• @[email protected]
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    211 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
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      161 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.

    • @Duamerthrax
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      91 year ago

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

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        71 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
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      81 year ago

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

    • 🐍🩶🐢
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      71 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
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        41 year ago

        So… You didn’t meet your hero.