Cosmic Quandaries with Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson

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An out of this world event, Cosmic Quandaries, held at The Palladium in St. Petersburg at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 26th drew in an audience of nearly 800! With a one in a million chance of meeting one of only 6,000 astrophysicists in the world, audience members were lined up in order to have the opportunity to ask Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson a question on any and all galactic wonders they may have.

About St. Petersburg College:
In 1927, St. Petersburg College (then known as St. Petersburg Junior College) became Florida's first private, non-profit, two-year school of higher learning located in downtown St. Petersburg. Full accreditation followed in 1931 and in 1948 SPC became a public college.
In June 2001, SPJC officially became St. Petersburg College when Florida's governor signed legislation making it the first community college in Florida to offer four-year degrees. On Dec. 11, 2001, the college received the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools' accreditation to offer courses leading to bachelor's degrees.
In 2002, St. Petersburg College began offering courses leading to bachelor's degrees in Education, Nursing and Technology Management. The college's commitment to its two-year curriculum, which has earned it wide recognition and annually wins it high national rankings, remains as strong as ever.
Today, SPC has eight learning sites throughout Pinellas County and recently became the first college in Florida to offer a four-year degree in Dental Hygiene. This program's offerings augment its two-year program, which has been in operation since 1963. SPC added four-year degrees in Veterinary Technology, Public Safety Administration and Orthotics and Prosthetics in 2005.
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[MrEasynote3296]

15:30 for the Skip

[cerebralcereal]

11:58 for start

[silvercoin1111]

Brilliant! Every kid should have a teacher like Mr. Tyson is. Science should be popular like rock music is.

[lattask8er]

@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?

[nilbud]

@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]

@MediumNothinFull Bollocks.

[nilbud]

@lifemetall The only reason Pluto was declared a planet was because America hadn't named a planet. Just plain old dumb american provincialism.

[ReligionIsBULLSHlT]

If only half of Americans could think as logically as Neil, this country would be a cutting-edge, 21st century powerhouse.

[stehedman]

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.

[otrobutcher]

@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.

[TakoMan02]

@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.

[kinderstrudel]

@lifemetall Pluto is a comet in waiting. It even has a ton of others just like it beyond. Deal wit it.