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

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @09:52AM 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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Re:In other words... by Shinobi · 2015-11-18 19:18 · Score: 4, Interesting

"An engine needs very advanced designs and lubricants to sustain that for 3-4 hours."
Awwww, how cute... Now go watch the 24 hour races like for example Le Mans 24 hours. No engine repairs or engine swaps allowed during the race, yet the top class averages over 300km/h over the 24h race, including pit stops, yellow flags/code 60's, safety cars(on a 13km+ track no less!), on a track that has much greater wear and tear on engine, gearbox, brakes etc, since it's not an oval.