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| He must be related to Bill Nye, the science guy, who never met a subject he wasn't an expert on.
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| I bought his book a few years ago. Back then I still kinda liked him.
The book reads pretty much the same way as described in the OP. |
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| Him and that Science Guy aka Bill Nye are Siamese Butt Brothers of Idiocracy. |
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| quote: Originally posted by frayedends:
I hate this fucking guy. He shows up on all my video feeds. He's a pompous asshole. He thinks that because he knows physics he's an expert on every other possible subject. Every video of him he is speaking in a condescending tone as if he's talking to a 2 year old that just pissed his pants. Fuck that guy. That is all.
No shit. He's no Carl Sagan!
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| He's not a scientist, he's a celebrity and he's pandering to the cancel crowd. He wants the alligator to eat him last.
He talks about a "gender spectrum"- a continuous scale between male and female. No serious person would adopt such a belief, much less, a supposed man of science.
History will indict him, if he's even remembered; it will indict all these frauds who put up a front of logic while spewing this nonsense.
And now, he's entrenched himself with his phony beliefs, and he will never retreat from these things he claims he believes. In essence, he has sold his soul and compromised his integrity in order to make himself safe from the fanatics, and that makes him a small man, a scared man- a man with no self-respect. |
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| quote: Originally posted by frayedends:
He shows up on all my video feeds.
Same, it's probably because I used to watch them through, but he irritated me with the transgender comments. The YouTube shorts were usually clips from his interview with Joe Rogan, which I've never watched. Was Rogan kissing his ass throughout that?
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| He should have just stayed in his lane with astronomy. Like some actors and athletes, just can’t be happy making real good money in your field. They want more and expand their bullshit to things outside their lanes.
What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone
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| He just strikes me as a smug, know-it-all douche bag, the more I see him. I’m not a fan.
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| quote: Originally posted by frayedends:
I hate this fucking guy. He shows up on all my video feeds. He's a pompous asshole. He thinks that because he knows physics he's an expert on every other possible subject. Every video of him he is speaking in a condescending tone as if he's talking to a 2 year old that just pissed his pants. Fuck that guy. That is all.
The videos that come up to me are segments on Joe Rogan podcasts and every segment starts with him saying, "Let me blow your mind some more..." Give me a break.
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| One thing that really shut me down to him was a discussion about "the afterlife", which he doesn't believe in. You're here and this is it. You die, that's it.
I just found it really strange that someone who has no problem believing that space is infinite, wouldn't even entertain the possibility that there might be something before or after this. |
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| He's pretty smart for an idiot.
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| quote: Originally posted by airsoft guy:
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| quote: Originally posted by cas:
I just found it really strange that someone who has no problem believing that space is infinite, wouldn't even entertain the possibility that there might be something before or after this.
I doubt NDT thinks the universe is infinite and I doubt he hasn't entertained the possibility of an afterlife.
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