Cosmic Queries – Innovating, with Bill Nye

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🗓️ 20 December 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In honor of Sir Isaac Newton’s birthday, Bill Nye and Chuck Nice answer Cosmic Queries about inventions, innovations and scientific discovery, from sewers, to artificial intelligence, to the future of energy, to the exploration of Mars, and more. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons and All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.startalkradio.net/show/cosmic-queries-innovating-with-bill-nye/ Thanks to this week’s Patrons for supporting us: Brett Larue, Aimee Kukowski, Scarlet Wolf, Lionel Gollan, Michael Kosakavich, Michelle Danic. Photo Credit: Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton, by Charles Jervas.

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0:00.0	From the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and beaming out across all of space and time.
0:09.0	This is Star Trek, we're science and pop culture.
0:23.0	Welcome, welcome to StarTalk Radio. I'm Bill and I, guest hosting.
0:28.0	This is a special edition Chuck. As we're honoring Sir Isaac Newton, who's birthday quickly approaches.
0:35.0	He was born on December 25, 1642, as reckoned in Britain.
0:40.0	So we took your questions about inventions, inventors, inventories, and scientific discoveries.
0:48.0	Isaac Newton, I'm here by the way with Chuck Nice.
0:52.0	Thank you. Hi. The charming and enchanting.
0:56.0	Chuck, it was Christmas day as reckoned in Britain.
1:01.0	In Britain. But it was the 4th of January and Italy.
1:04.0	Yes. And that's because it's a time zone thing, right?
1:10.0	It's a little complicated. Right now it may be what time is it here? Currently 130.
1:16.0	And so it's not that central time. Right.
1:20.0	So what happened is the, say what you will about the Vatican, the Catholic Church, they had some outstanding astronomers.
1:28.0	And they realized that if you had a leap day every four years and definitely you're adding too much time.
1:35.0	And you may recall that so out of hand did it get that Pope Gregory the 13th declared the 5th of October to be followed by the 15th of October.
1:45.0	I remember that well. It was a little while ago.
1:48.0	But I remember it. That's just like it was, you know, 1572.
1:52.0	Right. So it's like it was that. So the thing is just imagine how this went down.
1:56.0	So you're a tenant. And the landlord says you owe me rent today.
2:01.0	No, I don't. I know. You were rent for a week and a half. No, no.
2:05.0	That's right. Today Pope said it today.
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