Posted on 12/27/2021 8:55:32 AM PST by SeekAndFind
There's a new Grinch among us this holiday season -- it's Neil deGrasse Tyson, whose party-pooping amounts to debunking the existence of Santa Claus ... with cold, hard physics.
The famed astrophysicist went on a tear in the days leading up to Christmas this year, tweeting out fact after fact after fact ... all of which were intended to clear up the reality -- namely, that there's no way in hell Old Saint Nick could deliver presents on Christmas Eve.
First, NDT tackled the North Pole and what every little kid imagines his workshop/village might look like based on storybooks. According to Neil, that's all rubbish ... due to basic geography.
He writes, "Since the Northern Arctic is just ocean, Santa’s North Pole workshop has only ever existed on a floating sheet of ice. Images that portray Santa’s workshop with pine trees and snow-capped hills on the horizon are geographically underinformed."
Here's another not-so-fun fact for all the boy and girls who were waiting on Papa Noel this year -- the guy apparently wouldn't be able to deliver gifts to all of them in one night, because he'd be going so damn fast ... he'd literally burn up and die. Reindeer, too.
As Neil delicately puts it, "For Santa to deliver gifts to all world's Christians in one night requires hypersonic speeds through Earth’s lower atmosphere, vaporizing his reindeer & sleigh. Just sayin’.
And, one more for the all-inclusive crowd ... which has to do with gender, and the assumed sexes of Santa's flying motors. It would seem that whoever came up with the Christmas mythology way back when didn't take into account the differences between male and female reindeer.
Neil explains, "Santa doesn’t know Zoology: Both male & female Reindeer grow antlers. But all male Reindeer lose their antlers in the late fall, well-before Christmas." He adds, "So Santa’s reindeer, which all sport antlers, are therefore all female, which means Rudolf has been misgendered."
As you might imagine, his harsh read on the holiday got a ton of pushback online ... with folks telling him to kick rocks and that he deserved a lump of coal for keeping it too real.
A little Journey seems appropriate here ... don't stop believing, kids. Unless, of course, you want to -- in which case, join the club. 💔
Thought he'd disappear after his wretched reboot of “Cosmos” bombed.
He’s trying to prove he’s as smart as a 12 year old.
Still failed.
What the heck does Rudolph have to do with the true meaning of Christmas?
I didn’t think it was humanly possible for anybody to render Cosmos to a stinking pile of agitprop
Time to shut these sphincters down. The left has to ruin everything so everyone will be as miserable as they are.
I watched one of his PBS shows regarding the Universe. He basically called anyone who believed in God or Creation as idiots. Last time I listened to this pompous ass.
Yeah....he’s one of the guys who thinks the universe could just be a simulation...So, technically he doesn’t exist either.
I wish.
Astrophysicist and Democrat Party activist, Neil deGrasse Tyson ...
You got a toymaking elf who lives on the north pole and visits millions of individual children all around the world in a single 24 hour span delivering gifts and sampling cookies through chimney openings using an open canopy sleigh driven through the air by flying reindeer as his delivery vehicle, with the lead reindeer posessing an aircraft beacon as a facial growth... and Neil Tyson’s contribution is “hurr durr, thems are girl deers, that’s just science”
Did he ever take a moment to consider that maybe in this magical world where a light-emitting airborne caribou is a thing that maybe there’s an explanation about antlered bulls in late December?
“A little Journey seems appropriate here”
I suggest Neil be awarded multi-year sabbatical to the North Pole. And while experiencing total immersion in local customs, he will lay off deGrasse.
I see your point, but in reality, as bk1000 pointed out, they simply want to rend, tear, and burn any cultural fabric that they don’t approve of or is not of their own making.
Rudolph is a reindeer who just got in their way.
Look.....he believes in dark matter(never been found)...and the suspension of all known physical laws pre big bang....so he might entertain your conjecture. Of course it would be a simulation.
Neil is a terrible person. I used to listen to his podcast (and Skeptics Guide To The Universe and a few other “science” and Skepticism podcasts) for a couple years until they all really showed their true colors and firmly planted themselves as communist nut jobs. It started when I questioned one popular skeptic podcast creator’s notions about why he always tilted towards global warming theology and never questioned it, and he sent me a link to a climate change symposium recording. I started dumping all of those types of podcasts right away. Neil is really a horrible person and one of the worst. When he wasn’t so famous, he actually did some science that can probably still be found on YouTube, but Let’s Go Neil him. He’s not worth spending any more time on, as he’s proven to be a real scumbag and promotes racism and marxist ideas.
Tysons ill-mannered arrogance subverts any message he is trying to communicate. Even if what he is saying is true his smarmy delivery defeats him. Eff him.
The dude is one egotistical person for sure.
Say what you will, with that nose, Rudolph looks fabulous!
According to the looney left, Rudolph could be a female reindeer who identifies as a male reindeer and goes by the name of Rudolph therefore, Tyson just assumed Rudolph's gender and must be cancelled.
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