Episode Transcript: #1658 - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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How much time do you spend looking at random leaves on television shows to recognize that it's a fake pattern not created by the wind?
No, I just, you know, you look at scenes from Walking Dead and they enter this deserted town as so many towns are when zombies take over.
And the leaves, you know, the autumn leaves are evenly spread in the streets and the sidewalks.
And I'm thinking some set designer did that thinking that this is what leaves do in the breeze.
But that's not what they do.
They collect.
They circulate.
They're like eddies in the air currents that'll collect them in one place and not the other.
So we think if something's random that it's evenly spread.
But in fact, there are many more collected elements in something that's random than we typically think.
So I'm looking at your new ceiling here in Austin, Texas.
And your star is beautiful, by the way.
Nice things you got here.
Thank you.
The stars are, the lights are kind of evenly spread on the sky.
Yeah, they don't look real.
So that's how, and plus, you know, you could have thrown at least a constellation up there or something.