Will Future Spacecraft Overtake Us? Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains

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In this StarTalk grab bag episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice discuss two listener questions: whether future spacecraft could overtake earlier generational missions due to technological advances, and how to visualize the Big Bang. Tyson explains that interstellar travel is impractical with current physics and suggests solving Earth’s problems instead, while also describing the Big Bang as an expansion of space itself, using a balloon analogy to make it understandable.

From ‘Alcubierre Drives, Antimatter Multiverses & More! | Cosmic Queries’: https://youtu.be/8HjSLLkY1d4?si=O6KYjIBCf_TSVoNH

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