#ICYMI - Wrestling with Physics, with Neil deGrasse Tyson

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🗓️ 28 February 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In case you missed this episode on the Playing with Science channel…. What’s the best wrestling move? Can you wrestle in zero gravity? Hosts Gary O’Reilly and Chuck Nice hit the mats as we sit down with astrophysicist and wrestling expert Neil deGrasse Tyson to answer fan-submitted questions about the science of wrestling.

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0:00.0	I'm Gary O'Reilly.
0:02.0	You've done something nice.
0:03.3	This is playing with science.
0:06.0	A cosmic queries episode.
0:10.8	The one you have been demanding for so long now,
0:14.6	we just had to give you what you've been asking for,
0:17.8	which is a wrestling show with none other,
0:20.2	then your favourite personal astrophysicist.
0:23.8	I don't know if I'm their favourite,
0:25.2	but definitely their personal astrophysicist.
0:27.0	You're our favourite.
0:28.2	We're going to call you the great grappler.
0:30.0	There was someone who publicly said I was their favourite astrophysic,
0:32.4	and it was Hillary Clinton.
0:34.0	Hillary Clinton causing her favourite astrophysicist.
0:36.4	And I said, how many astrophysicists do you know?
0:39.8	And she was like you.
0:41.2	No, that was it.
0:42.2	She knows quite a few words.
0:44.2	I don't know.
0:45.2	The least.
0:46.2	I'm going to keep you elevated on that pinnacle.
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