just feels like the cost to the American people, to the global public is just so astronomical. And it's And like, how is it possible that one man's vanity is actually able to cost this much for the world? Yeah, I mean, we're not talking about a trillion yet, but I mean, if you look at the cost to the Iranian infrastructure,
area particularly well. So for example it might be that an astrophysicist is incredibly knowledgeable about stars about black holes about the movement of planets. But epistemic trespassing is when the astrophysics thinks that because they know so much about this one area they will also be able to tell you about another area. So epistemic trespassing, for example, is when the astrophysics thinks they know about political science, but it could be also when a car mechanic thinks they know about tree surgery. It could be when a doctor thinks they know about economics. Epistemic trespassing
that is when evolution goes off on a weird path. Because you might think that, okay, modern mammals are really smart and mammals survive the asteroid and mammals diversified so much right after the asteroid to replace the dinosaurs. So maybe it was being smart and evolving bigger brains that helped mammals take over the world when the dinosaurs died. But that turns out not to be the case because we have CAT scanned all of these skulls of fossil mammals. We have built digital models of their brains. We can measure the size and the shape of their brains. We can plot it out on the
but to observe it and to record it and to predict it to predict its effects in the future involves very precise astronomical observations maintained over a very long period of time, hundreds and hundreds of years at least. So here we have myths of a global cataclysm. There is just so much else.
and you'd written this book about AI, but I particularly wanted to speak about the subject of happiness cuz I was fascinated by it. What I find astonishing is the fact that you were talking about AI before anybody was really talking about AI. No guest that had ever come on my podcast had ever mentioned the subject of AI. It just wasn't interesting to the world. And then this thing called ChatGPT came out, and suddenly everybody got to feel it
The Earth is just one. Asteroids are none of the other. Saturn and Jupiter, they're nothing but planets going around the mother star. And so then the next question is why? Why is it
everything that goes near it gets sucked in. astronauts travel 7 miles per second to reach the moon. Okay, that's called
of a triangle, seemingly triangle-shaped craft, hovering above the moon and above the astronauts. And the image was taken from the from the lunar module. And you know, the UAP task force looked into this image years ago and determined it was real. That seems to be the most glaring piece of evidence in this this
exoplanets are light years away. It's a very new, rapidly advancing field of astronomy, one of the most exciting areas in astronomy, driven by new technological developments. At this point, we have about 5,500 exoplanets that we know of.
What astronomers needed was a lightweight and yet still stiff mirror that they could use. Astronomer and Professor James Roger Pryor Angel decided to look to nature to come up with a next step in innovation. He made honeycomb mirrors.
um I have to say I really enjoyed reading it it's so beautifully written and there's this genuine excitement that you're conveying through the pages uh and in particular you're interweaving complex astrophysics com you know Concepts throughout the book um and so what you're doing is at the beginning of each chapter you're starting out by explaining some concept in astronomy and then you're tying the theme embedded with that concept about the universe to aspects of your personal story um so my question to kick off uh on the book is did you start out
plans because like yeah it's like I don't really know what's out there until it's there um but that said I mean I I will always I think Harbor this dream of becoming an astronaut so hopefully you know I'll continue to sort of try to reach that um you know as as the years progress I there have been stories of astronauts who have applied to NASA like 10 15 times so you know I'll continue to sort of chip away and and see you know uh what
The books were also published in the same order. "Astrophysical Plasmas and Fluids" was the first one I wrote. And also, let me say that this was the most advanced book I have written.
And you see these theatrical gestures here in Haiti, voodoo acolytes in a state of trance handling burning embers with impunity. Astonishing example of the mind's ability to affect the body that bears it when catalyzed in a state of extreme excitation. We think of voodoo as dark, black magic simply because the Marine Corps occupied Haiti in the 1920s, stayed for 20 years.
And that's great. And speaking of homeownership through the eyes of your foundation, it's my understanding that you guys have built 190 homes, which is just astonishing, you know, to think about the impact that's had on 190 families. And you have a goal to reach 200 by the Super Bowl, is that correct?
And you'll notice the spiral galaxy is sort of a bluish, purplish color, whereas the blob galaxy is more of a yellowish color. Astronomers call that red because it's at the opposite end of the spectrum to blue. We could look at that and know it's not red, though.
And there was one quote that really stuck out for me. Astronomer Mike Brown said that it was the most exciting boring job in the world, which you said was wonderfully accurate. I was wondering if you could talk a little bit about what a typical day in the life of an astronomer looks like for you.
I also interviewed colleagues that do things like balloon astronomy, where you'll send detectors aloft on giant research balloons, or even suborbital rocket astronomy, where you launch a little parabolic rocket. And the rocket's in space for five minutes.
would show up as noise or show up as an excess signal. Astronomy is also a very small field.
Asterix. So I just started thinking that we should dedicated an entire issue of the New York Times Magazine to really assessing that legacy and to proving my kind
Astonishingly bad. So a lot of tech companies are putting more effort into preventing misgendering and naming.
Astronomers should not be allowed to name anything.
Astronomy's a really simple science.
Astronomy's a simple science.
Astronaut is a very delicate and dangerous job and requires lots of patience and concentration under the pressure.
Astronauts lived here every day. As all human, we got together in the evening, and talked about our lives in general.
Asteroids could be deflected.
Astoria, Queens. Then I lived in Staten Island for a brief period of time.
Astrocytes also control blood flow.
Astrocytes control the local swelling and constriction of blood vessels in the brain, so in response to neural activity.
Astrofísicos que buscan comer bien, astrofísico que buscan-- me sale y los presento.
Astronomers using tools to observe are called observational astronomers. For example, physicists see Stephen Hawking as a theoretical physicist, while astronomers see him as an astrophysicist.
Astronomers make jokes whenever we drink water that we are drinking 13.8 billion year old water.
Asthma improves. Skin heals faster.
--AstroTurf in Delhi, wonderful.
Astronauts do get free time on the weekends, and he was so enthralled with using these SPHERES free-flyers
Astrobee is using a blower to suck in the air in its sides and expel the air out different vents.
Asteroid mining. I said that.
Astounding. Almost 85%. And you can see they weren't vegan.
Astronomers could go where it's always night.
Astrobiology question.
astronauts uh on this the first success
asthma. When I was a kid, nobody had asthma. We had one kid in the school that had asthma. So they must have been
asthma. And what we found is that in the early ones and these are mice are really young. they're still um breastfeeding.
asthma, he'd never seen rates like this.
astrophysics say that 10 times fast she worked as a software engineering intern at GE designing mobile apps and at UC
astonishing that we can be in the 21st century uh with a population of 350 million people 400 million uh and you
astronomy but you can say that about our science so we have 300 million pages of
astronomer Fritz wikii who was at Caltech um and so what he did was he looked at the speeds of GX in this
asteroid away from Earth's path um Elon Musk always uses the analogy you know setting up a human Colony on Mars is