I began to see myself as a future scientist - in particular, an astrophysicist. I soon became scientifically curious and read everything I could find about the universe. This was more astonishing to me than a 360-degree slam-dunk. I then asked myself, “Is this all there is to it?” The answer is basically yes, yet one can imagine creative variations such as a 360-degree pirouette in midair preceding the dunk, but you still score only two points.Ībout the same time, I learned that light, traveling at 186,282 miles per second, moves too slowly to escape from the event horizon of a black hole. On April 17, 1973, I was the first in my grade to slam-dunk a basketball. To do this you have to jump high and palm the basketball. In junior high school it was important for me, now that I was certified the “fastest on the block,” to slam-dunk a basketball. My reward was the respect and admiration of classmates and especially my streetmates. When I was in elementary school in the public schools of New York City, I distinctly remember that it was important for me to be athletic - in particular, to be able to run fast. In a recent interview, deGrasse Tyson spoke with Bill Moyers about the importance of science education and the television series he’s hosting called Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, a revival of the original PBS series Cosmos, with Carl Sagan. The following is an excerpt from The Sky is Not the Limit, Neil deGrasse Tyson’s memoir.
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