Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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In today’s Lightning Round video (yes, another one), we talk about the new thorium molten salt reactor under construction in China, the pros and cons of human spaceflight, the new acting head of NASA, and the horrors of the rat king phenomenon.

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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - March Lightning Round
0:50 - Why Send Humans To Mars/Venus?
5:33 - Nice Guy Tycoons
11:48 - Rat King Phenomenon
15:50 - Janet Petro
19:12 - Are You Keeping Your Tesla?
24:27 - Hurricanes
27:07 - New Member Shoutouts
28:06 - Thorium Nuclear Reactors