He leaves a path of destruction with the words he uses like any good Leftist does.
Posted on 11/18/2015 4:01:40 AM PST by artichokegrower
For famed science educator, comedian, and author Bill Nye (the science guy) watching a NASCAR race with his family is bittersweet.
The super-fast cars zipping around the track is "exciting," Nye explains in his latest book, "Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World."
But the technology is "depressing," Nye writes because
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The cars are a whole lot more efficient than launching any rocket.
What a wad. Mr Global warming himself.
I must agree with him on one point. NASCAR needs to be like NASA. Rocket engines wouldn’t hurt. I stopped watching NASCAR when they banned more powerful engines and banned the winged warriors and went to driving the exact same cars with different badging.
Good lord the man is a moron, the D party is the political party of the Mule team march on NASA
First, Bill Nye is not a “scientist”. He is a mechanical engineer.
Second, he’s funny?
FOBN
Once again, Bill Nye attempts to show how smart he is by pontificating on a subject about which he knows little while preaching to the ignorant. Nice going Bill. I imagine somebody thinks that you said something profound.
Then again, his is a San Fran paper. They wouldn’t know a NASCAR driver compared to a bow tied dweeb. I guess they want NASCAR to spend billions of public money to have a Muslim outreach program and global warming protests.
Air resistance goes up as the cube of the speed. If you're using 100 hp to go 100 mph, you don't need 200 hp to go 200 mph, you need 800hp. Ok that's the easy part, but Nye still got it wrong. Next a slightly (but only slightly) more complicated concept: that to get power you have to burn fuel. There is a lot of energy in a gallon of gas, but the energy is finite, and to get more power you have to burn more gas - basic first law stuff. And now for another concept that dimwit Nye doesn't get, the faster your engine goes, the less efficiently it burns the gas this is 2nd law stuff saying that no process, even a theoretical one with no friction can run at 100% efficiency.
AND FINALLY WHAT NYE ALSO IS CLUELESS ABOUT
NO ONE IS GOING TO PAY TO SEE A BUNCH OF HONDA CIVICS HYPERMILEING AROUND A TRACK AT 55 MPH
NASCAR fans = 15,000,000. Bill Nye fans = 150
Bill Nye = NUTCASE!!!
NASCAR brings big bucks into my corner of Michigan.
Bill Nye not so much.
The only thing stock about a NASCAR racing car is the Ford, Chevrolet or Toyota name plates. To liven up the races I would start odd numbered cars clockwise and even numbered cars counterclockwise on the track.
1. If you make it truly competitive, it may not work as a business because it will get too predictable if a very small number of competitors (or even one) dominates the competition. Maybe NASCAR fans liked it better when Richard Petty had the Winston Cup wrapped up halfway through the season, but remember that this was way back in the days before NASCAR became a big-money sport.
2. If you try to have the sport appeal to a wide audience and maximize its entertainment value, you almost always dilute the quality and turn off the "purist" fans. Even worse, you end up in a situation like NASCAR or the NFL where the sport approaches (or even crosses) the line between a competitive sport and a staged event.
Innovation has never been a problem in NASCAR. The issue is that there is a practical limit to what exactly innovation will do for you. Making cars go faster only goes so far in auto racing, especially when speeds are effectively limited by the size and layouts of race tracks.
“There’s no reason why NASCAR couldn’t be like [NASA]: a race with rules designed to reward the coolest, most advanced vehicle technologies,”
Why not do both NASCAR & NASA-like races?
Let the market decide. See which one brings home the bacon. (Sorry for the porcine micro-aggression.)
Sounds like Saturday night at our local dirt track, back in the day.
Nye is as wrong about this topic as he is about global warming. The Chinese were building rockets a couple of millennia before IC engines were powering race cars. It is the race car engineers who use modern technology. I have friends who are literally true “rocket scientists” working for NASA. I also have friends who design race cars (they happen to be Formula One types.) I’ll take the race car engineers, any day, if I need something done quickly. NASA is a complete constipated bureaucracy, as are the government funded Warmists. Nye is nothing but a babbling fool. Bye, bye, Nye.
Bill Nye = Mr. Haney
You can also watch an Electric car race if you want to. Although a pit shop takes 8 hours to recharge the batteries.
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