Neil deGrasse Tyson

“buildings taller than 12 stories don't have a 13th floor. Okay. And so this triskaidekaphobia is again in a free country. If you, if you want to be afraid of t…”

Tyson states that about 80% of buildings taller than 12 stories omit a labeled 13th floor.

“And every 20,000 years, they found a little blip a little dip in The fossil record where we lost some species and people were wondering why could there have b…”

Tyson states that dips in the fossil record showing periodic mass extinctions recur roughly every 20,000 years, which led scientists to hypothesize a companion star to the sun (later dubbed Nemesis).

“So, I'm not quick to call it Planet 9 because it's 20,000 times farther away from the sun than the Earth is.”

Tyson states that the hypothesized ninth planet is 20,000 times farther from the sun than Earth is.

“one g it would be way too slow to make an interesting scene so i I gave it to him. I said, I'll give you three Gs.”

Tyson claims he personally calculated the rotation rate for the space station in 2001: A Space Odyssey and told Stanley Kubrick to use three times Earth gravity for dramatic effect.