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Is Interstellar Travel Impossible?
Season 8
Episode 19
Space is pretty deadly. But is it so deadly that we’re effectively imprisoned in our solar system forever? Many have said so, but a few have actually figured it out.
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What do we do to protect ourselves from extinction level events?
8:44
Our neighboring planets are not exactly the most hospitable places.
10:27
The double slit experiment radically changed the way we understand reality.
5:49
In 2015 LIGO announced the first detection of a gravitational wave... What happens next?
10:15
On July 4th 2016, the Juno spacecraft finally entered orbit around the planet Jupiter.
11:02
Planck's Length is the length below which the concept of length loses its meaning. Huh?
7:49
What is the Higgs field and why is it a fundamental part of our universe?
9:42
Contrary to how we perceive reality, spacetime is deflected through the lens of gravity