Actually, it’s not a leap because it’s neither upwards or forwards.
The orbit is already ahead of our count so we add a day is moving us backwards along the orbital count.
If we removed a day then that missing day would be a leap day as we leap over it to the next day in the calendar.
So really this is the non-leap since we’re counting it, it’s all the other years that don’t have a 29th that are leap years because we’re leaping over the 29th day of February.
You can also leap backwards
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Yes. This
The count is ahead of the orbit, but otherwise, yes.
He could have posted something about how the universe doesn’t fit our preconceived ideas and how this day is an example of that and that this means you should dig deeper to get to the truth because it’s usually a lot more complex than what it seems.
But no, Neil woke up and chose dumbassery
That’s exactly what he’s trying to do. He likes to poke holes at commonly accepted things in an attempt to make people think about stuff that they don’t normally think about and make them ask why more often. This is a good thing. Unfortunately, it just comes across as annoying to a lot of people.
Umm, ackshully, Neil, it’s called that because it makes each day on the calendar “leap” forward a day as a result.
Can we ease up on the Neil hate?
It’s not like we give Elmo shit for telling everyone a triangle has three sides.
Neil is the modern lowest common denominator for encouraging an interest in science.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson has been accused of rape and sexual misconduct by several different people, but go off I guess
Sure, but what do his dumb tweets have to do with that?
Also, some of the allegations are very, very dumb.
“Sexual misconduct” because he moved a bit of her T-shirt on her shoulder as she was showing Neil her tattoo? Stupid.
Another saying Neil was making sexual advances to her after she went up to his apartment alone for a drink. You don’t say??
From the apparent quotes, he was utterly polite about it all, he didn’t throw himself at her.
I’m no NGT fan. My comment was a jab at his fanbase being similar to Elmo’s. He’s a pop-culture scientist, yet everyone acts like he’s the stupidest Mensa member, when he doesn’t even qualify.
His stance on philosophy discredits his positions and makes him sound particularly pompous.
My point stands.
Children don’t give a shit about philosophy.
He’s a science communicator, yet you’re treating him like he’s a genius.
He’s a pop-culture scientist.
Yeah science ambassador is a rough gig in a culture famously hostile to intellectualism and human kindness.
Scienxe ambassador at the cost of philosophy. I don’t think he deserves any praise as an intellectual with the aforementioned character flaw.
No.
But on the topic, why are you attacking a prominent trans ally like Neil in 196?
Don’t forget that if you ever do some heinous shit, everything you have done or ever will do is equally bad or worse. Your only ethical choice is to crawl under a porch and die.
/s
Anyhow, there are a lot of Americans on here and that whole place seems to have a massive erection for purity.
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“In English, we don’t have a word for spicy” - Neil touchgrass Tyson at a linguistics conference.
I’m starting to suspect that being good at astrophysics doesn’t mean you’re automatically the best at everything else too.
Is that a real quote? I’m starting to think Neil is actually hilarious and we’re all missing the joke
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No, but I had to google it to make sure
I think it was some panel about conlangs? (the inventor of Dothraki was there too). I wish I could find it again.
He haa talked on podcasts before how he enjoys trolling on twitter, I can’t say for sure the OP image is trolling or him being a dork
“I was just trolling” - a 12 year old after he realizes he just said something stupid.
As if trolling isn’t a real thing that people do?
Piquant
Should call it jerk day.
Every day is jerk day for me ^because ^I ^love ^well-seasoned ^food.
Every day is jerk day for me for a very different reason
(Unrelated note: Lemmy’s lack of support for ascending superscripts annoys me.)
Actually how do you do superscript at all I could never get it to work for me :(
Unlike Reddit, where you only needed a carat at the beginning of the word, with Lemmy you need one at both the beginning and end of each word
^like^ ^this^.yay
Every day is jerk day for me because im a huge asshole
Hey. The jerk store called, they’re out of you!
We love u anyway x
Right now is pork roll day for me because of your username
I can get down with this.
No no no, calendar is stopping, so March 1 can be a day later. We’re not jumping, we’re waiting for some time to pass before resuming counting.
Axschualllllly… We leap during the night.
STFU Neil.
Tyson is an incredibly unpleasant person though. It’s hard to see past his shitty personality.
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But, don’t we just like wait a day for the orbit to catch up with our slightly to short calendar?!
Like, seriously Neil.
