After all of the excitement surrounding last week’s discovery of arsenic based life forms, and the rather entertaining speculation all over the web that perhaps the NASA announcement last Thursday was going to be full disclosure of alien life, here’s a little bit of down-to-earth wisdom from everyone’s favorite smart guy Neil Degrasse Tyson. Here he is on a panel at St. Petersburg College in 2009, explaining how the human mind desires to explain the unknown, often defying logic in the process…

From ARE WE A BLOG: A COMPANION TO THE ARE WE ALONE RADIO SHOW –

 

Share