Things You Thought You Knew – Billionaires in Space

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🗓️ 19 July 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Bezos? Branson? Elon Musk? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice break down why all these billionaires are going to space, how achieving orbit works, and how to wrap our heads around exponentially large numbers.

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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.
0:16.0	This is StarTalk.
0:19.0	This episode is another installment in things you thought you knew.
0:24.0	And today we're going to talk about billionaires in space.
0:28.0	We're going to talk about how our brain is not wired to think in exponentials.
0:33.0	And we're going to talk about what it takes to achieve orbit.
0:37.0	All in this episode of StarTalk.
0:40.0	So Chuck, I haven't checked in on you lately. What's been eating you?
0:43.0	Well, you know, I'm not sure if it's something that's eating me,
0:46.0	but I'm curious because little wild girl you were on CNN.
0:51.0	And there was a lot of hoopla about man returning to space.
0:57.0	No, no, billionaire returning to space.
1:02.0	That's true.
1:04.0	Actually, no, it's like this crow magnum man.
1:07.0	Now we have billionaire man.
1:10.0	This is so true.
1:11.0	Billionaire man going to space.
1:14.0	And now it looks like that's the new thing is that billionaires in space.
1:18.0	So what's your problem?
1:20.0	So my problem is that I was on for reads a career GPS.
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