Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist and narrator in the revived documentary Cosmos. He is a man who knows how to ignite the fiery passion for science with rapturous vocabulary. Talking to MMC he said he would like to think that at this moment, science and space are developing, or in other words, are a trend. "It is always a good sign when people voluntarily deal with science, talk about it and enjoy it, rather than consider it as a task or responsibility. Literacy and science will be extremely important in the 21st century and will decide which countries lead the world in the field of education and technology. Innovations in these fields bring health, welfare and many other things which have had valuable contributions in the last century," is how Tyson sees things, a year after the screening of Cosmos.

During the interview the astrophysicist also touched on what our encounter with aliens would be like. Many scientists are convinced that the extraterrestrials would act like conquerors, but Tyson looks at it differently: "Maybe we are all justified in thinking that. Humans have treated other humans worse than that. We have proof of that in the past, when two different civilizations would meet. It happened when the Europeans came to the new world. And it was not the first time that you had this kind of mismatch in technological power. It is never good for the civilization which has less technological power than the other. And if aliens have enough technology to visit us, across the galaxy, they are more technologically advanced than we are. Fear derives more from how we know we would treat each other, than from any knowledge or suspicion of how aliens would treat us. And that is an important fact to consider. We are admitting, we are confessing that aliens would be just as evil in their treatment of us, as we were in the treatment of ourselves. That’s quite an indictment on our civilization. We are using our civilization to give us insight into how they would behave."
You're invited to listen to the whole interview, in which Neil deGrasse Tyson also talks about Carl Sagan, the colonization of Mars, artificial intelligence and his comparisons of being a rock-star.