Saturday, February 19, 2022

Wrong again, Neil

 


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    1. I'm thinking that the only thing government did that meets that statement would be the Manhattan Project. Even submarines were private enterprises, let alone rockets.

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    2. Private enterprise, public money.
      He was right.

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  2. I worked at Bell Laboratories (at, not for) back in the 60's. On the way to the computer lab, I'd pass the individual laboratories which looked like Dr.Frankenstein's basement. The real scientists didn't wear three piece suits, mostly they dressed very casually.Once, on the cover of Bell Labs News, one of the honorees had pasted a picture of Stripe the Gremlin over his badge photo. Imagine Tyson not taking himself so seriously. He once compared Climate "Science" with Astronomy in its mathematical predictability. That was the end of taking him seriously. Another Equal Opportunity case.

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  3. Neil has been wrong so many times I stopped paying attention to the idiot years ago.

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  4. Tyson took the Cosmos series (Sagan), and turned it into a carousel of liberal scare stories. Each episode was about how awful the human species is.

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  5. Neil is the Diet Coke of intellect. Same taste, zero intellectual calories.

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  6. Well, if you gots a problem with ol' Neill, then let me suggest the Fermilab lectures by Dr. Don Lincoln on YouTube. Good stuff, well delivered.

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    1. Absolutely love Dr. Lincoln. He makes things like particle physics and quantum theory intelligible.

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  7. Musk is only engaged in private enterprise in a technical sense. His cars are very heavily subsidized by environmental regulations and his rockets seem to get a lot of government contracts. So about as private sector as a defense contractor.

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    1. You are correct on the Tesla, but not so much on his rockets. He gets business for launches due to best prices and excellent reliability for that sort of venture. Here is a blogger post on the cost to lift weight into space. His mucho grande one that is in process will be astoundingly(!) cheap:
      https://thesilicongraybeard.blogspot.com/2022/02/why-spacexs-new-contract-to-launch-3.html

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    2. Fed tax rebates ended for Tesla 12/31/2019. The reason you buy a Tesla is no other car can compete with them. Phase out for rebates was about 200k car produced. Tesla sold about 500k cars world wide 2020 model year. The liberals are going to crank up rebates for all the new future EV's. Since they hate Elon's non union work force a tesla will get a fraction of the credit available to other car makers.

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  8. UK blogger "Morgoth" has a term for persons such as Tyson: Skintellectual.
    Defined as a person who is touted as "brilliant" and treated with deference they do not deserve, based on the color of their skin.

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  9. He's exactly OPPOSITELY wrong. As usual. Gov't starts with THEFT then works backwards from that point. Gov't is always a fail.

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  10. When Elon makes the foray to the moon it will be interesting to see how he gets past the Van Allen belt. The radiation is so high that about fifteen minutes of it is lethal, and its unavoidable for at least two hours assuming one is going about 6000 mph. It has to be passed thru both going out and coming back

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    1. What is different between the Apollo capsules and Musk's designs, that would be more dangerous?

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    2. Musk's ships will potentially have radiation protected areas that will have more protection than the Apollo capsules. And, as Will implied the astronauts on the Apollo missions to the moon didn't die from radiation poisoning.

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  11. "By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's."

    - Paul Krugman, 1998

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  12. Are Neil Tyson and Bill Nye having a contest to see who can say the stupidest stuff? Neither is a scientist by any stretch.

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  13. Neil Tyson is a pompous windbag with an inflated sense of both his intelligence and relevance.

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  14. Basically he's the leading jerkoff of astronomy.

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  15. Has NDT ever been right about anything? Does he know anything, or is he just a talking head?

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