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How Bill Nye Insulted NASCAR Fans About the Sport Being the "Anti-NASA" (examiner.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the more-honey-less-vinegar dept.

MarkWhittington writes: Bill Nye, the former science guy and current head of the Planetary Society, is very depressed about NASA and NASCAR, according to a story in Business Insider. He believes that the red-state yokels pay too much attention to NASCAR, which employs gas guzzling cars in races, and not enough to NASA, which employs cutting edge and environmentally correct technology, to explore the universe. However, it is a meme that the space agency itself once disagreed with. Indeed, NASA has suggested that the exploration of space is like NASCAR only with rocket ships instead of souped up, high powered cars

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  1. yawn by FatAlb3rt · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nye.jump(shark);

    1. Re:yawn by Darinbob · · Score: 1, Funny

      You know, I Iook stupid now. I was reading the article about bridge collapses and ended up back on the wrong web browser tab thinking you were talking about how laughing at hollywood was insensitive. Doh! Where's that Slashdot delete button?

  2. Re:In other words... by sycodon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh boy, here we go...

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    When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
  3. Re:In other words... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, in real racing you constantly change the rules to disallow superior technology, so that no real technical progress can be made. Like Formula One :)

  4. Re:In other words... by Austerity+Empowers · · Score: 3, Funny

    You forgot to mention the precise angles of left turns the vehicles can make.

  5. Re:In other words... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wasting that much alcohol?! They ARE evil!