Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson SCHOOLS James Cameron on Titanic and more

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Neil deGrasse Tyson is live-tweeting the Super Bowl with awesome science facts​

Because "deflate-gate" shouldn't be the only time we intermingle science talk and football, our favorite astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is live-tweeting the Super Bowl with awesome science facts. Don't worry, he talked about deflated footballs, too.

Below is a sampling from the first half. So far, Neil deGrasse Tyson has said nothing about commercials — not a peep about Jurassic World dinosaurs, Fast & Furious 7 car physics, or the artificial sentimentality of some of these insurance ads. The night is young, though!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Slightly underinflated balls are easier to grab &amp; catch, but their aerodynamics are no different from properly inflated balls</p>&mdash; Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) <a href="https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/562047355256840192">February 2, 2015</a></blockquote>
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http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/1/7961075/neil-degrasse-tyson-super-bowl-2015-live-tweeting

 

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Neil deGrasse Tyson is live-tweeting the Super Bowl with awesome science facts​

Because "deflate-gate" shouldn't be the only time we intermingle science talk and football, our favorite astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is live-tweeting the Super Bowl with awesome science facts. Don't worry, he talked about deflated footballs, too.

Below is a sampling from the first half. So far, Neil deGrasse Tyson has said nothing about commercials — not a peep about Jurassic World dinosaurs, Fast & Furious 7 car physics, or the artificial sentimentality of some of these insurance ads. The night is young, though!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Slightly underinflated balls are easier to grab &amp; catch, but their aerodynamics are no different from properly inflated balls</p>&mdash; Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) <a href="https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/562047355256840192">February 2, 2015</a></blockquote>
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http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/1/7961075/neil-degrasse-tyson-super-bowl-2015-live-tweeting

 

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James Cameron Wishes We Would Shut Up About Jack’s Titanic Death, Already: ‘It’s Called Art’
By Devon Ivie@devonsaysrelax
But where’s Billy Zane…

James Cameron doesn’t really appreciate all of the haters and losers (and Mythbusters) out there who think Jack and Rose could’ve shared their Titanic floating board in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. In fact, he knows the young lovers could’ve technically fit and lived on for eternity together — the man knows his science — but that wouldn’t have made a good ending, would it now?

So, as Cameron continues forward for the next decade to work on his new Avatar movies, he would appreciate it if we all just completely dropped the subject and moved onto another cinematic conversational topic. “I think it’s all kind of silly, really, that we’re having this discussion 20 years later,”

Cameron explained in a new interview with Vanity Fair. “But it does show that the film was effective in making Jack so endearing to the audience that it hurts them to see him die. Had he lived, the ending of the film would have been meaningless … the film is about death and separation; he had to die. So whether it was that, or whether a smoke stack fell on him, he was going down. It’s called art, things happen for artistic reasons, not for physics reasons.”

Hey, death by smoke stack sounds pretty exciting, actually.

 

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Neil deGrasse Tyson Thinks You Guys Are Wrong and His Tweet About Frozen Is Good
By Halle Kiefer@hallekiefer


Neil deGrasse Tyson is out here on Twitter daily, popping people’s balloons and knocking the ice cream cone out of their trembling, science-deprived hands. Detractors might plead with the scientist and TV personality to please not ruin all their favorite movies, but he will not listen. To wit, anyone who hated Neil deGrasse Tyson’s recent Frozen tweet can keep crying horse-size tears from their massive eyeballs.
“I’m just saying!,” Tyson said while visiting Late Show Friday night, when Stephen Colbert asked him to defend his tweet about Elsa’s equine eye size. “Let’s me make it clear. That’s not an opinion. I measured the size of her head and measured her eyeballs. Those are measurements. I didn’t just pull that out of the ether. That’s science!” He declared, “You don’t have to like my science, but that doesn’t make it wrong because you didn’t like it.”
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Ugh, fine. On the other hand, Neil deGrasse Tyson thinks we can avoid a global coronavirus pandemic, which is really nice to hear at the end of a long week. “I think we’re in the middle of a massive experiment worldwide,” he muses. “The experiment is: Will people listen to scientists? In this case, medical professionals,” which would mean obeying public health edicts like frequent handwashing, minimal face touching, and seeking treatment when symptoms present themselves.
Concludes Tyson, “It’d be interesting if we all paid attention to what scientists say, maybe the virus will just blow on by, with a minimum of cases, and then we kicked its ass, for obeying the recommendation of science on how to minimize your chances of getting it.” On the other other hand, Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist, not a virologist, so for God’s sake, keep your sneezes to yourself! Sneeze into your elbow like the president taught you!

 

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If you really want to blow your mind, listen to this guy explain why everything we think about reality, matter, etc is false.

 

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