Well, well, well. Guess whose birthday it was yesterday Saturday October 5th?
Need some clue? How about these pics from The Alcade, the alumni magazine of The University of Texas at Austin:
Need more clues? Here he is, as a dashing young man flanked by two beauties:
Don't know yet? How about this badass photo of him (check out those guns!)?
Give up? Here's the answer:
Photo:©2013 AMNH, Photo by Roderick Mickens
Happy Birthday, Neil deGrasse Tyson! And to celebrate, here are ten of our favorite tweets from the popular astrophysicist and science communicator (@neiltyson):
Just because you don't agree with something, doesn't mean that what you don't agree with is wrong.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 4, 2013
There's no crime in being ignorant. Problems arise when people who don't know they're ignorant rise to power.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) April 18, 2013
Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first the Chicken or the Egg? The Egg -- laid by a bird that was not a Chicken
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) January 5, 2011
It's not that I like it because I'm good at it. I'm good at it because I like it.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) July 18, 2013
If the world is something you accept rather than interpret, then you're susceptible to the influence of charismatic idiots.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) September 27, 2013
If every dead person became a ghost, Earth would be a crowded place, with more than 100-billion of 'em, annoying the living.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) May 25, 2013
People who spy on you have implicitly admitted that your life is more interesting than theirs.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) August 17, 2013
Odd that within a single generation the accusation of being all thumbs shifted from being clumsy to being good at texting
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) April 5, 2013
Curious that it's always a female computer voice that calmly announces self-destruct sequences and other violent disasters.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) June 14, 2013
Geek e-mail signoff: No trees were killed to send this message, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) April 28, 2011
Let's end with this, The Most Astounding Fact about the Universe, as asked by a reader of TIME magazine and answered Neil deGrasse Tyson:
Tyson later confirmed the photo over at NY Mag:
"Yup. That's me," Tyson confirmed to Daily Intelligencer in an e-mail. "I take the subway when I can — fast, cheap, and easy. And when I do, I am always working. In fact, en-route to and from the Planetarium, I take less-crowded trains and routes, even if longer, assuring a seat for me to get work done. The universe can be quite demanding of my time."