Not that it takes a lot for Twitter users to get angry, but still.
Neil deGrasse Tyson recently caught flack for calling lunar eclipses “un-spectacular” on the platform.
The first lunar eclipse of 2022 rose over the weekend, beginning on Sunday night and bequeathing upon the Heavens a Blood Moon.
While many a celestial viewer here on Earth undoubtedly craned their necks and wondered at the beauty of it all, Tyson published a post to his Twitter account that night that expressed a feeling of, shall we say, being unimpressed?
“Lunar eclipses are so un-spectacular that if nobody told you what was happening to the Moon you’d probably not notice at all,” reads Tyson’s tweet. “Just sayin’.”
In trying to see it from Tyson’s point of view, maybe when you have decades of experience in astrophysics—from publishing dozens of studies in acclaimed journals to hosting your own show—a lunar eclipse could kind of be boring compared to everything else space has going on.
Nevertheless, others on Twitter who viewed Tyson’s tweet were a bit perplexed at it, with responses ranging from concerned to irate to dripping with sarcasm.
“Yeah man the moon sucks,” reads one such sarcastic tweet.
“Why discourage anyone from looking up?” asks another. “From embracing the beauty of the night sky and the wonders of the cosmos?”
“Get their a**es,” reads yet another. “Lunar eclipses have had it too good for too long.”
And finally, as posted by none other than Wendy’s themselves: “Sir, this is a Wendy’s.”