Do you know how precious life is? Most people don't. I think because look at the risks we take. There's been about a hundred billion people who have ever lived. That could have existed over time or that could exist total? Same difference. So I give a low end number of a million trillion, trillion, trillion total possible numbers of plausible human beings that could exist.
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. He is the host of the weekly show “Star Talk” on National Geographic and the head of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City. He has a new book “Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization” out now.
Neil deGrasse Tyson joins the show to chat with Theo about cosmic musings, the new space race, facts vs. feelings, flat-earthers, climate change and much more.