Looks like Miles O’Brien scored a new job as Science Editor for PBS.
So today, on his first time at bat on the Newshour he reports on the Nobel Prizes for the scientists who experimented with graphene.
Given the fact that graphene is carbon, Jim Lehrer asks O’Brien where carbon comes from.
Miles replies, “From the Big Bang”.
He’s off by several hundred million years.
Seriously, how the fuck does this guy get such a plum science job ?
So how much Brien does PBS have now?
I was looking forward to a nice star trek rant. Damn.
Miles o’ Brien.
Meh, he doesn’t have a science degree, he’s just a news guy that gives some attention to science . That’s a pretty mild mistake. The anchors should know he’s not equipped to answer on the fly.
Yeah, me too. I didn’t know there was another one besides this Miles O’Brien.
I thought everything came from the big bang.
For elements heavier that oxygen and lighter than iron, it requires nuclear fusion, which occurs inside stars, which formed significantly after the big bang. Those elements heavier than iron are formed by nucleosynthesis during a supernova explosion.
(at least that’s what I learned. I"m sure I have something messed up, and someone will be around to correct me soon. No anchor position for me!)
Boooo…
And I just wanted a chance to say “He’s such a Meaney!”
Colm down.
Seriously, relax Chief.
Yeah, don’t go up a hill and come back down a mountain. By the way, the replicator in my quarters isn’t functioning.
Heavier than lithium.
Fun fact. According to Neil deGrass Tyson, lithium is not made in stars. That means all the lithium in the universe was created in the Big Bang.
Ol’ Neil doesn’t think Pluto’s a planet, either. Doesn’t mean he’s right.
EDIT: Of course, other scientists who didn’t make children cry agree with him, so there’s that.
How long do we count until the end of the big bang? Is it the first millionth of a second of the univers? Or the first second? Or the first hundred thousand years?
Same here. Chief O’Brien was way way cooler.
Well, thanks to this thread, I learned something, so it looks like O’Brien is working out fine.
Until the first cigarette is lit, I propose.
Solo, dad.