It doesn’t have any nutritional significance either, according to my restaurateur friend, but somehow he still manages to grasp that it’s an important cultural event that doesn’t need filtering through his professional lens and explaining as if everyone were a moron.
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You were educated at Oxford, so I’m not surprised that some (or most?) of what, and how I Tweet is below you. (p.s. Looks like we both like wine. Perhaps that will one day bring us together.)
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How is this professional that a scientist makes fun of someone's degree he worked for? This is why science is a joke now. A big joke full of lies.
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I don’t think that’s what Tyson was doing. In fact, I think he was doing the opposite: i.e. suggesting that I’m not the audience for the tweet. What he said wasn’t rude.
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Right not the audience like that's not condescending or anything. Maybe he should label them who is worthy of reading them. I am so sorry I saw it now. It's beneath me.

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I think it was condescending, yes. It wasn’t rude to me, though.
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Do you see how he has people apologizing for him? This is what is not "Science". So how does he get so many convinced of his lies? Idk. I guess it's like that saying you keep repeating and the false becomes true.
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Some people inspire this reaction. When you criticize Sarah Palin, her fans say you are criticizing America. With Tyson, you are criticizing Science.
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Please focus on educating instead of being super condescending every other tweet
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This is the way of iur society today. Educating is seen as condescending because people don’t trust authority figures anymore and believe that their own perceptions and beliefs are as important if not more important than the knowledge of those more educated.
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How is he an authority figure?
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Because he’s an authority on matters relating to astrophysics, astronomy, and cosmology. That’s why he’s made it his life’s work to understand as best as humanly possible these topics. Kind of like how doctors are authority figures concerning medicine.
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I see what you mean now
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1) And yet, it's not true!! It's a natural-cultural event. Gregorian calendar was reform to keep Easter "in place" as first Sunday after full moon following the equinox (so that Spring has truly come, and it's a holiday of rebirth, not death).
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NDT tweets pedantic self-fellating rubbish: 85k likes User corrects him with the truth and I actually learn something: 3 likes
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But I get the best likes; everyone is saying so.
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All commemorative dates are astronomically irrelevant. They are historical and cultural celebrations, not conventions of astronomy, dude. By the way, you celebrate your birthday, right? Not that you have asked, but: it's astronomically irrelevant.
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Name a "cosmically" reoccuring day on the calendar, then.
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The solstices and equinoxes
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I disagree. Solstices and equinoxes are not cosmically reoccuring and are only relevant to us rather than the cosmos.
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Wether you disagree, agree or find that reoccurring day, the cosmos won’t care. Equinox are celebration based just on our perception from the cosmos.
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Correct.
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By that standard, the concept of a day is only relevant to us.
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And therein lies my original point: there is no cosmically significant reoccurring event at all, rendering
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