he goes, so, do you know neil degrasse tyson? could you ask him if he would do our commencement? so, consider him asked. neil degrasse tyson, g.w.school of engineering. they make bamboo bike. you should really talk to those mother (beep). let's begin in the realm of politics. you remember all the way back had january john mccain was one of the first prominent republicans to board the mitt private plane with a full throated endorsement. >> i am confident with the leadership and the backing of the american people president obama will turn this country around. we believe in america. we believe that our best days are ahead of us. excuse me. president romney. president romney. ( cheers and applause ) >> jon: what did i say? romney. i'm tired. anyway, john mccain's seemingly innocent slip-up set the stage for a series of romney endorsements where high profile republicans cannot back the former massachusetts governors without their tongues trying to escape from their heads. the subject of tonight's endless suffrage 2012. romney will be the nominee. everybody has decided. they're all gett

i don't know if you noticed this, by the way, neil degrasse tyson was holding a rubik's cube.ar to you that thing was not solved when we gave it to him maybe 25 seconds before he walked out here. (laughter) he's e.t . i believe he is e.t . i think he did one of these. "solve it." (laughter) listen, having spent the first act of tonight's show on asteroid mining-- which i did-- we turn now reluctantly to the 2012 presidential campaign. today stunning new development. >> this just into cnn. we have confirmed that newt gingrich will, indeed, drop out of the presidential race next week. (cheers and applause) >> jon: no, not yay. not yay. (laughter) anyway, he announced he was dropping out next week. (laughter) that is so gingrich. (laughter) "today i am calling off this grotesque and hopeless charade of a campaign seven days from now. gingrich 2016!" gingrich's news came on the heels of willington millington rom-nillington the 23rd big news sweeping primaries in new york, delaware, pennsylvania, rhode island and connecticut, ironically sewing up the republican nomination for presi

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neil degrasse tyson who we've had on. >> yeah. >> jimmy: he's a genius. >> great astronomer. >> jimmyant geek, this guy. >> he is, he is. >> jimmy: he doesn't care. we can say it. >> he said, you think you're such a big perfectionist when rose is lying on the raft in the freezing of the middle of the north atlantic and she looks up and you cut to the sky. at that time of the year, in 1912, at that latitude and longitude, those would not be the stars. [ laughter ] and i was shocked. [ applause ] >> jimmy: it's about time. i mean, yeah. >> wow. >> jimmy: i saw that. it took me right out of the movie. i go, this is fake! [ laughter ] >> i mean, we only made it to 1.8 billion. think what we could have done. if it wasn't for that star field. >> jimmy: neil, where were you when we needed you. >> you don't get too many second chances in life but this is one. and this is actually the reason that we're re-releasing the film. so we could correct. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: but you actually did go back and you fixed it and made it -- >> yeah, we fixed it. >> jimmy: that's what i'm saying. this guy d

. >> from the american museum of natural history in new york city, astrophysicist neil degrasse tysontalks about the history of nasa and the

neil degrasse tyson. [cheers and applause] >> thank you for that warm introduction. just is so you know -- just so you know, this is the only public talk anywhere that i'm giving on this book. so you are here, here and now, for it. just so you know. i'm just saying. [applause] you're not missing it somewhere else. let me get ready up here. here we go. let me tell you how it all began. there was the big bang -- no. [laughter] it was the 1990s, i was approached by columbia university press to write a chapter in an encyclopedia they were preparing to celebrate the end of the 20th century. and it was called, quite simply, the columbia history of the 20th century. and i might even have it here. this was it, okay? now, what's significant about it is the person originally scheduled to write that -- i was approached in 1996. the person originally scheduled to write that was carol s -- carl sagan. he had been asked to contribute a chapter to that volume. he had been ill, he died in 1996. my name was put up as one who would then write in his stead. and i was honored to be aske

. >> with us now astro physicist neil degrasse tyson, director of haydon planetarium here in new yorkthanks for having me back. >> sound like science fiction. >> it has just the right amount of crazy and just the right amount of, hey, that's -- you know, there are resources out there. think what we're doing here on earth. we're waging war and fighting each other to pull precious metals and other resources deemed rare out of the ground. this is our life down here on this speck we call earth. there's an abundance of materials in the universe. >> is there enough so in this idea, that little bit of crazy to get you going, is there enough potential reality, though, that you see this as something that could actually work? harnessing an asteroid doesn't sound easy. >> it's creating an entire business model that gets you access to asteroids in the first place. so, initially -- i chatted with him at a recent conference, the founders of the company, and initially you can park telescopes out there. once you know how to access asteroids, whose orbits come near earth, then you can turn it into an