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Neil deGrasse Tyson

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“Well, I mean, Mars might have had life, but it would be dead today on the surface. So we're looking for living civilizations”
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“I don't see why not. It's a calculation you can do. I did it with two colleagues of mine. We have about 100 civilizations in the galaxy, alive now. That's not many out of the total number of stars. But again, a civilization has to evolve out of whatever it was, and it's a tiny little slice of time Relative to how long the planet has been there.”
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“Yeah, it's equivalent in terms of the space of searching because it's not only in physical space. It's in time. Suppose aliens sent radio signals to us and they arrived two thousand years ago. Do the Romans have radio telescopes? No. But we would all count them as intelligent. So communication requires intelligence and technology. How long have we had technology to do that? 80 years”
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“Yes, that's a good word to use a coin sized volume of this galaxy. We've searched for exoplanets and by association life. So folks at the SETI Institute, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, they come up with an analogy. But people have said, well, we haven't found life yet, so maybe there's no life anywhere. We say, no, take a cup and scoop it into the ocean. Like saying The ocean has no whales in it.”
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“Yeah, solar system. And then that's our solar system there. And we are part of several hundred billion stars in the galaxy. This galaxy is one of perhaps as many as a trillion galaxies in the observable universe. So to say they were alone, that's just being philosophically irresponsible.”
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“Yeah, the Galaxy is the most sensible place to. So we've looked for exoplanets. A planet orbiting another star You're going to look for life, you want to. We presume it's going to be on a planet. So if this table is the galaxy, And the solar system would be about right there. We've searched a circle about this big for exoplanets”
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“Now you have exoplanets everywhere across the galaxy to suggest that life on Earth is alone in the universe. You'd have to have some point of philosophy that requires you to believe that because it's not derived from actual evidence or observations of the universe itself. So aliens, usually people mean intelligent aliens, but we're happy to find any kind of life at all, bacterial life. That would transform biology.”
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“Of No, no, they surely exist. In this universe, the universe is fourteen billion years old, and the ingredients of life on Earth are the most common ingredients in the universe. And life began on earth almost as quickly as it possibly could have When Earth finally cooled down after it being formed, it was about 200 million years for signs of single-celled life. So even though we can't duplicate that yet, we don't know how, that's a frontier of biology, Earth didn't seem to have problems getting the job done within 200 million years. That's Earth.”
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“It's kind of that simple. The moment you know what you're looking at, it's an IFO, isn't it? Not a UFO. And so, yeah, I want to meet the aliens, but you're going to show me fuzzy video, or you're going to say you have an alien, but it's in a locked box and you're not going to show it. If you have an alien in a lockbox and you're not going to show it, that's the same thing to a scientist as not having an alien at all.”
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“The community of amateur astronomers in the world. Amateur astronomy is, that's a badge of honor because it means you know the night sky and you own a telescope. It's not like amateur neurosurgeon, okay? You don't want to go to an amateur neurosurgeon, but you want to know the night sky, go to an amateur astronomer. Amateur astronomers know the night sky. They know what the sun, moon, and stars are doing every night. They know they're very good at climate and weather because that affects whether things are visible. So they know when weather systems come in and go out and what things look like. You would think if aliens were about, up and about, that amateur astronomers would have seen more of them than anyone else. They've seen less We know what we're looking at.”
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“Often the same people who say there's a masterminded government the same people who complain that the government is a bloated bureaucracy, inefficient bureaucracy that should be replaced by private enterprise. There's the same people making those same statements. So I love the aliens. I want to meet them too. My people, the astrophysics community, have been searching for aliens for decades.”
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“Many people equate the two, but if you see something in the sky and you don't know what it is, It's a UFO. And what does the U stand for? Unidentified. Until you can identify it, it's a UFO And because it does things that you don't understand. You cannot equate that with it being an alien. You just said you don't know what it is Wow, that's amazing. I don't know what it is. Therefore, it must be an alien? Once you just said you don't know what it is, that's the end of the sentence. Can't go on and say, Therefore, it must be anything. You can be impressed with videos that have no explanation. I'll have a problem with But you want to turn around and say, Is aliens? You want to say it's a government cover up? Do you really think the government is that competent?”
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“Yeah, but there's no reason to think. So you're a ship at sea and you have a horizon. Are you saying, that's the extent of the ocean? No. Because if you sail towards the horizon, more horizon shows up. And you keep that up until you hit land So in the universe, we have our horizon. And if we went to that horizon, we'd have a whole other horizon beyond that. If we travel to that horizon, a whole other horizon there. The question is how far does that go? We don't know We have no idea It's simpler mathematically to think it goes forever. It's curious how there's some equations where infinities. Work just fine in the equation. So we don't know We can talk about to our own horizon, that's it.”
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“Well We like to think of ourselves at the top of Properties, but it's really your mind, surely, but not much else. Odd because we always imagine aliens having humanoid bodies. And there's no reason for that if they come from another planet. Most life on Earth doesn't have a humanoid body. The banana doesn't have a humanoid body, and you have DNA in common with it. You don't have any DNA in common with an alien from another planet, yet it's walking around with a neck, eyes, nose, mouth, head, ears, shoulders, arms, fingers, kneecaps, feet. Really? Is that your best imagination that you can come up with? Alien from another planet”
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“It's not meat in the middle. No. It's meat on a plane of existence above what you're arguing. And you will look down on what you're arguing and realize how ridiculous it is. That's the goal of that book.”
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“Yeah. By the way, if you look at the chapter titles in there, they're each pairs of words that we've all used, but we've argued over many of them over our Thanksgiving dinner. I don't know if there's a version of Thanksgiving in the UK. Maybe it's just Christmas. Everybody gathers and the crazy uncles and aunts come in and you got to argue with them about, you know, and you reminded why you only see them once a year. No, they're topics in their color and race is in there. Law and order. Body and mind. Meatarians and vegetarians, life and death? A lot of reflective moments in there. So this book, though it's all these topics that people fight about, its goal is to say, you think that and you think that? You got to look at it this way.”
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“No, if you learn about it as you should, you shouldn't be nihilistic. There's no force of nihilism in the knowledge, wisdom, and insight you get by studying the universe. You will never find marching armies led by astrophysicists to go slaughter one another. The cosmic perspective prevents that.”
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“Yes, every breath. This is the oneness of it all. That's why it's a beautiful thing. Astrophysics does not. I wouldn't live without it.”
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“Same with water. You drink water. There are more molecules of water in a glass of water. This is a mug of water than there are mugs of water in all the world's oceans. You drink a mug of water, and then it comes out of you in any one of a half dozen different ways. There's enough molecules to scatter into every other mug of water in the world. So someone gets a mug of water. Your molecules can be plenty of molecules.”
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“ChatGPT. That's right. No, so here it is. You ready? There are more molecules of air. In a single breath of air. Then there are breaths of air. In Earth's entire atmosphere. So, if you breathe in and then breathe out. Enough molecules that you breathe out to populate every breath that anyone will ever again take on this earth. And air mixes rather quickly. So it has to mix. It's not immediately give it some time, but you give it some time. There are molecules that went in and out of your lungs that are in China being breathed by people there when enough time has elapsed. You can calculate that. It's years, 10 years, something like that. There's tremendous mixing of air. So how's that for feeling kinship with others?”
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“It's a good question. That's the product of 20th century modern astrophysics. Then it was modern, I think of it as modern, where you say, what kind of star is this? You look around the universe for other stars that are just like it. And then you see those stars in their stages of evolution, stars being born, living out their lives, and dying. And the star changes its properties from birth to death. And so you can line up what where the sun is in that chart. And then plus we know how old Earth is. So we directly measure the age of the Earth. And so There's no reason to think that Did not form at the same time the sun did”
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“Well, so there's the sun's energy if the sun blotted out, but Earth has energy inside of itself as well. This is what gives us volcanoes and continental drift and all the rest of this. So if you don't have a sun, you want to live near a volcano or something that is a source of energy for you. And then you'll live on Earth until the Earth's energy died out. Ideally, by then, you just go to another planet. I mean, why not?”
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“Yeah, you can keep your distance. Black holes, they're not giant sucking devices. I mean, if you keep your distance, if the sun became a black hole right now, we would still orbit it. The gravity we feel at our distance is no different.”
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“Yeah, so when black holes eat, they get bigger. So lime is bigger than a golf ball, but not by very much. We can calculate what the size is.”
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“Correct, that's above a certain threshold. Within there there's the stars that the explosion is greater than what the gravity can contain, and it makes a supernova, and those are the stars that spread heavy elements across the galaxy, enabling us to even exist.”
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“There's a star that wants to explode, but has so much mass. The explosion doesn't overcome the gravity, and the star collapses down on itself to make a black hole. There's one way to make a black hole.”
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“You can't see it because you just have human vision. You whip out a telescope. You see, oh my gosh, they're two stars, not just one. If there's a pair of stars and one of them becomes a black hole, and this one ages, it expands and some of its material spills onto and orbits around the event horizon of the black hole, this swirling material gets hotter and hotter and hotter. It radiates X-rays and ultraviolet. Have X-ray and ultraviolet telescopes that see every one of these in the night sky. All black holes.”
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“And worse yet, it's a hole in any direction you approach it, not just a hole in the street or in the floor. It's a three dimensional whole. How do we know it's there? Because it distorts the fabric of space and time around it. You see galaxies behind concentrations of matter black holes and the shape of the galaxy is distorted because Einstein tells us that gravity distorts the fabric of space and time. So that's one way we discover black holes. Another way is most stars in the night sky are binary and multiple star systems, most of them.”
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“That's very fast. Seven miles. So the adage what goes up must come down? Not true. It's true for almost anything you would experience, but you can launch something at seven miles per second. It'll never ever come back. That's the escape velocity for Earth. Okay. If Earth had more mass, and the gravity were stronger? Escape velocity is higher. Would make sense because there's more gravity that you have to escape. Keep up that exercise. Cram in more and more mass. Just keep doing that. Scale velocity keeps going up. Eventually, the escape velocity hits the speed of light At that point, light can't even escape. Light is the fastest thing in the universe. If light can't escape, if you fall in, you don't escape either. There's no better description of a hole than that.”
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“You can know things without visiting them. I mean, the methods and tools and machines of science are remarkable in their ability to learn something without actually having to see it with your eyes or hear it with your ears or to touch it with your fingers. In fact, science didn't take off until these machines became a fundamental part of how we investigated the world, replacing our five senses. There's nothing more feeble in this world than you thinking you understand reality through your five senses. I don't want to call it feeble. I would call it error prone. Remember, I told you about escape velocity of Earth? Remember the value I said it was”
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“Oh, yeah, just visiting this planet. Yeah, I wrote a column, a question and an answer column for like 10 years, 15 years, where people just ask me questions from the public. And I had a pen name called Merlin. And Merlin was friends with Newton and Galileo and Marie Curie and all these people. So if you ask Merlin, dear Merlin, I don't quite understand gravity. Merlin would say, oh, Merlin had a conversation with Isaac Newton in his backyard. And here's how he answers that.”
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“That would make him want to hurry, wouldn't Yeah. And plus, he said, I don't want to die on earth. I want to die on Mars. I'm paraphrasing, but that's the idea. So that's a goal. Sure. But don't tell me it's a business case. I can see a tourist case going into orbit and even possibly visiting the moon. It's three days there, three days back. That's a week's vacation that you would take. And I would save up. Five years, ten years of vacation money? That was the amount that it would take to go to the moon for one week, that would be really fun bucket list item for me.”
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“Nine months, and you have to wait till the planets are configured so that when you travel, you arrive where Mars will be when you get there. And that's a minimum energy orbit. If you had filling stations along the way, you can just fill up with fuel and get there as fast as you want. But minimum energy orbit takes about nine months. And then to come back, you have to wait till it's configured again a few years later. So a round trip to Mars is three to five years easily. There's not an economic case. I'm not saying we don't know how to get to Mars. We have an SUV-sized rover there now. All right. Discovering potential life from a billion years ago. It's not like we don't know how to get to Mars. This is not a technological statement I'm making. I'm talking about a practical statement. So, no My read of history tells me no.”
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“Okay. 30 feet away. That's the moon. Let's keep going. How far away from Earth did the Bezos Branson Rockets Thickness of two dimes above the surface of the earth. How far away is Mars? It's a mile away.”
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“About that, yeah. If Earth were a schoolroom globe? With your fist, show me where you think the moon is. This is Earth. Take your fist and put it at the distance the moon is. Your fist is about the right size compared. There Okay, not too bad. It's 30 feet away. It's in the next room.”
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“Time to do that and say, well, do anybody have a rocket? Elon says, I have a rocket. So if Elon rocket goes to Mars, it's not because he sends it there. It's because taxpayers sent it there. The way he could go there on a vanity project, but there's no business case. He could fly to Mars, team up with Jeff Bezos. They can send people to Mars. Not a business case. And if you are an investor in his company, you would not agree to do that. Wouldn't, but he doesn't need investors because he's very wealthy. He could do it on his own. Are you going to Mars as a tourist? Is that a business case? It's a trillion dollars to get to Mars first. Second will be a little less. I don't see that happening.”
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“That's when we saw us go back to the moon. What a good idea! Let's do that Really? Because it's just a good idea? Because we're a little bit spooked. By a friendly foe across the world, Might get the glory of that exercise. And once again, it's a godless country. Okay Communism. Godless by design, by construct. So here we are going back to the moon. All right. What motivation do we have to go to Mars? Are there oil wells there? Is there diamond mines? Not going to We're just not unless China says they want to put military bases on Mars. We're going to be in Mars in 10 months. One month to design, build, and fund the thing, and nine months to get to Mars. Geopolitical force operating. Oh, and by the way, NASA doesn't have a rocket that'll get us to Mars. They think they do, but I don't really have one yet.”
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“the honor of royalty the church building cathedral building all of these activities were in the glory of power Deity and royalty. There's none of that happens today. We're past that. The power of kings and gods that doesn't happen. Nobody dislodges major resources, capital resources of a nation in the interest of a god or a king anymore. It's secular. And secular means it's money or it's war because you feel threatened. Okay. Know we're going back to the moon now. Did you ever think to stop and ask why? Why didn't we stay on the moon in nineteen seventy two? Why don't we go back in 1980 or 1990, 2000, 2010? Oh, all of a sudden, let's go back to the moon. Wouldn't that be cool? Do you know when Artemis began? In the late teens? Right about when China says we're going to put Taikonauts on the moon. Chinese astronaut for”
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“Because we didn't just go to the moon because that was the next thing to do. We went to the moon to beat the Russians. And when we got to the moon and we looked over our shoulder and the Russians weren't there, we canceled the Apollo program. We haven't been back to the moon in 53 years. Canceled it. Apollo 18 was ready to fly. It's now in captivity in Huntsville, Alabama, in a museum. On its side, it's fascinating to walk the full length of it. All rocket flight ready parts. It never flew. We ended it at Apollo seventeen. We didn't go to Mars because we didn't have geopolitical reasons to do so. Neither economic nor for defense reasons. Historically, people explored, did expensive things for the glory of God and royalty. Very expensive, the pyramids.”
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“Battle crystal, the godless Russians. Everyone in the whole Soviet Union. We were losing a technological race. And that was the battle cry that prompted Congress to write the check. Oh, later on he says, Oh, it'll be put a man on the moon and return him to safely Earth and Oh that's all beauty let's hold hands that's so beautiful No one ever spent scads of money just because it was a cool thing to do. That has never happened ever. So We go to the moon People forgetting why we went to the moon. Say, while we're on the moon, at this rate we'll be on Mars by nineteen eighty five. That'll be the next ambitious goal we'll take on.”
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“I have an unorthodox view on this, so you don't have to believe me. But. My read of history tells me that we only do big expensive things if there's a geopolitical reason for it, either an economic reason or a defense reason. Not just because it's the next thing to do And when we went to the moon, you realized in 1961, may twenty fifth, President Kennedy is a six weeks after Yuri Gagarin flew around the Earth in orbit, and we didn't have a ship that wouldn't blow up on the launch pad that could carry humans yet. He calls a joint session of Congress. and says if the events of recent weeks couldn't even utter the man's name, the events of recent weeks, and I paraphrase, are any indication of the impact of this adventure on the minds of men everywhere, then we need to show the world the path of freedom over the path of tyranny.”
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“Not all the pets survive. Yeah, it depends on whether it needs us to be alive or dead. We have to be relevant to it in some way. Maybe we'll be court chesters with the entertainment. Until then I don't know that this is some special moment. I do a lot of reading of history and throughout history. Most occasions, especially in the era of the Industrial Revolution, people think they're living in a special moment. So, I'm not going to be that guy who says today is special because everyone has thought they were in a special moment.”
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“Now, that sounds pretty scary, but don't we treat our pets better than we treat them? Other humans in the world? Think about it. The pet is kept warm and fed and happy and pretty. Would you do that for a homeless person in the street, a person of your own species? Probably not. So if we're the pet for the superintelligence?”
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“GPT paint this scene in the style of Van Gogh. It'll come back to colors will be just right. You'll have this whirling lines. It'll be perfect. If Van Gogh were standing here, that's what Van Gogh were to painted. If I say chat GPT, paint us in the style of no artist who has ever lived. I don't know what it's going to give us, but it'll probably suck, okay? And so true creativity Is not aping what has happened before and making adjustments, true creativity, yes, you always build on others. I'm not in denial of that. But true creativity takes leaps. That most people don't even know can be taken. And so the artists, so that gap, I think is what AI in the arts world is going to force creative people to reach for. Otherwise, you're replaced by... Replaced by a simple request in the input line of a large language model or of an art.”
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“I love it I'd love it, but By the way, it's been here for a while. It really spooked people when it started writing your term paper and composing your painting and your set design. The whole other category of people got spooked by that. Meanwhile, AI has been harnessed and being fully used in my field and in most of the physical sciences. It's doing work. If you can do the work and I can go to the Bahamas, let it do the work. We have telescopes coming online that could not exist without the intervention of AI to access the data, reduce the data, analyze the data, make a decision about whether it should go back to the thing they just observed because that was weird compared to the last compared to the last time it was observed. This is the Vera Ruben telescope that I'm literally describing now. And so we're living with it. What it means is it'll have to up the game of people who say they are creative. And what I mean by that is I can say ChatGPT, take this picture of us and say,”
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“Are not the most creative, the most ambitious, the most irreverent. It's irreverence that where new ideas come. You've perhaps seen episodes of Shark Tank, you know, half or more of those people, they're 30 and under. They got ideas, fresh ideas. Everyone else is entrenched. So if people start living forever, They're living forever in the part of their life that is least useful to the progress and advance of culture and civilization. And so all of civilization will stagnate.”
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“So she was in charge of her. They could have fed her with a tube, and she would have been completely healthy for another five years, perhaps. But no. She raised two kids, three kids, you know, 50 year marriage, happy life, stable life. Yeah, I'm good with that. So the billionaires, you know, that's ego for sure. If you live forever, there are other people who You're taking resources from who would come behind you. That's one. But two Are you still contributing to the world? Should you give another person a chance who's in school now who might be the next genius that'll figure out the energy problem, the poverty problem, the pollution problem, the... Are you figuring that out? No. You're in the last, you're ninety years old, and you're just living on your yard. So there's the problem that the last years of your life”
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“No, although that's easy to say because I'm not at death's door. I had someone rationalize with me which is they made a potent argument it's I can say now with another twenty years life expectancy fifteen twenty years that I don't fear death but if I'm on my deathbed and someone says If I can wave my hand and you can live another year, would you? The answer is probably going to be yes. And at the end of that year, so I don't know if my sentiments about life and death will change. On my deathbed I know my mother that there's a point where she couldn't swallow and she didn't want to feed tube. And she said, my time has come. Put me in palliative care and then hospice. And she was dead 10 days later.”
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“And so we know what to eat, what not to eat, how to exercise, how to not over exercise, how to maintain your health well. There will come a day where the Every year that you're alive, medicine has figured out a way for you to live an extra year. That's the escape velocity. So every year you live another year. And after that, it could be every year you live two years. So that's the escape velocity So it's not just everybody lives forever today. It sort of works its way into the population. And yeah, I don't want to live forever. I don't. Take me off this earth I still have more to give, more books to write, that in my judgment would make the world better than it currently is. So I don't want to die before I get as much of that done as I can.”
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“Yeah, we're looking for the date. It's called the escape velocity. Do you know about that phrase? It exists in astrophysics, of course, but the escape philosophy for Earth, for example, is seven miles per second. So escape velocity in astrophysics is the speed that you launch something so that it never comes back no matter how hard the gravity tries. Okay, so every object has an escape velocity. The escape velocity in aging is The idea is there is a generation yet to be born, but in the very near future. will not only live longer than the previous generation So here's a cleaner way to say this. Every year Can expect to live one month longer because knowledge about human physiology has gotten better. Okay, just think about it that way”
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