The Long Arc to Scientific Understanding - Live from the Museum of Natural History

How were Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto first discovered? Neil deGrasse Tyson explores the often un-discussed past failures in astrophysics and why “how tall are you?” is an unanswerable question.
What is the Earth’s ellipticity? What is the sun’s diameter? How do you measure the edge of something that is made out of gas? Neil breaks down how measurements are inexact and the idea of scientific uncertainty. Learn about Galileo’s discovery of Jupiter’s moons, the search for Planet X, and the later discoveries of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. Find out about the planet, Vulcan, that scientists proposed to explain Mercury’s orbit. Plus, naturally, Neil breaks down the density of the The Hulk.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:30 - Why “How Tall Are You” Has No Answer
06:57 - The Shape of Earth’s Orbit
12:28 - The Diameter of the Earth & Sun
16:15 - Discovering The Galilean Moons
21:15 - Discovering Uranus & Neptune
25:10 - The Search for Planet X
29:55 - The Birth & Death of Planet Vulcan
31:50 - Conclusions
33:07 - The Density of The Hulk

[@StarTalk]

Have you read "To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery" yet!?

[@mrpearson1230]

I have it but have not read it yet. I read Letters from an Astrophysicist 3 times if that counts!??! I hate I missed this in Birmingham Al. where I live because I had to work 😢.

[@alexhidell663]

Let's rename Uranus to Pluto...

[@timcallender999]

I'm reading it now!

[@SheSweetLikSugarNSavage]

Literally....😂Reading it... dissecting it... chapter by chapter from an Ebook. I was about to go start back reading until this video popped up...! eBooks are literally like digital adventures that far exceed the original text style book. Read something in an ebook, and don't know what it is, or never been there? Highlight it, and now there's a full page of footnotes, reference notes, other information to explore, places to go. Highlight those, and you're teleported anywhere on the world, in space or through time via the internet. Suddenly the "I'm just reading a book," has stretched out waaaay beyond being done in a few days. 😆 I went from 54% done down to 31% after back tracking the Apollo moon dust.

[@Abmebbma]

Waiting for it to come out on Audiable

[@ANS_11419]

Thank you Dr. Tyson for being one of the most important educators who helped the world understand the importance of science

[@scottpilgrim2]

He's no doctor ffs

[@erikhendrickson59]

​​@@scottpilgrim2lol what? He's a Harvard educated Doctor of Astrophysics

[@ShawnGlenn.]

@@erikhendrickson59Unfortunately, stupidity isn’t curable.

[@blondiejem]

@@scottpilgrim2He has a doctorate

[@davidmartin5764]

He is a doctor of understanding

[@joejohnson1507]

Neil is the best speaker scientist and educator I’ve ever seen. So blessed to receive his free content

[@user-mf7nb6fg1b]

obviously you were not alive when Carl Sagan was alive ...

[@InsaneMetalSoldier]

And Brian Greene !

[@Bokonon999]

@@user-mf7nb6fg1b Carl Sagan was NDT's protégé.

[@kylemorgan1272]

37 years old and more than half my life not understanding education is so awesome I've been making every morning listening to 2hrs of startalk

[@ogi22]

If the education goal is to create good soldiers and workers (prussian education style), then please, don't be surprised. The other part of this equation is education in palatable format. Noone in their right mind will go for weird hieroglyphs on the blackboard, without a proper understanding if those things. I'm so happy to see science educators like Mr. Tyson, trying to make it simple enough for normal people to understand.

[@ToWhomItMayConcern420]

Yes neil is great at explaining the complicated bits lol I've seen most of his work

[@ogi22]

@@ToWhomItMayConcern420 He is great. Did you see an interview with Richard Feynman? "The pleasure of finding things out". And yes, there is a book too 😊

[@MegaSkills9]

When kids or adults hear a dull or boring teacher they they learn a lot less, because they zone out or are not really paying attention. Dr. Tyson knows this. He not only has an IQ of genius but he makes it FUN. He is very entertaining and fun to listen to. His use of humor is the key. He is also able to brake down complex things and make it easy to assimilate. The only thing to add to this, is his Love of Science and his love for both Learning as well as teaching. His enthusiasm is contagious. I have followed him since he first became known. I have the same love of Science and teaching. People should all learn more and more until the day they die. Take what you learn about Science and teach it to others you care about.

[@JackMott]

studies on this question have found that students learn the same amount from boring teachers but they feel like they didn’t. reality is wild.

[@MegaSkills9]

Why do you feel obligated to devalue what I said? What I stated is 100% true. I highly doubt that you researched studies on this topic. Please keep your negative and illogical comment to yourself. @@JackMott

[@JackMott]

Sorry MegaSkills9, I'll be sure to just let you say whatever you want and go unchallenged, even if it is wrong, in the future. That is definitely a healthy intellectual mindset you have there, just calling someone a liar if they don't agree with you.​@@MegaSkills9

[@davidcurrier4895]

@@MegaSkills9bh

[@ThizzRyuko]

I put this episode on while I was cleaning, and I just looked down 33:15 and sad it's almost finished.

[@joshisajedi2461]

The worst part of this video is that it isn’t longer.

[@tannhauser5399]

Or when it doesn't include discussion with somebody like Carl Sagan (or with a similar approach). Just imagine that scenario in the modern age, on the stage, some kind of discussion between those two guys. Yeah, I know: RIP Carl, I wish there was more people like you in the current/modern world.

[@bktiger9461]

Hey Dr. Tyson, my fellow Bx. Science alum! We met at Pace University in 2006 when you received an honorary degree and did a keynote for us. I look forward to introducing my son to you; will try to see you when you speak at the Hayden Planetarium again. Thank you for making Science cool!

[@MRTACPANS]

PLUTO 84 . CHaracterized Avatar or WB Production... The Dog It Not He or She But an iT was an Orange Dog. OR is Gold in French and D O G G ates of the Divide. Dog 26/8, Pluto is the Beginning in Equality Before Dividing at the Gate Between Knight and Day. A Venus 81 Sun 54 Venue the 33 Day 30. 59:59-0 Ei-Ei-0 59 M 59 S. The Son The Ring The Pole What is to Buy and To Cell Sell DUBAI. A WORD in CORRELATION to all that Exists. 84=/8x4=32, 8+4=12+32=44, 44 Will Become the Division of Knight and Day in the Triangular Star System Sun Systems... 4x4=16 Call this 2/3rd of a Day and 4+4=8 Call this EVE. If I should Say EVE (5 4 5) you Write 8. If I Say Adam you Say 16/7... 16+8=24 Hrs of the Day in which the Next Step Puts us at the 7th Gate Forfront of the Heavens*g8.....2x4=8, 2+4=6... 68 House 68 Planet... The Reverse Cube or Two Dice CUbes. 1+5 reverse 6+2, 2+4 reverse 5+3, 3+3 reverse 4+4. Note 3rd Planet Earth 52/7 , 4th Planet MARs 32+19= 51/6 (Pig 797) . Think the Spirit of 76 is any relation as when you place a Bet of 6 chips on the Six or Eight the Return is 13 or 7 win plus the six you placed. It is Called the Place Bet. the Word Place is Silver. as a Win is Gold.. Keeping this Breif. 52+51=103 or J 10 C 03 Jesus Christ Matter Energy... GEO ALPHA NUMERIC. The Creator Created and Left us all the answers

[@user-jgfdds56iigv7]

This guy is an entertaining teacher. I could listen all day without getting bored or this becoming ultra dry. Nice job 😊

[@JoshL10]

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Neil has made Science fun for me again. Going on 20 years now! Thank you!!!

[@baileescott401]

Love the on stage videos, it's a different kind of vibe, would watch for hours

[@ChrisFrench-NWAwithchris]

The best scientist in the world who actually cares about people in general.

[@stein1385]

His dedication is legendary ❤

[@Kube_Dog]

Not a scientist, a science-communicator. A better version of Bill Nye.

[@astrophysicist137]

@@Kube_Dog He is a scientist with a phd in astrophysics as well as a science-communicator and have written books.

[@Kube_Dog]

@@astrophysicist137 You strengthened my point that he's not a scientist, but a science -communicator. He failed his dissertation multiple times and the one he passed is considered poor. He never practiced actual science that I'm aware of. If I'm wrong about that, inform me and I'll admit it. But his career is communicating science, not practicing it. He's good at what he does, but does not deserve credit for what he isn't and doesn't do. That's fair.

[@astrophysicist137]

@@Kube_DogJust a phd in certain fields gives you the title scientist. Doing phd is not science?

[@robertmiller9735]

I have two points: preindustrial people's water usually wasn't pure. And, the most popular territorial definition of "Europe" includes a portion of Russia that's larger than Greenland.

[@robertmiller9735]

@@Russia-bullies Area of Greenland: 2.16 million square kilometers. Area of Australia: 7.69 square kilometers. You using a Mercator map? Anyway, what's a "continent" is pretty arbitrary. America is either one continent, or two. Europe either is a continent, or not.

[@Russia-bullies]

Agreed.Apologies for the mistake.

[@ehhhhhhhhhh]

Neil was not saying all water was clean in the past... you've created a strawman there. Neil was quoting organic food advertising, and pointing out the absurdity that the organic food industry wants to return to the ways we farmed when people died of natural causes in their 30s.

[@robertmiller9735]

@@ehhhhhhhhhh Yeah, I got his message. He could have done better. I also correct wrong apostrophes and theres. I've never figured out any pattern in what's socially acceptable to correct and what's not, so...

[@Menolly20]

If Russia is not in Europe because it is a transcontinental State then Denmark is not the biggest country because Greenland is not in the European continent.

[@someshkumar2411]

An amazing presentation, representing the narrative and historical progression of science, in an easy to understand and interactive manner for everyone...☝🏾🔭👀

[@leeFbeatz]

❤🙏 amazing seeing the live show in action again!!!!!!!!! Thank you very much as well for the lecture and education❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@pithicus52]

Have you ever thought that we keep finding more moons of Jupiter because the Jupiterians keep launching more of them?

[@larscarter7406]

Nah, the cloaking warranty just ran out on them probably.😊

[@TheMichaelBeck]

The proper name for the Jupiter system is "Jovian". Don't ask me why, I learned it from NDT's book "Death by Black Hole" Also, Venusians would be called "Venereals". He jokes that doctors beat astronomers to the punch because "Astronomy is the world's second oldest profession". 😂

[@pithicus52]

@@TheMichaelBeck "Jovian" Yes, thank you. I just couldn't dredge that up from my brain at the time so I invented my own term.

[@TheMichaelBeck]

@@pithicus52 LOL! Whatever works! I 100% believe there is life of some type on Jupiter's Europa or Saturn's Enceladus. I hope we find out in my lifetime. Cheers!

[@pithicus52]

@@TheMichaelBeck I hope you are right.

[@Abmebbma]

This is awesome. When did you do the show? I’ve seen Neil but not StarTalk Neil. Need some more of this

[@MRTACPANS]

PLUTO 84 . CHaracterized Avatar or WB Production... The Dog It Not He or She But an iT was an Orange Dog. OR is Gold in French and D O G G ates of the Divide. Dog 26/8, Pluto is the Beginning in Equality Before Dividing at the Gate Between Knight and Day. A Venus 81 Sun 54 Venue the 33 Day 30. 59:59-0 Ei-Ei-0 59 M 59 S. The Son The Ring The Pole What is to Buy and To Cell Sell DUBAI. A WORD in CORRELATION to all that Exists. 84=/8x4=32, 8+4=12+32=44, 44 Will Become the Division of Knight and Day in the Triangular Star System Sun Systems... 4x4=16 Call this 2/3rd of a Day and 4+4=8 Call this EVE. If I should Say EVE (5 4 5) you Write 8. If I Say Adam you Say 16/7... 16+8=24 Hrs of the Day in which the Next Step Puts us at the 7th Gate Forfront of the Heavens*g8.....2x4=8, 2+4=6... 68 House 68 Planet... The Reverse Cube or Two Dice CUbes. 1+5 reverse 6+2, 2+4 reverse 5+3, 3+3 reverse 4+4. Note 3rd Planet Earth 52/7 , 4th Planet MARs 32+19= 51/6 (Pig 797) . Think the Spirit of 76 is any relation as when you place a Bet of 6 chips on the Six or Eight the Return is 13 or 7 win plus the six you placed. It is Called the Place Bet. the Word Place is Silver. as a Win is Gold.. Keeping this Breif. 52+51=103 or J 10 C 03 Jesus Christ Matter Energy... GEO ALPHA NUMERIC. The Creator Created and Left us all the answers

[@hectormflores8862]

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[@natasharamen8620]

Wow. Mind blown. 🤯 always a joy when I am at work and I play this in the background. Thank you 🙏🏾

[@McIntoshjosh123]

Thank you for asking questions to make us think and answering questions even though you want us to find the answer for ourselves 😊

[@matthewtubbs1657]

Awesome explanation of how diligent theorizing can and often does pay off with evidence.

[@rass1419765]

The way doctor explains is very exciting and he also get exited to explain

[@ceruleandusk]

Extremely entertaining to watch. He is a great communicator and teacher.

[@user-df6mf9mb2l]

I wish all teachers could be so colorful, interesting, fascinating and lovable.

[@fairygurl9269]

19:32 Actually Check John Green's TB Rants

[@SolidRollin]

My first thought when Neil said that was, John Green.

[@markloveless1001]

Magnificent, Dr.Niel. Best explainer I've ever heard for the uncertainty of measurements. All the way up and all the way down to Dr. Heisenberg's neck of the woods. Thank you sir.

[@rjpittman4510]

The single most important educator in my life time. Not the smartest, he would be the first to admit it. But making science fun is important to bringing new people to the fold, or the nooks and crannies, whichever is which. If I ever have a son, his name will be Issac Neil, after my 2 favorite scientists!

[@michaelwilson569]

Makes all ages want to go back to school. Every part is the good part. God bless all teachers. They make the world go round and with instilling knowledge in the minds of all who thirst

[@uriituw]

This is definitely worth sharing!

[@EliteWalkThroughs]

I’m a simple man, I see Chuck and Neil and I click and i go to bed.

[@robinghosh5627]

Neil DeGrasse Tyson is the Greatest Exponent of Scientific Thought, Understanding , Critical thinking, Rationalism in search of the Truth in the Beauty and Grandeur of our Universe...Thank you Sir..

[@SlickTim9905]

Thank you for the perspective.

[@jamesbullo]

Thank you for sharing this talk with us 🙏

[@AnarchoReptiloidUa]

Awesome video. Thank you for your great enlightnment work. ❤❤❤❤❤

[@joppadoni]

Love the review of the facts... As much as the presentation!

[@leonvanaswegen7195]

I love the way you explain things!

[@jojosworld8957]

He is so excited about sharing science. I can't help but get excited about it, too.

[@DarkSkay]

11:08 The answer of the person in the audience can be considered the most accurate, since the question didn't exclude countries which have territory on several continents.

[@JudgeDredd_]

Very interesting. Love these every single time.

[@youbewb5581]

18:50 is potentially one of the greatest things I have ever heard. Preach it, sir!

[@johnnyrosenberg9522]

Well, it doesn't mean much, doesn't it. Organic food doesn't prevent tuberculosis or being hit by a train. Organic food doesn't have anything to do with it. He probably only says it because it's a funny thing to say. Also, some of the other people mentioned died much older than that, it even says in the pictures he's showing.

[@brian1204]

When in college I studied geophysics, and one of my professors said outright that measurements in geophysics were all based on lies and approximations. So true, but also accurate to a particular degree of significance. It all depends on what degree of significance is needed for the activity.

[@englishjona6458]

Neil I knew the answers to most of your questions 👍🏽

[@mannycastillo3087]

What I truly truly love to hear from Neil is what he has learned and not allowed to Tell..! ?

[@ddamindu]

I love how excited he always about these things

[@sarasrandomz]

This man is one of the BEST things that has happened to humanity ❤️

[@jimmyzbike]

So glad I got to see you !

[@baconcat2458]

Hey Neil! I saw your show in Tampa and I had a question about something you mentioned. You were talking about how we discovered a new biggest star in our galaxy, being UY Scuti. However I thought Stephenson 2-18 was bigger? I would like some clarification on this :) Absolutely loved the show by the way. You were incredible.

[@giggagenius2175]

He said what he said pipe down.

[@victorw4142]

Quelle belle vulgarisation 👍🏼👌🏼 Félicitations Docteur 😊

[@stein1385]

Neil is the man ❤ Ty 👍

[@shedricowens7115]

My guy came to my city and I didn’t know. I would definitely have taken off work to come hear this

[@infernoic3]

I would love him as my professor 💯

[@solidcopy2822]

Thank you, Neil!

[@ToniSkit]

This is so important for the public

[@evansochieng10]

My number 1 Astrophysicist❤

[@profbri.02]

"I'd rather have questions I can't answer, than answers I can't question"

[@user-js1bz7ev4g]

You are one of my three favorite persons i want to meet in my life before they die. I wish one day i will see you❤.

[@TheMichaelBeck]

I could listen to him for days.

[@fwd79]

Hi, can I please ask when was this lecture delivered? And if there're any in future with live streaming then how can we attend?

[@N_G_C_2899]

Hello and thanks a million. ❤❤❤ I've been watching a lot of your videos recently to get motivated, but I am still very very hopeless because nobody likes to talk to me about science and I'm all alone. I'm not even sure to choose physics major in University if I'm going to be alone forever 💔 KZbin is the only place where I see people interested in science.

[@JonnyRay82]

That was amazing

[@Kidd23Kidds]

Yes, he’s chosen to make a difference in his life, and has done a great job.

[@pelijer]

Nice video, many thanks

[@pmtazekiel]

You brought up the amount that we don't care about... I would love to hear that explained more as it always bothered me in math that we could drop the plus C because it didn't matter, but why it didn't matter was never made clear.

[@paulpisters668]

The stand up comedy of science with Neil Tyson. Yes, yes, yes.

[@cubah1]

This is the challenges I face, not as a scientists because I am no where near to that level, but as a science lover when you have people always saying science is wrong and they always change their answers. It’s hard to explain to people with one dimensional thought processes this part of science

[@tylercone8545]

Thanks!

[@marianagyorgyfalvi3659]

Mulțumim!

[@DeannaGilbert616]

Well, he was right on there not being one answer. Approximately 1.3 million people died globally of tuberculosis in 2022.

[@davidmclay6182]

Sad that the dig on TB fell so flat, I caught that.

[@tbillings20]

I'm subscribed. Thanks

[@newYorkStories]

Where do I sign up for these lectures?

[@BenjySparky]

Neil, you rock! Peace

[@HieronymousCheese]

I would be perfectly content if the internet consisted of nothing more than videos of Neil De Grasse talking about ... well, everything. Superb.

[@tanbui7869]

The world's best and most renowned scientist and science communicator

[@AngryAmphibian]

Neil did five 1st author papers in the 80s and 90s. A pathetic output by the standards of actual astrophysicists. Were they exceptional papers? Nope. Harvard turned Neil down for post grade. University of Texas flunked him and showed him the door (and rightly so). Neil is an absolute joke when it comes to astrophysics research. I would give him credit for being a science communicator if he had standards for rigor and accuracy. He does not.

[@sidsimon5844]

We often frame our understanding of what the space telescope will do in terms of what we expect to find, and actually it would be terribly anticlimactic if in fact we find what we expect to find. … The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we do not yet know how to ask and will concern objects we have not yet imagined. • John N. Bahcall,

[@seanbeukman9563]

De Grasse sense of humour is classic. Seems like a lot audience dont get the subtle jokes. That may be mocking our over confidence in fixed history. Cant believe I avoided his stuff before. Thank you Sir Neil!

[@peterscherba4138]

Mr. Enthusiasm 🎉 inspires science AWAY from boring.

[@el.blanco8961]

This is the content I want

[@MarcoCurrin-qg1fy]

THANKS NEIL AND TEAM AROUND HIM…. You are participating in altering the actual shape of LIFE… yes it remembers all BILLIONS OF YEARS I REMEMBER

[@rodneymacomber6337]

My favorite book chaos a new science by James Gluck

[@Troyster94806]

It's all a matter of the precision needed. You can be "correct" within a significant digit. You can include a range or average some things out. You can create standards for how things are measured, like, for example, coastal rocks.

[@michaelaliber5654]

Thanks

[@aZnPriDe707]

"The credible hulk." This combination of variables energizes me

[@TheSkubna]

Favorite quite about sea pressure was futurama. How many atmospheres of pressure can the ship take? Well its a space ship so i would say anywhere between zero and 1

[@brianbanks3044]

Neil needs to write a book, "Lies my Science teacher told me"....similar to the History book of the same title

[@AngryAmphibian]

Neil needs to write a book correcting his own misinformation.

[@achrace.profrichardachara]

Brilliant. Humorous. And, captivating. ...As usual!

[@bdr420i]

Astrophysics is amazing ❤❤❤❤ mathematics is more amazing as well ❤❤❤❤ Thanks a lot ❤

[@harthik886]

You sound like old scientist in young Sheldon show 😂 Love u Dr. Tyson .❤

[@RudeComedian]

So nobody’s gonna say about Russia being the biggest country in Europe ? Russia is a trans-continental country. 70% of it is in Asia and the rent 30% is in Europe. Hence it’s the largest country in Europe and globally as well.

[@AimeeGirl]

Russian people don't look Asian 😂

[@EmpyreanLightASMR]

17:25 lest people forget, NDT also borrowed the phrase "keep looking up" from a childhood classic, Jack Horkheimer.

[@ramkumarr1725]

I wanted to watch this. But then I remembered from Sheldon teaching Penny : It is a warm summer evening an you have just finished shopping at your local agora. Then you look at the sky and wonder What is Physics?

[@prairiegirl2050]

South Atlantic Anomaly should be a topic of discussion. 🤞

[@tiffanyannhowe1712]

I’ve seen this amazing talk live. Except he had no shoes on! 🤣 bouncing from here to there with no footwear 🤣🖤

[@imagination_nub]

The planet in 25:06 is actually Neptune. It's just wrongly labeled

[@mrcleanisin]

Humans rarely live past 35, but Isaac Newton lived for 85 years, William Herschel, 84 years, John Couch Adams, 73 years, Urbain LeVerrier, 66 years, John G. Galle, 98 years, Percival Lowell, 61 years, Clyde Tombaugh, 91 years.

[@user-rt9bj7zt2d]

(21:30 Have those who disbelieved not considered that the heavens and the earth were a joined entity, and We separated them and made from water every living thing? Then will they not believe?) AND surah zariyat aya 47 ( 51:47 And the heaven We constructed with strength, and indeed, We are [its] expander. ) AND Yasin aya 38 (yaseen) (And the sun runs [on course] toward its stopping point. That is the determination of the Exalted in Might, the Knowing.) AND surah Anbiya aya 33 (21:33 And it is He who created the night and the day and the sun and the moon; all [heavenly bodies] in an orbit are swimming.) AGAIN AND AGAIN, ALLAH WHO CREAT THE UNIVERSE HE DESCRIBED EVERYTHING IN THE QURAN 1400 YEARS AGO. ALLAH SAID (41:53 We will show them Our signs in the horizons and within themselves until it becomes clear to them that it is the truth. But is it not sufficient concerning your Lord that He is, over all things, a Witness?) Quran 41:53 Surah Fussilat ayat 53 THERE is STILL A LOT ABOUT UNIVERSE IN THE QURAN.

[@sumokii9320]

@StarTalk, could some answers be "non-boolean"? Meaning there are multiple state(ment)s that are correct. A triangle has 3 sides in 2 dimensions, but what if you stuck a triangle in 3 dimensions? Would it have the 3 sides, and a front and back? Then could we say a triangle has n sides. I guess its domain-specific.

[@DoseofReality101]

You should visit South Africa one day.

[@TheRabbitRonin]

3:19 The Coneheads sleep standing up haha

[@ProgressiveRevelation]

That remark by Neil about Europe and Russia baffled me honestly. Part of Russia *is* in Europe, It doesn't have to be Russia's biggest part to be included in Europe, and that part alone is larger than any other country that is solely in Europe, or not, like Denmark. Russia's European part size is almost 4 million square kilometres while Denmark with Greenland is a bit more than 2 square kilometres. Without Greenland and without European Russia, it's actually Ukraine at the top. So, It's totally correct to say that Russia is the biggest country in Europe. Every respected source will have you read the same. By the way Sweden is not even second or third by size in Europe.

[@sharkie115]

If we only included EU countries and add Greenland area to Denmark that would work. However even that doesn't make sense because Greenland is specifically excluded from EU unlike for example France overseas departments.

[@petersage5157]

We all have our biases. Of of Neil's political biases won't let him accept Russia as a Western nation.

[@davidmclay6182]

Na man, Russia is an Asian country, part of the Asian continent.

[@petersage5157]

@@davidmclay6182 The Europe/Asia divide is the Caucasus Mountains; we're specifically addressing the part of Russia on the European side of the mountains.

[@davidmclay6182]

@@petersage5157 eh, where is the capital? So they have a territory somewhere else. All the developed nations have done it.

[@elliotfontanez6024]

You are magnificent ✨️ ❤️ we love you brother 🎉