For me, there's nothing more motivating than the knowledge I'm going to die. So if knowing you're going to die brings meaning to your life, then living forever is a life of no meaning at all. If I could live forever, I would do stuff I didn't really feel like doing. Who's the, what do you got? Give you another chance. Answer that again. What would you do if you could live forever? No, I would say that is the sentence. You have to do it. That's a weird, that's a weird wish. Well, yeah. But so much time, you know, I don't know if I could live Forever. Right
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.