Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson SCHOOLS James Cameron on Titanic and more
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You couldn't hold a one minute conversation with this man. There is no reason why you should be talking anything negative towards him (especially if you are a black man).
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Tical,can you give me link where he talks about Black Holes...I know you gave it to me along ago but I lost it...
stupid bastid worthless blunt wannabe
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Tical,can you give me link where he talks about Black Holes...I know you gave it to me along ago but I lost it...
How the hell do you lose a bucket full of gold?
I'll have to get back at you with that after x-mas! Doing the family thing right now.
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but I believe that he is SO smart that he realizes that many are insincere. He is STILL using the platform to educate and become an intelligent voice for black youth. The positivity he brings, the image he projects and stressing the importance of the hard sciences is invaluable. Sometimes you got to work the system right back.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Tells Us Why 'Star Trek' Is So Much Better Than 'Star Wars
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/neil-degrasse-tyson-star-trek-2013-5#ixzz2TUB4Xx3H
Neil deGrasse Tyson is the world's most famous astrophysicist, and he is a HUGE Trekkie.
The host of StarTalk Radio is a fan of science fiction and futuristic movies, and of Star Trek in particular.
Considering his love for space and science, that's no surprise.
What is surprising, though, is his distaste for a certain sci-fi series with its own enormous following.
"I never got into Star Wars," Tyson tells us. "Maybe because they made no attempt to portray real physics. At all."
Watch below Neil deGrasse Tyson talk about Star Wars, Star Trek, and whether he's more of a Captain Kirk or Captain Picard guy:
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/neil-degrasse-tyson-star-trek-2013-5#ixzz2TUB4Xx3H
Neil deGrasse Tyson is the world's most famous astrophysicist, and he is a HUGE Trekkie.
The host of StarTalk Radio is a fan of science fiction and futuristic movies, and of Star Trek in particular.
Considering his love for space and science, that's no surprise.
What is surprising, though, is his distaste for a certain sci-fi series with its own enormous following.
"I never got into Star Wars," Tyson tells us. "Maybe because they made no attempt to portray real physics. At all."
Watch below Neil deGrasse Tyson talk about Star Wars, Star Trek, and whether he's more of a Captain Kirk or Captain Picard guy:
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“In 2002, having spent more than three years in one residence for the first time in my life, I got called for jury duty. I show up on time, ready to serve. When we get to the voir dire, the lawyer says to me, “I see you’re an astrophysicist. What’s that?” I answer, “Astrophysics is the laws of physics, applied to the universe—the Big Bang, black holes, that sort of thing.” Then he asks, “What do you teach at Princeton?” and I say, “I teach a class on the evaluation of evidence and the relative unreliability of eyewitness testimony.” Five minutes later, I’m on the street.
A few years later, jury duty again. The judge states that the defendant is charged with possession of 1,700 milligrams of cocaine. It was found on his body, he was arrested, and he is now on trial. This time, after the Q&A is over, the judge asks us whether there are any questions we’d like to ask the court, and I say, “Yes, Your Honor. Why did you say he was in possession of 1,700 milligrams of cocaine? That equals 1.7 grams. The ‘thousand’ cancels with the ‘milli-’ and you get 1.7 grams, which is less than the weight of a dime.” Again I’m out on the street.” ~Neil de Grasse Tyson
More proof that the pipeline prison system for minorities is real. They don't want intelligence in the juror's box.
I could be wrong, but he has talked in the direction that he means it in the total western sense of a man/daddy in the sky coming up with the universe...and we know now that sh!t don't fly.
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#8. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson Was a Muscle-Bound Wrestler
You're probably familiar with astrophysicist and Internet darling Neil deGrasse Tyson, part of that rare breed of gifted scientists who can be almost supernaturally smart without being intimidating (it helps that he doesn't have a robot voice). Whereas your third grade math teacher seemed like the scariest person on the planet for knowing how to multiply, Tyson knows the secrets of the cosmos and still manages to look like an adorable nerd.
But that wasn't always the case, as this old photo of him proves:
That's Tyson as a college wrestler. Back before he became head of the Hayden Planetarium, Tyson was a regular high school student like the rest of us, with dreams of one day pile-driving the universe and other fellows in unitards. So he became the captain of his wrestling team, and he absolutely looked the part:
So he must have gone to grad school to study science and meme creation and gave up sports, right? Nope. Tyson still wrestled competitively deep into his Ph.D. progress, even if it meant sacrificing his free time. To show you the level of commitment this guy had to both astrophysics and pinning muscular dudes to the ground, he says at one point he tried to create a new wrestling hold based on "a phenomenon in orbital mechanics called a double tidal lock," but he could never get it to work.
Crap, now we almost want his next debate to go horribly wrong so we can see some of those moves in action.
Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_2137...-at-last-thing-youd-expect.html#ixzz3MOeOc0p9
#8. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson Was a Muscle-Bound Wrestler
You're probably familiar with astrophysicist and Internet darling Neil deGrasse Tyson, part of that rare breed of gifted scientists who can be almost supernaturally smart without being intimidating (it helps that he doesn't have a robot voice). Whereas your third grade math teacher seemed like the scariest person on the planet for knowing how to multiply, Tyson knows the secrets of the cosmos and still manages to look like an adorable nerd.
But that wasn't always the case, as this old photo of him proves:
That's Tyson as a college wrestler. Back before he became head of the Hayden Planetarium, Tyson was a regular high school student like the rest of us, with dreams of one day pile-driving the universe and other fellows in unitards. So he became the captain of his wrestling team, and he absolutely looked the part:
So he must have gone to grad school to study science and meme creation and gave up sports, right? Nope. Tyson still wrestled competitively deep into his Ph.D. progress, even if it meant sacrificing his free time. To show you the level of commitment this guy had to both astrophysics and pinning muscular dudes to the ground, he says at one point he tried to create a new wrestling hold based on "a phenomenon in orbital mechanics called a double tidal lock," but he could never get it to work.
Crap, now we almost want his next debate to go horribly wrong so we can see some of those moves in action.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Admits He Was Wrong On Deflategate
It doesn't happen very often, but astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson was wrong this week. And like any good scientist, he's not afraid to admit it, correct it and explain himself.
On Monday, the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History took to Twitter in an attempt to deflate the New England Patriots' Deflategate excuse.
Coach Bill Belichick had said atmospheric pressures and balls being transported from the warm indoors out onto a cold field could have caused them to lose enough pressure to fall below league standards. But Tyson tweeted that to lose as much pressure as the balls did, they would need to be inflated with 125-degree air.
"My calculation used the well-known gas formula that relates pressure to temperature within a fixed volume," Tyson explained on Facebook on Tuesday. "Quite simply, the two quantities are directly and linearly related. e.g. Halve the temperature, you've halved the pressure. Triple the temperature, you've tripled the pressure."
He wrote that his mistake was using absolute pressures instead of gauge pressures. Going by gauge pressures, the balls would need to be inflated with 90-degree air.
"A delightfully moot point since neither temperature absolves the NE Patriots even as we all know that the NE Patriots, in their 45 to 7 victory over the Colts, would have won the game no matter the ball pressure," he wrote. "And, as far as I am concerned, the Patriots would have won that game even in the vacuum of space."
Tyson could have left it at that. But he didn't, adding a postscript that explains how these same calculations are at work in far more significant ways than football deflation:
Here's his full explanation, as posted on Facebook:
DeflateGate
January 27, 2015 at 5:07pm
Monday, January 27, 2015
Having resisted for a week, yesterday I posted a tweet weighing in on DeflateGate - the accusation that the New England Patriots, in their trouncing of the Indianapolis Colts, slightly deflated their contributed game balls.
Here is the tweet:
"For the Patriots to blame a change in temperature for 15% lower-pressures, requires balls to be inflated with 125-degree air."
My calculation used the well-known gas formula that relates pressure to temperature within a fixed volume. Quite simply, the two quantities are directly and linearly related. e.g. Halve the temperature, you've halved the pressure. Triple the temperature, you've tripled the pressure.
Shortly afterwards, many of my physics-fluent twitter followers, as well as others in the blogosphere, were quick to point out that in my calculation I neglected to account for the fact that the football pressures were "gauge" pressures (as would be the pressures measured in any ball on Earth) rather than "absolute" pressures. And the calculation that I performed applies only to absolute pressures -- which reference the case where the football pressure is measured in the vacuum of space, without the effects of atmospheric pressure on the measurement. Using the (correct) gauge pressure in the calculation reduces the needed inflation temperature to about 90-degrees for that effect.
This is simply an oversight on my part, and I'm glad so many stepped forward to correct it. But what it means is that the Patriots would simply need to have inflated the balls with (more accessible) 90 degree air rather than 125 degree air. A delightfully moot point since neither temperature absolves the NE Patriots even as we all know that the NE Patriots, in their 45 to 7 victory over the Colts, would have won the game no matter the ball pressure. And, as far as I am concerned, the Patriots would have won that game even in the vacuum of space.
As Always, Keep Looking up.
-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chicago
p.s. Using the same formulas, if you keep pressure the same, the temperature and volume scale in the exact inverse of one another. Double the volume of a gas the temperature will drop by half. A version of this principle even applies to the universe itself. When the famous cosmic microwave background was formed, the temperature of the universe was about 3,000 degrees (K). Since then, the universe has expanded by a factor of 1000, dropping the temperature to 1/1000th of 3,000 degrees. Or about 3 degrees (K), the current temperature of the universe.
p.p.s. If you want to see more of how physicists makes approximations, have a look at this essay from several years back:
http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/read/1997/03/01/on-being-round which was excepted for the book "Death By Black Hole", if you are interested: http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/buy/books/death-by-black-hole
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/...gate_n_6560340.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592
It doesn't happen very often, but astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson was wrong this week. And like any good scientist, he's not afraid to admit it, correct it and explain himself.
On Monday, the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History took to Twitter in an attempt to deflate the New England Patriots' Deflategate excuse.
Coach Bill Belichick had said atmospheric pressures and balls being transported from the warm indoors out onto a cold field could have caused them to lose enough pressure to fall below league standards. But Tyson tweeted that to lose as much pressure as the balls did, they would need to be inflated with 125-degree air.
"My calculation used the well-known gas formula that relates pressure to temperature within a fixed volume," Tyson explained on Facebook on Tuesday. "Quite simply, the two quantities are directly and linearly related. e.g. Halve the temperature, you've halved the pressure. Triple the temperature, you've tripled the pressure."
He wrote that his mistake was using absolute pressures instead of gauge pressures. Going by gauge pressures, the balls would need to be inflated with 90-degree air.
"A delightfully moot point since neither temperature absolves the NE Patriots even as we all know that the NE Patriots, in their 45 to 7 victory over the Colts, would have won the game no matter the ball pressure," he wrote. "And, as far as I am concerned, the Patriots would have won that game even in the vacuum of space."
Tyson could have left it at that. But he didn't, adding a postscript that explains how these same calculations are at work in far more significant ways than football deflation:
"A version of this principle even applies to the universe itself. When the famous cosmic microwave background was formed, the temperature of the universe was about 3,000 degrees (K). Since then, the universe has expanded by a factor of 1000, dropping the temperature to 1/1000th of 3,000 degrees. Or about 3 degrees (K), the current temperature of the universe."
Here's his full explanation, as posted on Facebook:
DeflateGate
January 27, 2015 at 5:07pm
Monday, January 27, 2015
Having resisted for a week, yesterday I posted a tweet weighing in on DeflateGate - the accusation that the New England Patriots, in their trouncing of the Indianapolis Colts, slightly deflated their contributed game balls.
Here is the tweet:
"For the Patriots to blame a change in temperature for 15% lower-pressures, requires balls to be inflated with 125-degree air."
My calculation used the well-known gas formula that relates pressure to temperature within a fixed volume. Quite simply, the two quantities are directly and linearly related. e.g. Halve the temperature, you've halved the pressure. Triple the temperature, you've tripled the pressure.
Shortly afterwards, many of my physics-fluent twitter followers, as well as others in the blogosphere, were quick to point out that in my calculation I neglected to account for the fact that the football pressures were "gauge" pressures (as would be the pressures measured in any ball on Earth) rather than "absolute" pressures. And the calculation that I performed applies only to absolute pressures -- which reference the case where the football pressure is measured in the vacuum of space, without the effects of atmospheric pressure on the measurement. Using the (correct) gauge pressure in the calculation reduces the needed inflation temperature to about 90-degrees for that effect.
This is simply an oversight on my part, and I'm glad so many stepped forward to correct it. But what it means is that the Patriots would simply need to have inflated the balls with (more accessible) 90 degree air rather than 125 degree air. A delightfully moot point since neither temperature absolves the NE Patriots even as we all know that the NE Patriots, in their 45 to 7 victory over the Colts, would have won the game no matter the ball pressure. And, as far as I am concerned, the Patriots would have won that game even in the vacuum of space.
As Always, Keep Looking up.
-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chicago
p.s. Using the same formulas, if you keep pressure the same, the temperature and volume scale in the exact inverse of one another. Double the volume of a gas the temperature will drop by half. A version of this principle even applies to the universe itself. When the famous cosmic microwave background was formed, the temperature of the universe was about 3,000 degrees (K). Since then, the universe has expanded by a factor of 1000, dropping the temperature to 1/1000th of 3,000 degrees. Or about 3 degrees (K), the current temperature of the universe.
p.p.s. If you want to see more of how physicists makes approximations, have a look at this essay from several years back:
http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/read/1997/03/01/on-being-round which was excepted for the book "Death By Black Hole", if you are interested: http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/buy/books/death-by-black-hole
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/...gate_n_6560340.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592
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