If you go in a couple inches a year for about 15 billion years, then that's a pretty fair distance you could travel. Nails grow way faster there. They can grow in as quick as five to seven minutes. If we want to explore alien worlds, we've got some right here and that we just seem to be not interested. So he's encouraging now. Come on, Elon. Let's go to the bottom of the ocean. The next question comes from Captain James Riley. Why don't we have a deep sea base yet?
What if the laws of physics were different? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly answer grab bag questions with astrophysicist Charles Liu about alien heists, gravity, and space exploration.
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