Astrophysicist braid.ai/neildegrassetyson
New York City
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His passing has left an intellectual vacuum in his wake. But it's not empty. Think of it as a kind of vacuum energy permeating the fabric of spacetime that defies measure. Stephen Hawking, RIP 1942-2018.
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Evidence collected over many years, obtained from many locations, indicates that the power of Prayer is insufficient to stop bullets from killing school children.
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SCIENTISTS: “We’ve produced the first-ever image of a supermassive Black Hole, 55-million light years away”
RESPONSE: “Oooh!”
SCIENTISTS: “We’ve concluded that humans are catastrophically warming Earth”
RESPONSE: “That conflicts with what I want to be true, so it must be false”
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In school, students cheat because the system values high grades more than students value learning.
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In the past 48hrs, the USA horrifically lost 34 people to mass shootings.
On average, across any 48hrs, we also lose…
500 to Medical errors
300 to the Flu
250 to Suicide
200 to Car Accidents
40 to Homicide via Handgun
Often our emotions respond more to spectacle than to data.
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When did it become okay to be more offended by what someone with no power says than by what someone with power does?
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Imagine how much more advanced society would be today if women, who comprise half the world’s brain power, were socially & intellectually enfranchised from the beginning of civilization.
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You Matter.
Unless you multiply yourself by the speed of light squared.
Then you Energy.
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I dream of a world where truth shapes people's politics, rather politics shaping what people think is true.
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Merry Christmas to the world’s 2.5 billion Christians. And to the remaining 5 billion people, including Muslims Atheists Hindus Buddhists Animists & Jews, Happy Monday.
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You know it's true…
Every disaster movie begins with a scientist being ignored.
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Odd. No one is in denial of America’s Aug 21 total solar eclipse. Like Climate Change, methods & tools of science predict it.
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Today, the greatest threat of extinction we face is not asteroids or climate change or disease or famine. It’s society’s refusal to heed the warnings of scientists.
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While casting shade on @elonmusk for what he’s done, is doing, or will do, try to pause & remember that he made electric cars a normal thing in society and he commercialized space — for cargo, satellites, & people.
Count him among those who are inventing civilization’s future.
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Ever notice how enthusiastic your dog can be? In life expectancy, a single day for humans corresponds to a week for dogs. Maybe they know this. And maybe that's why they make every day count.
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I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.
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In five-billion years, as the Sun begins to die, its outer layers of glowing plasma will expand stupendously, engulfing the orbits of Mercury, then Venus, as the charred ember that was once the oasis of life called Earth vaporizes into the vacuum of space.
Have a nice day!
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If women ran the country, and they passed laws affecting men’s reproductive organs, I wonder what the men would do?
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Dear Science Deniers,
(Anti-vaxers, anti-maskers, climate hoaxers, flat-Earthers, etc)
You found one another & communicate via stupefyingly advanced technologies that pivot on the discoveries of scientists.
Just thought I’d remind you of that fact.
Sincerely,
Your Smart Phone
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The divided United States of America will unite today, sharing a cosmic event predicted by the methods and tools of science.
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The rise of flat-Earthers in society provides some of the best evidence for the failure of our educational system.
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I’m okay with a US Space Force. But what we need most is a Truth Force — one that defends against all enemies of accurate information, both foreign & domestic.
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Born before Edwin Hubble discovered the expanding universe, he ultimately created an expanding universe of his own - one of scientifically literate superheroes such as Spider-Man , The Hulk, Iron Man, & Black Panther.
Stan Lee RIP: 1922 - 2018
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To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of shit.
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If I and my advisors had never learned what Science is or how & why it works, then I’d consider pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord too.
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Not that anybody asked, but one-third (95 out of 289) of all American Nobel Prizes in the Sciences have been earned by Immigrants to the United States.
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Just to be clear, if you carefully removed, and laid end-to-end, all the veins, arteries, and capillaries of your body, you will die.
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There’s just no way around this one: YOU MATTER, unless you multiply yourself by the speed of light squared, then YOU ENERGY.
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Ever look up at night and feel small? Don't. Instead feel large. Atoms in our bodies trace to the remnants of exploded stars. We are Stardust. We are alive in the universe. And the universe is alive within us.
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Show me a Nation with a science-hostile government, and I'll show you a society with failing health, wealth, & security.
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Anyone who thinks scientists like agreeing with one another has never attended a scientific conference.
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The perennial cry to “Save Earth" is odd. Planet Earth survives massive asteroid strikes -- it'll survive anything we throw at it. But Life on Earth will not.
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Sometimes I wonder if people who aggressively seek political power are precisely those who should not be entrusted to wield it.
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If the world were really going to end, cosmically, I’d let y’all know, and with plenty of time to do nothing about it.
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If you're always successful at bullshitting others it's because you don’t hang around people who are smarter than you.
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The good thing about Science is that it’s true, whether or not you believe in it.
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Seems the World goes batshit crazy, every few decades. Just long enough to forget the last time the World went batshit crazy.
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In case you were wondering, one-third (95 out of 289) of all American Nobel Prizes in the Sciences have been earned by Immigrants to the United States.
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We’re just sayin’. To abolish mask -wearing laws in some States while the rest of the Nation keeps theirs is like designating a peeing section of the swimming pool.
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Dear @ElonMusk,
When are you going to stop dallying with Mars Rockets & Hyperloops & Electric Trucks & Brain-Computer interfaces, and turn your ample resources to developing a Warp Drive?
Sincerely,
Space Geeks of the World
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Merry Christmas to all the Christians of the world.
To everybody else, including the Muslims, Atheists, Hindus, Buddhists, Pagans, & Jews...
...Happy Wednesday.
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If I had any singing talent and if I knew how to write love songs and if I recorded them, then this would be my album cover.
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In five billion years, our Milky Way begins to collide with the Andromeda galaxy. But not to worry. The Sun burns Earth to a crisp long before then.
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Imagine how much more advanced society would be today if women, who comprise half the world’s brain power, were socially & intellectually enfranchised from the beginning of civilization.
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If a predatory enemy to our species can’t unite everyone on Earth to fight it, I'm left wondering what hope remains for Civilization.
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Sometimes I wonder if people who aggressively seek political power are precisely those who should not be entrusted to wield it.
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When the Moon first formed, four billion years ago, it was 20x closer than it is today, 400x larger on the sky, and Tides were 8,000x higher.
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When Isaac Newton stayed at home to avoid the 1665 plague, he discovered the laws of gravity, optics, and he invented calculus.
It’s rumored that there was a strict “No TV” rule in his household.
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You can’t use reason to convince anyone out of an argument that they didn’t use reason to get into.
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Getting into shape for Cosmos. By my measure, 6’2” and 260 lbs this morning. Leaving me to wonder what height & weight the White House physician would assign me.
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Space Aliens may be surprised to learn that Humans have multiple languages & cultures and we kill one another because of it.
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The Universe is blind to our sorrows and indifferent to our pains.
Have a nice day!
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The rise of flat-Earthers in the United States is evidence of two things: 1) the protection of speech, and 2) the failure of our educational system.
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We can put a man on the Moon, but we can't cure the coronavirus.
No, wait. Sorry. Right now we actually can't put anybody on the Moon. And haven't been able to do so for 45 years.
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And now, one last clue:
KNOWLEDGE for $1,000
Answer:
“He nurtured a Television safe-space for smart people”
Question:
“Who was Alex Trebek (1940-2020) ?”
Farewell, patron saint of geeks. Jeopardy host since 1984
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If one evening you feel sad enough to cry, look up. Your tears will not fall and the starry night may bring joy to your soul.
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If I were ever abducted by aliens, the first thing I’d ask is whether they came from a planet where fellow aliens also deny science.
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Scientists & engineers launched “InSight” from Earth (a moving platform) across 300million miles to arrive where Mars (a moving target) will be seven months later, landing safely to do geophysics at the Martian equator. And you have a problem listening to us about climate change?
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If I were Cuban, and if I smoked Cohiba Cigars, and if I knew how to write music, and if I composed pensive songs about life in the Caribbean, then this would be my Album Cover.
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Four mysteries of the Universe that continue to elude top researchers:
1) What is the origin of Life?
2) What is the nature of Dark Matter?
3) What preceded the Big Bang?
4) What does the Refrigerator Light do after you close the door?
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If chefs ever prepared food on the Moon, their dishes would surely be interesting, but their restaurants would have no atmosphere.
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Maybe it’s just me, but it seems that wanting to conserve the environment would be one of the things “Conservatives” do.
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I want to live in a world where a Chicken can cross the road without anybody questioning its motives.
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FYI: A Cow can jump over the Moon if she aims where the Moon will be in three days, then leaps at about 25,000 miles per hour
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Evidence you might be in a Cult:
Your group has one leader - usually male. You revere this leader, and do what he tells you. Your group has the answers while nobody else does. And you actively deny that your group is a Cult.
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Santa doesn’t know Zoology:
Both male & female Reindeer grow antlers. But all male Reindeer lose their antlers in the late fall, well-before Christmas.
So Santa’s reindeer, which all sport antlers, are therefore all female, which means Rudolf has been misgendered.
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"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
-Martin Luther King Jr. 1963
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A subject is scientifically controversial when actively debated by legions of scientists, not when actively debated by the public, the press, or by politicians.
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In case you were wondering, for Santa, in a single 24-hr Earth-night, to deliver presents to all those who celebrate Christmas, he must visit 25,000 homes per second.
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Earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes — traditionally “Acts of God” on Insurance Forms. But as climate-change continues, and coastal flooding from hurricanes worsens, the Forms might now include “Acts of Humans”.
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We all want to Make America Great Again. But that won't happen until we first Make America Smart Again.
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