In pretty sure Tyson has about 2 or 3 PhDs and 40ish honorary degrees
True, but his lab coat will never hang from the rafters. He may have a lot of accomplishments but he's never looked better than average or been more than a role player in the realm of science.
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To paraphrase a line from the show.
It's sad that we can name every mass murderer in the U.S. but don't know who Neil DeGrasse Tyson is.
I guess I'm a little confused by this. Don't get me wrong, I know who he is, but I don't think he's any kind of model human being necessarily. His biggest contribution to every day life is being on the forefront of getting pluto demoted to dwarf planet status.
I mean yeah, I'm all for people knowing science and about the Universe, but really, in every day life, knowing how a galaxy is formed is probably less important than knowing what kind of psychopaths roam the earth.
sorry, I guess the comparison just seems lame to me. It's not like he's this person who is solving all of life's problems.
No one has mentioned Neil's greatest contribution to mankind...well message boards anyways...
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Seriously? I always assumed this was Stanley from The Office.
Put it this way...I'm guessing our society would be a lot better off if we revered people like NDT and Stephen Hawking than the pop stars like Paris Hilton and Justin Bieber.
When did Paris and Justin start Murdering people?!?
Well, if we want to tally up the total man hours wasted paying attention to these two, they have cost us countless lives over many years already. They must be stopped!
Seriously? I always assumed this was Stanley from The Office.
There are a lot of times when I find myself wishing he would provide more details about particular topics and that's my biggest gripe with the show.In this week's show he mentioned that the horizon is just an optical illusion, but didn't explain. I wanted to learn more.
In this week's show he mentioned that the horizon is just an optical illusion, but didn't explain. I wanted to learn more.
There are a lot of times when I find myself wishing he would provide more details about particular topics and that's my biggest gripe with the show.
I think their hope is viewers, particularly younger ones, will get just enough to whet their appetite and look into some of this stuff on their own. I think that's the context of the mass murderer quote as well, the world would be a lot better place if more people were science literate, and there isn't any reason that can't be just as interesting, and yes entertaining, as every sensationalized murder trial that gets 24 hour news coverage.