This guy is like the anti-Bill Nye. He doesn't want to share his joy of science with you, he doesn't want to educate, he just wants to correct you with some stupid ass analogy. Insufferable. No one asked, Neil.
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"In English, we don't have a word for spicy" - Neil touchgrass Tyson at a linguistics conference.
I'm starting to suspect that being good at astrophysics doesn't mean you're automatically the best at everything else too.
Is that a real quote? Iβm starting to think Neil is actually hilarious and weβre all missing the joke
He haa talked on podcasts before how he enjoys trolling on twitter, I can't say for sure the OP image is trolling or him being a dork
"I was just trolling" - a 12 year old after he realizes he just said something stupid.
I think it was some panel about conlangs? (the inventor of Dothraki was there too). I wish I could find it again.
Like, seriously Neil.
Tyson is an incredibly unpleasant person though. It's hard to see past his shitty personality.
Can we ease up on the Neil hate?
It's not like we give Elmo shit for telling everyone a triangle has three sides.
Neil is the modern lowest common denominator for encouraging an interest in science.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson has been accused of rape and sexual misconduct by several different people, but go off I guess
Sure, but what do his dumb tweets have to do with that?
Also, some of the allegations are very, very dumb.
"Sexual misconduct" because he moved a bit of her T-shirt on her shoulder as she was showing Neil her tattoo? Stupid.
Another saying Neil was making sexual advances to her after she went up to his apartment alone for a drink. You don't say??
From the apparent quotes, he was utterly polite about it all, he didn't throw himself at her.
I'm no NGT fan. My comment was a jab at his fanbase being similar to Elmo's. He's a pop-culture scientist, yet everyone acts like he's the stupidest Mensa member, when he doesn't even qualify.
Yeah science ambassador is a rough gig in a culture famously hostile to intellectualism and human kindness.
No.
But on the topic, why are you attacking a prominent trans ally like Neil in 196?
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He could have posted something about how the universe doesn't fit our preconceived ideas and how this day is an example of that and that this means you should dig deeper to get to the truth because it's usually a lot more complex than what it seems.
But no, Neil woke up and chose dumbassery
That's exactly what he's trying to do. He likes to poke holes at commonly accepted things in an attempt to make people think about stuff that they don't normally think about and make them ask why more often. This is a good thing. Unfortunately, it just comes across as annoying to a lot of people.
"We're not leaping, the calendar is."
"Jerk."
But, don't we just like wait a day for the orbit to catch up with our slightly to short calendar?!
I feel like in the future, a highly valued skill for anyone in a public facing role is gonna be learning to get off of Twitter/Microblogs.
How many people have ruined their own reputations by just giving the internet a constant stream of their inane thoughts? Regardless of if they deserve it or not.