Lost in Space Game Night
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What is the premise of the Lost in Space Game Night episode?
Welcome to StarTalk, your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide. StarTalk begins right now. This is StarTalk. Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist. And today is a special edition of StarTalk because once again, StarTalk has collaborated with National Geographic Books to release our latest installment titled Lost in Space, 5,000 Facts to Navigate the Universe. And this is being held by my co-author, Lindsay Nix Walker. Lindsay, hello.
Hello.
Hello, middle name Nix, N-Y-X.
That's
right. Not K-N-I-C-K-S.
No.
Nix.
No, no,
I
had it before Nix were cool, so.
Nyx is mythological.
Nyx is a Greek goddess. She's supposedly the only goddess that Zeus feared. She is born of chaos and gave birth to dreams.
Oh, damn. That's heavy stuff. That's heavy stuff.
Paul! Hey, dude! Also a Greek mythology name. God of pizza delivery. Good to see you guys. Well, welcome back to StarTalk. Congrats on the book. Thank you. Very happy for you. Thank you. And Lindsay carrying your ass, as
usual. So, you cooked up this episode. I had nothing to do with this. I'm excited about this. She put stuff together. I don't even know what I'm doing.
This
is a
StarTalk team effort. We've never done this before. This is StarTalk Chaos Edition. We have a wheel here. It's called Wheel of Neil. Take it for a spin. And when it lands on... Something, can you spin it a little bit more enthusiastically? Thank you. Exactly.
This is an assisted living facility. Show some energy. Higher, lower.
Higher, lower.
Now are we winning something at the end
of this game?
Do I get something? Do I get a watch maybe? Like a nice watch from my friend Neil?
Free tour of the museum.
Yes.
I have on this card numbers and facts. You have to tell me if the next number is higher or lower than the first number. To start, you're gonna guess this number. The distance in feet that Alan Shepard hit a golf ball on the moon. 280
feet.
Great guess.
The moon's gravity is lower, it will stay airborne longer, he's got a puffy suit, but he likes golf, so.
And did the question include explain why? No. I'm gonna say 350 feet. Okay,
you're both wrong. It is less than that. It is 120 feet.
What? I thought he hit it like 100 yards. I thought he hit it
like a football field. Oh, you know what
it
could be? When you're on a smaller cosmic object, the horizon is closer to you. But what does that have to do with how... Because when you hit something a certain distance, it's like, that's halfway to the horizon. But if the horizon isn't very far, your brain misinterprets what just happened.
But who calculated that number? It's an actual number. They looked where the thing hit the moon.
Shouldn't theory go farther if you are not wearing a puppy spacesuit? But he had a huge spacesuit on. This was Apollo, one of the Apollo missions. They had gigantic spacesuits. And it was one-handed.
If there were a word for non-golfer, it would be me.
Yeah, you know what, same. Is this number higher or lower than 120? The wind speed in miles per hour. at Uranus's equator, higher or lower than 120? It
feels like it should be greater than 120. I'm gonna go greater. 175, 175 miles per hour.
So I don't know this number, but Uranus is tipped on its axis, like a lot. And so the equator gets direct heat from the sun. It's gotta be much higher than that. The sun drives convection and other air
movement. Okay, I wanna correct my answer,
please.
No.
I'm going to say 500 mile an hour.
It's actually 560 miles per hour top speed.
What? Wait, this is rigged. I'm out. I'm out. Goodbye. Yeah, I got better things to do. I got a dog walking business
now. I
lost my job at the late show.
There's just tremendous turbulence because different parts of that planet are being heated maximally at different times. And that does nothing but create ground winds.
the number of times Uranus has orbited the sun since its discovery.
So let's see, we're about 250 years, that would be greater than 560. He's doing math
in
his head. That's dangerous. This is me calculating a tip. I want to say that it's higher than that. I will give you a number of 870. Wow, that's
a great guess.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the premise of the Lost in Space Game Night episode?
0:00–5:54
2
How did the hosts play the “Wheel of Neil” guessing game?
5:54–6:21
3
What was the actual distance Alan Shepard hit a golf ball on the Moon?
6:21–8:20
4
How fast can wind blow at Uranus’s equator compared to 120 mph?
8:20–21:36
5
What are the rules and challenges of the Taboo‑style word game?
21:36–42:00