Neil deGrasse Tyson discusses new book 'Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilisation&#

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson sits down with Sky News Australia host Piers Morgan to speak about his new book, ‘Starry Messenger’, which is about how “things look different from a cosmic perspective”. “I quote Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell in this book,” Mr deGrasse told Mr Morgan. “He looked back and he said: ‘You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world and a compulsion to do something about it. From up there on the moon, international politics looks so petty’. “So he was feeling the cosmic perspective – when you’re that high up, you don’t see the national borders. “And we’re just one species down there on this spaceship, earth, alone, in the darkness of the universe with no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.”