"The miracle is us being able to observe, to be a party to an observer of this miracle," he says. "I don't know what that is. I guess consciousnesse still try to figure it out." 'We are a speck of dust on a specking of dust, but we're observing it,' the author adds.
What was it like to send Captain Kirk to space? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson sits down with William Shatner to discuss his trip into space, Star Trek, and musings about life on Earth.
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