Neil deGrasse Tyson: Columbus Landing in America Was the Most Important Event in Human History [Video]
Christopher Columbus is a polarizing figure in modern America. He was a hero! He was a villain! But what if we look past the immediate consequences and look at his broader, unintended impacted on the human species as a whole? That's exactly what Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson does in this short video. Dr. Tyson was the headlining speaker at last week's First Comes the Dream event Gizmodo and io9 threw at the American Museum of Natural History. After his talk, rather than sneak away in a gigantic, star cluster-shaped limo, he spent hours standing around answering peoples' questions. To put this into context, this is what Dr. Tyson was saying leading up to his statement about Columbus: No life-form on Earth either lives or dies in vain. Because the fact that you die from some virus removes your gene-pool from what remains on the Earth, so that those who did not die from it have the immunity to it allowing them to continue forward. So you didn't die in vain and you didn't l...