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Things You Thought You Knew – Kicked into Orbit

Jun 23, 2023

40:24

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

The Highest Kick in the Professional Game

2min

The Escape Velocity for Any Object

4min

How to Escape a Big Comet

2min

How to Escape a Meteor Shower

3min

How to Escape a Long-Gate Orbit

4min

The Best Pop Band, the Beatles or the Rolling Stones?

3min

How to Play Stick Ball in the Bronx

2min

How to Hit a Cricket Ball Far

2min

10.

The Different Types of Cricket Spin Bowlers

2min

11.

The Magnus Effect in Cricket

2min

12.

The Audacity of Cricket

2min

13.

The Importance of a Good Bowler

1min

14.

How to Stand Up on a Motorcycle

5min

15.

The Importance of Getting the Center of Mass Right

2min

16.

How to Balance a High Wire Walker

3min

17.

The Importance of Batteries on a Bike

2min

18.

The Importance of Balance in Physics

2min

How do bikes and motorcycles stay up? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explain how to kick a ball into orbit, what’s going on with cricket, and the physics of bicycles.

NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free.

Thanks to our Patrons Shonuff Brown, Sam, Gary Gaskin, Rodney, james allen, and Daylon Burt for supporting us this week.

Photo Credit: NASA/W. Liller, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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