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you're watching a Nova science Now video
podcast hi I'm Neil degrass Tyson I'm an
astrophysicist and director of New York
City's Hayden planetarium here at the
American Museum of Natural History and
I'm the next season's host for Nova
science now over the years I've
collected all kinds of weird cool stuff
and I've gathered most of it here in my
office one of the things in particular
that intrigues me is the extent to which
the universe has become part of our
culture Cosmic Cosmic do somebody else
had the S which is a good sign it means
people want a piece of the universe
Apollo 11
Inc why it's called Apollo 11 ink I have
no idea although I did buy the pen a
rocket pen this is a star KN pillow
which if you squeeze the moon then the
Stars light up Cosmic B
with Suns Moons and stars on them you
turn out the lights they glow you'll
never lose track of where your injury is
in my visit to Moscow I picked up these
dolls but if you look on the belly it's
got spaceships on their bellies from
Sputnik right on up to the International
Space Station how you like this
Louisiana hot sauce with an image of the
space shuttle on it pineapple slices but
not your ordinary slices these are
called Cosmic fun shapes inside this can
an iron nickel meteorite
that slammed into Earth some 50,000
years ago John Glenn we gave him a
ticker tape parade right up Broadway
Saturn it was the first thing I looked
at when I got my first telescope as a
kid this in particular this lamp is very
dear to me it's inspired by Saturn and I
made it while I was in seventh grade in
Woodshop you press down the ring and the
light turns on oh wait wait wait I can't
let this go back up right here I'm from
the Bronx I look forward to seeing all
of you again on Nova science
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