Cosmic Queries – A Stellar New Year

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🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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What will first contact with aliens be like? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice say “Happy New Year!” by answering a grab bag of fan questions about aliens, string theory, moon landing skeptics, and more!

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0:00.0	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:09.0	StarTalk begins right now.
0:16.0	This is StarTalk, Cosmic Queries Edition.
0:21.0	And if it's gonna be Cosmic Queries, we're probably gonna have Chuck Nice in the house.
0:25.0	Yes. Chuck Nice, you're a personal nothing.
0:28.0	Personal, I'm your personal astrophysicist.
0:31.0	You're the personal astrophysicist making yourself available for people all across the cosmos.
0:37.0	I am your personal nothing, which means leave me the hell alone.
0:42.0	You are Lord Chuck.
0:45.0	Lord Nice.
0:46.0	Dolly designated by a general in the US Air Force.
0:50.0	All right, Lord, Lord, nice.
0:52.0	You guys, what's your point?
0:53.0	You know, it's the beginning of the year.
0:54.0	You know, a third year of the pandemic.
0:57.0	So a lot of people have bummed out.
1:00.0	But, you know, how much longer must we endure?
1:04.0	But a new year, of course, is always a time for sort of thinking fresh thoughts.
1:09.0	And possibly putting a positive spin on bad things and just putting positive out there at all.
1:16.0	Whether or not it's a spin on something bad.
1:18.0	So maybe I'll try to give positively tinted answers to every question you have.
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