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Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains How Aliens Are Named

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What would people from venus be called? On this explainer, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice hash out what organisms from each planet would be called.

What are people from Earth called? Learn how we name exoplanets and what we might call people from the moons of Saturn. We work our way through each planet (and dwarf planet) and explore what organisms from there would be called.

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00:00 – What are we called?
02:20 – Other planets
05:45 – Venus & Venerial
08:50 – Naming Exoplanets
10:00 – Europa

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37 comments

StarTalk 2023.03.08 - 5:29 pm

What's a better name for Terrans?

Stephen Allen 2023.03.09 - 11:14 am

I wonder what name we will give you meet suck

Jason Ballard 2023.03.09 - 11:15 am

Why don't we just ask what their name is? I mean we named dogs or cats if they were capable of communication? Let's turn the tables if an alien came to Earth, and told us that we were called zoboomafoo because of their classification system, we would be annoyed and attempt to correct them.

98erics 2023.03.09 - 11:24 am

"Hi, I'm Venerial" "My name is Eric and I'm an Alcoholic"

Michael Allen 2023.03.09 - 11:25 am

What's up with the trans dude on the far right in the thumbnail?

Явор Бойчев 2023.03.09 - 11:34 am

Shout out to Pluto back as a planet as confirmed by Neil Degrasse Tyson 😉

mdsremac 2023.03.09 - 11:48 am

And aliens froh Phobos and Deimos? Phobias and Deamons?

Seth Garcia 2023.03.09 - 11:50 am

I laughed and learned a lot. 😂😂😂

Glimmered Gloom 2023.03.09 - 11:55 am

Inhabitants of Uranus? I trust they're microscopic. The genital term for that is venerians? Smarter every day!

Flying Axeman 2023.03.09 - 12:05 pm

Chuck was on fire

Milo Dvorak 2023.03.09 - 12:05 pm

As a white European (born in Europe, not on Europa), I've gotta appreciate Chuck's joke 😂 (disclaimer: I come from a country with no colonial past)

MB Taber 2023.03.09 - 12:13 pm

Uranus is Greek not roman, if roman it would be Caelus. Uranus is the father of Cronus(in the roman pantheon he is known as Saturn)

Phil McDonald 2023.03.09 - 12:27 pm

Have just found and subscribed to the channel. Just watched the vid from 2 years ago about defining "nothing". I wondered that as intergalactic space expands, are new particles created as part of the process? Or does entropy just spread existing particles into the newly created space? In which case the particles per cubic metre must decline over time (which it may be possible to prove or disprove given enough time if current technology isn't sensitive enough to measure). Taking another leap of ignorance on my part, if new particles ARE created by expansion, could they be the origin of dark energy and dark matter and perhaps be the cause of accelerating expansion (a kind of feedback loop)? PS I miss Carl Sagan so much (my hero too).

Uatu 2023.03.09 - 12:37 pm

Terra bull.

Dru Driver 2023.03.09 - 12:38 pm

A fact you may not be aware of. It was a Russian Doctor who first discovered venereal diseases his name was Uri P. Rottchacockoff. So now you Know. 👽

Xedd MrC 2023.03.09 - 12:47 pm

I fkin love chuck

Alex Mann 2023.03.09 - 12:54 pm

Jupiter should be Jupitians 👀

MrWilson 2023.03.09 - 1:46 pm

Juptian [joop-shihn] all the way

Mohammed wari 2023.03.09 - 2:23 pm

Congratulations! 🏆 Pluto is back as a planet 🤣

nixi panda 2023.03.09 - 2:24 pm

That one was very funny! Keep up the good work

clever username 2023.03.09 - 2:26 pm

This again??

Abhimanyu SADAFUL 2023.03.09 - 2:27 pm

Him: Hi I am Venerial! Me: keep away from Uranus !😂

JACK The All-Seeing Eye 2023.03.09 - 2:40 pm

De Grasse is not a scientist….or a very poor one. I've caught him out on basic basic physics more than once.

Citadel Chase 2023.03.09 - 2:40 pm

Make Pluto a Planet Again Degrasse 2023

JACK The All-Seeing Eye 2023.03.09 - 2:42 pm

My Dad used to call me his SUN son because anytime I asked for money he said "Son you are S O L!"
(do i have to explain?)

Angela Lomnicky 2023.03.09 - 2:44 pm

humimoid

Kshitiz Shah 2023.03.09 - 3:04 pm

Lunarians: One piece fans getting excited for King the wildfire <3

A Guy 2023.03.09 - 3:08 pm

0:26 i don't think aliens would use any of the roman etc. names we humans have fabricated here on Earth, because how are aliens supposed to know our language history of Terra or Earth? surely they'd have their own name for Earth, or if they're not judgemental, they would just call us aliens until inquiring what we wish to be called.

Dave Garacci 2023.03.09 - 3:12 pm

PLUTO is officially a planet again – neil said so,

Stephen Barry 2023.03.09 - 3:24 pm

In my fan fiction Superman movie, our Sun is "Mu Rada" = the 12th brightest star in the Kryptonian mythological [it looks like a "Chinese dragon"] constellation of Rada. This is the exact opposite viewpoint as LHS-2520 – which Dr. Tyson says is what we, on Earth, see Rao = Krypton's parent star as being in our constallation of Corvus, the crow.

Jacob Baranowski 2023.03.09 - 4:02 pm

All the people of YourAnus are called AHoles 😂 sounds like a Rick And Morty episode

Samantha Birthdays 2023.03.09 - 4:08 pm

Wateran !!!! Waterian? as we are mostly made up of Water & Earth/minerals … coming from the planet OxyWaterian ??? of the planet Terra

Francisco Gallegos 2023.03.09 - 4:40 pm

Can we turn all the space junk into land? Start with a space island and then grow it with more trash?

Nina 2023.03.09 - 5:01 pm

i loved this lol

Nina 2023.03.09 - 5:13 pm

poor pluto, puerto ricans understand lol

MikeLinPA 2023.03.09 - 6:29 pm

11:42. Without Chuck, it would have been 5:00 max! He brings so much to the show!

Shyan Lawrence 2023.03.09 - 6:30 pm

@ 7:19 "…How are you? I'm clean…" 🤣🤣

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