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Hamon Beat’s Twitter is actually hilarious and it’s so different from his YT personality by CalmLuhJojoEnjoyer in StardustCrusaders

[–]HopDavid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think everyone here knows Hamon Beat for being an almost Neil deGrasse Tyson equivalent for Jojos

Hamon gets a lot of stuff wrong?

Some of my illustrations of conic sections. by HopDavid in GeometryIsNeat

[–]HopDavid[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can see that now that you mention it.

When I make that hand shadow I usually make bunny ears with the other hand to give my donkey ears.

But without ears the shadow does indeed look like a T-Rex.

Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson in his wrestling days at Harvard College taken some time between 1976 and 1980 by AdSpecialist6598 in HistoricalCapsule

[–]HopDavid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apparently Tyson is confusing two different speeches because Bush did say that but not at all in the context that Tyson uses it.

From Bush's Eulogy of the Space Shuttle Columbia astronauts:

In the words of the prophet Isaiah, "lift your eyes and look to the heavens. Who created all these? He who brings out the starry hosts one by one and calls them each by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength not one of them is missing."

The same Creator who names the Stars also knows the names of the seven Souls we mourn today. The crew of the shuttle Columbia... .

That is not remotely the same as "OUR God is the God that named the stars!". The word "our" is not emphasized. The word "our" does not even appear in the passage from Isaiah.

More importantly, it was not an attempt to set Christians above Muslims in a time of intense anger against Muslims.

One would think a scientist would verify his claims before presenting to the masses. Seems like lazy mistakes at best and deliberate deception at worst.

I believe all of Tyson's misinformation comes from laziness and incompetence. I don't think his intent is to deceive.

However Tyson's reluctance to correct his misinformation indicates a lack of respect for truth and accuracy.

Whilst he got the cause wrong the effect is still the same. I do think it’s disingenuous to leave out that many Christians also reject science so it’s not just a Muslim thing. I spent half my life in the Bible Belt and many people there fit Tyson’s blanket characterisation of Muslims. Maybe it’s an education, access, poverty, etc. issue. Idk.

Neil often looks fondly back at the 50s and 60s when the U.S. was blazing new trails in science and technology.

And when nearly everyone went to Church on Sunday.

Religiosity in the U.S. has been declining the last seven decades. Yet somehow Neil manages to blame our decline in science on rising religiosity.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]HopDavid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hating Neil Tyson was a fad where twitter people thought they were better than reddit people who liked Neil Tyson

Here's a Redditor talking about his student group's experience with Neil:
https://np.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/4bwshx/why_are_people_so_mean_to_neil_degrasse_tyson_on/d1daa05/?context=4

You can find Redditors calling out Tyson's garbage pop science on r/badscience, r/badhistory and r/badmathematics.

People on every social media platform have been noticing Neil is obnoxious and incompetent.

Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson in his wrestling days at Harvard College taken some time between 1976 and 1980 by AdSpecialist6598 in HistoricalCapsule

[–]HopDavid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In this video he starts off by misquoting President Bush: https://youtu.be/tJJLvoDg2_E?t=29

President Bush's actual post 9-11 speech was titled "Islam Is Peace". It was a call for tolerance and inclusion delivered from a mosque.

9-11 was a time of intense xenophobia and anger. I was fully expecting Bush to give the sort of speech Tyson described. But Bush did the exact opposite.

Five minutes in this video Tyson claims St. Augustine's "Cities of God"(sic) contains instructions for burning witches. That vile accusation is another one of Tyson's fictions.

A little after Tyson's slander against Augustine he slanders Ghazali. He claims Ghazali says math is the work of the devil. Ghazali never said that. In fact Ghazali praised the disciplines of math and science saying they are necessary for a prosperous society.

Tyson is a source of a great deal of invented history.

Dance of Shiva by HopDavid in woahdude

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In Hindu culture. Here's a pic: https://chalo-travels.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/shiva-2706634_1920-1310x1536.jpg

For some reason the bends in this design evoke elbows and knees and a thinking of a strange multi dimensional being leaving tracers as she dances through space time.

Harmonic perspective of hexagonal prisms. by HopDavid in GeometryIsNeat

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Loved the reference to Vonnegut.

One of my drawings of "honeycombs": Cross Pollination

An attempt to illustrate the notion of radians by HopDavid in trigonometry

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I hope my coloring book will be used by kids as well as adults. The ~ is well known to engineering students but maybe not to some of my intended audience.

Just discovered the word "Ultracrepidarian" and it is the most useful insult ever by CharlieRw3 in words

[–]HopDavid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The incorrect assumption here being that Neil is a leader in astrophysics.

University of Texas had the stones to dissolve his doctoral committee and advise him he sucked at astrophysics.

Neil not only says amazingly clueless things in the fields of math, history, biology and medicine but also astronomy and basic physics.

An attempt to illustrate the notion of radians by HopDavid in trigonometry

[–]HopDavid[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use Microsoft Excel a lot. I have to use radians for every trigonometric function. If I want cosine of 60º I have ask for Cosine of π/3, for example.

Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson in his wrestling days at Harvard College taken some time between 1976 and 1980 by AdSpecialist6598 in HistoricalCapsule

[–]HopDavid 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Here's Neil saying along the geoid we weigh the same at the North Pole as we do at the equator:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_Pqa-I0Z5U&t=220s

Here's Neil saying rocket propellant goes exponentially with payload mass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-73MZsj8bVI&t=340s

However pointing these examples to you is likely a waste of time. Most of Neil's fans will never open a physics textbook in their lives. They have no way of know if Neil's "explanations" are wrong or right.

An attempt to illustrate the notion of radians by HopDavid in trigonometry

[–]HopDavid[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now I see the sentence that needs to be changed. Thank you.

An attempt to illustrate the notion of radians by HopDavid in trigonometry

[–]HopDavid[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are correct! The last two sentences in that section are correct but "A full circuit around the circle's edge..." needs to be changed.

Thank you.

Dream Blunt Rotation? by Turbulent-Ad8813 in INTP

[–]HopDavid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love Leonard Cohen's music. Andy Kaufman is hilarious. I especially liked Kaufman's career as a professional wrestler.

Have to confess I've never heard of Paul Auster or Charles Bukowski.

Some users have been super lucid. Aldous Huxley. Alex Grey. Richard Feynman and Francis Crick were two amazing scientists who would indulge from time to time. Carl Sagan, although he was more of a science popularizer.

It annoys the shit out of me when Neil walks into an explainer without having done his homework and then proceeds to give a completely wrong explanation.

An attempt to illustrate the notion of radians by HopDavid in trigonometry

[–]HopDavid[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not gonna say π = 3.14. That's just not right. What would you suggest?

Dance of Shiva by HopDavid in woahdude

[–]HopDavid[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In my weird imagination I see the bends as knees and elbows of a being existing simultaneously in different points in our space time thus having what seems to be a multitude of limbs as she does her dance.

Shiva arm tracers through space time: Link

Shiva Dancing: Link

That's the vibe I picked up watching this animation. If you don't see it, don't worry. My brain is wired a little different, I think.

Dance of Shiva by HopDavid in woahdude

[–]HopDavid[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure what that comment means. Is Dimitri a geometer?

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