If your life is sad and unfulfilling, you may have totally missed the most important holiday of the year: Pi Day. Tuesday marked the annual celebration of the mathematical constant, meaning you know damn well Neil deGrasse Tyson made an appearance on last night's Late Show. After sharing a 40-second tune honoring Pi's unmatched legacy, Tyson sat down with host Stephen Colbert to drag Pluto and put the recent onslaught of crystallized water into perspective.
"My son is much better at it than I am," Tyson said after running down some Pi decimals with Colbert. "He got 61 decimal places. In the big picture, that's not very much. He's 16 now, but he had that from age 11." When Colbert argued that nothing is "very much" when compared with infinity, Tyson said his son would still fare well in the future. "I think the Force is strong with him," he said.
After some snow talk, Tyson and Colbert addressed the ongoing Pluto debate. Though Tyson often takes the heat for his Pluto comments, he told Colbert that other people are actually to blame. "There are people like Mike Brown who discovered the objects in the outer solar system that forced that vote," he said. "In fact, he's guilty. His Twitter handle is @PlutoKiller."
While we're at it, peep @PlutoKiller's pinned tweet:
Brown, Tyson added, "put himself under the bus" and he's simply pointing it out. And as for the Pluto apologists on the other side of this debate? Tyson said they need to move on already. "They should just, like, get over it," Tyson said. "Pluto had it coming from the beginning. It never really belonged."
Yeah, Neil. Fuck Pluto!
