How Do Cranes Get Up There? An Astrophysicist & Construction Worker Walk Into a Bar

Nayeema puts on a hard hat and visits a building site where she finds Brandon Hernandez, a construction worker who’s able to fill in some blanks for astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. It’s another episode of “CSI: Dumb Questions,” where everybody has stuff they don’t know – even the guy that runs Hayden Planetarium!   Check out the full episode with Neil deGrasse Tyson in this feed or wherever you get your SGDQ fix to learn so much stuff Neil does know about from space-time, dimensions and wormholes to the search for extraterrestrial life.  Follow us on IG, TikTok & YouTube @smartgirldumbquestions. And you can find Nayeema on IG or X too. Finally: YOU could be on a future episode of “CSI: Dumb Questions” – send your dumb questions to [e-mail]