UPDATED: Bill Nye The Science Guy visited the Perot Museum Wednesday

Children of the '90s, this one's for you.

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@TheScienceGuy: Perot Museum of Nature & Science tonight. Architecture affects our senses.

DALLAS — The one and only Bill Nye The Science Guy was in Dallas Wednesday visiting the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, according to Reddit.

Just after 4 p.m., he tweeted a photo (on right) from his journey up the great glass escalator on the outside of the building, clad in iconic bow-tie and blazer. The tweet reads: "Perot Museum of Nature & Science tonight. Architecture affects our senses."

Never put it past @TheScienceGuy to seize an opportunity for learning more about science. But I wonder, what if he was doing more than just absorbing knowledge? After all, the museum closes at 5 p.m., less than an hour after Nye hit up the Twittersphere. A private tour, perhaps? Or a secret experiment that defies gravity and unleashes an army of cute kittens to cuddle every child in the world?

As a kid, I always wished he do that. Flash back to the '90s with Bill Nye the Science Guy below.

[UPDATE: We spoke with museum representative Melinda Wenk, who said Nye was a guest speaker in a series by The Lamplighter School on Wednesday. He spoke to a packed house in the The Hoglund Foundation Theater.]

Bill Nye the Science Guy - Earthquakes

Bill Nye the Science Guy - “Sound Is A Vibe”

This one hails from the Sound episode (which I forgot even had a song) ... this is a parody of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive."

Collin Gouldin, verified:

I hope he was as disappointed about everything being broken and run down as I was.

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Jason Rice, verified:

Things were in pretty good shape today. I only counted two missing microscopes (in a touchy-feely-kids-will-mangle-the hell-out-of-them spots). I got an early look so some of the exhibits were new to me and looked pretty darned good.

There is only one pair of exhibits that I can not see every being satisfactory: The Robots and Mech display.

There are parts enough to make exactly four radio controlled wheeled machines. There are two of each kind of actuator/motors/wheel assemblies and two channels of controllers. So if the place is completely empty, ideally, two kids could choose from two kinds of grabbers/scoops for moving stuff, two kinds of wheel/motor configurations and then work to play tic-tac-toe or just fight to push each other around.

As it is, the line is usually around the exhibit and kids just take turns playing with one of two prebuilt remote control tractors.(Prebuilt, because the parts never come back to the assembly/design table. They just pass fully built from one kid to the next) It really would require a full-time moderator running it to work as designed.

That said - it's the only real glitch I've seen in the place.

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