A 21-year-old’s Guide to Alien Worlds

Science Rules! with Bill Nye

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🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

There are billions and billions of planets out there. What could they be like? Could any of them be alive? Exoplanet-hunter and undergraduate MIT student Charlotte Minsky is helping to vet discoveries of possible planets outside our solar system. She tells us what she finds, and how she finds them.

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0:00.0	We orbit a star just like the points of light in the night sky and that means we are one way that the cosmos knows itself.
0:15.0	Nissan?
0:16.0	Hello?
0:18.0	We're all science people.
0:20.0	Science!
0:21.0	Exactly.
0:22.0	We know it's a good idea because it's lasted.
0:24.0	We could teach kids and they get it.
0:27.0	There's chemistry in here.
0:28.0	There's biology in here.
0:29.0	It's in whiskey.
0:30.0	It's an ice cream.
0:31.0	It's in who you fall in love with.
0:33.0	That's the recipe for success.
0:35.0	We can make the world better for everybody.
0:40.0	Starting now.
0:43.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome to Science Rules.
0:46.0	I'm your host Bill Nye and this is the show where science rules.
0:50.0	It's a call and show.
0:52.0	If you want to be on the show, make sure to follow me on Twitter for when to call.
0:57.0	And as always, send us your questions and comments to askBillNye.com.
1:02.0	And once again, my friends, I am joined, of course.
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