neil degrasse tyson narrationwritten using a predictive text interfacesource: all transcripts from &
neil degrasse tyson narrationwritten using a predictive text interfacesource: all transcripts from ‘cosmos: a spacetime odyssey’ (2014)transcript:It is said that astronomy is a trap designed to catch even the most elusive prey. that is correct. The stars are so very clever that they can patrol the universe until they have gone and done it to me and everyone who ever lived.The cosmic context is that earth has been hiding in the dark places. A black hole can be fatal and that makes it right to argue against a black hole.The sun is a good thing for us humans who believe that it is a dream machine, but the sun is just one kind of stellar companion.A new kind is the milky triumph they called the pale ghost of nature.A long time ago in a universe that we still call the universe, the big cats from the bronx succeeded in their competition for the planet’s magnetic field.The dinosaurs were wiped out by natural selection. that was the world’s first book. but it wouldn’t be the last.This time it’s also a story about 100 men made of atoms each with invisible partners from another planet.This time, when we invented sex, we could see it.As it happens, we are descended from astronomers and that makes sense, right, if the universe is mostly a space without food in its vicinity, that could tell us that we are born from litters of the greatest scientists you’ve probably never heard of.It was thought that michael faraday was a has-been named copernicus, from the latin word for “all the wolves in the world.” But he summoned up his courage and he invented the weather map that could tell me how to grow without getting heavier.One of the most revolutionary insights of the 20th century came when i was born and the soviet union was just like "it is beginning to be clear that we are struggling to be the first guy of the world.”We usually can’t see the light from the stars but if we harness the bounteous energy of my voice we can see everything: explosions, love and an octopus beneath the surface of our language.For example I’m often flooded with water and dust from the explosion of all the answers in my mind.Is it possible for us to vanquish the sun and its associated research institutes? Is it possible for us to read aristotle books and to argue that he would have been really angry to know what we do with all our spacecraft? Is it possible for us to calculate the size of a dot? It is science to reveal nature’s most popular breeds of life. It is science to think about exotic objects. It is science to know that we’re here in our children’s backyards where they live among the moss and the music. It is science to have fun haunting the surface of the earth.The cosmos is yours to be misused by. -- source link