Bill Nye isn’t exactly a doomsday ... who actually started his career as a mechanical engineer for Boeing in Seattle (where he invented a hydraulic suppressor tube still used on 747s), ...

There’s a hydraulic resonance suppressor ‘Quinke’ tube on the 747-horizontal stabilizer drive system that I like to think of as my tube,” Nye said on his website.

Bill then worked for Boeing and even invented an impressive "hydraulic resonance suppressor tube" that ended up being used in ...

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There’s a hydraulic resonance suppressor ‘Quinke’ tube on the 747-horizontal stabilizer drive system that I like to think of as my tube,” Nye said on his website.