Neil DeGrasse-Tyson: Millenium Falcon or Enterrpise?

[Archae]

Guess which one Neil picks?

[merrily]

1. Fake fake or real fake? A fake real Hobson's choice?

[DawgHouse]

2. He is one of my favorite people.

I agree with him, too!

[longship]

3. Yup! Not even close.

Plus, the Enterprise had Montgomery Scott, and the Millenium Falcon only had a Yeti clone, or a dude wearing a shag carpet, as the engineer, second officer -- actually the only other crew member.

Tyson gets it right. Star Wars is a fantasy; Star Trek is something else entirely.

Plus, then there's George Lucas fucking things all up. Eewoks, Jar-Jar, and never ending other future kiddy toy product placements. Even during the second movie there was ominous evidence that the products would trump any story line. Plus, once Return of the Jedi was released, all fears of that were confirmed.

That is why Star Wars so utterly sucks as an enterprise and why the starship Enterprise triumphs over anything in Lucas's sleazy marketing program entitled Star Wars.

I am not planning on seeing the new Star Wars, even though I highly suspect that Luke Skywalker gives into the dark side in it.

[daleanime]

5. Nerds are always alert.....

it's how we survived High School.

[Bucky]

8. IOW, being alert enough to distinguish the signal from the noise

[caraher]

7. Don't even ask him about the Kessel Run

What could it even mean to do that "in 12 parsecs?"

[byronius]

11. "hand me that hydrospanner"

[malthaussen]

9. Furthermore, there are insane people who think we can build the Enterprise

http://www.buildtheenterprise.org/

Show me a concept for the Falcon.

-- Mal

[ljm2002]

12. Before I watch...

...I'm gonna guess Millenium Falcon.



On edit:

Oops.

[tazkcmo]

13. I "guessed" the Enterprise.

I only got it right because I love good SciFi and the best is based on real science. As a scientist I figured he would agree so it was easy to guess the Enterprise because it IS the most real fake.

[FailureToCommunicate]

14. I guessed he chose Roddenberry's humanity over Lucas' wiz-bang. Am I correct?

[navarth]

15. When they discover warp drive

only the rich will be able to afford it.

All kidding aside:

I agree with the Good Doctor: The Enterprise. Not necessarily because it's more real or whatever; just because it would have so much better accomodations.

Who wouldn't like to have their own custom holodeck program?

[oldandhappy]

16. I want a real real Enterprise! Please!

Really like Tyson.