No sound so don't know what was said, however Tyson is great, I listen to his Podcast often.

Hugely excited about the prospect of his new series/remake of Cosmos, the original which remains the best thing ever to be on the telly

I'll watch out for that, thanks

I like his style, he has a good sense of humour.

can't think of anyone else that could do it.

He doesn't have the same gravitas as Sagan but is certainly passionate and authoritative about the subject.

I recently re-watched the original programmes and they're still absolutely blinding, when you compare them to the modern tosh we get from Brian 'in't space brilliant?' Cox I hope Tyson is allowed to make something special.

Don't get me wrong, the guy is superb, as that clip shows, (in fact, I wish more public science types would say that sort of thing). He still gets hate mail for Pluto.

He was vocal on the issue, not sure if he was the thought behind it. He certainly led that thinking at his institute, (can't remember the name).

Watched the clip now, I like Tyson and enjoyed this one. I didn't find the idea disturbing though, I guess no-one else here did either. But it was certainly interesting.

I would hope that if there is ET-T elsewhere in the universe and if we do encounter it then there would be at least half a chance we could communicate.

However, I'm sure that genetics and biology will advance sufficiently over the next century that we'll be able to create modified DNA to not only create people who're immune to a lot of the diseases and illnesses and whatnot that this species struggles with but that we're able to modify it to improve the abilities of the species, this would include sufficiently improving the human brain so that hopefully if we're too 'stupid' to figure out a lot of the questions posed by science then these new breed of human-2.0 will.

A good vid in ways, but disturbing? No. Amazing? No.
It's pretty obvious that there is a very high possibility that there are species out there that are vastly superior to us in every way?

Seeing how we have treated chimps and other lower intelligence species in the past makes the invasion of a superior alien race seem a bit grim.


Fancy being carried naked by an alien photographer on the beach for photo's with tourist alien families?

The disturbing bit is not important, it was just an interesting vid, although I agree with him that it is.

Imagine another race who had as much power over us as we have over garden worms. We would be utterly helpless but also feel utterly inconsequential next to them. Our greatest achievements would pale into insignificance next to theirs.

Does grim not equate in any way to disturbing? At any rate your beach analogy certainly does!

This is the entire point he's making. To US, life appears rare because we haven't found it anywhere else than the microscopic amount of the Universe that we've searched thus far. To another intellegence, 1% greater than us, life could appear abundant in millions of different planets across THEIR known Universe.

The fact we can send machines to the moon and out across such a small and insignificant area as a single Solar System could appear as mundane to that other race as to the ability to put one foot in front of the other without falling over.

Oops, fixed!