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#ICYMI: Out of This World Sports, with Neil deGrasse Tyson (Repeat)

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🗓️ 6 July 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This week, Gary O’Reilly and Chuck Nice explore what it would be like if we held the Olympics on Mars, or went ice skating on Europa, or played baseball on the Moon, using Neil deGrasse Tyson’s popular tweets that look at sports through the lens of science. Their only guest: astrophysicist and master tweeter, @neiltyson. Don’t miss an episode of Playing with Science. Subscribe on: iTunes Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/playing-with-science/id1198280360?mt=2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/startalk/playing-with-science TuneIn: http://tunein.com/radio/Playing-with-Science-p952100/ SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/startalk_playing-with-science GooglePlay Music: https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Iimke5bwpoh2nb25swchmw6kzjq NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free. Find out more at https://www.startalkradio.net/startalk-all-access/

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0:00.0

I'm Gary Aurelie.

0:07.0

And I'm Chuck Nice.

0:14.0

This is playing with science.

0:17.0

Today we enter Twitterdom through the vast multiverses of Neil deGrasse Tyson's mind

0:23.2

and light up the cerebral spheres that engage with the complex and ever evolving world of

0:28.9

people.

0:29.9

Yeah, so did you change your meds?

0:31.9

Yeah.

0:32.9

Hey, Neil deGrasse Tyson has many opinions and many things which he chooses to share on

0:39.4

a regular basis.

0:40.8

But he has a heartfelt connection to sports that's constantly filtered through his scientific

0:47.1

lens on Twitter.

0:48.7

So when you play with science, there can be no better play date than the man himself.

0:54.6

Yes.

0:55.6

Thanks for joining us right now.

0:57.0

It's the one.

0:58.0

You're the only inevitable press.

1:05.0

You like that?

1:08.0

That's right.

1:09.0

Would you get the gong?

1:10.0

Yeah, that's right.

1:11.0

Normally that's how you get someone off the stage, right?

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