Amazing what Neil deGrasse Tyson will post on Twitter

[Playinghardball]

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson · Aug 16
Always wondered how different The Wizard of Oz would have been had Dorothy gone left at the fork in the yellow brick road.

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson · Aug 16
Happy 75th anniversary to The Wizard of Oz. Good to know (for future reference) that witches are water-soluble.

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson · Aug 16
Happy 75th anniv. to The Wizard of Oz. Gotta love it even though Lions & Tigers & Bears hail from three different continents.

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson · Aug 16
"And Toto too?" Happy 75th anniv. to The Wizard of Oz. Gotta love it even though Scarecrow got the Pythagorean theorem wrong.

[mindwalker_i]

1. deGrasse awarded an extra 100 geek points

[Warpy]

2. Well, they couldn't take the other fork

because it ran into a wall on the sound stage.

In fact, you can see the transition from yellow brick road to trompe l'oiel scenery flat in every scene. True geeks yell "BONK!" every time the actors skip right up to it.

[Calista241]

3. I like to think that he does his own twitter.

Rather than contracting it out to some agent or flunky.

The man is a genius.

[A Little Weird]

4. "Witches are water-soluble"

That made me laugh.

[jmondine]

5. He is wrong about lions, tigers and bears

All three can be found in Asia, even in the same country. India has a tiny population of native lions, smaller in stature and with smaller manes than their African cousins. Three species of bear live there as well. And the Bengal tiger is well known.

Oz sure doesn't resemble India in many other ways, though.

[jwirr]

6. I wonder where Big Ed has been this week or if he has deferred to Neil this week due to what is

happening in Ferguson MO.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

7. The first one reminds me of "Labyrinth".

"Don't go that way! Never go that way!"
"If she'd have kept going that way, she'd have gone straight to that castle".

[HuckleB]

8. My favorite of his from this summer:

"Argentina gets the second place medal. FYI: Argentum (Ag) on the Periodic Table of Elements is more commonly known as Silver."