Neil deGrasse Tyson Says Elon Musk is a Modern Day Thomas Edison | TMZ

Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of the smartest guys out there, and he's now weighed in on who he thinks is one of the world's great visionaries ... and he's squarely Team Musk.

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[Benja]

People who don't know Edison's life: 😊
People who know: 🥶

[extendo]

This is why i wouldn't talk to science teachers when I saw them in public

[johnw]

I'm picturing the dinosaurs in the NASA control room and Dart radios back "Houston, we have a problem."

[Beaconwarriorsaint]

But didn't Edison just exploit other's genius as his own?

[ashishajari]

Never saw Neil using F - word before 😅

[EikottXD]

Never thought I would see something intelligent on TMZ

[nickreno]

I know he wasn’t dissing him but I definitely wouldn’t take that as a compliment because I think Thomas Edison was a douche bag 😂 I love Neil he’s great

[hurleyfilms]

Sir, I just asked you if you needed a ride.

[debbiedunn]

He is definitely ahead of his time. Neil is awesome on a whole different level.

[Mafiaboss]

How can you not love this man. Such truth in his words.

[REPLAYANDREVIEW]

He drunk off that default conventional science babble

[bideneatsbabies]

Elon tries to be like Tesla, and gets compared to Edison, that’s kinda funny.

[ScottJB]

Boy, that stuff about Elon aged like a glass of milk on a Tuscon driveway in July.

[jimcatanzaro]

I used to like Neil until rogan he is very full of himself and arrogant and doesn’t know when to shut up

[seekerrealm]

So in short Elon musk is like Tony Stark let’s put a shield around this planet

[LyonHeart]

Thomas Edison took credit for a lot of peoples inventions [typical of a lot of albinoid “innovations”], ie Granville T Woods.

[JFetch]

If Edison paid everyone else to do all the work maybe.

[lzyaccurate]

TMZ stopped the guy in the middle of the road to hear all that?!

[scummymummy]

Everyone should watch his time at the joe Rogan podcast

[broken_clock_right_twice]

Edison was a crook and so is Elon very fitting comparison. Finally I agree with Neil