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Konstantin Batygin: Planet 9 and the Edge of Our Solar System | Lex Fridman Podcast #201

Konstantin Batygin: Planet 9 and the Edge of Our Solar System | Lex Fridman Podcast #201

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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Bethesda (inferred)

“the graphics is like wow i want to stay there”
“there's a game called uh skyrim it's an elder scrolls role playing game and i just uh i played it for quite a bit”— Lex Fridman
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

CD Projekt Red (inferred)

“the third like witcher game was astonishingly beautiful”
“the the third like witcher game was astonishingly beautiful right especially like playing on on a good hardware machine”— Konstantin Batygin
BookRecommendedISBN verified

The Black Cloud

Fred Hoyle

“it's something worth checking out”
“you know about the black clouds book i think this by fred hoyle this is like this has great connections with sort of a lot of the advancements”— Konstantin Batygin
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What's My Age Again?

Blink-182

“it's a good song”
“my choice would be probably what's my age again by blink 182. it's just you know it's a solid one”— Konstantin Batygin
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Strawberry Fields Forever

The Beatles

“one of my favorite beetle songs”
“like straw i think strawberry feels forever is is one you know what what one of my favorite beetle songs”— Konstantin Batygin
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In My Life

The Beatles

“one of the most uh introspective pieces of music ever”
“one of my favorite beetle songs is it's uh you know in my life right that's it's it's hard to imagine how whatever 24 year old wrote that”— Konstantin Batygin
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The Dark Side of the Moon

Pink Floyd

“getting pretty close up there to the pinnacle of what you know can be created”
“you can sort of look at the entire dark side of the moon album and getting pretty close up there to the pinnacle of what can be created”— Konstantin Batygin
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The Wall

Pink Floyd

“transporting you into another place songs don't not many songs could do that”
“you have that with the wall of just uh transporting you into another place songs don't not many songs could do that”— Lex Fridman
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Hurt (Johnny Cash cover)

Johnny Cash

“one of the greatest songs of all time”
“i would say output johnny cash's cover of hurt as one of the greatest songs of all time”— Lex Fridman

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World of Warcraft

Blizzard Entertainment (inferred)

“i just recently saw that wow and fortnite were played 140 billion hours and those are just video games”— Lex Fridman
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Fortnite

Epic Games (inferred)

“i just recently saw that wow and fortnite were played 140 billion hours and those are just video games”— Lex Fridman
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PlayStation 4

Sony (inferred)

“some of the video games like on the ps4 yeah like look pretty real to me yeah right”— Konstantin Batygin
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Ace Combat 7

Bandai Namco (inferred)

“ace combat seven that's a great example right like i mean the way that the clouds are rendered uh it's i mean it looks just like when you're flying”— Konstantin Batygin
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Red Dead Redemption

Rockstar Games (inferred)

“you can play uh what is it red dead red dead redemption redemption and uh you can ride horses in the video game”— Lex Fridman
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Tesla Roadster

Tesla (inferred)

“there's also a tesla roadster out there uh that that one it will never leave the solar system it'll just i think that one will eventually collide with mars”— Konstantin Batygin
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AlphaFold 2

DeepMind (inferred)

“with the alpha fold two we're now trying we're now starting to crack open biology so being able to simulate at first trivial biological systems”— Lex Fridman
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Arrival

Denis Villeneuve (inferred)

“stephen wolfram looked at this with the movie arrival it's like what would be the common language that we would discover”— Lex Fridman
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Pepsi

PepsiCo (inferred)

“constantine was uh talking about basically his first in 1992 interaction with capitalism which is pepsi and at first he discovered pepsi”— Lex Fridman
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Big Mac

McDonald's

“i'm just taking a bite out of that big mac like wow”— Konstantin Batygin
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

“let me leave you with some words from douglas adams in the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy far out in the uncharted backwaters”— Lex Fridman