If you ask me, I believe Pluto is happier with his new family. They are neighbors and are similar in size and function. Pluto is no longer an outcast but one of many in his new family. Awwww 🥰
You don't have to teach your kids to love science, they already do! You spend a year (with your kids) teaching them to walk and talk, and the rest telling them to shut up and sit down! I LOVE HIM.
I have to say that i have watched quite a lot of videos that Mr. TYSON has been on and find them very mind exspanding at the least. I get the feeling that if teachers were made to sit and watch how he goes about rendering facts and figures in a way that everyone can understand the world would become firstly a very interesting place to live but more importantly i think people would be better equiped to talk to one anther. I can recall so many things that I have done my best to explain about what I am doing spending my money on my optical equipment and what results I have so far, only to find that i had left them behind after the first sentance, not because i used big words, but because they did not understand the simple ones right at the beginning. It never ceases to make me cring when you ask someone how many times does that stick that is stuck in the snow at the north pole complete a circle and what its called. If they do not know that then explaining other things a bit more detailed becomes very hard for them to get their heads round, like why curtain things happen while using a telescope of one sort do not happen when using another type. We live in a very small place in a huge universe but.it should not stop us all from wishing to learn more about all of it.
"You spend a year teaching them to walk and talk, and the rest of their lives telling them to shut up and sit down." Probably the best quote I've ever heard to explain why most children lose their thirst for knowledge as they grow.
@@jws1948ja how much money will that make you was the point i think. It is good to know things though the more you know the more you need to know its your world free thinker whats next
I love his passion and his charisma, one of the most important men in science today. His greatest contribution, more than any of his other works, is making science seem more accessible and fighting for a scientifically literate culture :)
I have gained so much respect for dr Tyson after listening to this talk. Amazing talk and absolutely breathtaking breath of knowledge. Wish he could visit India and enlighten the kids here who have lot of thirst for science and good teachers like Dr Tyson.
Yes, DGT ain't all that in the pure sense, but everything else he does to get people to relate, which is key to the mission, he hits every note. Let him do what he does well and everyone benefits. Funding? Check. Please do not mess this up Mr. Poster, we are all on the same team, which is to learn new things; DGT does a great job of keeping this in the forefront of everyone's mind. And they vote. And when he is in the educational science groove and not thinking policy, he is rock solid on topic. l tilt my hat to scientists who try to break through to politicos, especially effective ones. (footnote: so I don't have to :-) )
I feel like Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson is like the Banjamin Franklin of our day and much like Benjamin Franklin was he should be an internatiol superstar, I feel like in today's age we have lost that ability for scientific inquiry and also to be captivated by what is around us.
It's sad that the narrator guy didn't get the culture talk around 30:00 (35:05) minute mark, because that shows that even rather intelligent people can still be such blunt instruments, and that it's still such a great leap to DeGrasse kind of level of just understanding, not knowledge but understanding
I think it is not just all about dog, It's about people that afraid of change, afraid of new things, people with old thinking, and do nothing good for innovation, or kids.
It's been well known for quite some time, that people find comfort in what is already familiar to them, even if that means they might live in squalor. They'll resist change , even if change would provide them with happier lives. The people who get the most out of life are those who understand this and so seek change.
The planet Pluto was discovered/recognized in 1932. When did Disney's Pluto join the cast? Wondering if it was a current event name at the time. off to google....
Idiot, the tail would come from the dry ice melting. When you have that ice frozen, there's no tail. And Earth has strong enough gravity in itself, And it's atmosphere, to keep any water from becoming a comet's tail
I always liked Pluto because it is so far out that it is way out there in the darkness in the edge of the Solar System, where the sun is just a dot in the sky, and so cold that its atmosphere is frozen to the ground. Being named after the sinister Roman god of the underworld just added to its badassery.
actually one could argue that mathematics was created to explain the phenomena observed in the world of physics so really, mathematics was built on physics.
If you look at history, you realize it's a "possible argument" that could be true. It is the truth (beyond "I have one grain here and other here so now I have two grains to grow" simplicity)
It's kind of different though, because despite what people often think, Stephen isn't really a scientific-based orator like Neil is. Stephen is more of a cultural icon, more a publically adored idol of a sort of representation, an almost imagined ideal of the Typical British Older Man. Neil is an incredibly imaginative genius in a field of science. Whole different package. I'd say the only way in which Neil and Stephen were equal is they're both awesome smart people.
"Planet" is just a word. What is strange is that people are disturbed to use the same word for Mercury and Pluto while they are not uncomfortable to use the same word for Mercury and Jupiter.
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, i think you are the only smart ones that didn't lose ur humour. Thank u and that makes u a special person, someone enjoyable to watch and learn from. But i am hesitantly and respectfully correcting you for saying that Marianas trench is in the Philippines vice Guam(USA).
I honestly thought the video was paused or hanged up or something, but I checked and found out someone from the audience was giving a question only they could hear... bugs me...
I think the reason we quit paying attention to astronaughts in space, is because we stopped expanding into space. It's been 50 years, and we havn't gone, with humans, further than the moon. We should of been mining asteroids by now. Either in orbit of Earth, or in the belt.
What you just told me about Pluto has made me even madder at you now... Pluto is special.... Yes I still haven't forgiven you all these years later... And I'm 38
I ain't gonna lie, I'm still mad at him for killing Pluto too, and I still haven't forgiven him yet... I don't think I ever will 😢... I'm glad to hear though that Pluto is still a partial planet
well did you ppl that invented your scale of measurement defend yourselves in 2 world wars? umm no..so its feet inchs and fahrenheit..yes america was stupid saving you ...and feeding you and defending ..YOU
@@ryldauril6379 well... The USA didn't enter those wars until 1917 and 1941. The UK, the Commonwealth nations, and other countries were in them since 1914 and 1939.
@@Prodigious1One I am not sure about the connection of being sucessful at warfare and the alignment of measurement units. In the middle ages, each city had it's own set of cubits and pounds and it own time zone. It just impaired trade - in 1975 the Metric Conversion Act was passed in the US to have SI as "the preferred system of weights and measures for United States trade and commerce". Maybe the transition period is not one generation, but 2-3. I think that rocket science now has made the change after a few avoidable mishaps.
@@Prodigious1One In Germany cars are still measured in horsepower by Joe Sixpack, although since the late 1970s, kWs were made mandatory as unit for engine power. It is a simple factor of 3/4 but still both units are used in parallel and only slowly, the horsepower is fading away. Maybe with electric vehicles this trend accelerates.
If Tyson has a problem, it's that he begins a sentence, branches off before he's halfway through it, branches off into a side story before continuing his original sentence, branches off again into another sentence without ever finishing the first one, then when you try to get him to clarify the sentence he never finished, says "WAI-WAI-WAI-WAI-WAI-WAIT!!!! I'M MEETING HIM HALFWAY!!! JUST LET ME FINISH!!!" Meanwhile, he's forgotten the first and second points he started to make, and then says "does that make sense?" He needs to put himself on a word budget of 5,000 words per statement, and needs to stop running over people in a way that's frankly rude. If brevity is the soul of wit, then Tyson's explanations would actually greatly benefit from answering questions without meandering down pathways that he understands for himself, but other people don't.
Megillah comes from the Hebrew word "liglol", which means "to roll" because books and stories were recorded on scrolls. Lengthy ones were called, "Megillot", the singular of which is Megillah. When someone says "the whole Megillah". he means the whole story.
I was 5 I named my pitbull German Shepherd Chow Chow Pluto after Mickey Mouse's dog. When I got older I then found out Pluto is the god of the underworld IE hell. Which was a much more fitting name for this bad ass dog. I still miss him ,but now he's guarding Hades.
I just wan't to say im very bad at math but I also know im very smart when it comes to space and the cosmos. I love science, Im always thinking about it and I also never read books but im going to get YOUR book Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson I love your speeches your lectures. im very fascinated about what you talk about.
I think it is also the "underdog" fact too. Americans always want to fight for the rights of the underdog. and that we learned our solar system had 9 planets and to "loose" one makes us feel we are now smaller or less.
Yes I know his LIFE has been very atypical, I was talking about his character, what he's like compared to Neil as a public figure. How he's generally seen and the attitude he carries that is so loveable about him. It was not a description of Stephen it was a description of his public persona as seen by the general assumptions and views of him.
No, that isn't the only reason...in fact you'll see, in the definition of "planet", that size isn't referenced outside of "is your gravity such that you are round", which Pluto is. In fact, if you "listen" to Dr. Tyson he discusses the composition of Pluto and points out that it really is more like a comet than an asteroid even. The Dr even hints at the idea that perhaps Jupiter and it's kin are not really planets either BASED ON THEIR COMPOSITION!
i feel a dim veil stupidity lift from my head every time i hear this guy speak. i feel my synapses firing, my brain growing. i feel a little smarter. it really is amazing. and im always a little bit more in awe of the world after i hear him speak. how many people can u say that about in the world?
1:06:28 "Half the schools in this district are below average." I think that this statement is not trivial, but gives us the information that median equals the mean value in this case.
How many Kuiper belt objects have influence on the orbits of the existing planets? Pluto was discovered by noting its gravitational effect on the planet Neptune. Maybe Pluto needs a special category of which it is the only known member so far. I'm upset that it's not a planet although I understand why not but lumping it with Ceres seems kind of odd, too.
I'm enjoying this conversation a lot so far, but I'd like to say that Jan Hendrik Oort, who came up with the hypothesis of the Oort Cloud, is Dutch, not Danish.
Asteroid Ceres was briefly a planet too. Not that briefly. About 50 years, from it's discovery in 1801. As far as I know, there wasn't an uproar when it was demoted from a planet to an asteroid.
he said the US dominated Astrophysics last century, by quoting big bang as American created words. Sorry mate, that was a British person, Fred Hoyle. In fact a huge amount of discoveries were from the UK, Germany etc so I wouldn't say dominated.
I'm not originally from the U.S,never gave half a fuck about Disney cartoons but Pluto is my favorite planet. I have no idea why but it's always been so xD
Where is that store that has an entire aisle dedicated to pasta? I can never find the specific types of pasta I’m looking for in any grocery store. (Yes, I’m serious!)
Does anyone know if it is possible to have two planets one orbiting the other not being the primary body in orbit that would still be considered a planet? Would any definition qualify it as a planet? Can't find anything on that.
So - here's a question - if Pluto isn't a planet because it hasn't cleared it's orbital area of other things..... but we know that it intersects the orbit of neptune .... is neptune a planet?
The Universe (even as we know it) is much more vast then just the sun and the planets and the moons that orbit them. Infact Pluto when it is all said and done might be classified as belonging to the Keiper Belt which to me is much more intresting to me and offers a place where we can expand our research.
Mr Tyson is not in the same category as Stephen Fry, he is far beyond it, far. Mr Fry does not compare with Dr David Attenborough, our, that is Uk ‘s most loved, respected and watched man ever. Dr Attenborough is in his nineties and you will find how he is so beloved when he, sadly, passes.
I am NOT a fundamentalist about the six days and can even show an interpretation of the Big Bang in religious literature. My problem with evolutionary theory is that I have never received a good answer to things like poisonous snakes and electric eels and bombadier beetles and the human eye.
I'm so thankful my parents did NOT answer my questions. They'd just ask leading questions to get me to figure stuff out myself. Me: How big is the earth? Dad: Calculate it yourself. (Seriously! And, with some guidance, I did.)
@@nickisnyder3450 Indeed! Certainly an advantage, but then....those trips to the library were very memorable. Typically took all day since the trip through a wild field (now an avenue & townhouses) involved chasing bugs & such. There was as much education on the journey as at the library.
