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Cosmic Queries: A Stellar Smorgasbord

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4.614.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2016

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Astrophysicists Neil Tyson and Charles Liu answer a feast of fan-submitted questions, ranging from asteroid mining to the heat death of the universe, selected by co-host Eugene Mirman. Plus a new “How Tweet It Is” segment with Neil and Bill Nye.

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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

I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.

0:25.0

And this is Star Talk.

0:30.0

This is Cosmic Queries edition.

0:33.0

Cosmic Queries.

0:36.0

And I'm ambivalent whether I prefer Cosmic Queries that is single topic or whether it's Pope-Perie.

0:40.0

This one is Pope-Perie, which is easier to stump me.

0:44.0

And if we're going to do a Pope-Perie, I don't want to do it alone.

0:47.0

But I know who to call.

0:50.0

I've got like a bat signal.

0:53.0

And my friend and colleague Charles Lou, Charles.

0:56.0

Hi, Neil.

0:57.0

There you go.

0:59.0

So this is not your first time on Star Talk.

1:03.0

Your end time on Star Talk, as we say, that means you've lost count.

1:07.0

And it's some large number algebraically.

1:09.0

And so Eugene, we have questions that come to us over our Facebook pages and our Twitter and other outlets.

1:19.0

And sometimes we can gather them into one topic, but other times we can't.

1:24.0

And this is the Pope-Perie.

1:26.0

So I have not seen the questions.

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