Neil DeGrasse Tyson - Death By Black Hole

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/02/19/Neil_DeGrasse_Tyson_Death_by_Black_Hole

Celebrity astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson describes the (hypothetical) experience of death by falling into a black hole.

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Neil DeGrasse Tyson discusses "Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandries."

Whether discussing the universe's origins as host of NOVA's "scienceNOW" or asserting that Pluto is a not a planet on "The Colbert Report," astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson translates the universe's complexities for a broad audience.

Known as the great explainer of all things cosmic, Tyson first became known in the astronomy community by lecturing on the subject at the age of fifteen. He is currently the director of New York's Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, where he also teaches. Tyson has written seven popular books including the bestselling Death by Black Hole and the memoir The Sky Is Not The Limit.

His professional research explores star formation, dwarf galaxies, exploding stars, and the structure of the Milky Way, topics which he writes about in his long running "Universe" column in Natural History magazine. Tyson's varied honors include the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal and People Magazine's 2000 "Sexiest Astrophysicist Alive" - City Arts and Lectures

Ryan Wyatt is a science visualizer for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. A longtime planetarian, he is actively involved in promoting fulldome video technology within the planetarium community. He manages the Fulldome Mailing List and also maintain web pages related to standards development for fulldome video. His work at the Museum relates strongly to the Hayden Planetarium's Digital Universe dataset, with an emphasis on creating content for the planetarium "space shows," including Cosmic Collisions and The Search for Life.

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[DezaB0nanza]

Watch out, we got a badass over here!

[xDinFiniTyKo]

brings new meaning to "once you go black..."

[Thorrr333]

@Aviatorsmith You are right. Thank you for pointing out !

[jasaph123]

mt engraçado!!! carak! a ciencia pode ser engraçada!

[P0weredByPie]

Mooiedromen klinkt meer als en nachtmerrie!

[Aviatorsmith]

@Thorrr333 Hawking radiation doesn't exist in a black hole. It exists just outside the event horizon so it isn't escaping the black hole.

[Aviatorsmith]

@FenixLites Too bad that hypothetical premise can never be met.

[Jajaffu]

Dr.De Grasse is so smart... Mooiedromen what degree do you have ? If any. Don't hate.

[iCalintz]

@FenixLites I thought that was his point.

[mooiedromen]

this guy is always so full of s.. is he getting paid for this or his stupid time machine.

[FenixLites]

AHA according to physics if there were nothing else in the universe other than earth and you shot something hard enough to leave earth it would always come back as long as it does not have a constant force. so if it had only an initial force that got it away from the earth it would eventually come back no matter what.