Charles is a professor of astronomy and physics at the city university of new york, staten island. Garry has to go straight through a british cheese rolling race in gloucestershire thought to date back 600 years. The original wheel of cheese weighed between seven and nine pounds, but it is now fake cheese, made of foam for the safety of the spectators. Cooper's hill is 200 yards long,. It has a gradient of 50 %, and it's near vertical in places. Charles: "The cheese is going 70 miles an hour."
How fast does cheese roll down a hill? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly walk us through the physics behind the weirdest sports: cheese rolling, belly flopping, face slapping and more with astrophysicist Charles Liu.
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