Drake Kay He actually did come out and claim Pluto wasn’t a planet and voted for it to be categorized as a Dwarf. He then also attacked a group that wanted to prove Pluto was indeed a planet in 2015 and then again on the Colbert show in 2017.
Neil knows how to "sell" himself. And I mean this in a positive way. He knows how to reach people and make science interesting and understandable, like Dawkins and Michu Kaku.
@@AntiChrxzt Career doesn't mean he is good at science. It might be what I said. He is good in self promoting. It is also valuable skill, but I simply don't buy his act.
Because people enjoy his passion, public speakings and books on scientific topics. You don't need to make a historical breakthrough to be a brilliant scientist. There are millions of amazingly brilliant scientist you'll never hear of. Hes an educator who simply got the media's attention, which is something he is good at and people love him for it, as do I.
I think he's MORE important. He makes science fun and interesting. Scientists need to relate and translate to basic thinking people, otherwise, scientists do not exist.
I've seen this episode before but it is until now that i know about Neil deGrasse Tyson's work that i understand how awesome it was that he appeared in the big bang theory
I wish more scientists were on the show: Richard Dawkins, Michio Kaku, Lisa Randall, Lenoard Susskind, Michelle Thaller, Janna Levin, and even though he's deceased, Carl Sagan. Sheldon could have watched an episode of the original Cosmos.
Love hearing Neil's smooth voice tell it like it is in the Universe series. Really its Mike Brown of Caltech that should be on the receiving end of Sheldon's anger though.
if only the spent the whole episode getting Dr. Tyson trying to apologize to Sheldon. That would've rocked. Followed by an argument regarding Sheldon and his string theories.
1. A planet must be round. (Pluto qualifies) 2. A planet must orbit the sun. (Pluto qualifies) 3. A planet must have “cleared the neighborhood" of its orbit. This means that as a planet travels, its gravity sweeps and clears the space around it of other objects. Some of the objects may crash into the planet, others may become moons. (Pluto could qualify eventually - but not in this millenium) Sorry Sheldon.
Ahem, according to the IAU, a celestial body in the Solar System must meet 3 criteria in order to be considered a planet: orbit the Sun (check), is big enough for its own gravity to make it round (check) and "has cleared its neighbourhood of smaller objects around its orbit" which apparently doesn't apply for Pluto. It's indeed not the largest object in the region where it was found. It was an important moment for astronomy as it urged scientists to reexamine the definition of planet and question the status of Pluto and other similar bodies. It was nothing of political nature and though people really got upset about it (which I don't really get since the conclusion is clearly based on evidence and follows from it), the stance hasn't changed since then and is unlikely to actually. Sorry if this reply was rather long, but I just wanted to emphasize on the fact that science is always progressing, crafting and testing new theories and ideas, altering them in favour of new, more consistent and reliable versions; and moving on despite moments of cognitive dissonance, doubt and confusion among the community and the society as a whole.
It was discovered in 1930.So it was considered as a planet only for 76 years. And really, science can't just make exceptions. Either we then have tons of planets in Kuiper belt or we consider Pluto too small to be a planet.
Not sure if anyone mentioned this, but yea Neil deGrasse Tyson is the we've got a bad ass meme originator. Also he was pretty much just the person driving the getaway car in the Pluto situation.
i would have been cheering neil's appearance by myself. shows how hopeless hollywood (or wherever they do sitcoms) live audience's are, if the audiences themselves aren't canned
I can respect people going to watch clips of TV series that they don't like, but I CANNOT respect the people that just come here to make stupid shit comments like: "this show sucks", "how ppl can watch this show" or another shit posts complaining about the production or the scripts or ALL. If you do not like it GO AWAY, again, do not shit comment about a thing that other people likes and respect because there's no reason to do it. And, most of this people that comment crap here is because they aren't smart enough to understand a bit of what the actors are saying, this show is INFORMATIVE and HUMORISTIC, so yeah, I watched the 9 seasons laughing only 20-30 times, but I enjoyed it, because I like science. And if Neil is here is because he does like this TV show, and if you aren't, maybe you shouldn't stay here posting useless crap.
The only people who believe Pluto should be a planet are the people who don't understand why it isn't. For Pluto is a planet, there millions of "planets" in the kupier and asteroid belts should also be called planets. Watch CGP grey's video on the matter which changed my opinion
The funny part is people are just looking for an excuse to go on the streets with picketing signs, and that gave them one. It was completely inconsequential to human existence whether Pluto is considered a planet or not. Even Pluto doesn't care.
My child is 5 and he sobbed for 20 minutes when the teacher told him Pluto was not a planet. I have read and understood why it was demoted. And yes, it never should have been called a planet. But the truth is, it should still be a planet. It is a part of mankind's history, and it should remain a planet. As Albert Einstein once said: "No backsies"
By that logic, the number 1 should still be considered a prime number. At one point, the number 1 was considered prime, but because so many theorems of prime numbers had to specifically exclude it, the number 1 is neither prime nor composite, but is instead unique. Similarly, you would also need to keep Ceres as a planet. Ceres was a planet over 100 years before Pluto was discovered, and it was demoted to an asteroid, and only recently promoted to a dwarf planet.
If I remember correctly, it was what Howard did that made giving him clearance a bad idea. It was just Sheldon who told on him. We're probably lucky Howard didn't cause the space station to crash into some major city, probably some foreign power we're not friends with.
As upset as I am with there demoting Pluto, I was far more unhappy with them changing planet "George " to Uranus. Only teasing. How did King George III feel about it.
Brian Keith Jones - the show was really good in the first couple of seasons when it was all about the guys and how nerdy they were. I majored in Astrophysics in college so a lot of the science jokes were on point. I stopped watching when the show started getting too much into the relationships. Edit: Also before I start getting unwanted hate comments, I'm a chick and I didn't like the relationship bs.
Dr Tyson has no issues with the TV show but many turds have the urge to express their feelings after seeing 1:50 mins of this for all i know , this is better than friends
I almost feel bad for Sheldon during his interaction with Howard. Yes, he did a huge wrong to Howard. But, how often is anyone in for the rare treat of an actual apology from Sheldon? Yes, it was probably a big proverbial punch to Howard's face that Sheldon did. But, I do think Howard should have at least accepted the apology. At least with some explanation that it'll be a while before wanting to bother with Sheldon after such a move like that.
A good way to not-lose an internet argument is to barf questions like theres no tommorow, and completely ignore the other person's fact. You cant lose an argument that wont stop going on. Some may go on for days, weeks or even months sometimes. One lasted a year, both side were later found dead in front of their computer, they had starved in a sensless ideological war.
Ha, ha, ha. Only Sheldon in his craziness could do this (But ¡his mother had him tested!). I so enjoyed this. Yes, I, like everyone else, am with Neil!
The man that wrote this show is not a genius or a scientist. He is incapable of writing about people like that, and the scientists on the show, as far as they do act like real people, act more like posers with a passing interest in science than actual scientists, probably because this is the type of person Chuck Lorre knows. Hower: "Oh duuude, did you hear they said Pluto's not a planet anymore?" Zimbabwe: "Oh dude, that fuckin' sucks Pluto's my favorite planet dude, I fucking love science lmao!!!"
one of the writers of the show is a doctor in physics, and the actress who plays Amy Fowler is also a doctor in neuroscience. the scientific inaccuracies in the show are very little and most of them are unrelated to physics.
You're entitled to not like it - to each their own, but my father-In-law is a physicist and my brother-In-law is a chemist and my wife and I are software engineers and this show is SPOT ON and hilarious to all of us.
i dont like the show neither and i really dont understand the hype but i understand why scientists appear on it. it links the regular person to science. (a bit, not much but just abit)
Because money. That's why. You remember that episode where their boss, Dr. Gabelhausser (or something like that) came into Raj's office after he found that planetary object, and he asked the guys, what the business of the university was, and they thought it was science but he said it was really money. Well that very much applies to this situation.
I don't even think it's about the money. Tyson is public because he cares about the promotion of science. If his appearance on the show inspires someone for whatever reason to take more of an interest in studying or working in the sciences, it's a success. That one person may just be the next Einstein.
