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Neil deGrasse Tyson - Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilisation

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The Human Genome Is a Twelfth of a Million

If you look at the total number of people who've ever been born, it's about 100 billion total. That means nearly 10% of all people who were ever alive are alive right now. What a privilege that is because most humans who could ever exist will never even be born. The idea that we have state-sanctioned slaughter to end the lives of other people, when this is their only time to exist in this universe, I weld up. But if you had another 100 years, you'd probably take it and you would just keep being an exponential Neil for the next 100 years. Could be forever.

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