In this clip, Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-host Chuck Nice explore the plight of the Arecibo telescope and the implications of China’s FAST, now recognized as the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope. Also discussed are the co-interests of astrophysics and the military, the tracking of intercontinental ballistic missiles from Russia, radio-echoing to understand the orbits of undetectable asteroids, and the results of displaced funding in Science.

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