Neil deGrasse Tyson helped Stephen Colbert with his training to be an Astrophysicist recently. Neil’s advice is excellent of course, urging (for example) questioning and open-mindedness. You can learn from the clip below about Colbert’s take on this advice.
Among the many great exchanges:
dGT: “This is surely the oldest thing your tongue has ever touched.”
C: “You’d be surprised…”
…and I’ll let you watch the clip to learn the final part of that sentence:
-cvj
*Via Bad Astronomy, and thanks MA!
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Ha ha ha…
I watched that clip last Friday when everyone at my work were talking about it. It’s one of the funniest videos I’ve ever seen. My favorite was also the meteor scene, but the scene where he was teaching the kids was almost as funny. Colbert is brilliant and he just keeps getting better and better.
I just now got around to watching this … FANTASTIC! “Oh, so the universe is an Apple Store?”
Yes, one of the many brilliant lines… Glad you liked it!
-cvj