Harvard doesn't own him. Abe Lincoln outlawed slavery.
Harvard doesn't own him. Abe Lincoln outlawed slavery.
ffsharvard wrote:
Harvard doesn't own him. Abe Lincoln outlawed slavery.
Only in the States in Rebellion.
Another sane voice being silenced by idiot social media.
500 dead per / day to medical errors, hopefully USA can replace the failed malpracticers by robots soon.
Bra-ket wrote:
Duh 425 Miler wrote:
You do realize that Neil Tyson's 4:25 mile was imaginary, right? It comes as no surprise that he also erred with Pluto.
yeah but you can multiply it by its complex conjugate and the amplitude is the same as if it were real. You may want to read up on your (trackand)field theory.
At least Tyson and family can understand this. My daughter and her boyfriend too, just not my wife and the dogs in the two households between us.
Ebonica wrote:
The poster child of affirmative action. There is no evidence that he would have been continuously promoted under normal circumstances. He has a very skimpy resume, and apparently hasn't had a peer reviewed paper published in the past 23 years. To the best of my knowledge, NdGT does not do science. He neither creates knowledge nor participates in any accepted form of peer reviewed scientific discourse.
NdGT is a science writer (he writes about science). NdGT is a science PR rep extraordinaire. But, he's not a scientist.
But i saw him on Joe Rogan's show, so what he says ,,must be true!
the430miler wrote:
LoL @ smartest dude in US wrote:
Tyson is hilarious in those vids. Is he really considered the smartest person in the States? Heaven help America.
He knows alot about cosmology, especially for a person of color.
I dont care for his political beliefs, especially on global warming.
He was hittin' on dat?
C'mon, bro.
One brave NASA administrator is refusing to bow to the prevailing scientific consensus, and is risking potential ostracization or, worse still, online ridicule, for proudly declaring that “Pluto is a planet.”
Saturday, August 24, 2019 marked 13 years to the day since Pluto was demoted from having the status of a planet to being assigned that of a dwarf planet, by the International Astronomical Union (our solar system’s resident’s association of scientific fuddy-duddies).
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine had declared his unwavering belief that Pluto is indeed a planet. “I’m sticking by that, it’s the way I learned it and I’m committed to it,” Bridenstine boldly declared.
After causing an uproar, which lasts to this day, by reclassifying Pluto in 2006, the International Astronomical Union is now risking a repeat of the controversy as they consider reclassifying an asteroid as a dwarf planet.
Astronomers said Monday that the asteroid Hygiea, which inhabits the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, could soon join Pluto, Ceres, Makemake, Haumea, and Eris, and be considered a dwarf planet after new imaging and data from the European Southern Observatory’s SPHERE instrument on the Very Large Telescope showed Hygiea to be spherical.
In order to be a dwarf planet, the object must orbit around the Sun and must not be a moon. It must also be moulded by its own gravity into a round or nearly round shape, and must interact with the smaller objects and debris in its vicinity in a specific way.
I might have some respect for his position if he didn't state that his reason was because, "That's the way I learned it, and I'm sticking to it." I have no respect for any position based on such close-minded reasoning.
I'm not opposed to changing the classification to exclude Pluto from the "classical" planets. The main problem with the re-definition that demoted Pluto (aside from all the close-minded people who refuse to accept any change to anything they were taught as kids) is that the criteria about "clearing its orbit" is extremely poorly worded and is interpreted in a way that simply doesn't match the straightforward meaning of the words.
Neptune's orbit sure isn't clear of other objects, Earth's orbit isn't clear, even Jupiter's orbit isn't clear. "Oh, but what we mean is the gravitationally dominant body in it's orbit..." Okay, if that's what you meant, then why not just say that in the definition? Why use a phrase that means something very different from what you meant? When they say "orbit is clear" they do not mean that the orbit is actually clear. It just doesn't make any rational sense why they would word the definition so poorly. They're just as ridiculous as all their critics who refuse to accept any change to some mnemonic they learned as a kid.
The enigmatic Planet Nine, an unknown gigantic mass lurking at the edge of our solar system, has captivated scientists and conspiracists alike for years, but we may finally have a method of finding it once and for all.
Planet Nine is the name given to a titanic object that interrupts the orbits of objects out in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune. It is believed to be somewhere in the region of five times the mass of Earth. We don’t know exactly what it is. We don’t know exactly where it is, and we don’t even know where to begin looking for it. But now a team of researchers believes we may already have all the data we need.
According to study authors Matthew J Holman, Matthew J Payne, and Andras Pa, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) may have already spotted the elusive beast, we just haven't had time to search for photos of it in the vast troves of data already captured.
“To discover new objects, with unknown trajectories,” the researchers wrote in their paper, “we can try all possible orbits!”
Ebonica wrote:
The poster child of affirmative action. There is no evidence that he would have been continuously promoted under normal circumstances. He has a very skimpy resume, and apparently hasn't had a peer reviewed paper published in the past 23 years. To the best of my knowledge, NdGT does not do science. He neither creates knowledge nor participates in any accepted form of peer reviewed scientific discourse.
NdGT is a science writer (he writes about science). NdGT is a science PR rep extraordinaire. But, he's not a scientist.
re: "poster child of affirmative action" Do you know that for a fact -or is it just something cute to say and why does this come up whenever a Black man has an advanced degree. I don't know whether affirmative action played a part in his success and don't care. Seems to me that if affirmative action played a role, it served the intended purpose. I took a class on a field trip to hear NdGT speak many years ago at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. For 2 hours he was able to hold the attention of a bunch of 17/18 year olds talking about something they would ordinarily tune out in matter of minutes. A couple kids in that group became seriously interested in astronomy. I could care less how many papers he has published or peer reviews, etc., as much as we need people to do science, we need people who can talk about it and make it interesting to other people.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1203113955813511169So smart? wrote:
Isn't deGrasse Tyson supposed to be the smartest person in America? He couldn't prove his mile time. He eliminated Pluto as a planet, and has been proven wrong. Not so smart after all.