Neil Degrasse Tyson - Stupid Design

Neil deGrasse Tyson was born and raised in New York City where he was educated in the public schools clear through his graduation from the Bronx High School of Science. Tyson went on to earn his BA in Physics from Harvard and his PhD in Astrophysics from Columbia.

Tyson's professional research interests are broad, but include star formation, exploding stars, dwarf galaxies, and the structure of our Milky Way. Tyson obtains his data from the Hubble Space Telescope, as well as from telescopes in California, New Mexico, Arizona, and in the Andes Mountains of Chile.

In 2001, Tyson was appointed by President Bush to serve on a 12-member commission that studied the Future of the US Aerospace Industry. The final report was published in 2002 and contained recommendations (for Congress and for the major agencies of the government) that would promote a thriving future of transportation, space exploration, and national security.

In 2004, Tyson was once again appointed by President Bush to serve on a 9-member commission on the Implementation of the United States Space Exploration Policy, dubbed the "Moon, Mars, and Beyond" commission. This group navigated a path by which the new space vision can become a successful part of the American agenda. And in 2006, the head of NASA appointed Tyson to serve on its prestigious Advisory Council, which will help guide NASA through its perennial need to fit its ambitious vision into its restricted budget.

In addition to dozens of professional publications, Dr. Tyson has written, and continues to write for the public. He is a monthly essayist for Natural History magazine under the title "Universe." And among Tyson's nine books is his memoir The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist; and Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution, co-written with Donald Goldsmith. Origins is the companion book to the PBS-NOVA 4-part mini-series Origins, in which Tyson serves as on-camera host. The program premiered on September 28 and 29, 2004. And beginning in the fall of 2006, Tyson appears as the on-camera host of PBS-NOVA's spinoff program NOVA ScienceNow, which is an accessible look at the frontier of all the science that shapes the understanding of our place in the universe.

Tyson's latest two books are the playful and informative Death By Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries, which was a New York Times bestseller, and The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet, chronicling his experience at the center of the controversy over Pluto's planetary status.

Tyson is the recipient of nine honorary doctorates and the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal. His contributions to the public appreciation of the cosmos have been recognized by the International Astronomical Union in their official naming of asteroid "13123 Tyson". On the lighter side, Tyson was voted "Sexiest Astrophysicist Alive" by People Magazine in 2000.

Tyson is the first occupant of the Frederick P. Rose Directorship of the Hayden Planetarium. Tyson lives in New York City with his wife and two children.

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[TheSolitaryTraveller]

entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system

[Pizzachu1]

Tyson would have been a much better God

[SaudiPseudonym]

@xcdemon05 Indeed, you can.

[stewarthjohnson]

So...the glass is half empty? But awesome video!

[xuvetyn13]

one problem (other than crocodile being misspelled): 2 separate holes for breathing and eating?

uh, it's called a nose man. =)

[Hirnlego999]

@arbadacarbada A good shepherd should take of his flock no? God does seem to make it more difficult than it has to be, by creating problems for us in the first place which we do not need to have.

[Hirnlego999]

One thing which isn't often mentioned but it should be pointed out that it makes no sense to make things more complicated than needed, especially if started from scratch. People who have nut allergy can die simply by eating a nut. A freaking nut!

[mystiraemeadows]

Dr. Tyson kicks morons asses. I like him and so would Saggy!

[lethalsub]

@buffboynick You're the disgrace to real science, fraud.

When are you going to answer that question I gave you, all you have to do is calculate it, retard.

Does the maths give you trouble? lol

[eragonsaphira777]

@kekapena

We are already over-populating the Earth. A study said that this planet could sustain 10 million people until the sun expanded and destroyed it, but with human breeding rates and pollution, we'll likely all choke to death long before the planet bakes.

And a perfect product would be one that never needed to be replaced, so it would last forvever.

The universe is so far from perfect for HUMAN life is is laughable, but who are we to say the universe was made for us?