Recap: Live Tweets from #BillNye

If you weren't fortunate enough to make it to Bill Nye's sold-out talk, get caught up on everything that happened! Or if you were there, relive the glorious evening! Aditi  Bhandari live-tweeted the entire event, compiled below:  

Look at this line; and there's still almost an hour to go! Looks like EVERYONE wants to see @BillNye tonight. pic.twitter.com/r9MMo4F6Zo

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 17, 2015

Nerdwestern University students literally wear their excitement for @BillNye #bowties #periodictable pic.twitter.com/FpK3jtGTc8

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 17, 2015

*hacker voice* WE'RE IN pic.twitter.com/xlm7Igpa00

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 17, 2015

Thanks so much to the @NUDems for organizing this evening with @BillNye! Thanks to your efforts, @pickstaiger filled up within minutes!

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 17, 2015

T-MINUS 3 MINUTES TO @BillNye #weareready

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 17, 2015

"I often wonder, would it be different if we went back to calling it the Department of War instead of the Department of Defense." -@BillNye

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 17, 2015

"They're defending our oil." - @BillNye

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 17, 2015

“If you get a chance to be a prisoner of war… don’t do it.” - @BillNye on his father's life

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 17, 2015

SAND-dials; like sundials, but for the BEACH. Thank goodness for @BillNye

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 17, 2015

“You know how accounting people party… but let me tell you, SUN DIAL people…” - @BillNye

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 17, 2015

“One of my dad’s biggest ideas was to turn the Washington Needle… into a GIANT sun dial.” - @BillNye

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 17, 2015

"My father pointed out that we would have to move the White House" for the sun dial to work. - @BillNye

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 17, 2015

"Next time you're on the moon..." - @BillNye

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

"I don't wear women's stockings! Huge fan though..." - @BillNye

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

"Mars is a PLACE. If you were dressed properly, you could walk around, have a picnic." - @BillNye

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

Also #orangidescence

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

“If you go up to an astronomer and say, ”AU, how far is the earth from the sun?” She’ll say, ”1 AU.” - @BillNye #sciencejokes

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

Remember when you used to play 'the floor is lava?' "On Venus, it's really like that!" - @BillNye

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

"The clouds of Venus rain sulfuric acid... Dude, it's true!" - @BillNye

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

*pinches fingers* "The atmosphere is just this thick, and there's 7 billion people breathing and burning it up." - @BillNye

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

"... Or they're working very hard to protect the interests of certain people." - @BillNye

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

Points to climate change graph; “This is [by the] the Army Corps of Engineers; these are not Commies!” - @BillNye

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

“I’m a mechanical engineer… I mean, I’m human, but I’m a mechanical engineer…” - @BillNye

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

"I take it a few of you watched the debate, I love you all." - @BillNye

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

What would change @BillNye's opinion on Creationism? Evidence. Dude.

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

What would change @BillNye's opinion on Creationism? Evidence. Dude.

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

“You’d have to pay $18 million bucks, which is nothing to you, I mean you have to pay tuition.” - @BillNye

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

"For those of you who bought my book, thank you, I love you, man." - @BillNye

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

"I took 3 years of latin – "Did you put it back" – ha ha..." - @BillNye #sciencejokes

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

Ken Ham's insistence on Creationism is "un-American." - @BillNye

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

THIS JUST IN: Pluto is not @BillNye's favorite planet. He also calls it the "first plutoid" rather than the "last planet."

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

Yes, @BillNye once took a class taught by Carl Sagan.

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

"When you put a message in a bottle, you do it for you." Not for anyone else. Hence the Voyager message. - @BillNye

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

"We believe we can send humans to Mars in 2030." - @BillNye

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

"If you were to find evidence of life on Mars... you would CHANGE THE WORLD. You'd be like Copernicus or Galileo or something!" - @BillNye

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

ICYMI: @BillNye is part of the Planetary Society. He is, in fact, the CEO.

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

"Space exploration brings out the best in humankind." - @BillNye

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

"When we're learning about space, we're learning about ourselves, the cosmos and our place in it." - @BillNye

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

"We are made of the same stuff as stars... You and I are made of stardust." - @BillNye

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

"That you and I are made of stardust is fascinating to me… We are a way for the universe to know itself." - @BillNye

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

"I want you all to... CHANGE THE WORLD!" - @BillNye

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

Even @BillNye's WATCH is a solar panel.

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

"I want you guys to consider becoming the next great generation. I want you guys to, dare I say it, CHANGE THE WORLD." - @BillNye

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

"Three Texas-es would fit in Alaska, it's amazing." - @BillNye

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

"I'll tell you; if nothing else, you HAVE to vote." - @BillNye

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

“In very small letters around the edge of each Mars dial… it says, “To those who visit here, we wish a safe journey and a safe discovery.”

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

"This is the essence of science this is what humankind does, this is the joy of discovery.” - @BillNye

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

The pale blue dot: "That's it. That's everyone you've ever met. Every mushroom, every oak tree, every chlorinated swimming pool." -@BillNye

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

"GET THIS, PEOPLE. There are more stars in the observable universe than there are grains of sand." - @BillNye

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

"I SUCK." - @BillNye, on why he's a speck with other specks on a speck orbiting another speck.

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

"We have to do everything all at once" to combat climate change. - @BillNye

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

Plaid guy just got to ask a question to both @BillNye and @neiltyson SIMULTANEOUSLY

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

Audience member: "I grew up watching your show–" @BillNye: "I LOVE YOU, MAN"

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

"When you look at science, it's empowering... It allows me to be passionate while talking to people." - @BillNye

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

When making "@BillNye the Science Guy," he insisted on treating the viewers and guests as peers, and on not "dumbing it down" for them.

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

"What would life be without art? It would SUCK!" - @BillNye

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

We asked @BillNye what the @inournaturemag team could do to get environmental info and news out there. He said, "Make it funny!"

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

What can journalists do to change environmental policy? "I want everybody to just talk about it and that’s what you do as journalists..."

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

"... You talk about climate change... If it were ok to talk about it, we’d be getting on with it." - @BillNye

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

"... You talk about climate change... If it were ok to talk about it, we’d be getting on with it." - @BillNye

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015

And as the last question of the evening, @BillNye is teaching us about the efficacy of the bow tie #bowtiesarecool

— In Our Nature (@inournaturemag) April 18, 2015