Tyson is entertaining, and likeable, but he is no Carl Sagan.
I DO appreciate his work, though. He once told a little girl what asked about going into science when she grows up something like “that’s the good thing about going into science- you never have to grow up”
Which is the most brilliant thing I ever heard him say. (and I agree because I am in science too so there nyah nyah)
“that’s the good thing about going into science- you never have to grow up”
Back in the 90's I was out in the middle of nowhere in the Trinity Alps cleaning up some Jet-A spilled along a stream with my boss (both of us geologists). We were at a stage where we had to just stir up degraded granite sand to release the fuel while a pump cycled the water through activated carbon cannisters to soak it up.
The weather was spectacular, trout were [still, lol] swimming in the adjacent flowing stream and I looked at him and said "Did you ever, in your wildest dreams when you were a kid making mud pies or throwing rocks, think you'd grow up and get paid to do this?"
He chuckled and replied "no..."
He later had me drive his Jeep back down the mountian one evening so he could ride his racing bike down highway 299.
Geology = Field Good!, Office Bad! :-)