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  • neiltyson
      Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

    Cutting PBS support (0.012% of budget) to help balance the Federal budget is like deleting text files to make room on your 500Gig hard drive

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  • neiltyson
      Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

    Does it disturb anyone else that "The Los Angeles Angels" baseball team translates directly to "The The Angels Angels"?

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  • neiltyson
      Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

    Enough on Mars. Must get back to making Earth hotter, cutting science budgets & killing each other over religious differences

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  • neiltyson
      Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

    On the day we reserve to tell ourselves America is great - July 4 - Europe reminds us that we suck at science. #HiggsBoson

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  • neiltyson
      Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

    Just an FYI: If you removed all veins, arteries, & capillaries from your body and laid them end to end, you will die.

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  • neiltyson
      Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

    America 2012: The Learning Channel has HoneyBooBoo, History Channel has PawnStars: and the Science Channel has PumpkinChunkin

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  • neiltyson
      Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

    The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.

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  • neiltyson
      Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

    As retired Shuttles majestically grace our cityscapes, we shed a silent tear, not for the end of an era but for the absence of a new one.

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  • neiltyson
      Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

    The "Edge of Space" jump: A corresponding fall to a schoolroom globe begins 1 millimeter above its surface. I'm just saying.

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  • neiltyson
      Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

    Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.

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  • neiltyson
      Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

    A H R B Q D W E F L M N S X G I J K O P C T V Y U Z -- Gotta love what the alphabet looks like in alphabetical order.

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  • neiltyson
      Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

    Neil Armstrong was the spiritual repository of spacefaring dreams & ambitions. In death, a little bit of us all dies with him

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  • neiltyson
      Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

    Need a distraction today? Not only does 12+1=11+2, but the letters "twelve plus one" rearrange to give you "eleven plus two"

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  • neiltyson
      Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

    The best engineering flow chart ever: http://t.co/Rs7GNh4U

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  • neiltyson
      Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

    If aliens did visit us, I'd be embarrassed to tell them we still dig up fossil fuels from the ground as a source of energy.

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  • neiltyson
      Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

    Fond of bow ties & hats. Handbag is bigger on the inside. Talks to variety of creatures. Evidence Mary Poppins is a Time Lord

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  • neiltyson
      Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

    Alka Seltzer is fizzable. Uranium is fissionable. I'd prefer that my leaders knew the difference between the two.

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  • neiltyson
      Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

    Just an FYI: Stars in the Universe far outnumber all sounds & words ever uttered by all humans who ever lived.

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  • neiltyson
      Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

    The Big Bang Theory sitcom is so successful, if you Google “Big Bang Theory” It precedes the actual creation of the Universe.

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  • neiltyson
      Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

    Politicians lie not because they're evil, but because they say what voters want to hear. So it's we who are the problem.

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@neiltyson

@neiltyson

Astrophysicist, Am. Museum of Natural History. Author: Space Chronicles, Pluto Files, Inexplicable Universe [Video], Host: StarTalk Radio http://t.co/0DbxO8jk