I truly hate neil degrass tyson, he's so fucking smig and pedantic while having no goddamn clue what he's talking about, quick example
On a talkshow, neil was gloating about a victory of his, here was the scenario
Neil entered a small coffee shop, and ordered a hot cocoa with whipped cream, it arrives and there is no visible whip, "wheres my whip" says neil, "we put it on, it just sank in and melted, we use a homemade whip so it's pretty dense" says the barista
A reasonable response would be y'know, "would you mind putting on a little extra" or maybe, "oh I see" but no, neil is not such a man.
He smells something fishy about this story, whipped cream is made of milk and air, and air is lighter than hot cocao, thus it should float! Whip could never sink!!! She must be a lier, desperate to protect her insignificant pride and nefariously steal neils precious whip!
So neil begins to berate the barista, verbally crucifying her with facts and logic about how whip cream floats on hot cocoa
She offers to get him some more whip,
He accepts
He feels smugly validated as the whip remains on top of his hot cocoa as its dolloped on at the table
He goes on to gloat about this glorious victory on a talkshow.
One problem, whip cream, particularly fresh made whip does in fact sink in hot cocoa, because it melts! It didn't sink the second time cause it had cooled down
On its face it's dickheadish to berate a waitress for this, even if neils analysis was correct he'd be a dick, but imagine the poor damn barista's perspective, your working at a small local coffee shop and the day is uneventful, when suddenly neil degrasse tyson walks in, and orders a hot cocoa,
Kinda cute, such a big figure getting such a humble childish drink, you make it carefully, dollop on the whip you made by hand this morning, and deliver the cocoa, and he stares at you pissed, "WHERES THE WHIP!" You look down and realize it melted, you may have zoned out a bit while steaming the milk, you explain what occured, and just when your about to offer him some more he buts in to berate you incorrectly on how whip cream works!
What the fuck!
What an asshole!
You go home in a kinda bad mood, lay down in bed, and turn on the tv, just for some noise to drown out your thoughts as you sleep, and theres fucking niel fucking bragging about his "le epic victory" on fucking broadcast television.
This is just one instance, representative of a whole class of neil moments
I hate him
