"And another thing that annoys me!" Topic

Michio Kaku's voice.
He sounds like a very intelligent school teacher explaining relativity to third graders.

I've always wanted to see him on some sort of celebrity reality show like Survivor. No, no, no!!! Manhunter!

At first I thought, "Who?"

Then I thought, "Wait, wasn't that the nutty physicists who thought the plutonium batteries on the Cassini-Hyugens probe were going to kill everybody?"

A quick Google, and yep, that was him.

I appreciate his string theory work, but other than that I pretty much ignore this guy. He strikes me as someone who needs to stick to his very specialized field.

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Plus, he has hair like a Personal Injury Lawyer consultant to cable news.

I think he tries to make science fun and approachable as Carl Sagan. Not quite as genuine but a solid effort.

What's a Mitchio KaKa? Never heard of this one either….

Oh the Great Void has ways of drawing in the ecclectic, egregious and eccentric. If you can't get a Nobel, get a contract.

If you have to ask who he is, he doesn't annoy you.

And his commercials currently plague the Science Channel.

He doesn't bother me. Seems like a friendly sort.

He drives me bats. The kind of self promoting guy that irritates me. Undoubtably he could run rings around in in theoretical physics, but he comments on anything science related items and claims to be a "futurist"

Give me Carl Sagan over Michio Kaku any day. Of course Sagan ticked me off in other ways.

I find myself wanting string theory to be wrong.

I've read one of his books. I like him.

He may be trying to promote science, but if he had succeeded in his effort to block the Cassini probe, he would have done more damage to scientific exploration than anything since the cancellation of the Apollo program… and I don't mean just because Cassini wouldn't have flown— I mean because it would have set a precedent that would have shut down *all* space probe missions beyond Mars orbit. The long-term effects would have been devastating to our efforts to understand the solar system, especially the outer planets, their moons, and of course the only vaguely understood Kuiper objects, not to mention much further flung probe missions. The fear-mongering he engaged in, based on what I can only interpret as a fundamental lack of understanding of spacecraft engineering, coupled with a superstitious fear of nuclear power, was irresponsible and reprehensible, particularly coming from a man who should have known just how silly and improbable his doomsday scenario was. Sorry, but I cannot give his pronouncements outside of theoretical physics much weight (and his behaviour makes me take a more skeptical glance at what he has to say there as well).

Wonder if he thinks the super-collider is going to produce a black hole and consume the Earth? (Or, since that experiment has a lot to do with his own theories, maybe he's going to give it a pass.)

Heard him on "Coast To Coast A.M." one night.