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  1. Neil deGrasse Tyson _ Death by Black Hole

    The easy part is the ray's 500-second speed-of-light jaunt from the Sun to Earth, through the void of interplanetary space. The hard part is the light's million-year adventure to get from the Sun's center to its surface.
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  2. Neil deGrasse Tyson _ Death by Black Hole

    What are the chances that this first and only smart species in the history of life on Earth has enough smarts to completely figure out how the universe works? Chimpanzees are an evolutionary hair's-width from us yet we can agree that no amount of tutelage will ever leave a chimp fluent in trigonometry. Now imagine a species on Earth, or anywhere else, as smart compared with humans as humans are compared with chimpanzees. How much of the universe might they figure out?
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  3. Neil deGrasse Tyson _ Death by Black Hole

    Perhaps these ancient observatories perennially impress modern people because modern people have no idea how the Sun, Moon, or stars move. We are too busy watching evening television to care what's going on in the sky. To us, a simple rock alignment based on cosmic patterns looks like an Einsteinian feat. But a truly mysterious civilization would be one that made no cultural or architectural reference to the sky at all.
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  4. Neil deGrasse Tyson _ Death by Black Hole

    Let there be no doubt that as they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion.
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  5. Neil deGrasse Tyson _ Death by Black Hole

    Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure science. -EDWIN P. HUBBLE {1889–1953}, The Nature of Science
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  6. Neil deGrasse Tyson _ Death by Black Hole

    And behold the greatest mystery of them all: an unopened can of diet Pepsi floats in water while an unopened can of regular Pepsi sinks.
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  7. Neil deGrasse Tyson _ Death by Black Hole

    Our five senses even interfere with sensible answers to stupid metaphysical questions like, "If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" My best answer is, "How do you know it fell?" But that just gets people angry. So I offer a senseless analogy, "Q: If you can't smell the carbon monoxide, then how do you know it's there? A: You drop dead." In modern times, if the sole measure of what's out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you.
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  8. Neil deGrasse Tyson _ Death by Black Hole

    After 50 years of television, there's no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.
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  9. Neil deGrasse Tyson _ Death by Black Hole

    Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.
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  10. Neil deGrasse Tyson _ Death by Black Hole

    Without a doubt, the most spectacular way to die in space is to fall into a black hole.
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  11. Neil deGrasse Tyson _ Death by Black Hole

    Even the successful 1985 Bret Easton Ellis book {and 1987 film} Less Than Zero, which tracks the falling from grace of wealthy Los Angeles teens, could not be imagined with the logically equivalent title: Negative.
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