Did Bezos And Branson Go To Space? Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains The Karman Line

Neil deGrasse Tyson isn't super impressed by how far the world's billionaires have traveled outside of Earth's atmosphere, but he's happy to see them spend their money on the space race instead of yachts. Check out Neil's new book, "Welcome to The Universe in 3D," and experience additional content narrated by Neil himself on the project's website, www.welcometotheuniverse.net. #Colbert #WelcometotheUniverse #NeildeGrasseTyson
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[@AqueleRod]

Neil needs to have a weekly segment on the show!

[@EmpyreanLightASMR]

You mean where Colbert has to be there? No thanks. Star Talk is better suited to your needs.

[@ianbauer4703]

The Universe with Neil

[@Mel-lj5cq]

“Boldly going where hundreds have gone before” made me cackle

[@KarisMajik]

"so orbit is not space?" They didn't even make it to orbit, though

[@dunbar9finger]

It's amazing how many people don't get the difference. "Space" is a place and "Orbit" is an activity you can do in that place. Just because you walked into a library doesn't mean you read a book. Just because you went to the ice rink doesn't mean you actually skated. Tyson's definition of the Karman line "where the sky turns black" isn't right and it's just keeping it simple for the TV audience, but he's quite right that Bezos's rocket doesn't go to orbit, and merely popping straight up to space and back down again is a hell of a lot simpler and less impressive than orbit. It only takes about one fifth as much delta-v.

[@joejacko1587]

where Outerspace starts is one of those weird ones like where does the Atlantic and pacific it's just one of those one we all have to agree on

[@Blackstar-ti4py]

​@@dunbar9finger😂 damn mate you are a different level

[@speedhump231]

For those of us on youtube, please number interview sections.

[@ryenbrousseau1710]

Pleaseeee

[@cultureal9544]

are human this lazy

[@arsenioseslpodcast3143]

@@cultureal9544 lmaoooo

[@theUselessProfessor]

I've said this for years about his channel, BUT I learned you can go to the Playlists section, and the episodes are in order 👍

[@speedhump231]

@@theUselessProfessor I have tried that, and they are not always in order (At least, it seems that way sometimes). Maybe it is different on my tablet.

[@nicorobin5978]

His sassy, unimpressed reactions to small peened billionaires going up in glorified airplanes was definitely something I needed this evening.

[@lizafield9002]

Hilarious comment!

[@vgaportauthority9932]

I'm just glad his unimpressedness reflects my own. It really did seem unimpressive, and it was. They did what the USSR did in the 50s...... that's 70 years ago... That's like riding a zeppelin in 1980.

[@brianjohnson1804]

shame biden is now in diapers on stage jimmy kimmel the rapist is such a sellout

[@rodmackinnon2995]

Yup.

[@ragnarokgalaxy9510]

Civilian transportation in space is here.

[@tats_sacs]

Saying they went to space is like me going to the beach and put my feet into the water and say i went to the ocean.

[@Valpo2004]

To be fair when man itself had never really left sight of the shore, I would say it still counts.

[@ThePauprinceaz09]

@@Valpo2004 I guess he's the kind that puts his penis in a girl and if she doesn't get pregnant then he didn't have sex..... Bro his thinking makes no sense

[@Tycho2501]

One small step for man, one giant leap for douchebags

[@savagedragon79]

Who hasn't been to space? Earth is basically a space ship you can't control.

[@theblade9024]

Touronauts Bezo and Branson do a disservice to the job when they call themselves astronauts.

[@tonymockeridge338]

Neil's passion for his work is inspirational.

[@jasonbitten7222]

👍

[@Lanwarder]

Neil got out of backstage and I immediately thought "I wonder what he'd say about music and the way sound waves travel".......Oh Neil, you are an international treasure lol.

[@darikis3437]

Can we get a part 1, 2, and 3 on these?

[@africaexplained6836]

I've watched him answer this question several times and I learn something new every time. Weldon Niel.

[@andymcdermott2108]

Dude gets so worked up lol. But honestly that's what you have to expect if you ask NDT onto your show and ask him questions about douches in space.

[@celticphoenix2579]

Douches near space.

[@kepler186f4]

If these employers have enough surplus money to start their own space race then they are not treating their employees properly, tax the rich, tax the corporations.

[@SuperLeica1]

How to get rich: Overprice your deliveries and/or underpay your employees. Simple as that!

[@carlojones8610]

@@SuperLeica1 not that simple... build a business first.🧠🦶

[@savannahm.laurentian1286]

Bezos made enough money off the pandemic to give all of his employees a 100k bonus & still be as wealthy as he was when pandemic started.🤯

[@mikell.6064]

Compared to the poorest places on earth, you have a surplus of money and time to pay for internet and take leisure activities. Why don’t you send your money to those places? Oh right, it’s because you earned it and want to keep what you worked for.

[@kepler186f4]

@@mikell.6064 I do.

[@kenrudsvick7633]

If sound can't travel through a vacuum, then how can Marjorie Taylor Greene hear anything? Answer me that, Neil!

[@Doggeslife]

No vacuum. Her skull is solid bone, and sound travels faster through solids. ;-)

[@Electricshrock]

Hearing is dependent on the matter OUTSIDE one's head. It's LISTENING that is dependent on the matter INSIDE one's head, and the area in which MTG and her ilk are clearly deficient.

[@williamphillips2671]

She lives on earth where there isn’t a vacuum so sounds can be heard. Just because you can hear sounds doesn’t mean you’re intelligent. Maybe you’re on par with Marjories intellect

[@williamphillips2671]

@@Electricshrock lol ummm no not at all actually. Both happen outside your mind, then are transported to the mind for interpreting

[@gggnumber1]

@@Doggeslife - NBA is some type of BOT. "Fuk what you saying it here" I got the same comment on another vid, but posted by a different name.

[@Adrian13rams]

His sass with this interview was the greatest thing lol

[@FatherDragonKal]

Neil as a guest is always welcome, his knowledge and expertise is so warm and well explained!

[@caseynorth6080]

WHAT?!

[@basedgodstrugglin]

@@caseynorth6080 Hello? Can you hear me?

[@sty1es234]

I like how everytime Neil degrasse Tyson comes on the show, Stephen always tries to keep up with his intellect haha

[@80sMusicLover13]

Or he dumbs down for other guests.

[@dark_neverland]

@@80sMusicLover13 he probably does both

[@HopDavid]

If Colbert knew some physics and history he wouldn't let Tyson get away with his bull shit. I've watched Neil drop a steaming load like telling Stephen that Newton invented calculus on a dare or that he explained elliptical orbits before he turned 26. Tyson will fee Stephen addled bull shit and Stephen thinks he's a genius. Just like most of Tyson's audience.

[@Big_Wamu]

@@HopDavid link us your findings

[@HopDavid]

@@Big_Wamu KZbin is filtering my comments if they contain links. But you can hear Tyson outline his history of Newton in the BigThink Video "My man, Sir Isaac Newton". Tyson tells us a friend asked Newton why do planets move in elliptical orbits? Newton says I don't know and comes back two months later with the answer. And then Newton turns 26. It was in Principia that Newton explained elliptical orbits. And it was Halley's famous question that prompted Newton to write Principia. Halley asked the question in 1684 when Newton was in his 40s. So, no, didn't happen before he turned 26. Tyson also got the question wrong, Newton's answer wrong and the time frame wrong. It took Newton somehat longer than two months. You can learn more by Googling "Did Newton Answer Halley's Question?" Thony Christie also disemboweled Tyson addled history in his piece "Why doesn't he just shut up?" Nearly everything Tyson says about Newton is addled nonsense.

[@KrisHoppz]

He gets so passionate lol. Love it

[@byusaranicole]

The fact that America has a favorite astrophysicist makes us sound a hell of a lot smarter than we actually are. Lol! But he really is!

[@dawnstanley1733]

I never get tired of listening to Neil. 🥰

[@sgabriel]

Neither does he.

[@DJTtheFatPig]

Neither does Neil. Check your intellectual vanity in the green room son. Overbearing vs. overbearing, enough said.

[@Ava-wu4qp]

Tyson has such a fun dorky vibe- I love it

[@NewMessage]

So Bezos's 'trip to space' is what you'd get if you ordered it from Wish.

[@flackstar007]

Or amazon if the workers had bathroom breaks to allow for better productivity and averted the desire to sabotage the rockets to explode the moment Bezos tries to take a leak while riding his pe*is rocket to the Karman line.

[@randmiller88]

Or more appropriately, one of those shitty random third-world Amazon sellers like CZURKA and WAINLUS

[@theblade9024]

Touronauts Bezo and Branson do a disservice to the job when they call themselves astronauts.

[@mecahunter7092]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@johndododoe1411]

@@theblade9024 It's like calling yourself a seafarer when you walk just far enough from the beech to get your beard wet. (Or in Virgin Branson's case: Just the hair between his legs).

[@depoalkevin]

Can the guy who uploads these put part 1, 2 or 3 in the title?? Is that so hard to do?

[@rachelgarber1423]

I think someone at the network uploaded this

[@mwater_moon2865]

@@rachelgarber1423 And that's the point. If you really must break it into parts, then number them!

[@myeclecticchoices]

I always love it when he is around. 👍🏼👍🏼❤

[@BMrider75]

Up to the Kármán line and back down in 12 minutes is a millionaire's fairground ride. Pah.... Getting up to orbital speed and staying in orbit to do something useful is the achievement. That's the point...

[@johnsmithe4656]

Yes, what they did was a glorified roller coaster ride. One step up from the Vomit Comet.

[@johndododoe1411]

Which is why Elon is selling trips even higher, but is talking about going on the really long trip himself.

[@johnsmithe4656]

@@JenHoegeman O M G you are pasting this comment EVERYWHERE, aren't you. Like a frikkin Russian troll, but to defend Elon Musk. That's pathetic. I hope he's paying you. Otherwise that's some heavy water you're carrying for free.

[@cleverusername9369]

I've said it before and I'll say it again, the best and classiest guests always acknowledge Jon and the band. Dr Tyson did not disappoint.

[@dunbar9finger]

The definition of 100km for the Karman line is a mostly legal definition for jurisdiction reasons. It's where aviation agencies aren't in charge anymore and space agencies take over. There are some physical phenomena that could be used to define the edge of space but none of them end up being exactly 100km. For example, it could mean the altitude at which airplanes can't experience lift. That was the first proposed definition by Von Karman himself but he recognized it's problematic because that will change with airplane technology as lighter materials are discovered that can make bigger wings. Another proposal is the altitude at which air is so thin that free oxygen atoms exist (instead of O2 it's just O1) because they don't collide into each other to join together into molecules). But that definition would give you a value more like 90km not 100. Essentially, 100km ended up being just an arbitrary number to settle on, since the physical reality is that the air doesn't have an edge. It just gets thinner and thinner as you go up, asymptomatically approaching vacuum without quite fully being a vacuum.

[@mrkyll100]

🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

[@sundhaug92]

You also have issues like that atmospheric thickness varies

[@AdrianColley]

I liked "in space nobody can hear you scream", which puts the threshold at the level where density is too low to support sound. That's 160 km.

[@alalalala57]

So?

[@normanplombe2889]

Mr. Madison, what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

[@KaptainKKD]

My two favorite people on this planet. God, I pray that I can meet these two wonderful men one day. Their friendship despite their ethnic, religious, and academic differences is a testament to the world that we can live in peace and laugh together.

[@susanpetty4115]

So right Hwang. Very observant. 🥳🎉

[@HopDavid]

I wish Colbert would call out Neil's rants against religion. For example Tyson's tale of how Newton just stopped because he had God on the brain. According to Tyson an agnostic Newton could have easily done Laplace's n-body mechanics in an afternoon. After all -- Newton invented calculus *and* explained elliptical orbits on a dare! In two months! All before Newton turned 26. Halley's "dare" was made in 1684 when Newton was in his 40s. So, no, Newton didn't invent calculus and write Principia on a dare before he turned 26. And he didn't do all this in two months all on his own. He had a lot of help. Tyson compresses decades of collaborative efforts into two months and claims Newton did it all on his own. Nor did Newton just stop. Again and again Newton returned to the the problem of n-body mechanics. Specifically attempting to model the 3-body system of the sun, earth and moon. Neil's claim is demonstrably false from the get go. After Newton tried Euler worked on the problem. As did Lagrange and d'Alembert. Laplace built on 100 years of work by Newton and these great mathematicians. So when Neil tells you perturbation theory is just a simple extension of calculus that Newton could have done in an afternoon -- that's Neil's way of telling you he doesn't know shit about perturbation theory. And there are other false histories Tyson uses to claim that religion stifles progress in math and science. Tyson's tales regarding George Bush, Copernicus, and Hamid al Ghazali are equally addled. Why doesn't Colbert challenge Tyson? I believe it's because Colbert puts being politically fashionable ahead of his faith.

[@HopDavid]

@@TheGollyLlama Right. Short, feel good sound bites. Don't Look Up did a great portrayal of our media circus. Tyson was interviewing director Adam McCay and commenting the film was a documentary. And Tyson's right. But what Tyson and McKay don't seem to be aware of is that they are part of the media circus. As is Colbert. We live in a culture that values celebrity and entertainment more than truth. Tyson and Trump are flip sides of the same coin. Colbert has beautiful suits and his hair styling is immaculate. I will give him that.

[@HopDavid]

@@TheGollyLlama I expect Tyson to remain a source of misinformation. And I expect nobody on the hairspray talk show circuit will challenge Neil. So, no, I don't expect them to be someone other than who they choose to be.

[@HopDavid]

@@TheGollyLlama Colbert has time to call out Trump's falsehoods. But no time to call out the politically fashionable.

[@JayElls]

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ thank you for this wonderful guest. NDT is an amazing human. I have his book, delivered today, and cannot wait to read it.

[@trashtalker420]

Id love if Neil could be on the show every week, they have such great chemistry.

[@LoriAW3791]

Neil is the Greatest Explainer ever! 🤯

[@HopDavid]

Except that a lot of his explanations are wrong.

[@vladtepes97]

no, this is the greatest explainer ever. kzbin.info/www/bejne/l5rNioBpabCNmZY

[@AceSpadeThePikachu]

I've been watching Star Talk for a few years now, and one thing I've taken away from it all is...never get Neil started on the Carmen Line or the science in Star Wars. :P

[@accam6734]

I've been watching Star Trek for some time now.

[@AceSpadeThePikachu]

@@accam6734 I mean...I watch "Star Trek" too.

[@EmpyreanLightASMR]

The loophole is "galaxy far, far away". There could be a galaxy with enough interstellar medium, even invisible, that sound propagates. Anyway, that's my theory.

[@AceSpadeThePikachu]

@@EmpyreanLightASMR Even a small nebula with the density of Mars's atmosphere (1% that of Earth's and probably the bare minimum density for ANY sound-waves to propagate at all), would collapse into a star or brown dwarf under its own gravity within only a few millennia.

[@EmpyreanLightASMR]

@@AceSpadeThePikachu So what you're telling me is the galaxy in Star Wars is a nebula that will collapse into a brown dwarf, so everyone in SW is miniature in scale? That's actually a really cool hypothesis that I bet no one's thought of! Not even kidding. Btw, great point, I'm no mathematician but it would make sense to calculate the density of the galaxy (in this case) and find out what happens then.

[@looseleaflouie]

I get to watch two of my favorite people talk on 4/20🥲 This is a real treat.

[@stefanhoimes]

Sláinte!

[@alessandrapirelli7040]

Think about it, one can spend one's evening pondering the wonders of the universe and human intellect with Neil DeGrasse Tyson or .... be stimulated by the likes of Tucker Carlson and the FOX blabber-drome!

[@MonkeyJedi99]

If I found myself being 'stimulated' by Tucker Carlson, I'd call the police. Wait, what did YOU mean by 'stimulated'?

[@joejacko1587]

why even bring up the dude enjoy a moment without political conflict space something that can unite us

[@Blackstar-ti4py]

​@@joejacko1587ofc they plan to unite you through space and aliens you rdy?

[@chelsimartin6402]

I need hours of these two together.

[@PDFulwood]

Did anyone else get the feeling that NDT had been hitting the complimentary beverages in the green room prior to coming out?

[@darrenhemingway7121]

American talk shows run a dry ship… Graham Norton raised this issue when he was a guest and they hadn’t changed policy when he returned. Personally, I think NDT refuelled prior to arrival at the studio.

[@efemdesign]

Hahaha. His ring tone. "Neil, you're right! Neil, you're right" good jab by Stephen! 😍

[@tomunterwegs1206]

"to boldly go where hundrets have gone before" ... damn!

[@SpaceForceCommander]

Bezos, Branson & Musk are having a rocket-measuring contest. May the schwartz be with you!

[@FakingANerve]

"I see your schwartz _isn't_ as big as mine." -Elon to Jeff

[@TheViralInfekT]

To boldly go where hundreds have gone before 😂

[@ShawnsterVideos]

"There's literally everything in space Morty! Now GTF back in the car!"

[@laalaa99stl]

NDT is a n̵a̵t̵i̵o̵n̵a̵l̵ i̵n̵t̵e̵r̵n̵a̵t̵i̵o̵n̵a̵l̵ intergalactic planetary, planetary intergalactic treasure!

[@HopDavid]

He's a source of misinformation. Bad math, wrong science and false history. But he delivers his B.S. in a smooth confident voice leaving you with the impression he's just raised your I.Q. When the opposite is true.

[@johnlocke9383]

Lol, I don't even know how they had the nerve to call 12 minutes of flight space travel.

[@theblade9024]

Touronauts Bezo and Branson do a disservice to the job when they call themselves astronauts.

[@kiriuxeosa8716]

Easy because if you have money you can make your own rules and make up your own truths We've known this for a while now

[@glowz3048]

💖 로수 | RoSoo: The Parrot Protector (Time-lapse) -- kzbin.info/www/bejne/qqnMq4uhodtmjLc 🖤

[@420thebass]

Real Neil with the brain of steel 👌

[@casbot71]

So the first part of the interview is uploaded _last?_

[@Oct8pus]

My biggest complaint is that this segment isn't 3 hours long

[@agrey832]

1:57 The level of disgust in Neil's voice when he said "At MOST" 🤣🤣

[@rippergamingofficial3128]

They Namaste in the beginning was cool 😎

[@JackOfHearts42]

Dr. deGrasse Tyson is always so great to see interviewed.

[@suekelsey1329]

Awesome Show! Thank you Again!

[@centuraxaum5951]

he did Namaste @ 0.31, he's so humble

[@runcycleskixc]

Thank you Dr Tyson, I am not alone in thinking that Bezos did not go to real space. Orbitting would count.

[@NUFAN1313]

His passion is so endearing and contagious. We need more relatable scientists to teach us how our universe works. These are my favorite interviews.

[@jackel180]

Yes, he really is informative, however, this dude annoyingly LOVES to hear himself talk and keeps patting himself on the back. There is other more modest scientists that just want to give the information to the world and are not worried about sounding like the smartest dude to ever exist. It really gets annoying. Also there is strong evidence that he basically calls art degree students idiots. Like art has no place in this world. I think he is a douche myself. "I am an astrophysicist, I am an astrophysicist!" We get it dude.

[@MissHoneyOnline]

I can’t get enough of these two

[@Leftyotism]

FINALLY MORE NEIL! 🥰

[@vonettaspencer2904]

Neil said, “ all they did was go to the corner store and came back. I didn’t want nothing.”

[@chicagoboy1106]

*It never ceases to amaze that there are still people who don't wish to accept the fact that we all are on Spaceship Earth!*

[@normanplombe2889]

Really? That's what you find amazing?

[@CloudsGirl7]

Hell, there are people who don't acknowledge it to be moving, or that it's a globe. 😑 Lack of natural selection has not done our species any favors.

[@alyamahawilliam6624]

❤️

[@Blackstar-ti4py]

​@@CloudsGirl7hell and funniest thing is those dumbest of us, lazy bufoons dont even realize they re dumb, you could mock em right in the face and they wouldnt even know 😂

[@TikiHi77]

Still waiting for Neil to pull out props.or a whiteboard, but he explains it so well he doesn't need to. How can you not love him!

[@jlee4039]

As he ages, Tyson is slowly but surely turning into your cranky but adorable gramps.

[@bedagny1088]

“That’s not my definition. I can’t…” 😂🤣

[@deniseh6540]

what an awesome guest!! Neil Degrasse Tyson

[@robertaldaron4870]

I love NDT, but I think he had one too many energy drinks before going on stage🤭

[@marcinS1988]

I can listen to this man all day!!

[@HopDavid]

I hadn't heard Neil's definition of the Karman line. I had always thought of it as the border where aerodynamic lift was no longer possible but a ship could achieve orbital velocity without excessive atmospheric drag. Casual Googling seems to reinforce what I remember. I suspect this is one of those definitions Neil just made up.

[@EmpyreanLightASMR]

This was the first I'd heard that definition too. I think he made it up to just dumb it down. In StarTalk, he goes off on how we can have a "line" where you're one moment not in space, and the next in space; but by his definition here, he's saying you're one moment in blue sky, next moment in black sky; and then he negates the whole thing by mentioning the blue fading away. It's not his best moment, but this is a talk show afterall

[@HopDavid]

@@EmpyreanLightASMR It's a lot better than some of his gaffes. LIke saying carbon is the only element that burns. Or that the James Webb Space Telescope is parked in earth's shadow. There's a long list. It's demoralizing so many put this pop science celebrity on a pedestal.

[@leavingitblank9363]

@@EmpyreanLightASMR I assumed the "line" he initially referred to was what appears to be a line when viewed from a great distance.

[@leavingitblank9363]

I don't know either definition, but it is possible that both are correct? That the technical definition you gave is technically correct, but perhaps it coincides with the point of change he described? In which case he was describing it in a way that the public could visualize it and understand it, whereas the technical definition still leaves us scratching our heads.

[@HopDavid]

@@leavingitblank9363 I would expect the sky to turn black lower than 50 miles. Tyson just made up this definition and it's likely wrong.

[@dachanist]

When and immovable ego meets an unstoppable ego

[@TheNotSure]

Science eh? You know Niel, I'm somewhat of a scientist myself. Did a little time traveling in my day... wait... what year is this!? ... But it's still 4/20?... Ok! Don't mind me if I try to reach space a little differently today.

[@SpaceForceCommander]

“In space, no one can hear you fart” was what we all joked about when Alien first came out (of someone’s torso).

[@thend4427]

Lol

[@ngozinnunukwe5680]

"boldly going where hundreds have gone before."🤣🤣🤣

[@jeffs6090]

I wish these videos were numbered (with the number at the start of the title) so we can watchbthem in order. I got it all wrong when picking this first one.

[@ah4205]

why did the trumpets have to go so hard in that intro

[@elmerfudd5193]

Damn Neil!; You are always OUT THERE!!!

[@jeanwitherspoon4659]

I love this guy, Mr. deGrasse Tyson 🥰

[@asturiancetorix2552]

I never got tired of seeing Neil talking, great sense of humour.

[@DungeonStudio]

I'm going to form a band called Stimp and write a song entitles "When DeGrasse Tyson Puts His Vest On'. Bet that's never been done before!

[@marc21256]

Where is the Carmen line? Sandiego.

[@tania2897]

Why do I titter every time I see a new Neil deGrasse Tyson interview?

[@tania2897]

"And how does sound work, Neil?" HA!

[@spelledfunny]

This is like a very long discussion about where the sky starts.

[@KevinP32270]

looooove listening to DR. TYSON.

[@blindsightedkill]

The Amazing laughter of Neil and Julia Robert's is excellent

[@ThatTieDyeGuy]

Ridley Scott was right!!! In space, no one can hear you scream, really. :D

[@freda2758]

"As an astrophysicist, send me somewhere, rather than boldly going where hundreds have gone before." Neil deGrasse Tyson

[@ratholin]

Morgan Freeman said the same thing about 10 years ago. "I don't want to go up then come back down, that's not space travel. I want to go somewhere."

[@HopDavid]

Neil's not an astrophysicist.

[@aaronbrandon2321]

@@HopDavid his degrees say your wrong buddy.

[@HopDavid]

@@aaronbrandon2321 Neil flunked out of his first attempt at a doctorate at University of Texas with his advisors suggesting Neil pursue a different career, that he had little aptitude for physics. And they were correct. You can often see Neil dropping howlers in his pop science routines. He is a source of misinformation. Bad math, wrong science and false history. He was lead author of a handful of forgettable papers in the early 90s. He gets an honorary mention very late in a long list of authority in the COSMOS review papers. And that's it. He has done virtually zero research over the last 30 years. Charisma and political skills can get you far, even in academia. Especially in academia. Any institution that's awarded Neil a degree should be embarrassed.

[@mondomikeg4921]

This dude is cool man, I would love to be able to chit chat with N.D.T. sometime.

[@hrnekbezucha]

We're all in space, suck it up, billionaires

[@theblade9024]

Touronauts Bezo and Branson do a disservice to the job when they call themselves astronauts.

[@SolRC]

Billionaires should compete in returning the earth to it's sustainable equilibrium.....but it's more exciting for Niel to argue anything, including his on board host.

[@jujujupiter]

Neil

[@rishavdutta6970]

We eventually have to look for other planets to colonize as our civilisation grows. We would need more resources and Earth isn't safe from the threats coming from outer space. We would not be alive to witness humans accomplishing interstellar travel (if humans last that long) but perhaps it's better.

[@TerryTerius]

I think that’s a bit apples and oranges. Ultimately our issues with industries are going to need to be changed with a planetary shift in government regulations and funding. It’s mostly a policy issue, as well as an issue with money from the fossil fuel industry among others filling the pockets of politicians. Let SpaceX and the others focus on advancing our space capabilities, they are not the problem in this equation.

[@raziele92]

Na Stephen. America's favorite astrophysicist is Carl Sagan.

[@moedtimer]

Sagan is dead

[@melodygn]

Of the past generation maybe. This generation it's Neil

[@Josh-iw3md]

That's like saying Italys favourite astrophysicist is Galileo Galelei

[@speedhump231]

He is not dead, he just went home.

[@raziele92]

@@Josh-iw3md that's a stupid analogy. Sagan is in fact someone who made astrophysics mainstream. Neil simply inserted himself in his place. He also testified to Congress about climate change. He was the first one to intentionally create and send messages along with machines into space to see if he could find any life out of this planet. He helped to understand the atmospheres of Venus, Mars, and Jupiter, as well as the probability of habitable moons.

[@MasterOfDarkness42069]

I'm still mad at Branson for giving Stephen a fake photo that didn't actually go to space.

[@Jason-Thorne]

To be fair, neither did Branson. He went to the edge of space. Somewhere already visited by the likes of James May, Adam Savage, and a piece of Tom Scott's garlic bread 😂

[@CloudsGirl7]

Yes, but are we really surprised?

[@nihatboydas4479]

Since that segment I started to wonder if they ever replied to Stephen.

[@whatabouttheearth]

That's why Bezos' company Blue Origin is nicknamed 'Glued to Origin'

[@catalinacurio]

Safest place to be right now.

[@paulo3011]

I love how visibly upset he is about this.

[@EmpyreanLightASMR]

Should've asked the tough question: not where is the definition of space (btw, he goes into more detail on this in startalk), but whether space tourists can call themselves astronauts. wouldn't mind him putting that to rest on national tv.

[@ArmArmAdv]

Love this man!

[@emmanueludenta331]

Gotta love Neil

[@burrvisiontv]

Every topic discussion he giggles giggles giggles about serious topics

[@Utonian21]

"boldly going where hundreds have gone before" LMAO

[@biffy7]

Number the episodes, pretty please.

[@stefanhoimes]

I love when guests thank the musicians. Moar Stay Human plz

[@susanpetty4115]

I love you Neil Degrasse Tyson. A lot!!

[@DKDRFTA]

Rick "everything is in space morty!"

[@rusty9508]

Science above everything.