Child Culture Guide for Adults: Lick the Space Stone, Kyle
This week’s guide is about science. We’ve got aerospace engineers licking space rocks, YouTube influencers using lie detectors, Neil DeGrass Tyson’s Twitter feud on frozen meat, and other tales of when great scientific minds meet the internet scum.
This Week in Science Part One: Neil DeGrasse Tyson vs. Steak Umm
Astrophysicist Neil DeGrass Tyson feudes on Twitter with Steak mmm. The beef (see?) Started off with a tweet from Tyson that said, “The good thing about science is that it’s true whether you believe it or not,” and went a little viral. It was too much for Steak-Umm, a brand of processed frozen beef sheets, which fired back, “Come on, bro.”
Steak-Umm followed by an explanation: “Science itself is not ‘true’, it is an ever-improving process used to uncover truths based on material reality, and the process is still full of errors. Neal is just posting such ridiculous sound bites for the sake of influence. “
The strangest thing about this conflict (among other things) is that Steak-Umm is right. Maybe not about Tyson’s motivation, but about his argument. Maybe Tyson’s lack of response indicates a shy admission of his epistemological error, or maybe he’s not getting into a fiery war on junk food marketing accounts, but I hope a series of debates is being prepared behind the scenes, and I hope Whoever runs social media. Steak-Umm, he gets a raise for his brilliant alternative marketing opportunity. I want a cheese steak.
This Week in Science Part Two: Scientist Tries Mars
Texas graduate student Kyle Morgenstein recently showed off the cool stone from another world on Twitter, sending a sexy photo of the mineral with the caption: “This stone is 3.5 billion years old. This stone is from Mars. “
Twitter commentators, of course, immediately demanded that Kyle lick it. First, he said, writing on Twitter : “I refuse to infect it, I have not even touched him! Most of the time he’s in a temperature and humidity controlled plastic mini display case lol.
But after a billion people tweeted “Lick Space Rock, Kyle,” a petition was launched on Change.org and #lickthespacerockkyle began to gain traction, Kyle succumbed to popular demand.
In the video, an angry scientist said, “Okay. You will all win. You want to see me lick the stone so hard … I will lick the Mars stone. “
Verdict? “This is where salt is needed,” Morgenstein said. The space rock, which flew 177 million miles to Earth as a meteorite, received no comment.
This Week in Science Part Three: The DNA Testing Nightmare
The rise in the number of at-home DNA testing kits has allowed thousands of people to discover their origins, understand their genetic health history, and learn that their relatives are notorious serial killers . But that’s not all. DNA recruiting ends TikTok user @ mattilathehun’s relationship.
She did not know her biological father and was worried about how her genes might affect her health, so her boyfriend bought her a DNA kit for her birthday. The tests were on sale, so her boyfriend bought one too. This turned out to be a bad idea. When the results came, the young couple learned that they were cousins. Not cousins, but a cousin – enough to worry.
Since they are not part of the British royal family, the couple decided to end their relationship instead of using it to join their fiefdoms and consolidate political power. @mattilathehun also turned her TikTok off, presumably because the commenters get a little nervous when you go viral from bumping into your cousin by chance.
Viral Video of the Week: Lexi Rivera and Andrew Davila Face a Lie Detector
I didn’t know who Lexi Rivera and Andrew Davila were before looking for them, but young people love them so muchthat the couple taking a lie detector test has become one of the most watched YouTube videos this week.
The two Gen-Z influencers have millions of followers on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and BligBlag (I came up with it), and they seem interesting enough for their fans to want to use the truth machine to get deep into their minds. … (What are you hiding , Andrew Davila?)
While I could figure out how to use a lie detector to ask terrifying questions of a celebrity trapped in a cage in a dark basement, this video doesn’t look like it. The interview is good-natured, the questions are trivial (“Do you think Lexi is attractive?” Are as juicy as possible), and everyone seems to be having a good time.
It’s too helpful for me, but I’m not here to judge. I’m just telling you what kids are watching on YouTube. It seems that polygraph videos are getting more popular when “I think they’re celebrities or something,” likeJames Charles ,Brent Rivera, and Pearson Wodzinski, buckle up their car and tell the truth.