Ed, really sorry you had to leave at 8:30. You missed some of his best moments. No one expected him to go 3 hours, even Dr. Goldberg (the Humanities Chair). Towards the end of his lecture, h e said he did not want "you" (the audience) to say "Tyson taught me this." He wanted you to take it from him and make it your own, a part of yourself. For the entire lecture I thought he was using darts and missing the bulls eye. After thinking about that one short statement, I realized he was spot on for the lecture subject . He presented his case, how integral science is to our civilization and American society and how American society is turning away from it. T hen left it to the audience to take on the implications and apply them. A humanities theme indeed. His last story was about a kid wearing a Harvard tie. Th e kid was going to sta rt Harvard in the fall and he wanted everyone to know it. Tyson told the kid it is not where you go to school , what your background is, it is what you accomplish that mat ters. Your accomplishments set you apart and then no one cares about where you wemt to school or what your background is . His final slide was Cassini's "pale blue dot" from 2013. He got very serious about its implications . Several serious moments amid his entertaining presentation. I laughed a lot throughout his presentation, but when you think about the examples he presented, seemingly from hither and yon, you realize he made his point a dozen times over. Am also glad more people attended.