---
title: "Bill Nye Answers Your Questions"
description: "\"My name is Bill Nye, so I decided to be Bill Nye pretty much my whole life.\""
date: "2015-07-29"
modified: "2015-07-29"
authors:
  - name: "Nia Brown"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nia_brown"
url: "https://futurism.com/bill-nye-answers-your-questions"
categories:
  - "From Quarks to Quasars"
tags:
  - "bill nye"
---

# Bill Nye Answers Your Questions

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Bill-Nye-Goofs-Off.jpg>)
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Bill Nye and the filmmakers [trying](<https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/structurefilms/the-bill-nye-film>) to make "the definitive film" on the beloved science guy [had](<http://kickstarter.tumblr.com/tagged/answertime>) a very interesting AMA on Kickstarter's tumblr today. Here are the highlights:

On being Bill Nye: "My name is Bill Nye, so I decided to be Bill Nye pretty much my whole life."

Why he started the Bill Nye the Science Guy show: "...mediocre engineering management practices in the U.S. \[like\] The Ford Pinto, Chevy Vega, Challenger and Columbia space shuttle wrecks, each broke my heart. So did the U.S. abandoning the metric system. I wanted to touch the future instead of work for mediocrity."

On trying to live on Mars: "It will be miserable and then certain death. Party on."

On friends that don't believe in climate change: "Ignore him or her for now, and check back in with him or her in a few years."

Nye's bowties are quite the trademark. He says has "400...approximately."

On being remembered when he dies: "...right now as I type, near as I can tell, I’m not dead."

On sports: "I want Ultimate frisbee to be an Olympic sport, and I want soccer goals to be 2 yards (or meters) wider. Let’s go people!"

His favorite piece of sci-fi: "I still like the original version of The Thing (from outer space)."

Think you are too old to dive into a field like astrophysics? "It's only too late, if you make it too late." Nye says.