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Oct 21
52m 52s

The Science of Godzilla, Zombies & Other...

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
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Would Godzilla be structurally sound or too big for its own weight? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Matt Kirshen, and astrophysicist Charles Liu, takes a look at monsters that have terrified us, like zombies in The Last of Us or Godzilla, and the scary speculative science behind them.

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