I was listening to a podcast featuring Neil Degrasse Tyson where he learned that 2 basketballs can fit through the same hoop side by aide because the hoop is 4 times the size of 1 ball, yet I can’t picture in my head how that’s possible
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They can’t. A standard NBA basketball’s diameter [is between 9.41 and 9.43 inches](https://www.stack.com/a/basketball-sizes). A basketball hoop is [18 inches in diameter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backboard_/(basketball/)). So put two basketballs side by side and their width exceeds the basketball’s hoop diameter by about .8 inches.
Tyson tells Rogan a lot of wrong stuff. For example Tyson telling Joe there are more transcendental numbers than irrationals. See this post in [the bad mathematics subreddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/badmathematics/comments/5vnnym/neil_degrasse_tyson_theres_more_transcendental/).
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