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Dec. 17th, 2005 10:13 amBill Nye was on NUMB3RS last night, he was part of or head of the Engingering Department at CalSci. And they got to run an experiment, with FIRE, except it didn't actually catch on fire.
And he even got to do his "... is just cool!" saying. *warm fuzzies*
But what is even cooler, is that Bill Nye actually helped inspire the show NUMB3RS. Apparently, the producers/directors got the idea when they were attending a lecture he gave on trying to get Middle School kids hooked on math/science.
Oh, and a random quote from Bill Nye (RL) from Wired Magazine
Science and comedy seem like strange bedfellows. How do you make serious science funny?
How can you not make it funny? Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does. There's all this PB&J: passion, beauty, and joy. But there's also the futility of the whole thing. We're just humans on this dying planet, and it doesn't much matter what we do. We're always setting up expectations, whether scientific or otherwise, and failing to meet them. That creates comedic tension. The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
And he even got to do his "... is just cool!" saying. *warm fuzzies*
But what is even cooler, is that Bill Nye actually helped inspire the show NUMB3RS. Apparently, the producers/directors got the idea when they were attending a lecture he gave on trying to get Middle School kids hooked on math/science.
Oh, and a random quote from Bill Nye (RL) from Wired Magazine
Science and comedy seem like strange bedfellows. How do you make serious science funny?
How can you not make it funny? Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does. There's all this PB&J: passion, beauty, and joy. But there's also the futility of the whole thing. We're just humans on this dying planet, and it doesn't much matter what we do. We're always setting up expectations, whether scientific or otherwise, and failing to meet them. That creates comedic tension. The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
