Things You Thought You Knew – Zombie Apocalypse

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🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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How empty is space? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice break down things you thought you knew about asteroid belts, the sun’s highest point in the sky, and what the real danger is in a zombie apocalypse.

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0:00.0	Coming up on StarTalk, it's another Things You Thought You knew episode, all about asteroid fields, the anolema, and the zombie apocalypse.
0:11.6	Check it out.
0:13.8	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:16.5	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:22.5	StarTalk begins right now.
0:26.9	Jack.
0:27.8	Yes.
0:28.7	Hey, man.
0:29.6	So, you know, there's this latest StarTalk book.
0:32.0	We spend a large part of a chapter exploring how empty space actually is.
0:40.1	Yeah.
0:40.8	You can get a sense it's empty because there's these big vast voids and things.
0:45.4	But I don't think people really feel how emotionally empty.
0:53.4	Oh, they came out wrong.
0:55.4	No, I was going to say.
0:57.2	Space is just sitting around just like, I just don't get it.
1:02.5	Emotionally empty.
1:04.6	I try my best.
1:06.1	I put myself out there.
1:08.0	I mean, I'm friendly.
1:10.2	I don't get it. You know, I, I want to connect with people.
1:15.8	I want to. I just, I don't understand why I just can't seem to make that kind of tight fit with anybody. I don't.
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