Alternative Aliens with Andy Weir and David Grinspoon

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🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

What do Aliens look like? In this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice talk aliens with David Grinspoon, “Dr. Funkyspoon,” featuring Neil's interview with The Martian author, Andy Weir, on his new book Project Hail Mary.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:09.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:13.0	This is Star Talk. I'm your host at Neil deGrasse,
0:18.0	Tyson, your personal astrophysicist. I got with me Jack Nice, Jack.
0:23.0	Hey Neil, what's happened?
0:25.0	My man about town, my co-host.
0:27.0	I'm the host. I'm the host.
0:29.0	I'm the man about town who stays home all the time.
0:32.0	Okay, sorry.
0:34.0	You're man about home.
0:37.0	There you go. The man about house.
0:39.0	About house.
0:40.0	You are the man about house.
0:42.0	My co-host and stand-up comedian,
0:44.0	and today's topic is going to be one of many times
0:48.0	we've explored how science is working in the science fiction
0:54.0	that we're all exposed to some of us are bathed in.
0:58.0	We're going to be featuring my interview with
1:01.0	engineer turned novelist Andy Weir.
1:03.0	Oh, your buddy?
1:04.0	Andy Weir. My buddy.
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