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Bill Nye passes out, and nothing but tweets

Posted Nov 18th, 2010 at 3:37 AM and seen
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Given that Force = Mass x Acceleration, with how much force would Bill Nye the Science Guy hit a stage? Apparently not enough to rouse a crowd of USC students, who watched Nye faint during a presentation. Instead of helping, people tweeted the incident. “Nobody went to his aid at the very beginning when he first collapsed—that just perplexed me beyond reason,” USC Senior Alastair Fairbanks, who was at Nye’s presentation, tells the Los Angeles Times. “Instead, I saw students texting and updating their Twitter statuses. It was just all a very bizarre evening.”

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Comments (7)

Nov 18, 2010
Walter Akana said...
Must be the Season of the Witch!
Nov 18, 2010
Karen Swim said...
Allow me to apologize on behalf of my alma mater. This is shameful.How sad that we have gotten to a point in our culture where it's more important to tweet about life than actually live it.
Nov 18, 2010
Guy Jordan said...
So is Bill OK or is the only news here the modern version of "I don't want to get involved?"
Nov 18, 2010
IPayItForWord said...
OK, but if it was so wrong that no one went to his aid, they all twittered, we now have a news story about him fainting, the students twittering and for all we know, he's dead and STILL laying on the stage. How is he??? LOL
Nov 18, 2010
Dawn Stahl said...
See the link to the full story at Yahoo! News. " Early indications are that Nye is OK..."
Nov 18, 2010
StewartHersey said...
i've seen folks walk over a guy who keeled over dead on the subway platform in front of the opening doors of a tokyo yamanote line train - nobody stopped
Nov 19, 2010
aj said...
Twitter, and just technology in general, is bringing the bystander effect to an entirely new level...sheesh.

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