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[people chattering]
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Bill Nye's just such
a charismatic individual,
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and he just inspires the
enthusiasm for the love of
science, love of life.
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[announcer] Currently, he is
traveling the country speaking
about climate change,
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science and space exploration.
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I grew up watching Bill Nye,
and it was live action,
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and, like, kids did it, and I
was a kid.
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I was, like, "I could do this."
I'm a doctor.
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And, uh, I do
infectious disease, actually.
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I think science is everything.
It connects us all.
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[announcer] While working on his
TV show,
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he won a total of 18 Emmys
in just five years.
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[man] When it was a rainy day or
the teacher wasn't feeling so
well,
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you would just see the TV cart
come in and the VHS, and you
just hear,
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"Bill, Bill, Bill!" That's how
you knew.
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The whole class was so happy.
It was just a perfect moment.
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[crowd chanting] Bill! Bill!
Bill!
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[announcer] Please join me in
welcoming
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America's favorite scientist
Bill Nye the Science Guy.
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[upbeat music playing]
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[crowd cheering]
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[man on videotape] Bill, Bill,
Bill, Bill! Bill Nye the Science
Guy!
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[Bill Nye] Whoo!
Oh, I love you guys! Greetings!
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[whooping]
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[instrumental music playing]
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Just the start of things. We're
getting things wrapped up here.
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We're taxiing out. We're gonna
take off,
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and we're gonna see if these
wings develop a difference in
air pressure.
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[Nye] So it was really the 1990s
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that I started feeling bad
about the United States,
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and its relationship to science.
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[indistinct]
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I wanted to make a world where
young people were excited about
science again,
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and that set me on a quest.
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[man] Okay, Bill, go!
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It's a pretty good day for
parasailing!
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[loud thud]
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[wind blowing]
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Bill himself was the face of the
Bill Nye the Science Guy show.
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Uh...
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But there really was this
triangle, the three creators of
the show.
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Bill, Jim and Erren.
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There was this creative energy
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that I don't think has ever
quite been replicated.
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Jim, writer-director,
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could really challenge Bill and
bring out the best in Bill,
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and Erren, who was the mama bear
of the whole organization.
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She was the consummate producer.
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We should... Where is that home
movie?
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So, all the video that we know
of that is left of the show is
right here.
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[Erren Gottlieb] Oh, my gosh!
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This is all of the research.
Background information, shows...
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America needed scientists.
We'd see PBS stories,
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Time Magazine,
Newsweeks about this crisis.
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There are no scientists out
there.
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We're going, "Well, we've got
this scientist right here.
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We can do this." So we set out
to make this Bill Nye the
Science Guy TV show.
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Oh, man. What a mug!
What a mug on this guy!
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That was pretty much a silly
venture, that we thought that we
could produce
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this national show out of
Seattle.
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But I don't think anyone ever
expected that it would become
what it became.
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The main stage where most
of the show took place
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is right on the other side
of that brick wall,
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and one of the most popular
shows is the gravity show.
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And we threw stuff off that
roof.
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[static]
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The pull of gravity isn't so
strong that we can't raise our
arms or anything,
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but it does pull on everything
all the time.
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Now, we can test this.
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This is an old idea, but a good
one.
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Watermelon!
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Ah!
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A computer, sure!
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I think the zaniness, uh,
was a great tension reliever
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for all the kids in the audience
who were afraid they couldn't
understand something.
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Before they knew what was
happening, they understood.
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Science!
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He's the science teacher we all
wish we had in elementary school
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or in middle school,
high school or even college.
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Here's the fastest thing in the
universe. It's light!
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Light goes 300,000 kilometers
every second.
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[electricity buzzing]
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Things in the universe...
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[Neil deGrasse Tyson] The
Science Guy show contained the
science that excited Bill,
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and you, the viewer, can't help
but be just as excited as the
instructor.
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It was a game changer for an
entire generation of people.
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There's only 92
naturally occurring elements.
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But if you think about it, you
can think of a lot more than 92
things.
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[explosion]
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They're all made of the elements
listed on this table.
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So they're grouped together...
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[Emily Graslie] Bill Nye days in
school were the best.
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When the teacher plugged in the
VCR, you knew you were going to
walk away
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having learned something, and
having enjoyed learning
something.
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Which, for some reason,
is a novel thing in schools.
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See the air rushing
over the blades of grass,
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taking carbon dioxide from the
air,
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light from the sun and water...
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the grass is making its own
food. It's growing.
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The point was, anybody can be a
scientist. Any kid. Anybody.
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[static]
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[goofy sound effects]
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The cone built up the negative
charge. That's what pulled the
water molecules.
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[both] Static!
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We always told Bill that he
should be the next Carl Sagan.
That's the plan.
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Science is a self-correcting
process.
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To be accepted, new ideas must
survive
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the most rigorous standards
of evidence and scrutiny.
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The suppression of uncomfortable
ideas may be common in religion
or in politics,
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but it is not the path to
knowledge,
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and there's no place for it
in the endeavor of science.
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[Nye] I studied mechanical
engineering at Cornell
University.
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I decided to take astronomy from
this famous professor, Carl
Sagan.
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He was a great scientist, and
when I had my chance to do my
Science Guy show,
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I went back to Carl Sagan.
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And he said, "You should focus
on pure science.
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Don't do science demonstrations
without describing the bigger
idea."
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What he said was,
kids resonate to science.
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That was the verb he used.
Resonate.
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And I really embraced that.
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I will now open the door with my
mind.
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I am influencing physical
objects around me with the power
of my brain.
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Do you think I did,
or did it just look that way?
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We have a saying in science.
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"Extraordinary claims
require extraordinary proof."
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The process of testing claims,
the world is flat, the world is
round,
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is what we call science.
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There has always been this
little behind- the-scenes thing
between scientists.
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"Is Bill really a scientist?
He doesn't have a PhD."
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We catapulted Bill into who he
is.
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But it is a big step to go from
this television host, kid goofy
guy,
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to a really well-respected
expert.
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[whirring]
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[whistling]
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[blows]
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[Nye] So the Science Guy show is
over.
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We did 100 shows. It almost
killed me,
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and I gotta move on to something
bigger.
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But the frustrating thing is, I
would continually be asked to be
on
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the news as a commentator,
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about the weather especially,
and about climate change.
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Bill, over to you.
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The problem is, we're just
burning carbon
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and spewing carbon dioxide in
the atmosphere at an
extraordinary rate.
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What Bill Nye just did was waste
everyone's time explaining
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that C02 is rising.
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Bill Nye is just going around
saying, "C02 is up.
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Therefore, global warming is
dangerous.
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We should be concerned." It's
not. It's not dangerous.
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The world is getting warmer.
It's continually getting warmer.
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If I'm right, the reversals will
lead to a degree, to a degree
and a half cooling.
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If you're right, they're not.
But what are we worried about
right now?
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Okay.
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[Nye] We have this increasing
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anti-science movement
in the United States.
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Our president is worried
about global warming.
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What a ridiculous situation.
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All right, that was Donald Trump
calling out President Obama.
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It seems our commander in chief
is...
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[Nye] It's worse than ever.
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The anti-science movement is
more powerful than it's ever
been.
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Charles Darwin never thought of
evolution as anything other than
a theory.
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He hoped that someday it would
be proven by the fossil record,
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but did not live to see that,
nor have we.
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[Nye] The longer we put off
doing something about it,
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the more serious it's gonna get.
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It's this problem where the
anti-science people have been so
successful.
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I mean, there's this guy in
Kentucky who doesn't believe in
evolution,
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who doesn't believe in the
fundamental idea in all of
biology.
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[Ken Ham] I don't believe that
at all.
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I don't believe that dinosaurs
lived millions of years ago,
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and I certainly don't believe
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that you came from ape-like
creatures, or anything like
that.
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I mean, did your grandfather
look like that?
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[kids laughing]
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I don't think so. Does your
grandmother look like that?
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No, not at all. You're very,
very different to...
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[Nye] If we raise a generation
of kids,
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they can't think critically,
they can't think scientifically,
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we're headed for trouble.
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We don't believe in evolution,
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and I certainly don't believe
that life came about by chance,
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random processes millions of
years ago in some soup in the
sea,
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life was formed
and then one kind of animal...
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What has evolution
got to do with engineering?
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I mean, Bill Nye himself
actually is not a scientist.
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He studied mechanical
engineering.
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As a science educator, I'm
really more serious about it
than ever,
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these people who are denying
science,
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denying evolution, denying the
efficacy of vaccinations,
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and especially denying
human-caused climate change.
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We just can't have this.
We've got to fight this fight.
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I have got to fight this fight.
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[people chattering]
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[growling]
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[Nye] Now, this is
scientifically inaccurate.
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Humans and ancient dinosaurs
did not live at the same time.
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The evidence for that is
overwhelming,
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and to suggest this to
schoolchildren is irresponsible
at best.
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It's very troubling.
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[snarling]
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The Head Minister, Ken Ham,
challenged me to a debate.
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And after consideration, I
accepted it.
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[Eugenie Scott] Ken Ham is the
most successful creationist
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in the United States.
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I first heard about the debate
when Bill sent me an email
saying,
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"Hey, I've signed a contract
to debate Ken Ham.
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Can I talk to a couple of your
people?"
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[chuckles] And I wrote back
saying,
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"Seriously? Do you realize
what you've gotten into?"
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Debates between scientists
and science deniers
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could be a trap that scientists
probably should not get involved
in.
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[Nye] Well,
they present Lucy as a gorilla.
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And in mainstream science,
Lucy stands upright.
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And she has a lot less hair.
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You will not see that
in a mainstream museum.
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Understand that in mainstream
science, when we find this, we
consider evidence.
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[Jerry Coyne] The Creation
Museum is a temple of ignorance,
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but it's also a temple of lies.
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And warping the minds of
children,
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which is what the Creation
Museum is dedicated to doing,
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is one of the most awful and
mendacious things I think
anybody can do.
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[recording of gunfire
and people screaming playing]
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There's a lot of anxiety
and concern about evolution,
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because people see it as somehow
incompatible with religious
beliefs.
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I'm a believer in God myself,
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and I don't, at the present
time, see any conflicts between
understanding
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the nature of living things and
how they're related to each
other,
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and what I believe as someone
who perceives God as the
creator.
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You can find fossils in the DNA
of humans.
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Genes that don't work anymore,
and haven't worked for a long
time.
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They're called "pseudo genes,"
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and they're on the same place in
the human as they are in the
chimpanzee.
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Unless you're gonna say that God
was playing a trick by hiding
some sort of
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misleading clue, you have to
conclude that we had a common
ancestor.
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Bill has an opportunity,
and has taken that on
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in his discussion with Ken Ham,
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to try to explain
what the scientific facts are.
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I'm Tom Foreman from CNN,
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and I'm pleased to be tonight's
moderator for this
evolution-versus-creation
debate.
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And now let's welcome our
debaters, Mr. Bill Nye and Mr.
Ken Ham.
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[cheering and applause]
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[Tom Foreman]
Mr. Ham, you opted to go first.
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You cannot ever prove, using,
uh, the scientific method in the
present,
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you can't prove the age of the
Earth. So you can never prove
it's old.
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Mr. Nye?
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Well, of course this is where we
disagree. You can prove the age
of the Earth
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with great robustness.
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Radiometric dating does exist.
The universe is accelerating.
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These are all provable facts.
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I just want people to understand
too that there's aspects about
the past
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that you can't scientifically
prove because you weren't there.
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We can be investigating, uh, the
present.
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Understanding the past
is a whole different matter,
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and, uh, let me just say this.
My answers...
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[Coyne] To say that evolution
is somehow questionable
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because we only have the
historical remnants of the
process
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is a complete misunderstanding
of how science operates.
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We have so much evidence
in the fossil record.
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We have so much evidence from
our DNA.
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We have so much evidence from
embryology
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that you don't need to see it
happen, because we have the
historical record.
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It's like trying to deny
that Napoleon existed.
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Mr. Nye, the next question is
for you.
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How did the atoms that created
the Big Bang get there?
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This is the great mystery.
This is what drives us.
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This is what we want to know.
Let's keep looking. Let's keep
searching.
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Bill, I just want to let you
know that there actually is a
book out there
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that tells us where matter came
from.
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[audience laughing]
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Mr. Ham, this is a simple
question, I suppose,
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but one that actually is fairly
profound for all of us in our
lives.
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What, if anything,
would ever change your mind?
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[Ham] Hmm.
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Well, the answer to that
question is, I'm a Christian.
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And the Bible is the word of
God.
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No one is ever gonna convince me
that the word of God is not
true.
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[Foreman] Mr. Nye?
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[Nye] We would just need
one piece of evidence.
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We would need evidence that the
universe is not expanding.
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We would need evidence that the
stars appear to be far away, but
they're not.
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That rock layers can somehow
form in just 4,000 years.
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Bring on any of those things,
and you would change me
immediately.
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[Scott] That last question just
so crystallized this whole
debate,
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and I think the answers of both
Ken and Bill were very, very
telling.
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Is Ken Ham's creation model
viable?
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I... I say no. Absolutely not.
Thank you very much.
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-Thanks so much to Mr. Nye and
Mr. Ham... -[audience cheering]
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...for an excellent discussion.
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Thank you. Goodnight from
Petersburg, Kentucky and the
Creation Museum.
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[tweeting]
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[keyboard clacking]
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-May I touch these things?
-Sure.
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I know you're not supposed
to touch science demonstrations.
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That's conventional Newton,
but what happens here
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when they're in different, uh...
Oh, it's a wave. That's
beautiful.
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There was a point where I had
thought that Bill Nye was dead,
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because he was no longer putting
out any kind of informational
videos
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trying to teach kids about
science.
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-[woman] Love you, Bill! -Thank
you. Good morning. Good morning.
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He did disappear for a little
bit, and everybody was, like,
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"Where did the Science Guy go?"
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What is he, "Soil Man"? Who is
he?
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Well, we are teaching forensics,
and he is our, uh...
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He's dead.
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[audience cheering]
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[Nye] It's the National Science
Teacher Convention.
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These are the people, man.
These are the science teachers.
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They're really the fans.
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People still watch Bill Nye the
Science Guy in school.
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Teachers showed it in class
for years and years.
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Greetings, greetings!
It's great to see you all,
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and I'm very happy that,
as I understand it,
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I've been teaching
a lot of your classes this year.
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[audience laughing]
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Here we go.
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[indistinct chatter]
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-Whoa, whoa.
-One more, Bill, thank you.
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There you are. Hey.
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-Thank you.
-Cool.
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-Hey, cool.
-Thank you.
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[exclaims]
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Hey...
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Go, go, go! [exclaims]
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-Three, two...
-We got it. Yeah, yeah.
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We don't need a countdown. Just
go for it.
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You've gotta reach out. You've
gotta go. Gotta turn it around.
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-Catch up!
-All right, all right!
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How hard can it be? I'm not
sprinting.
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Reach out, man. You're too
close.
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I was asked to talk about selfie
fatigue,
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and I haven't.
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I'm pretty sure it shortens your
life.
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[exhales]
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[audience cheering]
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Now, you may have heard about
this thing I did last year.
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I went to Kentucky and I took a
meeting with this guy
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who insists that the Earth
is 6,000 years old.
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[laughing]
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So, along this line, the next
morning,
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maybe you guys saw this,
it was all over the Internet.
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[audience laughing]
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Bill Nye knows a lot of science,
but when he gets off into
evolution, he's lying.
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Dogs are always gonna be
canines. They always will be.
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Felines will be felines.
That's real science.
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"Client requests that Bill steer
clear of any controversial
topics."
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"We also live in a pretty
conservative state,
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so the climate-change
environmental conversation
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wouldn't be well-received by
some members of our audience,
unfortunately."
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That is unfortunate.
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The main thing everybody could
do about climate change is talk
about it.
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[cheering]
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Hi, you guys. Greetings,
greetings.
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High five. Yes. Cool. Hi, you
guys.
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[woman] I love science.
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We're reaching the end of the
line. I love you guys! Carry on.
One more! Ah!
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The message I want to get across
today is that climate change is
serious business.
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[crowd cheering]
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Why is this country, which,
for over a century,
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was the world leader in science,
engineering and innovation...
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[Nye] Nowadays I'm talking to
adults, and I'm not mincing
words.
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The climate is changing. It's
our fault.
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We've gotta get to work on this.
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So Sarah Palin was on this
panel.
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"Bill Nye is as much
of a scientist as I am.
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He's a kid's show actor.
He's not a scientist."
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I want people to feel empowered
to ask questions about what is
being fed them
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from the science community,
um... That, uh,
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something's not making
a whole lot of sense
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when it comes to inconsistent
data that is being produced and
being fed,
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especially to our children,
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when it comes to global warming
or climate change.
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Whatever they're calling it
today.
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Man. That they can get on the
news,
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and by "them," I mean
climate-change deniers,
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they really are leaving the
world worse than they found it.
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[man on video] Some of the most
trusted names in the weather
business
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dispute that global warming
exists.
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It turns out your favorite
TV meteorologist
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may have more clout than you
think.
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Surveys show Americans are more
likely to believe weather
forecasters
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than politicians,
when it comes to global warming.
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And many of those forecasters
insist
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that climate change poses
no imminent threat.
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To think that we could affect
weather all that much is pretty
arrogant.
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Mother Nature is so big. I think
we're gonna die from a lack of
fresh water,
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or we're gonna die
from ocean acidification
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before we die from global
warming, for sure.
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So, I was on CNN in the morning,
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and I made an offhanded comment.
We were talking about floods in
Louisiana.
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You know, here at CNN you have a
climate-change denier
meteorologist.
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I doubt this one is even right.
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[Nye] Knock yourselves out,
but this is a big problem.
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And the next morning
Chad Myers posted this,
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succinctly saying,
"I have now changed my mind.
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Had I flip-flopped?
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Well, that is what it would be
called in politics, but in
science,
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it's just an evolution of
understanding."
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As I tell my 11-year-old,
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it's okay to be wrong,
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as long as you learn from your
mistakes.
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Chad Myers, I love you, man.
If we can get more,
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as they're called nowadays,
thought leaders changing their
minds,
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maybe we can change the world.
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[dog barking]
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[toy train whistling]
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[bell tolling]
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[Nye] Load up some barrels.
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[Nye whistling]
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Here's the mark. Whoops.
That's got it. We're done.
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[Nye laughing]
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Look, a couple of them land
upright. Come on.
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But my brother has positioned
this building so close to the
track,
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it can't get the barrels to land
in their official barrel
catcher.
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Look out! Okay, I'm gonna do it.
Whee!
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[laughing]
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So, our dad enabled this hobby.
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[Darby Nye] He helped me with
it.
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He's the one that bought the
trains in the first place for
me.
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[Nye] This car is 70 years old.
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[Darby] It's from a set from
1955.
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A lot of the dates are stamped
on the car.
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So 1955 was 61 years ago?
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-[Darby] Sixty-one.
-Yeah.
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That's a long time ago.
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We're pretty close, Darby.
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[toy train whistling]
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This is the house where my
family grew up.
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My parents built this house,
and apparently, at that time,
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this was out in the country.
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[rapid wooden rumbling]
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That is a sound from my youth,
people, right there.
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So, in here's the laundry room.
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Right here is where I was
Bill Nye, boy scientist.
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But this is where I used to do
science experiments.
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This was my little space
right about here.
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[Nye] Darb, were you here
when Dad fell down the stairs?
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[Darby] He was carrying laundry.
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He was doing something
he shouldn't have done.
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[Nye] Well, that's what you guys
say.
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But he was doing a thing that,
to an able-bodied person, is
routine.
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00:28:18,130 --> 00:28:20,166
This is what my sister talks
about all the time.
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You just... You forget that
you can't do regular stuff.
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[indistinct chatter]
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00:28:44,323 --> 00:28:47,026
[Steve Wilson] Bill is probably
one of the best friends I have.
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The first time we met, Bill was
in a Steve Martin lookalike
contest.
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He was a guest and so I miked
him up.
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He is true blue.
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He's always there. He's a good
guy.
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[Nye] So I'm gonna try the
mystery song.
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[Wilson speaking]
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Oh, it's, uh...
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Um, Angie, "The Christmas Tree
Angel."
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["The Christmas Tree Angel"
playing]
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So, my mom used to sing this
song.
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And I thought... Listen to that.
457
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Here they all come.
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I used to cry. This is my mom.
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Wils, you're a mensch, man.
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[laughing]
461
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* All dressed up in stardust and
tinsel *
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Amazing.
463
00:30:06,205 --> 00:30:09,942
* Have a merry, merry, merry
Christmas said she *
464
00:30:15,581 --> 00:30:17,449
[seagulls cawing]
465
00:30:18,985 --> 00:30:21,020
[waves breaking]
466
00:30:27,359 --> 00:30:30,429
[Nye] My mom was a big believer
in women doing everything.
467
00:30:40,739 --> 00:30:43,009
During World War II, she was in
the Navy.
468
00:30:45,511 --> 00:30:48,114
She was recruited
to work on the Enigma code.
469
00:30:50,649 --> 00:30:53,052
And so, she wasn't Rosy the
Riveter.
470
00:30:53,685 --> 00:30:56,488
She was Rosy the Top-Secret Code
Breaker.
471
00:31:06,632 --> 00:31:08,400
We had a very good family
472
00:31:10,236 --> 00:31:12,271
My brother and sister loved me.
473
00:31:12,604 --> 00:31:14,373
We remain very close.
474
00:31:23,649 --> 00:31:28,487
[Susan] Our family has a genetic
problem. It's called "ataxia."
475
00:31:29,455 --> 00:31:31,357
It affects our, uh,
476
00:31:32,324 --> 00:31:35,962
motor coordination
and our speech sometimes.
477
00:31:37,063 --> 00:31:40,299
My brother Darby and I, we both
seem to be affected by it.
478
00:31:46,238 --> 00:31:51,310
The ataxia, this thing where you
fall backwards and you catch
yourself...
479
00:31:51,377 --> 00:31:52,511
You start to fall backwards...
480
00:31:52,578 --> 00:31:55,314
It's cerebellar,
and it's related to balance.
481
00:31:55,747 --> 00:31:58,017
I've seen my brother do it,
I saw my dad do it.
482
00:31:58,084 --> 00:31:59,518
And my sister...
483
00:31:59,585 --> 00:32:02,254
-Well, she's way past that, I
gotta say. -[Wilson] Okay. Yeah.
484
00:32:03,322 --> 00:32:08,227
So every time I lost my balance,
I'd presumed it was ataxia, so,
uh...
485
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:10,629
And part of the reason that, you
know,
486
00:32:10,696 --> 00:32:12,598
-I never had kids and stuff...
-[Susan] Well, sure.
487
00:32:12,664 --> 00:32:15,434
...is because I was afraid
of passing this on.
488
00:32:15,501 --> 00:32:16,602
[Susan] Right. Absolutely.
489
00:32:37,189 --> 00:32:38,290
[laughing]
490
00:32:39,758 --> 00:32:41,693
What are you laugh... She's, you
know...
491
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:43,662
Because I can't stand up.
492
00:32:44,630 --> 00:32:46,198
That is funny, you know.
493
00:32:47,299 --> 00:32:48,400
That's the fence.
494
00:32:50,069 --> 00:32:53,605
[Susan] Bill's so charming to
help us get along in life.
495
00:32:55,641 --> 00:32:57,409
-[Nye] Do you want your little
feetsies? -[Susan] I do.
496
00:32:58,977 --> 00:33:02,214
And he helps us to cope with
what we have to deal with.
497
00:33:05,217 --> 00:33:06,652
[Nye] That's true.
498
00:33:06,718 --> 00:33:09,021
-[Susan] You don't need to...
-[Nye] I was the obnoxious kid.
499
00:33:18,664 --> 00:33:21,033
[beeping]
500
00:33:22,601 --> 00:33:24,036
[Amy Bastian] Hold it there.
501
00:33:24,103 --> 00:33:26,672
Okay, you can move your right
arm into the next triangle.
502
00:33:27,839 --> 00:33:29,408
Go the other direction. Finger.
503
00:33:30,642 --> 00:33:31,643
Nose.
504
00:33:32,444 --> 00:33:33,545
Finger.
505
00:33:38,517 --> 00:33:41,187
I don't see any change at all
from the last time we saw you.
506
00:33:41,253 --> 00:33:42,621
-Oh, really? That's--
-Two years ago.
507
00:33:42,688 --> 00:33:46,225
And right now I don't see
anything that looks ataxic.
508
00:33:56,835 --> 00:33:58,704
All right. I'm gonna look
at your eyes now.
509
00:33:58,770 --> 00:34:01,373
What I want you to do
is focus right on my nose.
510
00:34:01,673 --> 00:34:04,110
Open 'em nice and wide for me.
Now look at my finger.
511
00:34:05,477 --> 00:34:07,613
So you can see the beading
movements of her eyes?
512
00:34:08,814 --> 00:34:10,382
And now look at my nose.
513
00:34:12,318 --> 00:34:15,354
Good, Susan. And slide it down.
514
00:34:17,223 --> 00:34:19,291
Okay. Let's switch sides.
515
00:34:21,193 --> 00:34:23,262
[Nye] I really worry
about my sister falling,
516
00:34:23,329 --> 00:34:24,796
or if something goes wrong.
517
00:34:28,300 --> 00:34:31,270
Because I watched how ataxia
affected my dad's life,
518
00:34:31,337 --> 00:34:33,372
and look how it affected my
sister's life.
519
00:34:36,375 --> 00:34:40,212
So, I may have
a so-called survivor's guilt,
520
00:34:40,546 --> 00:34:43,081
where, "I don't have it?
521
00:34:43,382 --> 00:34:44,783
Do I deserve to not have it?
522
00:34:45,584 --> 00:34:48,387
What did I do that allows me
to not have it,
523
00:34:48,454 --> 00:34:50,889
where my beloved brother
and sister do have it?
524
00:34:50,956 --> 00:34:54,593
What happened?
Do I owe the world a living?
525
00:34:56,428 --> 00:34:59,631
If I were to have kids,
would they not have gotten it?"
526
00:35:02,668 --> 00:35:05,504
I am aware of how fortunate I
am.
527
00:35:06,405 --> 00:35:09,775
It makes me all the more... It
motivates me all the more to do
528
00:35:10,542 --> 00:35:12,844
something to leave the world
better than I found it.
529
00:35:26,592 --> 00:35:30,162
Hey! Dude. Man.
530
00:35:30,862 --> 00:35:32,298
-How you doing?
-Good.
531
00:35:33,499 --> 00:35:34,533
[Tyson] So what did you bring?
532
00:35:34,900 --> 00:35:36,168
[Nye] Some Aveeno.
533
00:35:37,969 --> 00:35:40,239
Very nice. What's gonna happen
is, if I'm drinking wine with my
man here,
534
00:35:40,439 --> 00:35:42,574
it's gonna have to be cosmic.
Just so you know.
535
00:35:42,808 --> 00:35:45,477
[Nye] That's right.
He's proud of his 'stache.
536
00:35:45,811 --> 00:35:46,945
[Tyson] Here you go.
537
00:35:47,012 --> 00:35:48,880
-Rocket science!
-Yes!
538
00:35:50,849 --> 00:35:52,718
That's the bottle I'm drinking
with Bill.
539
00:35:55,654 --> 00:35:59,525
[Nye] We're living at this
extraordinary time where people
are anti-science.
540
00:36:00,058 --> 00:36:02,394
Anti-science in the country
541
00:36:03,295 --> 00:36:07,533
that got to be preeminent
through its innovation.
542
00:36:07,599 --> 00:36:09,668
-[Tyson] Okay. Let me get on
your case. -[Nye] All right.
543
00:36:09,901 --> 00:36:12,571
-There's an entire generation of
people... -I know.
544
00:36:12,638 --> 00:36:15,907
...who grew up looking at you in
their elementary school
classroom.
545
00:36:15,974 --> 00:36:18,410
I know. It's all me.
546
00:36:18,477 --> 00:36:20,812
-[laughing] It's all your fault!
-It's my fault.
547
00:36:21,313 --> 00:36:23,582
-Whatever I did wrong...
-Where have you failed?
548
00:36:23,982 --> 00:36:28,887
You had as much street cred as
is possible among
schoolchildren.
549
00:36:29,821 --> 00:36:32,991
But somebody's gotta believe you
more than a childhood educator.
550
00:36:33,058 --> 00:36:34,493
Yeah, yeah.
551
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:37,028
But I knew you had it in you.
I knew. We knew. We knew it.
552
00:36:37,095 --> 00:36:38,730
I went to the board...
553
00:36:38,797 --> 00:36:41,267
[Tyson] I serve on the board
of the Planetary Society.
554
00:36:41,333 --> 00:36:45,471
Carl Sagan founded the Planetary
Society back in 1980.
555
00:36:45,737 --> 00:36:48,240
[music playing on TV]
556
00:36:55,747 --> 00:36:57,816
Mars is the world next door.
557
00:36:59,718 --> 00:37:02,854
The nearest planet on which
human explorers could safely
land.
558
00:37:03,121 --> 00:37:04,890
[man on TV] The Planetary
Society,
559
00:37:04,956 --> 00:37:07,826
with Cornell University
astronomer Carl Sagan as its
president,
560
00:37:07,893 --> 00:37:10,496
is the largest space interest
group on this planet,
561
00:37:10,562 --> 00:37:13,965
with some 125,000 members
in over 60 of Earth's nations.
562
00:37:14,566 --> 00:37:19,305
I and other board members
determined that the best thing
for the society
563
00:37:20,138 --> 00:37:23,642
would be to have Bill become its
CEO.
564
00:37:31,950 --> 00:37:34,386
So, here's gonna be where
the work's gonna get done.
565
00:37:34,453 --> 00:37:37,489
Look at all of the space we have
for people. "Space," get it?
566
00:37:40,692 --> 00:37:45,564
Before Bill took over, we had
been in a low point for some
time.
567
00:37:46,698 --> 00:37:51,970
And Bill coming onboard started
to change us really
dramatically.
568
00:37:53,472 --> 00:37:57,576
One thing that's very important
to Bill is the Planetary
Society's solar sail launch.
569
00:37:58,410 --> 00:38:00,512
It's been our mission since
1980.
570
00:38:00,579 --> 00:38:02,548
[Johnny Carson] Isn't this
interesting.
571
00:38:02,614 --> 00:38:06,352
Well, there's just a
tremendously exciting prospect
called "solar sailing."
572
00:38:06,418 --> 00:38:10,556
-"Solar sailing"?
-And this is a very crude model.
573
00:38:10,922 --> 00:38:13,725
And it works exactly
as an ordinary sailboat does,
574
00:38:13,792 --> 00:38:18,964
but it would travel on the
radiation and particles that
come out of the sun.
575
00:38:19,030 --> 00:38:20,399
The wind from the sun.
576
00:38:22,668 --> 00:38:25,837
[Tyson] If you look at old
footage of Carl Sagan on The
Tonight Show,
577
00:38:25,904 --> 00:38:29,107
it's Carl Sagan unfurling a
model of a solar sail,
578
00:38:29,174 --> 00:38:32,844
describing that to Johnny Carson
and to the American public.
579
00:38:37,816 --> 00:38:42,087
[Ann Druyan] Carl was so excited
about the solar sailing project.
580
00:38:42,788 --> 00:38:47,459
What could be more mythic
than riding the light?
581
00:38:55,567 --> 00:38:58,570
[Nye] At the Planetary Society,
we are gonna launch LightSail.
582
00:39:00,972 --> 00:39:03,108
When this thing gets in space,
583
00:39:05,176 --> 00:39:09,981
Mylar sheets are deployed, and
the photons from the sun will
give it a push.
584
00:39:16,922 --> 00:39:18,824
You never run out of fuel.
585
00:39:19,958 --> 00:39:21,760
You could greatly lower the cost
586
00:39:21,827 --> 00:39:26,031
and make space exploration
accessible to many, many more
people.
587
00:39:37,008 --> 00:39:38,343
We will be able to launch
spacecraft
588
00:39:38,410 --> 00:39:41,413
and take them farther
and deeper into space.
589
00:39:49,721 --> 00:39:54,426
[Druyan] It's the best shot we
have at getting to travel out
into the cosmos
590
00:39:54,793 --> 00:39:57,629
on the scale of even the nearest
stars.
591
00:40:05,904 --> 00:40:07,973
This is my office. This will be
my office.
592
00:40:08,807 --> 00:40:11,943
Carl Sagan changed my life,
and I am honored
593
00:40:12,811 --> 00:40:16,815
to be the CEO of the society
that he started. The Planetary
Society.
594
00:40:42,941 --> 00:40:45,110
[indistinct chatter]
595
00:40:50,716 --> 00:40:53,652
[marching band playing]
596
00:40:56,655 --> 00:40:58,824
[cameras clicking]
597
00:41:02,060 --> 00:41:04,229
[crowd applauding]
598
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:11,637
People from all over the world
have heard of Noah's Ark.
599
00:41:12,103 --> 00:41:15,006
People say, "What are you really
doing here? What statement are
you making?"
600
00:41:15,306 --> 00:41:17,709
See, people haven't been taught
genetics correctly,
601
00:41:17,776 --> 00:41:20,846
haven't been taught about
speciation and natural selection
correctly.
602
00:41:20,912 --> 00:41:23,649
We're gonna correct that in here
and undo
603
00:41:23,715 --> 00:41:25,917
the brainwashing
that's occurred, uh, through...
604
00:41:25,984 --> 00:41:27,853
[crowd cheering]
605
00:41:27,919 --> 00:41:31,156
I'm gonna challenge Bill Nye's
evolutionary worldview. So,
Bill,
606
00:41:31,623 --> 00:41:34,726
you're invited to come, and I'll
personally tour you through the
Ark.
607
00:41:34,793 --> 00:41:36,595
You can do it ahead of opening,
if you want,
608
00:41:36,662 --> 00:41:39,565
or you can do it after opening.
Whatever.
609
00:41:48,740 --> 00:41:52,744
As we stand here, the Juno
spacecraft just went into orbit
around Jupiter,
610
00:41:54,079 --> 00:41:58,183
which is an extraordinary
accomplishment of engineering
and rocket science.
611
00:41:58,249 --> 00:41:59,751
Here's anti-science.
612
00:42:01,152 --> 00:42:03,655
[crowd applauding]
613
00:42:04,656 --> 00:42:08,627
What do you say to those who
scoff at dinosaurs on the Ark?
614
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:12,163
People have so many
misconceptions about dinosaurs.
615
00:42:12,230 --> 00:42:15,734
You know, Bill Nye scoffs at me
for believing dinosaurs were on
the Ark,
616
00:42:15,801 --> 00:42:19,905
but people like Bill Nye believe
dinosaurs grew feathers and
became birds.
617
00:42:20,138 --> 00:42:21,539
-It comes down to beliefs.
-[crowd laughing]
618
00:42:21,607 --> 00:42:24,710
It's a clash of worldviews.
That's what it's all about.
619
00:42:24,776 --> 00:42:26,244
[crowd applauding]
620
00:42:28,379 --> 00:42:31,082
It's not a problem with
religion. I'm hip.
621
00:42:31,817 --> 00:42:33,819
The Earth's not 6,000 years old.
622
00:42:33,885 --> 00:42:35,987
It is inappropriate
to teach that to young people.
623
00:42:37,388 --> 00:42:38,924
[man speaking Spanish]
624
00:42:48,133 --> 00:42:51,069
Well, I know enchilada and taco
and...
625
00:42:51,269 --> 00:42:53,004
[people laughing]
626
00:42:53,071 --> 00:42:57,275
Speciation is not evolution,
because dogs actually always
remain dogs.
627
00:42:57,342 --> 00:43:01,046
It's one of the things we've
observed, and cats always remain
cats.
628
00:43:01,112 --> 00:43:02,413
-We've observed that too.
-[crowd applauding]
629
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:05,016
Oh, and by the way, elephants
always remain elephants.
630
00:43:05,083 --> 00:43:06,852
[people laughing]
631
00:43:32,110 --> 00:43:34,913
[recorded animal calls]
632
00:43:37,015 --> 00:43:39,885
[Nye] This looks like an
apatosaurus, or a something...
633
00:43:39,951 --> 00:43:41,653
[Ham] Yeah, it's a sauropod.
Yeah.
634
00:43:41,720 --> 00:43:47,125
Your claim is that a family
built this enclosure for ancient
sauropods.
635
00:43:47,425 --> 00:43:50,862
-For each kind of land animal.
-And then the sauropods
disappeared.
636
00:43:50,929 --> 00:43:53,732
Oh, lots of animals have
disappeared.
637
00:43:53,799 --> 00:43:55,200
I mean, that's why
we have endangered species--
638
00:43:55,266 --> 00:43:57,302
But it happened in the last
4,000 years?
639
00:43:57,368 --> 00:43:59,037
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
640
00:43:59,838 --> 00:44:03,108
[Ham] Would you allow someone
to teach the possibility
641
00:44:03,174 --> 00:44:06,144
that God created them
in the public schools?
642
00:44:06,211 --> 00:44:07,112
-No.
-Okay.
643
00:44:07,178 --> 00:44:08,479
-Not in science class.
-Mm-hmm.
644
00:44:08,546 --> 00:44:12,951
In religion class, in history
class, philosophy class.
645
00:44:13,018 --> 00:44:14,753
But that's not science.
646
00:44:14,820 --> 00:44:16,221
But you said your belief was
everything happened by natural
processes,
647
00:44:16,287 --> 00:44:18,957
and they're teaching that
religion in the science class.
648
00:44:19,024 --> 00:44:20,125
-Well, you're calling it a
religion. -Yeah, it is.
649
00:44:20,191 --> 00:44:21,426
We're calling it "the process of
science."
650
00:44:21,492 --> 00:44:23,361
-No, but it is a religion.
-So you can teach...
651
00:44:23,428 --> 00:44:25,163
It's a belief.
652
00:44:25,230 --> 00:44:28,666
Teach your worldview in a
different class, but not in
science class.
653
00:44:35,340 --> 00:44:38,443
[Ham] You must admit, these are
quite exquisite exhibits, right?
654
00:44:39,077 --> 00:44:40,278
They're very troubling.
655
00:44:41,679 --> 00:44:43,014
[stammers] But they're
beautifully done, aren't they?
656
00:44:45,416 --> 00:44:46,251
I guess.
657
00:44:57,929 --> 00:45:01,266
[Hams voice] And the Earth was
without form and void,
658
00:45:01,332 --> 00:45:02,533
and darkness...
659
00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:03,869
[somber instrumental music
playing]
660
00:45:11,142 --> 00:45:13,845
[Nye on TV] My scientific
colleagues go to places like
Greenland,
661
00:45:13,912 --> 00:45:15,446
Arctic, Antarctica,
662
00:45:15,513 --> 00:45:18,083
and they drill into the ice.
663
00:45:18,149 --> 00:45:21,552
And we pull out long cylinders
of ice.
664
00:45:21,619 --> 00:45:27,458
Certain of these cylinders
have 680,000 layers of ice.
665
00:45:27,525 --> 00:45:31,396
The truth is that these layers
in the ice are not annual
layers.
666
00:45:31,462 --> 00:45:34,532
So Bill Nye and others have
pushed the idea of millions of
years
667
00:45:34,599 --> 00:45:38,369
while talking about annual rings
in icicles are simply wrong.
668
00:45:43,441 --> 00:45:46,277
So this is the most troubling
thing you do, Mr. Ham.
669
00:45:46,344 --> 00:45:47,979
Trying to convince young people
670
00:45:48,579 --> 00:45:52,083
that climate change
is not real is very serious,
671
00:45:52,150 --> 00:45:53,852
because they're gonna have to
grow up and deal with it.
672
00:45:53,919 --> 00:45:55,320
[Ham] Actually, climates change
all the time.
673
00:45:55,386 --> 00:45:56,955
Let me rephrase it for you.
674
00:45:57,188 --> 00:45:59,958
Human-caused climate change
is very serious.
675
00:46:00,191 --> 00:46:03,161
-Well, there's a lot of debate
about it. -This is the worst
thing you--
676
00:46:03,228 --> 00:46:05,330
There's a lot of scientists
who would disagree with that.
677
00:46:05,396 --> 00:46:07,098
-In fact, we--
-Very, very few.
678
00:46:07,165 --> 00:46:08,867
We have PhD scientists on our
staff who would disagree with
that.
679
00:46:08,934 --> 00:46:10,735
We have PhD scientists.
680
00:46:10,802 --> 00:46:14,873
Your scientists on your staff,
as respectful as I can be, are
incompetent.
681
00:46:25,283 --> 00:46:28,453
[Ham's voice] ...contradicts the
secular belief of millions of
years.
682
00:46:30,288 --> 00:46:32,057
[girl] How did God create us?
683
00:46:33,859 --> 00:46:35,493
[Ham] "How did God create us?"
The Bible says He spoke, and it
happened,
684
00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:38,496
because He is all powerful,
because He is infinite creator
God.
685
00:46:40,465 --> 00:46:42,800
So, young woman, I would say to
you,
686
00:46:43,534 --> 00:46:45,136
that there's a process
687
00:46:45,203 --> 00:46:49,407
that humans have developed over
a millennia by which we know
nature.
688
00:46:49,474 --> 00:46:50,641
And we call that "science."
689
00:46:50,708 --> 00:46:53,444
The big thing in science
is questioning things.
690
00:46:53,511 --> 00:46:57,949
So, are you telling this little
girl that she is just an animal?
691
00:46:58,016 --> 00:47:00,185
The word "just" I disagree with.
692
00:47:00,251 --> 00:47:02,220
She's a wonderful, beautiful
animal.
693
00:47:03,021 --> 00:47:04,489
I believe Mr. Ham.
694
00:47:04,555 --> 00:47:06,357
-Say that again?
-I believe Mr. Ham.
695
00:47:06,424 --> 00:47:08,960
Okay. So, as you get older,
just look at the world.
696
00:47:09,027 --> 00:47:11,096
I really encourage you to go to
college.
697
00:47:49,467 --> 00:47:52,237
[Nye] Some of those kids, I
don't think they were in fifth
grade.
698
00:47:54,239 --> 00:47:55,540
You know, when we did the
Science Guy show,
699
00:47:55,606 --> 00:47:58,509
we had very compelling
evidence that ten years old
700
00:47:59,244 --> 00:48:02,213
was the oldest you could be to
get the lifelong passion for
science.
701
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:05,984
We're gonna lose thousands and
thousands of kids from this
area,
702
00:48:06,551 --> 00:48:10,421
who grew up with this weird,
untenable worldview.
703
00:48:10,488 --> 00:48:12,523
[people chanting] ...we don't
want your Ark no more!
704
00:48:12,590 --> 00:48:16,161
One, two, three, four,
we don't want your Ark no more!
705
00:48:16,227 --> 00:48:19,564
One, two, three, four,
we don't want your Ark no more!
706
00:48:19,630 --> 00:48:21,399
[people cheering]
707
00:48:21,466 --> 00:48:25,603
Today that grand opening of the
Ark Encounter kicked off about
an hour ago.
708
00:48:25,670 --> 00:48:28,173
Across the street, we saw
a lot of people going in there.
709
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:30,041
Hundreds of people.
710
00:48:30,108 --> 00:48:32,443
I want to go talk to Jim Helton,
the president of the Tri-State
Freethinkers.
711
00:48:32,510 --> 00:48:33,678
Science is part of it,
712
00:48:33,744 --> 00:48:35,180
but you say there's more to it
than just that?
713
00:48:35,246 --> 00:48:38,016
Yes. We want to draw attention
to where your money is going to,
714
00:48:38,083 --> 00:48:39,250
and that your children
will be indoctrinated
715
00:48:39,317 --> 00:48:41,152
to say that evolution
and science aren't true.
716
00:48:41,219 --> 00:48:45,490
Here's what happened. They
strategically placed Bill Nye at
the Creation Museum.
717
00:48:45,723 --> 00:48:51,262
After that debate, they raised
millions of additional dollars
for the Ark Encounter.
718
00:48:53,698 --> 00:48:55,433
Was Bill Nye responsible for
some of that?
719
00:48:56,301 --> 00:48:58,103
Unfortunately, probably yes.
720
00:48:59,904 --> 00:49:03,041
[people chanting] One, two,
three, four, we don't want your
Ark no more!
721
00:49:03,374 --> 00:49:06,211
[TV reporter] It's a theme park
of biblical proportion,
722
00:49:06,277 --> 00:49:09,580
but until now, the money to make
it has not been flooding in.
723
00:49:09,647 --> 00:49:12,317
But $15 million in the last two
weeks
724
00:49:12,383 --> 00:49:14,619
came from a rather ironic chain
of events.
725
00:49:14,685 --> 00:49:16,654
...who don't understand natural
law...
726
00:49:16,721 --> 00:49:19,124
[TV reporter] When thousands
watched science advocate Bill
Nye
727
00:49:19,190 --> 00:49:20,291
debate Ham online,
728
00:49:20,358 --> 00:49:22,260
believers pulled out their
wallets.
729
00:49:36,541 --> 00:49:39,810
[Coyne] Nye's mistake was giving
credibility to Ken Ham
730
00:49:39,877 --> 00:49:42,347
by giving him a public platform.
731
00:49:43,548 --> 00:49:46,051
Everything I've seen about Nye
is that
732
00:49:46,851 --> 00:49:49,187
he really misses being the
Science Guy,
733
00:49:49,254 --> 00:49:51,656
because he was much beloved
and very popular.
734
00:49:54,459 --> 00:49:56,194
It's hard to give up celebrity.
735
00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:06,371
The starting position for me is,
"What is your goal?"
736
00:50:07,238 --> 00:50:10,841
My goal is helping the public
understand
737
00:50:10,908 --> 00:50:14,445
why evolution is good science,
why climate change is good
science,
738
00:50:14,745 --> 00:50:16,081
why they should be taught to
kids.
739
00:50:17,315 --> 00:50:18,749
I don't know what Bill's goals
are.
740
00:50:28,859 --> 00:50:33,231
Bill has always wanted to be
famous from the get-go.
741
00:50:33,598 --> 00:50:36,033
He's actually said that to me,
"I wanted to be famous."
742
00:50:36,534 --> 00:50:38,203
He wanted to be a star.
743
00:50:38,269 --> 00:50:39,537
I see...
744
00:50:39,604 --> 00:50:40,471
You've seen the pictures
with the drone on the back.
745
00:50:41,972 --> 00:50:43,508
[man] Okay, Bill. I'm rolling,
whenever you're comfortable.
746
00:50:46,311 --> 00:50:48,879
Okay. So everyone just give a
big...
747
00:50:48,946 --> 00:50:51,782
[Jim McKenna]
The Science Guy is a character,
748
00:50:51,849 --> 00:50:56,087
but Bill is a human. He's not
perfect.
749
00:50:56,821 --> 00:51:00,691
See, that's why airplanes take
off and land pointing into the
wind.
750
00:51:02,327 --> 00:51:04,829
[McKenna] So we committed
to a TV show with Bill,
751
00:51:05,730 --> 00:51:11,402
but suddenly Bill went to
Portland, and he did a pilot
with our material.
752
00:51:12,537 --> 00:51:16,307
Our show, Bill Nye the Science
Guy, almost did not happen.
753
00:51:18,576 --> 00:51:20,211
[TV show theme song playing]
754
00:51:25,583 --> 00:51:27,418
Hey, Bill Nye the Science Guy
here.
755
00:51:27,485 --> 00:51:30,555
What I've got is a set-up
for making hydrogen gas.
756
00:51:30,621 --> 00:51:32,457
I have a special chemical in
here that...
757
00:51:32,523 --> 00:51:36,927
If you need any proof that there
was more than just Bill Nye
behind the success
758
00:51:36,994 --> 00:51:40,398
of the Bill Nye the Science Guy
show, all you have to do is look
at the version
759
00:51:40,465 --> 00:51:44,469
of the show that was produced
down in Portland, and it was
ridiculous.
760
00:51:44,535 --> 00:51:49,707
It was like some form of crazy,
manic Captain Kangaroo.
761
00:51:49,774 --> 00:51:53,211
Bill really wasn't at his best,
it didn't make a lot of sense.
762
00:51:53,278 --> 00:51:55,513
It didn't get picked up.
It kind of went nowhere.
763
00:51:57,382 --> 00:51:59,384
[loud explosion]
764
00:51:59,450 --> 00:52:01,352
Would you look at that?
765
00:52:01,419 --> 00:52:04,822
He's gonna blow up the whole
neighborhood if somebody doesn't
do something.
766
00:52:05,390 --> 00:52:06,224
[glass breaking]
767
00:52:06,291 --> 00:52:07,458
Whoa! [laughs]
768
00:52:09,059 --> 00:52:10,428
[McKenna] We lost him
for a year, contractually.
769
00:52:10,495 --> 00:52:12,797
We were threatened with lawsuits
if we even talked to him,
770
00:52:12,863 --> 00:52:14,899
and I felt pretty raw from that.
771
00:52:14,965 --> 00:52:15,833
[TV static]
772
00:52:17,502 --> 00:52:19,737
So, overall, the page and a half
scene is all different
locations,
773
00:52:19,804 --> 00:52:21,939
but we'd like to cut up
sentences.
774
00:52:22,006 --> 00:52:25,610
[laughing] Oh, yeah. Let's go
shoot.
775
00:52:25,676 --> 00:52:27,712
We have to go shoot some stuff.
I forgot about that.
776
00:52:27,778 --> 00:52:29,980
-And go to the doctor.
-Yeah, go to the doctor.
777
00:52:30,047 --> 00:52:35,920
I think fame changed Bill, and I
think probably the biggest way
is, um,
778
00:52:37,422 --> 00:52:40,225
his trust issues, and I think
also his vulnerability.
779
00:52:40,291 --> 00:52:41,826
He's very protective of it,
780
00:52:41,892 --> 00:52:43,961
and then now you're not seeing a
Bill
781
00:52:44,028 --> 00:52:47,665
that we grew up with, you know,
20 years ago.
782
00:53:00,911 --> 00:53:04,249
[Heather Berlin] When you
started getting more popular
783
00:53:04,315 --> 00:53:08,719
and your brand of science humor
caught on, and you started
getting recognized,
784
00:53:09,420 --> 00:53:11,322
how did that make you feel?
I mean, were you, you know...
785
00:53:11,389 --> 00:53:13,491
[Nye] It makes you feel cool.
It makes you feel appreciated.
786
00:53:13,558 --> 00:53:16,927
Yeah. But now you have
millions and millions of people
787
00:53:16,994 --> 00:53:19,564
who know you or your persona.
788
00:53:19,630 --> 00:53:23,701
What does that do to your psyche
and what does it do to your
brain, ultimately?
789
00:53:23,768 --> 00:53:29,006
I'm studying the effect of
celebrity and fame on the brain
and the psyche,
790
00:53:29,073 --> 00:53:34,645
and Bill is a great test case,
where I can explore my thesis.
791
00:53:34,945 --> 00:53:38,616
I won't be surprised if your
brain, my brain, is meh from all
this.
792
00:53:38,683 --> 00:53:40,084
[Berlin] Yeah. I mean,
and that's my theory,
793
00:53:40,150 --> 00:53:44,722
is that being in the limelight
for a given period of time
794
00:53:44,789 --> 00:53:47,892
can affect even the way
your brain is wired up.
795
00:53:48,659 --> 00:53:52,297
So, in terms of engaging with
the public, getting approached
by people,
796
00:53:52,363 --> 00:53:56,601
is there this constant having to
shield yourself and close your
real self off?
797
00:53:57,134 --> 00:54:00,305
Well, I close off a lot.
I don't know if it's constant.
798
00:54:00,505 --> 00:54:02,807
Do you think that has affected
you in your personal life as
well?
799
00:54:02,873 --> 00:54:04,775
Oh, yeah. Oh, no. Yes!
800
00:54:06,944 --> 00:54:09,714
Do you think you've
sacrificed having a family...
801
00:54:09,780 --> 00:54:12,417
I think about that all the time.
And I just... I never did that.
802
00:54:12,483 --> 00:54:15,820
Do you think that you sacrificed
that to pursue this career?
803
00:54:15,886 --> 00:54:19,290
Well, how about this. I chose to
pursue this instead of doing
that.
804
00:54:19,524 --> 00:54:21,959
I mean, there were
opportunities...
805
00:54:22,493 --> 00:54:24,595
-Right. -To get married and have
babies, for sure.
806
00:54:24,662 --> 00:54:26,964
But I know people can do both.
807
00:54:27,031 --> 00:54:30,034
Well, this it. Dude! Dude.
[laughs]
808
00:54:30,801 --> 00:54:35,873
I think women that I've known
are frustrated with me, because
I don't...
809
00:54:38,008 --> 00:54:40,411
I won't commit-commit,
because...
810
00:54:40,478 --> 00:54:43,481
[stammers] But I think that's
not to do with fame so much.
811
00:54:43,548 --> 00:54:48,753
My parents stopped getting along
in a very important time in my
development.
812
00:54:48,819 --> 00:54:49,687
How old were you?
813
00:54:50,755 --> 00:54:52,790
I don't know. I was 12.
814
00:54:52,990 --> 00:54:56,026
-Hmm.
-My mom was very, very unhappy,
815
00:54:56,727 --> 00:55:00,598
and my father was extremely
stubborn. And he was...
816
00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:04,969
Bitterly sarcastic.
817
00:55:05,803 --> 00:55:07,405
And I think a lot of that
rubbed off on me,
818
00:55:07,472 --> 00:55:11,075
and that's not good all of the
time. I have angered some
people.
819
00:55:11,909 --> 00:55:13,478
So you have a fear of intimacy,
820
00:55:13,544 --> 00:55:16,381
perhaps related to the fact that
your parents' relationship
failed?
821
00:55:16,447 --> 00:55:17,848
Yeah.
822
00:55:17,915 --> 00:55:20,017
So if you just keep a little bit
of distance, you're always safe.
823
00:55:21,686 --> 00:55:24,855
But at the same time, it never
allows you to have a real
full...
824
00:55:41,038 --> 00:55:44,642
[McKenna] I think about this
often. I had trust issues with
Bill.
825
00:55:46,511 --> 00:55:47,878
But he's got this mission.
826
00:55:49,079 --> 00:55:52,082
I see Bill go on and do great
things,
827
00:55:52,149 --> 00:55:55,853
and I am happy and proud
that he has done this.
828
00:55:57,588 --> 00:55:59,390
And I think it's brave.
829
00:56:23,147 --> 00:56:27,485
My dad's big thing was, "Every
man's responsible for his own
actions,"
830
00:56:28,052 --> 00:56:30,421
and "Leave the world
better than you found it."
831
00:56:31,055 --> 00:56:36,160
These are Ned Nye's rules of
life right there. Guiding
principles.
832
00:56:42,299 --> 00:56:44,802
My parents participated in this
world war.
833
00:56:45,302 --> 00:56:46,937
They contributed to winning it.
834
00:56:56,614 --> 00:57:00,050
So, my parents made me who I am.
835
00:57:00,117 --> 00:57:01,786
I mean, for better or for worse.
836
00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:03,854
Uh...
837
00:57:05,690 --> 00:57:08,626
You feel great about it, but I
also feel, like, "Man, I could
do more."
838
00:57:09,293 --> 00:57:11,028
Would they be proud of me,
839
00:57:11,095 --> 00:57:13,531
the mistakes I've made?
Would they go along with it?
840
00:57:16,934 --> 00:57:18,836
I try to be worthy of them.
841
00:57:19,169 --> 00:57:21,806
I try to leave a legacy.
842
00:57:24,942 --> 00:57:27,812
My drive to do all of this
is from my parents.
843
00:57:52,737 --> 00:57:54,939
[people chattering]
844
00:57:55,005 --> 00:57:56,173
[woman] I got it.
845
00:58:04,649 --> 00:58:08,485
The actual reason why I'm
actually here is going well.
846
00:58:10,655 --> 00:58:12,657
[cheering]
847
00:58:17,995 --> 00:58:19,063
Hi, you guys!
848
00:58:19,797 --> 00:58:22,066
[all cheering]
849
00:58:22,767 --> 00:58:25,502
Don't you people have school to
work on?
850
00:58:25,970 --> 00:58:27,672
[all laughing]
851
00:58:27,738 --> 00:58:29,173
Carry on, carry on!
852
00:58:29,239 --> 00:58:30,140
Oh, my God!
853
00:58:42,286 --> 00:58:46,190
There's the spacecraft over
there, and you say, "That's it?"
854
00:58:46,256 --> 00:58:48,258
Yeah, that's it. It's that big.
855
00:58:48,325 --> 00:58:50,595
It's literally smaller
than a loaf of bread.
856
00:59:01,271 --> 00:59:03,608
It really is gorgeous. It's just
gorgeous.
857
00:59:04,842 --> 00:59:07,812
When I was in class, 40 years
ago,
858
00:59:08,045 --> 00:59:10,748
Carl Sagan talked about
a solar sail mission.
859
00:59:11,448 --> 00:59:12,783
But it never happened.
860
00:59:15,185 --> 00:59:18,088
So this is realizing a
40-year-old dream,
861
00:59:18,155 --> 00:59:21,125
building a spacecraft
that would fly in space,
862
00:59:21,191 --> 00:59:22,960
propelled just by light.
863
00:59:23,694 --> 00:59:25,863
So, Professor Sagan, this one's
for you.
864
00:59:29,266 --> 00:59:30,267
[indistinct chatter]
865
00:59:37,241 --> 00:59:41,912
[Nye] We're all very hopeful.
This is an important day in
testing the spacecraft,
866
00:59:42,479 --> 00:59:45,683
to turn it on and see if it does
everything it's supposed to do.
867
00:59:46,817 --> 00:59:48,853
The LightSail spacecraft
will go there in the middle.
868
00:59:51,255 --> 00:59:53,791
The antenna will spring out,
869
00:59:53,858 --> 00:59:56,961
and the sails will deploy,
870
00:59:57,027 --> 00:59:59,129
if nothing goes wrong.
871
01:00:07,938 --> 01:00:09,039
[indistinct conversation]
872
01:00:17,181 --> 01:00:19,684
-[man] All right. Are you ready?
-[man 2] Ready.
873
01:00:19,750 --> 01:00:20,918
Countdown.
874
01:00:20,985 --> 01:00:27,624
[all] Five, four, three, two,
one, zero...
875
01:00:28,225 --> 01:00:29,994
[Nye] Oh, man. Right there.
876
01:00:31,829 --> 01:00:32,830
Hey, you guys.
877
01:00:34,264 --> 01:00:37,334
I'm really glad it works.
Woo-hoo!
878
01:00:37,968 --> 01:00:40,437
Oh, that's great.
That's really great, you guys.
879
01:00:40,504 --> 01:00:43,340
It's really nice. It's working
perfectly.
880
01:01:05,162 --> 01:01:08,032
[people cheering]
881
01:01:14,471 --> 01:01:18,743
[Nye] So the reason we're doing
this is to advance space
science.
882
01:01:20,177 --> 01:01:24,081
There's just a few missions
that a solar sail is ideal for.
883
01:01:24,148 --> 01:01:28,218
You could monitor the Earth's
climate, sort of, indefinitely,
884
01:01:28,518 --> 01:01:32,923
and that would be a worthy
use of these inexpensive,
885
01:01:32,990 --> 01:01:34,992
lightweight spacecraft.
886
01:01:42,900 --> 01:01:47,171
So, next year we're launching
a solar sail into space...
887
01:01:51,942 --> 01:01:54,044
And I'm quite anxious about it.
888
01:01:54,611 --> 01:01:58,148
The Planetary Society launched
a solar sail in 2005,
889
01:01:58,215 --> 01:02:00,918
and the result was catastrophic.
890
01:02:05,155 --> 01:02:09,827
[Ann] After Carl's death, I was
the program director of Cosmos
I,
891
01:02:09,894 --> 01:02:16,366
which would be the very first
attempt to launch a solar sail
into space.
892
01:02:19,436 --> 01:02:22,506
[Nye] We launched it on a
Russian Cold War ballistic
missile
893
01:02:22,940 --> 01:02:24,341
in the Arctic Ocean.
894
01:02:42,192 --> 01:02:46,096
Everybody was, sort of, gathered
around listening for
information, updates.
895
01:02:50,500 --> 01:02:53,770
"Well, we're waiting for a
signal." No. There was no
signal.
896
01:02:55,072 --> 01:03:00,244
[Ann] And word came that our
tracking seemed to indicate that
it was off-course.
897
01:03:03,580 --> 01:03:04,514
[Nye] And it crashed.
898
01:03:04,581 --> 01:03:06,350
[explosion]
899
01:03:06,416 --> 01:03:08,518
And it's in the bottom of the
ocean.
900
01:03:13,523 --> 01:03:19,296
[Ann] And so our attempts to
launch humanity's first solar
sail were thwarted.
901
01:03:25,069 --> 01:03:26,536
[Nye] While we're sitting here,
902
01:03:26,603 --> 01:03:29,373
the spacecraft is sitting
on this laboratory bench,
903
01:03:29,940 --> 01:03:32,076
the antenna deployed.
904
01:03:32,142 --> 01:03:34,378
But then you've got... There's
nothing to do for 40 minutes.
905
01:03:34,444 --> 01:03:39,283
So, in this meantime, Joe
Bastardi,
906
01:03:39,616 --> 01:03:42,252
the meteorologist-weightlifter,
907
01:03:42,953 --> 01:03:46,056
sent me a direct message on
Twitter.
908
01:03:46,991 --> 01:03:49,393
"Hey, Bill. Sorry I blocked you
last week.
909
01:03:49,459 --> 01:03:52,429
That really is not me,
as I am a libertarian."
910
01:03:52,662 --> 01:03:58,235
Please welcome, for
meteorologists, the chief
forecaster for Accuweather,
911
01:03:58,302 --> 01:04:03,607
NABBA American Bodybuilding Tall
Class Champion, Joe Bastardi.
912
01:04:03,673 --> 01:04:05,375
Joe, thanks so much for coming
on.
913
01:04:05,442 --> 01:04:06,610
[audience cheering]
914
01:04:07,912 --> 01:04:11,916
Do you believe that global
warming is man-made?
915
01:04:12,216 --> 01:04:14,151
Global warming is basically
natural.
916
01:04:14,218 --> 01:04:16,453
It's a fraud. I don't know if
that's true, and I don't care.
917
01:04:16,520 --> 01:04:18,222
What do you say about that,
Brenda?
918
01:04:19,223 --> 01:04:21,691
Well, meteorologists are
focusing on the short-term,
919
01:04:21,758 --> 01:04:23,327
and climate scientists
look at the long-term.
920
01:04:23,393 --> 01:04:25,162
These are, like, natural cycles.
921
01:04:25,229 --> 01:04:26,630
[Stephen Colbert] What's the
long-term?
922
01:04:26,696 --> 01:04:30,100
It just seems so unlikely that a
guy with a degree in meteorology
923
01:04:30,167 --> 01:04:33,337
does not have a grasp
of the greenhouse effect.
924
01:04:33,403 --> 01:04:34,871
And it wouldn't matter,
925
01:04:36,573 --> 01:04:39,709
except the deniers have been so
successful in keeping the United
States
926
01:04:39,776 --> 01:04:42,446
from becoming a world leader
in addressing climate change.
927
01:04:42,712 --> 01:04:45,349
I agree that there's climate
change, all right?
928
01:04:45,415 --> 01:04:46,850
Do humans have something to do
with it?
929
01:04:46,917 --> 01:04:49,419
They probably have something to
do with it. I don't know what.
930
01:04:49,486 --> 01:04:52,322
Is it worth crashing the
American economy? No. I don't
believe that.
931
01:04:53,257 --> 01:04:57,027
[announcer] Please welcome Joe
Bastardi!
932
01:04:57,094 --> 01:04:58,428
[audience cheering]
933
01:05:05,702 --> 01:05:09,406
[Joe Bastardi] I just think that
C02 is very, very small,
934
01:05:09,473 --> 01:05:11,541
relative to everything else
that's going on.
935
01:05:19,383 --> 01:05:23,187
If the environment was a
workout, to me, the sun would be
squats.
936
01:05:29,593 --> 01:05:31,195
The oceans would be pull-ups.
937
01:05:38,235 --> 01:05:42,072
Power cleans would be stochastic
events, like volcanoes.
938
01:05:48,745 --> 01:05:51,481
All those things are
the climate control knobs.
939
01:05:51,548 --> 01:05:54,151
All right. So set it slow, set
it fast.
940
01:05:54,451 --> 01:05:56,620
C02 would probably be, you know,
941
01:05:56,686 --> 01:05:59,556
band curls on a Thursday morning
circuit or something.
942
01:06:04,361 --> 01:06:07,397
Relative to those big-ticket
exercises,
943
01:06:07,464 --> 01:06:09,166
I don't think it's a control
knob.
944
01:06:17,741 --> 01:06:20,477
When they argue the warmer
water that runs into
945
01:06:20,544 --> 01:06:23,547
the Arctic thingamajig that's
cold,
946
01:06:23,613 --> 01:06:28,118
they say that that is all global
warming,
947
01:06:28,185 --> 01:06:31,021
climate change, whatever. So
what is creating this
phenomenon?
948
01:06:32,189 --> 01:06:34,091
Well, what's creating it is the
natural,
949
01:06:34,158 --> 01:06:36,593
cyclical processes that we've
seen for years and years.
950
01:06:36,893 --> 01:06:40,197
In this particular year, because
of our forecast in WeatherBELL,
951
01:06:40,264 --> 01:06:42,232
we thought that it's going
to be an in-close year,
952
01:06:42,299 --> 01:06:44,301
high-impact year for the United
States.
953
01:06:44,368 --> 01:06:45,802
[Michael Mann] Climate-change
deniers
954
01:06:45,869 --> 01:06:48,538
have this huge megaphone
that has been provided to them
955
01:06:48,605 --> 01:06:52,276
by fossil fuel interests,
by conservative media outlets
956
01:06:52,342 --> 01:06:55,745
that are part of this larger
climate-change denial machine.
957
01:06:56,213 --> 01:06:58,348
And so what you've gotta be
concerned about...
958
01:06:58,415 --> 01:07:02,152
[Mann] Much of the denial comes
from an ideological viewpoint.
959
01:07:02,219 --> 01:07:06,556
You know, regulating greenhouse
gases must be bad because all
regulation is bad.
960
01:07:07,157 --> 01:07:08,825
Well, you do the math and add it
up,
961
01:07:08,892 --> 01:07:11,728
and if you go back and look and
study what happened before,
962
01:07:11,795 --> 01:07:13,430
you come up with your answer.
963
01:07:13,497 --> 01:07:15,699
Well, I go to you for those
answers because you're that
good.
964
01:07:15,765 --> 01:07:17,567
Thank you, Joe. I appreciate it.
965
01:07:17,634 --> 01:07:18,902
-Get home safe.
-I appreciate it.
966
01:07:18,968 --> 01:07:20,937
Joe Bastardi. All right.
In the meantime, what the frack?
967
01:07:21,004 --> 01:07:25,609
The White House today piling on
more rules when it comes to
fracking on public lands.
968
01:07:25,675 --> 01:07:28,645
That's extracting oil and all
that stuff we need in this
country.
969
01:07:28,712 --> 01:07:31,715
Critics say it's just gonna
drive up energy costs for all of
it,
970
01:07:31,781 --> 01:07:33,217
Jay Lehr says, "Enough is
enough."
971
01:07:37,554 --> 01:07:39,223
Joe Bastardi has challenged me
972
01:07:41,458 --> 01:07:46,230
to "Some questions for Bill Nye,
six years after our O'Reilly
Factor debate."
973
01:07:47,664 --> 01:07:52,369
They think climate deniers are
doing us a disservice these
days, and Bastardi,
974
01:07:52,436 --> 01:07:55,172
at least currently, Joe
Bastardi, is a climate denier.
975
01:07:55,772 --> 01:07:57,574
Joe Bastardi, who is our go-to
guy,
976
01:07:57,641 --> 01:08:00,277
he points to a lot of
interesting facts in history.
977
01:08:00,344 --> 01:08:03,680
You know, the Dust Bowl in
Oklahoma, the dinosaurs'
extinction.
978
01:08:03,747 --> 01:08:07,651
I like bringing those things up
so people don't believe this is
global warming.
979
01:08:07,717 --> 01:08:09,819
And the snow...
980
01:08:09,886 --> 01:08:12,622
[Nye] Joe Bastardi is the
meteorologist of record for
conservative media.
981
01:08:13,823 --> 01:08:15,792
Maybe I can nudge him.
982
01:08:16,693 --> 01:08:19,663
Show him the importance of
carbon dioxide.
983
01:08:20,264 --> 01:08:21,298
We'll give it a run.
984
01:08:21,965 --> 01:08:23,267
Take you on, Joe.
985
01:08:25,769 --> 01:08:29,473
[Garrett Bastardi] That's right
here. Right there. That looks
like that.
986
01:08:29,539 --> 01:08:30,874
[Joe] Yeah, it does, a little
bit like it.
987
01:08:32,276 --> 01:08:33,310
What's going on is you're
cooling the Indian Ocean.
988
01:08:33,377 --> 01:08:36,446
That's what the implications are
here.
989
01:08:36,513 --> 01:08:39,716
Ever since I was a very young
child, I was fascinated by the
weather,
990
01:08:40,484 --> 01:08:43,487
and I see it in my son, who is
very interested in the weather.
991
01:08:43,553 --> 01:08:46,856
You know, we've just been in the
warm cycle over the last, uh...
992
01:08:46,923 --> 01:08:48,892
-What, 30 years?
-[Joe] Thirty years. So...
993
01:08:48,958 --> 01:08:52,762
And the temperature has been a
little warmer the last 30 years.
994
01:08:52,829 --> 01:08:54,298
There seems to be a correlation
there.
995
01:08:54,364 --> 01:08:56,333
Yeah. Well, I see the...
996
01:08:56,400 --> 01:08:59,603
When I found out my dad was
gonna be debating Bill Nye on
The O'Reilly Factor
997
01:08:59,669 --> 01:09:04,574
on Fox News, I was in sixth or
seventh grade, and we had just
finished watching,
998
01:09:04,641 --> 01:09:06,276
you know, for the past few
years,
999
01:09:06,343 --> 01:09:08,645
watching Bill Nye the Science
Guy, those videos.
1000
01:09:10,480 --> 01:09:12,316
So he was a celebrity to me, and
a lot of people my age were,
like,
1001
01:09:12,382 --> 01:09:13,383
"Please be nice to him."
1002
01:09:13,883 --> 01:09:16,286
Do you agree, Joe, that in 1750
1003
01:09:16,353 --> 01:09:20,290
the world's carbon dioxide
was about 280 parts per million?
1004
01:09:20,924 --> 01:09:22,492
Do you agree with that?
1005
01:09:22,559 --> 01:09:23,893
Bill, you don't want to go here.
You know why? Because I'm
going...
1006
01:09:25,495 --> 01:09:27,096
[Garrett] And it got kind of
testy, a little bit.
1007
01:09:27,163 --> 01:09:30,867
We were, like, "My dad's not
listening to anything we're
saying,
1008
01:09:30,934 --> 01:09:32,569
and they're just kind of going
at it."
1009
01:09:32,636 --> 01:09:35,004
So if you want to believe that,
you can go ahead and believe
that.
1010
01:09:35,071 --> 01:09:36,940
-Let Bill reply. Go ahead, Bill.
-Seems kind of hard to.
1011
01:09:37,006 --> 01:09:40,744
[Joe] Before the O'Reilly
debate, Garrett says to me,
"Dad,
1012
01:09:41,478 --> 01:09:44,448
he's like the Easter Bunny and
Santa Claus rolled up into one.
1013
01:09:44,514 --> 01:09:46,250
You can't get mad at him."
1014
01:09:50,687 --> 01:09:53,923
In an unusual publication called
The Patriot Post,
1015
01:09:54,123 --> 01:09:57,961
a bodybuilder and meteorologist
named Joe Bastardi challenged
me.
1016
01:09:58,027 --> 01:09:59,896
He challenged me to show a
connection
1017
01:09:59,963 --> 01:10:02,666
between carbon dioxide
and the world's temperature.
1018
01:10:02,899 --> 01:10:08,805
I predict that 2016 will be
among the top ten hottest years
ever recorded.
1019
01:10:09,406 --> 01:10:11,375
Mr. Bastardi, I cannot help but
note
1020
01:10:11,441 --> 01:10:13,843
that you've spoken
at the Coal Training Conference,
1021
01:10:13,910 --> 01:10:15,979
Nebraska Propane and the Gas
Forum.
1022
01:10:16,680 --> 01:10:19,015
Where you speak is your
business,
1023
01:10:19,082 --> 01:10:21,385
but it also seems to be your
business.
1024
01:10:21,885 --> 01:10:25,955
Have you ever seen a check
arrive from the Koch brothers
out there?
1025
01:10:26,022 --> 01:10:27,156
[Garrett] No.
1026
01:10:27,223 --> 01:10:29,459
-No? -I've never seen a Koch
brothers check.
1027
01:10:29,893 --> 01:10:34,931
Have I made speeches directly
related to climate change? Yes.
1028
01:10:34,998 --> 01:10:36,600
Have I been paid for them? Yes.
1029
01:10:36,666 --> 01:10:38,268
Will I do that again? Yes.
1030
01:10:38,635 --> 01:10:42,572
But the idea that the oil
companies are paying me,
1031
01:10:42,639 --> 01:10:45,609
and that's why I believe what I
believe, is total nonsense.
1032
01:10:46,443 --> 01:10:50,314
And if Bill's making money
because he's talking about
climate change, great.
1033
01:10:50,380 --> 01:10:51,448
More power to you.
1034
01:10:51,815 --> 01:10:52,682
He says it here.
1035
01:10:54,851 --> 01:10:56,853
"Bill Nye is wrong. He's not a
real scientist," right?
1036
01:10:56,920 --> 01:10:59,255
That's a big thing with Mr.
Bastardi.
1037
01:10:59,656 --> 01:11:02,592
"Bill Nye's an actor." Wait, I'm
both.
1038
01:11:02,659 --> 01:11:06,763
Or, at least I'm an engineer who
took a lot of physics. How about
that?
1039
01:11:09,766 --> 01:11:12,369
[airplane whirring]
1040
01:11:31,555 --> 01:11:33,323
[Nye] I don't have a PhD.
1041
01:11:34,558 --> 01:11:37,126
So, I talk to the experts,
1042
01:11:37,193 --> 01:11:40,564
to people in the field who know
all about climate science.
1043
01:11:44,534 --> 01:11:49,506
And if I can, I really want to
see the process,
1044
01:11:50,006 --> 01:11:52,542
and hold the evidence in my
hands.
1045
01:12:49,032 --> 01:12:51,768
[wind whistling]
1046
01:13:16,826 --> 01:13:19,963
[James White] Wow.
This is where the magic happens.
1047
01:13:20,029 --> 01:13:21,698
This is where the ice core is
drilled.
1048
01:13:39,683 --> 01:13:43,052
Ice cores are the best archive
of the past.
1049
01:13:45,589 --> 01:13:48,257
They tell us about
what happened on our planet
1050
01:13:48,324 --> 01:13:50,894
tens to hundreds
of thousands of years ago.
1051
01:13:54,598 --> 01:13:59,603
So we just go down at ten-foot
chunks, all the way through the
bottom.
1052
01:13:59,669 --> 01:14:00,837
-Two miles?
-Yeah.
1053
01:14:06,309 --> 01:14:10,814
Once this becomes solid ice,
it's still 10% air.
1054
01:14:11,280 --> 01:14:13,617
So we can take that ice core
back to the lab,
1055
01:14:13,817 --> 01:14:16,820
shave it down in a controlled
environment, collect the air
1056
01:14:16,886 --> 01:14:18,287
and measure what was in the
atmosphere
1057
01:14:18,354 --> 01:14:22,759
10,000 years ago, or 20,000,
or 100 or 200,000 years ago.
1058
01:14:22,826 --> 01:14:23,827
And you melt it too, right?
1059
01:14:26,830 --> 01:14:31,835
[White] In the 1960s, we
discovered that humans were
indeed causing climate change.
1060
01:14:32,335 --> 01:14:33,737
That was a surprise,
1061
01:14:35,905 --> 01:14:39,108
and we didn't know that our
climate system was capable of
such an angry response.
1062
01:14:47,717 --> 01:14:50,219
Snow falls every year and you
get layers and layers of ice,
1063
01:14:50,286 --> 01:14:52,255
which are like pages in a book.
1064
01:14:54,423 --> 01:14:59,095
And as we read this book, we
learn more and more about the
story of our planet.
1065
01:15:01,965 --> 01:15:06,670
One of the most important
findings that ever came out of
ice cores is that,
1066
01:15:06,736 --> 01:15:10,740
when it's warmer, C02 is higher.
When it's colder, C02 is lower.
1067
01:15:12,208 --> 01:15:16,245
Our planet, over the last
million years, naturally varied
between
1068
01:15:16,312 --> 01:15:20,149
really cold times, glacial
periods, and warm times.
1069
01:15:20,216 --> 01:15:24,821
And the difference was 100 parts
per million of C02 in the
atmosphere.
1070
01:15:32,095 --> 01:15:34,163
But as we get closer to the
surface,
1071
01:15:34,230 --> 01:15:37,066
we start to see traces of human
activity.
1072
01:15:37,934 --> 01:15:42,739
Since the Industrial Revolution,
we have increased C02 from 280
parts per million
1073
01:15:42,806 --> 01:15:47,744
to 400 parts per million, and
the pace of change is going
faster and faster.
1074
01:15:48,444 --> 01:15:51,615
With the amount of C02 in the
atmosphere we have today,
1075
01:15:52,415 --> 01:15:54,751
the planet is gonna continue to
warm.
1076
01:15:56,720 --> 01:16:00,957
An interesting question I get
asked a lot is, "Do you believe
in climate change?"
1077
01:16:01,324 --> 01:16:04,260
And, um, the question
is interesting to me,
1078
01:16:04,327 --> 01:16:07,864
because the word "belief"
implies that there's some choice
involved.
1079
01:16:07,931 --> 01:16:12,101
Whether I choose to believe in
God or not, belief in God is a
choice.
1080
01:16:12,168 --> 01:16:17,173
I believe in God, um, but the...
Whether you believe in climate
change,
1081
01:16:17,473 --> 01:16:18,742
it's physics.
1082
01:16:19,075 --> 01:16:20,009
Um...
1083
01:16:21,377 --> 01:16:23,012
Greenhouse gases trap
the Earth's outgoing energy.
1084
01:16:23,079 --> 01:16:26,850
That's all they do. That's what
they do. They can't do anything
else.
1085
01:16:28,952 --> 01:16:30,119
You can see in this one. See
those--
1086
01:16:30,186 --> 01:16:31,354
-[Nye] Oh, man.
-[James] Those are all years.
1087
01:16:32,822 --> 01:16:35,324
You can actually see here,
years where you had more snow,
1088
01:16:35,391 --> 01:16:36,760
-years where you had less snow.
-[Nye] Absolutely.
1089
01:16:42,899 --> 01:16:45,969
So look at this. There's a layer
of, what is that, a volcano?
What is it?
1090
01:16:46,035 --> 01:16:48,638
[White] That's a volcano
about 27,000 years ago.
1091
01:16:49,338 --> 01:16:54,177
[Nye] God. See, it's 15, it
might be 17 years of eruptions.
Is that possible?
1092
01:16:54,243 --> 01:16:55,879
[White] It's very, very
possible.
1093
01:16:56,112 --> 01:16:57,881
[saw whirring]
1094
01:17:14,530 --> 01:17:16,365
[Nye] This is where we see
the smoking gun
1095
01:17:16,432 --> 01:17:18,367
for human-caused climate change.
1096
01:17:19,435 --> 01:17:22,672
I just don't see how
anybody like Joe Bastardi
1097
01:17:23,539 --> 01:17:26,342
could come here, look at the way
1098
01:17:26,409 --> 01:17:29,913
the ancient ice is extracted
from the Greenland ice sheet,
1099
01:17:31,848 --> 01:17:36,920
and not agree that humans have
put enough greenhouse gas in the
atmosphere
1100
01:17:37,286 --> 01:17:39,022
to cause global climate change.
1101
01:18:04,948 --> 01:18:06,850
[White] This is raising sea
level.
1102
01:18:07,583 --> 01:18:10,820
This is drowning Miami
eventually.
1103
01:18:14,323 --> 01:18:16,492
This is 50,000-year-old water?
1104
01:18:16,559 --> 01:18:19,395
On average. It's about probably
40, 50,000 years.
1105
01:18:46,089 --> 01:18:49,859
[White] I was here in 1989,
and it did not look like this.
1106
01:18:49,926 --> 01:18:51,094
[Nye] What did it look like?
1107
01:18:51,160 --> 01:18:53,329
[White] It was a much smaller
stream in 1989.
1108
01:18:53,396 --> 01:18:54,697
Oh, you mean the river. Was
the--
1109
01:18:54,764 --> 01:18:57,033
The river. Yeah, no. We would
come and walk down here.
1110
01:18:57,100 --> 01:18:58,902
It was just water there, but it
wasn't...
1111
01:18:58,968 --> 01:19:00,970
-It was a creek, rather than a
river. -Yeah.
1112
01:19:01,037 --> 01:19:02,005
Rather than a river.
1113
01:19:07,176 --> 01:19:11,347
So this is the Russell Glacier,
and it's melting like crazy.
1114
01:19:20,356 --> 01:19:24,894
The white ice reflects a lot of
sunlight, but as the ice goes
away...
1115
01:19:24,961 --> 01:19:25,829
[loud crash]
1116
01:19:27,063 --> 01:19:27,997
[sighs]
1117
01:19:31,500 --> 01:19:33,336
As the glacier does stuff like
that,
1118
01:19:34,904 --> 01:19:39,308
uh, it's exposing bare rock
and is warming even faster.
1119
01:19:41,477 --> 01:19:46,049
It's very troubling.
It's, uh, heartbreaking.
1120
01:19:47,250 --> 01:19:49,585
Humankind has hardly done
anything about this,
1121
01:19:49,652 --> 01:19:52,889
and we've known about the
problem since the 1980s.
1122
01:20:18,614 --> 01:20:20,283
[Nye] Here comes the jet stream.
1123
01:20:20,349 --> 01:20:22,318
-[Michael] Yep, and they form--
-So where's the warming? Right
here?
1124
01:20:22,385 --> 01:20:23,987
The warming is right there.
1125
01:20:25,388 --> 01:20:27,090
It's right there, and it isn't
just any old warming.
1126
01:20:27,156 --> 01:20:29,492
These are the warmest sea
surface temperatures we've ever
measured there.
1127
01:20:29,558 --> 01:20:30,894
Three degrees Celsius.
We've never seen that before.
1128
01:20:30,960 --> 01:20:31,827
[Nye] That's huge!
1129
01:20:33,162 --> 01:20:34,563
[Mann] Bill is going to do this
event
1130
01:20:34,630 --> 01:20:38,067
in my seminar series tomorrow
with Joe Bastardi.
1131
01:20:39,335 --> 01:20:44,007
Bill representing the scientific
case for human-caused climate
change,
1132
01:20:44,073 --> 01:20:48,978
and Joe Bastardi, a
climate-change contrarian,
against the science.
1133
01:20:49,045 --> 01:20:51,414
...where it normally isn't,
because you have the upwelling
cold water...
1134
01:20:51,480 --> 01:20:53,249
[Nye] The ultimate thing
1135
01:20:53,316 --> 01:20:55,584
would be to get Joe Bastardi to
change his mind about climate
change.
1136
01:20:58,387 --> 01:21:02,058
If I'm on Fox News, they dismiss
me. They don't listen to what I
have to say.
1137
01:21:02,591 --> 01:21:06,395
But if Joe were on there, saying
that he's changed his mind,
1138
01:21:06,762 --> 01:21:09,132
that could be very influential.
1139
01:21:10,166 --> 01:21:12,035
And so it's worth a shot.
1140
01:21:22,478 --> 01:21:24,247
[Joe]
It's nice to have you over here.
1141
01:21:24,313 --> 01:21:26,182
-Nice seeing you.
-This looks fabulous.
1142
01:21:27,883 --> 01:21:32,155
Now... If you took all the
carbon dioxide out of the air
today,
1143
01:21:32,221 --> 01:21:33,957
what would happen
to the Earth's temperature?
1144
01:21:34,490 --> 01:21:35,491
It would get very cold.
1145
01:21:35,558 --> 01:21:36,859
No, it wouldn't get that cold at
all.
1146
01:21:36,926 --> 01:21:39,695
Are you trying to tell me that
0.04% of the atmosphere,
1147
01:21:39,762 --> 01:21:44,067
and that increase is only 0.01%
since you've been a kid, you
think that's--
1148
01:21:44,133 --> 01:21:45,368
It's a 30% increase.
1149
01:21:45,434 --> 01:21:48,071
-A 30% increase against--
-In just three decades.
1150
01:21:48,137 --> 01:21:49,338
That's enormous.
1151
01:21:49,405 --> 01:21:52,976
Against the entire
ocean atmospheric system?
1152
01:21:53,042 --> 01:21:56,012
It's minuscule, Bill. It's
minuscule.
1153
01:21:56,079 --> 01:21:58,247
What if you're wrong? What about
Garrett?
1154
01:21:59,248 --> 01:22:04,187
Garrett, do you get mad
sometimes when I actually
concede that it's warmer?
1155
01:22:04,253 --> 01:22:07,756
Yeah. How are we measuring,
you know, accurately,
1156
01:22:07,823 --> 01:22:10,126
4,000 years ago or 6,000 years
ago?
1157
01:22:10,193 --> 01:22:12,195
[Nye] Well, 4,000 years we can
do very accurately.
1158
01:22:12,395 --> 01:22:13,829
-[Joe] Okay.
-[Garrett] Okay, so--
1159
01:22:13,896 --> 01:22:15,731
[Joe] We can't do it the way
we're doing it today. Come on.
1160
01:22:15,798 --> 01:22:18,034
[Nye] So that's where we
disagree, you guys.
1161
01:22:18,101 --> 01:22:20,403
-[Joe] But you cannot use a tree
ring-- -Dad, Dad...
1162
01:22:20,469 --> 01:22:23,072
I know I'm not in this debate. I
just wanted to say something
real quick.
1163
01:22:23,139 --> 01:22:25,474
[Nye] No, you're not in the
debate. No. No, you're over
there.
1164
01:22:25,541 --> 01:22:27,210
I know, I understand.
1165
01:22:27,276 --> 01:22:29,745
I'm arguing with my fifth-grade
childhood hero, so it's pretty
cool.
1166
01:22:29,812 --> 01:22:34,017
The point is, 2016 is warm,
but 2017 is going to be cooler.
1167
01:22:34,083 --> 01:22:36,285
All right, now, if it's not
cooler, I'm obviously in
trouble, right?
1168
01:22:36,352 --> 01:22:40,023
Yeah. Do you guys, do you
understand the significance of
the ice?
1169
01:22:40,523 --> 01:22:43,626
There's nobody running around
with a hypodermic needle
squirting bubbles
1170
01:22:43,692 --> 01:22:45,561
of atmosphere in 4,000-year-old
ice.
1171
01:22:45,628 --> 01:22:49,232
I understand that.
I read everything you look at.
1172
01:22:49,298 --> 01:22:52,735
The fact of the matter is that
being on the other side of the
issue
1173
01:22:53,436 --> 01:22:55,371
is probably hurting me
economically.
1174
01:22:55,638 --> 01:22:58,074
Here's my claim though, Joe.
You're hurting everybody.
1175
01:22:58,141 --> 01:22:59,575
I want you to come around.
1176
01:22:59,642 --> 01:23:01,644
"Hurting"? Who am I hurting?
1177
01:23:01,710 --> 01:23:03,512
Garrett. The future.
1178
01:23:03,579 --> 01:23:04,713
I'm not hurting Garrett.
1179
01:23:04,780 --> 01:23:05,914
-That's my claim.
-You don't understand.
1180
01:23:05,981 --> 01:23:08,451
You don't fight. Have you ever
wrestled?
1181
01:23:08,517 --> 01:23:12,655
You wrestle the match
when you're wrestling it.
1182
01:23:12,721 --> 01:23:15,791
You don't sit there and worry
about what the guy's doing in
another bracket
1183
01:23:15,858 --> 01:23:19,062
that you might have to wrestle
down the road, and that's the
problem.
1184
01:23:19,128 --> 01:23:22,198
The problem... I'm not trying to
save the world.
1185
01:23:22,431 --> 01:23:26,169
What you're saying is, "Joe,
you've gotta do what I say."
1186
01:23:26,235 --> 01:23:30,473
I say, "Bill, do whatever you
want." So what happens is, you
get this control.
1187
01:23:39,182 --> 01:23:41,384
[Joe] Hey, where's the wine? Do
you want some more wine, Bill?
1188
01:23:41,450 --> 01:23:42,318
[Nye] I'm okay.
1189
01:23:43,719 --> 01:23:45,121
So are you gonna come
to Mike Mann's class tomorrow?
1190
01:23:45,188 --> 01:23:50,493
You know what? I don't know
that I should do that. If I do--
1191
01:23:50,559 --> 01:23:51,427
[Nye] Well, what's there to
lose?
1192
01:23:53,362 --> 01:23:55,030
-What's there to lose?
-I don't know.
1193
01:24:02,638 --> 01:24:04,640
[indistinct chatter]
1194
01:24:09,345 --> 01:24:11,514
[Nye] These are first-year
students at Penn State.
1195
01:24:12,248 --> 01:24:16,752
So I want to get them inspired
about the problem of climate
change,
1196
01:24:16,819 --> 01:24:17,520
and the opportunities.
1197
01:24:20,656 --> 01:24:22,458
And Garrett showed up.
1198
01:24:24,860 --> 01:24:27,596
I think it just shows an
open-mindedness. That's really
good.
1199
01:24:28,531 --> 01:24:31,200
...NASA. The records of global
temperature
1200
01:24:31,267 --> 01:24:35,404
based on averages of all the
thermometer information go back
to...
1201
01:24:35,471 --> 01:24:38,674
[Nye] Joe Bastardi sent an email
that said he would not come.
1202
01:24:38,741 --> 01:24:40,109
He's got a chip on his shoulder.
1203
01:24:40,176 --> 01:24:45,080
He wants to compete, and here he
would have been outgunned.
1204
01:24:49,652 --> 01:24:51,487
Do I look like someone that's
afraid?
1205
01:24:52,255 --> 01:24:53,689
[scoffs]
1206
01:24:53,756 --> 01:24:57,360
The Cornell engineer is tougher
than the Penn State wrestler.
1207
01:24:57,426 --> 01:24:59,328
Whatever. Okay?
1208
01:24:59,395 --> 01:25:00,263
I mean, come on.
1209
01:25:01,364 --> 01:25:02,598
Does Bill understand that I
work?
1210
01:25:02,665 --> 01:25:06,402
I have X amount of hours
to do X amount of things.
1211
01:25:07,470 --> 01:25:11,140
Obviously this is more important
to Bill Nye than it is to me.
1212
01:25:11,540 --> 01:25:15,911
If we just got to work, we could
address climate change [snaps
fingers] like that.
1213
01:25:15,978 --> 01:25:17,846
I'm very hopeful about the
future.
1214
01:25:18,314 --> 01:25:20,649
Technology has matured.
1215
01:25:20,716 --> 01:25:25,321
There is enough wind and solar
that we could run the US, we
could run the world,
1216
01:25:25,388 --> 01:25:28,624
renewably, right now,
if we just decided to do it.
1217
01:25:31,627 --> 01:25:33,196
Maybe I'm wrong.
1218
01:25:33,262 --> 01:25:35,298
[laughs]
1219
01:25:38,467 --> 01:25:40,703
What I've told Garrett is this.
1220
01:25:40,769 --> 01:25:43,306
I may have to see that my son
1221
01:25:43,706 --> 01:25:45,808
is writing things and
researching things
1222
01:25:45,874 --> 01:25:48,244
that say, "Dad, you're wrong
about this, okay?"
1223
01:25:48,511 --> 01:25:52,548
"I want you to make sure that
you know everybody, all the
facts,
1224
01:25:52,615 --> 01:25:56,552
then you can come to your own
conclusion." We've always taught
that in our house.
1225
01:25:58,287 --> 01:26:00,923
Boy, I'll tell you what,
I think of that all the time.
1226
01:26:00,989 --> 01:26:02,825
What if I'm digging that kid a
hole?
1227
01:26:04,293 --> 01:26:05,794
What if he has to pay
for the sins of his father,
1228
01:26:05,861 --> 01:26:08,431
whether his father
is right or wrong, or not?
1229
01:26:14,937 --> 01:26:16,171
[Nye] Do we have any questions?
1230
01:26:17,240 --> 01:26:17,673
Yeah. There was a question here
earlier.
1231
01:26:19,675 --> 01:26:22,845
I was wondering if you could
maybe comment on constructive
ways we as scientists
1232
01:26:22,911 --> 01:26:25,748
could reach out and try and
communicate with non-scientists,
1233
01:26:25,814 --> 01:26:30,419
because I feel like climate
deniers have been very good at
capitalizing on, like,
1234
01:26:30,486 --> 01:26:31,920
"It's only a theory,"
1235
01:26:31,987 --> 01:26:35,391
or this idea that there's always
gonna be some margin of doubt.
1236
01:26:35,458 --> 01:26:37,393
So what I would say is,
just keep talking to people.
1237
01:26:37,860 --> 01:26:39,795
"Why do you believe that?
1238
01:26:39,862 --> 01:26:42,431
What makes you think that
climate change isn't happening?
1239
01:26:42,498 --> 01:26:45,501
What makes you disagree with all
the world's scientists? What is
it?"
1240
01:26:49,405 --> 01:26:51,507
And so, uh...
1241
01:26:53,776 --> 01:26:56,412
But I strongly believe that,
1242
01:26:56,479 --> 01:26:59,315
with you all being
the future of the world,
1243
01:26:59,815 --> 01:27:03,586
you will be able to use science
and our process of science.
1244
01:27:03,652 --> 01:27:06,021
And the arguments that we can
make,
1245
01:27:06,088 --> 01:27:09,024
based on the facts
that we discover in nature,
1246
01:27:09,091 --> 01:27:11,527
and processes in nature...
1247
01:27:48,130 --> 01:27:51,967
Since I was a kid, I'd look up
at the sky.
1248
01:27:52,668 --> 01:27:54,970
The stars are out there. This is
our star.
1249
01:27:57,573 --> 01:28:00,676
And there's 200 billion stars
in our galaxy,
1250
01:28:00,743 --> 01:28:03,045
and then there are in turn
that many galaxies.
1251
01:28:03,612 --> 01:28:04,480
Galaxies!
1252
01:28:07,049 --> 01:28:09,485
It just reminds me of the
importance of space exploration.
1253
01:28:09,552 --> 01:28:12,688
The reason we have these rockets
on the horizon
1254
01:28:12,755 --> 01:28:15,891
is to know our place in the
cosmos.
1255
01:28:17,593 --> 01:28:19,528
It's just an extraordinary idea,
and there might be a time
1256
01:28:19,595 --> 01:28:21,697
when we start doing
interplanetary regattas.
1257
01:28:21,764 --> 01:28:23,899
See, it's a whole new kind of
idea.
1258
01:28:26,034 --> 01:28:30,406
[Nye] Thirty-nine years after
Carl Sagan showed this thing on
The Tonight Show,
1259
01:28:31,039 --> 01:28:35,310
we're gonna launch a solar sail
as part of his legacy.
1260
01:28:38,514 --> 01:28:40,883
It gives me great pause.
It's quite a responsibility.
1261
01:28:50,759 --> 01:28:53,762
Even though we've been launching
for 50-plus years,
1262
01:28:53,829 --> 01:28:55,631
rockets are still a tricky
thing.
1263
01:28:57,500 --> 01:28:59,334
Every time there's a rocket
firing,
1264
01:28:59,402 --> 01:29:02,104
there could be a catastrophic
explosion right there on the
pad.
1265
01:29:02,705 --> 01:29:04,440
[loud explosion]
1266
01:29:22,491 --> 01:29:24,493
It could start up on this
journey,
1267
01:29:24,560 --> 01:29:27,596
and then some stage separation
not work correctly...
1268
01:29:31,600 --> 01:29:34,903
And that's actually what
happened to us when we flew in
2005.
1269
01:29:38,073 --> 01:29:40,976
[indistinct announcement over
PA]
1270
01:29:47,249 --> 01:29:50,152
[man over PA] Seventeen seconds
and counting, guidance internal,
1271
01:29:50,218 --> 01:29:55,724
fifteen, fourteen, thirteen,
twelve, eleven, ten, nine...
1272
01:29:57,726 --> 01:30:00,596
Three, two, one...
1273
01:30:00,663 --> 01:30:01,797
[loud roaring]
1274
01:30:01,864 --> 01:30:03,766
[crowd cheering]
1275
01:30:06,935 --> 01:30:09,171
Now I feel the rush!
1276
01:30:09,237 --> 01:30:10,473
-[crowd cheering]
-Wow!
1277
01:30:10,539 --> 01:30:12,140
-[man over PA] ...past the hour.
-Whoa!
1278
01:30:13,842 --> 01:30:17,012
[Nye] We're going to space. Go,
I said!
1279
01:30:17,846 --> 01:30:22,651
There's chemical reactions
making water vapor. Yes!
1280
01:30:45,841 --> 01:30:48,176
[indistinct radio chatter]
1281
01:30:50,312 --> 01:30:52,581
[man] This is mission resistance
report.
1282
01:30:53,015 --> 01:30:56,451
Indications are that
a signal is being received.
1283
01:30:57,586 --> 01:31:00,689
That would indicate that the
antenna deployed successfully.
1284
01:31:02,324 --> 01:31:03,692
So that's it. We're...
1285
01:31:03,759 --> 01:31:04,627
[indistinct]
1286
01:31:07,262 --> 01:31:10,065
Mission Control, it's Bill Nye
in Florida.
1287
01:31:11,800 --> 01:31:12,668
Do you hear me?
1288
01:31:14,269 --> 01:31:16,705
[man] Go ahead, Bill Nye.
We receive, five by five.
1289
01:31:16,772 --> 01:31:19,742
I would just like
to say the following thing.
1290
01:31:19,808 --> 01:31:21,143
Woo-hoo!
1291
01:31:30,118 --> 01:31:31,687
[Ann] Under Bill Nye's
leadership,
1292
01:31:31,754 --> 01:31:37,593
the Planetary Society picked up
this great dream of solar
sailing.
1293
01:31:39,027 --> 01:31:41,196
I'm so proud of Bill.
1294
01:31:41,263 --> 01:31:42,698
[indistinct chatter]
1295
01:31:44,867 --> 01:31:48,637
[Tyson] Bill slowly but
successfully transitioned from
Bill Nye the Science Guy
1296
01:31:48,704 --> 01:31:52,541
for kids, to the science
statesman.
1297
01:31:54,677 --> 01:31:57,145
More power to him. The passing
of a torch.
1298
01:31:57,412 --> 01:31:59,147
We are advancing space science
and exploration.
1299
01:31:59,214 --> 01:32:01,183
We are, dare I say it...
1300
01:32:01,249 --> 01:32:04,086
[all cheering]
1301
01:32:04,152 --> 01:32:05,287
Changing the world!
1302
01:32:05,821 --> 01:32:07,856
[all cheering]
1303
01:32:10,926 --> 01:32:14,897
It does not always seem as if
science is in the room when it
needs to be.
1304
01:32:15,430 --> 01:32:20,703
And so, gifted teachers of
science, with a lot of
credibility,
1305
01:32:20,969 --> 01:32:24,707
a sense of humor and ability to
convey complex information,
1306
01:32:24,773 --> 01:32:25,974
are needed more than ever.
1307
01:32:26,842 --> 01:32:30,178
And so, Bill Nye, we need about
a thousand more of you.
1308
01:32:30,412 --> 01:32:35,250
Okay, pause. We have a ton of
evidence that Mars used to be
covered in oceans.
1309
01:32:35,718 --> 01:32:39,054
So here today to talk to me
about... Wait, you're not in it
yet.
1310
01:32:39,121 --> 01:32:40,222
-Oh.
-Okay.
1311
01:32:41,423 --> 01:32:42,691
I think a lot of people of my
generation
1312
01:32:42,758 --> 01:32:46,762
attribute their interest
and love of science to Bill Nye.
1313
01:32:47,029 --> 01:32:49,698
What words of inspiration can
you give...
1314
01:32:50,032 --> 01:32:52,735
Uh, science is the best idea
humans have ever had.
1315
01:32:53,301 --> 01:32:55,170
You and I drink freshwater.
1316
01:32:55,237 --> 01:32:58,140
There were people before him
like Carl Sagan, for example,
but I don't think
1317
01:32:58,206 --> 01:33:00,743
our generation necessarily saw
Cosmos,
1318
01:33:00,809 --> 01:33:02,277
because it was a little
before even our time.
1319
01:33:02,344 --> 01:33:07,082
So Bill Nye was, sort of, the
headline for science for kids,
1320
01:33:08,383 --> 01:33:11,787
and I think that definitely has
spawned this entire generation.
1321
01:33:12,354 --> 01:33:17,626
Although I've never had kids, I
am largely satisfied with my
legacy.
1322
01:33:18,426 --> 01:33:20,362
Yeah, I've made some mistakes.
1323
01:33:22,765 --> 01:33:28,103
But if we have inspired millions
of kids to at least appreciate
science,
1324
01:33:29,337 --> 01:33:31,807
then that's a heck
of a thing to leave behind.
1325
01:33:35,210 --> 01:33:36,044
So...
1326
01:33:37,913 --> 01:33:40,382
Playing the hand I was dealt,
people. Just trying to change
the world here.
1327
01:34:12,280 --> 01:34:13,749
Greetings.
1328
01:34:16,251 --> 01:34:19,021
[man] His show and just all
the fooling around, it made me
1329
01:34:19,087 --> 01:34:24,727
really excited that, you know,
to know that science is not just
this very dull
1330
01:34:24,793 --> 01:34:26,228
profession or career,
1331
01:34:26,294 --> 01:34:29,031
that you learn something new,
and that's exciting.
1332
01:34:29,097 --> 01:34:30,265
[Nye] I love you, man.
1333
01:34:30,332 --> 01:34:32,000
I'm also a mechanical engineer.
1334
01:34:32,067 --> 01:34:32,935
Oh, cool. Great.
1335
01:34:33,001 --> 01:34:34,469
I came here to see Bill Nye,
1336
01:34:34,536 --> 01:34:37,773
because he was my inspiration
for being a scientist.
1337
01:34:38,807 --> 01:34:41,043
Bill Nye is the voice for
science and technology,
1338
01:34:41,109 --> 01:34:43,245
and I think there's definitely
a need for that.
1339
01:34:45,447 --> 01:34:47,983
Science is about dinosaur bones,
1340
01:34:48,050 --> 01:34:51,820
and it studies dinosaur bones,
and I like dinosaur bones.
1341
01:34:53,288 --> 01:34:55,724
-[Nye] Oh, thank you.
-Our class made it.
1342
01:34:56,158 --> 01:34:57,392
Oh, that's really nice.
1343
01:35:00,295 --> 01:35:01,797
Thank you, thank you.
1344
01:35:03,265 --> 01:35:05,433
My favorite about Bill Nye...
When I watch him,
1345
01:35:05,500 --> 01:35:07,870
he makes me sometimes learn.
1346
01:35:07,936 --> 01:35:10,973
Not many women are in the path
of the scientist,
1347
01:35:11,039 --> 01:35:15,043
and he always says that you
should change the world.
1348
01:35:15,343 --> 01:35:19,281
I'm hoping to change the world
by becoming a geneticist
1349
01:35:19,347 --> 01:35:24,152
and stopping all of these
terrible genetic diseases.
1350
01:35:24,219 --> 01:35:25,320
[indistinct conversation]
1351
01:35:27,255 --> 01:35:29,825
When I met him in person, I was,
like, "I want to be Bill Nye
when I grow up."
1352
01:35:29,892 --> 01:35:32,027
-[Nye] What a nice shirt, may I
say. -Oh, thank you.
1353
01:35:32,094 --> 01:35:33,295
[Nye] Check it out.
1354
01:35:33,361 --> 01:35:34,229
Hi.
1355
01:35:35,597 --> 01:35:36,799
-Look at the lens over here.
Look! -My bad.
1356
01:35:38,433 --> 01:35:39,902
Sweet.
1357
01:35:40,435 --> 01:35:41,369
That is awesome.
1358
01:35:43,371 --> 01:35:46,574
[Joe] The total journey of Bill
Nye is a pretty remarkable
thing,
1359
01:35:46,641 --> 01:35:49,144
because he's involved in
something that I'm fascinated
with, too,
1360
01:35:49,211 --> 01:35:52,180
you know, this whole light sail
project. And, uh... Who knows,
1361
01:35:52,247 --> 01:35:56,084
100 years from now he's the
Thomas Edison of our time, or
something like that.
1362
01:35:59,154 --> 01:36:01,589
[crowd chanting] Bill, Bill,
Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill!
1363
01:36:01,656 --> 01:36:04,893
Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill,
Bill!
1364
01:36:04,960 --> 01:36:07,495
Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill,
Bill!
1365
01:36:08,196 --> 01:36:10,432
[Nye] We love that song! Yes!
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