Things You Thought You Knew – Need for Speed

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🗓️ 10 May 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Metric system, acceleration, and heat shields, Oh my! On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice run us through some stuff you thought you knew: the metric system in the US, speed versus acceleration, and heat shields.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:09.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:13.0	This is Star Talk.
0:16.0	I am your host, Neil, the grass-ticing, your personal astrophysicist.
0:20.0	And I got my coat checked, nice, check, baby.
0:23.0	Hey, what's happening, Neil?
0:24.0	All right, all right.
0:26.0	But you don't know what we're going to do today.
0:28.0	No, the new thing we're doing today.
0:30.0	Uh-oh.
0:31.0	This is going to be a stuff you thought you knew, like a second installment of that.
0:37.0	Right?
0:38.0	We did this once before, and it really caught on.
0:41.0	And people wanted a little more of that kind of action.
0:43.0	It's because people want to know.
0:45.0	They want to know.
0:46.0	They want to know more, more and more.
0:48.0	They want to know new stuff, plus if they old stuff they knew was wrong, they want to fix it.
0:53.0	Usually, most of the time.
0:56.0	So right off the top, just so you know, I'm going to talk about the metric system in the United States.
1:03.0	Interesting.
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