Neil deGrasse is the fucking man. An adorable teddy bear of astrophysical wundery and brilliance. Not only that, but the guy has a hell of a sense of humor. In this video he reacts to his status as a prominent meme, and does so with all the charm and charisma you come to expect from the guy.

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Neil DeGrasse Tyson is fucking awesome. Fact. Scientific fact. He was asked be a reader of TIME  magazine what the most astounding fact of the universe was. This is his answer.

Hit the jump. Bask in the glory.

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Neil is the man, and I’d happily listen to him talk about anything. Here’s him breaking down the decline in American science in the past thirty years.

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I thought I was done with the Symphony of Science auto-tuning craze. Then the genre didn’t play fair. They combined  Neil deGrasse Tyson and some Existential Prostate Milking with some pretty music. I laughed. I cried. I rubbed up against Tyson’s mustache on my monitor. No seriously, there are few people in the world as inspiring these days to me as Neil. The beauty, the beauty!

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Because I’m a hippy liberal who watches Bill Maher while kissing my transgender significant other and eating organic cashews, I already saw this last Friday. If you’re a more balanced person and you don’t watch the show, you still need to see this rant of Neil deGrasse Tyson. Provided you love space and our continually diminishing focus on it saddens you.

It’s an epic rant.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson is my current favorite astrophysicist. I don’t know many, but I know him and his smooth voice and his ability to distill the impossibly complex into easily digestible metaphor. His new gig is going to rule.

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