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Educational?
First let me say that I have watched every Ellen episode and think she is funny and a great personality. But to call this show educational is a bit far fetched, to call the green house effect an "arguable fact is totally wrong. Its been a few years since I have seen it but I remember being very unhappy with the use of Ellen & Bill Nye to bow down to the oil company who sponser the attraction. I will not ride it again until they fix it. Now I have to go fill my gas tank anyone got $50.00 I can borrow? :hammer:
First let me say that I have watched every Ellen episode and think she is funny and a great personality. But to call this show educational is a bit far fetched, to call the green house effect an "arguable fact is totally wrong. Its been a few years since I have seen it but I remember being very unhappy with the use of Ellen & Bill Nye to bow down to the oil company who sponser the attraction. I will not ride it again until they fix it. Now I have to go fill my gas tank anyone got $50.00 I can borrow? :hammer:
imagineer99
New Member
^Whatever...
I like the attraction...*shrugs shoulders*
It's entertaining and funny, and gives a pretty accurate description of energy resources. Even though it was once sponsored by Texaco (no longer), I think the video is pretty good at being un-biased regarding energy and where it comes for. Besides, at NO point does it come out and say the Greenhouse effect is false.
I like the attraction...*shrugs shoulders*
It's entertaining and funny, and gives a pretty accurate description of energy resources. Even though it was once sponsored by Texaco (no longer), I think the video is pretty good at being un-biased regarding energy and where it comes for. Besides, at NO point does it come out and say the Greenhouse effect is false.
General Grizz
New Member
I hope you don't find Turtle Talk educational, worfbb77. 
Educational elements in UoE:
1. Bill Nye's introduction to energy in Ellen's apartment
2. Judith Peterson's correct answers in the preshow dream
3. The Big Bang in the second theater into the dinosaurs
4. The Dawn of the Human Age (montage)
5. The Sun: We'll start with the sun. It's where most of our energy comes from. It's at the heart of some great ideas for tomorrow. Like ... solar energy. Solar mirrors are one way to convert the sun's energy into electricity. . . Ah, not so fast. For one thing, it's not sunny enough everywhere. And although the sunshine is free, solar electricity still isn't that cheap. But it's gettin' there.
6. Wind: Today, we're using the clean energy of moving air -- wind -- to generate electricity. (Well then, why don't we just get a bunch of wind farmers to harvest a big ol' crop o' wind?) We're starting to ... where it's windy. But remember, to power a whole city, you need a whole lot of wind. (And when the wind stops blowing ... we'd be left in the dark, wouldn't we?) No way. We just switch to another source of energy.
7. Hydroelectric Power Plants: No, but this big gray wall might [give us energy when we need it]. Okay. Hydroelectric power plants convert the energy of falling water into electricity, and are renewed by this natural resource: [rain]. We've already used many of the best sites, and sometimes building a dam can be pretty hard on the ecosystem. The sun, water, geothermal steam, even wood, all contribute. Right now, these renewables provide about ten percent of the world's energy. But we can expect them to be playing an even bigger role in the decades ahead.
8. Coal: Let's hitch a ride with this solid fossil fuel. . . And we've discovered two centuries' worth. (What about global warming?) It's a hot topic, with lots of questions. And it's one of the big reasons scientists are working on ways to burn fuels, like coal, more efficiently than ever.
9. Natural Gas: It's clean-burning. At the rate we're going, we're set for about sixty years. We're always finding more natural gas all the time. But we do need to use it wisely.
10. Oil: It's our main source of energy, and we've found enough to last at least fifty years. We're far from running on empty. We've got some pretty far-out ways of finding more.
11. Space: Satellites are one of the tools we use in our search for hidden deposits. But there are others. . . That is because many of the easily reached petroleum deposits have already been tapped.
12. The Seas: Most new discoveries will come from once inaccessible or hard to reach places. Actually, the oil is buried way deep, under the ocean floor. We can reach the oil with offshore drilling platforms like this. Some drilling platforms are so tall, they would tower over the Empire State Building. I mean, that's big!
13. Atomic Power and the Future: world of atomic power! See, today we take atoms like these and split them apart to release energy. It's called fission. Nuclear energy is expensive. And highly controversial. But if we keep using our brain power, we'll have lots of choices for the future. Maybe even unlock the power of the stars. Fusion power!
= knowledge!
... and I mentioned Turtle Talk because you might find out how old turtles are and how to speak whale...
Educational elements in UoE:
1. Bill Nye's introduction to energy in Ellen's apartment
2. Judith Peterson's correct answers in the preshow dream
3. The Big Bang in the second theater into the dinosaurs
Bill Nye said:
4. The Dawn of the Human Age (montage)
Bill Nye said:
5. The Sun: We'll start with the sun. It's where most of our energy comes from. It's at the heart of some great ideas for tomorrow. Like ... solar energy. Solar mirrors are one way to convert the sun's energy into electricity. . . Ah, not so fast. For one thing, it's not sunny enough everywhere. And although the sunshine is free, solar electricity still isn't that cheap. But it's gettin' there.
6. Wind: Today, we're using the clean energy of moving air -- wind -- to generate electricity. (Well then, why don't we just get a bunch of wind farmers to harvest a big ol' crop o' wind?) We're starting to ... where it's windy. But remember, to power a whole city, you need a whole lot of wind. (And when the wind stops blowing ... we'd be left in the dark, wouldn't we?) No way. We just switch to another source of energy.
7. Hydroelectric Power Plants: No, but this big gray wall might [give us energy when we need it]. Okay. Hydroelectric power plants convert the energy of falling water into electricity, and are renewed by this natural resource: [rain]. We've already used many of the best sites, and sometimes building a dam can be pretty hard on the ecosystem. The sun, water, geothermal steam, even wood, all contribute. Right now, these renewables provide about ten percent of the world's energy. But we can expect them to be playing an even bigger role in the decades ahead.
8. Coal: Let's hitch a ride with this solid fossil fuel. . . And we've discovered two centuries' worth. (What about global warming?) It's a hot topic, with lots of questions. And it's one of the big reasons scientists are working on ways to burn fuels, like coal, more efficiently than ever.
9. Natural Gas: It's clean-burning. At the rate we're going, we're set for about sixty years. We're always finding more natural gas all the time. But we do need to use it wisely.
10. Oil: It's our main source of energy, and we've found enough to last at least fifty years. We're far from running on empty. We've got some pretty far-out ways of finding more.
11. Space: Satellites are one of the tools we use in our search for hidden deposits. But there are others. . . That is because many of the easily reached petroleum deposits have already been tapped.
12. The Seas: Most new discoveries will come from once inaccessible or hard to reach places. Actually, the oil is buried way deep, under the ocean floor. We can reach the oil with offshore drilling platforms like this. Some drilling platforms are so tall, they would tower over the Empire State Building. I mean, that's big!
13. Atomic Power and the Future: world of atomic power! See, today we take atoms like these and split them apart to release energy. It's called fission. Nuclear energy is expensive. And highly controversial. But if we keep using our brain power, we'll have lots of choices for the future. Maybe even unlock the power of the stars. Fusion power!
= knowledge!
... and I mentioned Turtle Talk because you might find out how old turtles are and how to speak whale...
General Grizz
New Member
imagineer99 said:
Sponsored originally by Exxon, which became ExxonMobil...
Tigger1988
Well-Known Member
General Grizz said:I hope you don't find Turtle Talk educational, worfbb77.
Educational elements in UoE:
1. Bill Nye's introduction to energy in Ellen's apartment
2. Judith Peterson's correct answers in the preshow dream
3. The Big Bang in the second theater into the dinosaurs
4. The Dawn of the Human Age (montage)
5. The Sun: We'll start with the sun. It's where most of our energy comes from. It's at the heart of some great ideas for tomorrow. Like ... solar energy. Solar mirrors are one way to convert the sun's energy into electricity. . . Ah, not so fast. For one thing, it's not sunny enough everywhere. And although the sunshine is free, solar electricity still isn't that cheap. But it's gettin' there.
6. Wind: Today, we're using the clean energy of moving air -- wind -- to generate electricity. (Well then, why don't we just get a bunch of wind farmers to harvest a big ol' crop o' wind?) We're starting to ... where it's windy. But remember, to power a whole city, you need a whole lot of wind. (And when the wind stops blowing ... we'd be left in the dark, wouldn't we?) No way. We just switch to another source of energy.
7. Hydroelectric Power Plants: No, but this big gray wall might [give us energy when we need it]. Okay. Hydroelectric power plants convert the energy of falling water into electricity, and are renewed by this natural resource: [rain]. We've already used many of the best sites, and sometimes building a dam can be pretty hard on the ecosystem. The sun, water, geothermal steam, even wood, all contribute. Right now, these renewables provide about ten percent of the world's energy. But we can expect them to be playing an even bigger role in the decades ahead.
8. Coal: Let's hitch a ride with this solid fossil fuel. . . And we've discovered two centuries' worth. (What about global warming?) It's a hot topic, with lots of questions. And it's one of the big reasons scientists are working on ways to burn fuels, like coal, more efficiently than ever.
9. Natural Gas: It's clean-burning. At the rate we're going, we're set for about sixty years. We're always finding more natural gas all the time. But we do need to use it wisely.
10. Oil: It's our main source of energy, and we've found enough to last at least fifty years. We're far from running on empty. We've got some pretty far-out ways of finding more.
11. Space: Satellites are one of the tools we use in our search for hidden deposits. But there are others. . . That is because many of the easily reached petroleum deposits have already been tapped.
12. The Seas: Most new discoveries will come from once inaccessible or hard to reach places. Actually, the oil is buried way deep, under the ocean floor. We can reach the oil with offshore drilling platforms like this. Some drilling platforms are so tall, they would tower over the Empire State Building. I mean, that's big!
13. Atomic Power and the Future: world of atomic power! See, today we take atoms like these and split them apart to release energy. It's called fission. Nuclear energy is expensive. And highly controversial. But if we keep using our brain power, we'll have lots of choices for the future. Maybe even unlock the power of the stars. Fusion power!
= knowledge!
... and I mentioned Turtle Talk because you might find out how old turtles are and how to speak whale...
WOO! Go Grizz!
Connor002
Active Member
Tigger1988 said:
really? i don't remember sitting in the preshow. well, i guess it's been a while
I do know how bill nye is, and i watched him when i was younger, though i don't remember a lot of it
by the way, what channel was he on? I can't remember.
P.S.- assuming your profile is correct, i'm only 3 years younger, i watched these shows to
General Grizz
New Member
There are areas to sit along the walls, but for safety reasons (sitting in the dark while people enter the building durning the preshow!) the Cast Members request that everyone sitting on the floor stand up during the first preshow.Connor002 said:really? i don't remember sitting in the preshow. well, i guess it's been a while
I do know how bill nye is, and i watched him when i was younger, though i don't remember a lot of it
by the way, what channel was he on? I can't remember.
P.S.- assuming your profile is correct, i'm only 3 years younger, i watched these shows to
GrandFloridian1
New Member
"Stupid Judy, stupid Judy!"
imagineer99
New Member
General Grizz said:
Sorry, grizz, wasn't thinking straight... Right as always
What is "Brain Power," Alex?
Tigger1988
Well-Known Member
Connor002 said:really? i don't remember sitting in the preshow. well, i guess it's been a while
I do know how bill nye is, and i watched him when i was younger, though i don't remember a lot of it
by the way, what channel was he on? I can't remember.
P.S.- assuming your profile is correct, i'm only 3 years younger, i watched these shows to
For me Bill Nye was on PBS...I don't really know about where he aired in any other areas...I loved coming home watching him and "Where in the World is Carman Sandeigo?"
Tigger1988
Well-Known Member
Connor002 said:
I heard shes retired and now resides in Miami...with the Golden Girls :lol:
Tigger1988
Well-Known Member
Brian_B said:
Are you talking about when they added Dory to Turtle Talk?...Thats not even her voice I believe.
General Grizz
New Member
I think he's describing the future Living Seas, where you will see MUCH more Dory...Tigger1988 said:
Tigger1988
Well-Known Member
General Grizz said:
Oh! ok I thought he meant Turtle Talk...which started this past Nov haha
Kadee
New Member
I LOVE UofE. As Grizz so wonderfully pointed out, it is very informative and accurate! I notice these things; I guess it comes along with my job (science teacher). Also, 8th graders think Bill Nye is cool. They LOVE his videos and sing right along with the theme song. Our school purchased many of his videos (I wish we had all of them) and all of the science teachers show them anytime we are covering a topic we have a video on. They learn a lot from watching his videos. They are very informative and VERY entertaining.
I don't think Ellen is "out of date." I love her commercials for American Express where she is dancing all over the city. Her talk show is pretty popular, too.....at least here in the US.
I don't think Ellen is "out of date." I love her commercials for American Express where she is dancing all over the city. Her talk show is pretty popular, too.....at least here in the US.