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      'Earth Is Round.' Neil deGrasse Tyson Slams Flat Earthers | TIME
      • The Earth is round,” deGrasse Tyson said in his latest video with comedian Chuck Nice. In the video, deGrasse Tyson used multiple experiments and examples to prove how people came to know the Earth is round, even before space travel made it possible to observe the Earth from a distance.
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  2. Feb 10, 2014 · Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson explains wants to talk about the shape and the size of the earth. Watch the full talk here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

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  3. Apr 21, 2014 · On this week's Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, Neil deGrasse Tyson looked at how we know that the earth is 4.5 billion years old. It's an interesting story, but not quite as interesting as...

  4. Earth had earthly things going on and the heavens had heavenly things going on. Indeed, according to many scholars of the day, the heavens were unknowable to our feeble, mortal minds.

  5. NEIL deGRASSE TYSON: The idea that water settled on Earth's surface so soon is controversial, but if true, it suggests a planet much more like today's than anyone had...

  6. Stick-in-the-Mud Astronomy. By Neil deGrasse Tyson. Natural History Magazine. March 2003. You’ll need your brain and plenty of patience—but not much more—to take the measure of the Earth and its motions. In modern times, various blends of high technology and clever thinking drive cosmic discovery. But suppose you had no technology.

  7. The one we call Earth formed in a zone around the Sun where oceans remain largely in liquid form. Had Earth been much closer to the Sun, the oceans would have vaporized. Had Earth been much farther, the oceans would have frozen. In either case, life as we know it would not have evolved.

  8. Neil deGrasse Tyson (US: / dəˈɡræs / də-GRASS or UK: / dəˈɡrɑːs / də-GRAHSS; born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. Tyson studied at Harvard University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Columbia University. From 1991 to 1994, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton ...

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