i highly recommend it. If you've never been on an airplane, find a place to fly to and just check it out. And i'd marvel at it every day, even though we've been doing it for more than a hundred years. That is no longer a thing in airplanes. You don't even know the plane is turning. It's quite a marvel of engineering and physics and anand aero dynamics. The pilots would not even be aware they were turning if they didn't use a fully trained airline pilot. They have to do that by programing into the computer such that the radius of the turn and the speed at which you're going requires that the plane be at a certain
Where does the Earth end? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice explore the Karman Line, LED light bulbs, banking turns and other things you thought you knew!
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