Topic: Is "Bill Nye the Science Guy" still scentifically accurate?

Catherine !TGirlYJKXM started this discussion 8 years ago #72,267

I mean, the TV show from the nineties. Is the information presented still accurate or have there been any new studies that disprove any such information? I know the sun isn't a mass of incandescent gas or a gigantic nuclear furnace, but that was in thanks to They Might Be Giants. I'm just wondering how this show stands up to modern scientific standards.

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 1 minute later[^] [v] #865,976

jesus christ catherine

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 4 minutes later, 6 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #865,981

@previous (B)

> jesus christ catherine

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 6 seconds later, 6 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #865,982

> I know the sun isn't a mass of incandescent gas or a gigantic nuclear furnace

Umm... How is it not those things?

Catherine !TGirlYJKXM (OP) replied with this 8 years ago, 48 seconds later, 6 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #865,983

@previous (D)
It's plasma.

Anonymous C replied with this 8 years ago, 3 minutes later, 10 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #865,988

@previous (Catherine !TGirlYJKXM)
Which you also know thanks to TMBG.

Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 8 seconds later, 10 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #865,989

Well at some point he must have referred to Pluto as a planet, so on that note at least he's been voided in the scientific community.

Anonymous D replied with this 8 years ago, 35 seconds later, 11 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #865,990

@865,983 (Catherine !TGirlYJKXM)
Fair point. But, aside from making distinctions between gas at certain temperatures and pressures, I feel the overall message is still pretty spot on.

Catherine !TGirlYJKXM (OP) replied with this 8 years ago, 11 minutes later, 22 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #866,010

@865,988 (C)
Well, not exactly because of them, I discovered their second sun song later. I discovered this because some /sci/entists were getting on them about the inaccuracies of the song due to recent discoveries. That was when I discovered the second sun song.

Sheila LaBoof joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 1 minute later, 24 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #866,013

hmm, will have to go through how many dozen episodes and see

Anonymous C replied with this 8 years ago, 1 minute later, 25 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #866,014

@866,010 (Catherine !TGirlYJKXM)
> I discovered this because 4chan was talking about the TMBG song.

That's exactly because of TMBG.

Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 8 minutes later, 34 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #866,025

@865,981 (C)

> > jesus christ catherine

Catherinedraad;dr

Lance Goodthrust !ADRbYNVg1k joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 3 hours later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #866,237

The sun is a massive hydrogen-based nuclear fusion entity.

Big Daddy Derek !Uvm54ORbmo joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 33 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #866,246

The sun is, in fact, from an culinary perspective, an fish. Thanks.

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