Hard Hits

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🗓️ 9 October 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

How much force is in a car crash? How much energy is behind a punch? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Gary O’Reilly and Chuck Nice investigate hard hits from boxing, football, rugby, soccer, NASCAR, and more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:15.0	This is Star Talk Sports Edition.
0:18.0	And in this installment, we're going to focus on the physics of hard hits,
0:24.0	in contact sports, in bats and sticks and balls and crashes on the racetrack.
0:31.0	And I've got with me, as always, a Chuck Knies, Chuck.
0:35.0	Hey, what's happening?
0:37.0	All right, Chuck, a professional stand-up comedian, but also sports enthusiast.
0:41.0	But that's still not good enough to have a gastrophysicist and a sports enthusiast's comic.
0:45.0	We need an actual athlete.
0:47.0	And for that, we have Gary O'Reilly, Gary.
0:50.0	Hey, Neil, hi, Chuck.
0:52.0	So, a former athlete.
0:54.0	Yes, past tense.
0:56.0	But a current sports fan.
0:59.0	Isn't being an athlete like being the president, once you're a pro athlete,
1:04.0	you're always an athlete for the rest of your life.
1:06.0	You keep telling yourself that, yeah.
1:08.0	Okay.
1:10.0	Yeah.
1:11.0	I get a feeling the sand is definitely going to the bottom of the glass, right?
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