What is this, unseen footage of Neil deGrasse Tyson as the ‘luded out astrophysicist character that was cut out of one of the Bill & Ted movies?
Pass the gravity bong, Neil!
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What is this, unseen footage of Neil deGrasse Tyson as the ‘luded out astrophysicist character that was cut out of one of the Bill & Ted movies?
Pass the gravity bong, Neil!
Via reddit
You may remember my earlier find of young and foxy Stephen Hawking, but I think I may have a new scientist super-fox crush whose name I’m gonna scribble all over my notebook: Neil deGrasse Tyson…
1) Side burns
2) Mullet
3) Glittery astrophysics-themed T-shirt
4) Those guns
Love the ritual of the Catholic Church, but hate the… everything else? Welcome the new Pope by burning one of these awesome secular “prayer” candles featuring scientists Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye. Maybe pray for something like a radical change in the Church’s policy on birth control or homosexuality?
Seth MacFarlane, creator of “Family Guy,” has donated funds to the Library of Congress so it can acquire the personal papers of astronomer Carl Sagan, library officials announced today. Via Art Beat:
Mr. MacFarlane never owned Sagan’s papers, but he covered the undisclosed costs of donating them to the library. The papers filled more than 800 filing-cabinet drawers and include correspondence with other scientists, drafts of Mr. Sagan’s academic articles, as well as screenplay drafts for the movie “Contact,” which was based on Mr. Sagan’s novel. His grade-school report cards and a drawing he made as a child about the future of space exploration were also included. “All I did was write a check, but it’s something that was, to me, worth every penny,” MacFarlane told The Associated Press by phone from Los Angeles. “He’s a man whose life’s work should be accessible to everybody.”
Mr. MacFarlane said he watched “Cosmos” as a child and read all of Mr. Sagan’s books. “He was an enormous and profound influence in my life,” Mr. MacFarlane said. “He played an essential role — some would say the only role at the time — in bridging the gap between the academic community and the general public.”
MacFarlane is forgetting about Jonathan Miller and Joseph Campbell, but point taken.
Mr. MacFarlane met Mr. Sagan’s widow and collaborator, Ann Druyan, at an event a few years ago that brought together Hollywood screenwriters and directors with scientists. They agreed to collaborate on a follow-up to “Cosmos,” with Mr. MacFarlane serving as producer. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson will host the series, which is scheduled to begin production this fall.
Neil deGrasse Tyson taking up Carl Sagan’s mantle for a reboot of Cosmos produced by Seth MacFarlane? I’d watch that.
Someone alert reddit!
Speaking of Seth MacFarlane, his feature film debut, Ted, comes out later this week.
Below, an “edited for rednecks” version of Carl Sagan’s classic Cosmos TV miniseries from Family Guy.
The Last Supper with scientists: Galileo Galilei, Marie Curie, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Isaac Newton, Louis Pasteur, Stephen Hawking, Albert Einstein, Carl Sagan, Thomas Edison, Aristotle, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins and Charles Darwin.
(via I.Z. Reloaded and Nerdcore)
More autotune fun! Along with Sagan and Feynman, “We Are All Connected” features astrophysicist (and Colbert pal) Neil deGrasse Tyson as well as noted UFO debunker Bill (Science Guy) Nye.