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Now, Bill Nye the Science Guy is here to walk you through the science behind the destruction—and to convince you to blow stuff up with the Terminator. [For charity](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgoYbP4vduo), of course. To get you excited about the opportunity to fire rocket launchers with Schwarzenegger in Los Angeles, Nye offers a physic lessons on the durability of spaghetti, what it would take to detonate dynamite with your mind and what happens to your brain when you look at Sylvester Stallone. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3991251/bill-nye-science-guy-arnold-schwarzenegger-blowing-stuff-up/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3991251/bill-nye-science-guy-arnold-schwarzenegger-blowing-stuff-up/"},"headline":"Watch Bill Nye the Science Guy Explain The Science of Blowing Things Up","datePublished":"2015-08-10T18:36:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:23:14.526Z","description":"With help from Arnold Schwarzenegger","url":"https://time.com/3991251/bill-nye-science-guy-arnold-schwarzenegger-blowing-stuff-up/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Science topic","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3991251/bill-nye-science-guy-arnold-schwarzenegger-blowing-stuff-up/","name":"Watch Bill Nye the Science Guy Explain The Science of Blowing Things Up"}}]}] ```