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Neil Degrasse Tyson debunks 2012 at the 2010 World Science Festival

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Here Neil Degrasse Tyson talks of the Mayan 2012 planetary predictions. He talks about how the alignment of the Sun Earth and center of the galaxy is NOT a unique phenomenon. In fact, this alignment happens each and every year. So why is 2012 any different? He also explains many other non-scientific Mayan perceptions of cosmology. Including the observation that the Mayans thought the Earth was flat, had four corners, and was held up in space on the back of a crocodile and five trees of various bright colors. Which is in and of itself intriguing and culturally important but factually NOT TRUE.
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50 Responses to "Neil Degrasse Tyson debunks 2012 at the 2010 World Science Festival"

  • Aladoniss says:
    January 5, 2011 at 3:48 am

    This is hilarious and informative, my favourite combination.

  • Brushles83 says:
    January 5, 2011 at 3:55 am

    Why’s he all wet?

  • SQuiRR3LM0nk3y says:
    January 5, 2011 at 4:09 am

    @TheToxicRadio “Every account of a higher power that I’ve seen described, of all religions that I’ve seen include many statements with regard to the benevolence of that power. When I look at the universe and all the ways the universe wants to kill us, I find it hard to reconcile that with statements of beneficence”~~Neil Tyson, here’s the video watch?v=wZhOm6N4-I0&feature=channel. Doesn’t sound like a believer.

  • allahhasaids says:
    January 5, 2011 at 4:36 am

    @SlayingMinion lol i was high as giraffe pussy when i replied to your comment. i thought you said i hope hes not atheist!! you said a theist lol im a tard

    hes an atheist, you should check out his lecture from 2006 about intelligent design. and he chills with dawkkins

  • SlayingMinion says:
    January 5, 2011 at 4:57 am

    @allahhasaids Because that would be a waste of a bright mind.

  • TheToxicRadio says:
    January 5, 2011 at 5:55 am

    @SlayingMinion he’s not, theres a seminar that i think you can look up on youtube where he talks about intelligent design, and i think it’s called stupid design. try checking it out

  • TheToxicRadio says:
    January 5, 2011 at 6:37 am

    he da man :D

  • allahhasaids says:
    January 5, 2011 at 7:15 am

    @SlayingMinion WHY???

  • SlayingMinion says:
    January 5, 2011 at 7:44 am

    Hope he’s not a theist…

  • ReneeNme says:
    January 5, 2011 at 8:27 am

    @CathySander Good call. Somebody that actually knows a bit about astronomy. Good call.

  • GroddGuerrilla says:
    January 5, 2011 at 9:07 am

    smart negro is smart

  • necronomicon009 says:
    January 5, 2011 at 9:53 am

    Poor Pluto always getting picked on. : (

  • Riggro says:
    January 5, 2011 at 10:41 am

    @CathySander oh! cool! I always wondered where that came from :)
    Thanks! :D

  • CathySander says:
    January 5, 2011 at 11:35 am

    @Riggro: …more like the apparent movement of the stars. The main reason they appear to is to due to the Earth’s wobble about its tilt [also called a precession].

  • thedude6to6 says:
    January 5, 2011 at 11:40 am

    @krissyeh oh sorry… I didn’t realize that he was giving a lecture, I thought he was answering specific questions.

  • Riggro says:
    January 5, 2011 at 12:39 pm

    He failed to mention that one reason the Mayan Calendar and even the zodiac hold “2012″ as a significant date because it marks the end of the house of Pisces and the beginning of the house of Aquarius. This just means there’s a certain movement of the stars.

  • krissyeh says:
    January 5, 2011 at 12:44 pm

    @thedude6to6 No not really. A good lecturer at a University will only give you the basic information then it is up to the students to expand on the information; that is called self directed learning. Also all lecturers should be like deGrass, in that he makes learning fun. There are way to many lectures that are so god dam boring with the lectures. I follow the same principle when I give a lecture when It is applicable to the content of the lecture

  • thedude6to6 says:
    January 5, 2011 at 12:55 pm

    @krissyeh i agree that there are alot of nutjobs that are mixing up the facts, but i think the scientists do a poor job of explaining it properly, thus adding to the confusion… and i am talking about other scientists too. i think we should watch for solar activity, and the collapse of paper money, of course neither of these things are grave

  • krissyeh says:
    January 5, 2011 at 1:45 pm

    @thedude6to6. This galactic alignment happens every year and there is nothing special about it. It is just these nutters (end timers etc) that have confused a lot people (especially fanatics). They have taken the end of the Mayan calender to be the end of the world. Just the same as the nutters that believe in this planet X.
    In short, the world is full of crazy people who will believe anything.

  • thedude6to6 says:
    January 5, 2011 at 2:24 pm

    @krissyeh yes i have no videos, favorites or subscriptions because i want to get all the facts straight instead of going with the first thing i hear and promoting more confusion, i think that people are confused enough, and if you still think i am wrong send me some links and educate me. i’m waiting

  • thedude6to6 says:
    January 5, 2011 at 2:45 pm

    @krissyeh the galatical alignment that they talk about is when the consolations (from earths view) are the same as they were aprx. 26000 years ago (a great year). i think most people know what winter solstice is. and as for crossing the galactical plane (about 30 million years away) planet x is a hoax. the “long count” mayan calender starts with the Big Bang theory and supposedly ends in 2012 (but i think there calculations are wrong), but there is nothing about the “long count” calender cycling

  • krissyeh says:
    January 5, 2011 at 3:18 pm

    @thedude6to6, and what facts did he get wrong.
    You sir are a definition of a troll, no videos, no favorites, no subscriptions and no subscribers. In others words all you do is go to videos and post your crap.

  • thedude6to6 says:
    January 5, 2011 at 3:50 pm

    i’m not a believer in the end of the world hoaxes, but this guy has got his facts wrong… that is just one more reason why people get confused

  • AllknowingGuitarGuru says:
    January 5, 2011 at 4:13 pm

    @TheGravitationist Educating laymen is the job of high school science teachers and community college untenured professors not legitimate astrophysicists.

    True astrophysicists, like any person so dedicated to the modern discoveries in their field, take a serious view of the historical implications of the world’s first astronomers (eg., the Mayans). It’s tantamount to modern brain surgeons knowing that the first successful brain surgeries were done in Europe 7,000 BC and in pre-Inca 2,000 BC.

  • TheGravitationist says:
    January 5, 2011 at 4:29 pm

    @AllknowingGuitarGuru

    Firstly, you talk as if educating laymen is not a notable or important endeavor. Why? Second, he’s not an anthropologist. He’s a physicist. While the Maya religion may be fascinating in some ways; since he is looking at it from a scientific standpoint it is -perfectly- dismissible. Also, just because you may find it of interest, does not mean that everyone does, or should.

  • tropicalapril1 says:
    January 5, 2011 at 4:42 pm

    its kinda weird that the background in some of you videos looks like a blasphomet…in this video for example at 3:17

  • AsPinkAsAPanther says:
    January 5, 2011 at 5:34 pm

    watch?v=4s-UWBzZiG0

  • GrailcodeDotNet says:
    January 5, 2011 at 5:45 pm

    You clearly go off on a lot of unecessary tagents, and this would be due to the fact you don’t know clearly what you’re looking for, or at, in your search of where evil dwells most and why.

  • pinball281 says:
    January 5, 2011 at 6:41 pm

    remeber lucifer means light bearer

  • PrinceWilliamAntichr says:
    January 5, 2011 at 6:52 pm

    When the Jews return to Zion
    And a comet fills the sky
    The Holy Roman Empire rises
    And you and I must die
    From the eternal sea he rises
    Creating armies on either shore
    Turning man against his brother
    Till man exists no more

  • ipoop9ak says:
    January 5, 2011 at 7:06 pm

    pray to jesus!! to god~~~!!!

  • Rhamsody says:
    January 5, 2011 at 7:50 pm

    damn these graphics kick @55! I keep forgetting i’m watching a DOCUMENTARY!

  • ColicoTV says:
    January 5, 2011 at 8:41 pm

    @laurieaperry iluminati

  • laurieaperry says:
    January 5, 2011 at 9:29 pm

    @Ho11yx3 thanks

  • laurieaperry says:
    January 5, 2011 at 9:29 pm

    @giddygiddy85 thanks

  • Ho11yx3 says:
    January 5, 2011 at 10:21 pm

    @laurieaperry The word “illuminati”.

  • tastybitepizza says:
    January 5, 2011 at 10:41 pm

    And why did they come up with this shit logo? To taunt you? Because they couldn’t resist revealing their sinister plan?

    All this video shows is that “professionally made” media can be used to sell people on any type of drivel – whether it be the Olympics or this.

  • tastybitepizza says:
    January 5, 2011 at 10:49 pm

    This video is a waste of time. Complete insanity. There are enough problems that need fixing in society, there is no need to dream up more. Reading into Olympic advertising? Zion, Mayans, esoteric circles……”What’s on Beibei’s forehead? A ‘Spiritual’ third eye?” Nothing is easier than formulating conspiracies when you believe everything is related.

  • giddygiddy85 says:
    January 5, 2011 at 11:40 pm

    @laurieaperry it say illuminati written as an ambigram

  • giddygiddy85 says:
    January 5, 2011 at 11:42 pm

    yellow mascot is pissed stupid

  • shazwanfauzee says:
    January 6, 2011 at 12:00 am

    what software do you use to make this video.? it looks awesome.

  • laurieaperry says:
    January 6, 2011 at 12:25 am

    @ 11 seconds in….what word flashes quickly on the screen… I can’t pause it to view…anyone?

  • Damienf77 says:
    January 6, 2011 at 12:30 am

    @MiscVeracity What means nothing to you? You said “thats interesting” and asked me to do some of them which i did. Anyway I did notice that of the ones I did do, more than twice as many were killed on odd numbered days than evens. Not sure what that means but it’s above probablity, it should be closer to 50/50. And all of the presidents that were assassinated were on odd numbers. That seems unlikely to be chance. Poor elvis, I hope i’m at least wearing pants when i die. tc.

  • MiscVeracity says:
    January 6, 2011 at 12:37 am

    @Damienf77 lol tht means nothing to me… I do believe half of these celebs were murdered bcoz of choosing to speak the truth; some died because they were puppets of the illuminati and became victims of their own experiments into black magic and occultism; and 1 died on the toilet XD

  • Damienf77 says:
    January 6, 2011 at 1:01 am

    @MiscVeracity Sure… Elvis Presley, Tupac Shakur and JFK died on odds, and Michael Jackson, Bob Marley, Heath Ledger and Marilyn Monroe died on evens. I also just tried Amelia Earhart and John Lennon, both died on odds.

  • MiscVeracity says:
    January 6, 2011 at 1:05 am

    @Damienf77 thats interesting.. can u do marilyn monroe; elvis presley; tupac shakur; michael jackson; bob marley; JFK; and possibly heath ledger?

  • jahedur says:
    January 6, 2011 at 1:09 am

    the light production is one of the best channels on this planet!

  • JesusTheOnlyWay777 says:
    January 6, 2011 at 1:40 am

    What will happen on December 12 2012? 12 12 12

  • Alwaa3er1 says:
    January 6, 2011 at 2:11 am

    there is no god exept one< & jesus will come back but not for an olympic games while the people are half naked and mostly drunk!!!!
    the bigest gathering for the people from around the world is happening in tow places,one is happining evry yar in mecca to worship one god, & the other happens evry 4 yars in the (olympics) for what??,,,,,,,,we will see!!!!!
    bless u all human brothers.

  • Damienf77 says:
    January 6, 2011 at 2:12 am

    I was curious if there was any correlation between numerology and when a person dies so I did the numerology on several famous people and found something interresting. Every president that has ever been assassinated was killed on an odd numbered day numerologically (that is, if you add up each individual number in the death date and reduce to a single number, except in the case of 11 which is a master number). I found the same for Martin Luther King, Jr., Princess Diana, and Jimmy Hoffa…

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