ever fascinating neil de grasse tyson joins us from norway i'm an educator so when i see people making decisions that are under informed to me then i say that maybe they didn't learn this in school and so if you're going to pull out of the paris climate accord it must mean that you don't fully understand the long term consequences at every moment where you see eyesight sentiment or science denialism there is a resistance movement that rises up to confront so it's not going on answer and i think that's hopeful going forward it's hard to argue against the possibility that all of us are not just the creation of some kid in a parent's basement programming up a world. where their own entertain thoughts do you have a secret town. you can do that. a great fan of all next on larry king now. welcome to larry king now we're in beautiful trondheim norway at the star most festival here in this fabulous city and for the third time we welcome the inevitable neil de grasse tyson to the show astrophysicist author of the great communicator of science and now the recipient of the stephen hawking medal h

most festival here in this fabulous city and for the third time we welcome the inevitable neil de grasse tyson to the show astrophysicist author of great communicator of science and now the recipient of the stephen hawking medal his newest book the runaway bestseller is as still physics for people in a hurry and he's surprised at how well the book's doing yeah i think so i'm delighted i should say anything had it showed up anywhere on the bestseller list that's just a triumph for science whether or not i wrote it but for it to show up there and debut at number one on the new york times was with it whoa among all of these sort of political memoirs and there's always typically a sports biography and there it's or or or celebrity tell all and there it is it landed i say maybe there's more of an appetite for science out there than we've admitted to ourselves so we're both here for the storm as festival i spoke couple panels you were on one of the panels honey explain this festival it's a combination of what the stars and jazz and rock the upstart star most as a word is the mash up of stars and mus

ever fascinating neil de grasse tyson joins us from norway i'm an educator so when i see people making decisions that under informed me then i say that maybe they didn't learn this in school and so if you're going to pull out of the paris climate accord it must mean that you don't fully understand the long term consequences at every moment where you see anti-science sentiment or science and i was there is a resistance movement that rises to confront so it's not going on answer and i think that's hopeful going forward it's hard to argue against the possibility that all of us are not just the creation of some kid in a parent's basement programming up a world. for their own entertaining thoughts do you have a secret town. you can do that. a great fan of all next on larry king now. welcome to larry king now when you to fold trondheim norway at the star most festival here in this fabulous city and so the third time we welcome the inevitable neil de grasse tyson to the show astrophysicist author of the great communicator of science and now the recipient of the stephen hawking metal.

ever fascinating neil de grasse tyson joins us from norway i'm an educator so when i see people making decisions that seem under informed to me then i say that maybe they didn't learn this from school and so if you're going to pull out of the paris climate accord it must mean that you don't fully understand the long term consequences at every moment where you see why science and science when i was there is a resistance movement that rises up to confront that so it's not going on answers and i think that's hopeful going forward it's hard to argue against the possibility that all of us are not just the creation of some kid in a parent's basement programming.

the way, since you asked, yes, he was one of the ancestors of the rock star astrophysicist, neil de grasse tyson. he was landing his feet when the british fleet under thomas graves appeared. he defeated graves -- or rather drove him off. and once that happened, british forces at yorktown could neither be resupplied nor evacuated and that sealed their fate. the story of yorktown is pretty well known. the troops were led on a short quick march, surrounded yorktown, laid siege for five days. and that siege was directed by french officers, who also directed the trenches, the gunfire. and it was the french also lost twice as many men as the americans. so when charles o'hara, who was co cornwallis came out and saw it as a french victory. o'hara was directed to washington, washington would not take a surrender from somebody el else's second in command so he gave him to benjamin lincoln, his own second in command. the battle was over but the war was not. i just said the war was a world war. by the time yorktown was fought, britain was fighting five separate nation states and they we were overwhelmed. al