Hey Bill Nye Analysis
The video that I am analyzing is "Hey Bill Nye, 'How Do We Know the Earth is Round?' #TuesdaysWithBill", and through critical analysis of this YouTube video, I believe flat earthers are this texts' intended audience. In this video Bill Nye discusses multiple reasons that, in his opinion, proves that the Earth is indeed, a globe. These videos produced by "Big think", a segment called "Hey Bill Nye", he replies to fan videos that are sent in, and typically science related questions and Bill Nye does his best to answer them.
The very first thing in this video is, well, another video, that being used as the opening question to which Bill Nye directs his response. Nye begins his response by repeating the question asked of him by the viewer, with …show more content…
Why did Nye choose this as his first example? Flat earthers have a somewhat solid rebuttal to this claim, that is simply this, particles in the air and space around us create a dirty window effect, obscuring our view and making it impossible to see past a certain distance. Perhaps Nye should have started off the video with a more solid claim, as flat earthers would be considered conspiracy theorists, and those are naturally more sensitive types, and can be quite triggered by the display of knowledge they believe is debunkable and will jump on information they can prove is wrong or could even stand a chance of being wrong. Nye even repeats this example of proof at 2:14, saying that any flat earther should go out on a boat and take notice of the fact that they cannot see …show more content…
Are they real? Could the possibility exist of faked space exploration photos? This example, seems to be a solid point. With the existence of thousands of photos having been taken from space, of the Earth, one might think it would be next to impossible to have made sure that those all look similar in shape and detail. The flat Earthers however, believe since all photos taken by satellite have been digitally edited to make details more vivid and other undisclosed reasons, they are
The very first thing in this video is, well, another video, that being used as the opening question to which Bill Nye directs his response. Nye begins his response by repeating the question asked of him by the viewer, with …show more content…
Why did Nye choose this as his first example? Flat earthers have a somewhat solid rebuttal to this claim, that is simply this, particles in the air and space around us create a dirty window effect, obscuring our view and making it impossible to see past a certain distance. Perhaps Nye should have started off the video with a more solid claim, as flat earthers would be considered conspiracy theorists, and those are naturally more sensitive types, and can be quite triggered by the display of knowledge they believe is debunkable and will jump on information they can prove is wrong or could even stand a chance of being wrong. Nye even repeats this example of proof at 2:14, saying that any flat earther should go out on a boat and take notice of the fact that they cannot see …show more content…
Are they real? Could the possibility exist of faked space exploration photos? This example, seems to be a solid point. With the existence of thousands of photos having been taken from space, of the Earth, one might think it would be next to impossible to have made sure that those all look similar in shape and detail. The flat Earthers however, believe since all photos taken by satellite have been digitally edited to make details more vivid and other undisclosed reasons, they are