This was so much fun-thanks for stopping by our Headquarters! Fun fact: the Jupiter model you see behind Bill is an actual prop from Star Trek: The Motion Picture. It’s cracked because it fell during an earthquake in Pasadena!
I was born in Pasadena 1963. This really means a lot to me. I’ve been so proud of Pasadena the Rose Bowl, the Rose Bowl parade, the observatory and the continued history of space research much much love from Kennewick Washington, Washington state on the mighty Columbia river. Our arms are forever wrapped around you.
Wouldn’t it be cool to watch a video of a table full of people like Bill and Neil just talking about these subjects while eating dinner. No scripts, just plain ole geek talk.
@@BryBry78 And yet you're here Trollio 🤔 Don't tell me you wet the bed again, and ruined another comic book 😂 .... that's why we give em to him one page at a time 🤤
When I was in college, Bill Nye came to speak. Myself and all my classmates remembered watching his Science Guy show as kids. Chants of "Bill! Bill! Bill!" greeted him as he took the stage. He proceeded to give a very informative, passionate talk about science, and took questions afterwords. Great guy.
I grew up watching Mr. Wizard’s World and then in 1993 at 14yrs old I was able to watch Bill Nye the Science Guy. It may have been aimed at 10year olds but for those of us that had already caught the love of science beforehand, it was like a homecoming. I was fascinated and adored the show. Bill Nye is a childhood hero that made it to adulthood hero! Thank you Neil, Startalk, and The Planetary Society for bringing us this great interview!
GUYS - with Bill Nye as your guest, this has to be longer!! I could have easily listened to this conversation go on for another two hours. We need more of Bill!!!❤
Bill Nye, what an incredible educator to so many of us who are still interested in science today because he made it so accessible to us as children. Neil Degrasse Tyson, the one who keeps us still interested as adults. This is historic.
I'll never be able to thanks Bill and Neil enough for how much they have made my life better and more meaningful by inspiring me to pursue a life of scientific curiosity since I was but a young kid. I'm passing that onto my own kid :)
34:28 - The full quote is "And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time," which is from T.S. Eliot's poem "Little Gidding" from his collection "Four Quartets."
Tyson admits to falling in love with space because of the visual experience he had as a child seeing a starry sky away from city lights. Grows up and says visuals are lame, we just want the data. Good one... Good one, bro.
This makes my inner child so happy. The amount of knowledge I've gotten from these two makes up all of the best "Did you know..." material I use to try and conversate with people. I love you both! My children love you both. They've seen every episode of Bill Nye the Science Guy and they love learning about space from you, Neil. They're 5 and 8. And as soon as yawl are on tv them boys are fixated and happy.
I was an 11 year-old 6th grader in 1969 when Apollo 11 landed on the Sea of Tranquility using SLIDE RULES, and grew up as a high-school student reading Isaac Asimov, Carl Sagan, and Arthur C. Clarke. Neil and Bill are our 21st-century cosmologists.
I already listened to this podcast, but I’m still going to watch it a few times in UA-cam just for the pictures of planets and moons. Plus I love listening to these guys!
Hi Bill! I just want you to know that you have been part of my childhood in discovering and learning to love science. Thank you so much. Bill Nye The Science Guyyyy
Voices of reasons like you two, amidst an anti-intellectual epidemic, who understand and platform scientific findings in the pre-text of secular humanism, are like a fresh glass of water.
I turned forty this year. I grew up watching things like Eye Witness, Beakman's World, Bill Nye the Science Guy, and Majic Schoolbus. This was an amazing thing to watch just to see.Such intelligent people who brought so much to the world together casually bullshitting
This is one of the best episodes ever! Here are 2 guys who are passionate about science but not just, they're excited! about it! I love how Bill boes off at the end :)) Love you guys!
If Niel asked me if "I tied my Tie". . .and I said "No". . .and he threatened to tell "Bill". . . I would say " Do you know how to tie a bowtie?" And if he said "Yes" I'd say "Teach me" and if he said "no" . . . I'd say "We can learn together."
I just read Contact by Carl Sagan and you can really feel his passion for Astronomy, Math and Sciences radiating off the pages. It’s cool to hear Bill Nye sharing early stories of the Astronomy and SETI movement.
I've lived in Florida for 52 years, and I can attest that birds do get trapped in the eyes of hurricanes. A few years ago, after hurricane Idalia, Florida had flamingos here for the first time in decades that had been brought up from far south of here. Same thing with many other birds over the past few years with all the hurricanes that have come through.
I’m glad to see bill nye and Neil having conversations, I watched a video a while ago and it seemed yall didn’t like each other. Glad to see yall together!
Also, Mr. Nye, you are singularly responsible for my early interest in science as a young child. I was about 4 when I first saw your show on PBS and it was all she wrote from there! 🥰
Mr. Wizard (aka Don Herbert, backwards on purpose) was a wonderful man! He made science so fun and entertaining and I’d watch him whenever he was on! You know you’re a somebody when these two gentlemen bring up your name.
11:10 its easier to send a robot, you'd need to specially engineer a human to survive, and we still don't completely know how brains work, let alone what physiology would work on another planet.
I was already near my mid 20s when Bill Nye the Science Guy aired and I was hooked. My favorite memory was when he did a scale model of our solar system on a bicycle with small balls. I have to go look that up now to see if it was just a glitch in my old memory lol.
One of my favorite science teachers in middle school introduced the class to Bill and his content. Bill is a reason why I ❤ science. I appreciate everything and thank you.
Can you both meet my 7 year old son? You will be the Carol Sagan equivalent to inspiring him. Thank you both for sharing your love of knowledge. It’s contagious and you make my job easier as a mom when my children want to learn. Thank you. My son is a member of the society! He looks forward to every envelope
Hey guys... I hope our grandchildren and great grandchildren have a future in this world. From the lack of commitment to fight global warming to endless wars going on, and corrupt governments I believe the future looks very grim. I really enjoy watching Neil and Bill due to the very interesting topics, and the escape from the reality of this world.
Future generations will CURSE our Carbon Age. Dr. Hansen and Dr. Sagan warned Congress in the early and late 80s that if buiseness-as-usual continued burning fossil fuels and polluting our atmosphere with heat trapping CO2 and CH4, there would be irreversible and catastrophic climate consequences. Welcome to the Anthropocene epoch.
The question "Once life begins, can it ever truly stop?" opens a fascinating dialogue between biogenesis and quantum science. Biogenesis explores the origin of life from non-living matter, governed by chemical and biological processes. Once life begins, its perpetuation relies on self-replication and adaptation traits deeply embedded in molecular structures like DNA and RNA. Quantum science adds another layer to this inquiry. At the quantum level, particles exhibit behaviors such as superposition and entanglement, suggesting that the building blocks of life are governed by principles far beyond classical physics. Life, in this sense, could be seen as an emergent property of quantum systems, where even at "death," the energy and components of life do not vanish but transform and redistribute into the environment. This interplay raises profound questions: Could the quantum information embedded in life's processes persist in some form? Could life re-emerge under the right conditions, guided by the same principles of quantum mechanics that sparked its origin? The intersection of these fields might one day offer answers, reshaping our understanding of life, death, and continuity.
"Could the quantum information embedded in life's processes persist in some form?" It's not just that it "could" it literally has no choice, conservation of information demands it persists in some form, forever. There's nothing new or controversial about that, this is a settled, accepted fact of physics- information is always conserved. Now capturing that information and reconstituting it into something sensible is far, far beyond our technical capabilities- but theoretically, it should be possible.
All these folks commenting how they remember the kid's show... but I actually remember when Bill Nye was on a local Seattle area show called Almost Live. That's where he started the "science guy" bit as a sketch. That same show gave Joel McHale his start.
I moved out of New Orleans in the eye of a hurricane in the 80's. I don't remember the name, but I lived through 2 hurricanes in a 3 year period. Gulf Shores next to NO got hit pretty hard. They said 1 of the bars I used to goto that went out into the gulf a little got hit real hard. I had everything loaded while the rain was slowing down. When the eye came over it was as calm as your can get. I headed north and of course ran into a rain storm and strong winds.
As a kid who grew up with Bill Nye its depressing to see a time now where scientists are ignored and things that should be a joint effort being made political.
Want more? Check out a bonus Cosmic Queries session, hosted by Bill Nye, only on our Patreon! www.patreon.com/startalkradio
This was so much fun-thanks for stopping by our Headquarters! Fun fact: the Jupiter model you see behind Bill is an actual prop from Star Trek: The Motion Picture. It’s cracked because it fell during an earthquake in Pasadena!
I remember that prop
pass the dinner
That is a fun fact!
I was born in Pasadena 1963. This really means a lot to me. I’ve been so proud of Pasadena the Rose Bowl, the Rose Bowl parade, the observatory and the continued history of space research much much love from Kennewick Washington, Washington state on the mighty Columbia river. Our arms are forever wrapped around you.
Wouldn’t it be cool to watch a video of a table full of people like Bill and Neil just talking about these subjects while eating dinner. No scripts, just plain ole geek talk.
Bill has that 2000s stoner movie energy, just a chill guy
Find him on almost live. It was a skit comedy show in Seattle in the 80s Bill Nye. The science guy was a huge hit on that show.
Easy bud he’s a 90’s science guy!! 💪🏽 😂😂
@@HigherMidand now he’s a leftist shill who says gender is a spectrum.😂
If you had a chance to ask Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson a question, what would you ask? WHO KNOWS?! It may be answered in an upcoming video!
Have either of you seen the video Epic rap battles of history made featuring you both against Newton?
how do photons change color and stuff and interact with stuff if they dont experience time?
How's Grim doing??
They were both on an episode of Stargate Atlantis. Did they wish they were on Star Trek TNG like Stephen Hawking?
Given the physical "speed-limits" of the universe, what is the likelihood of ever communicating with extraterrestrial life even if we "find" it?
Marvel: Deadpool&wolverine
Startalk: Hold my beer🍺
Awesome comic heroes vs joke scientists....
Said the clown 🤡@@BryBry78
@@BryBry78
And yet you're here Trollio 🤔
Don't tell me you wet the bed again, and ruined another comic book 😂
.... that's why we give em to him one page at a time 🤤
@@BryBry78 Wokepool vs Wokerine
@badco😂rnflakes6374
When I was in college, Bill Nye came to speak. Myself and all my classmates remembered watching his Science Guy show as kids. Chants of "Bill! Bill! Bill!" greeted him as he took the stage. He proceeded to give a very informative, passionate talk about science, and took questions afterwords. Great guy.
I grew up watching Mr. Wizard’s World and then in 1993 at 14yrs old I was able to watch Bill Nye the Science Guy. It may have been aimed at 10year olds but for those of us that had already caught the love of science beforehand, it was like a homecoming. I was fascinated and adored the show. Bill Nye is a childhood hero that made it to adulthood hero! Thank you Neil, Startalk, and The Planetary Society for bringing us this great interview!
I watched Bill Nye as a child on the roll in vcr/tv combo at school. It unlocked curiosity in me and I am now a scientist. TY Mr. Nye.
What do you do??
I wish he didn't sell out to identity politics and gas lighting
GUYS - with Bill Nye as your guest, this has to be longer!! I could have easily listened to this conversation go on for another two hours. We need more of Bill!!!❤
one of my favorite few hours is that legendary panel of science communicators. the one where NDT came out with the Starry Sky shirt.
Yeah, exactly! Just 46 minutes... :/
Oh man, I've been waiting for an episode with Bill Nye!!
The Science Guy
This brings back memories, love to see bill again
Bill! Billl! Bill! Bill!
@bkbland1626 Bill Nye the Science Guy!
Anyone remember Beakman's World? Your comment made a memory from like '96 pop up in my head...
Bill Nye, what an incredible educator to so many of us who are still interested in science today because he made it so accessible to us as children. Neil Degrasse Tyson, the one who keeps us still interested as adults. This is historic.
I'll never be able to thanks Bill and Neil enough for how much they have made my life better and more meaningful by inspiring me to pursue a life of scientific curiosity since I was but a young kid.
I'm passing that onto my own kid :)
Awwww man. I know it's not recent but when they brought up Mr. Wizard i teared up and had a flashback to my childhood. RIP Mr. Wizard.
Oh baby Bill's on the talk! I'd love to see him consistently even once a year have a chat, you two are so influential to the world of science.
2 of my favorite science nerds in 1 video. Made my day.
So glad to know that my two childhood science teachers are one ok and two speaking to each other. Glad bill is doing ok.
BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY!!!! I LOVE YOU!!!! I turn 40 tomorrow and I grew up watching you! ❤❤❤
Me two 2️⃣
Me three. 😁
@@JariDawnchild lets celebrate 🥂
@@nritti_ 🥂
34:28 - The full quote is "And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time," which is from T.S. Eliot's poem "Little Gidding" from his collection "Four Quartets."
Tyson admits to falling in love with space because of the visual experience he had as a child seeing a starry sky away from city lights.
Grows up and says visuals are lame, we just want the data.
Good one... Good one, bro.
This makes my inner child so happy. The amount of knowledge I've gotten from these two makes up all of the best "Did you know..." material I use to try and conversate with people. I love you both! My children love you both. They've seen every episode of Bill Nye the Science Guy and they love learning about space from you, Neil. They're 5 and 8. And as soon as yawl are on tv them boys are fixated and happy.
They're prepping for Round 2 with their rap battle against Newton 👏👏
@@theimaginativeweirdo4537 I want to see their reaction to it ngl
I was an 11 year-old 6th grader in 1969 when Apollo 11 landed on the Sea of Tranquility using SLIDE RULES, and grew up as a high-school student reading Isaac Asimov, Carl Sagan, and Arthur C. Clarke. Neil and Bill are our 21st-century cosmologists.
And our modern smartphones have the same processing power as the computers on that spacecraft. It's absolutely mindblowing. 🥰
Edit: Corrected myself.
You sound like you'd get along great with my dad you just described his childhood 😂👍
Wow, was not expecting this gem of an interview.
I’ve been watching Bill Nye since I was a child and I still love watching him.
I already listened to this podcast, but I’m still going to watch it a few times in UA-cam just for the pictures of planets and moons. Plus I love listening to these guys!
Hi Bill! I just want you to know that you have been part of my childhood in discovering and learning to love science. Thank you so much.
Bill Nye The Science Guyyyy
Voices of reasons like you two, amidst an anti-intellectual epidemic, who understand and platform scientific findings in the pre-text of secular humanism, are like a fresh glass of water.
Grew up with Bill and love seeing him pop up every now and then, such a treat.
I turned forty this year. I grew up watching things like Eye Witness, Beakman's World, Bill Nye the Science Guy, and Majic Schoolbus. This was an amazing thing to watch just to see.Such intelligent people who brought so much to the world together casually bullshitting
Magic Schoolbus was such a banger, I thought all cartoons would be of similar quality when I was young. I was very wrong and very disappointed.
They got you trained lol
I swear these guys could have their own show and id watch it every day
great to see both of you together!
Let's give bill his flowers now. Grew up Saturday morning watching him.
the best crossover there is. really boosted my mood during finals, thank you star talk and bill
This is one of the best episodes ever! Here are 2 guys who are passionate about science but not just, they're excited! about it! I love how Bill boes off at the end :)) Love you guys!
fantastic conversation
This was so much fun to listen to. Thank you, gentlemen, for educating and inspiring us 🙏🏾
AMAZING EPISODE!
Love these guys! Brilliant minds and exemplary careers. ❤️ Also both exceptional educators.
This is by far my favorite podcast
If Niel asked me if "I tied my Tie". . .and I said "No". . .and he threatened to tell "Bill". . . I would say " Do you know how to tie a bowtie?" And if he said "Yes" I'd say "Teach me" and if he said "no" . . . I'd say "We can learn together."
This collab saved my life
I just read Contact by Carl Sagan and you can really feel his passion for Astronomy, Math and Sciences radiating off the pages. It’s cool to hear Bill Nye sharing early stories of the Astronomy and SETI movement.
I've lived in Florida for 52 years, and I can attest that birds do get trapped in the eyes of hurricanes. A few years ago, after hurricane Idalia, Florida had flamingos here for the first time in decades that had been brought up from far south of here. Same thing with many other birds over the past few years with all the hurricanes that have come through.
So cool to have Bill Nye the Science Guy on the show again, feels like forever since he's been on. Thank you.
Neil is so lucky to have Abraham Lincoln as a guest! ❤
I'm 56 and as I get older, the more I think about all the scientific discoveries I'm going to miss when I pass on.
I know, right! I hear you.
Mr. Nye, I love you. Thank goodness for your intellect, your generosity, your charisma, and your virtue. The world is a better place with you in it.
My number 1 and 2 favorite scientists.
Bill got me into science in school.
Neil got me interested in the Universe
I’m glad to see bill nye and Neil having conversations, I watched a video a while ago and it seemed yall didn’t like each other. Glad to see yall together!
Mr. Wizard was the man. Loved that show. When Bill showed up, I was like, "Who is this new Mr. Wizard?"
Also, Mr. Nye, you are singularly responsible for my early interest in science as a young child. I was about 4 when I first saw your show on PBS and it was all she wrote from there! 🥰
Two of my favorite scientists!! Thank you Bill Nye and Neil, this was an amazing episode!
Yes! You guys are always fun to watch individually, but together you're fire.
Mr. Wizard (aka Don Herbert, backwards on purpose) was a wonderful man! He made science so fun and entertaining and I’d watch him whenever he was on! You know you’re a somebody when these two gentlemen bring up your name.
11:10 its easier to send a robot, you'd need to specially engineer a human to survive, and we still don't completely know how brains work, let alone what physiology would work on another planet.
Bill Nye is freaking back!!
This was a great episode. It might even turn into a classic.
Bill and Neil. I love the energy neeeeeed more of Bill 😢
I love how seriously Bill takes his mission.
I second Bill nye's "star talklings" suggestion
I could watch these two talk all day.
I was already near my mid 20s when Bill Nye the Science Guy aired and I was hooked. My favorite memory was when he did a scale model of our solar system on a bicycle with small balls. I have to go look that up now to see if it was just a glitch in my old memory lol.
Such a treat listening to two of my favorite science teachers banter. Thank you Star Talk!!! 🌌💜
Omg my inner nerdy child is geeking out right now. Such a good and relaxing conversation. The coolest brains on my screen right now.
IC Moon works at so many levels.
Love these guys and their way of communicating
One of my favorite science teachers in middle school introduced the class to Bill and his content. Bill is a reason why I ❤ science. I appreciate everything and thank you.
We Need More Neil And Bill
Can you both meet my 7 year old son? You will be the Carol Sagan equivalent to inspiring him. Thank you both for sharing your love of knowledge. It’s contagious and you make my job easier as a mom when my children want to learn. Thank you. My son is a member of the society! He looks forward to every envelope
I understand the desire for high production and the need for tight schedules, but this should be so much longer!
Hey guys... I hope our grandchildren and great grandchildren have a future in this world. From the lack of commitment to fight global warming to endless wars going on, and corrupt governments I believe the future looks very grim. I really enjoy watching Neil and Bill due to the very interesting topics, and the escape from the reality of this world.
Future generations will CURSE our Carbon Age. Dr. Hansen and Dr. Sagan warned Congress in the early and late 80s that if buiseness-as-usual continued burning fossil fuels and polluting our atmosphere with heat trapping CO2 and CH4, there would be irreversible and catastrophic climate consequences. Welcome to the Anthropocene epoch.
I could listen to you two all day. Thank you both.
I couldnt have been more happy to see this colaberation, I miss seeing Bill! Thank you as always great content!
Love you both, great conversation
Thank you Bill Nye for my childhood learning and Neil deGrasse Tyson for my adulthood discoveries 🧠 🫡
Love these guys together. So is the reason Bill isn't doing Startalk any more because he moved to California?
I miss Bill being a Startalk All Star.
two of my favorite scientists talking is amazing to see!
Two people who are natural communicators, just make it look so easy.
The question "Once life begins, can it ever truly stop?" opens a fascinating dialogue between biogenesis and quantum science. Biogenesis explores the origin of life from non-living matter, governed by chemical and biological processes. Once life begins, its perpetuation relies on self-replication and adaptation traits deeply embedded in molecular structures like DNA and RNA.
Quantum science adds another layer to this inquiry. At the quantum level, particles exhibit behaviors such as superposition and entanglement, suggesting that the building blocks of life are governed by principles far beyond classical physics. Life, in this sense, could be seen as an emergent property of quantum systems, where even at "death," the energy and components of life do not vanish but transform and redistribute into the environment.
This interplay raises profound questions: Could the quantum information embedded in life's processes persist in some form? Could life re-emerge under the right conditions, guided by the same principles of quantum mechanics that sparked its origin? The intersection of these fields might one day offer answers, reshaping our understanding of life, death, and continuity.
"Could the quantum information embedded in life's processes persist in some form?" It's not just that it "could" it literally has no choice, conservation of information demands it persists in some form, forever. There's nothing new or controversial about that, this is a settled, accepted fact of physics- information is always conserved. Now capturing that information and reconstituting it into something sensible is far, far beyond our technical capabilities- but theoretically, it should be possible.
Great episode and beautiful bladerunneresque music in the end!
I feel privileged to watch/hear this.
Thank You!
Don Herbert was great.
I joined last month! So cool to see my childhood hero talking with Niel.
Really cool to see Bill wearing the PIN i just got in the mail! wooo!
I could listen to them talk for hours!
43:18 "Barack Obama got to meet me" man I love Bill lol
Amazing talk between two bro's! I love these one-on-one videos.
My two fav scientist
Love Bill’s energy WOOOOOOOO!!!
Laid back and full of knowledge.
I have to pick Dr Tyson's brain. The man is brilliant. I watch Dr Tyson all the time on Star Talk.
Yet he can’t define “woman!”
@@revolvermaster4939 Like you can lol. A person can generally tell by comments such as yours just how ignorant the poster really is.
Perhaps the two most powerful people in science communications.
My all-time favorite episode, alien hands down 👽
If there's ever a time for a nerd out, this is it!
One Zentnerd here. So Yes
I love when Neil the Astrophysicist Guy and Bill your personal Mechanical Engineer get together
AMAZING COLLABORATION!!!! ❤❤❤
All these folks commenting how they remember the kid's show... but I actually remember when Bill Nye was on a local Seattle area show called Almost Live. That's where he started the "science guy" bit as a sketch. That same show gave Joel McHale his start.
Bill Nye! seeing you guys together is awesome.
I moved out of New Orleans in the eye of a hurricane in the 80's. I don't remember the name, but I lived through 2 hurricanes in a 3 year period. Gulf Shores next to NO got hit pretty hard. They said 1 of the bars I used to goto that went out into the gulf a little got hit real hard.
I had everything loaded while the rain was slowing down. When the eye came over it was as calm as your can get. I headed north and of course ran into a rain storm and strong winds.
Nothing better than two old dudes spewing science facts.
Science ROCKS!
THIS is what ive been waiting for!! Love this!
As a kid who grew up with Bill Nye its depressing to see a time now where scientists are ignored and things that should be a joint effort being made political.