back with me now is bill nye. bill, you went to boeing and also worked separately on black boxes. your experiences and what you believe is the importance of the black box. >> the black box means you don't know what is inside, that is all. in here, it is bright orange so if you're a diver under water you may find them. or on land you can find them. the idea is, you heard of the flight data recorder. the least important thing it keeps track of is the voices in the cockpit, it keeps track of all the other data on the plane, the control surfaces, the throttle. that sort of thing. the thing in this thin outer shell, it is virtually an indestructible set. it houses the information. and also there will be a pinger which makes a pinging sound. >> and that lasts about a month? >> about a month, yeah, several weeks under water. >> if they get near it, they should be able to hear it. >> if they get near the helicopter, lure the -- >> if they hear this they will be able to find it? >> i'm sure. i just want to point out the things that go wrong with planes are maintenance, so this air worthine

bill nye is back with me. me what is your experience and what you make of the importance right now of one of these. >> the black box means you don't know what's inside, that's all. they're bright orange, so you are a diver under water, you might find them. but the idea is, you've heard of the flight data recorder. it keeps track of all sorts of data on the plane, the position of the control surfaces, the tloltd and so on. the thing in this thin outer shell is a virtually indestructible cassette that houses the information. and also there will be a pinger which makes a pinging sound. >> and that lasts for about a month? >> under water, yeah. >> so if they get near it, they should be able to hear it. >> absolutely. the u.s. navy can get there with a helicopter and lower this hydrophone and listen for it. >> if it is where these images are, they'll be able to find it with the pinger? >> i'm sure of it. i just want to point out, the things that go wrong with planes is maintenance. so this airworthiness directive,

and bill nye is a good friend of mine.ant to get a selfie." so i said, "i'd be last. we'd be greeting." and said, "mr. president, mind if we get a selfie?" we knew he would say, "no, because presidents can't do that." >> seth: right, of course. >> but then bill would come in right after and say, "mr. president, you realize it would break the internet." and then he said "oh, yeah, i'll do it." and he came around back. he said, "for you, gentlemen, i'll make the exception." i tried one. my battery didn't -- >> seth: but you have a spaceship! [ laughter ] you have your own spaceship! >> that's actually -- bill nye whipped it out, and he pulled it right on the spot. that's his selfie, not mine. >> seth: i am so glad we're going to end on you saying "bill nye whipped it out." [ cheers and applause ] new episodes of "cosmos: a spacetime odyssey" air sunday nights at 9:00 on fox and monday nights on the national geographic channel. we'll be right back with more neil degrasse tyson. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ see what's new at pr

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that is bill nye the science guy, who is awesome. ting creationist and all around denier ken ham. while ken insisted the earth was only 6,000 years old, bill took the position that it isn't because, science. the video, posted last night, was almost at a million views this morning. the debate was simply called "bill nye debates ken ham." i feel like it it needs a bette

they could do it very quickly and accurately. >> let me bring in bill nye.'re shaking your head. why? >> i just read these press releases very carefully. let me ask you the hard-hitting investigative journalist. have the two guys, the two people who said that this acars transponders were working all this time have they identified themselveserser hi, i work for boeing and here's what we discovered and here's the chart. has anybody done that? >> sources haven't been revealed by the "wall street journal." >> and then reading them carefully, there's this expression decline comment. and there would be comparable and consistent with. it's very romantic. this is to say, it's an airplane disaster which still gets all of us. and it's a mystery. but i wonder if we're just letting our imaginations run wild. i mean, i am open-minded of course. but i just still wonder if the original search was done thoroughly. because i'm reading this stuff. it's very carefully worded. and they're drawing conclusions based on by eliminating what are perceived to be likely outcomes. but

joining me to talk about the technology behind the black boxes is scientist, engineer and inventor bill nye, better known as the science guy. if you don't know this about bill, he was an engineer for boeing and also worked on black box technology. you're the perfect person to talk to, bill. i'm getting all of these different figures for how long until those pings effectively go silent. it may not be exactly 30 days. we may have plus or minus, what, five or so days, and then maybe quieter pings for days after that? >> well, five days sounds like a lot of extra. because when the water is very cold, the batteries are not as -- the chemical reactions of the batteries don't happen as fast so it's not as likely that it will keep pinging. but that said, the problem is the thing -- the area that we're searching is enormous. it's just huge. and i remind you, it's a three dimensional problem. you have not just the width and latitude and the length and longitude. you also have the depth of the water. so it's an enormous volume. if things haven't sunk all the way to the bottom yet or they're still drif

but this is what i was getting at which is you with bill nye the science guy and the president in a big the reason that was enabled is because we were invited to the white house for among other reasons to preview, "cosmos." and so, to realize that you have leaders high up that care that much about science to not only invite the screening of it but to participate in the selfie with my good friend, bill nye, it's a statement that times can change. >> you have this giant fruit on my desk. what is it? >> it's a cantaloupe. >> when we come back we'll ask you why? >> why we put a cantaloupe in front of you. that's what happened here. when it's donut friday at the office i use my citi thankyou card to get two times the points at the coffee shop. which will help me get to miami...and they'll be stuck at the cube farm. the citi thankyou preferred card. now earn two times the points on dining out with no annual fee. go to citi.com/thankyoucards. then a little time to kick back. earn double hilton honors points with the 2x points package and be one step closer to a weekend break. doubletree by hil

a commercial pilot who flies 777, bill nye an engineer of boeing and worked on so-called black boxeses o'brien, pilot and cnn aviation analyst. we spoke yesterday about all this. the significance of this partial ping to you is how dramatic? >> it's really a game changer. i really believe thought is. here ease what i think might have happened there, piers. the satcom boxes are way in the back of the aircraft, in the back and upper compartment right below the satcom antenna. they've been receiving these pings from that satcom antenna. a long way in the front is what the acars is and that's stopped gives us information. it's all gathered and sends information from the aircraft. what i suspect happened at this point, satcom is designed that when something changes, when there's an emergency signal of any kind it starts to try to connect. which is not what we got when it first made that turn. it went at 1:07. if some emergency had happened at that time you would have expected it to then connect. >> does it reaffirm or change your position which yesterday you believed something catastrophic

we have got bill nye the science guy. [applause] tyson from these hayden planetarium. [applause] you a sneakn give peak of his new show, "cosmos." [applause] i saw the original version. it was spectacular and wonderful and i know this is going to be not just as good but even better . we are thrilled with that. we are opening on a big show here because we are honoring some remarkable filmmakers. i have said before, i believe and i hope all of us believe that every child in america deserves a world-class education. especially in science, technology, engineering and math. it is skills like these that make us an economic superpower and build our middle class. we also need folks who are studying the arts. our film industry is a huge generator of jobs and economic power here in the united states. it tells us our story and helps us to find what is our common humanity. allow nasa toese announce the other day that we have discovered more than 700 new planets. [applause] that is cool. we didn't make the planets but we found out that they were there. [laughter] we deliverways tha

on friday president obama took a selfie with bill nye the science guy and astrophysicist neil degrassei heard that photo set the record for the least retweeted photo of all time. very interesting. in the same week --all this stuff was happening. we live in a world of technology. >> steve: wow. >> jimmy: i was reading about this, this doesn't really surprise me. a new survey has found that almost half of dog owners admit they're spending more money on their dogs than on they are on their significant others. [ laughter ] i tried to ask my wife if that's true, but she and our dog were out to dinner. and i was like, "well, can you guys at least bring home a a jimmy bag so i can have some?" [ laughter ] and then i peed on the carpet. [ cheers ] i'm a mess. i wanted to show them that i was upset! don't go out without me! and finally, this is great. i saw this clip on youtube today. it's really funny. a local news reporter in philadelphia was standing on the side of the road covering today's big snowstorm. when a plow drove by and just nailed him with snow. watch this. >> reporter: we only ha

bill nye man got a letter today from the usda. he has been ordered not to sell at least $300,000 worth of high- end grassfed beef. that meat has been on hold for months since rancho feeding corporation shut down its petaluma processing plant. that plant is now under criminal investigation because of charges it processed diseased animals. >> come, cattle! >> reporter: he and a number of other organic beach ranchers process their meat at the same slaughterhouse. he says he has the paperwork to prove his meat is safe. but the usda's letter says it cannot ensure his product wasn't contaminated. >> the impact of that is something we probably won't survive. >> reporter: some of the bay area's top organic beef ranchers were caught up in the recall of millions of pounds of meat processed at the petaluma plant. the usda's letter says it does not have the authority to offer any sort of compensation. they say this is discouraging and they may sue the usda. betty yu, kpix 5. >> the neimanns say rancho feeding corporation can't afford to reimb

. >> it's like a really extreme sport version of bill nye the science guy. >> i was just kind of tensely for something horrible to happen. ah! >> he's actually withstanding it and not scheming in pain. >> i would say that's a good enough test for anybody. >> and as if that's not enough, what comes next will blow your mind, and potentially turn your stomach. >> give me a spoon. >> no, no. this is biodegradable nontoxic edible product, there it is. >> he took a spoon and ate it like it's ice cream. pretty sure it doesn't taste like ice cream. >> i got to hand it to that guy, he really believes in his product. >> he may believe in it. but many online viewers think it's more science fiction than all science. >> my first inclination is to think that this were not possible. >> but is it possible? for the answer, let's ask the torch man himself, tom brundage. >> this is not fake. this is the real thing. >> tom is a scientist and inventor at the helm of his own research company. >> we're specifically in the business of trying to create new products for the use of the public. every substance that

then when president obama is on cnn and msnbc, why does fox news have bill nye the science guy on?nd watching the oscars on your phone? it may be a break-through, do movie stars look as good when they're two inches tall? we've got all of that and a lot more on the show this morning. but first, a statement and a question. we've seen a dramatic change in america's attitudes towards gay rights in the last few years. here's the question, how much has the media influenced that change. let's back up a moment and look at what happened this week. another landmark week for gay rights. the governor of arizona vetoed a bill that would have given businesses the legal grounds to deny services to gay people. in texas a federal judge struck down that state's ban on gay marriage and in kentucky a district judge said the state must recognize gay marriages that were performed in states where they are legal. of course, these battles all across the country are far from over. look at how much has changed. republicans mitt romney, john mccain and even some fox news stars, all spoke out against the arizo

to talk more about the possibility that the plane was able to elude radar and what happened with bill nyescience guy and a former boeing engineer and michael kay, former plight and british military officer. two of the most perfect people to talk about this. bill, let me start with you. how conceivable is it that this jet was able to any somewhere, and by the way, somewhere pretty far, right with these pings we kept getting every hour from satellite for seven times, without being detected? >> well, it's not very likely and i appreciate you-all asking me about this, but there's just so many theories out there. i would say that let think about the motive. what are these people who ever hijacked this plane, what do they intend to gain 12 days after the thing disappears? so, i'm hoping that what we're really doing, i say "we", the people with the ability to do so, are looking underwater, listening for that pinger. i brought this up a couple times because if the thing is gone for 12 days, i got a feeling it's underwater. but of course, i'm just one more person with one more idea about this. it'

the science guy recently proposed bill nye is my hero this guy's amazing this is this is this concept of laser bees a swarm of laser b.s. that could intercept an asteroid and then they'd be there solar powered or or self sustaining they would direct beams of light just enough to deflect an asteroid so we've heard of nuking an asteroid we've heard of these the solar sails to move them out of the way we've heard of bigger ships coming around and like maybe using their gravity to pull the asteroid away to kind of save the earth from these earth killing asteroids but this by far is the most innovative approach. that i've seen personally in a lot of scientists agree that this could very well be the best chance earth has of avoiding a deadly collision with the planet because even if one of these goes out you know there's still you have the rest of them that could help propel the object away as amazing and yeah i guess i don't know it just sounds really think grazier be laser beams that blizzard is on sharks and hitting asteroids i mean yeah we didn't we definitely didn't think about this be

after the debate between bill nye the science guy and ken and, he criticized ken hamm said he made christians look ridiculous by claiming the earth was only 6000 years old. i applauded him for saying that. host: russell moore? guest: the idea that when one is in commerce, the person is not able to exercise religion, is religious. -- ridiculous. we expect people to act according to conscience. we hold people accountable in the marketplace in terms of conscience. and they're right. religious conviction is not simply about the things that we have in our heart. it is not about the opinions. it has to do with how we live our lives. exercise religion, but only to the point where it begins to inhibit the religious or other fundamental human rights that americans have been given under the constitution. i think you skewed this in the favor of the corporate religious conscience headed north he conscience of women. as it was mentioned in the oral argument, the effect on women is really important. i hope that is the centerpiece of the decision. host: that has to be the last word. tweets only, three relig

after the debate between bill nye the science guy and ken and, he criticized ken hamm said he made christiansook ridiculous by claiming the earth was only 6000 years old. i applauded him for saying that. host: russell moore? guest: the idea that when one is in commerce, the person is not able to exercise religion, is religious. -- ridiculous. we expect people to act according to conscience. we hold people accountable in the marketplace in terms of conscience. and they're right. religious conviction is not simply about the things that we have in our heart. it is not about the opinions. it has to do with how we live our lives. exercise religion, but only to the point where it begins to inhibit the religious or other fundamental human rights that americans have been given under the constitution. i think you skewed this in the favor of the corporate religious conscience headed north he conscience of women. as it was mentioned in the oral argument, the effect on women is really important. i hope that is the centerpiece of the decision. host: that has to be the last word. tweets only, three religio

university author of the book the hockey stick in the climate wars now a we're back with a forward by bill nyethe science guy dr mann is also. the author of a new piece titled earth will cross the climate danger threshold and twenty third by twenty thirty six which is featured in the april issue of scientific american dr michael mann welcome back. thanks thomas could be with you thank you so in your piece for scientific american you said we could see two degrees celsius of warming by thirty twenty thirty six how did you arrive at that conclusion and what's the significance of that. yes a two degree celsius about three and a half degrees fahrenheit warming of the planet relative to preindustrial time because before we started pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere that that number is often used by scientists as a measure of when we really start to enter into the worst impacts of climate change the most damaging changes in climate and potentially irreversible changes in our climate system that isn't to say that we aren't already see very damaging impacts of climate change when it comes to