Neil deGrasse Tyson

Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson is a celebrated American astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City.

He is a repeat guest on The Colbert Report but talks about nothing a lot, while at the same time claiming that Intelligent Design is "intellectually lazy."

Who's being lazy, sir?

During the October 26, 2005 appearance on The Report Tyson spoke about his biggest 'accomplishment': destroying our educational system and pissing off millions of schoolchildren by removing Pluto from the list of planets. By August 17, 2006, however, deGrasse Tyson was forced to admit his intellectual humiliation when the International Astronomical Union declared that Pluto would remain a planet, just as Stephen had called.

This touched off another controversy however, as the IAU redifined what it meant to be a planet (you have to be round), thereby threatening America's planet. With the help of Dr. deGrasse Tyson, Stephen laid some smack-talk down on Charon, Ceres, and 2003UB313 (if that is its real name.)

He is rumored to be Stephen Colbert's black scientist friend.

Factoids

 * Not the crazy Tyson
 * Believes the universe is 13.7 billion years old
 * East coast, Ivy League educated liberal elitist