Globetrotter’s Guide to the Galaxy

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🗓️ 3 December 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

How does a gravity assist work? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly run us through physics phenomena with the help of our friends from the Harlem Globetrotters, Hot Shot Swanson and Cheese Chisholm.

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0:00.0	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:04.0	You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.0	StarTalk begins right now.
0:14.0	This is StarTalk Sports Edition.
0:18.0	Today, we're extending our analysis of trick shots.
0:23.0	We did a whole show on Billiards.
0:25.0	Today, it's basketball.
0:28.0	And there are those who reign supreme in the trick shock department.
0:33.0	And that's none other than the Harlem Globetrotters.
0:37.0	And Gary Chuck, we spent all day with two members of the Harlem Globetrotters
0:42.0	over at a court, indoor court in Brooklyn.
0:45.0	And that was some fun time just to...oh my god.
0:49.0	Yeah, to find the Globetrotters in their natural habitat.
0:53.0	And be part of their kind of thought process and ability was brilliant.
1:01.0	Because the two guys we had, geez, chisholm, and hot shots once and were out of the top drawer.
1:07.0	They were very, very good with us and incredibly talented.
1:11.0	Yeah. Chuck, give me some natural habitat narration for that.
1:14.0	And here we find the Globetrotters in their natural habitat.
1:19.0	And yet somehow, still in Brooklyn.
1:24.0	Quite an irony that we would find the Harlem Globetrotters here in Brooklyn indeed.
1:34.0	Thank you, Chuck.
1:36.0	We see now the spinning of the ball on the finger, clearly a meeting sign.
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