“We’re not leaping, the calendar is.”
“Jerk.”
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Let’s launch all nukes at one place and make 30 February a real thing.
On it, boss 🫡
Probably would knock us onto an unstable orbit so you can either have lots more days or just a couple of years
Not if we will launch at specyfic time and specyfic location to match Earth’s velocity vector. Launching it when Earth is in the apohelium will make the orbit perfect circle with 366 days orbital period. This will solve the leap day and probably climate change. I’m just thinking about using the nukes to speed up the Earth, not destroying in the process.
Good thinking but won’t it just delay climate change for future generations to deal with?
If future generations will stop producing greenhouse gases Earth will be a little colder than it’s now
Should call it jerk day.
Every day is jerk day for me ^because ^I ^love ^well-seasoned ^food.
Every day is jerk day for me for a very different reason
(Unrelated note: Lemmy’s lack of support for ascending superscripts annoys me.)
Every day is jerk day for me because im a huge asshole
Hey. The jerk store called, they’re out of you!
We love u anyway x
Actually how do you do superscript at all I could never get it to work for me :(
Unlike Reddit, where you only needed a carat at the beginning of the word, with Lemmy you need one at both the beginning and end of each word
^like^ ^this^.yay
Right now is pork roll day for me because of your username
I can get down with this.
No no no, calendar is stopping, so March 1 can be a day later. We’re not jumping, we’re waiting for some time to pass before resuming counting.
Tyson is an incredibly unpleasant person though. It’s hard to see past his shitty personality.
“In English, we don’t have a word for spicy” - Neil touchgrass Tyson at a linguistics conference.
I’m starting to suspect that being good at astrophysics doesn’t mean you’re automatically the best at everything else too.
Piquant
Is that a real quote? I’m starting to think Neil is actually hilarious and we’re all missing the joke
No, but I had to google it to make sure
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I think it was some panel about conlangs? (the inventor of Dothraki was there too). I wish I could find it again.
He haa talked on podcasts before how he enjoys trolling on twitter, I can’t say for sure the OP image is trolling or him being a dork
“I was just trolling” - a 12 year old after he realizes he just said something stupid.
As if trolling isn’t a real thing that people do?
I feel like in the future, a highly valued skill for anyone in a public facing role is gonna be learning to get off of Twitter/Microblogs.
How many people have ruined their own reputations by just giving the internet a constant stream of their inane thoughts? Regardless of if they deserve it or not.
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But, don’t we just like wait a day for the orbit to catch up with our slightly to short calendar?!
Like, seriously Neil.
Even the smartest of us can have our dumb moments
Once I started to see more of him in unscripted interactions, I lost all respect for him.
He’s so pedantic and has a lot less substance than you’d think… He knows a lot about astrophysics, but his explanations are a lot more shallow than similar science communicators
Turns out, it was the voice - the way he speaks with this sense of wonder really draws you in. Seeing him talk to other scientists, he just AMOGs them into their place without really understanding what they’re saying… But their scientists, so many of them just sit there confused about why he’s being so pedantic about something they didn’t say
He has lots of dumb moments since he often uses pedantry to try to sound smart. My motto is nobody likes a pedant, even other pedants.
STFU Neil.
Axschualllllly… We leap during the night.
