Hear what surprised Neil DeGrasse Tyson about purported ‘alien' corpses

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson reacts to so-called alien bodies brought out in front of Mexico’s Congress.

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People have. One thing
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that a lot of people
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are talking about lately, NASA
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even now has ahead of you of UFOs. Right.
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Congress has a hearing on UFOs.
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And so people
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are talking about UFOs and aliens
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in a more serious way
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than than
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being on the front
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of the National Enquirer,
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the way it used to be.
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So a Mexican journalist
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displayed bodies of two supposed non
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human beings in in Mexico
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in front of the Congress in Mexico. Okay.
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Each with three fingered
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hands and elongated heads.
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Now, before we all mark the video, right,
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it is because it's got a lot of mocking.
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It looks a lot like E.T.
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But as I said,
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NASA's just announced for the first time
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a director of research on UFOs.
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So they are taking this overall topic
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more seriously.
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What's your take on this?
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Well,
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first of all,
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I like what they did in Mexico.
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They had
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what they claimed are alien bodies,
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and they brought it out
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in front of their Congress.
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That's better than leaving them
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in a lock box
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and saying you
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and no one else can get to see them.
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That's a start.
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But in science, a new truth
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an objective truth is only established
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when multiple labs can analyze whatever
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your claim is.
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When we weren't rocks back from the moon,
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we distributed them
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to all the labs of the world.
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So everybody participated
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in that discovery.
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So here I bring up samples to others
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and let other people skeptical people
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in other labs.
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Yes. This all and verified or falsified.
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And then we move on.
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What was your reaction
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when you saw the images?
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I was surprised
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because if they're from another planet,
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why do they look so human?
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They have two eyes
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and nose and mouth, shoulders,
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hips, femur.
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Why most life on Earth shares
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DNA in common with us.
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Looks nothing like us.
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So how could it somebody.
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So. So that was my first thought. Second,
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if any corpses or mummified remains.
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There is no bone in your nose.
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It's an open hole into your skull.
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These aliens have intact noses.
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Okay.
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If indeed, that is their nose.
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Okay. Sure.
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So? Well, so that's odd.
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After 2000 years
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to still have a nose with two
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with two cavities in it.
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So that's odd, but they should share it.
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That's how.
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That's how we determine what is true
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and what is not.
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All right.
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Neil, thanks so much.
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Great to talk to you.
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Thanks for having me.