Neil deGrasse Tyson at The UP Experience 2009

He's the Director of Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, critically acclaimed host of the PBS science magazine NOVA Science Now, author of eight bestsellers, member of the Presidential Commission on the U.S. Space Exploration Policy and People Magazine's "Sexiest Astrophysicist Alive." You'd have to be in a black hole to miss Dr. Tyson's cosmic perspective at The UP Experience.

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[blenderpanzi]

Shame that this talk is so confusing for us German speakers because we have: Million (=million), Milliarde(=billion), Billion(=trillion), Billiarde(=quadtrillion), ...

We should just use 10^N or Mega, Giga, Tera, ... because this is the same in every language.

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Even though I've seen some of NDT's longer videos, I must say that 20 minutes is enough. Enough to get into the feeling of "awe", and being connected to the cosmos, that is.

NDT often starts out with some trivial jokes, but I find that I quickly then loose track of time because of the Carl Sagan-like way in which he presents science and the real world.

I wish there were more people like him.

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@blenderpanzi I agree that the SI prefixes are better to standardize on. (In Sweden we also use the 10^(6*n) system of 10^6 = miljon, 10^12 = biljon, 10^15 = biljard, 10^18 = triljon, 10^21 = triljard, etc., rather than the slightly skewed 10^(3*n+3) system.) In general, getting people over from inches, stones, and furlongs to SI units would also be beneficial in the long run. Maybe it will happen within the next 100 years or so? Let's hope so.

[blenderpanzi]

@madridisinSpain Maybe, but I think it's less confusing (for us german speakers).

[Ciridon]

@madridisinSpain I'd love to hear about megadollars :D

[madridisinSpain]

@blenderpanzi like 1 kilodollar, 1 megadollar, 1 gigadollar... ? I have to say it sounds weird....

[Tuya56]

Awesome and awesome and I am speechless and have something to dream about tonight.