Michelle Thaller
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first heard May 2026
last heard 28 May
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Well, see, the funny thing is, we certainly don't all get together and talk theoretical physics.
I mean, that's not really what we do.
But I was seated next to one of them at a meal one time and somebody came by and said, oh, look at all the brainpower here.
And I actually in this, I try to be kind of nice about it, but I said, you know, there's a single mother working three jobs part time, you know, who's waiting tables over there.
And I mean, the mental capacity and the strength of that person is something that, you know, don't look at us.
Go praise that person.
It's survival.
I mean, it's trying to keep your life and soul together.
The privilege of being able to work at NASA.
And to be able to work with a team like that and do things you think are impossible.
You know, that was kind of a part of my life you could stick a pin in and say that meant something.
That gave me some meaning.
That gave me joy.
And as you said, it's not so much being a hunter-gatherer.
It's, you know, can we ask a question that we think is impossible and can we just go and do it?
So you can measure how big these things are and you can measure how massive they are.
And so then you can do a calculation as to what the density inside would be.
And, you know, I mean, to put it, I mean, probably the interior core is denser than the outer regions.
But if you had a teaspoon of this material, it would have about as much mass as Mount Everest.
And the reason they're called neutron stars is that the gravity is so intense on these things.
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