I want a giant knife and a magnifying glass. That's what I want. A knife because there's nothing on our body that can do what a knife can do. And so that would be the one tool that if you had to have a survival tool, that would help. Magnifying glass, certainly you can make fire at any time. Otherwise you got to do it the caveman way, which is what you can still do it. Right. Stringing this. Yep. Screw that string in sticks. Crap. No. Ha ha ha. You know, Forget that string insticks. Remember that. That's a giant knife. Yeah. So cool.
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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