Neil deGrasse Tyson Patiently, Joyously Explains to Paparazzi What Would Happen if You Smoked Weed in Space

Consider all the decisions—conscious and unconscious—made by hundreds of millions of organisms and the chaotic entropy of trillions and trillions of atoms across space and time that led to this moment, in which a TMZ paparazzo asks astrophysicist theoretical physicist Neil deGrasse Tyson what would happen if one were to smonk a marijuana in space.

The Big Bang, stars and galaxies form, explode. Earth forms and is pelted by space detritus. The formation of carbon and The Great Oxygen event. The Cambrian explosion 500 million years ago, five great extinction events. The rise and fall of dinosaurs. The rise and fall of various hominid species. Early tool use. Agriculture. What is weed, anyway? New Amsterdam. The Revolutionary War. Celebrity culture. A young South African man emigrates to the United States with nothing but a dream to put plants on Mars, but gets sidetracked with conspiracy theories about hero divers. Twitter. Carl Sagan. Craigslist’s domination of online classifieds leading to the downfall of traditional print media. Harvey Levin. The attention economy. The intellectual dark web. What beautiful chaos. What beautiful cosmos.

Neil deGrasse Tyson Patiently, Joyously Explains to Paparazzi What Would Happen if You Smoked Weed in Space
By Jason Koebler

September 13, 2018 at 01:55PM
via Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j54q98/neil-degrasse-tyson-patiently-joyously-explains-to-paparazzi-what-would-happen-if-you-smoked-weed-in-space