Cosmic Queries – ALIENS! with Jake Roper

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🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Which Alien movie would be easiest to survive? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice answer Cosmic Queries about aliens in film alongside Jake Roper, host of the YouTube channel Vsauce3 and their series “Could You Survive The Movies?” Originally aired January 13, 2020.

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0:00.0	Hey, StarTalkians, Neil here.
0:03.1	You're about to listen to an episode specially drawn from our archives to serve your cosmic curiosities.
0:10.7	Check it out.
0:13.2	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:15.9	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:22.0	StarTalk begins right now.
0:27.0	This is StarTalk.
0:29.8	Cosmic Queries edition. Chuck.
0:31.8	Hey, Neil. People love them Cosmicquarie.
0:34.1	They do. You have a lot of inquiring minds.
0:36.9	That's a good thing. That is a good thing. Plus, actually, in Cosmic Queries, we do. You have a lot of inquiring minds. That's a good thing.
0:38.2	That is a good thing.
0:39.0	Plus, actually, in Cosmic Queries, we bring in other people who are the experts, and I just get to sit and listen. Ah. And I learn, too. So, there you have it. Who knew you were still capable of learning something? What kind of, what, what, what? The man who knows everything? No, I never said.
0:53.4	I don't know everything.
0:54.4	Okay.
0:54.9	There's very, well, okay.
0:56.2	Today's subject.
0:57.3	Aliens in, Well, the man who knows everything? No, I never said, I don't know everything.
0:54.6	Okay.
0:56.1	There's very, well, okay.
0:57.0	Today's subject.
0:59.0	Aliens in film and TV.
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