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Neil deGrasse Tyson
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haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/
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    Neil deGrasse Tyson‏Verified account @neiltyson Jan 1

    Not that anybody’s asked, but New Years Day on the Gregorian Calendar is a cosmically arbitrary event, carrying no Astronomical significance at all.

    2:45 PM - 1 Jan 2018
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    3,732 replies 19,055 retweets 88,912 likes
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      2. Charles C. W. Cooke‏Verified account @charlescwcooke Jan 1
        Replying to @neiltyson

        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.

        138 replies 661 retweets 5,237 likes
      3. Neil deGrasse Tyson‏Verified account @neiltyson Jan 2
        Replying to @charlescwcooke

        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.)

        40 replies 19 retweets 605 likes
      4. Cher Murphy  💃‏ @RedSoxMVP Jan 2
        Replying to @neiltyson @charlescwcooke

        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.

        6 replies 0 retweets 33 likes
      5. Charles C. W. Cooke‏Verified account @charlescwcooke Jan 2
        Replying to @RedSoxMVP @neiltyson

        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.

        5 replies 0 retweets 195 likes
      6. Cher Murphy  💃‏ @RedSoxMVP Jan 2
        Replying to @charlescwcooke @neiltyson

        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. 😆

        3 replies 1 retweet 6 likes
      7. Charles C. W. Cooke‏Verified account @charlescwcooke Jan 2
        Replying to @RedSoxMVP @neiltyson

        I think it was condescending, yes. It wasn’t rude to me, though.

        4 replies 1 retweet 48 likes
      8. Cher Murphy  💃‏ @RedSoxMVP Jan 2
        Replying to @charlescwcooke @neiltyson

        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.

        7 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
      9. Charles C. W. Cooke‏Verified account @charlescwcooke Jan 2
        Replying to @RedSoxMVP

        Some people inspire this reaction. When you criticize Sarah Palin, her fans say you are criticizing America. With Tyson, you are criticizing Science.

        2 replies 3 retweets 59 likes
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      2. Kenny‏ @Writingwriter05 Jan 1
        Replying to @neiltyson

        Please focus on educating instead of being super condescending every other tweet

        33 replies 8 retweets 535 likes
      3. Ruff Assassin‏ @RuffAssassin27 Jan 1
        Replying to @Writingwriter05 @neiltyson

        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.

        21 replies 29 retweets 458 likes
      4. T‏ @Tregomez1 Jan 2
        Replying to @RuffAssassin27 @Writingwriter05 @neiltyson

        How is he an authority figure?

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. Ruff Assassin‏ @RuffAssassin27 Jan 2
        Replying to @Tregomez1 @Writingwriter05 @neiltyson

        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.

        2 replies 0 retweets 16 likes
      6. T‏ @Tregomez1 Jan 2
        Replying to @RuffAssassin27 @Writingwriter05 @neiltyson

        I see what you mean now

        0 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      7. End of conversation
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      2. Brad Weiss‏ @1bradweiss Jan 2
        Replying to @neiltyson

        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).

        8 replies 4 retweets 108 likes
      3. James Myers‏ @MisterJMyers Jan 2
        Replying to @1bradweiss @neiltyson

        NDT tweets pedantic self-fellating rubbish: 85k likes User corrects him with the truth and I actually learn something: 3 likes

        4 replies 0 retweets 37 likes
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      5. Brad Weiss‏ @1bradweiss Jan 3

        But I get the best likes; everyone is saying so.

        0 replies 0 retweets 19 likes
      6. End of conversation
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      2. Taina‏ @TBourckhardt Jan 3
        Replying to @neiltyson

        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.

        2 replies 1 retweet 72 likes
      3. Tadash‏ @_Gustavo_Vieira Jan 3
        Replying to @TBourckhardt @neiltyson

        pic.twitter.com/lPtZr2FJS1

        0 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
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      2. B E A U C O R R E L L‏ @BeauCorrell Jan 1
        Replying to @neiltyson

        Name a "cosmically" reoccuring day on the calendar, then.

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      3. Erica Jayve Fleming‏ @fleming1972 Jan 2
        Replying to @BeauCorrell @neiltyson

        The solstices and equinoxes

        2 replies 0 retweets 46 likes
      4. B E A U C O R R E L L‏ @BeauCorrell Jan 2
        Replying to @fleming1972 @neiltyson

        I disagree. Solstices and equinoxes are not cosmically reoccuring and are only relevant to us rather than the cosmos.

        1 reply 0 retweets 13 likes
      5. Miguel Garrido‏ @vuelvolar Jan 2
        Replying to @BeauCorrell @fleming1972 @neiltyson

        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.

        1 reply 0 retweets 10 likes
      6. B E A U C O R R E L L‏ @BeauCorrell Jan 2
        Replying to @vuelvolar @fleming1972 @neiltyson

        Correct.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      7. Erica Jayve Fleming‏ @fleming1972 Jan 3
        Replying to @BeauCorrell @vuelvolar @neiltyson

        By that standard, the concept of a day is only relevant to us.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      8. B E A U C O R R E L L‏ @BeauCorrell Jan 3
        Replying to @fleming1972 @vuelvolar @neiltyson

        And therein lies my original point: there is no cosmically significant reoccurring event at all, rendering @neiltyson tweet pointless.

        2 replies 1 retweet 3 likes
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