To go from regularly ranting about how little funding NASA gets to saying commercializing space is a good thing. Smh.
He got the Feds to subsidize a more cost effective means of kicking off Kessler Syndrome. This will bring down modern telecommunications as we know of them and finally destroy the internet.
We should be singing his praises.
he commercialized space
Please shut the fuck up.
Mom, can we have Carl Sagan?
its incredible Seth MacFarlane tapped this piece of shit to be in the new Cosmos
McFarlane is weird. Family Guy is shit, American Dad has managed to stay surprisingly funny (I think mainly because of the Roger character), but mostly it’s all lib shit indeed; then you get The Orville. Absolutely awesome - and doubly so because you can tell it was sold as a funny-type show but you can also definitely tell that’s not the direction he wanted to go with it, from the start; and it’s not the one he took, especially in the very latest season.
He also has a credible rape accusation from when he was in college that resulted in one of the only black woman in the physics department to drop out of the program.
Someone suggested once that he makes those bazinga posts periodically to flood search algorithms and push stories about it onto the 2nd-3rd page of results.
There’s apparently been a number of accusations where he’s groped or propositioned women. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/azeenghorayshi/neil-degrasse-tyson-sexual-allegations-four-women
No, the Prius normalized hybrid and electric cars. Not that electric cars aren’t already a stupid idea when electric trains have existed for over a century. And spaceflight was already ‘commercialized’.
Fuck you Tyson, Mike Tyson is smarter than you.
electric cars are sensible as stepping stone because redesigning and rebuilding cities takes an incredible amount of time and you reduce local pollution, which is worthwhile despite not being a total solution to climate change.
of course it’s a joke that congress subsidize electric cars but not ebikes, and is doing fuckall about rail, but they wouldn’t be doing that stuff even if the electric car industry didn’t exist.
It’s literally not nuanced though, it’s just ad-read portending towards nuance. Nuance is admitting that we should be trying to find ways to keep older cars running for longer so we don’t have to manufacture new ones while we transition towards public transit.
Except they aren’t sensible when you consider the amount of resource extraction that is required for the lithium and rare earth metals involved, especially given the current carrying capacity and life expectancy of those batteries. It is literally more resource intensive to try to replace a sixth of the cars in the U.S. with electric cars than to try to refurbish and manufacture new parts for older cars. Personal car travel is not the main contributor to environmental stress, it is the infrastructure, shipping and manufacturing around cars that is environmentally devastating.
The tech just isn’t there in a way to provide as a ‘stepping stone’. Hybrids, maybe, full electric, no. But imo any step that serves as a justification to continue designing cities around cars is a recipe for long term environmental disaster.
Yeah, at least Mike Tyson has the decency to have a cartoon made about himself.
