Neil deGrasse Tyson Confronts Andy Weir on the Science of Project Hail Mary

D'ya know, him asking if he was high when he wrote this just reminded me of when I was high in 2016 & had a very similar idea about a space faring biological microbe that could consume light & convert it into mass & so you could eventually essentially have living stars & potentially even an entire galaxy eventually basically literally come alive as the stars are almost like cells of an organism, just on a galactic scale.

That it could essentially make a galaxy literally conscious.

Also, it's not just that the room would get brighter from a clap, your focus & clarity on surfaces would also increase.

didnt know the level of science tooken in for the design/story super cool and great director. why the movie is so sucessfull

This was great.....til politics came into play

I can’t believe Neil actually brought out the quote ON PAPER about Andy imagining him peering over his shoulder while writing 😂

After nuking Antarctica, they brought back Aquanet and big hair was back in style.

I am surprised no one mentioned carcinisation (everything evolves toward crabs). Also, how does a spacefaring species not understand radiation (the other thing the Eridians "did not understand")?

Nobody asks how Eridians even noticed the dimming of 40 Eridani A if they don't experience or understand the visible light spectrum and radiation etc. Agreed they would notice temperature change and change in their global ecosystem. But then how did they know there is something like a star, how did they know whether to look for it. Nd saving my best question for last, how did they "see" the other stars and have a record of their intensity before their infection?

Hi Neil,

Did you know that electrons are male leptons and positrons are female leptons and there are non binary leptons? That is neither positive nor negative nor male or female leptons?

Or that photons are non conforming ie. "feel" positive/male forces today and negative/female forces tomorrow? After all space/time is relative, non?

This is the type of BS western education is turning into because "academic men" stay quiet rather than speak the truth.

All NDGT does is confront rather than discuss.
Must be great the world expert.

29:52 Why was saving humanity a death sentence? Hadn't rocky already given him enough fuel to get home by the time he decides to turn back and save him?

Andy Weir - why can't Rocky give himself a name? Why does he need a white savior to do so for him?

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i kept saying how Hail Mary is like The Martian, and somehow missed that they were both written by Andy Weir

No… he didn’t step up

He was assaulted, drugged against his will, imprisoned and thusly enslaved to do something he expressly did NOT want to do.. you know,, the very thing yall accused Dr. Cosby, Michael Jackson as well a list of Foundational Black American male icons of doing.. only you think it’s charming because a white woman did it.. no reason he didn’t want to return to earth..

The only issue I had with the movie is he would starve to death many times over. 2 years of food can't last 6.4 years going 94c to rocky planet. Once he got there, if he only ate two meals a week, he would be so weak and sickly looking. But instead it looked like he was working out every day.

I went into the cinema for the writer after a looong time of staying away.
Now another looong time is ticking.
Lilo and Stitch is more adult and more serious than this one.

It's oddly ironic. Not the most immediate live reaction to the movie, but the one before it, I was thinking Neil needed to interview the author and/or see the movie. And here it is! Amaze! Amaze! Amaze!

What I want to know is how did Rocky survive outside his pod for the several minutes it took to operate the Hail Mary, drag Grace to the med bay, and then drag himself back to his pod? The massive pressure differential means that surely all his blood would have boiled away and evaporated and he would have died.

the mission was a suicide mission, i often think that on earth it was difficult to gather the amount of Astrophage, however once in space (Hail Mary around Tau Ceti) why couldn’t the Hail Mary gather more Astrophage from the Petrova line and use it as fuel to return home??

10/10 movie

Why listen to NDGT when he doesn't even know what a woman is?

I want to watch this show but holy ** stop talking over one another

It's a cute movie and uplifting, but wouldn't they actually have to converse in Binary language 1=A but how do you teach them A 😭😭

Jeez Neil, read the book

Rocky has a problem: they have evolved with an ultimate speed barrier that of a sound...

Andy's enthusiasm for science and science fiction is phenomenal.

I wish they spent a few more minutes in the movie expanding on what Grace and Rocky think of each other's tech and knowledge, and their friendship at the end, maybe Grace teaching the Eridians about human nature and how they need to develop weapons to take us down so we don't dare to try to conquer them now that we know about each other so all relations are properly diplomatic. But I loved the movie even more than The Martian.

Fantastic episode….huge fan of Andy Weir and loved the film.

Can I see the "finger down" counter?

"We are way off topic!!" I couldn't help but laugh at this xD

So, I have a few questions about Rocky and his species abilities to make the story make sense. Yes, its a book. Its fiction. So liberties are taken for the sake of the story. But I also know there is an attempt to make it scientifically plausible. Even if it isn't, its a great story, and a great movie. Now the questions:

Eridians "see" by echo location. They have no concept of relativity. They live on a planet that has no light reaching the surface. How are they even aware of their own star, let alone any other stars in the galaxy, or how all but one of them is dimming, and that Tau Ceti is not dimming?

Erid has 29 atmospheres of pressure. Sure, the Eridians can build a dome, and fill it with water, create tidal-like waves, and add a nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere for Grace to live in, but how can they alter the gravitational pressure, and the magnetic field, and the planets spin, to accommodate Grace? And what about the "no lights gets to the surface"? So where is the light in Grace's dome coming from?

I can't believe I clocked that Grace sounded more like an Astrobiologist than a molecular biologist. As a scientist myself going into astrobiology, it was confusing in the film to keep hearing molecular biologist but what's on screen was clearly way more than that. Love Andy for confirming that for me.

Hey, also check out the #DrBecky interview with Weir and Gosling!

One has to appreciate the effort Weir makes to get real science to compliment science fiction!

Thanks for the video!

This show sounds like my ADHD brain after a good shot of coffee in the morning😂