Orbital mechanics is so complicated.

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, also, sorry. To be clear, this isn't related to the question, right?

We've just somehow stumbled into the... Weren't we talking about roller coasters like a minute ago?

Oh no, we're going on a diversion here, because I once tried to understand orbital...

I once tried to write a video script about orbital mechanics, and I threw it out

because it is so counterintuitive. You change your altitude by slowing down or speeding up. It's a whole

different coordinate transform for how you work. Oh, right. It is a complete screw of everything that

your brain understands about how coordinate systems work.

I mean, how hard could it be? It's not rocket science.

Hey!

Oh, God. We've never gotten so off track from a topic before.

It's podcast episode. Hello and welcome to Let's Learn Everything, the show where we learn anything and everything interesting.

And today we are delighted to have a guest with us who will be asking us a question.

And then we'll ask them a few questions in return, see how they like it.

My name's Ella, and today's guest is a prolific educational video maker, the host of the lateral podcast, and the superior Tom.

My name's Tom, and today I'll be asking our guest, has answering so many lateral questions helped make you think more laterally?

My name is Caroline, and I'm going to be asking our guest, what's your

best failed idea for a video? And my name's Tom Scott and I'll be asking you folks, what's the

fastest a regular person can go nought to 60 miles an hour? Oh, very specific. Okay. Yeah. For background, Tom told us what his rough idea for this is going to be.

The specificity has made it even more intriguing, I will have to say.

Tom, thank you so much for joining us.

Hello, thank you very much for having me on the show.

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