Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Troll-Heavy Thoughts on Star Wars: The Force Awakens
My promised observations of @StarWars Episode VII #TheForceAwakens follows (with only mild spoiler alerts).
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) December 21, 2015
I love a good scientific take on a sci-fi movie as much as the next nerd, and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson usually has some helpful insights. Usually. Sometimes, he’s just trolling about a movie wherein people can feel each others’ presence and move s*** with their minds.
So here are Tyson’s thoughts on Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which I believe fall firmly in that latter camp:
In @StarWars #TheForceAwakens, I’m reminded that Red & Blue teams cooperate with one another. Rare in American Politics.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) December 21, 2015
In @StarWars #TheForceAwakens, BB-8 is waaaaay cuter than R2D2.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) December 21, 2015
In @StarWars #TheForceAwakens, if you were to suck all of a star’s energy into your planet, your planet would vaporize.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) December 21, 2015
In @StarWars #TheForceAwakens, once again I felt isolated and inadequate for not understanding Wookiee-speak.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) December 21, 2015
Never seen Romanescu Broccoli? Fractal Earth food befitting a tale of long ago and far, far away. pic.twitter.com/NZDkWpeqOB
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) December 21, 2015
In @StarWars #TheForceAwakens, the Storm Troopers still run as though they’re carrying a full load of poop in their diapers.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) December 21, 2015
In @StarWars #TheForceAwakens, apparently Wookiees don’t age, or they age much slower than human actors do.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) December 21, 2015
And then there was the requisite stuff about parsecs being a measure of distance and spaceships not actually making sounds in space, because science. There was also this, which is absolutely fake, but I wish very much that it were not:
Jesus. C’mon, man pic.twitter.com/oj7WHsvTb8
— Patrick Monahan (@pattymo) December 21, 2015
I guess Tyson’s troll game still has some room for improvement. In the end, though, Star Wars is all about family:
Both at age 19, my wife saw @StarWars in 1977 & our daughter saw #TheForceAwakens in 2015. I don’t know what that means.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) December 21, 2015
(featured image via Disney/Lucasfilm)
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