A Conversation with Edward Snowden (Part 2)

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🗓️ 25 September 2015

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Neil deGrasse Tyson’s exclusive, one-on-one conversation with Edward Snowden - via robot - concludes with a deeper dive into metadata, personal privacy and covert communications, before exploring pulsars and cosmic background radiation.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
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0:21.6	Welcome to Star Talk Radio.
0:23.4	I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
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1:02.8	Also, I tweet if you're interested in my own personal cosmic brain droppings at Neil
1:08.9	Tyson.
1:10.9	Last week on Star Talk, we broke format completely.
1:14.7	It's rare that we do this, but when we do, rest assured that something or someone
1:20.1	out of the ordinary has justified it.
1:23.4	And you really can't get more extraordinary than an exclusive interview with an international
1:29.4	fugitive via a remote control robot.
1:33.4	This is the second and final part of our special edition of Star Talk, featuring my one-on-one
1:38.6	conversation with none other than Edward Snowden.
1:42.6	Again, I'm not accompanied by my usual comedian co-host.
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