#ICYMI - Space Jam: Basketball Cosmic Queries, with Neil deGrasse Tyson

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🗓️ 30 November 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Neil deGrasse Tyson joins hosts Gary O’Reilly and Chuck Nice to answer fan submitted questions about the physics of basketball, Michael Jordan, and the impact of race on athletic performance. (Warning: Adult Language.) Don’t miss an episode of Playing with Science. Subscribe to our channels on: TuneIn: tunein.com/playingwithscience Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/playing-with-science/id1198280360 GooglePlay Music: https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Iimke5bwpoh2nb25swchmw6kzjq SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/startalk_playing-with-science Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/startalk/playing-with-science NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free: https://www.startalkradio.net/all-access/space-jam-basketball-cosmic-queries-with-neil-degrasse-tyson/

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0:00.0	I'm Gary A'Reilly.
0:11.3	And I'm Chuck Nell.
0:12.3	And this is playing with science.
0:15.3	Today we throw ourselves deep into the cosmos and plot a course for the superstars of far
0:20.9	away galaxy known by those who search such stars as the NBA Nebula.
0:25.9	Oh man, I like what you did there Gary.
0:28.1	Yeah, that was a really cosmological NBA reference thing.
0:33.1	Well, guess what?
0:34.1	We're armed only with our enduring minds and our listeners fabulously creative questions
0:39.1	because we're going to trek towards those far away stars and our guide for this journey.
0:44.4	It's none other than the one, the only, your very own personal astrophysicist, Dr. Neil
0:52.0	de Grasse, Tyson.
0:53.5	It's like that you get low.
0:57.6	So let's not waste any time.
1:00.1	Let's make some space jam, shall we?
1:02.1	I don't know why, but just hearing you say, let's make some space jam.
1:08.1	It's like the great British Bake Off.
1:10.6	Only in space.
1:12.0	But I think Neil, the way I've introduced the show might be flawed.
1:17.0	It's not an NBA Nebula, I love it.
1:19.2	We have Nebulocities across the cosmos named for whatever they happen to look like.
1:24.4	Ooh.
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