If you had an all animal Olympics, it's not a single event we would win. This is an extraordinary feat that I don't think we give ourselves enough credit for. But so here's something we're really good at. And you almost, you don't need much training. Sitting on the couch, eating potatoes. That's one, that's one. If you see a projectile in the air and you want to catch it, and you run at just the right speed so that you are where the projectile lands in your mitt when you arrive. Okay. So guys, I got something, we're in the theme of baseball here. It's not often I say nice things about
What is exit velocity? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore parabolas, measuring the speed of an object using the Doppler effect, and other physics in baseball.
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