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April 29, 2024
ITHACA, New York, April 29 -- Cornell University issued the following news:

The way Bill Nye '77 tells it, he was an unpromising student admitted to Cornell due to a "some sort of clerical error" when he made a historic contribution to interstellar exploration.

As a senior, having completed his mechanical engineering requirements to the "great relief for everybody," Nye was taking Astronomy 102 with "this famous guy, Carl Sagan." In cl . . .

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