Bill Nye may want to set foot on Mars, but live there? No way.
“Earth is my favorite planet,” the scientist and TV personality told The Post on Tuesday at New York Fashion Week: Men’s. “People have this romantic vision about going to Mars. It’s based on our colonizing of North America. People think, ‘How hard could it be?’ Pretty hard, to tell you the truth!”
Nevertheless, Nye agreed to narrate his friend Nick Graham’s Mars-inspired runway presentation, which featured constellation-patterned scarves, space-age metallic suits and even a real astronaut, Buzz Aldrin, who closed the show in a silver bomber jacket and a T-shirt reading “Get Your Ass to Mars.”
“We’re getting people at Fashion Week to talk about Mars, which is incredible,” said Nye. “The idea that we could be alive to discover life on Mars — a discovery that could change the course of history — it would be like Copernicus showing the Earth goes around the sun.”
Nye did have some critiques on Graham’s collection, however.
“These clothes are great, but they are really not suited for Martian exploration,” said the “science guy,” sporting a spacesuit-patterned suit jacket, as well as a bow tie he designed with Graham. “That’s what I tell everybody who wants to live on Mars — you’re never outside. Either you’re in your spaceship-dome thing, or you’re in a spacesuit, which is just another, much smaller, spaceship.”
As for his own fashion tastes, Nye keeps it relatively simple.
“I’m interested in bow ties. But with fashion in general, I just tell everybody, ‘I want you all to be happy. Go knock yourselves out!’ But I do like a plain white shirt.”