Neil deGrasse Tyson brings his signature space thoughts — and rants — to Houston
American astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson appears as the guest keynote speaker at the 15th annual H-E-B Excellence in Education Awards on Friday, May 13, 2016.Neil deGrasse Tyson's talk on the"delusions of space enthusiasts" is kind of like a two-hour rant with visual aides, the astrophysicist proclaimed.Will SpaceX, founded by billionaire Elon Musk, send the first humans to Mars? Only if China is also competing to go and NASA pays for it.
"After Sputnik, people started overpredicting," Tyson said."So right when we were on the cusp of landing on the moon, people were saying, 'Oh, at this rate we'll be on Mars by 1985.' And of course, that didn't happen." President George W. Bush tried to get NASA to return to the moon, but those plans were canceled by President Barack Obama before being revived by President Donald Trump."Is anyone saying that? Not really," Tyson said."Because we don't want to be viewed as reactive to geopolitical forces. We like thinking that we're explorers. We're Americans. We're proactive. These are the delusions that we have been living under for 60 years.
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