Things You Thought You Knew – Where the Sun Don’t Shine

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🗓️ 25 July 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Does being in space mean there is no gravity? What does noon have to do with the Artemis Mission? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice break down weightlessness, planetary alignments, and what is going on on the south pole of the moon.

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0:00.0	You're in free form.
0:01.4	Let me say something that makes me kinda sound smart.
0:04.4	You will be falling to whatever pulls you,
0:07.5	no matter where that is,
0:09.1	unless you happen to be in a Lagrange point.
0:13.2	Oh!
0:14.0	Ow!
0:14.8	Ow!
0:18.0	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:20.5	Your place in the universe
0:22.0	where science and pop culture collide.
0:26.0	StarTalk begins right now.
0:30.5	This is StarTalk.
0:32.5	Things you thought you knew with addition.
0:35.5	And of course, I'm doing this with my co-host Chuck Nice.
0:39.3	So Chuck, I've done this experiment.
0:41.8	I asked people, where's the sun at 12 noon?
0:44.5	Invariably, more than half the cases,
0:47.3	they point straight up.
0:48.3	Straight up.
0:48.8	High news.
0:49.3	And what's odd is,
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