This week on London Real, we have astrophysicist Neil degrass Tyson.

I wake up every morning astonished that an astrophysicist can have 1.7 million Twitter fault.

The Cosmos is anything where it's a frontier of human knowledge of how the world works.

There's so many forces that want to deny a scientific truth just because it conflicts with their ideology.

I thought of myself because I could wrestle as sort of a defender of geeks.

There is no teacher in any time in my life from kindergarten through 12th grade and beyond

whoever would have said he'll go far. And the act of finding out is the lesson, not the

lesson itself. On Sunday London Real presents Neil degrass Tyson, Cosmos.

I'm happy to report that there's an appetite for the Cosmos out there.

Welcome back to London Real. I am here at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich,

in honor of this week's guest.

If you haven't been up here, it's an amazing place and it has unique views of the city of London.

You can see behind me here, the O2 Arena, of course canary war for all the bank buildings are and then you can see the city of London

London real studios are over there somewhere you can see the Thames and it's really amazing up here

It's also the home of Greenwich Meantime

which is right behind me you can walk and have one foot on one side of the

hemisphere and one foot on the other side.

And it's really a fantastic place.

There's tons of history including

this housing up there where

there's a Victorian telescope that's 28 inches wide and 28 feet long.

And this was the place back in the day, you know, where discoveries were being made and planets were being tracked and it's just it's a

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