Bill Nye: Americans Should ‘Give A F*ck’ About Climate Change, Not DeflateGate

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• A ball outside can easily cool down below ambient air temperature from evaporative cooling or rain.

  • Yes! That too!

    Hey, I just agreed with BlizzardCreek - someone check to see if Hell froze over.

    • Hockey on the river Styx, bring your skates...

    • I believe there are more things out there that we agree on. That may come as a surprise to you.

      • "I believe there are more things out there that we agree on. That may come as a surprise to you."

        Actually, so do I... what urinates people off is you're so angry and such an a$$hole about that you get personal. But that just may be me.

        • Are you confusing me with someone else? I have definitely disagreed with regulars on here but I don't think I ever came off as "angry".

        • Seriously? I'd never confuse you with the other, but your sense of self-worth (such as it is) is amazing.

          My biggest question is, "do you get paid for this, or is it just a hobby?"

          If you'd like to be honest about the issues, have at it. If you'd like a few facts steering you towards the truth... just ask.

          But to be an a$$hole troll for the sake of being a troll is different, up to you. Or phone home and ask for instruction.

          [edit] DAMN I lost the Spooky Dude's #... you still have it?

        • I was going to email it to you, but I figured it's safe to post here.
          666-666-SCUM or
          666-666-7286

• Seems to me we should give a flying one about nearly everything BUT deflategate.

• Like Tom Brady, I'll pass

  • Straight to Richard Sherman, perhaps?

    (12th Man here!)

    • You sure he'll be there? They might need you on the field. I know there's not a chance in hell he'll miss this game but the brouhaha surrounding it is hilarious. Especially the feminazi knotted knickers.

      Good luck Sunday RKae, hope you have a great time (Dammit, my team is home watching the game just like me), I'll certainly be pulling for them.

• People should tell Nye to shut the f@@k up.

• Bill Nye would gain more from a kick in the balls, than by deflating them.

• A couple points. Nye makes no mention of how long he left those balls in the refrigerator and the fact that he put so many of them in there makes me highly suspicious. Why did he need more than one? That many 80-degree footballs are going to take a long time to get down to 51 degrees in a refrigerator - the leather is effectively insulating them from any convection effects and that many balls are going to bring their own climate with them. And 51 degrees? Where did that temperature come from? I've read reports that it was 51 degrees at game time but the balls are out there on the field hours before game time, when presumably it was colder. And by halftime they've been man-handled by two and three hundred pound men for an hour more. I don't know what it does to the air pressure in a football to have two or three NFL players landing on it every play, but it certainly doesn't increase the air pressure.

  According to Nye his football lost 6% of its pressure. That is not insignificant. That's three quarters of a pound even under the questionable non-scientific conditions he created. If the Patriots inflated the balls to the low end of the allowed range, 12.5 pounds, which they would be allowed to do under the rules, the ball pressure would be 11.25 pounds after a few minutes at 51 degrees, well under the legal range.

  There is a simple mathematical formula for how much air pressure would be lost due to cold temperatures on the field. We all know Nye isn't intelligent enough to use the formula. That's why he went with the refrigerator stunt. Anyway, I don't think the formula tells the whole story. My experience with footballs is that the valve is pathetically dysfunctional. You just hope the stupid thing isn't leaking after you pump the ball up. Take a football out into the cold and that pathetic valve becomes even more dysfunctional. It's just rubber sealing itself by virtue of its flexibility and that rubber is much less flexible in the cold. Have five hundred pounds of NFL player land on that football with the pathetic valve and I'm guessing it leaks air like a Polish submarine.

  • One minor problem with your math.
    12.5 psi minus .75 psi is 11.75 psi.
    Other than the minor math error, your point is completely valid.

    • LOL. WTF was I doing?

  • As a Pollack, I always enjoyed the "screen doors on Polish submarines" joke.

• Hey Bill DILLIGAF about either one? Lybia has terriorist run all over the place, Yemen is gone and ISIS is still cutting heads off. All the while you and your fellow idiots are going on about climate change. Get real and get a life.

  • The Bill Nye fan club member is upset.... :)

    • THE Bill Nye fan club member is upset?
      That explains the one TD per post.

• Bill Nye-Retard Guy....I hope that soon space aliens take you and Neil Degoofy Tyson on a long trip with many anal probes and put you on display in an alien zoo on another world...

• Bill Nye and Neil DeGrassi Tyson are scientists much in the way Huckabee, McCain, McConnell, and Boehner are Conservatives.

  • And Lena Dunham and Jim Carrey are talented actors.

  • SINOs?

• And why should we give a f*ck about you?

  • I don't give a f*ck about climate change, deflate gate, or bill nye.