Each chapter is a, is a point of conflict in civilization. I'm trying to illuminate places where people could think differently or maybe not have to think that way at all. What they felt would have deeply held argument really just evaporates in the face of a cosmic perspective. A mouse in the wild lives between nine and 18 months because it's highly likely to be swallowed whole by a owl or pecked apart by all manner of woodland predators. And so, so what you've done is doom, you've doomed the mouse to be eaten prematurely in its life. So the best thing you can do for the mouse is leave it in your basement where it will live sex up to six years
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.