How often do I have to grin and bear it when someone ‘explains’ something to me that I learned as a teenager? So often I can only find it humorous. Worse is when someone just learns something and doesn’t realize I came across the factoid decades ago… meanwhile assuming I’m the clueless one (or mark?)
To be young again.
Dbag88 in the comments over there looks like the typical NdGT supporter. He claims to know science, but constantly makes statements that show ignorance of the scientific method. NdGT may know sciences, but the article really does hit on the pedantic nature of his comments. It’s nice to see Wired covering it.
Which is why it’s pointless to criticise Neil deGrasse Tyson or the I Fucking Love Scientists for being the pompous, self-important, and utterly cretinous pedants that they are: it’s just falling back into their own dismal, boring logic, insisting that a thing is what it is rather than something else.
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Yeah, the defenders in the comments were really depressing. The guy is supposed to be a scientist, someone who worships the truth. You don’t get a pass if you knowingly lie about stuff just because it makes for a better Twitter post.
Not knowing about how helocopters work isn’t the problem. Feeling the need to make a funny (you think) comment about a subject you know nothing about is the problem. Tyson seems to think that his doctorate degree gives him the right to just make things up to sound clever.
The comments are filled with the black holes are racist crowd.
How often do I have to grin and bear it when someone ‘explains’ something to me that I learned as a teenager? So often I can only find it humorous. Worse is when someone just learns something and doesn’t realize I came across the factoid decades ago… meanwhile assuming I’m the clueless one (or mark?)
To be young again.
Dbag88 in the comments over there looks like the typical NdGT supporter. He claims to know science, but constantly makes statements that show ignorance of the scientific method. NdGT may know sciences, but the article really does hit on the pedantic nature of his comments. It’s nice to see Wired covering it.
Which is why it’s pointless to criticise Neil deGrasse Tyson or the I Fucking Love Scientists for being the pompous, self-important, and utterly cretinous pedants that they are: it’s just falling back into their own dismal, boring logic, insisting that a thing is what it is rather than something else.
??
Yeah, the defenders in the comments were really depressing. The guy is supposed to be a scientist, someone who worships the truth. You don’t get a pass if you knowingly lie about stuff just because it makes for a better Twitter post.
He doesn’t know shit about helicopters, either.
http://www.sciencealert.com/watch-this-guy-straps-himself-into-a-falling-helicopter-to-prove-n
Not knowing about how helocopters work isn’t the problem. Feeling the need to make a funny (you think) comment about a subject you know nothing about is the problem. Tyson seems to think that his doctorate degree gives him the right to just make things up to sound clever.
The comments are filled with the black holes are racist crowd.
Black holes sound a lot cooler than white dwarves
They prefer little stars.