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[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Met Bill Nye the science douche and yeah... anyone that wants to be as famous as that probably should have expected them to not be a good person.

[–] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Einstein was an extremely grumpy cousin fucker also

[–] solstice@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I knew ghandi. He was a prick. I saw him sucking down a pork hot dog hitting on Mother Teresa.

[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah but cysin thing was cool back then

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've also heard that people are really weird around him. Childhood fans asking really esoteric science questions about their fields.

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 6 points 1 year ago

He came into my class to teach do a guest lecture. Rambled incoherently about space and with bad science then tried to turn it inspirational and gave up after 15 minutes at most and left unceremoniously. It was a waste of time for those of us there to study physics.

And then he was a guest speaker at an event, absolutely took over and made the night entirely about him. Was a douche about water straight up called me a moron in front of hundreds of people because he asked a question poorly and I lowered my hand.

A professional friend in the planetary science space who is far to old to be a fan, hates him from a birthday party for ray bradbury so he's been a douche for a while and not just to fans

[–] Nurgle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Rumors are he allegedly sucked even back when he still worked at Boeing.

[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Man he was totally cool when I met him. Probably when you're famous you have days when you can handle people coming up to you and days you can't.

[–] jadedwench@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I had him for my college graduation and I felt privileged to have someone who had such a large impact on my childhood there. Really great speaker and definitely gave off the cool vibe. I didn't get to meet him 1-1, but I think a lot of it is subjective, how the person is that day, and the setting. Obviously if someone has done terrible things, especially sexual or abusive, they don't get a pass.