Neil deGrasse Tyson: Peter Thiel Is WRONG!

I imagine that the things that Peter Theil is wrong about would fill dozens of encyclopedias.

Peter Thiel is heavily involved with creepyness and being hateful.

Peter Theil is a threat to our democracy if we still have one

About 10 years ago I was hiking with a friend when we wondered about a plant we’d run across. So he took a picture on his phone and an app told us what it was. Good Lord, could we have imagined that in 1986? Back then, the only hand-held device that could do that was the tricorder on Star Trek. And that was centuries away. Now no one thinks twice about such things.

Just a small correction: He is Peter Thief, NOT Peter Thiel.

My mother turned 101 this year. In every birthday celebration speech, I include some lines for the latest scientific discoveries and breakthroughs, and it never gets boring.

I'm a physics professor who's spent 25 years at the frontier of cosmology — building the instruments that imaged the universe's first light. Tyson's right that most people can't name a discovery from the last decade, but they've lived through gravitational wave detection, the first black hole image, and a thousand confirmed exoplanets. The stagnation debate (Thiel, Cowen, Collison) is more interesting than either side admits. Full 2024 interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson goes deeper: https://youtu.be/aUnkkHuorto Transcript + Monday M.A.G.I.C. Message: briankeating.com/yt Free meteorite for .edu addresses (USA): briankeating.com/edu

Peter Thiel is just pissed because he hasn't figured out how to add more billions to his billions and stop others from moving ahead of him!

well, I think it has become clear recently that Peter Thiel is delusional

When I was a kid in the 50's-60's we walked to the library and read books. As a teen I used to think my grandmother lived through amazing times, 1898-1987, autos, planes, radio, TV, depression 2 world wars, Space adventure. Then I realized my Mom had lived in amazing time too, 1919-1991, Depression, 2 world wars, Korea, Vietnam, TV, space adventure, radio, early computers. Now at 75 I've also lived in amazing and trying times.