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[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 21 points 1 year ago

Met Bill Nye the science douche and yeah... anyone that wants to be as famous as that probably should have expected them to not be a good person.

[-] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Man he was totally cool when I met him. Probably when you're famous you have days when you can handle people coming up to you and days you can't.

[-] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 year ago

Einstein was an extremely grumpy cousin fucker also

[-] solstice@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I knew ghandi. He was a prick. I saw him sucking down a pork hot dog hitting on Mother Teresa.

[-] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] solstice@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It's a Robin Williams joke from his special live on Broadway not long after 9/11. Legendary set

[-] joel_feila@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah but cusin thing was cool back then

[-] SeabassDan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

When Bill Nye comes up with something as good as e=mc^2 he'll get a pass too.

[-] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Bill Nye holds patents as an inventor, including an improved toe shoe for ballerinas, a device to easily pick up a baseball, a water-based magnifier and a digital abacus that does math with only binary numbers.

Hahaha

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I've also heard that people are really weird around him. Childhood fans asking really esoteric science questions about their fields.

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 7 points 1 year ago

He came into my class to teach do a guest lecture. Rambled incoherently about space and with bad science then tried to turn it inspirational and gave up after 15 minutes at most and left unceremoniously. It was a waste of time for those of us there to study physics.

And then he was a guest speaker at an event, absolutely took over and made the night entirely about him. Was a douche about water straight up called me a moron in front of hundreds of people because he asked a question poorly and I lowered my hand.

A professional friend in the planetary science space who is far to old to be a fan, hates him from a birthday party for ray bradbury so he's been a douche for a while and not just to fans

[-] Nurgle@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Rumors are he allegedly sucked even back when he still worked at Boeing.

[-] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

There was a time he was entertaining, a time before the big time.

The time of Speed Walker https://youtu.be/fYyLSzPNgg0

[-] jadedwench@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I had him for my college graduation and I felt privileged to have someone who had such a large impact on my childhood there. Really great speaker and definitely gave off the cool vibe. I didn't get to meet him 1-1, but I think a lot of it is subjective, how the person is that day, and the setting. Obviously if someone has done terrible things, especially sexual or abusive, they don't get a pass.

[-] applebusch@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

So... You didn't meet your hero.

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