Cosmic Queries – Alien Worlds and Extremophiles with Kennda Lynch

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🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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What will life be like on other planets? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice explore the origins of life on alien planets and extremophiles right here on Earth with astrobiologist Kennda Lynch. (Originally Aired February 22, 2022)

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0:00.0	Hey, StarTalkians, Neil here.
0:03.0	You're about to listen to an episode specially drawn from our archives to serve your cosmic
0:09.3	curiosities.
0:11.0	Check it out.
0:12.0	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:16.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:24.5	StarTalk begins right now.
0:29.2	This is StarTalk, Cosmic Queries Edition.
0:35.1	And today's subject is extremophiles and alien worlds.
0:37.4	One of my favorite subjects. Chuck, what do you think about that topic?
0:39.7	Kind of sounds like aliens gone wild.
0:44.8	Call right now. It's aliens gone wild. You've never seen aliens like this before.
0:51.3	Extremophiles.
0:53.1	I love me a little bit of this subject, but we have one of the world's experts on it
0:58.7	on StarTalk today.
1:00.7	Kendall Lynch.
1:01.6	Kendall, welcome to StarTalk.
1:03.2	Thanks for having me.
1:03.9	I'm so excited to be here.
1:05.9	Excellent, excellent.
1:07.1	You have a PhD in this stuff, but let me just alert people that your expertise is some kind of amalgam of whole field
1:19.4	that were previously distinct from one another.
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