My last question i want to ask you guys and youre going up to the hill later this afternoon to testify on a different topic, how do you see the lack of action in terms of congress on authorization of the use of force . Just the stasis and stalemate, whats your evaluation all of you, what does that mean in where the u. S. In these campaigns and campaigns coming up on the 15th your anniversary of the 9 11 next year. How do you sort of see the politics here at home. This may be over cynical but i think its a reflection of the fact that the body politic to include people on the hill ultimately do not regard isis as that serious a problem. Definitely a problem. Something worth effort but not something where theyre getting phone calls every day saying the United States needs to do something about this. I think we have seen over the last ten years for understandable reasons, a real sharp decline in public enthusiasm for American Intervention and thats reflected on the fact that people on the
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Degrasse tyson, director of Hayden Planetarium in new york city and the author of many books including welcome to the universe, death by black hole, and his latest, astrophysics for people in a hurry. Host dr. Neil Degrasse Tyson, in your new book, astrophysics for people in a hurry, you open it by saying that the universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. What does that mean . Guest get over it. [laughter] i think up until, well, really up til the year 1600 when we didnt have any particular tools to investigate be the natural world, our five senses were the primary means by which we obtained all information about the universe. And not even knowing that our five senses had limits. If its everything you know, you think its everything the universe is trying to give you but, in fact, its not. And so around 1600 with the invention of the microscope in one direction and then the telescope in the other direction, each invented within a decade of one another, then all of a sudden p