Bill Nye the Science Guy! We remember him. “Bill Nye the Science Guy” was a 90s television program on PBS Kids that taught science in fun and accessible ways to children. Explaining science to children, you might say, is Bill Nye’s great gift. Here is Bill Nye talking to Fox News anchor Jon Scott about the exciting recent discovery of volcanoes on the Moon and its implications for life’s origins. Scott isn’t terribly interested in this, but he does want to know if these volcano things caused the climate change on the moon. It’s not like humans even burned any fossil fuels on the moon, and look how the moon turned out!
Bill Nye sort of stares at him for a second, because for a scientist this irrational tangent is probably a little hard to follow. Sorry, Bill, we should have reminded you to review a dictionary of idiot speak before you went on the show. The word “science” sounds like “global warming conspiracy” in a Fox News brain. Nye patiently explains to Jon Scott that volcanoes have nothing to do with global warming, mining does, and science shows that global warming will make Earth into a hellfire lava pool that kills off every living thing, more like Venus. That’s what “science” says. Blank stare. What do hippie leftist environazis have to do with Venus? Okay, well thanks. That’s the last time Fox News tries to invite an actual children’s science teacher on the program. [Media Matters]
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This only means one thing: Defund PBS!
Even better, do what Greasy, Gasping Fat Fuck Christie did with NJ's PBS station, and privatize it.
Hey Jon, in space they can't hear you scream all your racist, homophobic, anti-muslin rants…
And that's why nobody wants to go to space anymore.
Can't hear Faux News in space? Where do I sign up?
Who put dat dere, huh? Who put dat dere? Nobody knows.
Bill O'Reilly actually said that to Richard Dawkins, making the task of me ridiculing him embarrassingly easy.
Didja notice how Jon actually let Bill Nye finish multiple sentences in a row without shouting him down?
Fox News Anchor FAIL, Jon.
Perhaps The Science Guy had warned him before the segment started, "Hey, Jon, now that physical contact is okay here at Fox, I should warn you that I'm a fifth degree blackbelt and if you interrupt me or cut me off I'm gonna put my left foot right here" (pointing to the anchor's adam's apple).
In that guy's defense, Hugh Hewitt is a complete sack of shit. If any douchebag deserves to have the smug slapped out of them, it's… actually a three-way tie between him, Grover Norquist, and Andy Breitbart.
The dweeb was probably still challenged by the task of processing sentence 1 when sentence 2 came out… and it snowballed on him.
My 5-year-old daughter, on the other hand (now studying neuroscience), had no problem with Nye, and loved his show. Bit of a liberal, too — I blame the Pell grants.
Goes in, goes out — no explanation…
Tide comes in, tide goes out. You can't explain it!
Bread goes in. Toast pops up. You can't explain dat.
Mmmm, but its yummy with butter, cinnamon and sugar.
Sure I can, and I'm just a hack who grew up with Beakman (take that, Billy boy!). So do you want the long or short answer?
I don't think I've ever loved Bill Nye more. He sufficiently and calmly explained why this news anchor, as well as (most likely) the majority of fox news viewers are idiots, as though he was a petulant child.
I think I'm in love.
Made him all sexy didn't it?
Then you need to put on your tights and get ready to chase after SPEED WALKER.
Fox has "news anchors"?
I think in this case it's more like anchors that are dragging down the SS Critical Thought.
Despite the fact that he apparently has had oodles of Botox, his calm demeanor makes me want to pleasure him.
"Think you're in love".
If you're hot for Bill Nye, that would explain the global warming that isn't happening. [long pause] On the moon. [longer pause] Using science.
Love how he had to break out the cupcake vs. cake analogy for the moon and earth. That's definitely about the right mentality for Jon.
De-Nye-al is not a river in Egypt, Jon.
Why did they have Bill Nye on, why not a real scientist? I heard there was a professor at Liberty University who has calculated how many dinosaurs were on Noah's ark.
All of them!
,Katie.
The lastest talking point is that the dinos were brought onboard as eggs, because of the whole they would have eaten Noah and every other living thing thing.
Nice to know that someone was thinking when they watched Jurassic Park.
The mock up of the Ark at some chirstian playground will have racks of dino eggs.
Science has no place on Faux News. Science deals with the systematic arrangement of facts.
And if Fox presented "facts" all the time, they couldn't provide fair and balanced coverage!
Exactly. The facts are not fair and balanced despite what the MSM would try to have you think. They pretty much all line up on the side of reality.
Equal time for facts and fantasy … you can't get more balanced than that!
"Volcanos: how the fuck do they work?"
-Jon Scott
(Is he related to Rick?)
Volcanos are caused by a combination of vinegar and baking soda.
Where did you go to school?! Volcanoes are caused by Coke and Mentos!
You've just created a Mentocularity!
"(Is he related to Rick?)"
I think they use the same hair.
More importantly, Bobby Jindal wants to know why we're monitoring them.
I can't wait for their next discussion.
"If Gravity isn't in the US America Constitution then why is it a LAW? Can you answer me that Mr Science Guy?"
Gravity is merely a theory, like evolution.
Well how come thermodynamics gets to be a law, huh? It's not in the Constutueshun either!
Gravity doesn't exist don't ya know?
(warped space keeps everything down)
Gravity was intelligently designed by God to be the mechanism to let you know that you've had too much tequila.
If God invented tequila, I may have to re-think this whole non-belief thing I got going on.
Same theory as light bulbs…they don't create light, they suck away the dark.
"Light Bulbs: Suck Away The Dark" is the worst Broadway musical of all time.
There is no gravity. The Earth sucks!
Relativity is only a theory too… that is why Faux stays away from anything relative…
Bill Nye the Speed Walking Crime Fighter from KING5's Almost Live solves another case for Truth.
Nye: "Science is true".
Fox News guy: Furrows brow, wonders what to say next.
Fox News guys all ways get like that when something comes up that's not on the talking points they get from the Koch Brothers and the RNC.
They have these "Westworld" moments like seizures and lock up and don't seem to know what to say or do. It's amusing in small bite sized chunks like this, but not worth watching Faux News for any amount of time.
Fox News guy: Furrows brow, wonders what to say next. Beats chest. Grunts. Attacks Bill Nye with antelope femur.
Me: Run, Bill! Run!
The usual reply (outside of FOX News) is, "But the BIBLE says…!"
The usual FOX reply is "But some people say," which makes them balanced, also.
What their target audience fails to appreciate is that "some people" are really fucking stupid. Coincidentally, "some people" is their key target demographic.
Actually, that's pretty much any network, and newspaper, and magazine, these days.
That’s the same look I give a 3 year old that has had too much sugar.
I will do science to them.
It won't help.
Will you exit light? Possibly enter night?
Another example of a Fox News anchor not missing an opportunity to spout a right-wing talking point. Say what you will about the Fox corporate training program but it’s remarkably efficient.
They gotten much better with the ice pick to the frontal lobe since that mishap with the Fox & Friends crew.
Really. Like do they have members of their production staff who specialize in finding the opportunities to place that shit in various stories and interviews, you know like the ones who work on the Spielberg movies placing product. Or is the anchors? Are they just that good?
So is it like behavior modification where they shove a M&M in their mouths every time they spout the line? Or do Roger and Rupert use shock collars on them?
Did Nye have to give himself a "Silkwood" shower after that?
Yes, he did! But he's so skinny that he had to hop around the shower to get wet.
Exorcism!
Science has a well known liberal bias.
In skew perhaps, but the collective girth of the Hoverrounds kills the platykuric (no not the Katie Couric) through an especially short and fat kurtosis. I hate those hoverrounding platykuriciders
You're going to need to re-explain that using baked goods as an example.
Oh so many upfists for platykuric and kurtosis.
Now that's a word I've not heard since ….
Fox News brain
Ha, if only!
lizard brain. that's about it.
Even children, armed with comic books and calculators, could teach Jon Scott a few things.
Infants, armed with boogers and spit-up, could teach Jon Scott a few things.
I am relatively confident that my Pekingese could teach Jon Scott a few things.
i know cats who could finally teach him how door knobs work.
Umm. . . someone has to want to learn in order to learn. That ship has sailed, if it was ever in the harbor to begin with.
Global warming isn't in the Constitution!
*bang*
Next, Bill Nye will explain how come people living in New Zealand (aka upsidedownieland) don't fall off the world.
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"Next, Bill Nye will explain how come people living in New Zealand (aka upsidedownieland) don't fall off the world."
I think it's like dinosaur fossils, God's idea of a kneeslapper of a joke that makes people uh…um, be more impressed with God? Yeah, um, Bible! Bible! Bible!
(The joke is that New Zealand doesn't really exist because the earth is flat!)
Holy Climate Science Denial Non-Sequitur, Batman!
It's because the moon volcanoes are conspiring to raise taxes. All that moon-lava shit is just a distraction.
Nye lost the fox news guy when he started using Venus as an example. Now if he had talked about Uranus he would have been offered his own show.
Finally… an ass fucking joke to bring Wonkette back to its roots.
Fear of a wide stance planet.
Because apparently the taint of the solar system stretches from Venus to Uranus, and has a Great Red Spot in the middle.
Isn't that Mons Veneris?
"Science is true for everybody" is my new favorite quote.
JC: Bill Nye could have expanded that to "truth is the same for everybody. That's pretty much what makes it 'truth.'"
But then Jon Scott's head would have exploded.
No, no. He would have laughed at him like the villain from a Bond film and then paraphrased Charles Foster Kane…"The truth is what we say it is Mr. Nye."
We create our own reality, and people like you write it down.
Well of course; we've always been at war with Eastasia.
^
^
This?
*kisses bunched-together fingertips*
Beautiful.
that will only be my 2nd favorite quote after "Nothing is true, everything is permitted"
"Whatever is not forbidden is mandatory" — T.H. White, The once and future king
"Nothing means anything, everything's permitted. Nothing is forbidden, so anything goes" ~ nomeansno
"The good thing about science is that it's true whether you believe in it or not." -Neil deGrasse Tyson
Nah unh.
There's more to the story. When they signed off, even peace-loving Nye was forced to violently refudiate bunghole Scott when he boasted about suspending that polar bear scientists ass in Alaska for fudging their drowning numbers.
But did he 'splain why on earth there are no bears on the poles of the moon? Lunar polar bears–never thought of that, didja?
Lunar polar bears with frickin' lasers on their heads! Now that's science!
There is no water on the moon; hence they can't drown. I see it now.
It's a Ayers Kenyan plot!
Damn we got a lunar polar bear laser gap!
Aren't those the creepy bears in those coke ads? Yes. Lunar polar bears.
Teddy Roosevelt bagged a Lunar Polar Bear in 1894. he later tried and failed to establish a Nature Reserve in Mare Tranquillitatis.
Sen. John McCain has the same look on his face when he patiently explains to Sheer InSannity (again) that the US Government doesn't have enough revenue to pay its bills unless the debt limit is increased. Or how the US Senate operates.
Say what you will about Ole Walnuts (and we do) – when he is dealing with a child he takes his time and does his best to calmly explain it in terms anyone can understand.
Well, almost anyone. "Am i An Idiot?" InSannity never seems to be able to grasp it.
You may paint Sean with the moniker "InSannity", but clearly the insane one is John McCain, who keeps trying to explain to his Republican party members the facts of reality, when clearly it doesn't, and will never, work.
it is disheartening to know than Juan McCain is the sane voice in the GOP
Be careful, Bill. Fox news is probably trying to hack into your phone right now.
Bill Nye the Science Guy is about to become Bill Nye the Hacked Phone Guy.
His penchant for Olympia, Wash., trannies will be revealed to all, forever discrediting his life's work.
He just likes to experiment.
Sadly, any three year old watching that exchange took away more from it than Jon Scott.
Any three year old watching that exchange was desperately trying to insert an Elmo DVD in the player.
Look here Bill Nye, if Jon Scott wants to believe that global warming is caused by moon volcanoes he'll believe that global warming is caused by moon volcanoes and all your sciencey talk will go in one ear and out the other because there's noting in his head to even slow it down.
and just try explaining the almost complete lack of friction in a vacuum. just try.
Bill Nye had Yo Yo Ma play at his wedding. Faux Newsies get MaMa YoYo (insert Bachmann joke here).
Unfortunately, Bill Nye also had Rick Warren officiate his wedding. The marriage was annuled four months later after it was discovered that Fat Rick didn't have the proper license to marry people. True story.
The Moon is all dry and baked because they did not use air conditioning.
I thought it was the lack of a free market.
That 70s suit and painted bow-tie should be a capital offense !!!!
It's his trademark image thingie. He dressed just like that when he was on Almost Live.
Q: Where was noted anti-volcanologist, Bobby Jindal for this discussion?
A: Bringing another bucket of sand to rebuild the dang berm.
Jindahl doesn't think people should study Vulcans? But they are the most logical and peaceful of races.
Oh wait, Republicans are opposed to logic and peace.
Vulcans look kind of muslin-y to them.
They did stop building that silly-ass thing after Barry plugged the leak, didn't they? Please?
I watched the whole clip and it's apparent that Jon Scott never really caught on to what Nye was explaining. He's still trying to figure it out, I'm sure.
Doubtful that he is trying to figure it out. Or ever wanted to try.
Sadly, you are quite correct. Just as soon as Jon Scott figured out Bil Nye was linking science with facts with global climate change, he cut off the discussion.
Bill did a good job; you'd think he might have trouble, since explaining science to 5-year-olds is on a much higher intellectual level than explaining it to Fox hosts.
Literally. I remember his show pretty well, and I'm pretty sure he explains several of the exact concepts (i.e, the relationship between surface area and volume as you scale size up or down) on his show for elementary and middle school students, but much more rapidly and with higher-level terminology.
Also too, compare his appearances on Maddow, where he fully expects her and her libtard audience to have some basic operating knowledge of how science works and what words and math mean.
Then the Fox audience is right up his alley.
why do you hate children?
He's a witch! BUUUUUUUUURRRRRRNNNNN HIM!!!!!!!!!
Mr. Nye, how do you explain the moon cow methane issue?
Moon cow farts are what powers the waxing and waning.
Now I understand why the tides go in and out. Thank you.
It was light. It was dark. It was light. It was dark. Can't explain it.
Jon Scott, after the interview: "Anyone know what that guy was talking about?"
You gotta hand it the clowndagandists, they NEVER break character, bitches.
Eliteist egghead and his "sie-ince" !!!1
Shorter Jon Scott: Science is hard!
But what's amazing is that they always manage to pull of this wise-ass attitude that implies that the scientists and guys like Nye or even Al Gore are all either credulous dupes or conspirators.
Nye blinded him. . .with science.
Through the airwaves.
Science. It is a difficult concept.
But true. For me and for you. And everybody. You get some science, and you get some science, and you. . .
It's so difficult, she blinded me with it.
BN – Smaller objects cool faster than larger objects
JS – I'm afraid I don't understand, Bill.
BN – Because of the ratio of size to surface area, small objects give off heat faster.
JS – I dunno Bill – it's all pops and whistles on my end.
BN – A cupcake cools faster than a whole cake.
JS – Yummmm! Cake!
Jon Scott still isn't ready for C'Addle's Almost Live where Nye is an alum.
although he could be a high fivin' white guy.
I'd forgotten the high fivin' white guys. He was also a part of the Ballard School of Driving. We lived on Phinny Ridge, just up the hill from aged Scandy-ville so we could second their view of Ballard driving.
Speed Walker!!!
Next up, the Teletubbies will explain sun spots, … except that gay one.
What do you have against gay sun spots?
Sun-spot-ophobe!
I would feel better if Rick Sanchez could explain the whole moon volcano thing to me.
It's the Moon Jews.
That's the look Mrlimeylizzie gives me when I do something really stupid, although he tempers it with love, so it's more "Oh God, I am married to a short, sexy moron" .
I wish I had Mr. Limeylizzie's problems.
Morons are widely available, as are short people. Two out of three?
If I'm not mistaken, TLC has about 4 hours of primetime programming on that very subject.
As do we all, Dewey…as do we all.
Full disclosure, when we first knew each other I was at his apartment and he was at work and I took a shower and got locked in the stall for 5 hours, until he came home and rescued me.
His plan to make you think it was an accident apparently worked out well for him.
Polygamous Mormons call that "Foreplay".
When we first got married I locked myself out of the house in a nightgown and with no shoes on. The gate was locked in the back yard and I had to jump the concrete block wall. Without shoes, I couldn't run across the gravel to get speed to hoist myself. I had no knickers on and I could hear the garbage guys making the rounds in the truck. I had to either scale that wall or go back into the garage for 8 hours and wait for Jeff.
With scraped toes, knuckles and knees, I got over that wall and ran across the gravel and got in the window. I wonder if anyone saw it and put it on YouTube?
We are from the same egg!
Back when I still had a romantic soul, I thought it would be a great idea to play a love song under the window of a young woman I was wooing at the time. And it would have been a great idea except I was standing under the wrong apartment window.
Nasty old bitch threatened to call the cops on me.
I bet you were really clean though.
It was one of those really old-circa 1940-very tall, self-contained stalls, quite wide, and made of tempered glass, so there was no climbing out, so I washed myself multiple times, shaved practically all of my body hair, put conditioner all over me, so I didn't get all pruney and sang torch songs!
My husband got that look the other day. I was ordering something for him online and he was spelling the last name for me. Um, it's only 5 letters and it's my name too!
You were having a "conservative moment". Poor things, they go through their whole lives like that.
As someone who has gone his whole life having to explain his last name to people, I can tell you that it's reflex, a conditioned response. Don't blame him.
You're right, Guppy. The last 3 letters are "m-a-n" and it is pronounced "min", rhymes with "fin." It confuses people.
Ooooo. The clues to your identity are mounting up!
"It confuses people."
If you need help remembering that people are idiots, scroll back up to the top.
I sort of did that. Right after we had gotten married, I had to pick up the dry cleaning and I asked my bride whose name they were under and she said, "Uh, ours?"
Oh, yes. Gave my ex that look once when, in the car, she glanced at the the radio and said "Huh. That's the third Beatles song they've played in a row."
I gave her that face and said, "It's a tape."
We can still get a laugh from each other with that one.
If your idiocy makes a man whose job it is to explain science to elementary school children want to bang his head against a wall, well….
you might be a teabagger.
A syllogism.
Global warming is caused by cow farts.
The Moon has been warmed into a dust pile.
There are no cows on the Moon.
Ergo: There is no global warming
QED
Noble alert, Noble alert!!!1!1
Pack your bags for a trip to Norway.
PS don't forget your Kevlar vest
Fox News should really know better than to have someone on their network who believes in science.
Will that cupcake thing be on the test?
These liberal greenies want to outlaw cupcakes!
Bill Nye is the bomb, but what the heck is he doing on FOX news? He's a scientist, for goodness sake – he should know better!
The bigger question is what was Fox thinking when it asked BN to come on the show? Fox usually brings in atheists that are dumber on science than Bill-o
For sure he did thorough research and got any needed shot updates before and will get full decontamination after.
they are so impressed by his reference to "algebra" that they immediately deputize him to resolve the debt ceiling fight. "whoa, did you hear him talk about surface area? he must be the smartest man alive! let's have him take care of that thing where a bunch of dumb republican politicians are trying to destroy us all, because i'm pretty sure that's some kind of math problem. it involves numbers, anyway, as far as i understand."
these people have high-paying jobs in a terrible economy. meritocracy!
Al-Gebra = terrists, so Bill Nye = mooslin global warming conspiracy.
i think this is the math problem:
Congress – Corporate Lackeys + Actual Progressives = ???
Profit!
They heard "Algebra" and thought it was "Al Jazeera", so naturally they're suspicious.
Science on Venus and the moon is the same as science on Earth, except Venus and the moon don't have Jeebus.
V572 apparently you were snoozing a bit too much in your astronomy class.
Of course, the beautiful and inspiring ascent of human knowledge from Ptolemy* to Tycho Brahae to Copernicus to Galileo to Kepler to Newton to…Jeebus.
_________________
*And don't underestimate Ptolemy. His math worked, and he could predict eclipses from a geocentric model.
Veenus Jeebus has six arms and bleeds sulfuric acid stigmata. His body temperature is 500 degrees but it has nothing to do with fossil fuels.
Looks more llike the face of a lion to me.
A moon??? A MOON? That's not a moon…that's just a pie in the sky. (Thank you underfunded schooling!)
I don't know what skool you went to, but we here understand that wasn't a volcano at all, but some sort of mold problem on the cheese.
No, no! It's not that the moon IS a pie, it's that the moon hits your eye LIKE a big pizza pie!
*sings*
When a gigantic eel takes a bite of your heel, that's a moray…
I like Moon Pies.
He promotes the homosexual agenda by co-hosting that ride in normally family-friendly Epcot with known lesbian Ellen!!
Like talking to a dog.
Absent rabies, most dogs are more empathetic, and some would have even greater comprehension, than Jon Scott.
True, at least a dog looks at you and tries to understand what you are saying.
"Blah blah Ginger blah blah blah taxes blah soshulizm blah blah blah gays blah blah mexicans blah blah darkies blah blah blah guvmint gonna take away everybody's guns blah blah blah"
Beginners Libel!
no atmosphere = no atmospheric warming
But I realize that's a bit too much information for a Fox News guy to take in all at once.
maybe Nye needs to do a parody of The Nuge to get through to the Fox folks:
http://youtu.be/RCmaxzH6JhI
Piers Morgan would have hacked into the Man-on-the-Moon's voicemail and gotten more of the sexy details.
There is no such thing as 'Fox News'….there is only 'Fox'.
He muted me with SCIENCE!!
wow. at first i thought that wasbill NIGHY and THA would be awesome.
Bill Nye on Fox. Talk about casting pearls before swine.
To be honest, as a typical Fox viewer, these guys lost me when they started talking about hurricanes.
Doesn't FOX usually have a disclaimer or something under a guest if they haven't been lobotomized?
"D", I think.
I have a stye in my eye and it rhymes with Bill Nye!
This Jon Scott sure is pretty dumb. Anyone who understands anything at all about climate science knows that moon volcanos have nothing to do with global warming. Everybody knows that the real significance of moon volcanos is that they prove that we should not raise the debt ceiling, that muslims are all secret jihadists intent on imposing Sharia slavery on us all, and that Obama is a Kenyan anti-colonialist.
Well, duh!
I thought we wanted to colonize the moon?
On Fox, gotchya journalism is only used against liberals and scientists.
Fox doesn't use any kind of journalism, ever.
Global warming is hot, and ice cream is cold. So if there were global warming, there wouldn't be any ice cream. And yet I had an ice cream cone just last night. How does your "science" explain THAT, Mr. Nye??
And why does my freezer produce so much heat?
Jon Scott, a journalist so skillful he couldn't outperform Chris Hansen, Predator Catcher on Dateline NBC. Had to take his talents to South of the Truth Beach.
This post just drives me batty!
JS: What about other "planets?"
BN: The noxious gases of Uranus could kill a man. (rimshot)
Step 1: Fool Real Amurricans into believing global warming conspiracy/hoax.
Step 2: ?????
Step 3: Profit!!
With one minor adjustment, you can fill in step 2 from reality.
Step 1: Fool Real Amurricans into believing global warming is a conspiracy/hoax.
Step 2: Sell lots of oil, SUV's, and bombastic teevee advertising time
Step 3: Profit!!
I should stop being amazed that my 4-year-old can out-explain foxnews anchors and teaparty politicians on subjects ranging from science to American history, and just accept that we are a nation of idiots.
America seems largely devoid of intellectual curiosity. by the 5th grade i learned i should keep my mouth shut most of the time.
I'm surprised they didn't have a science expert like Neil Cavuto on this.
the last moments when they discuss sending Nye to Congress reminds me greatly of Idiocracy.
aside from that, it sounds more like a threat to Nye than a moment of, "hey, this guy could really help." more like, "take him to…Detroit."
Jebus with the gout, the New York State Fair has introduced the Big Kahuna anus burger – 1/3 lb of cheesy bacon anus held lovingly within a sliced glazed doughnut. A 1500 calorie delight. Clearly, no tofu fu feast here.
Psh, that's just a Luther.
We are so ignorant of such things here in C'Addle. Jeesh, we've 3.5 mil and only two Krispy Kremes for fats' sake.
The California State Fair had something like that a few years back, but made with a battered and deep fried (of course) chicken breast slathered in "secret sauce" on a glazed donut. Bacon was one topping option.
It's monstrosities like this that make me appreciate the refined aesthetics of deep fried butter.
"The great thing about science is, it's true for all of us."
In other words, all the propaganda, religion, and asshole Republican demagoguing can't change little things like facts. You fucktards.
Which is why Saint Ronnie of Santa Barbara told us that facts are stupid things. And he knew his science! For instance, Ronnie believed, until informed otherwise by the Defense Department, that intercontinental ballistic missiles could be recalled or rerouted after launch. Scary!
Fox "News" anchors recognize that science and reality are not to be trusted when they conflict with dogma. They are truly of the Elect.
That's so cute — Bill, explaining things to a FOX News anchor is like explaining them to a Pomeranian only without the big wet eyes and the cocked head. Actually, the Pomeranian wouldn't have an inane comeback question either.
A little number crunching. And ball busting.
"Explain it to me as if I were a complete idiot, Bill."
"Well Jon, I would, but most complete idiots are at least an order of magnitude brighter than you. Let's talk about cupcakes instead, mmmkay?"
Having Bill Nye on is part of Fox's commitment to being Fair and Balanced® by including "facts" as a way to tell the other side.
It may have already been said above, ain't got time to check, but it seems that this Jon Scott guy must not have watched Bill Nye the Science guy when he was younger. Or if he did, he didn't watch for comprehension.
He dug the Rat.
I liked Jon Scott better when he sang for AC/DC back in the 1970s.
♪"We're on the highway to hell!"♫
I try to live by science alone.
What kind of sex does that include?
To V572 Hair of Destiny, re: deleted comment:
Accurate, measured and verifiable
What's the Eleventh Doctor doing on Fox News? I didn't think they had politics on Gallifrey.
No politics on Galifrey? Try telling that to President Borusa, if he wasn't now stone. Someone needs to see The Deadly Assassin and The Five Doctors.
Eh, I always thought Gallifrey was more of a dictatorship, esp. with rotting-corpse Masters running around sowing chaos and the Eye of Harmony basically running the show, figuratively and literally. But those outfits they wear are the shizzle. (I never could get into those multiple-Doctor shows, but the Deadly Assassin is one of the best eps EVAR.)
Nerd.
You rang?
From explaining science to children, to explaining science to childish assholes. This is a big step for Bill Nye.
Yeah, a big step BACK!
[ba dum bum]
OT: Other sites that use IntenseDebate still have thumbs-down buttons activated, so downfist-free Wonkette must be a choice of the proprietors.
Yay, we get special rights like queers!
More like, nobody loses! Everyboy gets a participation certificate!!
But how will we downfist Trolls and Breitfarts? Unless Ken has figured out a way to immediately banhammer them…
Bill Nye should know about aliens since he is one.
Nye is to science what "Dr., but Not a Doctor" Phil is to psychology.
Both are idiots, by the way.
Too harsh — lots of MIT kiddies were Bill Nye fans in their infancy. Although Beakman's World had a big following too.
See, I was right. He IS a Time Lord. Weird outfit – check. Idiosyncratic fashion accessory – check. Whimsical hairdo – check. Strange affect – check. Someone see if he is packing a sonic screwdriver and knows Venusian aikido.
I think Bill Nye's past his sell-by date. Our new resident Science Nerd should be Doctor "I was a neuroscientist who appeared on Big Brother and then I got saline implants and went to Hollywood and appeared on Hot Tub Fantasy Football Pick Show" Michele Noonan.
Works for me. But I'm cheap and easy.
Scott is more concerned about Galactic Warming.
Fox hires the absolutely stupidest people it can, right? They can't possibly scrape the barrel any deeper, right?
But would you eat the moon if it was made of barbecued spare-ribs?
Silver lining here. I know Fox News only has scientists on their programs as part of pathetic and misguided attempts to discredit them and distort real scientific discoveries to convince viewers that global warming is somehow a fraud. But maybe, in the midst of all the smoke and mirrors and Flat-Earthery, some viewers with higher than average cranial capacity might somehow – even if only by accident – actually learn something.
Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Science rules…
"Fox News only has scientists on their programs as part of pathetic and misguided attempts to discredit them and distort real scientific discoveries to convince viewers that global warming is somehow a fraud."
It really is like on the Simpsons when Fox digitally adds flames and devil horns to Democrats.
FUCK YEAH BILL NYE! dude is awesome. Mr. Rogers level awesome!
Bill Nye, typical moonbat.
And Bill can be with the certains, even when he's wrong. I had a talk with Bill some years back when he wuz still here in C'Addle and we were waiting for a sailboat to pass before we could cross the draw bridge to the beloved Republic of Fremont. There is a much higher, troll guarded bridge that soars just east of the Fremont Bridge. And I asked Bill if he new that that bridge, usually called the "Aurora Bridge" was really the George Washington Bridge? Bill emphatically said I was crazy. Mmmm, the Wiki seems to think maybe not so much.
Bill Nye, the Obdurate Guy.
Well, that cinches it. The only moral thing to do now is to eliminate PBS completely.
Hey Jon!
Gravity is just a "theory", like global warming.
Hey, if you're too smart to believe in theories, why don't you jump off the Empire State building.
Theories can't kill you, amirite?
It's not too harsh to criticize Nye–he's often veered stupidly into Crazy Town, said some incredibly stupid things, and has often been flat-out wrong, biased and inaccurate on numerous issues. He's also got an, er, "reputation," if you know what I mean. He's nuts. And he does not practice real science. Just like "Dr. but Not a Doctor" Phil does not practice any real anything. They're both jerks.
I don't know what you mean.
Next up on Fox & Friends: Shaggy 2 Dope on magnetism, and Claudius Ptolemy on the Solar System.
That's because belief is not only morally superior to evidence, it's factually superior.
*looks sideways suspiciously at proudgrampa*
Unless you're one a them atheists…
The best part is, I remember his children's show very well, and I'm absolutely certain that he had to take his time and explain things more slowly and patiently and in lower-concept terminology on Fox News for putative adults than he ever did on his teevee show designed to introduce 8-to-13-year-olds to elementary science concepts.
Particularly when he talks about how the moon cooled off- he is honestly completely terrified that the square-cube rule is going to go completely over their heads, and he is right.
This is the first video I have been able to watch from work in weeks. Apparently FoxNews is not blocked. My overlords have spoken.
Gravity is socialist. It pulls the big man down more than the little guy. Why do we so burden our mass creators?
I was a fan of his from the "almost live" days (still the best skit comedy show ever, check them out on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6-SJLlneLc )
I think Jon got a hard on when Bill told him he asked an excellent question. He started to squirm in his seat and cast a silly grin.
This is Bill Nye we're talking about here! He especially specializes in talking to children!
We manage to stay on the earth, Mr thunder (if that is your real name) because YOU are upsidedown. Hah hah I run rings around you logically.
For a "Science Guy", he's not so smart; doesn't even speak moron.
Uh oh, this Science Nazi is trying to shove moon shit down our throats!
Several high-wire acrobats got electrocuted in previews.
Miche1e did the same thing to Geithner: asked him questions based on such profound ignorance or misinformation that they could not be answered in few words. When the witness pauses, the questioner looks around as if to say: "See? See? I stumped this so-called smart guy!"
And the yahoos tell themselves: "That just proves book larnin' ain't worth nothin', like Pappy always sayed."
Some people, not me, have manners and don't blurt out, "What the fuck are you talking about?" when asked an idiotic question.
Remember, there is no such thing as a stupid question, just stupid people.
Was your girlfriend's name Alison?
And are you, by any chance, in The Canterbury Tales?
No ma'am. Her name was Rachel.
Yes Gemini, one day closer to revealing my true identity and having Spanky2B show up at my door with a Whitman Sampler and a severed human head for me.
That image will carry me through the day. Thank you.
Even in my extremis I knew it was insane and I went from sobbing self-pityingly to laughing like a hyena.
"When the witness pauses, the questioner looks around as if to say: "See? See? I stumped this so-called smart guy!"
And the yahoos tell themselves: "That just proves book larnin' ain't worth nothin', like Pappy always sayed." "
And as if all that weren't bad enough, they always look so damn pleased with themselves about the whole thing.
It's interesting to note that Fed secretaries don't really have this problem when Ron Paul accuses the Fed of kidnapping the Lindburgh baby. At this point, all Fed secretaries have a fairly stock "nothing you're asking about has anything to do with anything" answer for anything Ron Paul sez, they must get taught it during orientation.
But we are not the Huns
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