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-Yeah!

All right.

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-Hey, Lauren! Over here!

-Bill Nye's just such a charismatic individual.

He just inspires the enthusiasm for the love of science,

love of life.

-Currently, he is traveling the country,

speaking about climate change, science,

and space exploration.

-I grew up watching Bill Nye, and it was live action.

And my kids did it, and I was a kid.

I was, like, I can do this.

I'm a doctor, and I do infectious disease, actually.

I think science is everything.

It connects us all.

-While working on his TV show,

he won a total of 18 Emmys in just 5 years.

-When it was a rainy day or the teacher wasn't feeling so well,

you would just see the TV cart come in and then VHS

and just hear, "Bill, Bill, Bill!"

[ Laughter ] It was -- that's how --

the whole class was so happy.

It was just a perfect moment.

[ Crowd chanting "Bill, Bill!" ]

-Please join me in welcoming America's favorite science,

Bill Nye, the Science Guy!

[ Cheers and applause ]

-♪ Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill ♪

♪ Bill Nye the Science Guy

[ Cheers and applause ]

-Whoo!

Oh, I love you guys!

Greetings!

Whoo! Whoo!

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Here's the start of things.

We're getting things revved up here.

We're taxiing out.

We're gonna take off, and we're gonna see

if these wings develop a difference in air pressure.

So, it was really the 1990s when I started feeling

bad about the United States

and its relationship to science.

We flip!

I wanted to make the world

where young people were excited about science again.

And that set me on a quest.

-Okay, Bill, go!

-Yeah, it's a pretty good day for parasailing!

[ Splash! ]

-Bill himself was the face

of the "Bill Nye the Science Guy" show.

But there really was this triangle.

The three creators of the show --

Bill, Jim and Erren.

There was this creative energy

that I don't think has ever quite been replicated.

Jim, writer, director, could really challenge Bill

and bring out the best in Bill.

And Erren, who was the mama bear of the whole organization.

She was the consummate producer.

-We should -- where is the home movie?

-So, all the video that we know of that

is left of the show is right here.

-Oh, my gosh.

This is all the research.

Background information of shows...

-America needed scientists.

We see PBS stories, "Time" magazine, "Newsweeks"

about this crisis, there are no scientists out there.

We're going, well, we've got this scientist right here.

We could do this.

And so we set out

to make this "Bill Nye the Science Guy" TV show.

-Oh, man. What a mug. What a mug on this guy.

That was pretty much a silly venture that we thought

that we could produce this national show out of Seattle.

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 was right

on the other side of that brick wall.

And one of the most popular shows is the gravity show,

and we threw stuff off that roof.

The pull of gravity isn't so strong

that we can't raise our arms or anything.

But it does pull on everything all the time.

Now, we can test this.

This is an old idea, but a good one.

Watermelon.

[ Splat! ]

Uh....

a computer.

Sure.

[ Glass breaking ]

-I think the zaniness was a great tension reliever

for all the kids in the audience

who were afraid they couldn't understand something.

[ Glass breaking ]

Before they knew what was happening, they understood.

-Science!

-He's the science teacher we all wish

we had in elementary school or middle school,

high school, even college.

-Here's the fastest thing in the universe.

[ Zapping ] It's light.

Light goes 300,000 kilometers every second.

[ Zapping ] Things in the universe...

-The "Science Guy" show contained the science

that excited Bill,

and you, the viewer, can't help

but be just as excited as the instructor.

It was a game changer for an entire generation of people.

-Chemicals.

There's only 92 naturally occurring elements.

So they're grouped together...

-Bill Nye days in school were the best.

When the teacher plugged in the VCR,

you knew that you were going to walk away

having learned something and having enjoyed

learning something which,

for some reason, is a novel thing in schools.

-It's in the air, rushing over the blades of grass.

Taking carbon dioxide from the air, light from the sun,

and water, and the grass is making its own food.

It's growing.

-The point was anybody could be a scientist.

Any kid, anybody.

[ Tooting ]

-The comb built up a negative charge.

That's what pulled the water molecules.

Static. -Static.

-We always told Bill

that he should be the next Carl Sagan.

That's the plan.

-Science is a self-correcting process.

To be accepted, new ideas must survive

the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.

The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common

in religion or in politics,

but it is not the path to knowledge,

and there's no place for it in the endeavor of science.

-I studied mechanical engineering

at Cornell University.

I decided to take astronomy from this famous professor,

Carl Sagan.

He was a great scientist, and when I had my chance

to do my "Science Guy" show,

I went back to Carl Sagan.

And he said, "You should focus on pure science.

Don't do science demonstrations

without describing the bigger idea."

What he said was kids resonate to science.

That was the verb he used, resonate.

And I really embraced that.

I will now open the door with my mind.

[ Electricity zapping ]

I am influencing physical objects around me

with the power of my brain.

Do you think I did, or did it just look that way?

We have a saying in science.

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof."

The process of testing claims -- the world is flat,

the world is round -- is what we call science.

-There's always been this little behind-the-scenes thing

between scientists.

Is Bill really a scientist? He doesn't have a Ph.D.

We catapulted Bill into who he is,

but it is a big step to go from this television host,

kid goofy guy,

to a really well-respected expert.

[ Sawing ]

[ Machine powers down ]

[ Whistling ]

-So the "Science Guy" show is over.

We did 100 shows.

It almost killed me, and I gotta move on to something bigger.

But the frustrating thing is I would continually to be asked

to be on the news

as a commentator about the weather especially

and about climate change.

-Bill, over to you. -The problem is,

we're just burning carbon and spewing carbon monoxide

in the atmosphere at an extraordinary rate.

-What Bill Nye just did was waste everyone's time

explaining that CO2 is rising.

Bill Nye is just going around saying CO2 is up, therefore,

global warming is dangerous, we should be concerned.

It's not. It's not dangerous.

-The world is getting warmer.

It's continually getting warmer.

-If I'm right, the reversals will lead to a degree

to a degree and a half cooling.

If you're right, they're not,

but what are we worried about right now?

-Okay...

-We have this increasing anti-science movement

in the United States.

-Our president is worried about global warming.

What a ridiculous situation.

-All right, that was Donald Trump calling out

President Obama.

It seems our commander-in- chief --

-It's worse than ever.

The anti-science movement is more powerful

than it's ever been.

-Charles Darwin never thought of evolution

as anything other than a theory.

He hoped that some day it would be proven by the fossil record,

but did not live to see that, nor have we.

-The longer we put off doing something about it,

the more serious it's gonna get.

It's this problem where the anti-science people

have been so successful.

I mean, there's this guy in Kentucky

who doesn't believe in evolution,

doesn't believe

in the fundamental idea in all of Biology.

-I don't believe that at all. I don't believe that dinosaurs

lived millions of years ago,

and I certainly don't believe

that you came from ape-like creatures or anything like that.

I mean, did your grandfather look like that?

[ Laughter ] I don't think so.

Did your grandmother look like that?

No, not at all.

You're very, very different -- -If we raise a generation

of kids that can't think critically,

that can't think scientifically, we are headed for trouble.

-We don't believe in evolution,

and I certainly don't believe that life came about by chance,

random processes millions of years ago

in some soup in the sea.

Life was formed, and then one kind of --

-What has evolution got to do with engineering?

I mean, Bill Nye himself is actually not a scientist.

He studied mechanical engineering, and...

-As a science educator,

I am really more serious about it than ever.

These people who are denying science, denying evolution,

denying the efficacy of vaccinations,

and especially denying human-caused climate change,

we've just can't have this.

We've got to fight this fight.

I've got to fight this fight.

[ Indistinct conversation ]

[ Music playing on intercom ]

[ Indistinct message plays on intercom ]

[ Dinosaur growling ]

Now, this is scientifically inaccurate.

Humans and ancient dinosaurs did not live at the same time.

The evidence for that is overwhelming.

And to suggest this to school children

is irresponsible at best.

It's very troubling.

[ Growling ]

[ Roaring ]

The head minister, Ken Ham, challenged me to a debate.

And after consideration, I accepted it.

[ Cash register beeping ]

-Ken Ham is the most

successful creationist in the United States.

I first heard about the debate when Bill sent me an e-mail

saying, "Hey, I've signed a contract to debate Ken Ham.

Can I talk to a couple of your people?"

[ Laughs ]

And I wrote back saying, "Seriously?

Do you realize what you've gotten into?"

Debates between scientists and science deniers

could be a trap

that scientists probably should not get involved in.

-Well, they present Lucy as a gorilla.

In the mainstream science, Lucy stands upright,

and she has a lot less hair.

You will not see that in a mainstream museum.

-The Creation Museum is a temple of ignorance.

It's also a temple of lies.

And warping the minds of children,

which is what the Creation Museum is dedicated to doing,

is one of the most awful and mendacious things

I think anybody can do.

-There's a lot of anxiety and concern about evolution

because people see it as somehow incompatible

with religious beliefs.

I'm a believer in God myself, and I don't at the present time

see any conflicts

between understanding the nature of living things

and how they related to each other

and what I believe as someone

who perceives God as the creator.

Bill has an opportunity and has taken that on

in this discussion with Ken Ham

to try to explain what the scientific facts are.

-I'm Tom Foreman from CNN,

and I'm pleased to be tonight's moderator

for this evolution versus creation debate.

And now let's welcome our debaters,

Mr. Bill Nye and Mr. Ken Ham.

[ Applause ]

Mr. Ham, you opted to go first.

-You cannot ever prove using, you know,

the scientific method in the present.

You can't prove the age of the earth.

So you can never prove it's old. -Mr. Nye.

Well, of course, this is where we disagree.

You can prove the age of the earth with great robustness.

Radiometric dating does exist.

The Universe is accelerating. These are all provable facts.

-I just want people to understand, too,

that there's aspects about the past

that you can't scientifically prove 'cause you weren't there.

We can be investigating the present.

Understanding the past is a whole different matter,

and let me just say this...

-To say that evolution is somehow questionable

because we only have the historical remnants

of the process is a complete misunderstanding

of how science operates.

We have so much evidence in the fossil record.

We have so much evidence from our DNA.

We have so much evidence from embryology

that you don't need to see it happen

because we have this historical record.

It's like trying to deny that Napoleon existed.

-Mr. Nye, the next question is for you.

How did the atoms that created the big bang get there?

-This is a great mystery.

This is what drives us.

This is what we want to know.

Let's keep looking. Let's keep searching.

-Bill, I just want to let you know that there actually is

a book out there

that tells us where matter came from.

[ Laughter ] -Mr. Ham,

this is a simple question, I suppose,

but one that actually is fairly profound

for all of us in our lives.

What, if anything, would ever change your mind?

-Mm.

Well, the answer to that question is,

I'm a Christian.

And the Bible is the word of God.

No one is ever gonna convince me

that the word of God is not true.

-Mr. Nye?

-We just need one piece of evidence.

We would need evidence that the universe is not expanding.

We would need evidence that the stars appear to be far away,

but they're not.

That rock layers can somehow form in just 4,000 years.

Bring on any of those things,

and you would change me immediately.

-That last question just so crystallized this whole debate,

and I think the answers of both Ken and Bill

were very, very telling.

-Is Ken Ham's creation model viable?

I say no.

Absolutely not.

Thank you very much.

[ Applause ]

-Thanks so much to Mr. Nye and to Mr. Ham.

An excellent discussion.

[ Applause ]

[ Computer whistles ]

[ Keyboard keys clacking ]

[ Whistling continues ]

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-May I touch these things? -Sure.

-I know you're not supposed to touch science demonstrations.

That's conventional Newton,

but what happens here when they're different --

Oh, it's a wave. That's beautiful.

-There is a point where I have thought that Bill Nye was dead

because he was no longer putting out

any kind of informational videos

trying to teach kids about science.

-I love you, Bill! -Thank you.

Good morning. Good morning.

-He did disappear for a little bit, and everybody was, like,

"Where did the Science Guy go?"

-What is -- what is he, soil man?

-We are teaching forensics, and he's our --

-He's dead. [ Cheering ]

It's the National Science Teacher Convention.

These are the people, man.

These are the science teachers that are really the fans.

People still watch "Bill Nye the Science Guy" in school.

Teachers showed it in class for years and years.

[ Cheers and applause ] Greetings, greetings!

Great to see you all, and I'm very happy.

As I understand it, I've been teaching a lot

of your classes this year.

[ Laughter ] Here we go.

[ Camera shutter clicks ] There it was.

I heard it.

Whoa, whoa! -Thank you.

-There we go. Hey.

-Thank you. -Cool.

Hey, cool. Yeah!

Hey! Go, go, go!

-3, 2 -- -We got it, yeah, yeah.

You don't need a countdown. Just go for it.

You gotta reach out.

You gotta go.

Turn it around.

Catch up. -All right, all right.

I got it. I got it. -How hard can it be?

I'm not sprinting.

Reach out, man.

So, you're too close.

I was asked to talk about selfie fatigue,

and I have it.

I'm pretty sure it shortens your life.

Whew.

"Client requests that Bill steer clear

of any controversial topics.

We also live in a pretty conservative state,

so the climate change, environmental conversation

wouldn't be well-received

by some members of our audience unfortunately."

That is unfortunate.

The main thing everybody could do about climate change

is talk about it.

[ Cheers and applause ]

[ Cheering ]

Hi, you guys. Greetings, greetings.

High five, yes, cool.

Hi, you guys. -I love science.

-We're reaching the end of the line.

I love you guys. Carry on.

One more.

Why is this country, who for over a century

was the world leader in science, engineering...

Nowadays, I'm talking to adults, and I'm not mincing words.

The climate is changing. It's our fault.

We gotta get to work on this.

So, Sarah Palin was on this panel.

"Bill Nye is as much a scientist as I am.

He's a kids' show actor. He's not a scientist."

-I want people to feel empowered to ask question

about what is being fed them from the science community

that something's not making a whole lot of sense

when it comes to inconsistent data

that is being produced and being fed,

especially to our children,

when it comes to global warming or climate change,

whatever they're calling it today.

-Man.

That they can get on the news --

and by them, I mean climate change deniers.

They really are leaving the world worse than they found it.

-Some of the trusted names in the weather business

dispute that global warming exists.

-It turns out that your favorite TV meteorologist

may have more clout than you think.

Surveys show Americans are more likely to believe

weather forecasters than politicians

when it comes to global warming.

-And many of those forecasters insists

that climate change poses no imminent threat.

-To think that we could affect weather

all that much is pretty arrogant.

Mother Nature is so big.

I think we're gonna die from a lack of fresh water

or we're gonna die from ocean acidification

before we die from global warming, for sure.

-So, I was on CNN in the morning,

and I made an off-handed comment.

We're talking about floods in Louisiana.

You know, here at CNN,

you have a climate change denier meteorologist.

-I doubt this one is even right. -Knock yourselves out,

but this is a big problem.

And the next morning, Chad Myers posted this.

Succinctly saying, "I have now changed my mind.

Have I flip-flopped?

Well, that is what it would be called in politics,

but in science, it's just an evolution of understanding."

"As I tell my 11-year-old, it's okay to be wrong,

as long as you learn from your mistakes."

Chad Myers, I love you, man.

If we can get more, as they're called nowadays,

thought leaders changing their minds,

maybe we can change the world.

[ Dog barking ]

[ Train whistle blowing ]

[ Bell dinging ]

♪ Load up some barrels

[ Whistling ]

-Here's their mark.

Whoa. That's got it. We're doing it.

[ Mechanical whirring ]

[ Laughter ]

Look, I got that one to land upright.

Come on.

My brother has positioned this building so close to the track,

can't get the barrels to land in their official barrel catcher.

So, our dad enabled this hobby.

-He helped me with it.

He's the one that bought the trains

in the first place for me.

-This car is 70 years old. -It's from his set in 1955.

A lot of the dates are stamped on the car.

-So, 1955 was 61 years ago? -61.

-Yeah, that's a long time. We're pretty close.

[ Train whistle blows ]

[ Birds chirping ]

-This is the house where my family grew up.

My parents built this house, and apparently at that time,

this was out in the country.

[ Wind blowing ]

[ Tapping ]

That is a sound from my youth, people.

Right there.

[ Tapping ]

So, in here is the laundry room.

Right here is where I was "Bill Nye, Boy Scientist."

Tut this is where I used to do science experiments.

This was my little space right about here.

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Darb, were you here when Dad fell down the stairs?

-He was carrying laundry.

He was doing something he shouldn't have done.

-Well, that's what you guys say, but he was doing a thing

that, to able-bodied person was routine,

and my sister talks about it all the time.

You forget that you can't do regular stuff.

[ Stairs creaking ]

[ Waves crashing ]

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My mom was a big believer in women doing everything.

♪♪

During World War II, she was in the Navy.

She was recruited to work on the Enigma Code.

And so she wasn't Rosie the Riveter.

She was Rosie the Top Secret Code Breaker.

♪♪

We had a very good family.

My brother and sister loved me.

We remain very close.

♪♪

-Our family has a genetic problem.

It's called ataxia.

It affects our motor coordination

and our speech sometimes.

My brother Darby and I, we both seem to be affected by it.

[ Waves crashing ]

[ Laughs ]

-She's either -- -I can't stand up.

I'm too tired.

-It is funny.

That's the fence.

-Bill's so charming to help us get along in life.

-You want your little feetsies? -I do.

-And he helps us to cope with what we have to deal with.

[ Laughs ] Yeah, me, too.

-I was the obnoxious kid.

[ Laughing ]

[ Monitor beeping ]

♪♪

-Hold it there.

Okay, you can move your right arm into the next triangle.

Go the other direction, here.

Nose.

Finger.

I don't see any change at all from the last time

we saw you, two years ago.

And right now, I don't see anything that looks ataxic.

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All right. I'm gonna look at your eyes now.

What I want you to do is focus right on my nose.

Open them nice and wide for me.

Look at my finger.

So you can see the beating movements of her eyes.

Now look at my nose.

Good, Susan.

And slide it down.

Okay. Let's switch sides.

-I really worry about my sister falling or something goes wrong.

But as I watched how ataxia affected my dad's life

and look how it affects my sister's life.

So, I may have a so-called survivor's guilt

where I don't have it.

Do I deserve to not have it?

What did I do that allows me to not have it,

where my beloved brother and sister do have it?

What happened?

Do I owe the world a living?

If I were to have kids, would they not have gotten it?

I am aware of how fortunate I am,

and it makes me all the more -- motivates me all the more

to do something to leave

the world better than I found it.

♪♪

-Hey! Dude.

Man.

How you doing?

So, what'd you bring?

-Some vino. -Very nice.

Okay, what's gonna happen is, if I'm drinking wine

with my man here,

it's gonna have to be cosmic.

Just so you know. -That's right.

He's proud of his stash.

-Here you go. -Rocket science.

-Yes.

That's the bottle I'm drinking with Bill.

-We're living in this extraordinary time

where people are anti-science.

Anti-science in the country

that got to be pre-eminent through its innovation.

-Okay, let me get on your case. -All right.

-There's an entire generation of people...

-I know. -...who grew up looking at you

in their elementary school classroom.

-I know. It's all me.

-[ Laughs ] It's your fault.

-It's my fault. Whatever I did wrong.

-Where have you failed? -Yeah.

-You had as much street cred as is possible

among schoolchildren,

but somebody's gotta believe you more than a childhood educator.

-Yeah, yeah. -But I knew you had it in you.

I knew. We knew. We knew it!

I went to the board...

I serve on the board of the Planetary Society.

Carl Sagan founded the Planetary Society back in 1980.

[ Audio warbles ]

-Mars is the world next door.

The nearest planet on which human explorers

could safely land.

-The Planetary Society with Cornell University

astronomer Carl Sagan as its president

is the largest space interest group on this planet

with some 125,000 members and over 60 of earth's nations.

-I and other board members determined that the best thing

for the society

would be to have Bill become its CEO.

-So, here's gonna be where the work's gonna get done.

Look at all this space we have for people.

Space, get it?

-Before Bill took over, we had been in a low point

for some time.

And Bill coming onboard started to change us

really dramatically.

One thing that's very important to Bill

is the Planetary Society's solar sail launch.

It's been our mission since 1980.

-This is interesting.

-Just tremendously exciting prospect

called solar sailing.

-Solar sailing. -And this is a very crude model.

And it works exactly as an ordinary sailboat does,

but it would travel on the radiation and particles

that come out of the sun.

the wind from the sun.

-If you look at old footage of Carl Sagan

on "The Tonight Show,"

it's Carl Sagan unfurling a model of a solar sail,

describing that to Johnny Carson and to the American public.

-Carl was so excited about the solar sailing project.

What could be more mythic than riding the light?

♪♪

-At the Planetary Society, we are gonna launch LightSail.

When this thing gets in space, Mylar sheets are deployed,

and the photons from the sun will give it a push.

♪♪

You never run out of fuel.

You could greatly lower the cost and make space exploration

accessible to many, many more people.

♪♪

♪♪

We'll be able to launch spacecraft

and take them farther and deeper into space.

♪♪

-It's the best shot we have at beginning to travel out

into the cosmos on the scale of even the nearest stars.

[ Brakes squealing ]

[ Horns blowing ]

[ Applause ]

-People from all over the world have heard of Noah's ark.

People say, what are you really doing here?

What statement are you making?

See, people haven't been taught genetics correctly,

haven't been taught about speciation

and natural selection correctly.

We're gonna correct that in here

and undo the brainwashing that's occurred through...

[ Cheers and applause ]

I'm gonna change Bill Nye's evolutionary world view.

So Bill, you're invited to come,

and I'll personally tour you through the ark.

You can do it ahead of opening if you want,

or you can do it after opening.

Whatever.

-As we stand here, the Juneau spacecraft

just went in orbit around Jupiter,

which is an extraordinary accomplishment

of engineering and rocket science.

Here's anti-science.

[ Applause ]

-What do you say to those who scoff at dinosaurs on the ark?

-People have so many misconceptions about dinosaurs.

You know, Bill Nye scoffs at me

for believing dinosaurs were on the ark.

But people like Bill Nye believe dinosaurs grew feathers

and became birds.

[ Laughter ] It comes down to beliefs.

It's a clash of world views.

That's what it's all about.

[ Applause ]

-It's not a problem with religion.

I'm hip.

The earth's not 6,000 years old.

It is inappropriate to teach that to young people.

-[ Speaking Spanish ]

-Well, I know enchilada and taco and --

[ Laughter ]

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♪♪

[ Growling sounds ]

-This looks like an apatosaurus or --

-Yeah, it's a sauropod, yeah.

-Your claim is that a family built this enclosure

for ancient sauropods, and the sauropods disappeared.

-For each kind of land animal, creature -- for each kind of --

Oh, lots of animals have disappeared.

I mean, that's why they have endangered species programs.

-But it happened in the last 4,000 years.

-Oh, yeah, yeah.

Would you allow someone to teach the possibility

that God created them in the public schools?

-No, not in science class.

In religion class, his history class, philosophy class,

but it's not science.

-But you said your belief was everything happened

by natural processes,

and they're teaching that religion in the science class.

-You're calling it a religion? -Yeah, it is.

-I'm calling it the process of science.

-No, but it is a religion.

-So you can teach -- -It's a belief.

-Teach your world view in a different class,

but not in science class.

My scientific colleagues go to places like Greenland,

Arctic, Antarctica,

and they drill into the ice,

and we pull out long cylinders of ice.

Certain of these cylinders have 680,000 layers of ice.

-The truth is that these layers in the ice

are not annual layers, so Bill Nye

and others have pushed the idea of millions of years

while talking about annual rings in ice cores are simply wrong.

-So this is the most troubling thing you do, Mr. Ham.

Trying to convince young people that climate change

is not real is very serious

because they're gonna have to grow up and deal with it.

-I know. Actually, climates change all the time.

-Let me rephrase it for you.

Human-caused climate change is very serious.

-Well, there's a lot of debate about that.

-This is the worse thing you do.

-There's a lot of scientists who would disagree with that.

-Very, very few. -We have Ph.D. scientists

on our staff who would disagree with that.

We have Ph.D. scientists.

-Your scientist on your staff, as respectful as I can be,

are incompetent.

[ Roaring ]

[ Indistinct conversation ]

-Contradicts the secular belief in millions of years...

-How did God create us? -How did God create us?

The Bible says He spoke, and it happened,

because He is all-powerful,

because He is the infinite creator God.

-So, young woman, I would say to you that there's a process

the humans have developed over a millennia

by which we know nature.

We call that science.

The big thing in science is questioning things.

-Are you telling this little girl that she is just an animal?

-The word "just" I disagree with.

She's a wonderful, beautiful animal.

-I believe this can. -Say again.

-I believe Mr. Ham. -Okay.

So as you get older, just look at the world.

I really encourage you to go to college.

♪♪

♪♪

-Some of those kids, I don't think they were in fifth grade.

[ Sniffs ]

You know, when we did the "Science Guy" show,

we had very compelling evidence that 10 years old

was the oldest you could be

to get the lifelong passion for science.

We're gonna lose thousands and thousands of kids from this area

who grow up with this weird, untenable world view.

-One, two, three, four.

We don't want your ark no more.

One, two, three, four.

We don't want your ark no more.

Whoo! [ Cheering ]

-Today, that grand opening of the Ark Encounter

kicked off about an hour ago.

Across the street, we saw a lot of people going in there,

hundreds of people.

I want to go talk to Jim Helton,

the president of the Tri-State Free Thinkers.

Science is part of it.

He says there's more to it than just that.

-Yes, we want to draw attention, where your money's going to,

and that your children will be indoctrinated

to say that evolution and science aren't true.

-Here's what happened.

They strategically placed Bill Nye at the Creation Museum.

After that debate, they raised millions of additional dollars

for the Ark Encounter.

Was Bill Nye responsible for some of that?

Unfortunately, probably yes.

-It's a theme park of biblical proportion.

but until now, the money to make it has not been flooding in.

$15 million in the last two weeks came from

a rather ironic chain of events.

-...who don't understand natural law.

-When thousands watched science advocate

Bill Nye debate Ham online,

believers pulled out their wallets.

♪♪

-Nye's mistake was giving credibility to Ken Ham

by giving him a public platform.

Everything I've seen about Nye

is that he really misses being the Science Guy

because he was much beloved and very popular.

It's hard to give up celebrity.

♪♪

-The starting position for me is, what is your goal?

My goal is helping the public understand

why evolution is good science,

why climate change is good science,

why they should be taught to kids.

I don't know what Bill's goals are.

-Okay, Bill.

I'm rolling. Whenever you're comfortable.

-So, airplanes can get big and complicated...

-The Science Guy is a character, but Bill is a human.

He's not perfect.

-So, that's why airplanes take off and land,

pointing into the wind.

-So, we committed to a TV show with Bill,

but suddenly Bill went to Portland,

and he did a pilot with our material.

Our show, "Bill Nye the Science Guy," almost did not happen.

-♪ One, two, three, four, five, and six ♪

♪ Got the waves in your eyes

-Hey, Bill Nye the Science Guy here.

What I've got is a set-up for making hydrogen gas.

I have a special chemical in here...

-If you need any proof that there was

more than just Bill Nye behind the success

of the "Bill Nye the Science Guy" show,

all you have to do is look at the version of the show

that was produced down in Portland, it was ridiculous.

It was like some form of crazy, manic Captain Kangaroo.

Bill really wasn't at his best.

It didn't make a lot of sense.

It didn't get picked up.

It kind of went nowhere.

[ Explosion ]

-Would you look at that?

He's gonna blow up the whole neighborhood

if somebody doesn't do something.

[ Glass breaks ] -Whoa!

-We lost him for a year contractually.

We were threatened with lawsuits if we even talked to him,

and I felt pretty raw from that.

-So, overall, the page and a half scene

is all different locations,

but we'd like to cut up sentences.

[ Laughs ] Oh, yeah, let's go shoot.

-And we have to go shoot some stuff.

I forgot about that.

-And go to the doctor's. -Yeah, go to the doctor's.

-I think fame changed Bill, and I think probably

the biggest way is,

his trust issues, and I think also his vulnerability.

He's very protective of it,

and then now you're not seeing a Bill

that we grew up with, you know, 20 years ago.

♪♪

-I think about this often.

I had trust issues with Bill.

But he's got this mission.

I see Bill go on and do great things,

but I am happy and proud that he has done this.

And I think it's brave.

♪♪

-My dad's big thing was, every man's responsible

for his own actions,

and leave the world better than you found it.

Those were Ned Nye's rules of life right there,

guiding principles.

[ Film reel clicking ]

My parents participated in this world war,

contributed to winning it.

♪♪

So, my parents made me who I am, I mean, for better or for worse.

You feel great about it.

But I also feel like, "Man, I could do more."

Would they be proud of me?

The mistakes I've made, would they go along with it?

I try to be worthy of them. I try to leave the legacy.

My drive to do all this is from my parents.

♪♪

♪♪

[ Indistinct conversations ]

-I got it.

[ Cheering ]

♪♪

-The actual reason we're actually here is going well.

[ Cheering ]

[ Cheers and applause ]

Hi, guys!

[ Cheering ]

-Don't you people have school to work on?

[ Cheers and applause ]

Carry on. Carry on. -Oh, my God.

♪♪

-There's the spacecraft over there.

And you say, "That's it?"

Yeah, that's it. It's that big.

It's literally smaller than a loaf of bread.

[ Indistinct conversations ]

♪♪

They're all very hopeful.

This is an important day in testing the spacecraft

to do turn it on

and see if it does everything it's supposed to do.

The LightSail spacecraft will go there in the middle.

The antenna will spring out,

and the sails will deploy if nothing goes wrong.

[ Indistinct conversations ]

That's where we're gonna start it.

All right. You ready? -I'm ready.

-Okay, stand back. -Five, four, three, two, one.

Zero.

[ Spacecraft hums ] -Oh, man.

Right there.

Hey, you guys.

I'm really glad it works.

Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!

Oh, that's great.

That's really great, you guys.

That's really nice.

It's working perfectly.

♪♪

♪♪

[ Cheers and applause ]

♪♪

So, the reason we're doing this is to advance space science.

There's just a few missions that a solar sail is ideal for.

We could monitor the Earth's climate sort of indefinitely,

and that would be a worthy use of these inexpensive,

lightweight spacecraft.

♪♪

So, next year, we are launching a solar sail into space.

And I'm quite anxious about it.

The Planetary Society launched a solar sail in 2005,

and the result was catastrophic.

-After Carl's death, I was the program director for Cosmos 1,

which would be the very first attempt

to launch a solar sail into space.

-We launched it on a Russian Cold War ballistic missile

in the Arctic Ocean.

[ Explosion ]

♪♪

♪♪

Everybody was sort of gathering around,

listening for information updates.

It was, well, we're waiting for a signal.

No, there was no signal.

-And word came that our tracking seemed

to indicate that it was off course.

-And it crashed.

And it's in the bottom of the ocean.

♪♪

While we're sitting here, this spacecraft is sitting

on this laboratory bench.

The antenna deployed, but then you got --

there's nothing to do for 40 minutes.

So in this meantime, Joe Bastardi,

the meteorologist weight lifter,

sent me a direct message on Twitter.

"Hey, Bill. Sorry I blocked you last week.

That really is not me as I am a Libertarian."

-Please welcome, for meteorologists,

the chief forecaster for Accuweather,

NABBA American bodybuilding tall class champion,

Joe Bastardi.

Joe, thanks so much for coming on.

[ Cheers and applause ] -Thank you.

-Do you believe that global warming is manmade?

-Global warming is basically natural.

-And it's a fraud.

I don't know if that's true, and I don't care.

What do you say about that, Brenda?

-Well, meteorologists are focusing on the short term,

and climate scientists look at the long term.

These are like natural cycles like --

-What's the long term?

-It just seems so unlikely that a guy

with a degree in meteorology

does not have a grasp of the greenhouse effect.

And it wouldn't matter except the deniers have been

so successful in keeping the United States

from becoming a world leader in addressing climate change.

-I agree that there's climate change, all right?

Do humans have something to do with it?

They probably have something to do with it.

I don't know what.

Is it worth crashing the American economy?

No, I don't believe that.

-Please welcome Joe Bastardi. [ Cheers and applause ]

♪♪

-I just think that CO2 is very, very small,

relative to everything else that's going on.

♪♪

If the environment was a workout, to me,

the sun would be squats.

♪♪

The oceans would be pull-ups.

♪♪

Power cleans would be stochastic events like volcanoes.

[ Explosion ]

All those things are the climate control knobs.

All right, so seven slow, seven fast.

The CO2 would probably be, you know, band curls

on a Thursday morning circuit or something.

Relative to those big-ticket exercises,

I don't think it's a control knob.

♪♪

-When they argue that warmer water

that runs into the Arctic thingamajig

that's cold,

they say that that is all global warming, climate change,

whatever.

So -- so what is creating this phenomenon?

-Well, what's creating it is the natural,

cyclical processes that we've seen for years and years.

In this particular year, because of our forecasted weather bell,

we thought that it's gonna be an in-close year,

high-impact year for the United States.

-Climate change deniers have this huge megaphone

that has been provided to them by fossil fuel interests,

by conservative media outlets

that are part of this larger climate change denial machine.

-And so what you've got to be concerned about...

-Much of the denial comes from an ideological viewpoint.

You know, regulating greenhouse gases must be bad

because all regulation is bad.

-Well, you do the math and add it up, and if you go back

and look and study what happened before,

you come up with your answer.

-Well, I go to you for those answers

because you're that good.

Thank you, Joe.

I appreciate it. Get home safe.

-I appreciate it. -Joe Bastardi.

All right, in the meantime, what the frack?

The White House today piling on more rules

when it comes to fracking on public lands.

That's extracting oil

and all that stuff we need in this country.

Critics say it's just gonna drive up

energy costs for all of us.

Jay Lehr says enough is enough.

[ Turn signal clicking ]

-Joe Bastardi has challenged me.

To some questions for Bill Nye,

six years after our "O'Reilly Factor" debate.

I think climate deniers are doing us

a disservice these days.

And Bastardi at least --

Currently, Joe Bastardi is a climate denier.

-Joe Bastardi, who's our go-to guy,

he points to a lot of interesting facts in history.

You know, the Dust Bowl in Oklahoma,

the dinosaurs' extinction.

-I like bringing those things up

so people don't believe this is global warming.

-Joe Bastardi's the meteorologist of record

for conservative media.

Maybe I can nudge him.

Show him the importance of carbon dioxide.

We'll give it a run.

I'll take you on, Joe.

-Go to this right here.

Right there. That looks like that.

-Yeah, it does look a little bit like it.

-What's going on is you're cooling the Indian Ocean.

That's what the implications are here.

Ever since I was a very young child,

I was fascinated by the weather,

and I see it in my son who is very interested in the weather.

You know, we've just been in the warm cycle over the last --

-What, 30 years?

-30 years, so -- -And the temperature has been

a little warmer the last 30 years.

There seems to be a correlation there.

-Yeah. Well, I see the correlation.

-When I found out my dad was gonna be debating Bill Nye

on "The O'Reilly Factor" on Fox News,

I was in sixth grade or seventh grade,

and we had just finished watching --

You know, for the past few years

watching "Bill Nye the Science Guy," those videos.

So he was a celebrity to me and a lot of people my age.

We're, like, please be nice to him.

-do you agree, Joe, that in 1750,

the world's carbon dioxide

was about 280 parts per million?

Do you agree with that?

-No, you don't want to go here. You know why?

Because I'm going to show the --

-And it got kind of testy a little bit.

We were, like, my dad's not listening

to anything we're saying,

and they're just kind of going at it.

-So if you want to believe that,

you can go ahead and believe that.

-Let Bill reply. Go ahead, Bill.

-Before the "O'Reilly" debate, Garrett says to me,

"Dad, he's like

the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus all rolled up into one.

You can't get mad at him."

-In an unusual publication called "The Patriot Post,"

a bodybuilder and meteorologist Joe Bastardi challenged me.

He challenged me to show a connection

between carbon dioxide

and the world's temperature.

I predict that 2016 will be among the top ten hottest years

ever recorded.

Mr. Bastardi, I cannot help but note

that you've spoken at

the Coal Trading Conference, Nebraska Propane,

and the Gas Forum.

Now, where you speak is your business,

but it also seems to be your business.

-Have you ever seen a check

arrive from the Koch brothers out there?

-No. -No?

-I've never seen a Koch brothers check.

-Have I made speeches directly related to climate change?

Yes. Have I been paid for them?

Yes. Will I do that again?

Yes.

But the idea that the oil companies are paying me,

and that's why I believe what I believe is total nonsense.

And if Bill's making money because he's talking

about climate change, great.

More power to you.

-It says in here, "Bill Nye is wrong.

He's not a real scientist."

Right, that's a big thing with Mr. Bastardi.

"Bill Nye is an actor."

Wait, I'm both, or at least I'm an engineer

who took a lot of physics.

How about that?

[ Airplane flying overhead ]

[ Radio chatter ]

♪♪

I don't have a Ph.D.

So, I talk to the experts.

To people in the field who know all about climate science.

And if I can, I really want to see the process

and hold the evidence in my hands.

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

[ Wind howling ]

[ Footsteps crunching in snow ]

-Wow.

-This is where the magic happens.

This is where the ice core is drilled.

[ Machine whirring ]

-Ice cores are the best archive of the past.

They tell us about what happened on our planet

tens to hundreds of thousands of years ago.

So, we just go down at ten-foot chunks,

all the way through to the bottom.

-Two miles? Yeah.

-Once this becomes solid ice, it's still 10% air,

so we can take that ice core back to the lab,

shave it down in a controlled environment, collect the air,

and measure what was in the atmosphere 10,000 years ago

or 20,000 or 100,000 or 200,000 years ago.

-And you melt it, too, right?

-In the 1960s, we discovered that humans were,

indeed, causing climate change.

That was a surprise.

And we didn't know that our climate system

was capable of such an angry response.

♪♪

Snow falls every year, and you get layers and layers of ice,

which are like pages in a book.

And as we read this book, we learn more and more

about the story of our planet.

One of the most important findings

that ever came out of ice cores is that,

when it's warmer, CO2 is higher.

When it's colder, CO2 is lower.

Our planet, over the last million years,

naturally varied between really cold times,

glacial periods, and warm times,

and the difference was 100 parts

per million of CO2 in the atmosphere.

♪♪

But as we get closer to the surface,

we start to see traces of human activity.

Since the industrial revolution, we've increased CO2 from

280 parts per million

to 400 parts per million,

and the pace of change is going faster and faster.

With the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere we have today,

the planet's gonna continue to warm.

An interesting question I get asked a lot is,

"Do you believe in climate change?"

And the question is interesting to me because the word "belief"

implies that there's some choice involved.

Whether I choose to believe in God

or not believe in God is a choice.

I believe in God.

But whether you believe in climate change, it's physics.

Greenhouse gases trap the earth's outgoing energy.

That's all they do. That's what they do.

They can't do anything else.

You can see in this one. -Oh, man.

-Those are all years.

You can actually see here years where you had more snow,

years where you had less snow. -Absolutely.

So, look at this.

There's a layer of -- what is that, a volcano?

-That's a volcano about 27,000 years ago.

-Gah.

See, it's 15, it might be 17 years of eruptions.

Is that possible? -It's very, very possible.

[ Machine humming ]

-This is where we see the smoking gun

for human-caused climate change.

I just don't see how anybody like Joe Bastardi

could come here,

look at the way the ancient ice

is extracted from the Greenland ice sheet,

and not agree that humans have put enough greenhouse gas

in the atmosphere

to cause global climate change.

♪♪

♪♪

[ Snow crunching ]

-This is raising sea level.

This is drowning Miami eventually.

-This is 50,000-year-old water? -On average.

It's about probably 40,000, 50,000 years.

[ Water rushing ]

♪♪

[ Water rushing ]

♪♪

[ Ice creaking ]

[ Water rushing ]

-So, this is the Russell Glacier,

and it's melting like crazy.

[ Water rushing ]

-The white ice reflects a lot of sunlight,

but as the ice goes away... [ Roaring ]

As the glacier does stuff like that,

it's exposing bare rock,

and it's warming even faster.

It's very troubling.

It's heart-breaking.

Humankind has hardly done anything about this,

and we've known about the problem since the 1980s.

♪♪

♪♪

Here comes the jet stream. -Yep.

-So where's the warming right here?

-The warming is right there.

It's right there, and it isn't just any old warming.

These are the warmest sea surface temperatures

we've ever measured there.

3 degrees Celsius.

We've never seen that before.

-That's huge. -Absolutely.

Now, as you -- -Bill is going to do this event

in my seminar series tomorrow with Joe Bastardi.

Bill representing the scientific case

for human-caused climate change,

and Joe Bastardi,

a climate change contrarian against the science.

-It's where it normally isn't because

you have the upwelling cold water.

-The ultimate thing would be to get Joe Bastardi

to change his mind about climate change.

If I'm on Fox News, they dismiss me.

They don't listen to what I have to say.

But if Joe were on there saying that he's changed his mind,

that could be very influential.

And so it's worth a shot.

[ Whirring ]

-It's nice to have you over here.

Nice seeing you. -This looks fabulous.

-Now, if you took all the carbon dioxide out of the air today,

what would happen to the earth's temperature?

-It would get very cold.

-No, it wouldn't get that cold at all.

Are you trying to tell me that 4.0% of the atmosphere,

and that increase is only 0.01% since you've been a kid --

-That's a 30% increase. -A 30% increase against --

-That's three decades. -Against the entire

ocean atmospheric system.

It's miniscule, Bill. It's miniscule.

-What if you're wrong? What about Garrett?

-Garrett, do you get mad sometimes

when I actually concede that it's warmer?

-Yeah. How are we measuring, you know,

accurately 4,000 years ago or 6,000 years ago?

-4,000 years, we can do very accurately.

-Okay, we can't do it the way we're doing it today.

Come on. -So that's where we disagree.

-But can -- -You cannot use a tree ring --

-Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad, I know I'm not in this debate.

I just wanted to say something real quick.

-No, no, you're not in a debate.

No, you're over there.

-No, I understand.

I'm arguing with my fifth-grade childhood hero,

so it's pretty cool.

-The point is 2016 is warm, but 2017 is gonna be cooler.

All right?

Now, if it's not cooler, I'm obviously in trouble, right?

-Yeah.

Do you guys -- do you understand the significance of the ice?

There's nobody running around with a hypodermic needle

squirting bubbles of atmosphere in 4,000-year-old ice.

-I understand that. I read everything you look at.

The fact of the matter is that being on the other side

of the issue

is probably hurting me economically.

-Here's my claim, though, Joe.

You're hurting everybody.

I want you to come around. -Hurting?

Who am I hurting?

-Garrett, the future.

-I'm not hurting Garrett.

-That's my claim. -You don't understand.

You don't fight -- have you ever wrestled?

-I promise you, he's not hurting me.

-You -- you wrestle -- you wrestle the match

when you're wrestling it.

You don't sit there worry about what the guy's doing

in another bracket

that you might have to wrestle down the road.

And that's the problem.

The problem -- I'm not trying to save the world.

What you're saying is, Joe, you've gotta do what I say.

I say, Bill, do whatever you want.

So what happens is, you get this control...

[ Birds cawing ]

♪♪

Hey, where's the wine?

Do you want some more wine, Bill?

-I'm okay.

-So, are you gonna come to Mike Mann's class tomorrow?

-I don't know if he -- you know what?

I don't know that I should do that.

-No? What's there to lose?

-If I do -- -What's there to lose?

-I don't know.

[ Indistinct conversation ]

-These are first-year students at Penn State,

and so I want to get them inspired

about the problem

of climate change and the opportunities.

And Garrett showed up.

I think it just shows an open-mindedness, which is good.

-NASA, the records of global temperature based on averages

of all the thermometer information.

Go back to the -- -Joe Bastardi sent an e-mail

and said he would not come.

He's got a chip on his shoulder.

He wants to compete, and here, he would have been outgunned.

[ Turn signal clicking ]

-Do I look like someone that's afraid?

[ Laughs ]

The Cornell engineer is tougher than the Penn State wrestler.

Whatever. Okay? I mean, come on.

Does Bill understand that I work?

I have X amount of hours to do X amount of things.

Obviously, this is more important to Bill Nye

than it is to me.

-If we just got to work,

we could address climate change like that.

I am very hopeful about the future.

Technology has matured.

There's enough wind and solar that we could run the U.S.,

we could run the world renewably right now

if we just decided to do it.

-Maybe I'm wrong.

[ Laughs ]

It's not -- Oh.

What I've told Garrett is this.

I may have to see that my son is writing things

and researching things that say,

"Dad, you're wrong about this," okay?

I want you to make sure that you know everybody, all the facts,

and then you've come to your own conclusion.

We've always taught that in our house.

Boy, I'll tell you what. I think of that all the time.

What if I digging that kid a hole?

What if he has to pay for the sins of his father?

Whether his father's right or wrong or not?

-Do we have any questions?

-Yeah, there's a question here earlier.

-I was wondering if you'd make a comment on, like,

constructive ways we,

as scientists, can reach out

and try to communicate with non-scientists?

'Cause I feel like climate deniers have been very good

at capitalizing on, like,

it's only a theory or, like, this idea

that there's always gonna be some margin of doubt.

-So what I would say is just keep talking to people.

Why do you believe that? Why do you believe?

What makes you think that climate change hasn't happened?

What makes you disagree with all the world's scientists?

What is it?

And so, uh...uh...

But I strongly believe

that with you all being the future of the world,

you will be able to use science and our process of science

and the arguments we can make based on the facts

that we discovered in nature and the processes of nature.

♪♪

[ Waves crashing ]

♪♪

[ Sighs ]

Since I was a kid, I looked up at the sky.

The stars are out there.

This is our star.

And there's 200 billion stars in our galaxy,

and there are, in turn, that many galaxies.

Galaxies.

It just reminds me of the importance of space exploration.

The reason we have these rockets on the horizon

is to know our place in the cosmos.

-It's just an extraordinary idea, and there might be a time

when we start doing it to planetary regattas.

See, it's a whole new kind of idea.

-39 years after Carl Sagan showed this thing

on "The Tonight Show,"

we're gonna launch a solar sail as part of his legacy.

Gives me great pause.

It's quite a responsibility.

♪♪

-Even though we've been launching for 50-plus years,

rockets are still a tricky thing.

Every time there's a rocket firing,

there could be a catastrophic explosion

right there on the pad.

[ Explosion ]

[ Explosion ]

It could start off on its journey,

and then some stage separation not work correctly.

[ Explosion ]

And that's actually what happened to us

when we flew in 2005.

-...see a dark object.

That's actually the rocket.

The Atlas V rocket that's --

-17 seconds and counting.

Guidance in channel.

15, 14, 13, 12,

11, 10, 9...

[ Indistinct ]

[ Explosion ]

-Whoa! Whoo! Whoo!

[ Cheers and applause ] Now we feel the rush!

Wow! Whoa!

We're going to space!

Go, LightSail!

There's chemical reactions making water vapor!

Yes!

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

[ Radio chatter ]

-All hands, this is Mission Ground Systems report.

Indications are that our signal is being received.

That would indicate that the antenna deployed successfully.

-So that's it, we -- -That's awesome news.

-Mission Control, it's Bill Nye in Florida.

Do you hear me?

-Go ahead, Bill Nye.

We read you five by five.

-I would just like to say the following thing.

Whoo-hoo!

[ Applause ]

♪♪

-Under Bill Nye's leadership, the Planetary Society

picked up this great dream of --

of solar sailing.

I'm so proud of Bill.

[ Indistinct conversation ]

-Bill slowly but successfully transitioned

from Bill Nye the Science Guy for kids

to the science statesman.

More power to him.

The passing of a torch.

-We are advancing space science and exploration.

We are, dare I say it? -Dare!

-Dare! -Dare!

-Dare! -Changing the world!

[ Cheers and applause ]

-It does not always seem as if science is in the room

when it needs to be.

And so gifted teachers of science

with a lot of credibility,

a sense of humor,

and ability to convey complex information

are needed more than ever.

And so, Bill Nye, we need about 1,000 more of you.

-Okay, pause!

We have a ton of evidence

that Mars used to be covered in oceans.

So here today to talk to me about --

Wait, you're not on it yet.

-Oh. -Okay.

I think a lot of people in my generation attribute

their interest and love of science to Bill Nye.

-What words of inspiration

can you supply? -Words?

Uh, science is the best idea humans ever had.

You and I drink fresh water.

-There were people before him like Carl Sagan for example,

but I don't think our generation necessarily saw "Cosmos"

because it was a little before even our time,

and so Bill Nye was sort of the headline for science for kids.

And I think that definitely has spawned this entire generation.

-Although I've never had kids,

I am largely satisfied with my legacy.

Yeah, I've made some mistakes.

But if we have inspired millions of kids

to at least appreciate science...

Tip it. Yeah, there you go.

...then that's a heck of a thing to leave behind.

-[ Laughs ]

-So, the plan ahead, I always tell people,

just trying to change the world here.

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[ Cheering ] Greetings!

-I came here to see Bill Nye

because he was my inspiration for being a scientist.

-Science is about dinosaur bones and studies dinosaur bones,

and I like dinosaur bones.

-Not may people are in the path of the scientist,

and he always says that you should change the world.

-Look at the lens over here. -My bad.

[ Laughter ] Sweet.

-Okay. -That was awesome.

-The total journey of Bill Nye is a pretty remarkable thing

'cause he's involved in something that I'm fascinated

with, too, you know, this whole LightSail project.

Who knows?

100 years from now, he's the Thomas Edison of our time

or something like that.

-Whoo! [ Cheering ]

[ Crowd chanting "Bill!" ]

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