#468 - Neil deGrasse Tyson - Welcome To The Universe
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.7 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist, planetary scientist, author and science communicator.
Elon Musk bought Twitter and I found out about a 300 million light year across supervoid out in space within the same week. Thankfully Neil is here to help me work out what is going on in this version of the simulation.
Expect to learn whether focussing on Mars as a backup planet is a smart idea, how big the universe is outside of the observable universe, how we could restart the sun when it begins to die, when time will end, the politics of who gets to claim different asteroids, Neil's favourite solution to the Fermi Paradox and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Bonjour friends, welcome back to this show. My guest today is Neil de Grasse Tyson. He's an |
| 0:05.2 | astrophysicist, planetary scientist, author and a science communicator. Elon Musk bought Twitter, |
| 0:11.4 | and I found out about a 300 million light-year across Supervoid out in space within the same week. |
| 0:17.9 | Thankfully, Neil is here to help me work out what's going on in this version of the simulation. |
| 0:22.8 | Expect to learn whether focusing on Mars is a backup planet is a smart idea, |
| 0:26.8 | how big the universe outside of the observable universe might be, how we could restart the sun |
| 0:32.0 | when it begins to die, when time will end, the politics of who gets to claim different asteroids, |
| 0:37.6 | Neil's favorite solution to the Fermi paradox, and much more. The guys are legend, |
| 0:43.5 | right? Neil de Grasse Tyson is a lot of people's gateway drugs into astrophysics, into space, |
| 0:50.0 | into thinking about the universe, and big picture planetary stuff. Very, very much appreciate his work. |
| 0:56.4 | And today's fun. Also, he's got a new book coming out late this year, so expect another |
| 1:01.4 | appearance from Mr. Tyson later in 2022. Also, don't forget that the Modern Wisdom Reading List is now |
| 1:07.9 | available for free, and you can get your copy by going to chriswillx.com slash books. It's a list of |
| 1:14.8 | 100 books that you should read before you die. If you're looking for some new reading material, |
| 1:18.4 | just go there, right? There's 100 books that you can get stuck into fiction and nonfiction. |
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