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Kinda true
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Ackshully, grunts are maaad thicc cause the env suit
I am personally someone who is annoyed by NDT. But I am not convinced his actions are net negative, and think the opposite is more likely. Folks who find him insufferable and also don't develop a passion for science probably aren't dissuaded from entering the field as a whole because of this one annoying guy. However, kids who find one season of Cosmos interesting or only see 5 of his tweets may actually develop a love for science before realizing that NDT is annoying. He'd be a much better role model, reach more people, and make the science community look better if he was better, but that doesn't make him bad when there are literally anti-science advocates out there. We need all the celebrity scientists we can get as long as they aren't actively doing harm in my opinion.
Edit: also, the number of ragebait debates he has started that get other folks talking about science isn't insignificant. He's probably gotten some people into science just so they could shut guys like him up lol
I don't like him for his Anti-Philosophy rhetoric. It weakens his position as an academic and as a science advocate.
I'm more annoyed that he's still using twitter then anything.
Haha certainly a criticism I can agree with
He's perfect for kids, i guess, but he's always telling the simplest things with the attitude of the smartest man alive, and that's what irritates me. I understand the good he's doing aind kinda appreciate it, it's just that he's every-fucking-where.
edit: omfg, ater reading the comments here i reconsider. Fuck NDT.
What do you find annoying about him? I think he's absolutely fine, though I don't follow him too closely, so I'm probably closer to that kid who watched a season of Cosmos and saw a handful of tweets than anything.
I looked a bit into him, and it looks like, as with many (most?) celebrities, there are sexual misconduct allegations. I don't know the details of any of those cases, so I can't really tell if it's legitimate, if he's largely being targeted due to his celebrity, or a mixture of both. Regardless, I don't think that matters at all when discussing his work on TV, running a planetarium, or doing science outreach programs. Nobody is perfect, so we should seek to separate the message from the messenger.
I'm much more interested in the "ragebait debates" thing you mentioned, but unfortunately his Wikipedia article doesn't mention "controversies" or whatever. That said, this has a lot more relevance to his work as a public science figure.
Honestly just look up "Neil Degrasse Tyson annoying" and I am sure you'll find plenty of examples and summaries. But it honestly boils down to his delivery and projected self image.
Remember when he said computer security was easy because you just had to make your computer unhackable?
Ah, that's really weird. These sound like high shower thoughts...
About shoving NDT into a locker. The dude was a wrestler. Someone trying that with him would have been the one in the locker.
NDT seems like the kinda guy that would be shoving some nerd into a locker. Dude was a wrestler. I don't think he'd be bullying nerds tho
"I am not actually 'shoving' you into a locker Timmy. I am merely using mechanical force to shut the locker door through its hinges and simply allowing your body to find the path of least resistance: inside of it."
Naw he just bullies everyone else acting like an expert in every single field because he's an expert in one while sexually harassing them.
NDT wouldn't bully nerds. He tries to rape them.
Edit: Reminder that NDT was accused of sexual harassment and assault by 4 women. He all but admitted it in a Facebook post where he tried justifying it with bizarre and frankly creepy reasons. Only real investigations done were by a company that had a finacial stake in him being found innocent (This was post filming Cosmos but before it was released).
did you know that you can kiss yourself in a mirror ? (x30 times)
or whatever he said
It's really okay if not everything makes sense. Sometimes fiction is enhanced by a bit of fairytale magic that you just take for granted.
Eng-rage-ment.
Everything he said plus today.
With our current level of technology, that is impossible. Who knows what materials are we going to discover in the future?
Probably not a whole lot that breaks the rules that govern the universe.
Can you expand more on that, please?
The more I read the text the less sense it makes to and not having watched the described scene, I'm at a loss.
If you want it expanded upon, Sir Isaac Newton did so in his Principia Mathematica Philosophiae Naturalis, written in 1686. Specifically, whenever one object exerts a force on another object, the second object exerts an equal and opposite on the first.
I'm sure there's better educated people than me that could point out other laws of physics that Halo breaks with the grappling hook, but that's the one that comes to mind. These aren't things you can just develop more advanced tech for, and they can then be overcome. These are the fundamental laws that govern the entire universe. The only time we see them bend a little is in places like inside the cores of neutron stars. In other words, if you were around somebody that was bending these laws using some fancy piece of tech, it would probably end up being a very short and very bad day for you and everyone else.
I saw him live recently, and I am less annoyed by him now. Still annoyed, though.
Well a 8 mm Rope already can have a minimum breaking load of 50 kN, roughly equivalent of 5 tonne. So if you don't need to store high lengths of wire rope,.this should be absolutely possible.
I think the complaint is that the suit accelerates toward the alien when the opposite must be true.
Ah, yeah that might only work with some assistance.
The suit also has a built in jetpack, force field generator, and a cloaking device. Who are we to say what is or isn't possible with that thing?
Of course, but ignoring such basic physics does look silly as hell when you notice it, especially when it doesn't feel intentional.
Your logic could be applied to make the suit do literally anything, but I'll bet if it had the power to grant three wishes you'd find it silly too. And that would at least be an intentional choice rather than feeling like an oversight.
Superman is even less close to reality, but it still looks funny to me when he picks up a building and somehow it doesn't collapse. Does he have magic powers to give the building walls super strength? Or did the writers not think beyond "Supes strong, Supes pick up big heavy." It felt very silly once I happened to think about it.
Doesn't make either of them bad, just makes me chuckle.
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