Michelle Thaller

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577 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 21 Jul

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StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · Running Out of Matter with Michelle Thaller · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

Yeah.

So, I mean, it's nothing.

I mean, I don't know if this is true, but I remember one economist saying that they'd shown that the Pentagon, the military across all over the world, had spent more money on air conditioning in a year than that budget.

Oh, my God.

So, I'm not absolutely sure that's true.

But, you know, it's on that level.

I mean, we're not even a fighter jet, basically.

Yeah.

Doge doo doo.

Okay.

All right.

So I'm going to say I'm going to start out saying this is something that is a question of mine.

So, I mean, I mean, well done, because I mean, this is actually something that I wish I understood better.

I only recently came to a better understanding because of some great podcasts.

Actually, it was a podcast Veritasium that Derek Muller does.

that finally I could understand why the speed of light is different speeds.

When you go through the vacuum of space, it's the fastest anything can go, the speed of light.

When it passes through air or water or glass, you see that classic bend, right?

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