I’m all for pedantry, but any human metaphor is clearly referring to a human perspective, and it’s very reasonable to call any temperature that is too high to sustain human life hot.
You certainly don’t need 5700K to do that. Garden variety Summer is enough, every year.
Neill DeBush Tyson.
Tyson IMO went service industry worker crazy without the usual pressure of getting fired for talking back or snarking at the customers.
Because being tapped to be the new Science Communicator Supreme sounds like a huge honor until you realize you’re now cursed to constantly be dealing with having to rehash the same bullshit you’ve long since lost interest in because of repetition over and over again on morning news shows, when you’re not instead dealing with Stephen Colbert trying to Checkmate Atheists you over your own field of study.
He’s not even correct all the time. I saw him speak about osmosis once and he was saying solutes move across the cell membrane via osmosis. By definition osmosis is the movement of water. It really struck me at the time because was so confident sounding and I have never trusted him since
I don’t know what colbert did but my trust in him is automatically higher than in Tyson.
the surface is the coolest part. maybe he was talking about the core, which for Sol is 150 million Kelvin. he also didn’t say which sun he was referring to
The only thing tyson has ever really proven himself is that even when you are right, you are still a asshole.
Then he started rambling about kissing mirrors for a few hours
Ok Neil, tell me a single element that doesnt turn to gas at that temperature.
Then tell me about the temperature at the inside of the sun, not the surface.
Hydrogen is not a gas at that temperature. It’s a plasma.
/s
technically correct is the best kind of correct!
Neil degrasse replyguy
Stars don’t burn anything anyway.
I’m pretty sure the sun isn’t massive enough to go supernova.
He’s talking about the other star still
Ah, makes sense.
