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  • i want this show back on the air whos with me

  • hahaha i love this video !

  • Sunflower seeds!

  • @CoolGHOST14 he meant the nearest star to our sun. He was going over how far the planets were from the sun, and then posed the question how close was the nearest star was(in relativity to the sun).

  • But you're my favorite scientist! 8)

  • But isn't the sun a star too? Wouldn't that mean that the closest star is REAL closer than that, Bill?

  • press 4 over and over

  • I watched in 6th grade too like 10 years ago

  • god i'm old I watch this in middle school and that was 12 years ago for me.

  • :)

    

  • we actually watched this yesterday for science class yesterday<333

  • Press 3 every second. It looks like he's going to shoot you.

  • God this made science class 20% cooler

  • my teacher loves your videos and so do i

  • saw this in school lol

  • Anyone else notice that voice in the background served the same purpose as how people on youtube use annotations for comedic side commentary? 1:44

  • jupiter, saturn, ur anus, neptune. wait what...

  • In standard measurements, Earth would be about 8.2 feet away from the "Sun", Saturn 82 ft., Neptune 249 ft. which is more than three times farther, Pluto 328 ft., and the nearest star would be 437.5 miles away.

  • I saw this in 2nd grade! =D

  • Kids, don't drive this way at home. You can leave tire marks on the living room carpet!

  • Can you repeat his name again? i didn't catch it.

  • I miss Bill Nye. It showed us how cool science was. It still is, but kids today don't know that anymore.

  • wait i thought the sun is a star?

  • @kayzeeV1 it is

  • @litojonny then doesnt that make it the closest star to earth??

  • @kayzeeV1 well they're talking about the next closest star

  • @litojonny aha aight thx

  • 1:09--1:31 all the running he does. Now that is serious running and traveling. 

  • alright already LOL

  • JESUS I saw this when I was a bloody child! Dang the nostalgia is making my brain melt!

  • i lold at Uranus

  • the "sun"-soccer ball- should be actual size!

  • Aw man, i wish my science teacher would show us these :D

  • @ieatcookiesforbrekki My science teacher did.

  • Man, I love Pat Cashman's snarky moments. Hearing him as the jaded narrator always made me laugh as a kid and continues to give me the giggles now, 15 years later.

  • wow.... my 6thgrade teacher loves this dude

  • Bill bill bill bill bill!

  • Sick shorts Bill, lol

  • lol "Hey, it's kinda cold out here."

  • awesome! thanks so much. You brighten up my day with your energy "Science Guy"

  • They should show reruns of this on the Science channel.

  • "Enormously Bigly Huge!"

    "Alright already!"

  • The only thing I like that Disney had and its gone D:

  • Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill!

  • best 3th grade EVA ( join the kansvile elemtery.) wait isent pluto a non existing planet?

  • i miss watching this in science class, i havent watched this since 7th and 8th grade and im in 12th now, lol.

  • This beats jersey shore any day.

  • I almost forgot its disney related

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  • 3rd grade before the ending bell. Never once was anxious to go home when bill or wishbone was on.

  • Pluto was such a poser.

  • does he look like bob saget?? or is it just me?

  • I love these shows!!!!

  •  I love that sound effect of his shoes!!! :D

  • Bill Nye the motherfucking Science guy!!

  • Bill Nye just blew my mind again.

  • science was my favorite subject because of this xD

  • back when pluto was a planet <3

  • @yoh7351 :[

  • @yoh7351 That's why Pluto is 'almost' out of the building. Bill Nye predicted that it was time for Pluto to leave, obviously.

  • I'll bet Bill Nye didn't actually drive 7 hours just to shoot that clip

  • Best science teacher in school

  • oi

    so the nearest star is 7 hours of driving so is that like 700 million or 700 billon

    or 700 light years away

    because later on if they make hyper speed or like syper sleepig then you can make it there like after the earth blows up or something but the earth only has about 4 billions lets haha so were screwed hehe

    but hyper speed or light speed times 300Km/s is the only way but were to stupid to spend money on nasa who needs nasa hahaha

    stupid humans haha

    the end

    :p

  • i would like to see pluto! in zoom to see how small it would be thumbs up if agree

  • I see he went with the "safe" pronunciation of Uranus. *g*

  • Little did he know Pluto would be dropped as a planet!

  • "You're a Niss"

  • theres no way he drove 7 hours away lol

  • Bill Nye is a Time Lord, isn't he?

    

  • Back when science was fun =D Now science has either lazy teachers or strict ass teachers XP In my opinion from my school =P

  • fun fact: it takes about 8 minutes for light from the sun to reach earth :p

  • Tacoma Seattle?

  • Wait, this says Disney Channel. Isn't this now the opposite of the Disney Channel?

  • We used to watch him in my 6th grade science class!! And in the 8th!!

  • @haekeyeiscool Dude We even still watch him in our Grade 12 Physics class LOL

  • @haekeyeiscool we just started watching him in my 8th grade class !

  • uuuuh the sun is a star so ha

  • yeah to me that kinda sucks pluto isnt called a planet now..... which makes no sense to me while considering this example, its obvious its not some abstract body floating in space............anyway BILL NYE RULLZ

  • @SpeedDemonS7 Well, Pluto is simply classified among its Kuiper Belt brethren. Like Eris, which is basically the same size as Pluto. If we're going to call Pluto a planet, then we'd have to open up the definition to any new plutoid objects discover and to the larger asteroids, like Ceres, which are spheres.

  • pluto is dead

  • Bill Nye owns a Honda Accord Wagon? Probably has a Chevy Volt now...

  • 0:50 you can see the microphone guy

  • *giggle*

    he said Uranus

  • He's so adorkable.

  • RIP PLUTO

  • @Manga3145 Alright

  • something is wrong with this guy!LOL

  • sigh back when pluto was still a planet :(

  • "Kids, don't drive this way at home, you could leave tire marks on the living room carpet!"

  • @SamolsKing Um... I'm not an American.. And I wasn't giving pronunciation lessons. I was replying to a comment.

  • Poor pluto...

  • Bill has spoken!

  • guess how far it is to the nearest star. not in here... *gets in car and drives off*

  • I approve of this message

  • This blew my mind when I was 8. Best TV show ever it's why I became a scientist

  • Alright already

  • UrAnus! I  bill nye! Why isn't he on tv anymore?? 

  • @juridiculous Yah, those are acceptable pronounciations too I guess.

  • @WHATISUTUBE no, "Your-ah-nus" is the way to pronounce it. not "your-an*s". The only reason bill said that is because back then when they made this show, "your-ah-nus" was the correct way to pronounce it, now we twist it around to "your-an*s"

  • @Airplane299 As I understand it, yurra-nus or yurr-nus are also acceptable pronunciations

  • @Airplane299 Americans Pronounce Al-u-mi-ni-um as Alu-mi-num, im not taking pronunciation lessons from an American.

  • everyone who tried and mimic bill just came off as trying to hard. Bill got the making learning fun thing perfect.

  • lol.. "mhm, mhm,......alright already" I love the comedic aspect to learning, it makes it so much easier to grasp.

  • sigh, back when Pluto was still considered a planet

  • @Jeridiculous It still is, I learned in School that Pluto WAS a Planet and there was 9 Planets in our Solar System and there is NO convincing me otherwise. Pluto is our 9th and Final Planet, Bottomline. :-)

  • @TlMEtoLAUGH Pluto just exists in a different category now.

    There's no point in denying scientific consensus. You just don't like change.

  • @Jeridiculous It has Zero to do with Change. Most Scientists are complete Morons, and come up with a New "Theory" every 10 years. Pluto was and still is the 9th Planet in our Solar System, so says most of not all History and Astronomy Books. Look it Up.

  • @TlMEtoLAUGH What about Eris and Ceres? How would you classify them? Why do you consider Pluto a planet and not a dwarf planet?

    If scientists weren't coming up with new theories every 10 years they wouldn't be doing their jobs. It's not that they can't make up their minds; it's called progress. As we learn more we need to change our explanations and theories to explain (and categorize) our findings.

  • @TlMEtoLAUGH

    Most of Not all History and Astronomy textbooks were made bofore Pluto was deemed as not a planet because it would cost alot to change EVERY FREAKING TEXTBOO ON EARTH. Also, Scientists don't just come up with a new theory every ten years, they do research, gather new evidence, and use this to make new ideas, it's basically in other words, progress. You'd know this if you'd think a bit more.

  • @Pikerchu13 This is strictly your opinion. Most of the worlds Scientists make mistakes all the time, hence calling Pluto a Planet and then coming right back and saying it is not Most Scientists are idiots, I went to school with plenty of Chemistry Majors who knew plenty about Chemistry and little about anything else. Most Scientists pull their Minds around scientific Theory so tight that there is no getting through and no way to change their minds. Scientists are Close-minded and therefore Wrong

  • @TlMEtoLAUGH Well, if you think scientists are so stupid and useless, I guess you should live a life without computers, TVs, Cellphones... no cars, no bicycles, no heating, no air conditioning, no plumbing, no medical care, no modern housing... no foods with any artificial flavorings, no synthetic materials... no concepts of advanced mathematics, no understanding of space and the stars, no understanding of plants and animals around you.

    So basically, go dig a hole in the ground and live in it.

  • @ROFLtheWAFL Wait who said Scientists were Useless? Science is not Usless as a whole. Scientists are just human afterall and make mistakes all the time. I love how you named "Conditioning, plumbing, medical care , modern housing. When most of that stuff was not thought up by Scientists. I love hoew you are trying to make a point but it does not come quite Around.

  • @TlMEtoLAUGH Which is why we need a type of scientist with general knowlege of all science without specialized knowlege in any one. So, they can transmit and interperit data from one group to another. ^_^

  • wow your cousin dated his nephew?

    thats just sooo lame!

  • wtf.....

    what was all that about?wow

  • we always watch Bill Nye in science and our class this year made a dance to the theme song, and we all made it our ring tones!!! and... my cousin dated his nefew, and before they broke up, WE MET BILL!!!!!!!!!!! ekkkkkkkkkkkkk! best day ever.

  • @aliceandshaggy you lucky bastard lol

  • @ESP3III I SO AM!!!! He's really uber smart(duh!) and really witty. a very cool experience, indeed!

  • i watched this in class ..

  • I like how he says 'YOUR-UH-NUS' instead of 'YOUR-ANUS' like the rest of us. Nice pronounciation, Bill...

  • @WHATISUTUBE thats how it is really pronouced.

  • BILL NYE!!!!!!!

  • A world without Bill Nye is worse than a world with out Chuck Norris.

  • LOVE BILL

  • "you couldn't ´t get to the nearest star if you traveled your entire life time, no way."

    fells bad man.

  • Hate to break the bubble but pluto is not...........yeahhhh

  • @sayrith It should be a planet though, reason why? Because they say that there is too many, but Pluto is the original first found dwarf planet, we should consider it a planet.

  • I feel so small right now (NOT insignificant... just reeeeeeeeally reeeeeeeeeallly really really... small).

    "It's kinda cold out here." lol

  • "Kids, don't drive this way at home! You could leave tire marks on the living room carpet!"

  • i love bill nye!

    he made science fun!

  • I wonder if he actually drove 7 hours to the nearest ball/star..

  • @knowpassword

    Same here. On the one hand, it'd be easy to just go somewhere near by and claim to be several hundred kilometers away. On the other, I like to believe that there are people out there who would do it just because they can.

  • I once worked out that (if my math is right), that if 8 light-minutes (ie: one AU, ie the distance between earth and the sun) were respesented by the average height of an adult human male (1.77 meters), one light-year is about 64 thousand people lying head-to-foot-- more than the length of California.

  • Bill Nye and Beakman's World were the two reasons I went to college!

  • bigly huge.... nice. I miss this show

  • Wow that IS big. The universe's size never ceases to leave me in awe

  • According to relativity, if you traveled near the speed of light (and someday the technology actually could exist), you could travel around the entire universe in about 58 years of your own proper time. However, something like 300,000,000,000 years would have passed on Earth, so you wouldn't have anyone to tell about your adventures.

  • Bill Nye fukin rocks!!!... shit i'm always learning something new with this show :D woohooo......

  • wow. he drove 7 hours just to get 30 seconds of footage. Now that's what I call, "Attempting not to get fired!"

  • @AstroNovaProductions I call it "dedication"

  • kids dont drive this way at home lol

  • The backround guy is funny lol.

  • The pressure in the wormhole would crush us. like oh hey wormhole -enters- splat bye bye space ship lol

  • lol the sound when he runs XD lmao "mhmm...right...alright already" lol

  • Pluto isn't even a planet anymore.

  • You couldn't get to the nearest star if you traveled your whole life? Ahh, come on, think positive. Where's there's a will, there's a way, lol.

  • I know my universe, and this video just helped me visualize how big the Earth and Sun really are.

    Also, I don't care who the hell steven hawkens is, if your traveling at 1 mph or the speed of light, time NEVER stops, NOR does it slow down. Just a bunch of phony stuff to

    me.

  • @tj1345 Wait, are you serious? You're denying the theory of relativity?

  • @tj1345 facepalm you really are an idiot.

    And BTW Nye was wrong. If you have a wormhole it wouldn't take you more than a lifetime to travel to the nearest star. It would be basically instantaneous since you are not traveling any physical distance. Other than that though he is right : P

  • Bill Nye has applied for being an astronaut for NASA but NASA keeps rejecting him. NASA is probably doing a mistake.

  • I must have seen this when I was ten. However, today, I think about this clip ALL THE TIME. It's what I reference in my mind when I want to remind myself of our real place in the universe. 7 hours highway driving to Alpha Centauri! Haha.

  • WTB Wormholes.

  • Actually, there is a way. You won't like it though. According to Stephen Hawkins, as you get closer to the speed of light, time itself slows for you. in 80 years of your life, you can travel several thousands of light years away, but it costs you hundreds of years on earth.

  • PLUTO! ♥♥♥

    Don't worry, I believe you're a planet.

  • lol i remember this guy when i was a kid brings back memories

  • well that is it for my trip to the nearest galaxy

  • I love Bill Nye. He always entertains and learns me real good.

  • the nearest star Proxima Centauri is 4.3 light years away. so if you traveled at the speed of light (186,000 miles per sec) for 4.3 years then you should get there.

  • @Tenzinpelha If you could accelerate to the speed of light instantly it would take about 4.3 years but time would stop for you, due to time dilation. You'd get there instantly but everyone back on earth would have aged that 4.3 years. You could go anywhere you like within your own lifetime at these speeds but time keeps ticking back home. Travelling at the speed of light would seem to take more energy than is available in the universe, which is a bummer.

  • 7 hours of wasted gas on a ball

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  • @j0977990 At least your a smart gay like I am :D

  • it's alpha centauri

  • He drives a honda!! hahaha

  • he means VY canis majoris right?

    guess its no. i think its sirius star

  • this guy thinks hes a futboli star

  • Seven hours...in proportion, that's is -a long goddamn time-!

  • Biggley huge!

  • makes me sad to think that future generations will never know the greatness that is Bill Nye the Science Guy

  • Real stars are huge, ENORMOUSLY BIGGLY HUGE!!!!!! :O

  • i likk the song ! haha bill bill bill bill bill nye the sience guy lol!