"I hope I'm not shocking anybody here, " Nye said.

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"His predecessor but six or eight or 10 - Nye Bevan - said he wanted a bedpan falling in Tredegar to be heard in the corridors of Whitehall, " Mr Miliband said.

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"You're going to actually get a chance to actually drive flight hardware on another planet, " said Bill Nye, a children's science show host on U.S. public television and a member of Planetary Society's board, who was also present for the announcement.

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"I've seen it all, all that rat-race stuff, the arms-race stuff, " said Mr. Nye.

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Science Guy Bill Nye, who has a TV show geared towards getting kids excited about science, said that Microsoft is in trouble with U.S. regulators because politicians are irritated that Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser doesn't always function as advertised.

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