10 Things You have Heard and Re-told but are Completely False - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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- Neil deGrasse Tyson explains 10 things that we have heard all our life and re-told but are completely false.
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Cory No, but good guess
god damn the video editing went wrong or my android is muting itself
The audience lost audio as well.
I am so sad on the number of likes you have...
"Like".
You better be wearing your colander, when writing those sentences.
Neil deGrasse Tyson is actually a stand-up comedian who chose science as his niche material.
Unlike Bill Nye
😂😂😂 fuck you
Yeah, this man's a hoot in really life!! 😆😆
But on Twitter, though... 😳😳😒😣
Aether Force How?
Aether Force care to elaborate
He’s such a good speaker. He’d be the one physics/science teacher everyone in the school would adore.
Zebulous Unfortunately, I don’t think I’ve ever seen him in a video with decent production values and sound. And in that, this one does not disappoint. 😂
@@graymatters7584 crazy stuff true! Swear to God when I was opening this one I knew it'd have bad picture&sound quality!
@@graymatters7584 Have u every hear of StarTalk?
In a public school he would be wasted . All of those kids with creationist parwnts would disrupt his teaching on command of Mom and Dad .
Nah bro my physics teacher was great. If some douchebags were being douches he wouldn’t be an asshole or anything but he’d get the conversation directed toward action and reaction an how nothing will happen if you set idle and ignore real life (you get where that’s going probably) well they ended up turning out really cool. And I give that credit to him most likely because it was like they completely reformed themselves within a few months not like being something they weren’t but just more mature and responsible. And most teachers can’t do that. They can only teach the subject they are paid to teach. He didn’t even have to set down and talk with them or be stern. He never called anyone out but I noticed the change he made in a lot of people lives by the things he said in his teachings.
I recall as a very young child noticing the moon in the daytime for the very first time. It was at that moment I realized the world was much more than anecdotes and stories, and I became curious about science to understand how things really worked
I recall realizing that the phases of the moon have nothing to do with the Earths shadow, but the moons own shadow. Felt smart and stupid at the same time.
My grandmother questioned the moon in daytime, as if she were right and the moon was wrong 🤣
@@tordpluspeed7052 That feeling is the best thing about science, I think.
"Run as fast as you can, face-first into the brick wall" -Neil deGrasse Tyson
Gabriel B arms behind your back even lol
Wanna smoke a blunt?
Neil taking natural selection into his own hands for idiots.
Survival
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Sound engineering: it's not rocket science
In technical theater something always goes wrong (it sounds like a wire got pulled out of a socket)
or like they had WAY too much trim on that dumb lil $100mic🎤
Bootleg.
hes talking about how the mic failed
lol makes sense!
"That's why your wishes aren't coming true, because you're wishing on planets." -Neil deGrasse Tyson
:-))
My roommate gave me grief at the grocery store the other day because we were travelling across the parking lot to a different store but he had to wait for me to put on a seatbelt. I did it because I remembered this speech from Neil. I repeated it for my roommate who would not be able to even run 12 mph, and he immediately put on his seatbelt as well.
I was dying when I heard that. So funny but true lok
I stared into the sun one time and it turned black, so did the sky
Is everything still black?
No, it was only the sun and sky that turned black. I could actually still see the corona. I turned around and looked down and saw my shadow on the sidewalk and looked back up and everything was back to normal. I'm not going to repeat the experiment.
T L S that was funny
Look at the sun real quick then look away and quickly close your eyes
T L S it bad to look at sun i dont either i am vampere hisss
When I clicked this I was like ehh 10 mins that's kinda long and now that it's over I'm upset it wasn't longer I could listen to this man forever
How short is your attention span that a 10 minute video seems long to you? Haven't you ever watched a feature length film?
@@usernamepassword9091 Why do you have to be so rude about it?
@@usernamepassword9091 what he might consider a long time is his decision, he even left a nice comment about the video. Not sure why that was called for of you to insult his attention span.
@@wavematrix yeah I know I think I must have just been in a dicky mood that day, apologies to the dude ☮️❤️
@@usernamepassword9091 ☮️❤️ props for that , sorry for the misunderstanding
Tyson: "Why aren't you wearing your seat belt"
Driver: "It constrains me."
Yes, it's supposed to. Because, failing that, the next thing to constrain you is that big sheet of *GLASS* in front of your *FACE.*
If we have a black guy teach us science, we know what the status of science is.
@@seanleith5312 Um, what?
@@seanleith5312 f u
"They are more common than presidential elections. But they never say rare presidential election coming up."
LOL
You gotta love Neil deGrasse Tyson. 😀
Actually presidential election ARE more rare. coz we usually count in the pre election campaign, and a single election can be 8 months long. 8 month out of 4 years, that's 16.7% of time. A total sun eclipse lasts only 5 min, if you are lucky. Suppose you travel the world to get each eclips, and that is only 0.0002% of time.
No
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
My boy Neil killin it, honestly, this is a stand up routine.
I don't get why people idolise him. He's not that smart. He's actually kind of dumb. Take the "Sun rises in the east..." point. In his explanation he was talking about Due East and Due West (exactly East and West) but the sun always does rise in the East (Eastern side of the sky) and sets in the West (Western side of the sky). So because the point behind him doesn't mention "due", the point is correct.
Now he may know this and is just simplifying the topic, but now people are going to go around thinking the Sun only rises and sets in the East and West twice per year which is incorrect.
Uploader of many things [hrthrhs] He’s starting to inundate us with conjectured expertise on such things as social issues and climate change. It’s fine he has an opinion but he presents it with this air of expertise - and bluntly put - he’s not an expert on these subjects.
He’s getting paid for these speaking ventures and needs to stick to his expertise: cosmology
@@Krusty-kl5ej Can't disagree really. The thing is tho, the sun rising and setting, you don't need a significant education to understand that.
Uploader of many things [hrthrhs] “he’s actually kinda dumb” it’s one thing to not like NDT, but to call him dumb 🥴 makes sense
@@hrthrhs Haters gonna hate. I'm absolutely sure he's an intellectual giant compared to you. You probably suffer from the dunning-kruger effect. most people hate Neil deGrasse Tyson also seem to be polluted by belief in an adult imaginary friend and particularly terrible conservative worldview.
Now fuck off!
So, what about landing on the Sun at night?
Dummy, you can't get there at night! The Sun is gone! sheesh, some people.
Both very funny, LOL!
LMDAO
fool , I know where they keep it @nite & where they even reflect the moon from using solar/lazer I-on
I heard that the Polish Space Agency sent astronauts to the Sun and they ''may' have landed at night. They haven''t been heard from for awhile so, nobody is quite sure if they made it.
This is about 90% semantics, 10% science.
Agreed, I was really surprised to see all the praise above for such lazy pedantry. This isn't a thoughtful critique on magical thinking, nor a clever standup routine, it was a boring 10 minute monologue on taking common colloquialisms wayyyy out of context.
he got you on all 10
and you are pissed
@@kenwittlief255 Not really. Many of these are exactly what the op said, semantics. Example, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. The sun never rises in the west, or from the south, it comes from GENERALLY the east from our perspective. No one says this thinking 'exactly due east with no variation at all'. Ok, so the longest day is the first day of summer, so technically the days get shorter in the summer. However, during the cold time of year the days are generally shorter than during the warm time of year. Neil knows what people mean by this statement, but he's invoking semantics here. What goes up must come down? Basic Newtonian theory here, and of course there are exceptions and caveats, but in general, from the human perspective on earth, if you throw something in the air, it comes back to earth. I love Neil, true genius. This talk is really just petty semantics.
Don’t over rate it
Tyson is commenting on popular wisdom; he is not doing a scientific presentation. So of course it is semantics. That’s the whole point.
Mr. Neil is not only a genuis but also has an amazing sense of humor. Always interesting and entertaining
a genius he is a not by any stretch
@@ericvosselmans5657 think you're clever with your Yoda lingo? I get flat earther or creation literalist from you. This is a lecture on stars 🌟
Neil is a genius at self promotion. But he sucks at math, physics and history. So much of his stuff is wrong.
@@HopDavid I love smartasses. Prove math, physics and history wrongs from him. Evidence with links.
@@maboleth CZcams is filtering my comments containing links. But if you do a search for "Fact checking Neil deGrasse Tyson" you can find my list of Tyson's errors and questionable claims.
In this comment I will gave an example of Neil's bad history, though.
A part of Tyson's routine from 2006 to 2014 was his account of President Bush's 9-11 speech. The talk was titled Bush and Star Names.
Tyson has Bush bragging that his God was the God that named the stars so as to distinguish we from they. We being American Christians and they being Arab Muslims.
However Bush's actual 9-11 speech was a call for tolerance and inclusion. It was delivered from a mosque.
Turns out Tyson confused Bush's 9-11 speech with his eulogy for the Space Shuttle Columbia astronauts. However in neither speech did Bush try to set Christians above Muslims. That falsehood came from Tyson's imagination and confirmation bias.
Jonathan Adler did a number of pieces for The Washington Post on Tyson's Bush and Star Names debacle.
My question is: who are the people that roll up the window when Neil deGrasse Tyson is trying to talk to them? I'd be getting out of my car to shake his hand
Bailey Crawford Creationists?
Gary a Wow way to get political unnecessarily
Make sure you're wearing your seatbelt first lol
Bailey Crawford people who somehow don't know who he is
They rolling up cuz he's black
People don't understand humor apparently. If you think Neil is being a jerk or something then pay attention to the people laughing. He's just joking around though there is a little truth in every joke
Jax Thats his way teaching... he uses sarcasm and humor... and most of the time he is teaching scientifically correct facts.
And debunking myths and taboos
Wait......so are the things he's saying true or are you talking about the brick wall thing and how it was sarcastic
Get back to being op in top lane
Oh shit that's Jax
@@AndreSilva-cw8jd jax op
I thought for a second my headphones broke..
Same
Frogs are special creatures
Think we all did. Unless you’ve seen this section of the speech before.
I'm here wondering who actually though the moon was never visible in the day
I have a 26 year old friend who only discovered this last week.
He thought the earth was broken
I knew it and I see it everyday with skyview app
Someone who doesn’t have functioning eyeballs, or someone who doesn’t know what the moon looks like.
My 7 year old son! He couldn’t process it until I showed him the moon in the morning sky last week.
The ones who don’t look up 👀
which pixel is your favorite?
fodolo craigo the only one
Probably the bottom left one
The black one moving around
Green
the Pixel 2 XL
"cause you're wishing on a PLANET" i lol'd
Same af
So THAT explains it!!! Now maybe I can get Ferrari I've always wanted!?
Hard to tell the difference,that's my guess. Planets don't grant things. Wishing on a star 🌠 might ⭐💫🌟✨⭐
I’ve never heard of the moon only comes out at night. Maybe it happens more rarely other places on earth. But growing up in Florida you see the moon out during the middle of the day all the time.
It happens with the same frequency everywhere. People are simply getting more stupid all the time.
@@American-Plague Pretty sure people realize the moon is usually out by the age of six when they see it during the day
@@alexn1168 Yep. Which goes to show how stupid adult flat Earthers are: 6 year olds can and do outsmart them.
Same I live in a city and it still isn't uncommon to see the moon out at 3 in the afternoon
- well obviously the "moon doesn't come out" (only at night), but since i live, way, above the arctic circle, where there is no sunlight at all for several months and then no "night/day" (I.e. no darkness - no sunset) for several months - the general thought is that with no sunset and no darkness the summer days is experienced as "longer" and in the winter with 1 hour of dim lights before it goes dark again - days are experienced as "shorter".
This guy is good for science.He's witty ,charming and can reach any group of people with his concepts.Always a pleasure.
Whoever thinks the moon only comes out at night obviously don't look up enough.
Jay L stfu
I thought that was true until I actually saw the moon out in the sky, in the morning while going to school one day. I went back home and checked the moon rise/set and sun rise/set times in the newspaper that day. Needless to say, I was pretty surprised at my finding.
Mind you this was when I was 14 years old. Until then I don’t bought the sun and moon rise/set times were synchronised like an idiot.
@Jay L if you climb high enough with a big telescope you should see the edge of the earth only if the earth was flat.
You can't see the edge of the earth because it's round.
@@piratesofphysics4100
_Pretty sure he's joking man_
@@piratesofphysics4100 -r/woooosh-
Thumbnail: HD as HELL
video: 1p 2kbps
😂😂😂
I can do 720
🤣🤣...I finally get to say it 😁”lol”
😂
😂
I love how passionate he is about being curious and fostering that curiosity in others.
It's an extremely valuable skill.
curios ... really ... so according to Ndt ... gravity doesnt make things fall back to the body it came from ...
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hmm I guess the mission where they tested an eagle feather and a hammer on the moon in a vacuum to verify gravity ... was not proof ... or the fact the same experiment on earth was not proven ... he didnt even quantify his interpolation ... he extrapolated the statement ... Gravity makes things fall back to Earth ... and then sent stuff off world .... so by that token ... when you drop a golf ball in america on an airplane and then land in europe and it falls out of the plane the ball didnt fall in america so then gravity doesnt work ...
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yeah NOPE ... Ndt is trying to indoctrinate people so they will be as dumb as Biden ... 80 trillion Dollar debt NO monetary backing it ... avg Iq in the states 50 ... highest american iq 170 ... sorry No Ndt needs to return to school and relearn what he does not understand ... the first thing is to relearn scientific principles .... first one define the parameters of ones statements and experiments ... Ndt is NOT educating ... he is indoctrinating and therefore LYING HIS BUTTOCKS OFF ... which he excels at
@@dboy6400 yes his ability to lie so boldly and get away with it he should run for finance minister of the USA ... maybe he will start to repay some of that 80 trillion dollar debt they owe the rest of the world ...
he could start by repaying Canada there 47% of that ... yes America ... we own MOST of you ... between us and china ... we Own everything you have ... you own ... puerto rico ... nothing else ...
@@kaboom-zf2bl Nice troll, propaganda-bot. You'll get no more from me, try harder next time.
@@Skizzlepuss btw you are doing exactly as NDT ... failing to understand and then comprehend and as such you fail to increase your knowledge ....
I sure wish the audio wasn't so distorted. Neil has such a great velvety dynamic voice. You can barely understand him in this video 😔
Neil: why arn't you wearing a seat belt?
Me: holy crap your neil deGrasse Tyson!
It's 'you're' and 'aren't'...
@@eknaap8800 Grammar Nazi bonus: The OP (edited) his comment ............................. Like, dude, what did you actually improve?
@@davidjorgensen877 Awareness?
@@eknaap8800 I was referring to the O.P. and the fact that, despite editing his comment, glaring spelling and punctuation mistakes remain, prompting me to ask (of him, not you): "Dude, what did you actually improve?"
@@davidjorgensen877 I see. My bad. Thank you for clearing that. 👌
The longest day of the year is clearly chrismas with the family.
FlawlessFailer u are legendary
@@robertstraatman4070 Valentine's Day when you're single.
Falstaff Tavern the day before your next paycheck
Neil: "Gimme some more gain on this mic...a little more...little more...right there. Wow this mic is loud!"
Funnily enough I realised the sun doesn't rise from the east when I tracked the sunrise and sunset relative to my position and I noticed how it would change every day that match up with seasonal changes. Man I was a weird, lonely kid.
I will never understand how people think the moon only comes out at night .-.
Not many people think that and the couple that do would def be Americans
I used to think that all my life until a few years ago. It freaked the hell out of me at first. I was so confused. First I thought it was the sun. But then I thought there was no way the sun could be that visible. I had to ask someone to clarify it was the moon. All because I grew up believing the moon only came out at night.
I think you'll find that the sun is more visible than the moon in daytime.
Arnaldonintendo It can happen if one were to play to much Minecraft.
Arnaldonintendo i have pic to send you every hour of the day
A guy I know twice smashed his face into his steering wheel and windshield. Still he proudly says "They can't make me wear a seatbelt." And, usually, if I tell someone this story that person says "He's right!" People are idiots.
He _is_ right. They also can't stop you running with scissors, drinking bleach or swimming with sharks. No one has the right to forbid you to be an idiot.
That's why a lot of insurance policies have an "if you do something really stupid" clause.
I have never seen anyone driving a car without wearing a seatbelt. I live in Denmark.
mwnDK1402 In North America there is a large percentage of people who take pride in their stupidity, and they defend all stupidity that they see. You may think I'm joking, but I'm not.
LivingInVancouverBC I'm already acquainted with the creationists, so it isn't that surprising, to be honest.
The more I listen to him talk, the more I'm convinced that Neil is the best person on Earth.
Gross. Get a room.
@@burnyizland what
“There’s only one place snow is yellow...near fire hydrants” 🤣😂
This guy is hilarious. I love it when intelligent people have a sense of humor. It's a beautiful combination.
So much anti-science cancer in these comments . . .
Corruptedmilk indian ??
hmm?
Corruptedmilk lol they are all butthurt at the cold hard facts that go against the bullshit they were told as childs lmao
Corruptedmilk I blame the media
I do not think the word antiantiism means what you think it means.
Antiantiism is opposing the prefix 'anti-', example being using 'anti-science' instead of opposed to science.
It also does not have the - after Anti, as that would be a massive contradiction to the meaning.
I honestly thought he would say - "The earth's rotation gives the sun an appearance of rising and falling, but the sun doesn't rise or fall."
Same here.
Me too
Love this guy, he owns any stage he is on and always easy to listen to.
Fine, I will put my god damn seat belt on.
But we all know the moon is actually made of cheese.
but if it was made of spare ribs would you eat it then?
"When you believe in your heart that the moon is made up of cheese, but then when you look at cheese you don't think it's the same stuff that makes up the moon...............isn't it ironic?"
Ian, Milo Van Arsdel The moon is an egg.
It is known.
The moon is scientifically proven to be god's left testical
where is the second one?
You're one of my biggest idols. I have no idea what subspecialty I'll go into but I start as an undergraduate at a local University in the fall. I'm 38 but still love learning. Thank you for being an inspiration to us nerds everywhere 😊
Neil being the scientist that he always is while also being funny, I love it!
The best pro-seatbelt argument of all time.
J Johnson you think? How many people run into things at full speed without hitting the breaks?
@@zzospreyzz55 You could have been going 40 mph (full speed), hit the brakes, slowed to 20 mph, then IMPACT! But back to your original thought, it prolly happens too frequently, known as cell phone usage during driving.
@@zzospreyzz55 Isn't full speed way over the speed limit in most countries with most cars? Or did you mean something else than the maximum speed the car is capable of when you mentioned 'full speed'?
I would say experiencing a crash simulation at about 25 km/h while wearing seatbelts is even more convincing. Try it and see if you would like to repeat the simulation but without the seatbelt on.
best contraception too ... do you want to birth another Neil DeGrasse Tyson ... a guy who cant even apply proper scientific method ... and is just a great collater of others data ...
The "what goes up must come down" is really more of a semantic argument than anything else...
The sun is a g type main sequence star, usually referred to by cosmologists as a yellow dwarf. Semantics again.
Solar eclipse, again... semantics.
There you go! We tend to mistake perception as reality.
This is science. In science, we state things clearly so that there aren't semantic misunderstandings.
Not necessarily I have seen a flat earther argue that gravity didn't exist and that 'what goes up must came down' was some sort of law.
@sensi please Yeah, look up flat earth on CZcams & the avalanche of stupid is actually impressive. Dumbest people in centuries. I'm sad that I can never erase the term 'spheroid conspiracy' from my brain files. 😂😂😂
Be careful sensi as you wander those weird places, sir. Your IQ has the possibility of declining (and in rare cases, death), so go in there with a set intention and GTFO when you know you're in too deep of dumb shit. Good luck.
learnt a bunch of stuff... laughed my ass offf... quality content 👌
About 4.2 thousand people ran into a brick wall and are mad...
LMAO! I love his presentation style.
i love chiken nugets
Ac1DGoD little boys who like to be called big boys
S hill yea not all boring and white and put you to sleep ish. This is why i love blacks they stand out. The smart ones are smarter than the smartest white
"Cats don't actually have 9 lives." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
My neighbors cat was caught in the top of his garage door for hours(8:00 am to 2:00 pm or so), pinned between the door and the jamb right around her waist. By all rights, she should have died, or at least never really walk again. This was years ago 2008 or so. she made an excellent recovery, and lived until earlier this year(2020). I contend that cats have at least 2 lives, based on personal experience.
@@seththeace6217 You can only contend that this specific cat had two lives.
The longest day of the year is the first day of summer. Days get shorter during the summer.
In Australia summer starts on the 1st of December. So the solstice is closer to the middle of the month.
Well days start getting shorter in summer, and longer in winter is the same for both hemispheres because the longest day of the year is on the first day of summer and the shortest day of the year is on the first day of winter
Although in the Southern Hemisphere the same process is true like the Northern Hemisphere, where days start getting shorter in summer and longer in winter, but it’s reversed though, however you could still do summer stuff in winter, and winter stuff in summer only if the weather allows it
The equator is where day and night are equal
Good brick wall experiment. NDT has a great sense of humor and very interesting talks.
It's called natural selection LMAO
He honestly makes me laugh more than most stand up comedians and is so informative like.... what?????
I've done the face first into the wall experiment. When I was about 5 years old, I was playing in a sand box and got sand in my eye. It hurt to keep my eyes open and I needed help. I mustered up and scanned the park for the target; mom. Locked in, closed eyes, and ran at top speed. All's I remember after that was laying in an ambulance. Just had to get some stiches, but I often wonder about frontal lobe damage. Lol
oh god that brings back a horrific memory. Some dick (I think I was 4 or 5 at the time playing tee-ball) decided to be an ass and mess around with something I was doing with sand (now, I don't like sand, jk, but still, *meme reference xD* ). At the start I was alone, then he came and I was like "dude, get away" and kinda shooed sand his way, and guess what? He decided "hey, Imma nearly f-ing blind this dude" and decided to whip sand into my eyes and that's the first time I ever used a curse word, the f *dash* *dash* *dash* word (now I don't even care if I do or not, but that was the first time, and at that time and a few years after until I was a few years into double digit age, I never said anything like that and if I even heard it or said it by myself, I couldn't get it off my mind due to me being self conscious of it). And I literally wanted to attack the kid at the time but I was being led off back to the car just to go home (the game ended about 10 minutes beforehand), and the kid didn't even feel bad, but his parents forced him to apologize and eventually he mustered up enough courage and willpower to apologize, but to this day, I feel it was still far from genuine and I still hate him and hold a grudge against him, and forgiveness is next to an impossibility. To this day, I wish I never lost contact, because now that I am more conscious of me being alive, and the physical strength I have gathered, I would confront him and hold him by the chest and interrogate him and basically beat (slap) the living crap out of him. Btw, I am 17 now. At least I'm not alone when it comes to childhood assholes with sand, lol.
ADiehardSavage Gaming
Lmao I love your short life story
When I was about 4 years old we were camping on a camping site with a caravan (don’t know if that’s the correct word) and there was like a path between some bushes and trees to a small stream which looked really nice and some other kids were playing there too so I obviously wanted to play there too but some asshole kid decided to take a big ol’ chunk of mud and slap it in my eyes almost completely blinding me so I took a stone about the size of my hand as a 4 year old and threw it in his face (he obviously started to cry) after that I started to try and make my way back to my mom still barely being able to see but she was close and already saw me with a face full of mud and cleaned me up
It’s actually funny how you never forget stuff like that no matter how old you were
Sometimes I miss being a little kid where the only thing you had to worry about was little pieces of shit who like to throw sand/mud at eyes or bite you
ETatArea51
You’re probably OK unless your friends wonder about frontal lobe damage. 😉😃
Did you seriously just write “all’s”?
That sounds painful to experience you guys ❤😭
The bit about seat belts gets me every time! I love his stand up!
You can clearly see the moon in the day as we know. When I was a little kid I noticed that as we all do too. My third grade teacher wouldn't go out and look. She just kept insisting it wasn't there. The moon wasn't in the sky.😒 Still in the sky all these years later.🤔😁
tyson is the type of guy that goes around telling people WWE is fake lol
Shhhhhh, don't tell! I can still make money betting on wrestling events! Just call a bookie and try to place a bet on a pro wrestling event. They will only let you bet on the guy who's going to lose (and oh yeah, they know who's going to lose). So all you have to do is find suckers who want to bet on that wrestler! You can even give them great odds to get them to bet with you! (there's always somebody, always; make it easy, give them 20:1 or even 50:1 odds, let them just bet $10 or something thinking they're going to make a killing, that way they'll keep betting with you again).
The average IQ in this country, is 95. That's with mandatory education.
Just sayin.... It's common sense, common knowledge. Probably sarcastic and a bit amusing.
But sadly, there are many who would hear this and go, "omg no fucking way!"
Tyson likes to be funny. He likes to bring amusement to science. It may be annoying to some. I know that it can be repetitive hearing the same common sense crap over and over again. But because he does that, people who never had an interest in science, and haven't a mind for comprehending the topics, can actually understand what he is saying because of the way he is saying it.
I. E. He brings things down to a basic level of LAYMANS terms, and for the easily distracted or bored, he brings high energy amusement.
***** Well, just like stunt men in the movies, of course sometimes they get hurt. They're not TRYING to hurt each other, but occasionally it happens anyway.
Suburban education in the US is still ranked among the top in the world, and the students in that demographic still perform on that level. The change is that the focus on education is now taking a more detailed analysis of the country's weaker performers: students and education systems in rural and inner city areas. As a result, the overall ranking of the US has shifted negatively.
As for the mindless saluting of the flag as a means of turning citizens into mindless robots saluting a flag - the pledge of allegiance was introduced in the late 1890s - well before the development of the DoE. In fact, it was never federally mandated that it be incorporated. It is up to states to choose whether to dedicate time for the pledge, and not all of them opt for that. Further, it was the Federal Govt that said, back in 1943, that forcing students to recite the pledge was unconstitutional.
It is fake. It's a soap opera for guys. It's stupid.
You know yer a nerd when the phrase "reach the edge of the universe" bothers you
Cause u cant get there yourself?
You know you're a physics nerd when that bothers you, but a math nerd when it doesn't.
@@kyzer422 elaborate please?
@@csreekar7828 I posted that a while ago, but I think I was referring to the fact that in math, you don't really care what scale the numbers you're working with are on. Like the math problems where someone buys 50 watermelons, or something.
@@kyzer422 I see....i think i get the gist of your point 😅Thanks👍
What a great 👍🏻 professor. He’s got such a great sense of humor and isn’t snooty. He’s a genius and doesn’t flaunt it. We’re lucky to have him around.
Thanks for sharing ❤️the video post and best of luck 🍀
That was peak. It was up there with the some of the best stand up comedy I've seen (backed by education). #deGrasse is bossing it. 🤴🏿✊🏿🖤
Maybe it's an English / American language thing but in the UK at least, June 21 is Mid-Summer day and December 21 is Mid-Winter day - so days do get longer in Summer and shorter in Winter.
It is also a matter of semantics. If you said the days "are" longer in summer and shorter in winter you'd be correct either way. And, in fact, the warmer summers and colder winters are caused by the lengthening and shortening of the days.
In the UK, like everywhere else, June 21st is the first day of summer... Ask your kindergarden teacher
Gonzaga78 It's actually spelled "kindergarten." Ask your third grade teacher.
Kevin Knorr You can point out orthography errors written by people who don't speak/write in english everyday! Good for you, buddy.
You still have to learn the seasons, though. Try finger painting them, it may help!
Best regards.
Gonzaga78 Well, don't get too bent out of shape about it. Actually, kindergarden is a very common misspelling among fluent English speakers. Good luck with your orthography paintings.
Tyson is awesome lol. Not only is he super intelligent but he can dumb it down or give examples and analogies as to why and you really have to TRY and not understand it or believe it.
DIMENSION ! Jim
He dumbs it down alright.....
Adding another myself:
I've heard people say gravity is strong.
But it's the weakest of the 4 by a million light years.
"FIND A BRICK WALL!" XD love it
I think I should do that experiment neil degrass Tyson reccommended
30 miles per hour is also about the impact speed from a fall of 30 feet, or 9 meters.
+Tim Stellmach , I believe people die from 6' more than any other height too. It don't take much
+D Rock 75 ... you're damn right. I've read about people falling off curbs and slack lines and dying way more than people falling from bridges or buildings. It's all up to chance...Where the head hits.
It's also the sheer numbers of people that fall, fall from 12 feet or less. People working higher than that is relatively rare compared to everyone getting on a ladder to clean out their eave troughs in the spring and fall.
mike sandmire , That's exactly it. Point being that it doesn't take much to pop open a human skull and let out the magic goo
There are a lot of butt hurt children in this comment section. Seriously this video is okay entertainment vice but this comment section is pure gold :D
If by pure gold you mean total imbeciles, then yes Princess😉
*Death is eternity inside of the Sun, without exception.*
The ending is the best! I love NDT!
Hey my go to physics man is actually genuinely funny, would love to see more . I love the running into the Brick wall as fast as you can. Lmao.
Who actually believed any of these things before this video?
People believe in the bible. Anything is possible
You did.
A lot of people do because most of those are "common knowledge" for a lot of people. I actually believed two of those were true.
Projecting? Hows that acting career treating ya? Famous yet?
EpochDeus You mad.
Might as well disable the comments section... remove the cancer all at once
Because they don't agree with you?
Fucking Nazi.
The true cancer is people like you who want to censor free speech.
Broken Wave Nazis were well ahead scientifically than western europe. Besides, having an opinion is different in science. You don't just get to have an opinion in a science class, unless you can prove it. Talking shit doesn't qualify as proof
Broken Wave sheath your sword cyber warrior. Opinion is meaningless in the presence of fact.
Broken Wave I'm all for free speech but that doesn't automatically mean that they aren't stupid. It amazes me how some people don't realize how dumb they sound.
Broken wave
flat earther? There's no question of agreeing or disagreeing in this video, they're a facts you shithead.
I have a doctoral education and direct postdoctoral education programs
I have learned more from you in one year. You are a great educator.
Ships in space, golf balls on the moon. Now if we could just figure out this microphone technology we could expand throughout the stars :D
I think Neil degrass tyson is the only person who can say run face first into a wall and not get a ton of hate and people being just rude
Well, I guess I'll start wearing my seat belt.
Well done, Wellington!
Yeah, I disconnected the ends of mine from the car and now I wear it all the time. Just kidding, actually I think it is cool that he is encouraging that people wear seat belts. But, he could have gone one step further and explained that driving into a wall is not the best way to stop a car.
Kevin Knorr Haha, point noted.
Actually, driving into a brick wall IS the best way to stop a car, because (are you ready for this one?) the car will stop instantly. Using the brakes takes a lot longer by comparison. Well, nobody said we were trying to avoid damaging the damn car! Don't bother showing me the door, I'll find my own way out.
Kevin Knorr True about the brick wall, but it's probably a better analogy then one would assume. A brick wall isn't going to cushion a collision much at all, but on the other hand, it isn't moving at high velocity towards you; as would be the case in a head-on collision.
You know the best ah-ha moment of this is “if the sun was yellow, what color would snow be?” Lol
I've watched this before years ago and it never gets old!
Having an argument with this man is unprofitable.
Agreed. Negative EV.
I'm a CZcams commenter, and I know more than a world renound astrophysist. He's wrong, I'm right.
One of the few sane comments I've seen here
Corruptedmilk :)
The commenters are just saying that he's being a pedantic jerk in this video. That's a matter of opinion. Nobody is refuting the claims. Just sayin.
Zeus Pluchino Who's saying he's wrong?
Zeus Pluchino no you are left get straight
I lost sound I thought it was my phone.i love listening to this guy I learn something.and it's the true.he tell you the truth make you laugh.
I was in a car accident, the truck spun out on black ice, hit a snowbank, and flipped over it and down a hill, rolling like 4 times. I was wearing a seatbelt. The other person wasn't. My head got knocked around pretty bad, whiplash, nerve damage, muscle micro tears, neck stuff.
The other person was literally airborne, flipping around, their body hitting the seat and door repeatedly in positions the body is not meant to twist in, they smashed their window out with their head, and their body got smashed against the steering wheel a few times (I think their height had the seat back so far, they weren't held in place by it). They've had episodes where they can't walk, whatever they did to their spine really effed them up.
I'm not in perfect condition, my nerves never grew back healthy, so I'm in a permanent state of pain, but I'm extremely grateful I wear my seatbelt. Just watching them smash around (time seemed to slow down, it kind of felt like floating at times, and the flipping made everything inside the truck sort of hover in the air because up and down were changing so quickly, they never had time to hit the bottom) was terrifying. I thought they were unconscious after they smashed their head, shortly before all the windows shattered and the roof crumpled. We'd probably both be dead if it hadn't been for the truck.
Though I'm pretty sure we wouldn't have filled down the hill if it had been lower to the ground. But yeah. Going headfirst out the windscreen is definitely not all you need to be concerned about lol. I was angry they hadn't been driving more carefully, I think my first words after stopping, and trying to get the sand and snow out of my mouth and eyes, were, "Oh my God, you almost killed us!" But I didn't hold a grudge. They did get the truck straightened out, but our momentum kept us sliding sideways until we broadsided the snow bank, so they did try. Plus they're worse off than me, so I don't think it would be fair.
This is like nerdy standup
Is that..... Is that a bad thing lol?
Did anyone else notice he skipped over "At high noon the Sun is directly overhead."
William Butler the sun can only be directly overhead if you are exactly on the equator, otherwise it is always at a slight angle.
Sammy Ferns What I'm saying is that in his presentation, the 8th bullet down, he has it there, but never talks about it.
Sammy, not always. the equator is determined by the earth's poles. Those poles have a 23° angle from the eliptic, determined by the sun.. so.... The sun can be directly overhead in high noon, but it'll be a really rare ocassion, I belive
Mario Ortega well its rare for it to happen in land not the sea.
You're both close, but not quite on target. The sun is directly overhead at high noon on two days of the year, WHEN YOU ARE IN THE TROPICS. (For the reason that Mario Ortega mentioned.) Outside the tropics, the sun is NEVER directly overhead.
WHICH two days of the year it's directly overhead varies according to your latitude.
He is clearly awesome and I always enjoy his perspective. Top notch content!
As an audio engineer however, this was difficult to endure. His mic being overdriven and distorted, in addition to losing the mic at the top - Sorry to dork out there...
yep, the gain was way too high. It was ok before he said turn it up, from what I could tell. I would have thought the audio display would have shown the audio clipping.
There's a technical flaw in this video early on that lasts a full minute, and I would STILL recommend this to anyone--that's how good a speaker Neil is. "A long technical flaw, blurry picture, harsh sound, and it's better than anything else you can watch on CZcams" would be an honest review. ...The man is a national treasure, because he's one of the few scientists that is as articulate as he is brilliant. Neil is just smooth.
I've looked at the sun, quickly, and it is white.
JayJay Jones no you didn't, if you actually looked straight at it you'd see a green light and then you'd become permenetly blind.
JayJay Jones LMAO. 😂😁😆
That's racist... xD xD xD
Don't be angry about that,in exchange 90% of the universe is black,wich also sounds like racist.....LOL
n04n1m0u5 I'm not angry. I intended to make a satirical joke about triggered people. Apparently, I've failed.
What the fuck is this potato vision
Go to one of his shows, and try to record.
Anything works, really.
2003.
I was out on a moonless, clear night out in the middle of nowhere and saw the arc of the Milkyway overhead. So I sat there and counted those atom-sized specks that are distant stars making that arc. I lost count after one million.
Signed,
Jo King
Great video I’ve been catching the day moon since 2017 people still don’t believe me even with pictures.😏
Why is the thumbnail an NCS video lmao
He's absolutely correct on all points, and funny while explaining it. I wish my physics teacher had that much personality, maybe I would have stuck with it and done something better with my life. By the way, he missed the one about the sun being directly overhead at high noon. He was so into it that he skipped over it and went onto the next one afterwards.
Because he's not paying attention. Something he ironically says right afterwards.
Nope. Winter days are shorter then summer days.
well technically NO ... as he never defined his parameters ... he is therefore using accepted parameters ... and those say he is lying ...
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given his extreme extrapolation of the data ... he is using ... HE MUST DEFINE THE PARAMETERS ... to validate his statements ... as he does NOT ... he is wrong ...
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if his parameters were defined at the start then in THAT situation YES the answers are correct ... but he didnt so NO his answers are all wrong ... and he should lose his credentials for doing this
this is not education it is indoctrination .... those who believe him ... are happy sheeple
No, he's wrong on quite a few points. For example golf balls on the moon have never reached earth escape velocity.
Neil's an addled buffoon. His fans don't notice because they're completely clueless themselves.
@@HopDavid Ok. So how did they get there?
"Nobody looks at the moon in the afternoon,
and this is the moment when it would most require our attention, since its existence is still in doubt." (Italo Calvino)
He is a national treasure!!
"How fast is the fastest safe speed with no seat belt?" When they said 30 mph, I just shook my head. Maybe if you want to spend some quality time in hospital. My answer was 5 mph _maximum._
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you're out of your mind. At 5mph if you hit a brick wall in your car, you would likely sustain less injury without a seat belt. The car doesn't stop instantly, it crumples. And the distance between you and the steering wheel gives you more stopping distance which is taken away by a seat belt.
The comparison between running into a wall is intentionally misleading here, because I refuse to believe that tyson doesn't understand this. Your face hitting the wall gives you an extremely high force because your stopping distance is like the thickness of your skin to your bones. Very very short. It's literally 1000 times bigger than this in a car. This isn't just semantics. this is a HUGE difference.
You can try it. Put your seat belt on, accellerate to 5mph and slam your brakes with and without your seatbelt on. Without the seatbelt you can cradle your body with your arms, but with the seatbelt your body will dig into the seatbelt.
0mph, idiots are always on the road and dont care about your livelihood.
@@PattyManatty okay fine. You go and run as fast as you can towards a brick wall. But this time put your hands in front of you and stop as soon as your hands hit the wall.
Especially since he just did an example using 20mph
"Total Solar Eclipses are rare."-- Ok, Yes we understand that they are not technically rare. But that is not exactly how I take the delivery of it from the news. I don't take it that a total eclipse is rare, but that the current one that the news is talking about is rare in some way. For instance on any one total eclipse, it goes across a specific swath of land that doesn't get hit but like once every 375 years as Jean Meeus of Belgium calculated a long time ago. Then there are other eclipses that _are_ rare. Like on April 29 2014, it wasn't a total eclipse, but the news did say it was rare because it was a " 'non-central eclipse,' with the axis of the moon's shadow - known as the antumbra during an annular eclipse - passing mere kilometers above the continent of Antarctica. - See more at: www.space.com/25644-total-solar-eclipses-frequency-explained.html#sthash.yiW5BoFc.dpuf " So while that statement as it exists on the video is false. That statement seems to have been taken out of the context it is used in, and shortened and made more ambiguous. For instance, Is it wrong to say that "Total solar eclipses are rare in my area." (as they only happen about once every four-five generations)? Maybe that is a better wording, or for news reporters: "This total solar eclipse is rare, because...." ... then again, I don't actually recall any news reporter just plainly saying that, in general, "Total solar eclipses are rare." They usually draw a map and a graphic and show how they are rare for that swath of land.
A lot of this is nitpicking. Yes, escape velocity is a thing but not relevant for day to day life. Your example as well. A bunch of technicalities on his side.
Yeah, these petty revelations are not what you would expect from "leading" scientific deliberation. Would make a decent third grade science guest speaker, though. ;)
+Pimp Trizkit Total Solar eclipses are NOT rare as a phenomenon worldwide, but certainly rare LOCALLY. I have witnessed a 97% eclipse during an annular eclipse in the 80s, but never a total eclipse.
Exactly my point, and then taking that to the next level. I felt the media's coverage on it was to tell me it was rare in that specific local area... not in general..... As in, I never thought they were considered rare (as a worldwide phenomenon).
Also the part where he says that the statement "Days are get long in summer and short in winter" is totaly false is bias. What people say is that the day IS longer (than usual) in summer and shorter (than usual) in the winter and that is correct.
Comedy is one of the best teaching tools.
I wish I could speak to some of these people.
This is a pretty good way to encourage science, it's virtually a stand up routine.
That no seat belt thing killed me! lmao
The man is a gem for science. He makes it fun to listen to. ^^
somebody: moon comes out only at night
solar eclipse: What? -_-
Most of the time you only see the moon at night and not during the day due to insufficient contrast. I have seen the moon during the day very occasionally, but not very often.
Bro, as soon as his mic cut out, my first thought was like: "ah great, they just had to mute the video when he started explaining" 😂