Tyson: The guy who made the thing that you're using for security is the ultimate security risk. Because he knows all the back doors, if there is any. So anyway, so when you go through, they're not ASNE detectors anymore, but that was the birth of that entire movement. Tyson: Do you know that glass blocks X-rays and high energy light? Okay.
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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