Answering Fan Queries About Putting Taylor Swift on The Golden Record, Absolute Stillness, & More
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Published 2024-06-25
Would we be stronger and faster on Mars? We talk about what it would be like to construct buildings on Mars and why the largest creature on Earth is a whale. If you fell through a hole through the center of the Earth, what would happen? Where would you pop out based on where you started?
Neil and Chuck share what songs they would add to the Voyager Golden Record to update it. Is there such a thing as absolute stillness in the universe? Learn about Lord Kelvin and absolute zero. Can we actually tell if an object is stationary relative to one in motion? Plus, we talk about the spaghettification of quarks and whether a black hole would eat itself.
We explore the role of free speech in future human space settlements. Could it be beneficial to manage or censor media while establishing a colony? Are spiral galaxies getting sucked into a black hole? How do they maintain their iconic spiral shape? Find out about spiral density waves and accretion disks.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction: Grab Bag
1:17 - Would You Be Stronger on Mars?
7:38 - Falling Through the Center of the Earth
17:57 - Neil & Chuck’s Golden Record
22:30 - Is It Possible for Something to Be Absolutely Still?
27:02 - Spaghettifying Quarks
29:34 - Censorship on Space Colonies
35:04 - Spiral Galaxy Structure
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All Comments (21)
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What would you add to the Golden Record? 🤔🎵
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Chuck is just the PERFECT co-host. He is so good at not interrupting Neil too much, but still getting the right humour in the talk!
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Chuck really genuinely knows his stuff at this point
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Can't have a golden record without the greatest song of all time. "What a wonderful world," by Louis Armstrong.
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Chuck does his job impeccably, not only that, with his creativity and jokes he gives us diverse and often easy-to-digest contexts for the common curious. keep looking upquark, sir lord nice
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And today on StarTalk science class turns into English class when Neil educates the usage of Continually vs. Continuously. ❤😆
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Aliens listening to Not Like Us: "Who's this Drake fella? He sounds awful" 😂😂😂
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Chuck's British impression was on point
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I learn the MOST from these! Please keep them coming! Thank you.
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Came for the Talk. Stayed for the Black Hole lunchbox.
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"Smells like teen spirit" truly ignites the senses of any teen globally, I can confirm this as a Kenyan growing up in Nairobi in the mid-90s and that song took me and my peers to a "nirvana" state whenever we heard it.
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I'm new to this channel, but after watching the Richard Dawkins episode, I'm hooked on this channel. I've always found the universe to be something incredible and it always leaves me in awe. Keep up the content.
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Chuck has come such a long way! He was always funny but his knowledge and co-hosting skills have just continued to climb! Can't wait to see where you go from here Lord NICE!
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Educational and entertaining, from the first second until the last. You guys perfected this format! One of the best videos yet!
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Learned the following today, relationship between prime meridian and the IDL, difference between continually and continuously. You guys are awesome
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I thought the title said absolute Sillyness…so immediately started watching because StarTalk always makes me laugh while learning something!
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Neil and Chuck for 2024!
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That was some good Galactic Gumbo!! Really fun episode! I would have to add Reba’s Fancy to the song list! Love watching y’all!!
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riding the bus home after a day of tiring work, you listen to science brought to your ears so eloquently by these amazing human beings, you feel absolutely still and not a single photon pass by you without even realizing you're already home, both physically and intellectually ❤ Thank you good sirs 🙏 Love from 🇱🇰
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Realistically, update the golden record, we would have to put literally like, 10,000+ songs. The music world is waaaay too diverse and deep to only focus on top 40 hits. I mean, it’s not like we wouldn’t be able to fit all those files, it wouldn’t be a record anymore, more like a concealed hard drive or some kind of file storage database.
