Bill Nye the Science Guy Passes Out "Like Lady Gaga"
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People wonder why I hate humanity. It has a lot to do with people who update their Twitter accounts instead of helping a fellow human being.
I feel the same way, but without the last part being needed and adding Facebook in its place.8bitlove2a03 said:
Bill Nye is win. NOSTALGIA!!!.... I mean... SCIENCE RULES!!!
Come one people..one of the coolest guys ever to teach us about Science faints and all you can think about is your Twitter status? I should have them sent to the chambers for this.
So thats what he's been doing with his time since the show ended. I cant beleive it. the story shouldnt be he compared himself to Lady Gaga, the story should be that he fainted and everyone decided to tweet it instead of get up and help. I mean, the guy's like a national treasure to (a) generation(s) of people.
Anyway, Its great he's oka. I wish he would do science at my college. If he did, I'd change my major in a heart beat.
Anyway, Its great he's oka. I wish he would do science at my college. If he did, I'd change my major in a heart beat.
I'm glad he lived. It would have been cruel and bitter irony for him to leave this world on the day cern created antimatter.
That's what I immediately thought of after reading the Twitter bit.
Seriously, not only is it another human being, it's Bill Nye, at least some of them could have helped.
Then again, why did none of the faculty do anything, either?
Still, if Twitter is what exhausts him, then people...don't make him update so much!
Well, to be honest I'd be a bit nervous about jumping up on stage to help him myself. As far as texting goes, I figure since most people were in a similar position, they figured Texting was better than going "OMG, OMG, OMGGGGG!!!!!!!111@@!!!".
To put things into perspective, let's say you've been trained like me in CPR but aren't currently up to date on certification (like a lot of people). Guy collapses and you enter the performance area to help. In doing so your risking that it isn't part of the show, or that your going to have some security type react badly to your prescence. Having worked security for shows before, typically if something similar to this happens we keep the audience back and wait for our own in-house EMTs to respond, even if someone says "I'm a doctor" (I mean can security prove this?). Not to mention the fact that assuming you do get there and do something, and even if your certified and it's up to date, the "good samaritan" law isn't exactly what it used to be. I mean if Mr. Science Guy isn't like his stage persona and is really hurt there, he might decide to come after you for your intervention. When it comes to good samaritans intervening in situations, either to stop violence (as the laws were orignally intented for, I believe they started with the Kitty Genevee case) or to try and help medically, you risk getting slammed civilly in a lot of places even where your protected from criminal charges. The protections have simply put been eroded over time by too many exceptions with people being able to sue "good samaritans" anyway, precedent being a major killer of legal intentions in the USA.
I guess this is unusually un-cynical of me on some ways since I'm defending these guys, but I'll say that before you cast stones at them for texting/doing nothing, ask yourself what they really could have done, or what you could have done if you were there. It's nice to say "well I would have run up there to help" but I think we all know we probably couldn't have. Even someone ike me who has had some training and might be able to do something in a case where nobody better equipped was at hand wouldn't be enthusiastic about doing so because I don't want to get arrested or sued (I was pretty much taught enough to hopefully keep someone alive in a desperate situation/emergency until an actual EMT could get there).
To put things into perspective, let's say you've been trained like me in CPR but aren't currently up to date on certification (like a lot of people). Guy collapses and you enter the performance area to help. In doing so your risking that it isn't part of the show, or that your going to have some security type react badly to your prescence. Having worked security for shows before, typically if something similar to this happens we keep the audience back and wait for our own in-house EMTs to respond, even if someone says "I'm a doctor" (I mean can security prove this?). Not to mention the fact that assuming you do get there and do something, and even if your certified and it's up to date, the "good samaritan" law isn't exactly what it used to be. I mean if Mr. Science Guy isn't like his stage persona and is really hurt there, he might decide to come after you for your intervention. When it comes to good samaritans intervening in situations, either to stop violence (as the laws were orignally intented for, I believe they started with the Kitty Genevee case) or to try and help medically, you risk getting slammed civilly in a lot of places even where your protected from criminal charges. The protections have simply put been eroded over time by too many exceptions with people being able to sue "good samaritans" anyway, precedent being a major killer of legal intentions in the USA.
I guess this is unusually un-cynical of me on some ways since I'm defending these guys, but I'll say that before you cast stones at them for texting/doing nothing, ask yourself what they really could have done, or what you could have done if you were there. It's nice to say "well I would have run up there to help" but I think we all know we probably couldn't have. Even someone ike me who has had some training and might be able to do something in a case where nobody better equipped was at hand wouldn't be enthusiastic about doing so because I don't want to get arrested or sued (I was pretty much taught enough to hopefully keep someone alive in a desperate situation/emergency until an actual EMT could get there).
I haven't watched every single episode of Bill's show, but from what I saw, he was aweeeeeessooome.
And on the bit about Twitter....
Sure, the entire audience didn't have to jump to rush and help the guy, but Twitter? Seriously? A man already above most faints, and your first instinct is to sit there and tweet about the guy fainting?
They could have, you know, done something other than tell all their internet friends about it. Something at least a bit useful, perhaps?
And on the bit about Twitter....
Sure, the entire audience didn't have to jump to rush and help the guy, but Twitter? Seriously? A man already above most faints, and your first instinct is to sit there and tweet about the guy fainting?
They could have, you know, done something other than tell all their internet friends about it. Something at least a bit useful, perhaps?
