“According to the song, Rudolph’s nose is shiny, which means it reflects rather than emits light. Useless for navigating fog.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: rudolph, Christmas, Science, Light
“Just an FYI: All table salt is sea salt. Mined salt just happens to come from long-buried, evaporated, prehistoric seas.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: salt, food, Sea
“Contrary to Pink Floyd's 1973 album-cover proclamation, there is no dark side of the moon. A day there simply lasts a month.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: Moon, pink floyd, dark side
“Resist the Hype: The size of today’s “Super” moon is to next month’s full moon as a 16.07 inch pizza is to a 16.00 inch pizza.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: supermoon, Moon, Sky
“Curiously, light-loving GREEN plants reject the Sun's GREEN light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look GREEN.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: Light, plants, Colors
“Summer Thought: If you convert a bug zapper to a human zapper, scaling by body mass, you’d receive a jolt of 50 billion volts.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: bugs, humans, Death
“Jupiter is 11x wider than Earth. But Earth is only 5x wider than Pluto. So Jovians surely demoted us to Dwarf Planet long ago.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: pluto, planets, Earth, jupiter
“Full Moon Friday. The second in July. For bad historical reasons we call it a "Blue Moon.” It’s not blue. It’s not even rare.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: blue moon, full moon, rare
“Just an FYI: Roman Numerals have no zero because it was not yet invented, allowing year 2000 to be written efficiently as MM.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: roman numerals, Numbers, years
“Not that anybody asked, but Gregorian calendar rules unintentionally prevent eclipses from ever occurring on Easter Sunday.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: calendar, eclipses, easter
“October — a popular month in which to be born, corresponding with conception on New Year’s day of the Gregorian Calendar.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: birthday, Sex, october, calendar
“400,000: Americans who died fighting in World War II. 400,000: Americans who died by household Firearms since 2001.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: Death, War, firearms, Guns
“Sustained 200mph hurricane winds are sufficient to strip the bark from trees that are not otherwise snapped from their base.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: Wind, hurricane, Storms
“In 1979, Pluto crossed Neptune’s orbit, and for 20 years was the eighth “planet” in the solar system.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: pluto, planets, neptune
“Just an FYI: It takes twice as much energy to throw a baseball 100mph than it does to throw one at 70mph. Do The Physics.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: baseball, Sports, physics
“I wonder why nobody has ever called pre-historic cave paintings Graffiti. Maybe that’s precisely what it was back then.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: History, graffiti, cave paintings
“Male & female Reindeer grow antlers, but males lose them in winter. All Santa’s reindeer, Rudolph too, are therefore female.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: reindeer, santa, Christmas, rudolph
“Christmas Full Moon tonight. Happens, on average, about once every thirty years. Same for every other day of the month.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: Christmas, full moon, Sky
“FYI: Crude Oil is just as “natural” as Natural Gas. They both derive from buried, long-dead, decomposed plants & animals.””— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: natural gas, oil, plants, Animals
“Average time between full moons is 29.53 days. Which means February will occasionally not get one, and will never have two.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: full moon, february, calendar
“A bullet fired level from a gun will hit ground at same time as a bullet dropped from the same height. Do the Physics.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: physics, Guns, bullets
“Italy valued cathedrals while Spain valued explorers. So worldwide, five times as many people speak Spanish than Italian”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: italian, spanish, explorers, Church
“Exterminators: The only profession in which you put yourself out of business by being really good at your job.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: Career, exterminator, Business
“Just an FYI: Thursday the 12th is just as rare as Friday the 13th.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: friday the 13, unique, calendar
“In 5-billion years the Sun will expand and engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: Sun, orbit, Death
“The Leap Day is misnamed. We’re not leaping anywhere. The calendar is simply, and abruptly, catching up with Earth’s orbit”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: leap year, calendar, Earth, orbit
“Wanna lose 1200 calories a month? Drink a liter of ice water a day. You burn the energy just raising the water to body temp.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: calories, Weight, Water
“If you are born on a Leap Day, you share this distinction with about 1 out of 1,400 people in the world.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: leap day, birthday, unique
“The closest thing to fatally passing through a portal into another dimension is when fish get yanked out of water, then eaten.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: fish, portals, dimensions
“If you have a gene for celibacy, you didn’t inherit it.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: celibacy, Virginity, Sex, genes