A night at the theater with Neil deGrasse Tyson

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• Gerudo@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I give him all the props on keeping me engaged with nerdy science and space stuff after schooling. But damn does he come across as an asshat the last 10 years or so.

  I much prefer the team on How the Universe Works to keep relatively up to date.

  Does anyone have recommendations on bleeding edge science channels that respect my intelligence but can speak like I’m not a post grad astro physicist?

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  • Tinidril@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Here are some that I like on YT

    PBS Space Time PBS Eons Fermilab Anton Petrov Fraser Cain Sabine Hossenfelder (good, but often goes against mainstream science with mixed results)

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    • IAmVeraGoodAtThis@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I can’t speak to Sabine’s physics content but her social science oriented content is awful:

      The capitalism video: short response, long react

      The trans video: short response, long react

      The neurodivergence video: very long response

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    • Norodix@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Pbs eons is awesome.

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  • Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He got really cocky and has a thick smog of arrogance now. I remember seeing his JRE interview years back and thinking the same thing. It was the first time I had listened to him speak in long form, and he just dominated the entire conversation in a way that left a bad taste in me mouth. That was right around the tipping point for JRE in general before the entire thing fell off.

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• PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He always strikes me as having become burnt out on actually being a communicator, because he’s constantly having to cover and recover the same stuff over and over again, and the only times where he’s genuinely having a good time is instances when someone like Stephen Colbert can come out and hit him with an angle he wasn’t expecting or that could explain something he had a beef with.

  Because it seems like he’s just flat exhausted with everyone else just yelling “suspension of disbelief” at him whenever he tries to talk about the actual science of what’s going on in media like it’s some sort of “The Power of Christ Compels You!” chant to make him shut up about something he’s passionate about.

  Like sometimes it just looks like people are hating on the guy for engaging with media in a way they don’t like.

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  • ech@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Like sometimes it just looks like people are hating on the guy for engaging with media in a way they don’t like.

    Specifically, he’s engaging the public about media in ways they don’t like. Nobody would give a shit if he just did it with friends or whatever. Turns out being a public facing “um, actually…” guy about fictional bs isn’t a very popular role. Big shocker there.

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    • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And? Is there actually anything wrong with it? Is the media he’s talking about so shit that an um ackshually is enough to knock it over for people?

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  • someguy3@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Whats “suspension of disbelief”?

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    • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The amount of bullshit a story expects you to just accept to be able to follow its logic and plot points.

      For example, Harry Potter expects its readers to just ignore that magic is physically impossible and that a world like what Rowling describes would have WILD implications for the course of human history that would render notions like “The United Kingdom” and “Trains” and the like probably non-existent in favor of a society that better reflects what those forces would shape the world as.

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    • Riven@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Accepting that the reality of a story is as described. Magic is real? Sure. FTL? Sure. The colour red makes you fart? Yeah why not? For the sake of the story, I Believe.

      BUT the term often gets hijacked by rabid fans trying to justify plot holes, self-contradictions, and nonsensical gobilygook. Suspension of disbelief doesn’t mean I should also suspend all semblance of reason, unless of course there’s a clearly established in-universe justification for doing so.

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• scytale@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “AkShUaLly…”

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• WarmSoda@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tyson scammed a ton of money from people for a video game that never even got started being made.

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  • MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A $350,000 failed kickstarter sounds less dramatic, don’t it ?

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    • Kata1yst@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Doesn't Kickstarter not pull funds until the project's success?

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    • WarmSoda@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Guys a hack that got lucky on personality. He’s a celebrity “scientist” that hasn’t done anything in decades.

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• Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As much as it pains me to say, his “um acktually” brand of dudescience probably primed a lot of people to radicalization in the septic community.

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