“Equinox is “Equal Night” in Latin, but refraction in Earth’s atmosphere adds minutes of extra sunshine at sunrise & sunset.””— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: equinox, latin, Atmosphere, sunrise
“In Terminator, only living things can time-travel. But hair is dead. So Arnold should've landed in LA not only naked but bald”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: terminator, hair, bald, Movies
“Guns don’t kill people. Bullets kill people. Fired from guns, brandished by people, who shoot you by accident or on purpose.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: Guns, firearms, Death, Murder
“If Earth stopped rotating, everyone not bolted to the ground would fall over and roll due east at the speed of a jet plane.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: Earth, rotation, east
“If I ever met a Space Alien, I’d resist shaking its extended appendage, not knowing for sure the details of alien anatomy.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: Aliens, Space, Anatomy
“THIN AIR: The size of Earth’s atmosphere relative to Earth is the same as the skin of an Apple relative to the Apple.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: Earth, Atmosphere, apples
“Earth gets slammed by a hundred tons of meteors per day. Most, harmlessly vaporizing in the atmosphere as shooting stars.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: Earth, meteors, Shooting Stars
“The elevation difference between the Marianas Trench & Mount Everest’s summit is a mere 12 miles. Manhattan is a mile longer.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: elevation, mount everest, Manhattan, Distance
“To tell you the truth, beginning a sentence with, “To tell you the truth,” throws into question all else you’ve previous said.””— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: Truth, Lies, Communication
“The exact Rainbow any of us sees in the sky is entirely our own -- a personal, yet communal gift from the laws of optics.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: rainbow, Point of View, optics, sight
“A Rainbow forms only broadside to your line of sight. That's why the pot of Gold at its base remains eternally out of reach.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: rainbow, Science, sight
“June 20 vs June 21: Solstices (& Equinoxes) annually migrate 6-hrs later, until a Leap Year, when they reset 24-hrs earlier.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: solstices, equinoxes, leap year
“Some of my best friends -- actually every one of my best friends -- are made of chemicals.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: Chemicals, Friends, Science
“If each dead person became a ghost, there'd be more than 100-billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: Ghosts, Death, Afterlife, creepy
“Slowest pitch in Baseball to reach catcher? 30mph, thrown at 45-deg angle. Any slower at any other angle hits ground.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: baseball, Sports, physics
“Comment-Thread Virus: The urge to argue vociferously even when you have no actual idea of what you are talking about.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: commenting, Internet, trolls
“Will enjoy colorful fireworks tonight? Thank aluminum barium calcium chlorine copper iron nitrogen oxygen sodium and strontium.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: Science, Fireworks, periodic table
“The most boring constellation: Triangulum Australis. A profound lack of imagination - any 3 stars in the sky makes a triangle.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: constellation, Stars, Sky
“When a doctor’s prognosis is bad, we want to seek a second opinion. But when a prognosis is good we’re somehow okay with it.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: doctors, Illness, Sick, Death
“Seems every few decades the World goes batshit crazy. Just long enough to forget the last time the World went batshit crazy.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.comTagged: War, Violence, humanity