DeGrasse Tyson: When I Was a Kid, I Wanted to Be Abducted by Aliens, and I Still Do

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DEGRASSE TYSON: "Can we protect against it? Is the tinfoil hat how to protect against it? Because the tinfoil hat, now, it would be made of aluminum, aluminum foil, just to get the ingredients straight here in case you’re doing it. Metal actually shields electromagnetic energy. So it could be that if aliens came to earth to try to implant ideas into us, the only people it would fail at are people who actually wearing tinfoil hats. Just the little thing to know. So — and then I ended with alien to me, because when I was a kid, I wanted to be abducted by aliens. And I still do. All this time alone on mountaintops, with telescopes, communing with the cosmos, and I’ve just always wanted a beam of light to come down. and take me."