Things You Thought You Knew – Up, Up, and Away!

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🗓️ 27 December 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

What is the rocket equation? How do airplanes fly? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic Chuck Nice go through some things you thought you knew about how airplanes fly, x-rays, and how to fuel a rocket.

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0:00.0	The wing is now pitched upward towards the moving hair.
0:05.7	Right.
0:06.7	It's pitched upward.
0:08.0	So air is flying straight into the wing.
0:11.6	That's going to also add to the Bernoulli effect,
0:15.2	and that plane is going to pop.
0:19.2	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:21.8	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:26.8	Star Talk begins right now.
0:30.8	Yes.
0:32.8	You got one of your favorite kind of episodes coming up.
0:35.8	All right.
0:36.8	It's things you thought you knew.
0:38.8	I think you are correct.
0:39.8	You like those.
0:40.8	I do indeed.
0:41.8	I'm glad you like.
0:43.8	I like making you happy.
0:44.8	It's because I know that I don't know.
0:47.8	That is what I know.
0:53.8	And so this is a way to remedy that.
0:55.8	That's right.
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