Bill Nye the Science Guy Passes Out "Like Lady Gaga"

[Blind Sight]

Better not make a move until THE WORLD knows what it is. Twatters (that's what they're called, right?) must really suck at chess.

My God...you just gave me a random idea...Twitter Chess, has that been invented yet?

 

[Tiswas]

Bill Nye always makes me laugh. Simply because I have NEVER heard of the guy before I went to Disney World where he was on a ride with some comedian (whom I had also never heard of.) and on my return to Britain they were never mentioned again. I think the comedian became gay and got some minor public attention and this is the first time I heard of Bill Nye again. Memories.

 

[mjc0961]

The L.A. Times reports that the response by many in the audience wasn't to help Nye, but to update their Twitter accounts with news of what had happened. Thankfully, Nye was okay, but seriously, how about leaving Twitter behind for once when Bill Nye needs help? There's only one Science Guy, and the world needs him.

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God fucking dammit I hate people. Seriously, these people should all be launched into the sun to improve the overall intelligence of the planet. Fucking idiots.

 

[minarri]

the response by many in the audience wasn't to help Nye, but to update their Twitter accounts with news of what had happened

That's actually closer to the most helpful type of response than rushing to the rescue.
If nobody else seems to want to help or if you have good enough reasons to believe there is no staff doctor that would need free passage to the stage... then yeah, you get up and go help (if you think you CAN help), or ask around if anybody IS a doctor.
Cluttering around somebody that just fell down is one of the stupidest things you can do... it only takes one or maybe very few people to help, and a crowd gathered to gawk hinders assistance more than it could possibly help, since it prevents REAL rescue from coming in fast enough, or any other number of things.

I don't think we're upset that there wasn't a huge rush by all in attendance to help Bill Nye the Science Guy. We're upset that NOBODY did, and furthermore a bunch of cockends had the nerve to even have Internet-connected devices on their persons when in the presence of the Science Guy. Damned diffusion of responsibility.

 

[DarkPanda XIII]

Meh, I wouldn't be surprised with a scientist like Bill Nye, overworked and under a heat lamp, fainting. heh

 

[littlebigkiwi]

I'm a USC student and I was there! (And this is wrong!!)

When he passed out the first time everyone kind of froze. We didn't know if it was part of the show or not. After a couple of seconds, everybody leapt to their feet and started screaming.

He got up in about 10 seconds and apologized and cracked a joke. He walked a few steps and fainted again. Then we knew it was not just part of the act. After a few seconds we realized that no one was going to help him and everyone in the balcony with me was shouting for someone to do something and finally someone ran up onto the stage. Someone else called 911.

It was all very weird and sure, you can criticize us for falling victim to the bystander effect. But we sure as hell weren't tweeeting.

Bill kept going with his presentation, even though we were all yelling at him not to. He was so pale and looked like he would just faint again. He didn't even want to sit down at first, he leaned on the podium until the very end of the presentation.

Soon after he got up the second time he joked that we could update our Facebooks about it. The phones didn't come out until after he left to be checked by medics.

I was shaken for the rest of the evening. It was really scary.

But that quote is accurate. Bill rocks.

 

[Naheal]

I thought this thread was about him dying, I was about to start crying. I freaking LOVE Bill Nye the Science Guy. I still watch them episodes, yo. <3

I grew up on Bill Nye and George Carlin... Let's not lose the other guy.

Now that I think about it, that really explains quite a lot.

 

[likalaruku]

Man, that theme song brings back nostolgia. I miss the early 90s.

 

[DTWolfwood]

Tweet first help later...what has this world come to >.<

 

[theevilsanta]

Bill Nye, Carl Sagan. My heroes. If I could introduce the universe like these guys I would be a happy guy.

 

[sgtshock]

Oh God, he's scheduled to come to our school in January.

I kind of hope he's well enough to come, but I also worry for his health if he does.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

A new low for humanity. Oh wait, it was America, I forgot that helping people there gets you sued or thrown in jail.

If it were me, I would have said to the audience "I would like to thank everyone who came to help me."

 

[twm1709]

kinda reminds me of the first episode of gantz, when some guy falls into the subway rails, and everyone just looks there and takes pictures. Creepy.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Am I to conclude that Bill Nye is the American Johnny Ball/Robert Llewellyn?

Don't you even dare to compare them!

Bill Nye is something special.

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Poor Bill Nye. He needs sleep.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Am I to conclude that Bill Nye is the American Johnny Ball/Robert Llewellyn?

Don't you even dare to compare them!

Bill Nye is something special.

Never ran into him at all. I'm just trying to see why he's so well loved? Then again, I don't get the Mr. Rogers jokes either.

 

[Susan Arendt]

Bill Nye is the coolest Science Guy in the history of Science Guys. His show was seriously the coolest thing on TV back in the late 90's. My Tech teacher last year even used a few episodes to provide a visual aid.

I was always more of a Beakman's World fan, meself...

 

[DiMono]

The L.A. Times reports that the response by many in the audience wasn't to help Nye, but to update their Twitter accounts with news of what had happened. Thankfully, Nye was okay, but seriously, how about leaving Twitter behind for once when Bill Nye needs help? There's only one Science Guy, and the world needs him.

And this is why I hate today's society. Technology is meant to be a tool, not a course of action. What's really sad is all the people who twittered instead of helping don't even realize that what they did was wrong.

 

[antidonkey]

Man...I watched this guy's show well into my 20s. It was as informative as it was entertaining. Yes it was cheesey but it was an awesome type of cheesey.