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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
appreciate you posting the video and it is entertaining...
but it's also a huge copout. The question that initates this sequence is a college level student asking essentially (paraphrasing) "what's your opinion on UFO's / aliens?"
And then Tyson because of his universe sized ego goes on this tirade. Now, it's funny. And he's funny. I don't deny that. But not only did he not really answer the question (political stance, not scientific (or honest...) which Mr. Rapey would seemingly be backwards compatible with), he took the absolute most elementary basic way out.
If I went to my 3 year old child and said, "what's your opinion on UFO's or aliens?" she would scratch my arms, screech, laugh in my face, fight with her brother/sister, or conduct other arguably more severe behaviour warranted for repercussion. But that's because I'm almost certain she's a sociopath. And yet here is one of the world's most egotistical rapey scientists doing just that.
The college student asking the question didn't ask "hey I want to hear you take the easy road out and tell us a 10 minute story about how you don't know things", he said, "what's your opinion on..."
and Rapey failed. Miserably. He was funny, but he failed. Rapey said, "we don't know things"... which is always the epitaph of science, but not a "real" answer to the question. Political answer. This guy is not a scientist, he let fame overcome him.
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What would you have him say? What would the “honest” answer be? He’s on that stage speaking as a scientist and an entertainer. The scientific stance is that there’s no proof of extraterrestrial visitors and in order to entertain he put it in words that would do so.
No doubt the man has an irrepressible ego, which makes me think less of him, and he’s likely a creep, or “rapey”, which makes me think even less of him. But those qualities of his personality aren’t relevant here because I think he gives a good answer. Your ad hominem attacks, true or not, don’t change that.