The Phenomenauts "I'm With Neil" (Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson Gets A Theme Song)

[Ian David]

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson Gets A Theme Song: I’m With Neil!

Date: Jul 26, 2012 | Author: Rudie Obias | Category: Sci-Fi In Real Life

By now you’ve heard about the awesome exploits of astrophysicists Neil deGrasse Tyson; whether it be why he thinks the original USS Enterprise is the greatest starship of all-time, or how he pokes holes in the plots of recent sci-fi films, or on his tireless efforts to expand the budget for NASA in order to continue space exploration.

The man is one of the best in his field and is quickly becoming a pop cultural touchstone.

Now The Phenomenauts, an Oakland, California based new wave punk rock band, have immortalized the great Neil deGrasse Tyson in song with their song “I’m With Neil!”

More:
http://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/sci/astrophysicist-neil-degrasse-tyson-theme-song-neil.html

[Scootaloo]

1. I have a total man-crush on Neil deGrasse Tyson

"That makes me want to grab people in the street and say, "Have you heard this!?""

[me b zola]

2. I'm With Neil!

I loved this, thx for sharing

[stlsaxman]

3. ashes ashes all fall down!

i LOVE that smile at 1:15...

like- "yeah- that's right!"

[DreamGypsy]

4. I am a huge fan too!

Thanks for the post.

Neil deGrasse Tyson is a fantastic role model for all scientists - brilliant, lucid, entertaining, and fanatical.

Wonderful that Neil has a song now, but...uh, I found this one a lyrically a little boring (sorry). And Neil is never boring.

I poked around a bit to find songs that might better represent Neil himself. I thought about maybe unscrupulously rewriting Donovan's The Universal Soldier as The Universe's Scholar.

Anyway, I did find a song that I could imagine Neil singing himself. Here are the lyrics to Monty Python's Galaxy Song from The Meaning of Life:

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on the Earth.