To go from regularly ranting about how little funding NASA gets to saying commercializing space is a good thing. Smh.
He got the Feds to subsidize a more cost effective means of kicking off Kessler Syndrome. This will bring down modern telecommunications as we know of them and finally destroy the internet.
We should be singing his praises.
its incredible Seth MacFarlane tapped this piece of shit to be in the new Cosmos
McFarlane is weird. Family Guy is shit, American Dad has managed to stay surprisingly funny (I think mainly because of the Roger character), but mostly it's all lib shit indeed; then you get The Orville. Absolutely awesome - and doubly so because you can tell it was sold as a funny-type show but you can also definitely tell that's not the direction he wanted to go with it, from the start; and it's not the one he took, especially in the very latest season.
Roger is probably one of the top 5 funniest cartoon characters of the last two decades. They didn't start that way, but by God have the writers done wonders with their characterization. Basically just a more depraved and sociopathic Bugs Bunny with just enough wit to make them tolerable for episodic focus. A perfect foil for every other character.
The Orville follows Star Trek enough that it's refreshingly leftist, but beneath the surface-level Trekisms, like a currency-less, post-scarcity society, it's still entry-level liberal politics.
That said, it's the closest thing we currently have to vintage Trek and I still love it.
He's the only reason they made a new Cosmos. Similar to how he got The Orville made, he leveraged Family Guy's popularity to make it happen.
Money. He has plenty and brings in way more. He's given a lot of leeway, and they can keep making family guy forever.
He also has a credible rape accusation from when he was in college that resulted in one of the only black woman in the physics department to drop out of the program.
Someone suggested once that he makes those bazinga posts periodically to flood search algorithms and push stories about it onto the 2nd-3rd page of results.
There's apparently been a number of accusations where he's groped or propositioned women. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/azeenghorayshi/neil-degrasse-tyson-sexual-allegations-four-women
That was me, I have had that theory for alot of people for awhile, but Niel is particularly aggressive in his strategic bazinga deployment. It also wouldn't surprise me if he was paid for this tweet.
Doesn't he make them on the anniversary of the first women's blog post detailing it?
He would do a small blitz in the month before and month after, just dumbass tweet after dumbass tweet, and then go quiet(er) after.
No, the Prius normalized hybrid and electric cars. Not that electric cars aren't already a stupid idea when electric trains have existed for over a century. And spaceflight was already 'commercialized'.
Fuck you Tyson, Mike Tyson is smarter than you.
Also "electric cars" aren't civilization's future. Maaaaaaaybe it's a bit of progress from where we are not, but it's not a sustainable mode of transportation
electric cars are sensible as stepping stone because redesigning and rebuilding cities takes an incredible amount of time and you reduce local pollution, which is worthwhile despite not being a total solution to climate change.
of course it's a joke that congress subsidize electric cars but not ebikes, and is doing fuckall about rail, but they wouldn't be doing that stuff even if the electric car industry didn't exist.
It's literally not nuanced though, it's just ad-read portending towards nuance. Nuance is admitting that we should be trying to find ways to keep older cars running for longer so we don't have to manufacture new ones while we transition towards public transit.
Nuance is recognizing that all cars are bad but electric cars are ever so slightly better than farting cars. Admitting that, even though all cars are bad, we should make an effort to keep older cars running for longer since that's less harmful than replacing them with new cars, that's nuance too.
I for one am part of the burn all cars with the drivers inside if necessary faction. I do however enjoy a nuanced discussion. :xi-lib-tears:
Except they aren't sensible when you consider the amount of resource extraction that is required for the lithium and rare earth metals involved, especially given the current carrying capacity and life expectancy of those batteries. It is literally more resource intensive to try to replace a sixth of the cars in the U.S. with electric cars than to try to refurbish and manufacture new parts for older cars. Personal car travel is not the main contributor to environmental stress, it is the infrastructure, shipping and manufacturing around cars that is environmentally devastating.
The tech just isn't there in a way to provide as a 'stepping stone'. Hybrids, maybe, full electric, no. But imo any step that serves as a justification to continue designing cities around cars is a recipe for long term environmental disaster.
new electric cars are better than new gas cars after a couple years
Yeah, at least Mike Tyson has the decency to have a cartoon made about himself.
I can guarantee you that neil degrasse Tyson does not understand string theory. He's an astrophysicist, he knows how a star works.
I will not debate you, string theory is some insane undialectical bullshit. I think even loop quantum gravity is more realistic/interesting/well motivated. String theory is a way to lift some divergent integrals to a higher number of parameters to make them regulated and a story tacked on top to try to make the resulting physical picture make sense.
as a child i looked up at the stars in wonder
wondering how i can turn all those constellations into dollar signs
I used to do that too but in my defence I thought that great abundance of natural resources would cause inflation and make wealth meaningless
wel to be fair diamonds are bullshit only precious because they're rare. If you want to coat an industrial drill you can get manufactured diamonds relatively cheap
yeah frankly i don't understand why they have to be so shitty to extract diamonds when they already have such a vast stockpile
Lmao @ anyone still believing that melon husk actually "invents" anything. All the brains behind everything his companies have produced are done by the people working in them.
Tyson expressed a similar take quite a few years ago, and it tarnished my view of him from then on. I understand that his media personality role is a hype man for US science and not go around shitting on everything, but he was more critical of James Cameron using the wrong sky map in Titanic that any number of science and engineering inaccuracies that Musk has expressed over the years.
science is cool bazinga scientists suck.
I'm reminded of a great quote by a maoist blog I read
"intelectuals like sparrows are necessary however sometimes the way sparrows smugly preen makes you feel that getting rid of them would be satisfying"
science is cool bazinga scientists suck.
i mean i'd take them over prosperity gospel freaks
look at this tweet and tell me what the difference is in their belief systems, honestly
funny how the absolute worst concepts ever shat out by humanity never seem to have trouble iterating on their awfulness
i do not like it in this place.
