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#257 – Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is This a Gift?

Astronomy is a visual science. Sketch what you see. The Lagoon Nebula, the Pleiades seven sisters, you can see them anywhere on earth. And when you do that, again, you're connecting two different hemispheres of your brain and you're connecting them through your fingertips. You literally have the knowledge in your fingertips in your connection between what you see, what you observe, and what you write down. Then you do research, right? The goal of science is not to just replicate what other people did is do something new. It's almost like maybe there's another one like that with fire. Yes.

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