Who's Your Favorite Science Guy...

[arwalden]

Poll question: Who's Your Favorite Science Guy...

[miss_american_pie]

1. Alton Brown

Science and food.

[Left Is Write]

22. Somehow I knew you'd say that. I agree.

[miss_american_pie]

23. At least I'm consistent.

;)

[Mutley]

2. Bill Nye.

:bounce:

[progmom]

3. these guys

[Zomby Woof]

4. Bill Nye

Partially because he was also a cast member of the now-defunct Seattle-based comedy skit show called "Almost Live!". I got to meet him when he did a presentation at a store I worked at in the mid-90's. Nice, unpretentious guy. :-)

He was once a student of Carl Sagan's at Cornell, btw.

[Blue-Jay]

5. Dr. Bunsen Honeydew

and Beaker, of course!

[progmom]

10. gmta

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5163232&mesg_id=5163241

[Blue-Jay]

12. heh. I wasn't paying attention.

My pic is better anyhow. nyah!

[Magrittes Pipe]

6. .

[Richardo]

7. Adam Savage/Jamie Hyneman

Science, humor and pointless experiments! :thumbsup:

[Blue-Jay]

9. I'd like to change my vote. Those guys are the BEST!

[Richardo]

16. Of course we must throw in a little Kari Byron...

:loveya:

[Blue-Jay]

20. But of course.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

25. Sorry, Scotty was w-a-a-a-a-y cooler and hotter...

than the Cupcake.

I think they only brought the Cupcake onboard to get her to prance around in silver undies.

Scotty, on the otherhand, ROCKED.

Too bad Scotty left and the Cupcake stayed. :(

[Richardo]

26. Silver undies?

I must have missed that episode :cry:




Scottie was cool but way too inked for my geezerish whitebread sensibilities.

[TimeChaser]

27. And lots of explosions!

:thumbsup:

[arwalden]

8. Would Mr. Peabody Count As A "Science Guy"?

Or is he more of a History-Guy?

[SacredCow]

21. He'd be my vote...

Either him or Velma...

[terrya]

11. Slim Goodbody

I'm probably the only one who liked him. :-)

[Blue-Jay]

13. You just like his package.

:D

[terrya]

19. Damn! I AM that shallow!

:-)

[arwalden]

18. Oh Yeah... I Remember...

[anarch]

14. Richard Feynman

All I know about Quantum Electrodynamics, I learned from him. Yeah, so it's not very much that I know, but then again as Feynman himself said, "... I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics."

[Phillycat]

15. Alton Brown

I love him!

[Tyrone Slothrop]

17. Jearl Walker

Author of The Flying Circus of Physics and host of PBS' Kinetic Karnival.

His demonstration of the Leidenfrost(sp?) Effect won me over.

[noonwitch]

24. The late Carl Sagan

Cosmos was a great series.

[LouisianaLiberal]

39. Without doubt Sagan for me.

I've read only two of his books, but I have a great fondness for him. A great humanist as well as a great apologist for reason. He inspired many - and you can never have too many Sagan imitators.

[Benfea]

28. Richard Feynman

"There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers."

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool."

"It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong"

"There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!"

RIP, Dick.

[havocmom]

29. Havocdad! Not always the right answer

but ALWAYS the most amusing :D

[LibertyLover]

30. Doc Savage and Tom Swift Jr., if we are talking fiction

and Leonardo da Vinci, Louis & Mary Leakey and Carl Sagen if we are talking real.

[RevolutionaryActs]

31. Bill Nye!

:bounce:

[Courtesy Flush]

32. Carl Sagan n/t

[realisticphish]

33. Bill Nye rules

with Carl Sagan about equal

[WritingIsMyReligion]

34. I was in love with Bill Nye when I was about 5 and he was on TV.

:loveya::loveya:

[jukes]

35. !OTHER!

Dr. Clayton Forrester, what's wrong w/ you?

i'm going to finish watching "the return of zatoichi" now...
:yoiks:

[Merrick]

36. That drunk old bald guy on PBS who comes on late at night

and shows you how to make meth and heroin, is always talking about his cats and sometimes catches on fire. I can't remember his name and am starting to think I dreamt him up.

[nutsnberries]

37. here he is >>>

Bill Nye :loveya:

[Cush]

38. Mr Wizard

used to watch him all the time on Nickelodeon.

[Jamastiene]

45. I did too.

IMHO, Bill Nye just doesn't compare. Oh sure, Nye's cool and all, but Mr. Wizard once ripped a power cord off a lamp and tied the ends to two forks then stuck the ends of the forks in a hot dog weenie and plugged the lamp cord into a 120V receptacle. He cooked it until it exploded. Hot dog bits went flying everywhere. Can't beat that. Also, he taught how to find out how tall a tree was using a pan of water. Wonder if Nye would ever consider doing that?

[cmf]

40. Although Bill Nye is the hometown guy

I voted for Mr Wizard, because I loved him when I was a kid.

[tuvor]

41. Dr. Julius Sumner Miller.

He was featured on the old Mickey Mouse Club, and in the 70s on a bizarre Canadian kiddie monster show called the Hilarious House of Frightenstein. And it was hard science with formulae and everything.

[u4ic]

43. He always scared me

:scared:

[tuvor]

46. I never had a clue what he was talking about.

Getting up early on Saturday morning to listen to lectures was just not my style.

If you remember the show, this should bring back some memories: http://www.frightenstein.com

What a wacky show.

[u4ic]

47. I didn't either!

But there was a curtness...even a meanness that I thought he projected (I was quite young at the time).

I LOVED that show. I wrote to them and got a whole bunch of stuff...stickers and the like. I don't know what ever happened to them.

I still remember Vincent Price's opening and closing monologues (and the music). My favourite show as a kid, bar none. :bounce:

[tuvor]

49. You might be interested in this...

On http://www.frightenstein.com/goodies/index.html, scroll down to the album "The Happy Moog" and check out track 10.

There are also a couple of actual episodes you can d/l from that page.

You may have lost your HHOF swag, but maybe this will ease the pain. :)

Cheers!

[Zookeeper]

42. Beakman's World!

A mixture of science, Mad Magazine, Eraserhead hairdo, a wacky smart-alec female sidekick and a guy dressed as a giant Rat Fink. What more does one need?

[u4ic]

44. Bob MacDonald - Quirks and Quarks

on cbc radio,

and David Suzuki (of course!)

[Random_Australian]

48. Einstein! Schrödinger! Heisenberg! Hawking! Rutherford! Where art thou?