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His special subject is astrophysics, but his mission goes much wider, to get us all to respect scientific fact. so how's that going? neil degrasse tyson, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. your dayjob is being an astrophysicist, but you are also one of america's leading champions for science. so you tell me why there appears to be such a strain of scepticism among so many americans toward the basics of scientific knowledge. i don't have a good answer for that and i poked around in the ether for what could be behind it and i'm going to give what sounds

Formation of next—generation starsystems, planets, and possibly conditions for life as we know it. or, even better yet, life as we don't know it. but we sort of know one of the fundamentals, i mean, the national academy of sciences�* recent report what is coming up next over the next decade in space exploration... by the way, we do that each decade, it's one of the things we are proudest of. it's called a decadal survey. i know. we get together and say let's prioritise ten years�* of money. i know. and here's what they lay out for this one. they say, "the coming decades will set humanity...

For the edge of the universe also means it's tuned for peering deep within gas clouds of our own milky way galaxy and it's within the gas clouds that you have the formation of next—generation star systems, planets, and possibly conditions for life as we know it. or, even better yet, life as we don't know it, to find. but we sort of know one of the fundamentals, i mean, the national academy of sciences' recent report on what's coming up next over the next decade in space exploration... by the way, we do that each decade, it's one of the things we are proudest of. it's called a decadal survey....

A satchel of facts that are imparted upon you and then you regurgitate that for an exam. that's an aspect of science, but it's not the most important part of science. the most important part of science is knowing how to question things and knowing when an answer has emerged that represents, sort of, an objective truth about this world. and if you think science is just that one research paper that reports the one result that you either like or don't like, no, that's not how science works. it's notjust a block of facts. it's not a block of facts nor is it any one research paper. if you have a br...

Are gonna set humanity down a path to determine whether we are alone." yes, we're gonna get an answer in the sense that, i don't know if we're alone, but in every way we can imagine we're not alone we are going to perform experiments to test it. and that's what's going to unfold over the next years. and it seems to be... on mars and on the icy moons ofjupiter, where beneath, it's kept warm from stress from jupiter's gravity and the tugging of other moons, deep beneath the frozen surface there's oceans of liquid water. and every place on earth we have liquid water, we have life. so one of nasa'...