Neil deGrasse Tyson worries about stupid humans.

Neil deGrasse Tyson talks about differences in intelligence - entertaining as always.

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[ChrisMMMMerritt]

@tanvirul23 I never said anything about them being greedy or selfish. As far as science knows, all life evolves. My point was merely that any intelligent life in the universe would have come from more modest roots, comparable to humans now, or at earlier stages in our evolution, merely in terms of our realized intelligence versus our potential (through evolution or technology). You can't just go from bacteria to God-like super-being overnight. Religious philosophy disagrees, of course.

[ChrisMMMMerritt]

@devarkk wow - interesting point! mind-boggling - maybe the end of the universe is total understanding. Not to sound mystical - more like, maybe the end of the universe is total lack of entropy and total information. Even possible I wonder?

[ChrisMMMMerritt]

@ Hapafall - I totally agree. I would have wanted to point out two things - first, that humans have reason, can conceptualize and interface with technology, which theoretically makes our species pretty unlimited in what knowledge it can obtain, which is cool. Second, any alien being that was out there that was so much smarter than us would have had to have come from more modest roots - they would have had to evolve just like us. Neil seems to invent this God-like super-being that just exists.

[JRBendixen]

The man is made of pure win

[saxoman1]

@TheCoolMovement "How can anyone laugh at that."

By not being so egotistical about yourself and/or your species that the possibility of a species being smarter than us offends you... lol.

Come on man, lighten up xD

[goldring21]

He is baaically a brilliant scientist and a comidian combined lol

[TheArcadianFlame]

@bizso09 a dog or cat's mind is different to our own.

[bizso09]

@bizso09 Second, it assumes being intelligent is somehow a better than being not intelligent. In my view, intelligence is just a survival tactic. In terms of survival and replication, the bacteria's dna achieves pretty much the same success as humans' dna. So in this regard, humans are not better than bacteria.

[bizso09]

This is argument is wrong. Aliens could still talk to us at our intelligence level so we understand that they exist. We can talk to dogs and cats or chimps. For example if I shout at a cat, it gets scared. When a cat meows at the door, it tells me it wants to go out. A dog can understand if I'm friendly or hostile towards it, just like I understand if a dog is friendly or hostile towards me. This is all communication happening.

[Squiglypig]

@ChrisMMMMerritt Sounds like something from "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".

[CoryTheRaven]

@confettibrains ...The fact that you conflate Christians and the Republican Party only demonstrates how out of touch you are. Most Christians are NOT AMERICAN, let alone Republican. MOST Christians in the world are Catholic, which has a far more complex political atmosphere than what fits into the American dialectic. Furthermore the American political dialectic skews the fact that both parties are doing nothing about ACC.

Really now, please, remove head from ass.

[CoryTheRaven]

@confettibrains You are making an absolutely false conflation bordering on a strawman. The people denying anthropogenic climate change are those with monied interests in modern industry. By in large, those people support economically conservative political parties and candidates. In the US, fiscal conservatives (at least those in name) tend to also appeal to social conservatives, which tend to be American Evangelicals...

[confettibrains]

@CoryTheRaven

Christians are just about the only people in modern times who deny global warming. Anyone with scientific literacy, acknowledges the data and thinks we should do something about it.

Christians/republicans think God controls the weather and ecosystem and thus we don't need to worry at all about it. These christians/republicans have a lot of control over imposing environmental regulations, so yes I pin America's unworldly attitude towards nature on religion.

[CoryTheRaven]

@confettibrains We didn't start having a global ecological crisis until the Industrial Revolution. Christianity is only to blame insofar as it gave us the philosophical idea that human beings are set apart from the rest of the world. This philosophy was inherited by science, which treated the natural world as an object of observation. This information was then used by industry to manipulate the natural world. Atheists pin this all on religion with a vested interest.

[No1warp9]

The chimp, as with most other animals, are more aware than your average human. A chimp somehow knows, for example, that to cure a specific stomach ailment, it needs to trek many miles to reach a specific herb, and then consume whole, without any chewing, the entire leaf of this herb. We've lost the ability to 'talk' to nature...hence we've become fearful & dependent on technology. This has only weakened the species. The human potential is buried beneath a sea of numbers and wires.