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Fear is good, at a certain extent, ti keeps you on edge, on guard. Granted most of us live in big cities were the only fear is walking down a bad street or neighborhood. Yet this fear is what tells us what to do and not to do, keeping us alive or at least safe.
His show stopped producing new episodes nearly eight years ago, but it seems that Bill Nye the Science Guy (Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill!) isn't submitting to B-level TV-celebrity status just yet. A mechanical engineer who studied at Cornell under Carl Sagan, Nye has much more under his belt than his beloved educational show; he engineered a hydraulic device for Boeing that is still used on the 747 and a special sundial used during the Mars Exploration Rover mission.
Now it seems he's busy touring small-town America, giving sold-out lectures for charity and ruffling a few feathers with criticisms of intelligent design in the process .
Bill Nye kicks a@#, dont hate on him just cause he's right...
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