the top of trump tower i'm a bad view on a beautiful day in october and our special guest is neil de grasse tyson is the tyson is an extraordinary gentleman the astrophysicist a scientist with a million and a half followers on twitter the new york times best selling author hosts his own pod cast called star talk he's director of the famed hayden planetarium when i was eight years old he took me to have a little boys we came from school his new show is cosmos it debuts on fox in early two thousand and fourteen he's the recipient of eighteen honorary doctorates and the nasa distinguished service medal as the highest award given by nasa to a non-government citizen before anything else i want i grew up with a lot of guys not one wanted to be an astrophysicist. i don't know where you grew up look at the brooklyn blades you go i actually grew up in the bronx dub rocks and the whole impala who he want to. be a four star general you want to be honest it's when you're going in the city this you don't have a relationship with the sky you know you know how did you choose what is a building there there's bac

larry king now science's reigning super star neil de grasse tyson why why am i interested in space because i think it's fascinating it's awesome it's limitless and if it holds the seeds of everyone's. curiosity what percentage of knowledge as we look out in the universe and we look at all of the forces that are driving what's going on we actually can quantify how much of that we know and it's about four percent plus still life elsewhere you run the numbers and you realize it would be inexcusably egocentric to suggest that we were alone in the us all next on larry king now.

on larry king now science's reigning superstar neil de grasse tyson why why am i interested in space because i think it's fascinating it's awesome it's limitless it's boundless and if it holds the seeds of everyone's. curiosity what percentage of knowledge as we look out in the universe and we look at all of the forces that are driving what's going on we actually can quantify how much of that we know and it's about four percent plus life elsewhere you run the numbers and you realize it would be inexcusably egocentric to suggest that we were alone in the us all next on larry king now.