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LOL. Look at this.

Other people: get drunk, and have fun?—I don’t actually know what normal people do when they drink.

What I do, is have entire conversations with astrophysicists (Neil Degrasse Tyson) in my head about the mathematical properties of black holes.

Ok, so look, but why are black holes mathematically classified as spheres? Don’t turning objects get flatter? I figure planets are still sphere-ish because they just don’t turn fast enough/aren’t dense enough. But black holes? Guys, we need to figure this out.

I know black holes gotta be spinning—they were once spinning suns! And we’re seeing the light from behind them, so it’s gotta be spinning.

Is it like an infinitely dense still point surrounded by spinning junk? But isn’t that also considered part of the black hole? Where does the black hole start and end? The event horizon I know gotta be spinning, so is that part a flat disk? It’s the quintessential knowledge point of black holes: black holes contain an event horizon, but if they’re not the outer layer of a spherical they’re not part of the black hole vis a vis mathematics definition.

Why. Are. Black. Holes. Spheres. Help.

Oh, Neil deGrasse Tyson. Precious precious man.

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Absolute legends.

[leaves this here and backs away]

Does anyone else remember when one of America’s most famous science communicators, Neil deGrasse Tyson was accused of rape and many other chases of sexual misconduct.

And then nothing happened to him. He was barely investigated. He just kept his job as DIRECTOR of the Hayden Planetarium (the 3rd largest Planetarium in the United States). He also kept his job on the Cosmos continuation (which aired in 2020) and his podcast/tv show StarTalk.

And while I will admit that their is no definitive proof of the allegation of rape, the two other public reports of sexual misconduct have not been denied by Tyson. He has however said that he did not intend for his actions to be sexual in nature.

The four brave women that came forward with these allegations are Tchiya Amet, Katelyn Allers, Ashley Watson, and the fourth woman who remained anonymous. Please make sure that these women are not forgotten.

some of my role models

Video Weekend (Vaguely Late ^^; )

Different Types of Truth | Neil Degrasse Tyson

What Astrophysicists Think About Aliens | Dr. Fatima

No, that’s Shaquille O’Neal

This is Neil Diamond:

I bought a Good Omens book and when I came back home and logged into Tumblr, everyone was discussing how Good Omens was actually "Slav coded", whatever that meant.

“It turns out if you travel the speed of light, light can encircle the earth seven times in one second,” he explained. “Light is awesome” “Problem is,” he added, “we all live within earth’s atmosphere, so if you could go that fast through the atmosphere, then you’ll just burn up. And I learned from speaking to an expert in comic book heroes that The Flash has atmospheric separators in front of him when he goes quickly from one place to another so that he does not burn up.” But he ended up with a different theory about Santa’s journey. “So I realized that what he really needs is that, what they have in that movie ‘Monsters, Inc.’? Do you remember that movie? It just manufactured doors. And the door in the ‘Monsters, Inc.’ factory is the door of the childrens’ closet.” “What ‘Monsters, Inc.’ never told you is that they’re essentially wormholes,” deGrasse Tyson explained…

“Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the science behind Santa’s visits.” (via smdxn)

That one time that Neil and Neil (Gaiman and deGrasse Tyson, respectively) sat down together and discussed venereal diseases and people from Venus.

We never do get to hear exactly who Tyson would be for a day. My guess is Newton. Tyson loves Newton. His love for Newton is where this meme comes from: 

(via io9)

Who was I back then? Just a 17 year old kid from the Bronx with dreams of becoming a scientist. And somehow, the world’s most famous astronomer found time to invite me to Ithaca in upstate New York to spend a Saturday with him. I remember that snowy day like it was yesterday. He met me at the bust stop and showed me his laboratory at Cornell university. Carl reached behind his desk and inscribed this book for me. ‘For Neil, a future astronomer. - Carl’. At the end of the day he drove me back to the bus station. The snow was falling harder. He wrote his home phone number on a scrap of paper and he said ‘If the bus can’t get back through, call me, spend a night at my home with my family’. I already knew I wanted to become a scientist, but that afternoon, I learned from Carl, the kind of person I wanted to become. He reached out to me, and to countless others, inspiring so many of us to study, teach and do science. Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. It’s the passing of a torch, from teacher to student to teacher. A community of minds reaching back to antiquity and forward to the stars.

Cosmos: A Space Time Odyssey - "Standing Up in the Milky Way" - Neil deGrasse Tyson

(via kenobi-wan-obi)

boop.

This man.

I’ve never been female. But I have been black my whole life. I can perhaps offer some insight from that perspective. There are many similar social issues related to access to equal opportunity that we find in the black community, as well as the community of women in a white male dominate society… When I look at — throughout my life — I’ve known that I wanted to do astrophysics since I was 9 years old…I got to see how the world around me reacted to my expressions of these ambitions. All I can say is, the fact that I wanted to be a scientist, an astrophysicist was hands down the path of most resistance through the forces of society. Anytime I expressed this interest, teachers would say, ‘Oh, don’t you wanna be an athlete?’ I want to become someone that was outside of the paradigm of expectations of the people in power. Fortunately, my depth of interest of the universe was so deep and so fuel enriched that everyone of these curve balls that I was thrown, and fences built in front of me, and hills that I had to climb, I just reach for more fuel, and I just kept going. Now, here I am, one of the most visible scientists in the land, and I wanna look behind me and say, ‘Where are the others who might have been this,’ and they’re not there! …I happened to survive and others did not simply because of forces of society that prevented it at every turn. At every turn. …My life experience tells me that when you don’t find blacks, when you don’t find women in the sciences, I know that these forces are real, and I had to survive them in order to get where I am today. So before we start talking about genetic differences, you gotta come up with a system where there’s equal opportunity, then we can have that conversation.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson in response to a question posed by Lawrence Summers, former Treasury Security and Harvard University President

"What’s up with chicks and science?"

Are there genetic differences between men and women, explain why more men are in science.

(via magnius159)

Tagged with: so fucking tired of larry summers and his bullshit and even more tired of that question of his being framed as a question that 'no one dares to ask' summers isn’t ‘brave’ to ask that question he’s a clueless asswipe to ask that question failing to respect the fact that the convo has been had many times before and that he could just go LOOK IT UP if he actually wanted to know but nope he’s so ‘brave’ asking the ‘unaskable’ questions ACADEMIC FREEDOM!! and in the meanwhile Neil deGrasse Tyson continues to be awesome

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Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson has an important message about proper attribution. 

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