Neil deGrasse Tyson Doing an IAmA on Reddit (opens in new tab)

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97 pointsrazerbeans14y ago18 comments

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redthrowaway14y ago· 7 in thread

50 minutes old and 4300 comments... best of luck to anyone hoping to ask him a question.

I just spent 20 minutes writing up a question that was important to me (would you become a public supporter of Copenhagen Suborbitals, working towards sending a man into space) only to see it being lost in a sea of questions.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/qccer/i_am_neil_degras...

christiangenco14y ago

"No one is getting paid"

Sounds like a really cool project! Have another upvote in hopes it gets his attention.

redthrowaway14y ago

I gave you a hopeful upvote. I'm generally not a fan of asking AMA subjects for money, but it sounds like a cool program and something that Dr. Tyson could be interested in.

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fletchowns14y ago

Sad that there are so few comments out of that many that are actually worth reading.

richardw14y ago

I live in a different timezone, so luckily by the time I arrive the conversation has been curated somewhat. Reddit does a great job of taking 10000 comments and giving me 100 to read!

I guess if you're mainly scanning, read it tomorrow and you'll probably enjoy doing so more.

nodemaker14y ago

I thought some of them were quite funny.

And btw its not Hacker News :)

simcop238714y ago

That's about how the last one went too. I think it hit nearly 10k comments.

EDIT: Yes it did hit 10k, Here's the previous IAMAs with him

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/mateq/i_am_neil_degras... http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ngd5e/i_am_neil_degras...

dhughes14y ago· 2 in thread

I think to myself "I'm spending too much time on Reddit looking at stupid stuff" so I come to HN for some highbrow articles and see a link to Reddit of Neil deGrasse Tyson doing an AMA :/ ...back to Reddit.

LesZedCB14y ago

that's why reddit is in my hosts file...

panacea14y ago

Here is a true story. I've curated the hell out of my reddit frontpage.

I went to reddit just now and while it was loading I thought "I'm so sick of the downward trend in my enjoyment of the unstoppable march towards extreme mediocrity in every corner of reddit... if I don't see anything on my frontpage that interests me this time, I'm going to add it to my hosts file"

I scanned the page, saw nothing that interested me (including this AMA... I don't even know who he is) and added reddit to my hosts file.

Then I opened Hacker News. Top link? This reddit AMA. Sigh.

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bherms14y ago

"The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you." -- NdGT

Probably the best thing I've heard in a while. I love when he does these AMA's.

prakashk14y ago

For those who are just interested in the questions that Dr. Tyson chose to answer (along with the answers, of course): http://www.reddit.com/r/tabled/comments/qcyqa/

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