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When Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs was released in 2009, it opened our eyes to a future of meteorology and food science that no one had thought possible. <\/p>\n
Since then, thousands of the most promising students of our time have committed their careers to realizing the dream of spaghetti tornados. It is fair to say our generation of scientists is the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Generation.<\/p>\n
So when prophetic writer Sony Pictures Animation returned with Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs Two, your correspondent sat down in his dorm room with Neil deGrasse Tyson \u2013 the renowned astrophysicist and actor, known for his roles as \u201cPenelope\u201d in the documentary series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey and as \u201cDrake\u201d on deGrassi\u2013to hear his thoughts on the science behind the meatballs. <\/p>\n
On the film\u2019s significance to modern science: <\/p>\n
I do science stuff these days, and I\u2019m just like, “Blah.” You know? But this! This movie reminds me why I spent my own college years in loveless wretchedness. Yeah, I know it\u2019s sad, man\u2026 Haha… yeah… right \u2013 nothing a bowl and a half won\u2019t fix. Man, you guys are the best. This room and a pizza and Cloudy with a Chance of freaking Meatballs Two is Pasteur\u2019s real \u201ctorch which illuminates the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the film\u2019s depiction of talking monkeys: <\/p>\n
[Cough] Ha! That monkey is hilarious, dood. And that\u2019s all real. No really, there\u2019s a talking baboon in the NASA office\u2026 NASA director Charles Bolden! Boom! Fuck that guy!<\/p>\n
On the feasibility of taco animals:<\/p>\n
That’s stupid… Who has tacos?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Alex Foster Dec. 30, 2014 When Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs was released in 2009, it opened our eyes to a future of meteorology and food science that no one had thought possible. Since then, thousands of the most promising students of our time have committed their careers to realizing the dream of spaghetti tornados. It is fair to say our generation of scientists is the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Generation. So when prophetic writer Sony Pictures Animation returned with Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs Two, your correspondent sat down in his dorm room with Neil deGrasse Tyson \u2013 the renowned astrophysicist and actor, known for his roles as \u201cPenelope\u201d in the documentary series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey and as \u201cDrake\u201d on deGrassi\u2013to hear his thoughts on the science behind the meatballs. On the film\u2019s significance to modern science: I do science stuff these days, and I\u2019m just like, “Blah.” You know? But this! This movie reminds me why I spent my own college years in loveless wretchedness. Yeah, I know it\u2019s sad, man\u2026 Haha… yeah… right \u2013 nothing a bowl and a half won\u2019t fix. Man, you guys are the best. This room and a pizza and Cloudy with a Chance of freaking Meatballs Two is Pasteur\u2019s real \u201ctorch which illuminates the world.\u201d On the film\u2019s depiction of talking monkeys: [Cough] Ha! That monkey is hilarious, dood. And that\u2019s all real. No really, there\u2019s a talking baboon in the NASA office\u2026 NASA director Charles Bolden! Boom! Fuck that guy! On the feasibility of taco animals: That’s stupid… Who has tacos?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3132,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions\/3132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}