Podcasts that mention 📚 Seveneves / Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

it's a it's a hard one to answer maybe seven eaves because it's got big themes um it's you know it's about heavy heavy things happening to the human race

Neal Stephenson suggests 'Seveneves' as a possible good introduction to his work.

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And uh when I read Seven Eves and I think about that and they're talking about [ __ ] orbital dynamics, dude. Holy [ __ ] like trying to think about the the zenith and the apogee and the way that oh well we've got to do this two more loops in order for us to come back around at the right angle because it's not only the distance the angle the height the altitude the speed all this [ __ ] like oh yeah I just walk forward and back like you think you know you first drive a car and you go oh my god this is so complex I'm never going to be able to do this you realize no dude this is like the simplest [ __ ] thing you can do look at the squirrel if you play the 3D video games you kind of get it build intuition but it's pretty fun it is weird up there yeah it's interesting uh

The host refers back to the book 'Seven Eves' when discussing complex concepts like orbital dynamics.

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It just came out, but Neil Stevenson has a new book called Polan, which I'm very excited to read, Polan.

A host of Pod Save America expresses excitement about reading Neil Stevenson's new book 'Polan', emphasizing its recent release.

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my my favorite book called seven eves that happens in the first page as well

Neil deGrasse Tyson mentions his favorite book, 'seven eves', and notes that the event of the moon breaking up occurs early in the book.

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