StarTalk Podcast: Space Balls?

[@devontedamoi]

Thank you to the patreons and startalk I love being apart of this community!

[@fc-qr1cy]

enjoy the episodes with Charles Liu on it. always entertaining.

[@usern4metak3ns]

Much better than an opinionated girl "scientist"

[@JasonWW2000]

@@usern4metak3ns What? Misogynistic much?

[@joseimpact]

SAME

[@usern4metak3ns]

@@JasonWW2000 sure.

[@Micky83333]

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[@mauorel]

"I never wrestled anybody, except my own demons..." made me spit my coffe... point Chuck.

[@ManjotSingh-hy8ch]

I like that charles liu guy. He is perfect for this show. Please neil bring him more here.🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

[@alexmalt]

Seconded!

[@josephb9436]

I agree! Great guest

[@Marvelomarv]

He's been in others, KZbin "startalk science in pop fiction"

[@lucaseastwood8850]

I like comedian man

[@machomeng5169]

I wish they would replace Chuck with Charles Liu

[@tina6452]

As soon as Neil said "geek in chief" I said "YEAAAH!" Love when Charles Liu is on the show!

[@paulvamos7319]

I love that that is his actual title on Star Talk! XD I like it when he is on too!

[@muhammadassiddiq1208]

I love when these group of people get together, talking about science and sports.

[@Bromopar]

@Charles Liu: You should have heard me cheer when I saw that you were on this podcast. LOVE everything you bring to the conversation.

[@alexcline4378]

Right on!

[@craigstephen2729]

This Charles guy is awesome I would have probably learned something in school if he was my teacher

[@paulvamos7319]

I would like to have Charles as my science teacher, Neil as my physics/math teacher, Gary as gym teaches and Chuck as the janitor! Lol.

[@EmpyreanLightASMR]

@@paulvamos7319 That's not nice. Gary would be the principal of the school.

[@fractal_aura]

​@paulvamos7319 i feel like chuck could be a pretty good English teacher in this analogy

[@gerardgutierrez7393]

​@@paulvamos7319 that is mean. Chuck is the funniest guy on this and provides the best ice-breakers with the guest. They are the best combination.

[@bdr420i]

Charles Liu is like your favorite teacher 🖖😀 you're the best

[@paulvamos7319]

Charles= math teacher Neil= Science teacher Gary= coach Chuck= janitor XD

[@friendlyneighborhooddr.gre4495]

It's always been a dream of mine to just sit down and chat with Neil Tyson about space stuff. How lucky.

[@rolando2395]

Me too, except I'm a little too far on the dumb side so I wouldnt know what to ask him lol

[@fvckinfool101]

You can chat with me about astronomy/cosmology. Might not be as exciting as Neil tho lol.

[@ajparker7575]

My one question is how plausible is Final Fantasy 10 Blitzball? I know it supposedly played within a sphere of water and technically is affected by gravity, but almost everything about the sports practically screams _Made for low G/ No G_

[@spookyninja4098]

Hey Neil - still living in denial of the UFO evidence being released from the US Navy and the Pentagon. True science is exploring All the evidence no matter what the result may show - Correct ?

[@XxXenosxX]

There's a $500 a month patreon option that you get to go to a party with Neil every year.

[@poisontoad8007]

I smashed the like button at ludicrous speed!

[@DanSpotYT]

You went plaid then!

[@funforall9741]

I wanted to but i was chicken

[@usern4metak3ns]

Great movie.

[@usern4metak3ns]

@@funforall9741 what are you chicken? Colonel sanders

[@ryanwhite6797]

YESSSS so happy to see Mr geek in chief back. What a show 😊😂

[@commenterperson4481]

Everytime I watch one of these, I feel the spark of a regenerated (dead) brain cell.

[@brandonsmith1838]

🤣

[@MrJarskiperkele]

charles is so awesome. more of him please :)

[@commenterperson4481]

Charles Liu's closing take applies to so many aspects of our society. 52:20

[@chancemeyers8502]

Chuck and Neil are like two stars in a binary orbit. I swear they feed on each others energies and i love it. Videos always be hype xD

[@twonumber22]

I feel like Moon-golf is going to be a big business one day.

[@tutordave3504]

The ball collectors would have a horrid time.

[@Jake-dw6ns]

That's what I was thinking

[@dronexfun8469]

The Armstrong Club.

[@aonrust4617]

1 million dollars if you hit the satellites.

[@439sparky1]

@@aonrust4617 bonus points if the ball orbits and hits you in the back of the head

[@lawyeroutlaw]

Thanks for answering my question. I appreciate it big time, and feel smarter now that I finally know the answer. So thanks!

[@lololulu1238]

Just borrowed your book “cosmic queries” and I’ve learned quite a lot form it! Thanks!

[@aprilk3002]

Loved this episode (and all that feature Charles Liu) and I'm not a sports person. Gary's chair looks like a rustic throne.

[@jordanrivera1563]

Who else feels smarter after every single video? You guys inspire me to get back to school

[@eddiecampbell3514]

Great episode guys!! Love every one of them.. lots of logically sound thoughts and questions and philosophy is always fun talking about

[@janmccall7608]

Back in 1970s our Janus Company Radio Theatre (weekly live on KPFK LA for 14 years} decided we wanted to create a live broadcast of our version of baseball on a dome on the moon, complete with play by play, 2012 (!) ads and crowd sound effects. We called it Space Ball. (This was before the movie of that name.) It was great fun. We even managed a follow-up with a game rained out in the dome. Unfortunately the air-checks were lost, but the memories were better science than in reality. Those were great times!

[@laurafortier9295]

Sorry latecomer. But I haven't seen this episode and when Dr. Tyson was like, "our geek in chief" I was like omg I hope it's Charles!!! Yay!!! So glad I'm right! Love the show. Thanks!

[@stephenlackey5852]

When Neil was asking “Why dampen the fingers/hands for grip on a baseball?” I was like, “ The same reason you lick your finger before you turn the page of a book, low-grade adhesion.” I guess it just hadn’t occurred to him. But isn’t that what science is about? It’s turning our attentions in different directions for discovery. You are awesome Love your channel

[@origamimasters5626]

*_May the Schwartz be with you!!!_*

[@usern4metak3ns]

May the black be with you too

[@alldaygrindin2010]

Use the Schwartz Lonestar

[@marknugent9851]

Beat me to it! LOL

[@Makujah_]

I see your schwartz is as big as mine

[@brianfierro1678]

“I bet she gives great helmet.”

[@briangill23]

Great group, especially Charles Liu - would love to see him more. PS Chuck Nice you’re awesome and don’t underrate or devalue yourself - you’re obviously very intelligent and the perfect bridge of connectivity between a broad audience and a group of scientists.

[@tytan5088]

Hope you guys/lady’s are having a wonderful day so far

[@blasalvice]

hey ty

[@TheDwightMamba]

I was hoping this was going to cover the physics of the movie, but I'll watch this too.

[@mathieujulien9961]

Same here.

[@SuperXG]

Love how there are 2 bot comments on this comment.

[@msshannonigans]

I legitimately couldn't fathom what else it COULD be if not a physics breakdown of Spaceballs for, honestly, like 20 seconds. That's how much I wanted it - I could imagine nought else.

[@OldManInternet]

I can't even imagine how useful it would be to have someone like Charles to bounce ideas off of when writing a science fiction novel

[@gabc2269]

as a gymnast, i would give everything to do gymnastics on mars or the moon in my lifetime.

[@johnyepthomi892]

sooner hopefully..

[@brandonramirez2830]

I love it this gets so much better everytime !

[@Games_and_Music]

5:41 Orbi-Tennis on the Moon, hit the ball as hard as you can so it goes orbital, the other player has to hit it in the same direction so it will pick up more speed (so, not a back and forth), hit it 5 times before the player that didn't serve has to stop it and either get a point, or the other player gets a point.

[@stitch3030]

The elite four of Star Talk!!!

[@lexy304]

With the title of this video, I was not expecting it to be about sports, I was expecting it to be about the Mel Brooks movie. XD

[@ItZWaffleS420]

Same lol

[@stephenlackey5852]

Yeah. I was like, “I think Spaceballs is one word...”

[@jubanlakmalngiang1960]

Star talk all the way! 🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌

[@unquestionabletv]

15:15 someone jumps from one wall, does some flips, gymnastics, tricks, etc. reaching a top speed, BUT Winslow enough to land the other side. So tricks, plus speed would calculate a potential score in that sport.

[@luisarreaza7543]

The Geek-in-Chief is back!

[@jambay4785]

Space ballet and gymnastics would be interesting to see. Magnetic tracks that people can travel, could be as much fun as a roller coaster or just a site seeing stroll.

[@toibain2070]

I have heard about human flight on Titan and my understanding is that you would need a wingsuit but you could fly essentially forever on the planet in a wing suit. Lol the Icarus joke was hilarious by the way

[@miamibound52093]

Just to let you know I watch every single video you put out.

[@andrewj8366]

Charles Liu episodes hit different

[@IMAX]

Been too long. Hello Dr. Tyson, Chuck, Gary & Dr. Liu

[@josephlawson1796]

These people can make even sports entertaining

[@georgess01]

This is my favourite startalk line up👏 one suggestion if I may, Chuck should just read the names of the people asking questions and Garry should read the actual questions😉

[@akhils7311]

Sir, I am huge fan and following your thoughts since when I started learning science in a different way. You are my inspiration. And I have a doubt which I would like you explaining about this, whether Human activity(climate change) is literally moving earth's tilt? - thank you

[@quirkyMakes]

I hate to say it but chucks jokes are always better when he has an audience that responds to him

[@lunes-1]

Great video,keep it up!🔶️⬜🔶️⬜🔶️🟣

[@jimbob90p]

Charles lou is an amazing person

[@hopefaithlove2022]

My Fave people 🙏🙌💜

[@STST]

Great Episode Guys

[@TrayStrange]

Charles is an actual genius

[@fizyknaut8108]

Now these are sports I would participate in.

[@toibain2070]

By the way I totally thought that this episode was going to be about the scientific accuracy of the movie Spaceballs

[@stephenlackey5852]

Yeah... I was like, “I think Spaceballs is one word...🤔”

[@marinalomanova8077]

We Love Science and Sports🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@jeremyswalley8625]

I’m a guitarist which definitely involves both fast and slow twitch.. Muscle memory is definitely a part! You can train any muscle to have memory just takes at least 1,000 times!! Anyone can develop more fast twitch muscle! By using all explosive movements!! Like sprinters jumping over a bench side to side!! Jump rope is really good!! One of the best exercises! Then squats !! Squats actually work your entire body and provides the most hormone production..

[@DavidBlack-os9pl]

Great show. Very interesting

[@loganpieterse8866]

chuck makes my life

[@alycinannette2737]

Fewer tears more curiosity

[@vikramsuryaa]

Watching at 2:43 AM in the morning, India

[@jamekac.stuckey3228]

If someone ever asks me to describe myself. I would say “Have you ever watched Startalk?”

[@lifew.Izzyyyy]

HI! Me and my family are watching your show Cosomos!

[@ksoliel9347]

Niel, Just bought 2 of your books, I'd best be impressed or we're having a word!!!!! Art Major, lol, Kim!😉🗺️🕊️💓!

[@bjones6747]

Great show

[@joey8k260]

Charles is awesome

[@echooscar5241]

Is the light reflected from an object different under a different star than sun? If so is it noticeable?

[@michaelmccormick7005]

there once was a lady named Bright who could travel much faster than light she departed one day in a relative way and returned the previous night.

[@JohnFord706]

At about 11:30, I started picturing Batmans Mecha suit with a space helmet :)

[@alycinannette2737]

Saving my life again today

[@philipberthiaume2314]

Loved that movie...

[@TheScrubExpress]

As far as the US mens soccer program, I think one of the biggest issues is that in the US we have "other options" In many of the other countries who are dominant in the sport of Soccer, it is *the* primary sport. Far and away. In the US, many of our best natural athletes end up choosing to play Baseball, Basketball, Football and Hockey before they choose Soccer.

[@amandamoushabek3955]

Just commenting to support

[@ekojar3047]

Micro Gravity Laser Tag gets my vote for the first space sport.

[@Sammasambuddha]

Enders Game

[@josephb9436]

Love that guy! I agree 👍

[@JenAngel21]

Damn I was really hoping this was discussing the realism of the movie "Spaceballs". Somebody please let me know when that happens!

[@Travisthe616nerd]

Chuck says what we're all thinking

[@Marvelomarv]

@46:35 ur close with his name, it's actually Kipchoge

[@bpelf]

I kept thinking of Ninja Warrior in space when they were discussing acceleration. I'd watch that space based sport.

[@matt5384]

I'm not sure I understand Neil saying that the Coriolis effect deflects the ball to the right whether you're kicking northwards or southwards @37:20 . From a kicker's point of view, wouldn't the ball deflect to opposite goal posts whether he's facing North or South ? Might just need a refresher course on how Coriolis works 😂

[@chrisgriffith1573]

I saw an Italian pro at practice in Richmond VA, (VCU Cary St Gym) he could kick a ball into the goal by kicking it at nearly 40 degree offset of the goal! (That means, he could kick it in a orientation not facing the goal, and it curved towards the goal!) This is also known a a "banana kick" because the ball boomer-rangs to its intended target. The force and power of his kick put spin and english on the ball such that the air interacting on the ball did the work to guide it onto the goal.

[@ManaBDew]

Fleas can jump like a mile or two approximately. Compared o their own size. Scale 🤷‍♂️🤩 ⭐️ Star Talk!!! 😎👍

[@bharathwajmuralidharan5006]

@Neil tyson Can you explain me about Schrödinger's cat??

[@VizoMediaGroup]

Is there really no deflection at the equator?

[@dennis8371]

Great episode guys! :-)

[@jeremyswalley8625]

Gymnastics in Space!!! And Spaaaaaaace Ghooooooooost!!!

[@armanunited8120]

I love Charles lu

[@AAAbatterye2]

50:40 This is something Charles will have to read more into because he's not fully informed on that particular topic. Nate the Lawyer has videos about it.

[@Nipplator99999999999]

I'm of the personal opinion, that even the best and smartest people need somebody to humble themselves every so often, if not then they will stop trying to improve and become stagnant.

[@joshuathomas8436]

I love how charles can correct Neil so easily

[@chrisgriffith1573]

Water polo INSIDE/ON a giant ball of water, floating in mid air. The nets/goals are at the poles. The trick is to keep the ball of water in the middle of the arena. Perhaps a huge sphere of iron or other dense metal to attract the water to the center of the arena.

[@matt5384]

@Chris Griffith Reminds me of blitzball in Final Fantasy X, check it out ! 😂

[@necrodiem15]

I have a small issue. It was stated several times in this conversation that an object moving in zero-G, once pushed from a wall or surface would continue in the same direction until opposed or influenced by another object or surface. Neil has asked several times about the change of direction once in motion. I have spent more than a decade in martial arts and half that time teaching it. While this may not be a "sport", it does add to our understanding of the human potential in physical activity. In my practice, we teach a technique of aerial kick that starts with a vertical leap followed by the torquing of the body produced from the independent motion or the leg to create momentum for a spin before landing the kick. Could our independent appendages (up to a quarter of our mass) be used to alter our direction once in motion? If so, then gymnastics would certainly have its place in zero-G sports, since their focus is primarily altering and manipulating the torque and momentum of the body. After all, we are more than just a ball floating to the next surface. To put it more simply, as a boxer doesn't just punch with their arm but the whole body, so do we kick with our whole body. If I was to explosively kick with a snaping force in a given direction, would I be carried in that direction in zero-G?

[@matt5384]

I'm no physicist, but I'll go out on a limb here (pun intended) and say you'd just start spinning uncontrollably. Since your kick isn't pushing you off of anything, the force you're pushing outward with your foot will cancel out with the force of your muscles and ligaments holding your joints onto your body. Since no net force is produced linearly, you will not change direction. It's also got something to do with the conservation of angular momentum (which I do not fully understand). This video shows an astronaut doing it in 0 G m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/aIDGXoiZrcRni8k . He just spins faster but his direction doesn't actually change. Just as in martial arts, your kick gets you to spin but doesn't change your direction overall direction. You won't move diagonally or laterally through the air if your initial push is straight up... I may be wrong about this though, your question just really got me thinking!

[@thegreatmindgorb8948]

I’m surrounded by a bunch of smart people! (This is a spaceballs reference)

[@Thomas-qn4hj]

Neil, if we start measuring racing events down to the .0001 of a second, then wont other factors start to effect the competitors? Like the Coriolis effect depending on which lane they are in, which way the wind is blowing across the track, are you wearing gloves when touching the sensor to stop the clock, and or the starting pistol, the starting sound had to travel further for one competitor then another, is the starting line absolutely equal for each lane.

[@RayRay-zt7bj]

I think if a race is that close, maybe they should do a quick completion to declare the winner, such as arm-wrestling or Rock, Paper, Scissors.

[@JasonWW2000]

This is way racing events stop at 0.001. They could go further, but choose not to.

[@maestrohun]

#StarTalk #NeildeGrasseTyson May I ask a video description about that, what we are know about our Planet's energy balance? I mean total energy income, energy outcome that Erath can lose/radiate out and how much heat that humankind generate and how affect to this balance. In detail I am curious about that mostly we produce electricity by gas turbines, so that heat energy waste and steam/water vapor how much affect to our climate change and energy balance. We talk about CO2 many times, but we also know vapor has green house affect as well and gas turbines has only around 35-48% efficiency and do not forget about efficiency of electricity grid and electiric work efficiency at endpoint usage like industry and all household were we use all electricity that produced. (So maybe important to know that how much of energy can Earth lose/radiate out.) How far can we go if we do not turn our electricity production to much more efficient and also generate much less vapor/CO2, etc...? Greetings from Central-EU.

[@Hilariumosis]

Is there a way to make lower gravity feel like Earth gravity with the right compensation? So like when jumping you come down as fast as you would on Earth. How would that then effect stamina over a 3x20 min or 2x45 min game etc? Or would the length of periods/halfs have to be shorter like there's no way around it? All form of atmosphere should have it's equal condition no, the question is if technology can/will make it possible to mimic the experience on Earth? Whatever the compensations might be to best simulate the gravitational conditions on Earth. I guess you could build domes in which desired gravity can be simulated... But that's not the point. I'm talking about being able to move in lower gravity like if being on Earth.

[@macanoodough]

The other shirts in Liu's closet are like "Finally! Some peace and quiet now that the blue guy is gone..."

[@facespaz]

The Dream Team! GG boys

[@aungthuhein007]

Chuck is the real geek here haha

[@clementinezaninka3048]

The Jackie Chan movie 'The Myth' also contains interesting setups of what gravity-less sports would look like ^^

[@leonardallen7380]

Thank you