If you’re a bit of a geek (and I know you are because, c’mon, you’re reading Gizmodo), you probably grew up watching Bill Nye. The goofy puns, the cheeky visuals, the corny yet cool music videos, all inspired a generation to grow up and do cool things with science. Here’s our TV hero’s origin story.
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The first thing you’ll see tomorrow night when you tune in to Cosmos won’t be Carl Sagan, or even Neil deGrasse Tyson. It’ll be President Obama, kicking off the series premiere with a statement that "invites a new generation to embrace the spirit of discovery and inspires viewers to explore new frontiers and imagine limitless possibilities for the future." Maybe he took Bill Nye’s plea to fund planetary exploration
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Because, obviously, this is gold. Pure gold. As he points out, you don’t need a PhD in climate science to understand what’s going on here. We love you, Bill.
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Listen to Bill Nye’s letter to the President of the United States asking for $1.5 billion to support planetary exploration. He gives three excellent reasons.
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Because Bill Nye explains the world better than even experiencing it yourself, here’s our childhood maestro of science explaining how we could possibly stop an asteroid from destroying Earth. Giant bombs, huge rockets and even freaking lasers probably can’t stop it. And even if they could stop it, we might not be able to build them. So, uh, yeah.
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Brian Green (author of The Elegant Universe) just posted this photo on his Facebook wall with the following description: More »
I can’t look at Bill Nye and imagine him as anything other than the Science Guy. Hell, I can barely think of science without thinking about Bill Nye so I’ve never really thought about how Bill Nye became the Science Guy… until now. Turns out, it happened mostly because he’s so awesome. More »
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