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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

9/18/23: Neil deGrasse Tyson On Exploration, AI, UFOs, and Elon Musk

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Government, News, Politics, Philosophy

4.310.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Krystal and Saagar bring the news!

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0:00.0

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0:15.7

Hey guys, ready or not, 2024 is here and we, here at Breaking Points, are already thinking of

0:21.3

ways we can up our game for this critical election. We rely on our premium subs to expand

0:25.7

coverage, upgrade the studio, add staff, give you guys the best independent coverage that is

0:30.8

possible. If you like what we're all about, it just means the absolute world to have your support.

0:35.1

But enough with that, let's get to the show. Very excited to welcome to the show

0:40.0

Astrophysicist and author of the new book to Infinity and Beyond the One and Only,

0:45.4

Neil the Grass Tyson. Welcome, sir, so great to have you. It's an honor.

0:49.0

Thanks for having me. Absolutely. I'm delighted by the Lincoln Memorial behind you.

0:54.0

It was probably just a photo, that's fine. It's a screen video. It's a video screen to be

0:59.3

clear. Yes, and I appreciate your background as well. It's quite, quite lovely and appropriate.

1:04.2

Slow everything in space. And there you go. So let's start with the most basic question.

1:09.2

What do you want people to get from the new book? Yeah, that's a basic question as there is.

1:15.6

I want to remind people that the discoveries we've made in our attempt to ascend from Earth,

1:23.3

involve a lot of fits and starts. Often if you beat a book on how we've come to where we are,

1:29.0

how we come to know what we know about the universe, that the storytelling and the accounts

1:36.5

that you get the hits and not the misses. And you lose track of the fact that there's a human spirit

1:44.0

that persists. And it's been active ever since we stood flatfooted and looked up at the moon

1:50.9

and asked, how would you ever get there? Now think about it. If it was the year 1700 and you had

1:57.4

that thought, what answer would you give yourself? Is there a sailing ship that can float through the

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