Ooops, one wrong word "invent" .....
/It happens to all of us, right?
A cow is a biological machine created by God to turn grass into steak.
There. Fixed it.
Who cares what either of these room temperature IQ’s posing as mental giants thinks on both stuff and things.
Well he’s right, in a sense.
Domestication is in essence “inventing” a new form of a previously wild species. Today’s modern dairy cow is very much an invented animal.
Today’s modern corn, for instance, would never have existed without human interaction. All of the breeds of dogs we have are another.
He is right in that we took a wild ox and domesticated them for food and optimized their biology around the idea of being food.
This guy never struck me as especially smart—despite his degrees.
We’ve bred them. Sure, our intervention isn’t usually as profound as with dogs or as debilitating as with domestic turkeys, but some breeds of domestic cows ARE our inventions: some would die without us. This is especially true of certain breeds of dairy cattle.
And before you go there: very very few actual inventions arise from nothing, almost all are rearrangements of what what already there, of something created by someone else ... the idea of “inventing” does not exclude breeding critters.
Maybe deGrasse Tyson confused the cow with the turducken...
“A cow is a biological machine invented by humans to turn grass into steak. “
All this negativity. Shouldn’t we just say “Thank you.”?
Now, fire up that grill...
The Aurochs where the base form of cattle.
We did domesticate them, but they are still a descendant of the auroch.
He has a layman’s way of expressing himself, but he is probably right.
Cows have been bred to be as domesticated and docile as possible to a point where they probably could not survive in the wild.
He should stick to astrophysics. /sarc
Tyson is NOT my go to guy for anything.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson is a biological machine invented by humans to turn coffee into urine.
Cows do not good steaks make. Steers, that’s where the good stuff is. A milk cow is good for turning into burger, maybe, at best.
Neil deGrasse Tyson was on Family Feud, and the host Steve Harvey had a field day mocking him. I could NOT believe what I was watching! He riffed hilariously about the pronunciation of the seventh planet, all the while casting his glance and body language towards Tyson’s posterior.
Tyson stood there with that “deer in the headlights” look. It was HYSTERICAL.
I don't believe man invented the cow. If we had, someone would have a national holiday in their honor and there would be a 5th face in My. Rushmore. Go steak!
The responses are great.