Cosmic Queries – Cosmological Curiosities

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🗓️ 11 August 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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What is nothing? Does nothing exist? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice explore cosmological curiosities about the end of the universe, dark matter, and more!

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0:00.0	So there are galaxies that are like 65 million light years away from Earth, okay, from our galaxy.
0:07.5	So right now, if they had a super-duper telescope and they look towards Earth 65 million years ago,
0:14.4	what are they witnessing?
0:16.8	Dinosaurs, right?
0:17.7	Oh, thank you, kill!
0:23.3	It's just dawn that we went out with that time frame.
0:26.0	I was like, oh, I know, the Earth is putting on a show for them.
0:33.0	Welcome to Star Talk, your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:41.3	Star Talk begins right now.
0:45.7	This is Star Talk. You'll digress Tyson here, your personal astrophysicist.
0:50.9	Today we're doing the ever-popular cosmic queries edition.
0:55.1	Chuck, good to have you, man.
0:56.4	Yeah, always a pleasure to be here.
0:58.4	You're pre-loaded with cosmic queries from our Patreon members.
1:01.4	So what's the topic today?
1:02.7	We have cosmological curiosity.
1:04.8	Oh, cool.
1:05.6	Which, you know, that covers enough of that.
1:08.6	Got you. I got you.
1:10.2	And if somebody doesn't know, I have to call my people.
1:12.0	I got cosmology friends.
1:13.6	So what do you have?
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