Things You Thought You Knew – Kicked into Orbit

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🗓️ 23 June 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

How do bikes and motorcycles stay up? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explain escape velocity, what’s going on with cricket, and the physics of bicycles.

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0:00.0	Okay, so the high wire, the reason why they carry this big stick,
0:05.0	that's left and right, okay?
0:07.6	It's not to balance them.
0:09.2	No?
0:09.8	That's not what it's doing.
0:11.2	Really?
0:12.2	No.
0:12.7	Okay.
0:13.4	No.
0:13.7	Now you've got me.
0:16.7	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:19.2	You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:24.7	Star Talk begins right now.
0:28.9	Gary, what are you on lined up today?
0:30.2	Right.
0:30.9	So we've had some questions and one of them landed right in my backyard.
0:35.9	It's how hard would you have to kick a soccer ball?
0:39.7	Or if you want a football to get it into orbit now?
0:44.4	Yeah, right?
0:45.4	Ah, yeah.
0:46.1	Okay.
0:46.6	People dream and people dream and superpowers on this one.
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