Cosmic Queries – Grab Bag – Cosmology Crisis??? With Paul Mecurio

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🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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How do we know the age of stars? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Paul Mecurio answer fan questions about stars, black hole collisions, the speed of light, and the present crisis in cosmology.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:13.0	This is Star Talk, Cosmic Query's edition on your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal
0:20.0	astrophysicist.
0:21.0	And my guest co-host today is a friend of Star Talk, the one and only Paul McCurio.
0:28.0	Hey Neil, how are you?
0:30.0	Welcome back to Star Talk.
0:32.0	Nice to be back. Great to see you again.
0:34.0	Man, let me just remind people who you are.
0:36.0	Like you started out, was it an investment banker or something?
0:40.0	And that wasn't funny enough for you. So you became a comedian.
0:44.0	What the hell happened there?
0:46.0	And how much of a disappointment were you now to your family?
0:50.0	Then and now.
0:52.0	I can't even say that I was a lawyer.
0:56.0	No, no, no, you got it right.
0:58.0	I was doing M&A law and I was like, okay.
1:01.0	So mergers and acquisitions. See you still in it.
1:03.0	Right, I'm sorry.
1:04.0	I'm an A.
1:05.0	Exactly.
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