Bill Nye was a natural at the sport and he is credited as taking part in the early years of the ultimate frisbee rivalry between Seattle and Portland. Growing up in Washington, D.C., Bill Nye often played frisbee football with his friends and then went on to play ultimate frisbee at Cornell University.Īfter college, Nye became the founder and captain of the first ever men's ultimate frisbee team in Seattle, which he called the Olympic Windjammers. However, this is not his go-to physical activity. As can be seen from episodes of Bill Nye The Science Guy, Nye is a huge baseball fan. Once again, Bill Nye defies the laws of nature as he is actually quite the athlete. If movies and television have driven anything home about science geeks, it's that they are notorious for being weak and bad at sports. Nye claims that Begley became jealous of the features on his solar panels.
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The true rivalry between these green machines is believed to have ignited during the filming of an episode of Living With Ed, Begley's short-lived series about leading an environmentally conscious life. Nye didn't hesitate to amp up his game by starting a vegetable garden, ordering solar panels- and then came the rain barrels for recycled water (how he pulled off recycled water during the California drought is puzzling, but good job, Bill). The wager between the two famous environmentalist super nerds began the day after Nye moved to the neighborhood and they have been modifying their homes and lifestyles accordingly for about a decade now. This wizard of science started a friendly cold war with his carbon footprint.īill Nye has been in a longstanding competition with his Los Angeles neighbor Ed Begley, Jr. Most competitive neighbors will buy a fancy car or order the most high-tech flat screen TV, but not Bill Nye. Unfortunately, Bill Nye had a learning experience of his own as his project went unfunded, only raising $31,528 out of $100,000.
Nye believes that the best way to teach blossoming minds is through experience and having the point of view of a bird may be the closest that they will ever come to experiencing the physics of flight. So, Bill Nye did what anyone with a bright idea would do: he began a Kickstarter campaign. However, it was up to The Science Guy to reel in the remainder of the funding as well as publicity. Gamedesk had already prepared a prototype of AERO 3D through their own partnership with Iridescent Learning and contributions from the National Academy of Sciences and the Office of Naval Research.
This particular game was specially crafted to teach young children about aerodynamics through animated birds. so he decided to design a game for the iPad.įascinated by the concept of flight, Bill Nye partnered up with Gamedesk in 2012 to create AERO 3D. All work and no play make Bill a dull boy.
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