Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

JUST POSTED: @StarTalkRadio's “Space Chronicles - Pt 1" The history of space exploration. On iTunes & http://t.co/OP5T3E3iIe — PolitiTweet.org

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

Crescent Moon slides past Jupiter this night. In the west. After sunset. Both gorgeous. Both bright — PolitiTweet.org

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

Low in the west this Saturday night, Jupiter rides the thin crescent Moon. Both stunningly suspended in the Sun's twilight, — PolitiTweet.org

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

Only in America can a Beer Commercial be more scientifically literate than a State School Board: http://t.co/b5BqqyuANf — PolitiTweet.org

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

1 light-nanosecond to your dinner plate. 1.3 light seconds to the Moon. 8.3 light-minutes to the Sun. 1.4 light-hrs to Saturn — PolitiTweet.org

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

.@shk711: Does light travel farther in a leap year? // Yup. An extra 16 billion miles. About 2x the diameter of Pluto's orbit — PolitiTweet.org

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

.@ugotsnookied There are light-years. How about light-months? // They're just not useful. No known objects light-months away. — PolitiTweet.org

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

Use any time. Light travels about a foot in a billionth of a second. So people near you are typically light-nanosecods away. — PolitiTweet.org

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

Yup. Europeans get their Fibonacci day on 5 Aug 2013. And after the next one in the USA (August 13, 2021) there are no more. — PolitiTweet.org

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

FibonacciSeries: Each number is the sum of the two previous numbers. Shows up in cool places in Nature, like Golden Spirals. — PolitiTweet.org

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[May 8, 2013] Happy Fibonacci day: 0 - 1 - 1 - 2 - 3 - [ 5 - 8 - 13 ] - 21 - 34 - 55 - 89 - 144 … Next one is Aug 13, 2021 — PolitiTweet.org

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

If Wolves were in charge they'd surely indict humans for cruel genetic manipulations of their species to create Yorkies. — PolitiTweet.org

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

JUST POSTED: StarTalk, Cosmic Queries Edition "Asteroids Comets & Meteors" w/@ChuckNiceComic. iTunes & http://t.co/AnC8o6Q2lU — PolitiTweet.org

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If butterflies were in charge, I wonder if they'd capture humans, put us on display, and admire our beauty & our differences? — PolitiTweet.org

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

.@ChrisBerghoff: How do you define the difference between education & school? // I care more for ideas than for definitions. — PolitiTweet.org

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

Try as I might, I cannot resist this geek-laden, lisp-inducing, annual utterance: "May the fourth be with you." — PolitiTweet.org

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

Oh, and, want to learn a Random Space Fact? Try @RandomSpaceFact. They're random. They're about space. And they're facts. — PolitiTweet.org

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

I love the universe, and all, but these folks just won't shut up about it: @KimberlyKowal @WhitNutt @StarStryder @elakdawalla — PolitiTweet.org

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

Space fans, like @TeamPreach, know that where there is no up or down, car license plates can do this: http://t.co/tjcrNbO7HJ — PolitiTweet.org

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just to clarify: Batman is not the brains behind his powers. Yet IronMan is the brains behind his. IronMan wins the cagematch — PolitiTweet.org

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Iron Man - A superhero whose super powers derive entirely from his own intellect -- a mastery of physics & engineering. — PolitiTweet.org

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

Not that anybody asked, but I object to religion in science classrooms not because it's religion but because it's not science — PolitiTweet.org

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

JUST POSTED: On @StarTalkRadio “Eureka! Asteroid Mining” w/ @PeterDiamandis [Audio: 40min] on iTunes & http://t.co/HxVOo3cVtJ — PolitiTweet.org

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

Hmm. My daughter's 950-page AP text "American History: A Survey" (McGrawHill, 2003) devotes 1.5 pages to the US Space Program — PolitiTweet.org

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.@JakeGunst: There's piles of not dead bodies everywhere. // Yup. Journalists hardly ever write about not dead bodies. — PolitiTweet.org

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I wonder how many people are not dead by using GPS instead of fumbling with a folded map on the steering wheel while driving. — PolitiTweet.org

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

Watching on the FX network the film "2012" in which 6-billion people die. Was prepared: the rating warned of "mild violence" — PolitiTweet.org

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There's no crime in being ignorant. Problems arise when people who don't know they're ignorant rise to power. — PolitiTweet.org

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

Even More #HouseholdMysteries: Pens that disappear even if you don't budge. One brightness burns out within a three-way bulb. — PolitiTweet.org

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

@LunchHam The Sun is 1/2 of 1% as bright at Jupiter than at Mercury. But Jupiter is 300x bigger. All told, it receives 1.5x the Sun's energy — PolitiTweet.org