Best Party Ever? Bill Nye, Questlove Plan Epic NYC Light Experiment

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, NY — Who knew the National Park Service's resident party planners had such legendary taste?

Here's what the federal agency has decided to do for its 100th birthday:

On Monday, Aug. 22, 2016, beginning at 7:45 p.m., a selection of very dope humans — including Bill Nye, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and YOU, the absurdly lucky residents of New York City — have been invited to congregate in Brooklyn Bridge Park and listen to a DJ set from freaking Questlove while they dance atop a "giant digital circuit board" and watch their own movements LITERALLY CHANGE THE COLORS ON THE SPIRE OF ONE WORLD TRADE CENTER. For free.

This insanity will play out for upward of two hours.

“It’s not often that someone — or something — celebrates 100 years on this planet," DJ Questlove, drummer for The Roots, said in a statement Tuesday. "It’s super cool the National Park Service is celebrating its centennial by having me DJ their 100th birthday party.”

(Dearest Questlove: The pleasure, we assure you, is ours.)

So how on Earth is such a thing possible, you ask?

In our very rudimentary understanding, the "giant digital circuit board" will actually be a GAME board of sorts, with human bodies as its game pieces. The game will be called "Edison's Light Bulb." It will require participants to work together to form a certain pattern that reflects a current of electricity into an Edison light bulb. (Bear with us here.) When the current enters the bulb, it will turn one of five colors: red, green, blue, purple or orange. That info will then be transmitted across the river to the folks at One World Trade Center, who will light up the building's spire with the color created in the game.

"The board itself is fairly large, so you can have quite a few groups playing at once," a spokeswoman for Brooklyn Bridge Park told Patch.

The event's entrance will be located at Furman and Old Fulton streets near Pier 1.

Capacity is unlimited. But even so, the park rep said, "there will probably be a line" — so arrive as close to 7:45 p.m. as possible to secure a spot. Worth it, obviously.

Images courtesy of Brooklyn Bridge Park