Can You Terraform Mars? with Kennda Lynch

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🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Can we grow food on Mars? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Paul Mecurio learn about a new NASA project "Plant Trek" and the challenges of surviving on other planets with astrobiologist Kennda Lynch.

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0:00.0	I love that Kender would just go into the ship and just start getting samples from people.
0:04.7	Oh heck yeah.
0:05.7	And they'd be like, see, this is why the humans are a little bit annoying.
0:09.0	They just come right in and they just take over as opposed to like at least chit-chatting for a minute
0:13.3	before you start taking swaths. I kind of liking myself to Grace from
0:16.3	Avatar like she's like I need to get samples wherever she is you know.
0:20.3	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:24.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:29.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:34.8	This is Star Talk, Cosmic Quaries Edition.
0:38.2	Neil Degrass Tyson here,
0:39.6	you're a personal astrophysicist.
0:42.0	I got with me, Paul McEurio, Paul, welcome back to Star Talk.
0:45.3	All right, great to be back, great to see you buddy. How are you?
0:48.0	All right, Paul is a professional comedian, you're an Emmy and I just learned also a Peabody Award winner. You never told me that.
0:54.4	You get an Emmy just for being funny, but you get a Peabody award for being funny with purpose.
1:00.5	With intellect. With intellect.
1:03.4	Why are you laughing that I don't have an intellect?
1:05.7	No, I didn't know, it's not, no, you know, no, that's not why.
1:08.9	I know, I don't.
1:09.8	Just congratulations.
1:11.0	I think Peabody, we've always counted that among the highest possible awards someone can get,
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