Watch the full Bill Maher episode…
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I’m looking for the clips on YouTube, but the best parts aren’t on YT. He completely dismantled Neil DeGrasse Tyson over issues of trust in science/medicine and the complete abdication of scientists like himself and the editors of Scientific America to the cultural left. He made Tyson look like a fool.
Me/rry/Christmas
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@LuFins-Dad said in Watch the full Bill Maher episode…:
He made Tyson look like a fool.
As if he Tyson hadn't done it to himself.
The man had developed all the street-cred of Bill Nye, The Mechanical Engineer.
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Tyson commented on the long-distance swimmer...
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7277665/
In open-water long-distance swimming events of the ’Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming’ with the ’Catalina Channel Swim’, the ’English Channel Swim’ and the ’Manhattan Island Marathon Swim’, women were about 0.06 km/h faster than men. In master swimmers (i.e., age groups 25–29 to 90–94 years) competing in the FINA (Fédération Internationale de Natation) World Championships in pool swimming in freestyle, backstroke, butterfly, breaststroke, individual medley and in 3000-m open-water swimming, women master swimmers appeared able to achieve similar performances as men in the oldest age groups (i.e., older than 75–80 years). In boys and girls aged 5–18 years—and listed in the all-time top 100 U.S. freestyle swimming performances from 50 m to 1500 m—the five fastest girls were faster than the five fastest boys until the age of ~10 years. After the age of 10 years, and until the age of 17 years, however, boys were increasingly faster than girls. Therefore, women tended to decrease the existing sex differences in specific age groups (i.e., younger than 10 years and older than 75–80 years) and swimming strokes in pool-swimming or even to overperform men in long-distance open-water swimming (distance of ~30 km), especially under extreme weather conditions (water colder than ~20 °C). Two main variables may explain why women can swim faster than men in open-water swimming events: (i) the long distance of around 30 km, (ii) and water colder than ~20 °C.
IOW, if testosterone is not an issue, women might be faster.
But that's too scienc-ey for the astronomer.
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Education is extremely important.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Here's 17 minutes' worth, not sure if it contains the good stuff LD is referring to.
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@George-K said in Watch the full Bill Maher episode…:
@Horace said in Watch the full Bill Maher episode…:
I hope the same fate does not await Mr Maher.
He probably has bodyguards.
Stay safe, @Horace.
It was a dark chapter in the history of TNCR - but I'm glad I was the victim, if it had to happen to somebody. I wouldn't wish it on anybody else. Except jon. I recall telling the violent stalker that I was the tall white guy in Napa, while jon happened to be there. But other than jon - I wouldn't wish it on anybody else.
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@Horace said in Watch the full Bill Maher episode…:
but I'm glad I was the victim
We were all glad you were the victim, H.
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@Horace said in Watch the full Bill Maher episode…:
@George-K said in Watch the full Bill Maher episode…:
@Horace said in Watch the full Bill Maher episode…:
I hope the same fate does not await Mr Maher.
He probably has bodyguards.
Stay safe, @Horace.
It was a dark chapter in the history of TNCR - but I'm glad I was the victim, if it had to happen to somebody. I wouldn't wish it on anybody else. Except jon. I recall telling the violent stalker that I was the tall white guy in Napa, while jon happened to be there. But other than jon - I wouldn't wish it on anybody else.
LOL
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BTW the video above doesn't include what LD was talking about, this does, starting around the 5:00.
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If he is so sure that there is no difference between athletics and the genders, then just eliminate separate competitions for men and women.
Just have one category for swimming, one league for basketball, tennis, etc.
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@taiwan_girl said in Watch the full Bill Maher episode…:
If he is so sure that there is no difference between athletics and the genders, then just eliminate separate competitions for men and women.
Just have one category for swimming, one league for basketball, tennis, etc.
There's actually no rule in professional sports that women can't compete with men. If a woman was good enough, the major sports leagues would swoon over the marketing opportunity, in fact. The rules are always in the opposite direction, which tells you all you need to know.
Education is extremely important.
