Wishes

Tyson isn’t typically a person to make wishes.

For as long as he can consciously remember, as a child Tyson didn’t make a wish when blowing out the candles. He just paused long enough to make it seem as though he was. It wasn’t that Tyson was already too pessimistic about it working, he simply felt too awkward to do so.

Whenever Tyson has resorted to making wishes, it has been to shooting stars and as an act of desperation. ‘Please, just… let me survive this.’

Aliens

There is a principle in mathematics called the Drake equation, that uses probability to figure out the likelihood of alien life, and - as ever - Tyson puts his faith in mathematics completely.

Whilst Tyson agrees that the construction of the equation is flawed in several ways, it seems more absurd to him to assume that there wouldn’t be other intelligent life in the entire universe.

He believes that there are other answers for being getting abducted and Tyson fundamentally hates anyone who insists that ancient human civilisation and religions were the results of alien influence, but he does believe that earth cannot be an anomaly.