Everyone’s favorite super cool scientist, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, had what I found to be an interesting exchange with GM’s former chairman, Bob Lutz, on Bill Maher’s program a couple of days ago. The ball got rolling when Lutz, who, as you’ll recall, was quoted in 2004 as saying that global warming was “a total crock […]
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson blinding Bob Lutz with the incontrovertible truth of science
Posted in Education, Environment, Politics, Science, Uncategorized Also tagged 1941, anti-science, astrophysicists, Bible, Bob Lutz, cognitive dissonance, crocks of shit, Florida, Florida Keys, General Motors, global climate change, Global Warming, global warming denial, hurricanes, memories of childhood, Mitt Romney, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Obamacare, reality deficient, republican primary, RIck Santorum, Scarsdale, Science, the universe 14 Comments
A glimpse of Prometheus by way of a TED talk given 11 years in the future
I like good, inspired marketing, and I think the following video qualifies. It’s a new trailer for director Ridley Scott’s highly anticipated sci-fi film Prometheus. The trailer, as you can see, is disguised as a TED talk from the year 2023, given by Peter Weyland, the extremely confident, boundary pushing CEO of Weyland Industries. (If […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized Also tagged Alien, ancient astronauts, Chariots of the Gods, eagles, Erich von Däniken, fire, Guy Pierce, liver, marketing, movies that I want to see, Nostromo, paleo-contact, Prometheus, Ridley Scott, science fiction, torture, viral marketing, Weyland-Yutani, Zeus 7 Comments