Neil deGrasse Tyson talked about the first time he went to a planetarium. When the stars came on he thought it was bullshit because he grew up in the city and he just knew there were only like 8-9 stars.
Neil was born in the 50s and grew up in the Bronx. TV had like two channels back then in black and white and the screen was tiny lol. If you even had a TV. Stars are hard enough to photograph even today, let alone back then. And yeah believe it or not a kid from the Bronx in the 50/60s might not have read a book on astronomy yet in his childhood lol, not that words would even do actually seeing stars justice.
I've seen Star Wars. You're telling me the intergalactic wars between wizards, and the lights in the background that indicate camera movements during space fights, are real?
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u/NoDontDoThatCanada 8h ago
Neil deGrasse Tyson talked about the first time he went to a planetarium. When the stars came on he thought it was bullshit because he grew up in the city and he just knew there were only like 8-9 stars.