Cosmic Queries – Alien Heist, Scimitars, & Time in a Bottle with Charles Liu

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🗓️ 17 February 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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What if the laws of physics were different? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly answer grab bag questions with astrophysicist Charles Liu about alien heists, gravity, and space exploration.

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0:00.0	The constants of the universe, gravitational speed of light, whatever,
0:04.0	were all tiny, tiny, bit different, like different one part in a billion or something.
0:09.2	Maybe in our daily lives we would not notice.
0:11.6	But over the history of the universe, things would be so fundamentally changed
0:17.2	that our existences would just not be the same.
0:20.0	Yet warrant we wouldn't exist at all.
0:23.7	Welcome to Starkalk.
0:25.6	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:32.0	Starkalk begins right now.
0:36.7	This is Starkalk Sports Edition.
0:39.6	We're going to do cosmic queries today.
0:42.4	The grab bag version.
0:45.0	I got with me, my co-host of course, Chuck Nice, Chuck.
0:47.8	Hey, hey, what's up, Neil?
0:49.3	All right, professional stand-up comedian and actor.
0:52.4	Got Gary O'Reilly, former soccer pro. How you doing, Gary?
0:55.4	I'm good, Neil.
0:56.4	So this is Cosmic Query's grab bag, which takes us to a broader stretch of the Geekosphere
1:05.4	than normally I can handle all by myself.
1:08.5	And so, guys, we brought in the big guns for this.
1:13.2	And who would that be?
1:14.2	The one and only Charles Lou, my friend and colleague, Charles.
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