neil deGrasse Tyson is the best :D
Spaceman2451 2 months ago
1:16:30 forgot Iron
Typho0n86 2 months ago
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@Typho0n86 He said other.
berrywoke 4 days ago
I'm jealous of those possibilities too. :\
chibiariel 2 months ago
47:45 So you can time travel to the past? Cool!
Spaceman2451 2 months ago
@Spaceman2451 no
Typho0n86 2 months ago
The only thing that bugs me is that Tyson tells the exact same stories in other interviews, it's just memorized... o_O
mwein2009 2 months ago
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mwein2009 2 months ago
Neil deGrasse Tyson ?!? Really? Can I tell you what his only real skill is necessary to earn a place in the limelight?
tomintroy 2 months ago
i feel honored just sharing the same language with this man
MrHatian1 2 months ago in playlist Neil deGrasse Tyson
11:58 for start
cerebralcereal 3 months ago 3
This guy has personality.
samslick90 3 months ago
How can you have "St" and "planetarium" in the same title?
Adamantium9001 3 months ago
@Adamantium9001 because monks had far too much free time on their hands during the middle ages, that's also why most high quality booze has an St in it.
GiulianoTaverna89 2 months ago
your litany would have been rather... gin plus phone typing equals fail
ryansling 3 months ago
@wtfpurepwned you litany of posts would have way more interesting if a: you knew wtf you were talking about and b: whatever it is you were talking about had any relation whatsoever to reality... big words don't make you smart, just a troll that can use a thesaurus...
ryansling 3 months ago
So, dark matter is like bear poop?
cajac 3 months ago
This kid is five kinds of awesome. Kids ask the best questions sometimes.
ZEHM89 3 months ago 2
It's nice to know that when the stupid people of the world get me down, A search for Michael Kaku, deGrasse Tyson or Carl Sagan, I can start feeling better again
technonissen01 3 months ago
Why do scientists not run for president? WHY!?!?
Reason71944 3 months ago 2
@Reason71944 because people are too stupid to vote for them
LukeKCRoscoe 2 months ago
@Reason71944 Because theyre not lyers. :)
mnemoniccourier 2 months ago
@Reason71944 They understand how messed up that system is and want nothing to do with it.
zulamage 2 months ago
This guy is great.
JoshwithaJ 3 months ago
Thumbs up if you came here because of The Neil and Stephen Colbert video
nopesy23 3 months ago 4
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I do prefer when a person re-tells a story, especially one that's being recorded, that the narrator wouldn't tell the same jokes too.
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creamaster 3 months ago
36 people had no idea what the hell he was talking about
fringehouse 3 months ago 26
the thing about titanic is one of the best stories I've EVER heard hahaha WIN
adrian5b 3 months ago
Arthur C Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Carl Sagan, Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Compare them to our politicians and it's like comparing humans to chimpanzees, humans and chimps are 98% identical but I've got a feeling the politicians and the chimpanzees are 99% similar.
andyx1205 3 months ago 114
@andyx1205
And who exactly votes for politicians? Where do politicians come from?
brickmastertube 3 months ago
@andyx1205 Haha, and that's the bad kind of 99%, too. How embarrassing
rhinnawi95 2 months ago
@andyx1205 are you kidding me? politicians don't even come close to the moral, intellectual, emotional, superiority of chimps. It would be a good idea to check the DNA of politicians, I think we'd find that those numbers don't apply to them. like a rare genetic mutation with characteristics that only seem human on the surface. ;)
architect333 1 month ago
get the Morse code right
it's the same as getting the sky right
hopdoehop 3 months ago
That guy is highly intelligent and funny. A deadly combination :)
nash0815 3 months ago
@wtfpurepwned [infinity would mean a pattern of repetitive thought]
'Repetitive' in terms of infinite cycles (cycles within cycles), with no two cycles being identical. Creation/Oneness can draw its awareness from no other source but itself. Effects of this are clearly revealed as Creation eternally 'recycles' itself ('as above, so below'), which will manifest itself clearly in the material realm (as fractals, vortex & torus patterns, Fibonacci patterns, flow forms, eddies, convection, etc.).
No1warp9 3 months ago
@No1warp9 so awareness draws from the material realm...and not the other way around..
wtfpurepwned 3 months ago
@wtfpurepwned [but FIRST you must have scanned my writing right? if you never read a thing I wrote, how would you reply accordingly?]
Right. However there exists infinitely possible sequences (eg, where I or you do not reply). These can sort of be termed 'parallel universes' or 'parallel dimensions'...where 'doubles' of oneself are simultaneously exploring infinite variants/paths of the same body/life. In this dimensional variant I'm replying to you. In others, I'm not.
No1warp9 3 months ago
@wtfpurepwned [I'm now not sure of what you mean my by " INFINETLY possible events", but I would assume it is just a pattern of thought you have memorized and constantly reinforced by recall or thought or by events happening to the pattern, reinforcing it]
Basically yes. This 'pattern of thought' you speak of is essentially a sequence of awareness. You are the ship...your thoughts, the rudder...the ocean, infinite awareness. You never know where you'll end up, though you have an idea or plan.
No1warp9 3 months ago
@No1warp9 So you ship and my ship are not exactly alike? Is this ship the body or mind or both? And this thoughts..arn't they really just being conscious? And what were conscious of is predetermined by what? So your saying were all in a common ocean, which is "infinite" awareness..so how can one be conscious and inifnite aware at the same time? One would have to be unsconscious to be infinite aware I would think..
wtfpurepwned 3 months ago
@wtfpurepwned [if say you just decided to write something out of the blue..how do you know if it was directed towards my question? you wouldn't unless you've come across it before]
Again, I'm not clear on what exactly you're asking. Are you asking whether anything I write out of the blue has to be the result of having encountered your question on some level other than on a conscious/material level?
No1warp9 3 months ago
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@No1warp9 conscious? or did you mean UNconscious/NON-material level? I think it's like what you said "where 'doubles' of oneself are simultaneously exploring infinite variants/paths of the same body/life. In this dimensional variant I'm replying to you. In others, I'm not.", I was getting at those times when you were not(In others, I'm not), so how you know if they were directed at my questions?
wtfpurepwned 3 months ago
@No1warp9 but first you must have encountered my unique writings for it is in a unique time in a unique oorder.
wtfpurepwned 3 months ago
@wtfpurepwned then again this "unique-ness" is really relative to personal sequenced reality "personal sequenced reality" :) only you would know what that means..hell I never would've said that line if it wasn't for you..
wtfpurepwned 3 months ago
@wtfpurepwned [how do you know that the SEQUENCE is not choosen for us, and that we have no control? Like saying we have influence over each other]
(1) Would it matter? Some unit of awareness still needs to experience that sequence. (2) Sequences are a function of the experiencer. How could anyone/thing completely control the infinite choices I have at my disposal without giving up its own being? (3) What need would there be for an experiencer to have its own thoughts if it is controlled?
No1warp9 3 months ago
@No1warp9 Can you rephrase (2)..for (3) When you are choosing the sequence you are choosing what has already been choosen by your "ship", in "ship" I'm not sure what you meant by it, but yea..the need to control wouldl be like an ego no? It is an illusion for at this very moment, while you are experiencing this, thoughts are coming to you, now you can structure it into a sentence to reply to me with, but how much control is that? COmpared to other forms of control, like environment and other..
wtfpurepwned 3 months ago
@wtfpurepwned I think i get what you mean by (2), although I would like to read it in a different way still. The infinite you have in your disposal is but a little iddy widdy bit if the inifinite that surrounds you/us, like you said before, we are emerse in an ocean of inifinity, but like i said, your infinity is different then my infinity, and infinity influences infinity..we wouldn't be giving up anything much in "being"..for (3) yes..what need is the question..maybe it's not about control..
wtfpurepwned 3 months ago
@wtfpurepwned [so really your fate and my fate are intertwined in some way..this goes baCk to the old yin/yang idea]
Yes. How could it not be? All is One. Even if you lived on another planet in another galaxy in another dimension, your fate (sequence choices) and my fate would still be intertwined. This is why astrology works. All things, seen & not seen, in the universe influences (but does not control) us...and we them.
No1warp9 3 months ago
@No1warp9 if they influence us then they control us, the decisions we make are because of what we(ship) was able to acquire..or no?
wtfpurepwned 3 months ago
@wtfpurepwned [how would one minimized this illusion?]
There is the use of psychotropic drugs & herbs, meditation, hypnosis, death of the physical body/vehicle, or simply practicing to expand one's conscious awareness. There are also psychics & mediums who are born with thinner 'filters' and less 'amnesia'...and are thus aware of multiple dimensions/realities. The question remains, can the illusion of separation be completely eliminated? I don't see how without also sacrificing awareness.
No1warp9 3 months ago
@No1warp9 like I said, in order to be the "ocean" as you put it, one would have to be "Dead"..
wtfpurepwned 3 months ago
@wtfpurepwned although as a baby or newborn, we were quite dead(unaware), so was did we form a filter as time passed or are we born with a really thin one and then it gets shaped as time passes and then possible hardens? So the filter would be the brain? and the body(senses) are the channels that allow the "infinite" to shape the filter(brain)
"There are also psychics & mediums who are born with thinner 'filters'" so your basically saying some people are more dead..or that's what I'm saying..
wtfpurepwned 3 months ago
@wtfpurepwned and how sure are you of this filter theory, being born with a filter that untimely determines are levels of awareness of the unaware? If what you say is true, that we are born with something that can't be changed and also it limits us to certain sequences of experience, WHY even try all these "expand your consciousness" bullshit that goes on..well maybe its just or more like "learn to accept this limited piece of shit your born with" but in a more nice way
wtfpurepwned 3 months ago
@wtfpurepwned [Im aware that there are things we are not aware of..or things that I am not aware off due to limitations..but what are these limitations?]
These limitations can be viewed as self-imposed 'filters' by the Oneness, and come in infinite forms. Without these limitations, no-thing would exist. Thus, any-thing that one is aware of is a filter since it reveals one's limitations...and hence, the Self.
No1warp9 3 months ago
@No1warp9 so this filter is the ship?
wtfpurepwned 3 months ago
@wtfpurepwned [if these limits that separate use can be removed, would be able to say..switch bodies for a day?]
Switching your point of awareness by simply 'tuning into' another body would be entirely possible, but you'd only be switching one limitation (filter) for another. As long as you're aware on some level, there will be some measure of limitation you are subject to. Awareness could in one way be viewed as infinite points of 'finiteness'.
No1warp9 3 months ago
@No1warp9 that's the creepy thought, to know that at times I am not myself, but I've never experience a different "filter"(body?) before..have you?
wtfpurepwned 3 months ago
@wtfpurepwned [again..so why this body? why not another body? another family? if we are able to be THAT aware..or unaware in my case? why the separation in the first place]
Awareness emerges from separation. Separation = self-imposed filters/limits. So why not ALL bodies, families, etc? Many souls can rightfully claim to have 'lived' the life of Julius Caesar. Yet, when carefully examined, none of those lives will be identical.
No1warp9 3 months ago
@No1warp9 If this(aware) or now(aware) emerges from separation, and separation = filters/limits(degree of awareness), then these limits/ filters would really be just preventing us from the infinite(unaware)..but how does this(aware) come to be? How is this(aware) here now(aware)?
wtfpurepwned 3 months ago
@wtfpurepwned and not somewhere else, like at the moment you reply to this? This won't know when it will be replied too...this won't know how the medium(computer?) looks like to the person(no1warp?)..
wtfpurepwned 3 months ago
I'm in that intellectual part of YouTube again.
rhinnawi95 3 months ago 93
@rhinnawi95 Thats what youtube should be used for. Not those stupid "funny" videos that get 10 million views
Typho0n86 2 months ago
@Typho0n86 Actually, if there was a YouTube for the dumb stuff, the music, and this intellectual stuff, it would be great. I like the idea of being able to post videos and "broadcast yourself". Lets me take advantage of the free speech I have (well, before SOPA gets passed, if it ever does. Hopefully not)
rhinnawi95 2 months ago
@rhinnawi95 Actually, it is called TED talk ;)
Zanco 2 months ago in playlist Neil deGrasse Tyson
@Zanco Oooh, what's that? Haha, sounds interesting
rhinnawi95 2 months ago
@rhinnawi95 it is a website that has a lot of talk in different fields from literature to mathematics. It is brilliant! :) just google it ted talk and pick your topic and then be productive by not being productive lol, i.e., not be productive by listening to good talks and speeches :)
Zanco 2 months ago
It's bad to divide by zero. :D
mourajini 3 months ago
neil degrasse tyson FOR PRESIDENT!!!!!
coltsrule5150 3 months ago
i love this man.
saganemc2 3 months ago
i luv this guy... wow im half way through this video and its my favorite...thanx to who ever!!!!
dwaydway1 3 months ago
i luv this guy
dwaydway1 3 months ago
@TGTE [Yeah, I've had cool thoughts like these when I'm high, too]
I suppose you could reach the same conclusions being 'high', but you'll come across a lot more poetic and eloquent than me. I use pure logic, going step by step (from A comes B, then C, etc.)...so I come across more mechanical in my approach. Nevertheless...it boggles even my mind, despite my very logical approach. The only ones it will not boggle are those who do not question...but simply accept what is.
No1warp9 3 months ago
@No1warp9 yes..like calm you mind type things. but my wondering minds just wants to know..when you say that we are experiencing ourselves "When you see a tree, you are really looking at yourself. Reality is nothing but Creation/Oneness experiencing/exploring itself...infinitely.", then that means what I am donig at this very moment has nothing to do with what your about to type to me..untill you come across this with your eyes..or are we somehow connected true this "oneness"?
wtfpurepwned 3 months ago
@wtfpurepwned if that is the case than we arn't experiencing ourselves, but each other? this would imply that you can actually tell when I am typing this? or does it not work that 'UNIVERSALLY" yet because our "oneness" doesn't extend beyond the body? your thoughts...
wtfpurepwned 3 months ago
@wtfpurepwned because if it did, that would mean everything, my LIFE, is just like something of a movie that has already been finished..I think im starting to get a little light heading (high) atm..although im not on weed but starting to feel the effects..brb
wtfpurepwned 3 months ago
@wtfpurepwned so this oneness or infinite is just our ability to "think" im assuming at this point, if we don't "consciously" "think", then we just disapear or maybe just turn into a vegetable state..I mean one can go on infinetly with thoughts untill one memoriz