It's such a pleasure to be here with you all and have a great time as always. We don't know where these are coming from or where they're going, but they are questions from our Patreon supporters. And anything and everything goes. First up, Christopher Fowler. He says greetings to the good doctors, Lord, Nice and me. Then we go straight for sci-fi. In Star Trek, the next generation, there was at least one episode with a game called Parisis Squares. On Star Trek.com, it describes the sport as one played by opposing teams of four wearing padded uniforms and using an iron mallet. What kind of sport is this? And could
Could you play Quidditch on Jupiter? Javelin on Mars? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly answer fan questions about low-gravity physics, the weight of Thor’s hammer, aerodynamics and more with astrophysicist Charles Liu.
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