the earlier delay this week were due to an issue with a valve, but they were able to fix civilians happens a lot when it comes to luncheons. so it sounds like the rocket itself is in okay, condition from the latest update on their twitter feed. so it might just be another few days before they get another launch attempts. it's a really big update in the way that we can construct rockets. 3 printing is not entirely new to the space sector. there are other companies that are using 3 d printed parts, but relativity has taken the next step to basically 3 d print about 85 percent of the entire rocket. and so to, to make this advancement, they're able to bring down the costs. they're able to make the rocket out of fewer parts, and the launch itself is also significantly cheaper than watches have been historically . so if they're successful with this launch, it really opens up a whole new realm of the way that we can construct rockets in the future. ah,

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public distrust in finance, on the right side to pick this information continues to flow, respond line. well, how do we win the battle for evidence base? true. and then up front special. i'll ask where now national physicist, the autograph, type the new to grad tyson. thank you so much for joining us. an upright. delighted to be with you . thanks for having me. there's a poll that says that over a quarter of americans don't believe that climate change is caused by human activity and 6 percent. don't believe it's happening at all right. there's another one that says over quarter of americans are skeptical of vaccines. now, you actually just produced a documentary on misinformation. they're going to ask you when the science in scientific backs become something that's up for public to be. yeah. so i hate to just sound so obvious about this, but part of it is a failure of the educational system which teaches science as a sort of

a satchel of facts that you sort of pour into the empty vessel that you are as you sit there in the classroom and you're given this fat book and there are these words that are boldface, and you got to remember, i remember those words for the exam, and then you move on. and at no time, really, i think not even in the lab sections of classes, do you really deeply learn what science is and how and why it works. and so if somebody comes out with a research result that's intriguing or controversial, depressed typically rushes towards it. but it's not really an authentic result until it's verified by other researchers because there could be bias manifested within it. maybe the wall current fluctuated when they got their result. anything could have happened. so a fundamental feature of science is that whatever result you get,

i'm going to try to verify it or falsify it, alright, effect, i might be a competitor of yours and i don't trust anything the i that i'm going to do it myself. okay. i got the same result and somebody in another country does it somebody with a different might. and then once you get agreement of these research results, then you have an objective truth. but if you only sample science on that bleeding frontier, that messy frontier, you would think we didn't know what the hell we were doing any time when it's a feature of science that we have these, that frontier information is contested. your book start messenger, cosmic perspective civilization. you say that certain beliefs about science become true in people's minds when they are constantly repeated in the media. and you call this a fundamental feature of propaganda. talk to me a little bit about this propaganda. where did these police come from? and what's the primary source of the propaganda as you put it in?

who's the most culpable outside of the media itself? thank you. great question. you know, i tried to think what is truth mean? and i don't want to you, sir, the word and give it only one definition, because then you get into fights. so i'll give people how they use the word. so i split the kingdom of truths into 3 categories. so one of them is objective truths. these are the, these are things that are true, whether or not you believe in them. and the methods and tools of science are exquisitely tuned to establish objective truths in this world than is personal truths. these are truths that are true to you, but you, they may not be true to some one else. is jesus, your savior is mohammed your last prophet on earth? these are your personal truths. and in a free country, no one can take those away from you. a 3rd kind of truth, i call it political truth is just something that becomes true in your head simply because it's repeated so often. and we have this sis,

which evolved to say to ourselves, well, if we hear something often it must be true. otherwise, why would it happen that often? and so the brain, we wires and it. yep, that's the truth. and this is the soul a propaganda. so. so what's our response to that? i'm thinking specifically, for example, during the pandemic when you had people spreading all kinds of misinformation on line, not just people. ah, who said this isn't so bad, right? but people who are actually promoting ivr met in awe hydro chloral quinn as actual miracle cures for coven, i mean that's dangerous stuff. all of this stuff is happening in a, in a sphere on line the political sphere sometimes in a white house press room, even when this stuff is happening. what should be our response? should we be regulating speech online? i'm not talking about, oh, just saying people don't have a right to express their opinions. but so what about this other stuff?

there's a whole chapter in the book called risk and reward. and i make the point, which i'm going to make here, that our brains, the human brain, is not natively wired to think statistically, or probabilistically about anything. ok. and some people know this and fully exploit this fact. and so they've created what we call casino. it's to completely exploit our inability to understand probability and statistics. they exploit this fact and they take your money and you go home without it. ok, but typically that's what happens. and so because we don't think statistically about it, we think anecdotally about it. and this infuses in all decisions we make in our lives. and what we say, wow, i don't trust the cdc, but i'm going to trust my aunt matilda. well, i'm going to trust this guy on the internet. and you know what? cells on a youtube?

just watch that. okay, you ready? it's at the establishment thinks this, but what i had is actually true and they don't want you to know it. oh my gosh, if you lead off your youtube video that way, millions of use guaranteed. there's something about doing something that is not the establishment that is irresistibly attractive to us and i don't full, i'm not a psychologist, i don't fully understand it, but it's pernicious in our environment and it could be the seeds of the unraveling of an informed democracy. there's another pasted this though, because i agree with you. there are people who say, look, you can't trust the state, you can't trust the government. you can't trust the establishment because i had this great story, this great anecdote that appeals more to your desires, true. but then there are legitimate reasons, not to trust the establishment. i'm thinking, for example, about the history of medical abuse and medical racism in the united states and thinking about the tuskegee study ah, ah, i'm thinking about of

a low point in the medical, any annals of medical treatment. absolutely, an informal way to think of course, that's a study that started in the 19 thirty's when black men were left to die untreated of syphilis. a we've indigenous people who use the subject for tuberculosis vaccine trout also in the 30s. and in the seventy's, thousands of indigenous women were also forcibly sterilized. so against the backdrop of that, for example, there's legitimate reasons why a certain community, certain people, or maybe all of us say, look, i can't trust the establishment. that's why i'm vaccine hesitant. how do we get to the ways to do that? so you say, especially in the black community, or what if you're worried that the vaccines oh, you know, ah, what if you're worried about the weather go harm you. and there is some racist motive for it because of this, these cases in the past, what you do is step in the vaccine line between 2 white people that through the solution, it's not going to make light of these re, very real problems that,

that institutionalized racism sexism and practically every other ism has manifested. yes. ok. you have to ask yourself is reason to never trust anything they ever do since. and if so this is, this is sort of cancellation principles that have been rampant and especially social media. so if, if an institution is one thing wrong, if you don't trust anything they do. yeah. but it is that, that one thing it's, there's a fundamental belief that the state, as such, almost by definition is untrustworthy. that's a different position in. oh, you messed up. one isn't about a saying the medical establishment, scientific 1000, the politicization of medicine is untrodden. i grew up. yeah. you know, i mean, yes, yes, it's hard. line them up. so you line them up. he said, that's bad. and they, we were deceived. yes. now, next to that, make a list of achievements earned by the state. okay. look at

the distribution of the polio vaccine and how many lives were stay state. look at the statistics of that. look at the increased longevity of the human species everywhere in the world brought about by advances in medical technologies and, and the science associated with it. put that along side. you realize 150 years ago, the life expectancy of humans on earth was only slightly higher than when we were living in caves 30000 years ago. so put it next to it. what else has the quote state done? the state runs, nasa. ok and put stuff on the moon and on mars and on asteroids. very you talk in talk about nasa. i want to think about nasa little bit because last year was a huge picture. nasa right there on your wall. right there. the, the james web telescope on the side of your set up last year last year was

a significant year for it for space discoveries. for the 1st time, astronomers captured an image of a super massive black hole in the center of our galaxy also of the hubble space telescope identified the most distant star ever observed in of course, at the james web. ah, base housecoat delivered a deep field image of the quote invisible universe showing us unseen parts of the causes. it's quite fascinating stuff and the most distant galaxy we've ever observed are now accessible to us in a certain kind of way. can you talk to me about 2022? i'm everything that happened. what was the biggest discovery in your estimation and how does it influence our understanding of space, maybe even science in the years to collect europe? i'm, i'm delighted to report that investments in this country and others are partners in science, continues and continues to push the frontier of cosmic discovery. and that image of a black hole week always knew it was there. but to get evidence of what it's doing to the distorted fabric of space some time around it,

that was justifiably banner headlines and the deployment of the james web space telescope. oh, my gosh. i mean, that's so much could have gone wrong. you know, doesn't get enough credit in this or the engineers that figured out how to build this thing. how do you make an 8 meter telescope fit into the ferrying of a rocket? well, you fold it, astro physicists didn't figure that out. engineers did you fold it? and then on further, when you get to your destination, all right, they figure that out. and so i tip my hat with my hat tip my hat to the engineers that enable our discoveries in astrophysics. so, so yeah, people who are into science, you could also be into engineering and still participate on that frontier research . so it was all good on the year. it was something interesting and an interview with steven co bear talking about the web telescope. and you said that as our area of knowledge grows, so to does the perimeter of our ignorance,

i for those beautifully put, you should be a poet in addition to that book. how, how ignorant are we of the vastness of the universe? that's a great question. by the way, i wrote an essay some years ago called the perimeter of ignorance. the point is, as you learn what is going on in the universe, then your area of knowledge grow so that this is a, this is a highly potent analogy. i think the area grows, but wait a minute. the perimeter of that area is also growing. so, so, so for example, i know to ask questions today because i'm standing in a new place brought to you by the james web based telescope and the hobble. if you want to go back a couple of decade, i can ask a question today that i didn't even think to ask 20 years ago, 10 years ago, in some cases,

5 years ago. so your curiosity fed by this, that the, that the intent, the intention to advance this moving frontier puts you in a new vista. you can see where you've never seen before. so now you going to say, well, how vass is that field of ignorance? we don't know, but i tell you what we do know. there are 2 drivers in the universe. we have terms for them, but we don't know what they are, but we call them dark matter and dark energy. these are some of the longest unsolved problems in astrophysics. if you add up their effect on the universe, it is 96 percent of what's going on. and we do not know or understand what they are or what causes them. every thing you know and love about that we all know and love about this universe, the chemistry, the biology, the physics, the aerodynamics the, the, the, the orbital dynamics. everything we understand is contained in 4 percent of what's

driving the universe. so we're in a odd situation where we know enough about the universe to quantify what we don't know. and that's exciting to the scientists. it's not terrifying it's excite that is exciting to the science is exciting to the everyday nerd. it's exciting to lots of us, right. and then there's a part of me though that says yes, as much as i'd like to know more as much as i'd like to use your quote to make the entire solar system like our a backyard. that sounds great, but that investment both of time, of intellectual resources and of money to some is, is what should be devoted to our problems here on the ground on this planet that there systemic issues, institutional, asian, structural issues that we have to deal with. and it's, and that it's a 0 sum game that when we spend too much time out there, we're not dealing with what's going on down here. what do you say to that argument? well, you can ask, how much do you think we're spending in space?

the space station, the james webb, the hubble, the mission to the moon, the artemus missions. what fraction of your tax dollar? if you're an american, do you think we're spending? and when i ask that to people, it's out of 10 percent. maybe 15 percent were spending 4 tenths of a penny. of your tax dollar, doing all those activities. so you can take up a greenback, take a dollar bill, and cut 4 tenths of one percent off of the edge and it doesn't even get you into the ink. so you're saying, why are we spending it there when we should be solving these problems? here we're spending 99.6 percent of a budget down here and you want to grab it from this point 4 percent and say that's going to solve the problem. really take a look at the budgets. take a look at how and where and why we're spending money to a person. none of them have actually look at how that 99.6 percent of the budget is

invested. and i think if you did, you might be say, well, we're spending too much over here, or we're here. 29 dozen places you could point to. meanwhile, when nasa makes a discovery in his headlines in a why, because people care, they want to look up. they want some kind of hope for what science and technology can be and do for their future. and, and, and it transformative, it's space technology. they gave you gps that you take for granted that sitting on your smart phone. and that's how you can find the short the quickest way to grandma in the that grandma's house in traffic. yeah. without think why these are satellites or could sent to middle earth orbit. ok, middle earth, not middle earth, and a tour of the rice, but so, so, so it's basically how do you know the hurricane is coming and what path it's gonna take. satellite technology bought that to, you know,

would spread money and space and we shouldn't spend it down here. so i can't, we, here's what i'm going to do. we'll sneak at your house in the dark of night and remove everything in your home. that was inspired or enabled by investments in space technology, and you'll buy that when you wake up in the morning. it might be indistinguishable from a cave because that's kind of where we be without what those investments have delivered to modern civilization. those investments have also delivered some other stuff. in 2001 you, you propose creating a space force which eventually came into existence in 2019 under president donald trump. the u. s. space force is now defined as a, quote, a military service that organizes trained and equipped space forces in order to protect us and allied interests in space. you've examined the relationship between astrophysics and the military and accessory, to war, your book, accessory, to war some. i'm curious at the same time that we think about these extraordinary advances and technological benefits. do you worry about potential consequences of

militarize in space? so a couple of points. in 2001, i was in a white house commission where that was discussed. yes, but we were not the only commission were that was discuss, i'm so that the space force has been percolating for decades and odd. so our donald trump decided to act on it. so trumpeters would, would associate it with trump, but really it's been in discussion long did long predates donald trump just to be clear about that. second. i'm no, nobody wants war. nobody want know, nobody wants that. all right, so, so i want to 1st say that the space force wasn't created out of, you know, out of the ether. it kind of already existed how, in what was called the u. s. space command, which was a branch of the u. s. air force. it already existed, they're the ones who launched the gps. so when you create a space 4th,

what primarily occurred was that this branch of the air force was separated out and given its own budget line, but it feels like we're expanding that the theater of war. i mean, i hear donald trump saying, ah, he wants it, that the space force was created because the quote space is the world's newest war fighting domain and amid grave threats to our national security, americans appear already. and space is absolutely vital. i agree. i know you don't want war and i know most saying normal people don't want war. but, but there's a lot of money war, a lot of investment or so. so now we're in modern times and ask yourself, i'm how much space assets do we have? and how much of our economy depends on it. you know, what is goober valued at in billions? lupert does not exist without space assets. neither does directv. neither does the weather channel. neither does i of the apple tinder. okay. it has to take an absurd

limiting example of the financial value of our space assets. so you say to yourself, what should the military be doing as in their got, well, i want them to protect our assets. i said, i think that's a natural need of a sovereign nation to have any military that they fund to protect their assets and our assets in space to day are huge. yeah. huge and i on that's i'd way this is attorney and i appreciate that. i. i think though, the idea that this sort of posture in these investments are really to protect assets rather than to expand power and maybe empire. that's where the tension comes in, right. so we're not just protecting our stuff, we're getting other stuff. and that gets a car, that's a, that's a, a caricature of our presence in space. ok, so the military is going to protect our assets, make sure we can conduct business,

make sure we can do the things we normally do based on all of the things we have put into space. now if, if there is someone else that's perceived as a threat, then we can think of military actions rather than just a defensive action. so offensive actions or, or let me, let me not say often. so let me say, if there's a satellite that we believe is putting us at risk, then i wouldn't put it past the space forced to take out that satellite in by some way. and a lot of ways to do that. but this whole thing was star wars with which ships fighting each other, know better, not what's going on. ok, not what's happening here. it's not how space works. you said something in your bookstore messenger that 66 with me. you said cosmic perspective. can force us to take pause and reflect on the meaning of life and on the value of peace that sustains, that really resonates with me. what does it mean? what is the significance for all of us regular folk to have a cosmic perspective?

yeah, so what happens is it takes you out of yourself and out of your own ego and it forces you to look. i really don't like this word, but i use it here holistically. i had life on earth such as humans on earth, but life on earth and the eco system that sustains us. and it's not just a stratus ferric view, it's a, it's higher than that. and with your permission, i want to quote a paul 14 astronaut, edgar mitchell. you develop an instinct global consciousness, a people orientation and intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it from out there on the moon. international politics look so petty you want to grab a politician by the scruff or the neck and drag him a quarter 1000000 miles out and say, look at that son of a off. that that is, that is

a cosmic perspective. i only knew that i'm telling you that is the cause of perspective to end all cosmic perspective. so i have to have these fantasies where the lawn creates a space bus. it was air bus, the company space bus, get all the worrying leaders, put him on the bus, set him to the moon and have him look back at earth. and you say, you see the border between your country and the one you're fighting? no. do you see the people dying? no. do you see that the havoc you're reeking? no, that's just earth and we're all in it together. and it's all we have. and there's no hope that there's no hint that that, that, that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. it's up to us to do something about a carl sagan wrote about this in the pale blue dot decades ago. so yeah, it can transform the world, and yes, bring it out. everlasting piece. a to sound like a beauty pageant contestant,

but yes, world peace if possible, when you look at earth from above, i love it. i love it near the grass ice and thank you so much for joining us in a friend. thanks for having. that is our show up front will be back. ah. ah. and a bangladesh is governed by its founding fathers. daughter, how is she facing the challenges brought on by the ro hang the refugee crisis?

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