A Day in the Life of Neil deGrasse Tyson [VLOG]

we're here in Twilight so let's do this [Music] one of the good things about Europe of course there are many good things about Europe but especially the gelato I wanted more gelato that could fit on an ice cream cone so I got it in a cup then I just got the cone separate and just stick that on there and then I eat that last that way it doesn't fall off when I'm eating it nothing scientific about that it's just simple facts this is pistachio and chocolate make a nice combo you want some yeah our whole production team is in London for a few days and we're doing a Star Talk presentation at a conference on Space sustainability that's a thing because we're crowding space low earth orbit space with countless satellites you've read about them these constellations of satellites in fact I'm angry they call them constellations because constellations of stars that's stuff that should be up there and we look at them and they're beautiful they have names they have history to put satellites up there and call it a constellation that ain't right maybe we should call them a train of satellites that's what it is yeah so how sustainable is that in the future who knows because space is getting very crowded but anyhow that's why we're all here but right now we're just driving around joyriding enjoy riding around the city London we'll just stop wherever I feel like I have something sciency to say some I might be scraping bottom to get the science out of it but I mean why not we'll go wherever science takes us and at the end of the day there's science in everything by the way have you ever made ice cream with liquid nitrogen you never have put it on your list [Music] so I'm here in London and that's Parliament behind me and of course the big clock at the top there Big Ben I think Big Ben is specifically the Bell not the clock itself last I knew I think we tried to make a big Bell and then it cracked the Liberty Bell so I don't know if that was a sign that maybe our Liberty is broken oh oh hey what are the odds let's calculate that there's eight billion people in the world too many yeah no they'll go to 10 billion and it'll settle off there did you know that no yeah they'll settle it about 10 billion okay and of all the places one could be this is a pretty highly traveled Place yeah thousands of people within so 8 billion out of a thousand that's a million the chances of one in eight million if at the beginning of today you said what are my chances of meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson however if you ask yourself what are my chances of meeting someone who I recognize no matter who it is it's way higher than that way higher I guess yeah it's way higher it's way higher if you take a look down at the at the the bridge support notice its shape Leonardo da Vinci wrote extensively about what shape Bridge support should have that are in the water so how they would park the currents otherwise the current would like chew on the base of the bridge and ultimately destroy it so just so you know they're Engineers civil engineers thinking about this stuff so that you don't have to Leonardo was a engineer a military Machinery expert and he did physics oh and he was also an artist Leonardo anyhow uh here we are reporting from London on the summer solstice June 21st okay okay everybody's in we're gonna selfie there everybody so you guys are in from where where are you guys in from California what part okay uh well for my podcast start talk oh yeah yeah that's so cool it start talk visits London oh it's cool no stay with it stay with it take hard classes you'll be better off even if your grade drops a little bit the hard class will matter more than the difference in the grade okay you got it okay now you know that's what I thought she had in mind at the beginning they totally bogarted their way in okay guys thanks for your interest okay guys actually a friend of mine made you in Australia and I was so jealous now you have now you can go back at him well he was wearing a NASA shirt if you wear a NASA bling then you in the club that's just how that works yeah that's just this is like what's it called virtue signaling that the cosmos is your thing and so so that's what they were they were from Bulgaria the folks before that were from Australia then Oklahoma but just one seeing tourists on this bridge while we were trying to film star talk and the people who just have their own enthusiasm for Science and I'm I'm honored that I can play a role in feeding that enthusiasm and so there it is back to the van but we can all fit in one of those cool [Music] so we're here at Buckingham Palace first time I've ever stood here seen pictures of it with the queen waving to people and we all learned how to wave from the queen this is the only Queen I've ever known my entire life I mean Elizabeth II by the way Queen Elizabeth the First overlapped with Galileo except Galileo was Italian but I thought I'd put this in historical context for you here's something interesting I think in the 1700s early 1800s England was our sworn enemy they came and burned the White House or swarm enemy and now they are our closest Ally in the world maybe after Canada but on some level it's the same difference what does it take to go from Arch Enemy to closest Ally does a war have to be fought to be an ally Lincoln is known for saying best way to defeat your enemy is to Simply make them your friends from Iraq okay yeah great pleasure excellent okay thank you thank you thank you my name is prakash I'm from Dubai Dubai okay so Dubai has the bird Khalifa right yeah okay cool you know I like about it the sun sets three minutes later at the top so don't they make a sheet so that you know when Ramadan fasting ends because it's different it's different at the top at the bottom yeah very cool full Garden Star Talk this is badass this is badass you hear what I said that's a badass well London of course we're using our Out of This World Luggage The Limited collab with solgar and star talk this collab includes the Moon Mars and NASA suitcase and inside the carry-on closet the patented magical closet system that allows you to stay organized on the go Soul guard makes travel easier and it's sustainably made too every item saves five pounds of plastic from entering our ocean the luggage is back in stock while supplies last visit soulguard.com StarTalk to learn more [Music] so the first time I came to London I was 14 years old I was by myself it was the beginning of a multi-week stay where I studied part of an expedition archaeologists and other scientists to study monuments in the British Isles up into Scotland that resemble Stonehenge but are not as famous as Stonehenge or not as well preserved so they're these Stones throughout right the folks back then they erected some Stones all right you look at Stonehenge and you think it's singular it's not one of very many examples and some of them were Uncharted so we had a map of those that were Uncharted and the t i and 12 other people I brought through the astronomical knowledge to the table other people brought archaeological knowledge because I've been doing astronomy like since I was a little kid so so we found these stones and they're typically in Farmers Fields so we just checked we first document them because the farmers didn't like the stones because it disrupts their farming practice so we fully document them photographed them and then mapped where they were with respect to each other and to the sky into any rising and setting points of the sun moon and stars so that's what I did and by the way that was kind of a Stonehenge baptism for me we did visit Stonehenge in the Salisbury Plain it's because of that trip that I said to myself I got to bring some of this back to New York City some years later I would be in Central Park surrounded by Lawns and trees and Beyond the trees are the rooftops of tall buildings and I thought I wonder if there's a place to stand where there's fun alignments with the sun moon and stars and I couldn't find one so I just went I settled for something that I knew I'd be able to identify but I was hoping to get more and so I said let me just publish the dates where the sun sets exactly on the geometric grid of the Manhattan streets and so then I call that Manhattan hinge and so now you know when I first published the photos back in 2002 no one really knew about it or cared about it I'm delighted to report that tens of thousands of people flood the streets during those two days a year where the sun sets right on the grid traffic gets stopped finally for reasons other than Con Ed [ __ ] holes and police activity I would cherish any moment where someone is blocking traffic because of some Cosmic phenomena foreign [Laughter] [Music] we sleep never [Music] we're here in Twilight so let's do this okay oh foreign [Music] the day after the solstice but the sun will still rise in the same place as it did yesterday so I'm not worried about that and we've got a security guard coming approaching us right now we might be on private property but we'll find out in a moment but anyhow Stonehenge is there in front of us and we're now right now aligned with the heel stone and the heelstone is actually between two vertical columns and unfortunately we have trees on the horizon so we're not going to get a clean rise of the sun and the Sun is going to rise at a very steep angle so it'll be interesting to see where it shows up when it finally manifests itself from behind the trees and so we might have to sort of shift a little this way to get it at least over the structure uh to at least capture some of the spirit that the original Architects had intended just a little emotional for me because I haven't been to Stonehenge since I was 14 years old this is like 50 years ago and here it is again back then we could like climb all over the stones and of course you knew over time that wouldn't end well and so of course the Stonehenge Monument is cordoned off we are here the day after the solstice but the sun rising angles would still be close enough to what they were yesterday so that it would make no important difference when I came here I was with the guy who first decoded it he wrote the book decoding Stonehenge his name is Gerald Hawkins because we came here just to sort of Benchmark what we were about to do in the rest of the British Isles we went into Scotland and their other Stone like I said none this well preserved and none this large but there's tons of them I don't know if you noticed their sign there was woodhenge and there's a they're Avery there's another circle of stones that are not this big they're more craggy chunks of rock but there's a bunch of these throughout the British Isles so whatever was going on it was a common thing to do so the fully constructed thing you'd have the vertical stones and then the cap stones and then this would complete a circle and there's an inner circle to that as well right that's why busier than what would look like it would just be a single outer ring there's like a second ring which was a little more mysterious about why that was there so earlier we saw a set of people all dressed in robes gathered at Stonehenge and then they started walking around it and you got to see how big the stones are compared to a human being they're like four or five times their height were they Druids I don't know for the longest time it was suspected that The Druids were responsible for Stonehenge but the earliest we can date The Druids is thousands of years later than the dating of the stones themselves so maybe The Druids used it performed rituals around it but they're not the ones who built it and that Still Remains to be resolved in a way that we can all agree as an astrophysicist as a scientist to me that's an observatory in addition to whatever else civilizations might have used it for Stonehenge his name is Ty hi how he did we found him yesterday to drive all of us out here last night and Ty you're telling me that you heard or read or saw that Stonehenge was a portal through space-time Continuum okay it's absolutely that's what you heard but it's not absolutely that it's true it's true that you heard it okay okay we agree yeah okay all right well you know I was told that that was that was a portal and that's been broken down because they don't want any other people to go through it and when would as a portal through space and time and who who built the portal uh the aliens aliens yeah okay okay wouldn't you think they'd have materials more sophisticated than rocks yes there are rocks yeah but so the wood aliens they might be special rocks and they're in such a formation that means that the formation is what does it absolutely absolutely I like hearing what people think okay so so that's how the aliens would get from Earth to somewhere else absolutely okay do you think the only the aliens built that yes okay that's why they're uh they're different portals all over the world and I and that's just one of them yeah okay how come we haven't seen this lately you might have seen him area 51. I'm not authorized to comment on area [Laughter] [Music] so it's day two now we're gonna attend this sustainability conference for space that's a new term space sustainability we actually have an episode on that you can dig it out of the archives so we're attending that conference and we're going to do a live Star Talk that's going to be fun and it's at the Museum of Science here in London foreign if you look at the total amount of money spent in space today government Investments is vanishingly small how much what's being spent in space well depends how you count it in space it includes Commerce enabled by GPS satellites yes the government launched GPS satellites but now we have like uber and you know you can get a car you can find someone to mate with with Tinder right or grinder using satellite technology I always think that the people who invented this technology have any clue how inventive people would invoke these capabilities the point is all of that is part of the space economy it would not exist without it welcome to StarTalk everyone this is StarTalk devoted to space sustainability first I got to bring in my co-host which is part of the DNA of StarTalk a professional stand-up comedian Matt come on up Matt Matt winning yeah yeah come on you have a seat we've got Jenna Tawana Jenna come on up hello so Jen is an airspace engineer and you're also a head of Business Development for ispace not head yet oh not head yet okay and we also have Danielle Wood an aerospace engineer from MIT yes excellent everyone will look back on the several hundred people in this conference and say oh my gosh I wish I was at that Gathering because that's where the rules were set for how we now conduct business in the future thank you for sharing us your comments and thank you all and to thank our panelists thank you more but come on up here take us out whoa wait let's do that for the camera you ready go studying bioengineering the calculator upstairs back ends you're on a abbreviation basis I'm a mechange okay and you're bioengineering yeah I love that so you're going to fix everything [Laughter] okay and we all got that thing oh we got more behind you here oh hello everybody don't leave after physics allow me to say that there is no understanding of biology without chemistry and there is no understanding of chemistry without physics it is foundational in this universe so is physics the grandfather or the grandmother grandmother fathers can't birth anything okay get you get your gender what would you get with get with the program here all right I shouldn't be the one to have to drag you kicking and screaming into the 21st century by the way my generation [ __ ] up the world so you got to fix it okay [Laughter] okay we did something we brought you the personal computer and my people did that but then we didn't we weren't really thinking about sustainability the future multiculturalism there was a lot missing from our portfolio and that is Center in how you guys live today and think it's second nature so the fact that it's second nature that's in a way we just discussed it in this conference that may be your superpower going forward all right guys I gotta run okay thank you it still comes to an end star talks Journey encounter with London so there you have it this is what we do and you know why we do it try to bring the universe Down to Earth for whoever will watch this is Neil deGrasse Tyson you're a personal astrophysicist keep looking up

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Length: 21min 16sec (1276 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 06 2022