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Title: Neil Degrasse Tyson answer's my question on air!
Post by: Thorsteinn on 2013-01-04, 03:26:29

Neil Degrasse Tyson answer's my question on air! How cool is that!

Total Nerd Moment.

Neil deGrasse Tyson on Time: Doctor Who, Star Trek or Ray Bradbury? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is8HKbXEqCk#ws)

-Thorsteinn (aka Sean Karp)

Title: Re: Neil Degrasse Tyson answer's my question on air!
Post by: Sir Wolf on 2013-01-04, 17:53:31

well? do you talk to your Dr about time during your proctology exam?

Title: Re: Neil Degrasse Tyson answer's my question on air!
Post by: Thorsteinn on 2013-01-04, 19:51:58

The Doctor says "Just try to relax".

(http://dvice.com/assets_c/2010/12/Doctor-Who-Sonic-Screwdriver-thumb-550xauto-52862.jpg)

Title: Re: Neil Degrasse Tyson answer's my question on air!
Post by: Ian on 2013-01-05, 01:09:41

Very cool Sean!  It warms my heart to see that astrophysicists are down with Star Trek, Doctor Who and Ray Bradbury!

Title: Re: Neil Degrasse Tyson answer's my question on air!
Post by: Sir William on 2013-01-08, 15:38:37

If only because those shows envisioned what some of them had previously thought impossible and yet, only now, are we seeing some of those things come to a sort of reality.  Is it bad that I recognized him only from his guest appearance on The Big Bang Theory?  I love that show.

Title: Re: Neil Degrasse Tyson answer's my question on air!
Post by: Thorsteinn on 2013-01-08, 21:40:46

Yes it is bad (Bad Nerd! Bad Nerd!). Go to Youtube and watch these:

WIL WHEATON & Science of Star Trek - StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wO8yvV2UX0#ws)

Cosmic Quandaries with Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAD25s53wmE#)

Neil deGrasse Tyson Testifies Before Senate Science Committee, March 7, 2012 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmKlA_UnX8c#ws)

Title: Re: Neil Degrasse Tyson answer's my question on air!
Post by: Sir William on 2013-01-09, 14:41:28

Is that Wil Wheaton??????  lol

This was very cool...I didn't watch the video yesterday (no time) so I just got a chance today.  Yours is a question I've been pondering of late- thanks to Timeline by Michael Crichton (not the loosely-based-on movie, but the actual book) and of course then you start thinking - what if time is only perceived as linear because we, as Dr. deGrasse-Tyson states, are prisoners of the present?  Then there's the whole multiverse thing...I try not to think about it too much.  :)

Title: Re: Neil Degrasse Tyson answer's my question on air!
Post by: Sir Wolf on 2013-01-09, 23:46:30

(http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTM5Mzk3MTU3N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNDA1MDg2OA@@._V1._SX640_SY503_.jpg)

Title: Re: Neil Degrasse Tyson answer's my question on air!
Post by: Sir William on 2013-01-10, 15:27:02

Why can't I see that pic of Wolf's?

Title: Re: Neil Degrasse Tyson answer's my question on air!
Post by: Sir Edward on 2013-01-10, 19:24:06

They're blocking hot-linking. You'll need to copy/paste the URL:

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTM5Mzk3MTU3N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNDA1MDg2OA@@._V1._SX640_SY503_.jpg (http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTM5Mzk3MTU3N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNDA1MDg2OA@@._V1._SX640_SY503_.jpg)

Title: Re: Neil Degrasse Tyson answer's my question on air!
Post by: Sir William on 2013-01-10, 20:58:37

Oh, I love when the two of them get together on that show...