Matty Rose Madden: Do we live in or on the earth? Her husband says that we live in the earth because of the atmosphere. "I say we live on the earth because the earth's atmosphere is on the earth" Before 1968, no one thought about our atmosphere as something fundamental to the identity of earth. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was created a year and a half later.
What do you wish you’d learned in school? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice go back to school to answer questions about simulation theory, time dilation, white holes, the sound of space, and more!
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