Cosmic Queries – From Wine to Wormholes

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4.6 • 14.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

What would happen to Earth if Jupiter stopped rotating? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice answer a grab bag of fan questions about the challenges with space telescopes, the nature of AI, and whether aliens are funny.

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0:00.0	Chuck, people have been asking genius level questions on Cosmic Queries.
0:04.0	Yeah, I think they're using AI.
0:06.0	No, no, no, no, AI is not that smart.
0:09.0	That's true. Our listeners are smarter than AI.
0:11.0	Yes, they are.
0:12.0	More on that. Coming right up.
0:15.0	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:19.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:25.1	StarTalk begins right now.
0:31.3	This is StarTalk.
0:33.6	Neil deGrasse Tyson, you're a personal astrophysicist.
0:36.5	Chuck, nice I got with me here. That's right. What's up, Neil? Chuck, you would a personal astrophysicist. Chuck, nice, I got it with me here.
0:37.7	That's right.
0:38.3	What's up, Neil?
0:39.1	Chuck, you would just make it clear.
0:40.6	You were not born my co-host.
0:43.2	No, I was not born to co-host.
0:44.5	You were born in the streets?
0:47.0	I was born the son of a sharecropper.
0:53.7	This can'tne Civil War.
0:55.3	Is that what that is?
0:58.0	We're going to do another Cosmic Queries.
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