Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson at RNASA 2008 part 2

[pippaknuckle]

The lip balm story is greatly embellished....check the video with Matt Laueur.

[eatingtacos000]

epic. as always

[ciaochowbella]

Gracious, he's so handsome and dapper in his tux.....

He turns my lady garden into a rain forest.

[BggProductions]

Wonderful words from Dr. Tyson

[KingCorvette]

I love him **takes out lip-balm**

[TheDeathofGrace]

To me its obvious technological advance is controlled by a higher power. It is the only thing holding us back. We should be far ahead of where we are now.

[Ender0410]

We need to get people into space. People need to experience it, make it feel real too them. We all buy cars, we all buy cell phones. We need to find a way to get people up there. That will open the eyes and wallets that we need! We can't give up too soon like we are, coasting, as he says.

[Dragon3435]

Man he should be a president he tells you base on facts that he can challenge you.

[rahulnsm]

Neil deGrasse Tyson = Quentin Tarantino of Astro Physics

[akhshah]

Neil deGrasse Tyson is new the Carl Sagan.

[tigger1989]

Too right. No need to sit back and marvel at how awesome we are. That's how society becomes stagnant. We need to boldly go where no man (woman) has gone before.

[requshei]

I wish to be a part of Mr. Tyson's mission to further develop the space program... But I live in New Zealand so I can't really do anything... I just hope mankind puts a man on Mars before I die and get rid of all this B-S with politics and religious wars.

[ShipMonster]

@requshei funny you mention that because the US, at the height of our "special needs" President Bush, were spending $10 BILLION a month on the war in Iraq. A war with good chunk of religious ignorance injected into it. Do the math with Casini costing $3.2 Billion, ( now in it's 14th year of service ) you could build 3 Casini's with the cost of just one months pay in WAR.

[preemptivestrike20]

@ShipMonster War is innovation. Iraq is a choke point in the worlds economy. It's resources shouldn't have ever been in the private ownership of a mad dictator. Get real.

[drokles]

Gotta love his signature vest. It's the most awesome thing there is.

[AdversaryBTP]

@trying2bnormal I beg to differ. It is not that horseface Parker or American Idol. It is because most Americans are concerned with their stupid god, and spreading the filth that is the gospel.  Instead of going to multiples of books that could educate them on a matter, they go to one book.

[KenSchoen11408]

@AdversaryBTP I would really like ti talk to you about some things. If what you just said reflects anything about your beliefs and views then we could have an interesting conversation because, frankly, I agree with you. Let me know.

[gespilk]

He reminds me of a preacher in a black church that somehow got recruited by science.

alleluia.

[Talented3003]

CRACK! Crack, Crack, Crack! Neil is CRACK! i dnt care who u r, after listening to Neil jus 1x ur gonna be addicted! this guy could convince u that paper bags r the thing of the future. it plum RIDICULOUS man omg!

[slavashalava]

Very inspirational.

[artwdog]

love that guy

[oneki]

@Outpost206 while you may be right (i disagree) there is something you have to understand his and sagan's type play an important role for science. Which is get people more interested. If sience was left for the nobel types, the average age of scientists would be in 60-70 for the next 200years. Don't under-estimate the need for people like the communicates to gtalvanise interest in the obscurest of places. People like him are important for the geeks of the future to look to.

[lucirz]

haha his speech is longer than 6:00 :D. man his speeches are great and captivating

[dannypbass]

It's funny when he talks science, but the frustration on USA not progress in the field of world science is true and a fact.

Your government and also as the rest of western Europe is totaly bizzy whit banks not falling down.

[cowboycoco]

What we need is a leader with Tyson's vision. Imagine, Barak Obama, in an address to the nation, declares that amidst all our problems, that we won't stop working to solve, we will put a man on Mars within the next 2 decades. Then makes that his primary goal. I would be truly inspired as an American. And I suspect many others would be as well. Can you imagine what it would feel like to watch an astronaut take the first steps on not another moon, but another planet.

[8DX]

Yeah, and he cut the Constellation .. shit I was looking at the c. web and at their vids and thinking.. this is **too*good*to*be*true**!. Then he cut it - I thought: reasonable. But now I'm thinkin'.. where's that American dream we Europeans all fail to live up to!

[bpiddington]

If you watch Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson and you are not inspired, seek professional help. This man is what science needs.

[thegdin]

you wouldnt need professional help, you would need a body bag and a hole to be buried in. the only way to not be inspired is to not have a pulse.

[TLM80209]

No one can communicate science to me the way that Neil DeGrasse Tyson can. He is my living science guru.

[820423]

wow, i was impressed by part 2.

[Zetenderhoof]

I think what missing is the catalyst that gets the American public and the American government motivated to push for the advancing of the space program like it was in the 60s. There's no bad guys Soviet Union to defeat. Hence the 'coasting' that Dr. Tyson is talking about.

But I do think that this 'tech' generation have coasted too long and fallen far behind.

Not only that, there are other fields beside the the space program. What about finding a cure for Aids, cancer, leukemia...?

[SouthernContrarian]

he is the man

[gir489]

It's not each, it's Americans as a collective group.

[perfecttimingNO]

Nevermind I was half asleep when I typed that. lol. it makes sense afterall.

[MiketheMutant1993]

Whoops. Looks like I was half asleep too.

[perfecttimingNO]

I don't think each american spends almost a million dollars a year on lip balm. That was kinda stupid.

[MiketheMutant1993]

He means the entire nation as a whole.

[820423]

Sorry. I didnt notice the rest of the conversation.

[hellomate639]

Neil! I'm gonna get a fuckin degree and join you!

[evilflynn]

This guy is damn brilliant!

[theQiwiMan]

The space program instills national pride, and ultimately pride in the human race. There's a reason space exploration is being cast in a negative light, its the same force behind all power-grabs. To consolidate power, the masses need to be brought low, take some freedoms here and there, until the deceivers can ride in with a white horse to "save" humanity through socialism.

Thats my 2 cents anyway....

[kchick50]

Now i understand MR Tyson,I am looking up more!

[modified3]

Wow Neil deGrasse Tyson is awesome.

[thegyger]

I could listen to Neil talk all day, 365 days a year.

[gmcneel]

Each time I watch this I think of Carl Sagan and the bashing he took from people. But these are the people who got me interested in science and technology. You seem, I am a liberal arts type but I LOVE the technical side, building things like my electric car. No hard science, yet still fun and innovative. Way to go Dr. Tyson.

[lonnied123]

Great response to the point I made in my post. I suggest you look up "Ad hominem" attacks and try to avoid them in the future.

And yes, my bow tie fits quite nicely.

[lonnied123]

You understand that his job is to communicate science to the public at large right? He is suppose to get everyday people fired up about firing up the rockets... Most people tune out the second they here any kind math/science talk, yet this guy was able to rally a crowd of people with a lipstick reference.

He does hard, scientific, academic work as his other pursuits, but when you see him on video that is NOT his M.O.

[gtssage]

This man makes me proud to be a New Yorker as well as an engineer.

[kev3d]

Let me know when you get to address some of the planet's top scientists, engineers, skeptics and astronauts and tell me how well you were received. Be sure to mention the next time you publish in peer reviewed scientific literature as well, I would not want to miss a moment of your eloquent brilliance. Ass.

[kev3d]

He is the Director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York, but with that comes his career of Astrophysicist. He is also a regular contributor to publications like Astronomical Journal and Natural History as well as his own books. Not unlike Sagan, he has made dozens of TV appearances and delivered speeches on everything from the Big Bang to Skeptical Inquiry. By the way you measure people's abilities, to you, Leonardo Da Vinci would have been "some guy who drew a few pictures."

[kev3d]

Says you, Strangely enough, he is not paid to be a comedian. How many missions have you flown or how many space craft parts have you engineered? His audience has and spoke to them.

You don't like his jokes, wardrobe or content, fine; rate the video accordingly. But you cannot say that he is not brilliant or that his understanding of science is "superficial". As it is, I highly doubt one could captivate an audience with an hour long discussion on "BVRI Light Curves For 29 Type Ia Supernovae".

[kev3d]

Not Brilliant? He was PERSONALLY tapped by Sagan to attend Cornell, Tyson instead went on to earn degrees from Harvard, University of Texas at Austin and Columbia, Awarded 9 other honorary degrees, The Highest Civilian Honor NASA can bestow and authored 11 books. Obviously you know nothing about the man, or brilliance or you are so detached from reality that such people and terms are meaningless.

[Capitol149]

He'a FUll of Himself. Astute but a sarcastick pompous ass.

[bdf2718]

"I'm tired at pausing at the Saturn V."  Go, go, go, go go!

[joerules22]

Yes, I would like a scientist as a president. Not a lawyer.

[biggie514]

This man definitly is brilliant, i just... don't like the fact that he talks about "Americans Americans Americans"... Exploring space should be a World wide pride... What if we end up noticing we're not alone in this moronicly huge universe... They're going to go out there and represent the United States only ?... or planet earth... "Oh yeah we're good, the rest kinda sucks balls tho.". I love this guy and the points he bring and how he says things... But speeches need to become "worldwide".

[lothealian]

I created a facebook group called "The Chapstick Movement"...but I modified the quote I used as the tagline to be universal. I agree the to truly embrace what exploration and science has to offer us, we need to do it as a species...instead of as a single nation. ISS is a good start, but that's all it is. A start.

[seanhy7]

Tyson for president! This is a man with vision.

[miketwo345]

This man is brilliant.

[synchbite]

Elect McCain and Palin. They both will set this country to stone age in science and technology. Shame on you republicans!

[DaveMP05]

Neil deGrasse Tyson is the Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, and he also hosts PBS's NOVA scienceNOW. He is one of the stars in todays science movement.

[stivante]

no one could say it better, louder and clearer

[Hottides]

It's depressing to read the verbal excrement of yet another ignorant bigot fixated on skin pigment. Try dropping your preconceived negative attitudes about African peoples and LISTEN to this man's brilliance.

[Esoteric101]

Tell that to your guido and mobster friends in southern Italy.

[linebacker512]

so true

[dramerican]

Tight!

[kablamo9999]

Absolutely awesome. Is he the new science superstar and populariser?

[darkkodiak001]

YES!!! Chap stick movement to Saturn. I love this guy.

[cizzio1]

Tyson is brilliant. We need many more like him

[Apogeebooks]

Go Neil! Great job.