"That's an excellent question" is such a practiced response.

I think it's a good idea to not label a question as dumb because you know a superficial answer to it. There's always room to dig deeper.

@@edumazieri are you Alex?

"NOOO!", Bill said calmly just as I read this post

​@Odie L.

HAHAHA. Perfect

Lmfaoooo you’re not wrong 😂

like a true scientist, he is keenly interested in what is happening but also very confused as to why it is happening, especially when good sense would seem to encourage things to happen differently

all wrapped in a bow tie

Generally because he's a very knowledgeable guy and is answering questions that could have been answered by a youtube video or google search. He's been doing this for decades so yeah I would get tired of people asking basic or badly thought out questions too.

id be disappointed too

@@dragon-kun199I *AM* disappointed :(

​@@bluebeetle9044skill issue just become immortal

​@@jaspurrz Workin on it darnit

Bill Nye's just trying to hide his immortality

OMG🤣 i dont even think i could classify that teacher as a Scientist based on his statement😆

@MarkSoFocused mechanical engineers arent scientists apparently.

Ah yes, the good Ole "science can't be fun. If you explain it with a few jokes in it, you're not a real scientist"

Oh, how the turn tables

Yeah right, and then everyone clapped? And that student was Albert Einstein?

Kinda makes sense when you think about it. Kids are, well, dumb-but justifiably so; they’re new here after all, they’re still learning. While adults are still learning too, there comes a time when an adult should know better (or be able to figure something out better) than a lot of these people asking things like “why should I believe some scientist with a PhD?” or “has evolution even been pRoVeN?¿?” I’d be frustrated too lol

@@nicole-me2oj Billy Nye doesn't have a PhD. He isn't anywhere close to a real expert on any scientific issue.

@@Evan8787 Lost a lot of respect for Bill Nye once he started promoting 5G wireless for T-Mobile while hundreds of actual EMF scientists signed an appeal to try to stop the dangerous technology.

@@Evan8787 did you even watch the video?? That was a question someone asked in regards to scientists studying climate change, lots of whom who, as nicole pointed out, have PhDs.

@@Evan8787 Did I say he did? Reading is hard.

It's always fun to watch.. clowns

He used to do improv comedy. He was one of my favorite contributors to a sketch comedy show called _Almost Live._ As a kid it was weird for me to see a sketch comic doing science communication for children. 💯

He’s a disgusting person I would never let near my kids and didn’t! By the way Mr. Science guy I made believers out of the top doctors at Johns Hopkins! They bullied me wanting me to sign a DNR for my husband who was on life support and had full on septic shock three times! I said to Arab Muslim doctors Jesus will come and he better be alive when he gets here! Of course they were very frustrated using words like no one can survive this! He did and when Jesus healed him it was no doubt who did it and they were mumbling impossible and searching their test results and saying this patient can’t live! I said you were saying on Friday it would take many years before he spoke well again? This is Monday and I just made him speak fluently to you in three languages! It was then one miracle after another. One thing after another they called impossible on Friday but Monday someone flipped a switch! They hung their heads and I said say it! They said this is a miracle because there’s no other explanation! When you walk with God miracles follow and I really feel sorry for people like Bill Nye and he doesn’t dictate to me how to raise my kids who are grown. My kids saw the miracles in our lives and our friends lives! My husbands aortic dissection was not the first miracle we had. By the way my husband was only person Duke had ever saw live to walk out the door and they knew exactly who did the healing! They filed in his room every morning and the doctor said class this man should be dead! The test say he should be dead! God healed him called a miracle and Duke doesn’t drop the ball! This man is dangerous to children and trying to indoctrinate this generation into calling God a fairy tale! By the way Bill Nye don’t talk about God and Science being against each other because it’s not! God is the author of Science and nature! You are blind! Don’t worry! God will make a believer out of you! You just better hope it’s not too late!

@@user-otzlixr I don’t love everything he does, for sure. I don’t think he helps the religion-science conversation by debating idiotic nutballs, for example. BUT this video was really great!

@@user-otzlixr climate change exists

Religion, politics and economics are all totally f--king science over especially in America

True

i’m surprised he didn’t mention the peer review stuff too tho lol

Yea same

Wait, you don't let the existential panic overwhelm you for minutes at a time?

And that, my friend, is what we call a chtonic dread

​@@inanis5888 you mean hours???? Nothing gives you existential crises like physics 😂

Cat videos get me through most of my existential spiralling moments

HOW TF ARE YOU EVERYWHERE I NEED ANSWERS

@@69daygrind NO

Same except i was out that day 🥲

I love this! I grew up watching Bill Nye's show and I loved it so much. I didnt end up studying science or any related field, but I've always had an appreciation and overall curiosity. My daughter just started kindergarten and I cant wait to show her Bill Nye and others in the science or engineering field in hopes she'll like it too. Your comment makes me hope maybe itll impact her in the same manner :).

I like your name tho 🔥

I couldn't stop laughing when I read this

He's trying to be nice But he has a urge to kill them

It's more like "thats a dumb question, but I'm glad you're asking instead of making assumptions. So, good question."

@@seansilence2697 The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

@@seansilence2697 true both are equally true

I disagree. The answer is, in my opinion, quite the opposite: community. It is a group effort. And science is full of pedantic nerds who are all too ready to point out any mistake one might have made.

I noticed that instantly

After seeing him perform such an act, my life is now complete.

who has a username like that , makes you seem like a tart

That's exactly what a Sagittarius would say! X'D

@@RealBradMiller 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@RealBradMiller joke’s on you, I’m Gemini

HONESTLY cuz I’m tired of it 😂

I love how much hate for astrology is, lol y’all ridiculous 😂

Also hes fake scientist

@@dzenacs2011 source

@@dzenacs2011 who are u to decide

@@dzenacs2011 he says talking about a guy with a doctorate and multiple peer reviewed published papers spanning over decades.

@@dzenacs2011 There's no such thing as a fake scientist. Anybody can do science, that's the point of science. Getting a piece of paper only makes it easier for people to listen

He was also a lot of our childhoods... He's a legend and Im glad even non-americans agree!

:) you deserve bill nye my guy !!

Bill Nye Days were THE BEST days in school!

He's part of many of our childhood days. We would watch his tv science show, "Bill Nye, the Science Guy" everyday after school.

Welcome to the family! :-)

😂😂😂

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█▄░█ █▀█ █ █░▀█ █▄█ ▄ bill nye said calmly

dyslexic children perform well in oral tests

Yeah! Lysdexics untie!

same! I'm dyslexic aswell and he really helped me understand science !!

look up Carl Sagan’s Cosmos Just listen to that man speak about science as if he was reading a poem.

Don't you mean Bill is the T.A.O.G.?

420 blaze it

I wish they would tbh, he's the Mr. Rogers of Science

Who’s Mr. Rogers

@@jamescorbin5390 While you are more than capable of looking it up, I would say you should watch the film _A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood_ if you didn't grow up with him in your childhood. The MC is a good surrogate for people that wonder how an old dude giving monologues to kids could be an important topic worthy of serious respect.

@@IceHibiscus I make my living as a writer and always have, and I could not have explained it as well as you have here.

Wrong. He's an international treasure. I personally hope he gets a dinosaur named after him. Nyesaurus or something idk.

Will they have a wax statue of him?

@@billystokes3917 🤣 nyesaurus sounds funny

It does have a certain irony.

@@joshduthie3401 wdym?

@@holliegould3463 Bill Nye doesn't support that person's opinions is what it means.

Well said. That's a...gneiss answer

@@KiltedVeteran God dammit. . . Have an upvote

@@MavericReploidZero Much appreciated. I'm glad I could make someone's day in these...rocky times. Granite, it's not the funniest of puns but it gets the job done.

@@KiltedVeteran you are rocking it with the puns

@@inoli3164 Thanks, it takes a much boulder person than the average Joe to rock puns like these.

He may not be "smart" but he is Wise!

He says he isn't smart; according to the Dunning-Kruger effect (and Shakespeare): A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

​​@@FangyDoesArtSo I am stupid af, but I am good in the field of physics and science and math.......

I mean it does regard a fundamental basis of the scientific method that not many people think about because it rarely has to be considered, that it's pointless to try to prove something which can't be proven in the first place. It's regrettably one of the aspects of science that fall short compared to theology (unproven ideas can be explained and accepted as works of the unnatural) but at least in regards to what it does prove, it can generally do so strongly.

Geology is not a real science I am sorry, I just saw an opportunity and I could not resist.

@@nandikhumalo231 it had to be said

@@nandikhumalo231 even tho i am not a geologist, i can confirm it rocks! got the reference btw

@@nandikhumalo231 Uh, yeah it is.

Its something that every student learns at one point

@@coerloyal and what percentage of the general populace is that? and what percentage are for example flat-earthers? and is there an overlap, or does the former preclude the latter?

But he didn’t state that there’s a difference between micro & macro evolution. Micro evolution is observable. Macro hasn’t been observed

Many times people use theory when they mean hypothesis as well.

@@danfsteeple You might as well also use the terms stellar evolution, planetary evolution and the like.

The change of our teeth recently has actually more to do with the changes in our diet especially since years after the industrial evolution when we adopted softer foods in our diet

@@bradenjackson3494 still evolution… or what else do you think it is?

@@bradenjackson3494 He literally said what you said, but you're using it as a denial? "After centuries of eating softer foods, compared to our ancient ancestors, jaw size has begun to shrunk with decreased mastication requirements..."

@@bradenjackson3494 soooo evolution right?

I only had one wisdom tooth in my jaw, I learned the evolution fact as a teenager (20+ years ago) and remember being super proud of myself for being more evolved than my peers 😂😂😂

Honestly some of those questions i am sure were proposed by people who wanted Bill to explain so they didnt have to keep trying to do it themselves😅

Me too. It’s like “ugh, this dumbass. OKAY, Lemme get into it, I guess.”

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

It's Twitter. Not too many geniuses there

Hahahahahajahaa

They want Bill’s “for dummies” explanation

@@mangomonet2464 It is Twitter, after all

Yes!! It has me all messed up. (While I cuss like a sailor)

It's nice when we acknowledge the federal units of other countries.

Apply would charge them $5000

exactly!!!!!!!!!!

For all we know, life just like us lived millions of years ago on a far, far away planet. I wouldn’t be surprised if we find previous signs of life before we find actual life.

Must be Mercury in retrograde again.

There is no such thing as a stupid question!

@@ryanm2 ~ are you sure?

@@ryanm2 Oh yes there is

@@ryanm2 I'm guessing you have never spent any time on Quora.

So, it's not about what it could do, but about what *we* could do with it that's terrifying.

@@GumSkyloard Basically. (I hate to make comparisons like this, but I feel like it's a good example here) The original intention of the E = mc² equation had no ill intent, yet look what people have managed done with it... I fear AI could be another one of these situations.

So to break it down, you're scared of humans. What's new? Lol

@@hyper_banner And I suspect a lot of people will turn into Oppenheimers. Terrified of what they created, devastated by the sheer destructive and harmful power that they, even if unintentionally and indirectly, contributed to.

@@yanceyboyz Yea lmao, AI in itself isn't scary. It's implications are.

i dont think they keep bringing him back because people are stupid, hes just a nice man these videos always do well