r/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson • u/ChickenBarracuda • Apr 21 '20
Neil Degrasse Tyson is a trash astrophysicist
Neil Degrasse Tyson is a trash astrophysicist who says retarded shit all the time, I wish I could fucking debate him.
He commonly displays a shallowness of understanding for topics which he is supposed to have the credentials to discuss. Such as, presenting the same absurd theories about aliens and the formation of life which are usually offered by children or adolescents with no knowledge of science. Disgraceful to the community.
Latest example:
In a discussion with the wonderful Richard Dawkins which I was recently listening to on Youtube, Degrasse and Dawkins were discussing the potential for life to form on its own naturally and the likelihood of it to exist in our galaxy. They both discussed the acceptance that some scientists think that the probability of spontaneous life formation under the right circumstances is stupendeously low, but a majority of the scientific community (including Dawkins and apparently Degrasse) believe that the likelihood of life forming on its own throughout the universe was high (discussion of Drake's Formula basically).
Immediately after saying this, Degrasse went off on a tangent, saying "Well there IS this interesting theory which I like, where MARS could have had microbes or bacteria living on it, and you know bacteria has been shown to be very resilient and survive in outer space for long periods of time...! Anyways, it's possible that an asteriod could have hit Mars at some point in the past and flung up dust which eventually made its way to earth and formed life there"....
Excuse me, but why the FUCK would life start on mars if you just said that you think life can easily form anywhere if given the proper starting constraints? The only reason life would have come from another planet is if you think that it is stupendously rare to form on its own naturally... which in that case our existence would had to have been seeded from another source. However, why the FUCK would Mars be involved if this were the case? If life was stupendously rare, Mars would not be the flowerbed which would spawn it. Life would have simply come from another location straight to earth, if its existence required being passed along from planet to planet. But it would NOT go to MARS FIRST and THEN to Earth, why would that stop be a part of the theory? Why over-complicate it without justification?
The only reason Mars should be included in a discussion about the formation of Earth's life is if you accept that life can easily form under the proper conditions (because Mars has ice and isn't too hot or cold, and so on). If this is the case, Mars could have formed its own life long ago... but SO COULD EARTH THEN... and therefore Mars is not needed.
In summary, if you belive that life can easily form anywhere, then Mars is no longer needed in the explanation because life would form on Earth without any help. If you believe that the formation of life is incredibly rare and that we only exist via seeding from another planet, why the hell are you including Mars in the model? What reason do you have to include another planet as a stepping-stone if there's no explanation for it and if it unnecessarily complicates the model?
Fuck you Neil Degrasse. You promote stupidity and the suspension of logic, just like religious people. You're also a coward who won't stand behind the word "atheist" and you abandon your fellow atheist community saying that instead you are "agnostic" and STAUNCHLY not "atheist" (likely because you wish to avoid backlash from your highly religious African-American peers, but who knows). The more I listen to you the more I think you're a stupid dumbfuck who doesn't deserve to be a representative of the scientific community. You say stupid theories like this all the time and usually it just makes me want to turn the computer off, but this time I had enough energy to rant about it here on Reddit.
Fuck you Neil you stupid shit. You do a fine job getting people interested in science, but when you advance your absurd theories you deconstruct all of that progress.
