Building a Virtual World – Drone Racing League

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🗓️ 25 September 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

They’re fun, they’re fast, they’re drones. Neil deGrasse Tyson explores the Drone Racing League with founder and CEO Nicholas Horbaczewski, Marilyn Smith, PhD, Director of the Georgia Tech Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence, Chuck Nice, and Gary O’Reilly.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:14.0	This is Star Talk's sports edition.
0:18.0	In this episode, we're talking about the DRL, the drone racing league, behind the controls.
0:26.0	First, my coach, Jack Nice, Jack.
0:28.0	Hey, Neil, what's happening?
0:30.0	All right.
0:31.0	It's my favorite comedian.
0:33.0	Did I ever tell you that, Jack?
0:35.0	I never told you that.
0:36.0	Only every day.
0:38.0	But I will accept it whenever I hear it, Neil.
0:41.0	There you go, chalk it up.
0:43.0	We also got Gary O'Reilly, Gary, former footballer, excellent pro footballer from the UK,
0:50.0	former professional athlete and commentator.
0:53.0	So Gary, always good to have you.
0:55.0	But none of us have expertise in drone racing.
0:59.0	I know a little bit about drones just aerodynamically, but that's about it.
1:04.0	This notion that we have a drone racing league, this is out there.
1:09.0	And so we had to bring in the person who is responsible for this fact.
1:14.0	They're Nicholas Horbicchewski.
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