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Neil DeGrasse Tyson Says Hoverboards Are Still A Ways Off
It’s been the dream of countless nerds since at least 1989. We want our hoverboards, and we want them now. But if Neil deGrasse Tyson is to be believed, we’re going to be waiting for a while.
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s 9 Interstellar Mysteries
Neil deGrasse Tyson tweeted yesterday a series of nine “mysteries” about Nolan’s Interstellar. He is happy about the overall scientific accuracy in the movie, but there are still some things the famous astrophysicist doesn’t fully understand.
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Nine-Year-Old Debates Asteroid Destruction With Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Seriously, folks, you need to watch nine-year-old Jacob debating about how to deflect or destroy asteroids that may hit Earth with Cosmos‘ host Neil de Grasse Tyson. The non-Newtonian fluid line is pure gold.
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Only ‘Stupid Aliens’ Would Build Flying Saucers That Spin
A mainstay of classic science fiction is the flying saucer, the universal icon for extraterrestrial alien space vehicles. The problem is, no species capable of constructing ships to traverse the stars would ever go with a saucer design that involved spinning, as astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson explains here.