"I get it that we're in motion, and so that's why there's got to be different times. But I'm going to be honest, it's one of those things that I never get right," he said. "What prevents me from screwing it up is I redrive time zones from first principles almost every time."
Is it possible to make something invisible? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice explore transparency, how we measure time on Earth, and how airplanes have changed.
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