Cosmic Queries: Galactic Grab Bag

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🗓️ 20 May 2016

⏱️ 45 minutes

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First time comic co-host Iliza Shlesinger reaches into our Galactic Grab Bag to ask host Neil Tyson questions from our fans about light sails and laser beams, black holes, the search for life in the universe, antimatter, and intelligent dinosaurs.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:09.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:13.0	I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:25.0	And this is Star Talk.
0:30.0	As our long time fans, no cosmic queries is when we bring in a in-house co-host
0:37.0	comedian who reads questions from the universe of the universe drawn from our fan base.
0:42.0	And I've not seen the questions.
0:44.0	And we just have fun with it.
0:46.0	And if I don't know the answer, I'm going to tell you.
0:48.0	If I don't know the answer, I'm going to ask you if you know the answer.
0:50.0	I absolutely know the answer.
0:51.0	What if I don't know the answer, then we move on.
0:54.0	You know how long I've spent staring at the cosmos wondering where my Uber is?
0:59.0	It's not a lot of time in space.
1:01.0	That brings to mind, if space travel becomes a thing, we would need Uber spacecraft.
1:08.0	That would be interesting.
1:09.0	College kids all over the place is like, I got a great way to make some money.
1:12.0	And there's no collisions.
1:14.0	You're actually much harder to collide if you're moving in three dimensions than if you're only moving in two.
1:19.0	I say this all the time.
1:20.0	Say this all the time.
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