Cosmic Queries – Geek Time! with Charles Liu

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🗓️ 18 November 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Could you play Quidditch on Jupiter? Javelin on Mars? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly answer fan questions about low-gravity physics, the weight of Thor’s hammer, aerodynamics and more with astrophysicist Charles Liu.

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0:00.0	I would play near the surface.
0:01.4	At some atmospheric pressure
0:04.1	that would be similar to what we can survive,
0:06.4	but then you'd be up in the air.
0:07.9	There would be gravitational pull,
0:10.2	but there wouldn't be anything to stand on.
0:12.3	So, Quidditch would indeed be an ideal thing to play there,
0:15.7	but you'd have to have some gas masks on
0:17.7	because it smells a lot like methane and ammonia out there.
0:20.6	So...
0:21.4	Hey! Sign me up!
0:24.6	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:27.3	You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:32.9	Star Talk begins right now.
0:37.0	This is Star Talk Sports Edition.
0:40.6	And we're gonna do a grab bag today.
0:43.0	Love me some grab bag.
0:44.3	And of course I got my co-host Chuck Knies, Chuck.
0:46.9	Hey, hey, Neil, what's happening?
0:48.4	All right, all right.
0:49.8	And Gary, Gary, how you feeling, man?
0:52.0	I'm good.
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