Chuck Nice
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I don't know why.
Don't tell them.
How do you get my son that job?
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Instantaneity.
Or the plant life behind it.
So maybe it was attuned to human chemistry then.
Well, that's a good, I see you think about this stuff often.
All right, here we go.
This is Jason Mogridge.
Jason says, hey, what's up, guys?
Secondly, we don't know what motivates this thing.
It kills everything, but why?
Why is it doing it?
That is amazing.
He ain't done.
Here's the thing.
You cut it, and it bleeds acid.
From the movie, The Thing.
I forgot what the thing was.
What's the thing?
Is the thing like the blob?
What is the thing?
No, so the thing is-
that takes the shape of whatever the host is.
I didn't realize that that was what I was watching.
So you like the fact that you could be infested with this parasite or occupied by this parasite and still think you are you, but just going about your life.
Yeah, flipping it.
Oh, that's too funny.
Okay, so before we went off, here's the question.
72 underscore 05 underscore 72 says this.
Glass of wine and chill.
This is Zevi coming to us.
She's a YouTube fan.
What is the most believable depiction of aliens you've seen in modern sci-fi?
They will once they take over the Earth, that's for sure.
Robots who replicated themselves using available resources on every planet.
Do you believe this is the most probable form of alien life that we will ever encounter?
Wow, what a... Whoa, excellent question.
I don't know what the hell the other two movies were.
Frankenstein's monster.
It's looking pretty tame.
I am Chuck Nice and not an AI version of Chuck Nice.
Oh, even before that, you know, you can rest assured that before there was a system of currency, somebody was just like, so that's an interesting bushel of wheat you have there.
Oh, yeah.
A little barter scam.
Yeah, a little barter scam.
You know what I mean?
As a matter of fact, one of our most beloved childhood fairy tales is about a guy who trades the family cow for six magic beans.
Oh.
Which was supposed to be a scam, but it turned out it worked out for him.
I believe it was Bitdefender that helped Liam Neeson get his daughter back.
See that?
And look at that.
He says it's easier, not for him, but for everybody.
And by that, he means Americans.
Americans.
That's what he means.
Yeah, because people are just like, you know, what is your name?
Bodan Botezatu.
Yeah, I'm going to call you Bob, all right?
You cool with that?
You cool with that?
We are so bad.
Did you say T?
Okay.
Let me just say I'm in the wrong business.
It's very conservative.
No, that makes sense.
So what they're doing is they're capturing your voice.
Wow.
So if you can indulge me, I want to tell you that when I fell for a deep fake, I actually fell for one.
And I'm embarrassed as hell.
But it was very sophisticated.
Why you gotta hurt a brother?
Why you gotta hurt a brother?
I'll let you be the judge of whether or not it was sophisticated.
Okay, so here's the deal.
There was a deep fake of Sam Harris
who happens to be somebody I respect, okay?
How they knew that, I don't know, but it came into my feed and he was touting a very specific kind of product, not a brand, nothing, just a kind of product, okay?
So I looked it up and of course, they have your search history and all that kind of stuff, right?
So then I received a very specific ad for the product
Okay.
So deep fake, right?
I respond with just a search.
And then the search responds back to me with more information.
And then over the course of like this back and forth amplification, I bought the product.
I knew he was going to do it.
Is it a black comedian who co-hosts a podcast?
I hear that's a very popular demo with the scammers.
Well, I guess, okay.
So there's the incentive.
And so this... Also, the deep shake sounded like it was on helium.
You know, when you look out into the universe.
I, too, like sitting in my mother's basement.
Speaking of education, are there telltale signs?
that you're looking at a deep fake or hearing a deep fake now neil said that the cadence of his speech uh was kind of a giveaway to him when he saw it but are there things that we can as lay people look at in a deep fake and say oh if i see this this and this most likely or definitely this is a deep fake and you tell that to the deep fake and next time it doesn't do that
We're losing game.
Yeah, we are.
But are there right now that we know of?
Right.
So if you ever see like, hi, this is Neil deGrasse Tyson for delicious Buffy bison beef jerky.
You know, it's, it's not real.
You're protecting my... Thank you.
This is our camp.
We are here on these streets.
So I think it's, you know, I may sound cliche when I say this, but this is what I was taught my entire life that one, you don't get something for nothing.
Two, if it's too good to be true, then it's not.
And three, and this is the part that's very hard, don't ever want to believe something more than you want the truth.
Because if you want to believe something, you will discard everything to see your belief confirmed.
That's my rule.
Those were my parents' rules.
So when it comes to malicious intent on behalf of interactions, internet interactions...
Are there some hard and fast simple rules that we can follow like the way you answer an email or the way you answer if someone were to call you, the way you do or do not offer up information?
Are there some simple rules that will help somebody not fall prey to a scam?
All right.
Well, how about this?
What does Bitdefender do?
Like, you know, how do you guys defend against this stuff?
If I were to have Bitdefender on my computer, what would it do for me?
It can't be a lot.
Well, but that's what I'm saying.
Like that right there lets you know that this is ubiquitous and it's proliferating.
So like, it sounds to me like when you call yourself Bitdefender, maybe there's a real need for you to be on my computer.
But what am I putting you on my computer to do is what I'm trying to figure out.
And I'm not trying to do a commercial here.
I am genuinely interested.
The virus is mutating.
Mr. Smith.
That's why we got to stick to coal.
Got to keep burning coal, man.
Get off that doggone solar energy.
Okay?
Oh, newfangled solar and wind.
What about the birds and the cancer?
No, let's go with coal.
You'll be okay.
So, Bob, in a way, what you're saying is you should report it because if you don't, you're actually enabling the people who harmed you.
You're actually helping them by keeping this to yourself and suffering in silence.
Go ahead and report it because one, it happens to everybody and it's not your fault.
And two, by reporting it, you're putting information out there that can be used against the people who committed the crime.
No, it was the best depressing conversation.
Yeah, we do.
Yeah, I've learned.
I am burning my computer.
That's what I learned.
I got one right.
I'm writing letters.
I'm starting to write letters again.
That's okay now.
No, I was feeling it.
And I wrote them all.
I'm taking credit for every question.
You were lying.
I would give myself a C+.
Yeah, we got a grab bag.
You grabbed inside the bag?
Sometimes they let you do that.
So let's go right in.
Yeah, we might as well jump right into it.
This is Roger McVeigh, who says, hello, Dr. Tyson.
Roger from Wisconsin here, currently in Surin, Thailand.
Way to go, Roger.
Good food in Thailand.
He says, why is there not a lunar eclipse every month?
Is it just the distance or the wobble or something else?
Oh, gosh darn.
That makes sense.
So it was not even interesting anymore because it was kind of a daily phenomenon.
You don't have to go anywhere.
Yeah, that's the only reason.
L-E-C-L-Y-S-S-I-E-L.
I'm going with L-E-C-L.
But it's like the more difficult version.
See, Cher, Madonna, Eliseo.
Salutations from Newcastle, Australia.
Ooh, love them.
If it is the case that a black hole explodes at the end of its life, would that explosion contain all the energy the black hole ever sucked in, or has all that energy already escaped via Hawking radiation?
And I wonder if the Big Bang could have possibly been an exploding black hole of such mass that the event horizon was larger than our observable universe.
And the universe as we know it is now stretching out to fill the void left by the universally large black hole.
Perhaps beyond is a far larger, far older galaxy that is pulling on the mass of our observable universe at great enough distance.
would seem that the pull attributed to dark energy.
So did we get a black hole to fart us out?
Was that the translation?
And then there's another galaxy that's older that is actually pulling on us, but what we're feeling is the gravity of that other galaxy, and that's why we think we have dark matter.
So what you're saying is there are regions where it's greater than in other regions?
That's how I should have said it.
And, you know, that's what makes it so much fun that LECL can say this because what I love is when our listeners, like, think.
And they come up with these, like, ideas.
And it's real thinking.
It's real thinking.
It's scientifically based.
It's really cool.
But the answer is no.
This is Paradox.
Another one-name person.
This is Paradox.
That's very funny.
At first, I was just like, man, I'm like, wait a minute.
That's kind of cool.
That's a paradox.
Okay, here, greetings, Dr. Tyson.
This is Dennis from Salisbury, Indiana.
The case for taking the word hole out of black hole.
They are not holes in space.
It's very off-putting to think of them that way.
Renaming them could possibly give new perspective on them.
B.O.S., Black Omega Star.
How about that?
He is upset that we call them black holes.
They are not holes.
And so the Black Omega Star, which sounds like a new Marvel character...
Oh, that's right.
He came from another planet.
With superpowers in his afro.
Powered by radiation and disco music.
He's Black Omega Star.
Black Omega Star.
Don't worry about it, baby.
Black Omega Star will be there.
Hold on for a second while I pick out my radioactive afro.
But see, don't they call it a black hole because when you look at it through a telescope, first of all, you see all the light of the universe.
Forget the light.
Oh, that's true.
You're falling in.
So that's a little freaky, but...
And by the way, when you fall in, you fall in every direction then.
Every direction.
Because you're falling into a three-dimensional hole.
So you got to be falling in every direction at the same time if you are falling in from any direction, right?
When you get inside of it.
Neither do I. Who cares?
Okay, well, that ends this conversation.
I was like, well, there you go.
Sorry about that, Dennis.
You know what galaktos means?
He's the arch nemesis of Black Omega Star.
I was kind of wild, man.
I kind of did it.
Yes, Black Omega Star.
Radioactive afro.
All right, here we go.
Sam, I'm sorry.
Now I'm thinking about Black Omega Star coming home from work, and this woman is just like, where you been?
You got time to be out there saving the universe, but you can't be in here taking care of these kids.
Black Omega style.
You need to get your ass over there to them Black Omega dishes.
That's what you need to do.
All right, here we go.
I finally did see it.
Somebody showed it to me here, and it was very funny.
All right, this is Sam Green.
He says, hi, Dr. Tyson, Lord Nice.
Sam here, living on Tulsa time.
He says, my question is about space-time and causality.
We usually limit our models of space-time to ones where causality is preserved.
But I wonder, could space-time behave in a sort of...
meiotic or metodic way to preserve itself when causality is violated.
I realize I'm borrowing from biology here, but imagine space-time splitting
When encountering... Is that mitosis?
M-E-I-T-O-S-I.
That's mitosis, yes.
What word is that?
He said meiotic, M-E-I-O-T-I-C.
Or... Maybe he's borrowing from biology words?
Because I don't know that in physics.
And then mitotic, which maybe that is the mitosis.
I don't know either one of those words either.
So maybe we can look them up, guys.
Maybe I'm not even saying them right, to be honest.
I don't know.
People cut you slack every time now.
Well, you know, listen, it's an honor to have me mispronounce your name or a word.
That's all I'm saying.
You keep telling yourself that.
He's like, come on, man.
Let that happen.
Let's get back to him.
He says, I'm realizing.
I'm borrowing from biology here, but imagine space-time splitting when encountering a causal mass or replicating to contain a causal characteristics.
Could such a mechanism... A causal as in not causal.
Could such a mechanism be a way the universe maintains consistency?
Wow, you guys really milked that thing, man.
I'm telling you.
That would be...
the most awesome thing.
I could see why the universe could get mad at that.
Yeah, that's what he's saying.
Because at that point, what you have done, because you already can't let that go.
You already went.
So when you come back and don't go again, what happened to the went?
But in the movies, what happens is you always end up doing something else that puts you right back where you got to go.
It was the Titanic.
Well, that was the end of the series.
Oh, well, that was nice while it lasted.
Oh, that's right, because it's not the U.S.
Because they're all time travelers.
I don't want to go back to the Titanic.
I want to go back to a rowboat.
Sitting off to the side of the Titanic and eating some popcorn like, wow, that is messed up.
That's super cool.
Parker Mann says, hello, Dr. Tyson and Sir Charles.
This is Parker Mann, retired geophysicist in Ventura, California.
Now looking up instead of down.
Tell me the name again.
This is Parker Man.
He says, I recently saw a video in which Dr. Tyson said that Jupiter's orbit allows it to partially protect the Earth from asteroid impacts.
If it were further out, would it protect Mars and closer in protect Venus?
Can you elaborate on why Jupiter differentially protects planets based on its orbit?
Good question.
Is that because the mass of these other planets is so much bigger that they need more distance so they're not disturbing?
They would clear out more distance.
Wow, that's so cool.
What's up, Saturn?
That girl is ratchet, I'm telling you right now.
All right, that's super cool.
If you want it, put a ring on it.
All right, Parker, ma'am, what a great question.
Freddie Abden.
My name is Freddie Abden, an American living in Perilla, Colombia.
What's the name of the town?
We're the best.
Coffee is grown.
That's right.
Colombian coffee.
That's right.
Colombian coffee.
We used to get those TV commercials.
Better known as cocaine.
The second law of thermodynamics says entropy must increase.
Yet, for a surprisingly long stretch, Earth maintained extraordinary order and complexity, enabling life to thrive in stark contrast to the decay and disorder we observed elsewhere in the cosmos.
That should not have happened, statistically speaking.
What could explain that rare pause in entropy, that bubble of low chaos?
Could it point to... Could it point to... Could it point to unique initial conditions or maybe even some odd influence beyond our natural forces?
Entering our system.
The sun is dying.
So that we might have life.
A different kind of sun giving up life that we might live.
And then that fertilizes the kelp.
And the sunlight comes in and helps the kelp.
And then it's closed circle.
Oh, porcinelli.
They weren't looking at that like, guys, I know it looks like a closed system, but it isn't, okay?
We got a lot of sunlight in.
We need photosynthesis for the kelp.
And the two life forms actually, they're all three life forms and they're dependent upon each other.
That was a great little lesson in entropy.
Nicholas Hayes.
Oh, one other thing about entropy?
I'm going to say Jesus.
That's the way you said that.
The very Southern Baptist.
I mean, I ate food.
You ate food.
Well, there's a reason why.
You don't choose to stop eating when you die.
I don't see too many corpses like, God, I am so hungry.
Hey, why don't you eat?
This is Nicholas Hayes.
He says, hello, Neil and Chuck.
My name is Nick, and I'm an industrial designer in North Bend, Washington.
My question is, if I, in my super advanced starship, were traveling close to the speed of light and blew past a planet moving in the opposite direction, would I appear to be traveling faster than the speed of light to anyone watching me from the planet?
Or would my reference frame constantly change based on what is being passed by?
And they're pretty far away, and they're still standing.
Oh, please tell.
Because I'm not familiar with this.
You didn't know about that.
I do not know.
invoke because the formula you're never going to get higher than the speed of light gotcha yeah so the answer is no because if let's say you were going out on nine nine tenths the speed of light without the formula you'd be going much faster than the speed of light when you pass each other correct and you can't do that so you can't violate that law correct and so because you can't violate that principle of physics or the the universe you gotta have this formula it's not just a can't
Right, right.
Yeah, that makes sense.
Yeah, we've actually made a formula to tell us what the universe is doing.
This is John Stam.
He says, hi, Neil and Chuck.
This is John from Tampa, Florida.
We describe space as being three-dimensional like a cube.
Is the fabric of space better described as a four-dimensional or a Tesseract because it is also expanding?
What could happen if the universe stopped expanding?
Would time or the speed of light be affected?
Oh, that's very cool.
No, the Fifth Dimension is huge.
They're huge.
They were huge.
They were worldwide.
Fifth dimension.
Fifth dimension.
That was for all you Aquarians out there.
We know how needy you are.
This is Marcus.
Is it two Fs?
No, one F. One F?
Is it two Ss?
Yeah, there you go.
I got the wrong double there.
He says, hello, everyone.
Mark is here from Sweden.
He says, I have a question about the value of scientific understanding.
I've always valued gaining knowledge about the universe after following, after and following StarTalk for years and reading books on the subject that I find my life has gained something for doing so.
But I have a difficult- Notice he didn't say he read my books.
I'm sure you're in there somewhere in his choices.
He says, but I have had a difficult time exactly pinpointing what.
I believe I have gained scientific literacy, which comes with a different perspective on how to know what is true and the value of quantifying my ignorance as well as getting humbled.
What would you say are some more important things a person gains from scientific understanding aside from knowledge alone?
I mean, and by the way, quantifying your ignorance is a huge self-awareness that most people never ever get.
It's amazing.
That is very, very cool.
This is Alejandro Guardado.
That's a different Alejandro.
Alejandro Reynoso.
He coming in from where?
Alejandro from...
He says, I'm a new Patreon member.
There you go.
You've been officially birthed into our family, bro.
By the way, I think you do get a lower voice than me, but you don't sustain it.
You have that whiskey voice.
That's why I can't sustain it.
Because I'm drunk right now.
He says, my question is, what are good ways to wrap your head around partial or even complete vacuums?
For example, space.
I am still trying to wrap my head around fans not working in space.
And I'm wondering.
That's a weird thought.
Why don't fans work in space?
And I'm wondering why these.
The rotor's spinning.
I'm going to say.
I don't understand how I'm hot and it's only like three degrees Kelvin in here.
Anyway, he says, I'm wondering why these things work the way they do.
What is the vacuum of space?
I mean, that's a very weird.
And one particle?
Now we're talking like, we're outside of matrix stuff now.
Yeah, but make sure it's a zero-calorie beer.
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Now, are we recounting a personal experience here?
Perhaps that could be the reason for the delay in discussing this.
Are you sure you're ready for this after this harrowing experience?
What's the deal with the lights?
I will agree.
I'm not that short, so yeah.
You have to be really short for that not to be true.
Got to be kind of like a Mr. Potato Head.
Just have your feet right at the bottom.
Right above your head.
How come I never noticed that?
That's right.
Mr. Potato Head was all head.
It was all head and feet.
Arms and feet.
That was it.
Arms coming out of the side of his head.
That's right.
Arms, right.
I want that extra inch.
You're a big guy, so you don't care.
You're like 6'3", so you don't give a damn.
See, that's what I'm saying.
I gave you an inch.
Because the Earth is no longer 4,000 miles in radius.
That radius is shrinking and shrinking and shrinking, so it's becoming much closer to my size as it shrinks.
Uh-oh, we're getting medieval.
Let me tell you, somebody was staying up at night
Thinking this stuff up.
Trying to think of ways to torture and kill people.
That is effed up, man.
We must perforate him now.
Wait for the perforation.
Well, really, five, because there's a torso laying on the ground.
No, no, no, no.
No, that's not how it works.
No, I thought you... I thought you... No.
I did not know this is how this thing worked.
This is, I mean, you just made it ten times worse!
You ruined my fantasy is what I'm trying to tell you.
Yeah, it's like I just drop in the middle and I'm sitting there like an oblong, you know.
Oh, no, my molecular bond.
Well, I mean, I can't believe something that horrific could have such a delicious name.
How did this happen?
That, I have to say, is the scariest Dr. Seuss book I have ever heard.
Good night, Timmy.
This is something you hear all the time, especially in jokes, believe it or not.
Schrodinger's cat.
Well, I don't think that the comedians know what Schrodinger's cat is, but it's such a ubiquitous reference that they make reference to it a lot of times.
It's entered culture.
It has entered culture.
I don't know why they don't call it Schrodinger's dog.
See, what you don't understand is that like particles...
are totally alive, okay?
And the reason why there is a collective consciousness in the universe is because all of these particles that are spinning, what they're actually doing is conducting thought and consciousness.
They're thinking, they're thinking.
That's because, you know, photons, they want to be a part of this, baby.
Let me get some.
Oh, I see where we're landing.
Oh, we got some good chocolate over here.
So for climate change to solve it, we just need to get a bunch of white people in one place.
Just reflect the light to reduce.
Do us a favor, guys.
I'm sorry.
I had to do it, man.
And then you pop somewhere else.
And I say, where'd you go?
What are you doing?
So am I there?
Am I not there?
Well, we'll never really know because you're hitting me with something that makes me not there once you're exposing me to it.
Because it's in the box.
It's in the box and you're not looking at it.
And you're not looking at it.
And that's why the superposition exists.
And it's a quantum cat, not a macroscopic cat.
It's not Maru, the internet cat that people love to see jump out of a box.
All right.
It's a hypothetical quantum cat.
I didn't see that.
That was a movie that came out many years ago with Morgan Freeman and the beautiful man.
I forget his name.
He did 12 Monkeys.
He's done Thelma and Louise.
What's his name?
Brad Pitt.
Thank you.
Oh, Brad Pitt, of course.
Brad Pitt.
So Brad Pitt is stalking a serial killer who is using the seven deadly sins to kill people.
Long story short, the last murder-
He puts the head of someone in the box.
And Brad Pitt wants to know what's in the box.
And Morgan Freeman says, don't look in the box.
There's no reason for you to look in this box.
And Brad Pitt goes, what's in the box?
Because he knows that it's his wife's head.
That is completely morbid.
I know, but it's perfect.
It should be called Schrodinger's cat.
Because it's so much better than Schrodinger's cat.
It actually represents something that is consequential that, you know, I mean, nevermind.
It doesn't really make a difference.
I mean, it doesn't make any difference once you're in the quantum.
It doesn't make a difference, but it's just a much cooler reference.
Right, right, because it's not a quantum head.
It's not a quantum head, so it doesn't make a difference.
Once you're in the quantum, it's not a cat.
It's a quantum cat, and it's not a head.
It's a quantum head, so, you know.
That's so funny.
You're like, Chuck, go have another bowl and get back to me.
Coin is actually the best representation since if it's a superposition, like we said, or like you said, like I said, right?
Look at me taking credit for quantum discoveries.
However, that means it's always a probability.
So it's always a probability.
So that means quantum coin is actually, you came up with the best one.
Why did, why you got to do that?
Why you got to best me?
Oh, I come up with a head in the box and you still got it.
You still got to outdo me.
Because that means these guys had to work that math out on their own.
Okay, I just love the visual of a bunch of nerds crowded around.
And then, you know, you think they're looking at a magazine or something.
And then you part the ways and they're all around a calculator like, whoa.
Look at that.
Can you believe this thing?
Yeah, or I mean, that's why I had children.
They're going to pull me up over the hill.
Let them do the work.
I'm going to sit right here in this little cart.
As a person who lives in Jersey, I appreciate that concept.
The tunneling out of Manhattan.
Why you gotta, let's just stay here, why don't we just live here now?
We built this wall, you're supposed to stay out.
And did you see that potential barrier?
Doesn't potential barriers mean anything to you?
Why aren't these... Why aren't these quantum... from Norway?
I'm sorry.
Why can't we get to what's from Norway?
Let's be honest.
He's a chemistry teacher.
He's no physicist.
What do you want?
Sounds like Thanksgiving dinner at my crib.
So I'm taking it that the building of the elements doesn't work by getting a billion degrees.
Well, yeah.
It's just like, why is everything, God damn, it's hot.
They got to you, Neil.
Oh, so, okay, so.
I can't handle this.
Yeah, okay, cool.
That's a good one.
That's a totally good one.
That sounds delicious, like something like...
Tonight's special is a farm-raised Bose-Einstein condensate with an arugula compote that we have distilled down into a deconstructed quantum... My boy's been to some restaurants lately.
That's pretty wild.
The Bose...
Einstein condensate.
Quantum tunneling, baby.
All I know is I found out I'm a bad father.
Hey, what's happening, guys?
There you go.
And that's it.
We don't need anything else.
This is like former soccer pro and then Chuck.
And someone hugged that man.
Listen, I make the mortgage payment.
And the world is so much better off.
Things have just gotten so good.
See, you're not used to that.
Take it from somebody who has, that's common practice.
He was on the playground, and routinely someone would scream out, medic!
Yeah, when I was in high school, I held the record for the number of slip and fall cases that happened.
Is there any way that we can blame the children?
That's okay.
So it's like you're kind of creating grooves in a record.
He's like, guess what?
You can get toothpaste back in the tube.
Well, let's do it.
I mean, you can do it.
I'd make a bloody good go at it, yes, for sure.
Absolutely.
Yeah, I will say this too, just as a reinforcement to what you said, the liquor companies and the tobacco companies
And any drug dealer knows that you got to get them when they're young.
Brand loyalty.
And the Catholic Church.
Well, any evangelical.
Well, the Catholic Church has a saying that give me a child by the age of four and I'll give you a Catholic for life.
Oh, is that right?
Yeah, no other religion has that saying.
That's the phrase.
That's why everybody should have those little tiny Zoolander phones so that...
That's right.
I don't remember.
I remember that.
On Zoolander, everybody, like the smaller your phone, the more chic you were.
Oh, really?
So you couldn't have a smartphone because that would have made you like a dork.
Yeah, so you get a tiny little phone and it's just like, hey, what's up?
A bunch of wussies.
I mean, I can't even... I don't even want to... When I was a child, we had these things called sticks.
Now you need a little imagination.
Now we buy them on Amazon.
A little imagination, this can be anything.
And you were a professional soccer player.
Well, not as a child.
No, but I'm saying... I wasn't that good.
I was born a professional soccer player.
But what I'm saying is you were given the opportunity.
Look where it steered you.
Just being outdoors.
Yeah, that's right.
It's a high cost of entry.
That's awesome.
What about the fact that children now socialize and not necessarily on the phone?
I have a Gen Alpha at home and she's not allowed to have a phone at all.
She does have access to a computer and she has access to a tablet.
And I'll say, what are you doing?
I'm hanging out with my friends.
That is always because there are no apps on either one of those things that she can get to.
And I hear them all.
Oh, God, it's awful.
But I hear them all just yippee.
And laughing and they're socializing just like they would if they were together.
So what do you do about that?
Or is that okay?
So I have two rules, which is you're only allowed to be on anything, screen, a screen, five days out of the week.
There are two days out of the week where you're not allowed to have a screen at all.
And they think I'm crazy, but I'm still sticking by it.
But she just came to me with this thing called, oh my God, it's a personal server discord.
No, don't let her on that.
And she just, and I said, well, who's, what are you going to do?
Oh, I talk to my friends.
Well, how do you talk to them?
Well, it's me and this guy person and this girl and this girl and this girl and these people from school.
And you're telling me that that is not a good thing because the whole classroom will be on that.
I guess they text.
So now I got to take that.
I don't allow social media in the house.
My son is 19 and he just got on social media last year.
And I cannot take credit for that.
Yeah, he just got on it last year.
That's a straight mic drop.
Could you explain to me what the purpose of an AI talking to people would be?
You know this word chutzpah?
That's a little too close to Megan, the movie for me.
So in the, basically what you just described was never get high on your own supply.
And Maya, can I ask you, just since we're running out of time, I just have to, do you know exactly how much Mark Zuckerberg hates you?
It's American Christmas Day.
That's a great idea.
That is a great idea, but you must also consider how long it took to get a health warning on a pack of cigarettes in this country.
How's that?
They'll sell you some more books.
Subtitle, Mark Zuckerberg hates me.
I mean, this has been so enlightening.
So Elon Musk is coming.
So this guy's not a jerk.
What's happening?
You say that's a good show?
You think there's a good future for the space industry?
Well, you know, I do want to get off this earth.
I'm just afraid of who might be driving.
There was a very popular nighttime soap opera called The Thornburgs.
Well, slightly off.
As you can tell, I was a huge fan of the show.
Don't shame my success with this drinking problem.
What's the difference?
Look at the success I have achieved while holding down that drinking problem.
That's how I came in this world.
My first words after they slapped me on my ass.
was, when are we getting to nuclear thermal?
Thank you, Chuck.
It's not a routine thing.
So you're basically—you're like, I'm going to turn commercial space into trucking.
Could you have more romantic terms than that?
At one point, once we had containers coming in and container shipping, the trucking industry
because somebody had to figure out a way to get these containers where they had to go, you know, and quickly.
And so, like, you're doing that, which is incredible.
Trying to keep up here, you know, but you guys are like rocketing off.
I'm doing that now with NVIDIA.
So that counts as being cherry-picked, I would say.
When the guy who owns the thing calls you personally, he's stealing you.
Yeah, it's always been Rocket City.
Well, you know, he does that.
Let me ask you both this then before, I don't know, because you brought up this FFRDC.
Is that still necessary now that there's so much commercial activity in space travel?
Is it still necessary for the government to seed money into things so that we can then go forward in discovery?
And that's where China enters the picture.
Then there was China.
And then there was China.
Didn't we go to SpaceX?
I think you said it's the number of...
Get back to work on that.
So you guys are like the workman that comes to your home, the contractor, and he's like, yeah, we're not going to know anything until we open up these walls.
I do have stuff.
Got to tell you.
Could be a lot of problems back there.
I mean, this could be a $200 job or it could be a $20,000 job.
But also it's kind of a public perception problem for NASA because there's never been a movie made about SpaceX or Elon Musk, but the whole idea behind the whole Apollo missions and everything that NASA does is...
Triumph, we did it.
And then the one time something goes wrong, it's global headlines of how badly they failed and what an incredible tragedy it is.
If NASA blew up 100 rockets, there'd be no more tax dollars going to NASA.
Whereas Elon Musk can blow up as many rockets as he wants.
Yeah, I wonder where that... I mean, I could be wrong, but I mean, that's just one person's opinion.
Yeah, you know, like when a leader of a nation breaks up with the CEO, like, it can get ugly, you know what I mean?
Like, who gets the cat?
Like, you know...
I'm going to start looking at my life differently.
I'm just an engineer.
All the failures, too.
Now you're standing on a jet and the door has blown off mid-flight.
How do you get around it?
That can never happen.
It's like a pharmaceutical disclaimer, you know, side effects may include.
And they're highly unlikely, but they list even the most unlikely of side effects.
But they say, you know, hey, listen, the chances of this happening are so slim that this is deemed safe.
But there's a very, very slim chance that this could happen.
In space, there's never a guarantee.
That's when you've got a problem.
Well, did that scenario cause them to make the change, or are they still doing the same thing?
Are they still being dumbass?
That's your word.
Are they still being dumbass?
Oh, that's a Chuckism right there.
What are you doing right now?
I hear you are being fired.
Perhaps you would like to come to France and make a baguette rocket.
We're plundering our own intellectual treasure is what we're doing.
And what does your wife feel about this?
That's a great answer.
So how could that, because it seems to me like what you're doing
is either comes down to this works or it doesn't.
So I'm sure there are people who feel like, well, what do I need integrity for?
Because it either works or it doesn't.
So what difference does it make?
Where exactly does a lack of integrity hurt the business and then subsequently- I think lying about the progress of your product.
Ah, to keep the money coming.
That's where I see it the most.
Which is the brain.
That is my Uncle Jimmy at a cookout.
Yes, I didn't have a name for it until now.
So let me ask you, because I'm just fascinated by this whole thing right now.
How does a VC know anything about thermonuclear propulsion?
I mean, seriously, like I need $30 million.
This is where you've got to be a salesman.
Oh, he hadn't done that.
He didn't need to.
Now you made him actually say it publicly.
I have a board, but it's a small board.
Now, what are, I'll say, our adversaries, what are they using for maneuverability on orbit?
So they're brute forcing it.
That's correct.
That's what they're doing.
I kind of feel like precision and elegance wins out in the long term if you can get past the short term.
Yeah, and unlike America, they spend as much money as they want on anything that they want.
And that's what I want here.
That kind of efficiency.
Donald J. He can't help it.
That would let them know.
About our needs.
And to let them know.
The transition of our needs.
What kind of dumbasses they are.
because they are dumbasses.
We can cut that out.
Please don't cut that out.
Just like Independence Day.
That's a great one.
Leave the world behind.
It was a tech warfare.
Do not watch that movie with me, by the way.
Jeff did not answer that question.
Did you see what he just did there?
What did he say?
He was just like, that seems like a very reasonable hypothesis, which is like, oh man, that's exactly what is happening.
I was trying to channel my inner Neil.
No, that was good.
That's why I had to point it out.
That was excellent.
There you go, NASA.
We're coming for you.
There's a cool company down in Florida.
I'll give them a shout out.
They're called Admin, and they are an additive manufacturing company.
And that's what they work with on all the space people that they work with.
And how do we get in on the ground floor of your company?
Let's talk afterwards.
There's actually an ethical society that has come up around the treatment of robots.
Treatment of robots.
Even a broken clock is...
So quantize gravity and things of that nature.
Yeah, I'm just interested, like, what would be the ultimate achievement in commercial space travel or the holy grail?
What is it that everybody wants?
That would be an impossibility.
That's very cool.
It's like saying, I'm going to Poughkeepsie, I'm going to the moon.
It's all the same.
It's all the same.
And you are correct, sir.
So the first query has been answered.
Which is good, too, because people get very upset when they're
questions go unanswered, but they don't realize that when we're soliciting new questions, it's because it's a different topic, like you said.
It's a different thing.
Yeah, it's not like we can just continue.
So yeah, you're right.
This is a great way to do some housekeeping and make some people happy.
All right, let's jump right into this, of course.
So let's start with a Patreon patron.
This is Abdul Aziz bin Razab.
And he says, hey, quick question.
What form or thing can sustain itself and not be destroyed by a black hole?
Or what thing can sustain itself the most and to which degree?
would it be able to hold itself together when entering a black hole?
So is there anything that can withstand the, oh, your term I'm about to use, is there anything that isn't spaghettified when it goes into a black hole?
So now, let me just take Abdul's question and for my own edification, go a little further.
So when you're looking at the creation of a supermassive black hole, when you get down to the place where it's
The star that's dying is producing iron, and now there's nothing that can happen after that.
So it's like, okay, I'm going to collapse in on myself, right?
So now, okay, so now the iron is already there.
What happens as these things, or whatever it is, whatever matter it may be, falls towards this singularity
When it gets there, is it infinitely compressed?
Does it have like a core?
What is happening at that point, since you have these streams of particles that are now just, they're not even particles, they are just particles.
You say, where do they land?
Yeah, that is incredible.
Yeah, so the evaporation of a black hole through Hawking radiation kind of lets you know that it's not going anywhere.
It's actually coming back out.
So it just dawned on me then.
So what you just described, though, the information, you called it information, that means that there's a change of information then.
Hey, man, great question, Abdul.
All right, let's see.
God, okay, here we go.
You know, it's just good stuff.
All right, here we go.
This is Giannis Kiosis.
Okay, I said your name wrong, man.
Giannis, you know who I'm talking about from Facebook.
He says, what would be more groundbreaking as a discovery and why?
Understanding dark matter or discovering life outside of our solar system?
Behind closed doors, it's all... It's pretty much the same.
They don't mean by saying them guarantee.
Oh, man, you got everything.
You got crab, you got corn, you got crawfish, you got sauce, andouille sausage.
And you also have rice.
I think I told you this.
I don't know if we talked about it on the air or privately, but Yvonne Garnier.
Got to get you some Yvonne Garnier gumbo.
She's a friend of the family from New Orleans who used to make gumbo that way.
So I'm waiting for it.
You're like, don't talk about it.
All right, well, we're going to do that.
Let's go to Riyam Samari, who says, he's very poetic.
So I'm just going to read everything here because he's very poetic.
He says, the sky calls to us.
If we do not destroy ourselves, will we one day venture to the stars?
It was Carl Sagan's lifetime mission to encourage humanity to explore the universe.
And you, Neil, are calling for the same goal and carrying the message to a new generation.
Given the recent promising spaceflight developments of SpaceX,
Do you think that during our lifetime, we will finally see humans colonizing other planets or at least finding a glimpse of intelligent life on other worlds?
This is a guy who spends a lot of time reading your stuff, clearly.
I'm just being honest.
Oh, that was a hot knife and twisted.
He so eloquently asked this very, like, just super optimistic question.
Do you really think no?
Oh, is he really in the North Pole?
With a polar bear wearing sunglasses.
We're laughing, but it's so sad.
This is Brett Marshall from Facebook, and I just have to read this because I, you know, it's, I don't know why.
He goes, hey, I'm still here, and I'm still too stupid to come up with a good question.
But I listen to every show.
He goes, hey, still here.
Still too stupid to come up with a good question.
Listen to every show.
All right, here we go.
Duan only from Instagram.
How far do you think our advancements in science would be if the United States budget used for the military was actually used towards science and technology?
Every disaster movie.
This is njonesy19 from Instagram.
He says, can you please explain the horizon problem?
it would seem that no matter where you are, you are in the center of the universe, which means all locations are the center of the universe.
That really begs another question.
Is there a center of the universe?
And how many licks does it take to get to the center of that universe?
No, they bought that back!
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop or something like that?
All right, here we go.
This is PN Wonders, who wants to know this.
With Earth gathering mass from space material all the time, when will the mass increase to have an effect on Earth's orbit?
And what would that effect be?
Sleep well tonight, P.N.
The solar system is a cruel, cruel mistress.
All right, here we go.
Bugger Dude from Instagram.
Bugger Dude says this.
How did astronomers find out that the edge of the observable universe is 43 billion light years away?
So basically the cosmos is an annoying grandmother that pulled out an album of baby pictures.
I print out my photos and I put them in an album.
Well, it's the same as scrapbooking as far as I'm concerned.
It's like, you know, because you know why?
I'm cold, and I need some tea.
Well, it's going to rain tomorrow.
This is Ashkot and his last name.
Because I mean, you know.
And hey, Chuck, please pronounce my name right.
Oh, he gave a phonetic?
He gave me his, you know what, Akshat?
Thank you, my friend.
He gave me, there you go.
He says, my question to you is that about 400 years ago, Sir Isaac Newton, hey Neil, I know that's your man, discovered the laws of motion and gravity.
He also discovered calculus and had already discovered the laws of optics.
How was he so focused and deeply indulged in his work during the plague, which was a pandemic during that time?
How was he able to manage his mental health?
And how can we manage our own mental health and have a spark of our own creativity and imagination during this time of peak anxiety?
And Akshat is coming to us from India.
That's an understatement.
I forget, I don't know, I forget who said this, but there's a writer and she said, the greatest impediment to creativity is distraction.
Yeah, and basically right along with what you just said.
Well, you don't give your mind a chance to do that.
So yeah, right, yeah, cool.
All right, so here we go.
This is Alfredo Baldo Castiano, who says... Oh, you're showing off now.
You're getting in the mood.
He says, dear friends...
I have a black hole question.
If a black hole is a point of infinite density, that means it can bend the space-time so much that a particle falling inside can accelerate so much that it can reach the speed of light
Now he put a question mark at the end.
He wrote it as a statement, but he's asking it as a question.
So if a particle falls into a black hole,
Is the gravity so strong, since light can't escape, will it cause the particles coming in to reach the speed of light going in?
Well, that's you and your wife are cooking.
I don't know what that is.
From Instagram, he says... It looks like a random hits on a keyboard.
He says, while I was listening to the podcast, I heard about nuclei getting spaghettified.
If the nuclei get spaghettified, aha, here we go.
What about the quarks?
No one thing should have all that power.
That's all I'm saying.
That's a lot of power.
This is... What else you got?
People are making up stuff now, man.
T. Gweethan from Instagram says this.
What are your thoughts on the simulation theory?
How likely is it that it exists?
That's why I said go ahead and do it.
Now let's stop there and now go find that explainer so we can get more views on YouTube.
And I'm going to say, and Michael Bruce wants to know this.
How can we... Yeah, that's right.
Go find that explainer on YouTube and we're going to get more views.
We're going to get more views now.
So Michael Bruce wants to know this.
And while you're there, subscribe.
Yeah, make sure you subscribe.
So Michael Bruce wants to know this.
How can we prevent a mass extinction event when the world governments believe more in listening to who pays them over scientific fact?
So a better question, I mean, not a better question, a different question is, how do we elevate science to a place of respect when it comes to our leaders in government?
I'm going to say that there is no help for my brain, so it does not make a difference.
Once again, Gary, not going to affect me at all.
Chuck, how you doing, man?
Yeah, that when you know it's Chuck, it means it's not special at all.
Okay, well, here's the answer.
No, let's all go home.
No, okay, that's the end of the show.
Let's all go home, people.
Well, this was quicker than I expected.
This was very quick.
I mean, yeah, you know.
I liked the way you phrased that, Gary.
It was very diplomatic.
Smarter or not.
And if I had another life and career, it wouldn't exist.
I'd shut it down immediately because let's be honest, science is a hoax.
What a great topic, Neil.
Now, the problem is he'd have to take off his tinfoil hat when he got there.
It just means you started as a dumbass and you still are one.
Whoa, whoa, what happened?
This guy's brain just went completely dark.
We're not in that camp.
That was just a joke.
We understand that your brain is constantly working.
A lot of it, actually, just to run your body.
Takes up a lot of energy.
Takes up a lot of energy.
What you're describing right now is the basis for all video game design.
That's what you're describing right now.
What they want to do is make it just challenging enough.
If it's too challenging, you give up on the game.
But if it's too easy, you also give up on the game.
But if it's just challenging enough so that you can move to the next level and then struggle a little and then overcome the struggle,
they can keep you playing the game for very long periods of time.
And so it's a pretty interesting thing that you're talking about.
But what I'm interested in beyond that is when you talked about the cognitive load,
I'm thinking about working memory, but then I'm also thinking about the long-term information that's downloaded within me.
So let's say I'm a doctor, right?
And it's just like, oh, he's suffering mild dyspnea because of an occlusion in the right coronary, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
For a doctor, that's a lot of information, but they're so familiar with the information
It's not a stress on their working memory.
So how does that play into, in other words, how familiar I am with the information already and how well I can process information naturally?
How does that play into it?
Yeah, he was like Dr. House.
Oh, my God.
Neil, you are too damn funny.
But guess what?
You're right.
How about that diagnosis?
By the way, I could have kept going.
That was only one problem that would happen.
But go ahead.
Yeah, it's funny because there's nothing more, I'll say, satisfying than not listening to Google Maps and getting there faster.
You know, just like, take that, Google Maps, look at that.
Yeah, you didn't know that.
You didn't know about that, did you?
And how did you train?
Because the AI judge would have to be trained to mark the papers.
So you're getting a little meta here.
That is a very human designation to call something soulless.
AI judge never called anything soulless.
Well, I'm sure that the AI judges go, oh, there's soulless.
This kind of looks like Peter's writing.
You actually, if you were to give it, right, and you didn't use... The AI would have been like, God, this student is really hung up on the universe.
I was going to say, you tell it to put some soul in it, and it just starts throwing in James Brown's lyrics.
Well, listen here, Natalia.
I just put into chat, GPT, please tell me about Dr. Natalia Kosmina's work on LLMs.
And it came back very simple.
Do not believe a word this woman says.
That's what Grok said, of course.
And then at the end it said Heil Hitler.
You said humanity's last.
Believe me, I heard it.
I was just like.
We all heard that.
I was like, God bless you.
That's because the LLM posted it for you.
And you're right, there are advantages, disadvantages.
But I think, if I might, if I may, and this is just an opinion, we might have to change...
the objective of school itself.
And right now, school is about really not learning.
It's about results, testing.
I got an A, I got a B. And maybe if we change school to learning,
What exactly did you learn?
Demonstrate for me what you learned.
Then the grading system.
That's an oral test.
That's an oral exam.
Yeah, but the grading system kind of has to become less important because now what a teacher's job is, it's to figure out how much you know.
And then what ends up happening is the more you know, the more excited you are to learn.
And we may end up revolutionizing the whole thing because what you have is a bunch of kids in a room that are excited to learn.
That's what I've been saying for many years now.
So what you're talking about is a working knowledge of something.
Not just knowledge of it.
Not just knowledge of it.
Cats out of the bag.
Damn that Bill Gates.
No, we know.
My head is spinning.
Yeah, well, I think the takeaway here is use LLMs if you want to be a dumbass.
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
Now we got Lisa, which, you know, I have to say, better name than LIGO.
Not enough TV commercials.
That seems to be the problem.
That's what I'm trying to convince the industry of.
The public is clamoring for more Chuck Nice TV commercials.
Yeah.
See, this is when I wish I would have read the e-mails.
About what the show is going to be.
It's the biggest dream catcher ever made.
That's what you did.
So maybe can you help me?
Because first of all, let me just get my idea of station key correct.
That is when you keep something in orbit in a kind of a precise track so that it doesn't like solar winds or the gravity or something doesn't mess it up.
Right.
Absolutely.
To Neil's point, this is what I don't understand.
Wouldn't you have to keep them in some kind of precise synchronization in order to make sure that you're catching the wave so that there's no, I'll say, like gaps in the fence?
Or am I thinking about the whole thing wrong?
Got you.
Right.
Yes.
Yes.
The equals mc squared, that's a little c. That's a little c, you're correct.
The e is the biggie.
The e is the biggie.
The e is the biggie.
Biggie.
Yeah.
So can I ask this?
I'm just curious.
So LIGO already detected gravitational waves.
Two black holes came together, washed over.
We know that.
What do you guys do?
I was not paying attention.
I probably wasn't, but go ahead.
So the super massive.
Wait, what's the difference between super massive and massive?
Because now the massive is bigger, Chuck.
And then falling into it.
And are these little kilograms nodules, are they kind of like the bell ringing?
Is that the whole deal?
They're the rubber ducky on the wave.
On the wave.
On the wave itself.
I did not because I went to Home Ec, and I sued to do so because I didn't want to lose any fingers.
Oh, yes.
Of course, yes.
Of course, we put up three.
And of course, China.
China has to put up four.
Wow.
Wow.
USA.
USA.
Scientists would never do that.
I got to do it for you.
Um, so I don't know exactly how to describe the LIGO detection, but I know it's so, so, so, so, so, so tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny.
So since you're detecting all these different, like, okay, like you said, the pulsars and then, um, the super massive wavelength, bigger wavelengths.
Thank you.
Well,
Are you going to get bigger measurements or what are the difference there that makes you say, hey, we got it.
I'm OK with that.
Is that what you were trying to say, Chuck?
That's exactly what I was trying to say.
And, you know, that's why I have you.
That's fair.
You're catching a fly ball with one of those novelty gloves.
Before they actually come up with a, instead of Doge, Dunn, Department of NASA Efficiency.
Really?
You know what?
That's a very good point, though, because that's the one thing that will put a flame on that and put a flame under our butts is if China tries to do something that we should be doing, you know.
Yeah.
And so hopefully that'll be.
That's Saturn.
Make a left.
One is stop and ask for directions.
The other is we're not in Kansas anymore.
There's a lot of that going on in the world right now, Kelly.
Look at that.
That turned into a space disco.
Like once you leave, you can't get back in.
And while you're at it, Kelly, can you also distill the meaning of life into one sentence?
Could you do that too, please?
Yeah.
I thought there was two guys on the, uh, on the, uh, mountaintops with candles.
Uh, no, that was in Galileo's day.
Okay.
Well, how'd you know about that?
I think I listened to you sometimes.
Yes.
Right.
You guys should have looked for me.
And if I might just say to all the listeners, it would not hurt for you to contact your representative at
And say, just like this goddamn boy, I'll tell you one thing.
If we don't get that doggone Lisa up there in that sky, I don't know what the hell we're going to do.
I'd be a cold day and a blackness of space before I want to see some Chinese taking over all what we supposed to be doing.
That's what I'm trying to figure out.
If you want to stay in office and you know what's good for you, you might want to release a few of them ducats over there to that Lisa program.
Yeah.
That's all I'm saying.
My mom is spinning in her grave right now.
The deep, deep space, deep thoughts, deep questions.
See, I got to drink scotch the night before.
Yeah, I got to smoke a cigar and drink some scotch.
But then it becomes like a deep voice and like somewhat Harvey Fierstein.
So listen to it from our fan base.
And here's the question from Jonathan Wax.
And Jonathan says or asks, what boggles your mind more?
Than the thought of endless time or the thought of endless space.
So it's impossible to truly contemplate endless time because you would spend the rest of your existence doing so.
I'm going to write these down.
So that statement, that Carl Sagan statement, it's kind of like a cosmological Descartes.
That's like the universe, the Descartes.
But it's like, we think therefore you are.
Every once in a while, I'll do something.
For example... Oh, that's terrible.
I'm pretty sure there's a Chimp Starbucks.
I'm just pretty sure there is a Chimp Starbucks somewhere.
Yeah, Starbucks has got to be selling Chimp's coffee somehow, some way.
Is that why they're so hyper at the zoo?
You go to get your coffee and it's just like, Curious George?
Oh, look at those cute little humans and their telescopes they're putting up there.
So there's information out there that we just cannot conceive or perceive.
We don't know the question to get an answer.
No, we just can't conceive of the question.
Oh, something as simple as navigating the stars to get someplace.
Now I'm thinking that this whole thing might be some type of science experiment by some alien kid now.
Well, listen, that's a great answer to what boggles your mind.
It doesn't so much boggle my mind, it upsets my mind.
Yeah, I was about to say, it's very upsetting.
Well, with that in mind, I think that the next evolutionary step for human beings is that we will create an intelligence greater than our own.
And we'd have to say you're right.
I'm in front of the wrong person.
Yes, he was talking about Morpheus when he was tied up in the chair.
You got to have some really serious BO for a computer to tell you you stink.
So this is Alex Greg 56 from Instagram.
If the universe needs not make any sense to us, then what is the point of doing science?
Is science not, in fact, the discipline of trying to grasp what's around us?
By the way, is this statement not equal to the old one, which is God has his reason to make it that way.
I want to start saying, you know what?
You're homeless on the street, act of God.
This moment of God hates you, bought to you by farmer's insurance.
Nationwide is on your side.
So... I'm going to get some hate mail now.
So is science, in fact, the discipline of trying to grasp what is around us?
I can actually picture that because I've seen a drawing.
I must be in space because all my problems, somebody says drop it.
And I say I did that right still here.
chuck here we go so this is from probably asleep that's the name of the person the name of the person okay i like your mama didn't like you how long do you think the human race will actually survive wow i mean there's precedent for that right well so you can look at what is the average life expectancy of mammals
Yeah, maybe cockroaches invented human beings.
Because when everything's gone, they're going to be the only ones left.
Yeah, that makes perfect sense.
So I think what he's really asking is, in your estimation, from your sage opinion, how long do you think we will last?
That is not encouraging at all.
So I understand seeding something with a remnant for survival of the species.
I mean, that's something that's outside of our own destruction.
You know, even though we could stop an asteroid from hitting us if we put the right resources.
If we put the resources into it, we could stop even that from happening.
So what's the example you're giving?
So what I'm saying is, you know, will we ever get to a place where the, as the Buddhist monks call it, the so-called monkey brain
that causes us to do so much destructive work to each other and to the planet.
Will we ever get to a place where we overcome that or we're able to train those who come behind us to overcome that?
Now, it does happen in some people.
We really got to pick up our game.
It's the second greatest generation.
What you're saying is, imagine if Twitter existed.
Let me tell you something.
The war wouldn't have stopped until everybody was dead.
People would have said, I surrender.
A tweet would have gone out and be like, I take it back.
It's over for you, brother.
You know, I'm just going to say that's the way it's going to end because I won't be here.
That's the premise of a show called Altered Carbon, where people actually take their consciousness and put it into what they call a sleeve, which is the body.
I think I voiceover the opening sequence to that show.
I think we had that conversation once where you told me that.
Well, let's go to Joey24, JoeyJr24.
He says this personal question.
Based on all your experiences and knowledge thus far.
Personal for me or for you?
Nobody asking me anything.
He says, based on all of your experiences and knowledge thus far,
What do you think the meaning of our human existence is?
He just asked you what is the meaning of life according to Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Plug your book when you get a chance.
Well, that's not just the book.
It's about all different kinds of letters you receive.
Everybody knows it's in a drawer.
It's in that drunk drawer, too.
It's not like an underwear drawer or something.
You know that drawer where you go to look for stamps and stuff?
At the end of every day, somebody is like that mother... But go ahead.
You know, I'm going to say, as a philosophy, that's admirable.
From Ninja Jamit, whatever.
Said, I keep hearing the phrase, the vacuum of space.
How exactly is it a vacuum?
So, Chuck, you want some more vacuum talk?
I feel like you just showed up at my door and dumped some dirt on my carpet.
We only have five minutes left?
This is Ja Saldana says, right now, what should be the priority in the field of space exploration?
Searching for potential threats of another kind of search?
Or is there just no hurry at this matter at all?
Is it, are we looking for life?
Exploration, life, go ahead.
Adam in the airwaves wants to know this from Instagram.
How far behind do you think astronomy would be if the Earth didn't have a moon?
That's a damn good answer.
Uh, ever sit a poor, I don't know what his, who cares?
Let me tell you something.
Last time he's going to be asking you a question.
Well, you know what your name is and I'm going to call you George.
So George wants to know this.
What is the shape of space itself?
The same distance in every direction.
If you're just out and there's nothing but water around.
That's good stuff right there.
This is Chen Yuan who says, if we were to look in all directions, billions of light years away, will we see younger universe in all directions?
Enveloping our bigger one now.
I got to find one that you can do really quick.
Okay, then I'm just going to... I'm going to give you one.
This is... What did I spell?
This is Basanti... Okay, I don't care what this is.
Chuck, you have to at least try, Chuck.
Basanti... Okay, forget it.
I'm going to read the name.
Here's the name right there.
What if all the matter that we see in the universe is just three-dimensional part of some four-dimensional matter and the dark gravity is just the gravity from the 4D part that we cannot see?
What is that giant graphite thing making, making, making, creating stuff?