Things You Thought You Knew – Venus Pizza

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English - September 07, 2021 07:00 - 45 minutes - 42.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratings
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How long would it take to cook a pizza outside on Venus? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice discuss the physics of surface temperature, the size of ~wAvEs~, and the meaning of horsepower. Could horses get you to space?

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Photo Credit: Image credit: NASA/JPL