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Chuck Nice

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StarTalk Radio
Return to Venus with David Grinspoon

Anyway, so here, let me not bore you with the details.

StarTalk Radio
Return to Venus with David Grinspoon

What it did for me was they would say things like plasma conduit, light speed, phaser.

StarTalk Radio
Return to Venus with David Grinspoon

So vocabulary descended upon you.

StarTalk Radio
Return to Venus with David Grinspoon

The vocabulary, I was like, what the, I honestly didn't, I didn't want, I wanted to understand what they were saying.

StarTalk Radio
Return to Venus with David Grinspoon

I didn't, I wanted to be like a crew member on the, I didn't want to just sit there and watch.

StarTalk Radio
Return to Venus with David Grinspoon

I wanted to understand.

StarTalk Radio
Return to Venus with David Grinspoon

Mm-hmm.

StarTalk Radio
Return to Venus with David Grinspoon

So I started looking all this crap up.

StarTalk Radio
Return to Venus with David Grinspoon

And honestly, that's when I first got like excited about science and about space travel and the whole deal, all from this stupid TV show.

StarTalk Radio
Return to Venus with David Grinspoon

But I can't explain to you, but I can tell you this.

StarTalk Radio
Return to Venus with David Grinspoon

They'll never hold up.

StarTalk Radio
Return to Venus with David Grinspoon

What?

StarTalk Radio
Return to Venus with David Grinspoon

The dilithium crystals will dissolve.

StarTalk Radio
Return to Venus with David Grinspoon

So, yeah, the dilithium crystals was a great, like, I also love the fact that they put all that kind of little stuff in there, which is absolute nonsense.

StarTalk Radio
Return to Venus with David Grinspoon

But they somehow married it to some form of science to make it work.

StarTalk Radio
Return to Venus with David Grinspoon

This is the creativity on the frontier.

StarTalk Radio
Return to Venus with David Grinspoon

That's a place where you would put some Nazis.

StarTalk Radio
Return to Venus with David Grinspoon

Stop.

StarTalk Radio
Return to Venus with David Grinspoon

Alabama is the place, if you gotta relocate some Nazis, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't do a bad thing by putting them in Alabama.

StarTalk Radio
Return to Venus with David Grinspoon

Don't put them in Detroit.