Bill Nye Booed

[Four]

"Bill Nye, the harmless children's edu-tainer known as "The Science Guy," managed to offend a select group of adults in Waco, Texas at a presentation, when he suggested that the moon does not emit light, but instead reflects the light of the sun."

Now I know it cant just be me reading this and thinking "What the fuck is wrong with your education systemTexas?"

[Ptero]

haha
hahahaha
haha
ha

Oh Southern states, when will you learn?

[Rooster]

If the moon doesn't emit light, then where does it all come from?
You can't explain that.

[newgroundskeeperjim]

Aren't you a little late for this? I remember reading about it in like 09.

[Four]

At 5/6/11 05:38 PM, newgroundskeeperjim wrote: Aren't you a little late for this? I remember reading about it in like 09.

its new to me... :/

[Idiot-Finder]

Red necks never cease to amaze me.

They probably thought the confederates won the Civil War as well.

[steph2568]

Never question Bill Nye the Science Guy.

[Tateos]

lmao what the fuck

[OstrichMaster]

I'm in texas and I learned this shit in 2nd grade

OH GENERALIZATIONS WHEN WILL YOU LEARN.

[Graduation]

At 5/6/11 05:38 PM, Tokecat wrote: > Texas.
> Education.

Texas has a great educational system. It has more money per student that most states do.

Just because some backward ass country bimbos booed him when he brought up religion doesn't mean that the state has a horrible education system.

Stereotyping whole groups of people shows ignorance on your part, and if anything a lack of education present in your own schooling.

[Magic-Mushroom]

BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL!

[ZeldaFreak701]

Oh Thank God, it's Waco. He was at my school here in Arlington at my University here in Texas. I missed him though :(

[Ef-X]

Oh bill...opening the minds of people everywhere :D

[Yert]

Great job making the south look bad, Texas.

[Fluffington]

At 5/6/11 05:34 PM, Four wrote: "Bill Nye, the harmless children's edu-tainer known as "The Science Guy," managed to offend a select group of adults in Waco, Texas at a presentation, when he suggested that the moon does not emit light, but instead reflects the light of the sun."

Waco? Moar liek Wacko, amirite?

That was terrible and I apologize.

[Dromedary]

At 5/6/11 05:38 PM, Idiot-Finder wrote: They probably thought the confederates won the Civil War as well.

They didn't?

[SteelChair]

It's funny, because our Governor sucks and nothing but rednecks live in Waco. All the other city's have nothing but Mexicans.

[Mrmongooseman]

This is not really surprising.

[bigbadron]

i think people were upset by this:

But nothing got people as riled as when he brought up Genesis 1:16, which reads: "God made two great lights -- the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars."

The lesser light, he pointed out, is not a light at all, but only a reflector.

At this point, several people in the audience stormed out in fury. One woman yelled "We believe in God!" and left with three children, thus ensuring that people across America would read about the incident and conclude that Waco is as nutty as they'd always suspected.

the fact that Bill proved the "infallible" Bible, and God, wrong.

also, this all happened years ago.

[Light]

Those people need to brush up on their astronomy.

[Letiger]

At 5/6/11 05:34 PM, Four wrote:

Now I know it cant just be me reading this and thinking "What the fuck is wrong with your education systemTexas?"

At my school, I live in Texas, they teach this.

[Raab]

Fake.

[TheDunwichHorror]

At 5/6/11 05:34 PM, Four wrote: Now I know it cant just be me reading this and thinking "What the fuck is wrong with your education systemTexas?"

usually the people who pull stunts like this AREN'T big fans of the "secular" public education system

and it has a lot more to do with ignorant parents than the system itself

i hear stupid parents rattling on about their stupid, libertarian, christian circle jerk ideas of homeschooling all the time

these are the same types of people who will give their children a sub-par home education that limits socialization and limits access to qualified, specialized teachers all because they don't allow prayer in school

they're a minority in texas, for sure, but a very vocal minority

[Four]

At 5/6/11 07:44 PM, letiger wrote:

At 5/6/11 05:34 PM, Four wrote:

Now I know it cant just be me reading this and thinking "What the fuck is wrong with your education systemTexas?"

At my school, I live in Texas, they teach this.

them teaching it and kids learning it are two different things

but aside from that i was just making a humorous generalisation