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Kind: captions Language: en [Music] hi I'm Neil degrass Tyson your host for Nova science now you say you wish you were in better shape why you just go ahead and I'll catch up with you later but like this guy you'd rather crunch your chips than your abs well hold on to your treadmill because this geneticist has found a drug that's turned a couch potato Mouse into a longdistance r this mouse we call the marathon Mouse exercise in a pill how did he do it and could it ever work for you also how did the dinosaurs really die was it that giant rock from space wow rted look at this or something more down to earth what we've done is to present a different Theory the answer might be hidden in what's this dinosaur poop yes fossilized species from dinosaurs we actually they call them coyes and in this episode's profile you meet a rocket scientist who sees himself as a modernday Spock Mr Spock is a scientist but he also flies and so does this astronaut who's been to space more than almost everybody he's also designed a faster rocket to boldly go where no spaceships have gone before we will have the entire solar system at our disposal humans will be inhabiting space in a big way all that and more on this episode of Nova science now
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