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Yesterday’s Scenes From a Multiverse (“Going Rogue”, on-line here) gets scientifically aggressive:

Note the names of the weaponry, with their references to the two faces of American science in the popular media, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye.

From Wikipedia:

Neil deGrasse Tyson (… born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science communicator. He is currently the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space and a research associate in the department of astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History. (link)

William Sanford “Bill” Nye (born November 27, 1955), popularly known as Bill Nye the Science Guy, is an American science educator, comedian, television host, actor, writer, scientist and former mechanical engineer, best known as the host of the Disney/PBS children’s science show Bill Nye the Science Guy (1993–98) and for his many subsequent appearances in popular media as a science educator. (link)

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