"Sexiest Astrophysicist Alive" Teams Up With PETA

Mr. Manhattanhenge himself, also known as The "Sexiest Astrophysicist Alive," and more professionally known as Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, has teamed up with PETA for a “kindness is a virtue” campaign, which suggests we all show a little compassion. Unsurprisingly it's one of the more complex PETA campaigns we've seen! He explains it here, in a 7+ minute video, where he says life forms from other planets might just look at us as primitive if they see us "gnashing on each other's ribs for food."

And here's the full campaign poster:

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By Jen Carlson in Food on August 5, 2011 3:14 PM

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longacre

I'm glad he's not naked like most other PETA supporters.

Colonel_Ingus

He is the shiznet. And he clearly loves animals. Sweet, delicious, animals.

giginyc

I LOVE U DR. NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON!

RadioGagarin

I love this guy too, even though PETA annoy me infinitely. However I reserve the "sexiest astrophysicist" title for the man in my profile picture.

AlexBarris

You're forgetting (or never knew) Dr. Fiorella Terenzi, who is the sexiest astrophysicist alive.
http://www.fiorella.com/

Gwinny

I love this guy - he's a total hoot.

Roger_the_Shrubber

Big assumption here. Who is to say alien life forms won't come to earth to eat us.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

FU Boy

And if they're capable of intergalactic transit, they'll probably be smart enough to understand that a cow or pig is not the same thing as a human.