A disk has nice aerodynamics, okay? But most of a journey through space has no air. So there's a lot of problems with that shape. It's why my favorite spaceship in all of sci-fi is the Borg ship from Star Trek,. which is a giant cube. These aerodynamic... Oh, there it is. There it is. They said, we got this. We don't need to be sleek. And like you say, there's if there's zero reason for it. There's absolutely no reason for it."
What if the solar system had two suns? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice give a sneak peek into our patron-only Q&As with questions about the three body problem, galaxy formation, the alpha centauri system, and more.
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