Cosmic Queries: Gravity, the Movie

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🗓️ 10 November 2013

⏱️ 37 minutes

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How scientifically accurate was the movie, Gravity? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice answer your questions with a little help from NASA astronaut Mike Massimino.

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0:00.0	Welcome to StarTalk, your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.6	StarTalk begins right now.
0:15.6	This is StarTalk Radio, I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:27.7	You're in studio with me, Chuck Nice.
0:29.7	Neil, what's happening?
0:30.7	You're regular here.
0:31.7	Thanks for always coming back for us.
0:32.7	I love being here.
0:33.7	You're my personal astrophysicist.
0:36.7	Today's show will focus on the movie Gravity, the movie.
0:42.7	I've seen it, Chuck.
0:43.7	I have not.
0:44.7	We'll find someone else right now.
0:48.7	There's surely some people out there who haven't seen it, and yes, there'll be spoiler alerts throughout.
0:53.7	The premise of Gravity is it's basically a survival story with Sandra Bullock as a mission specialist,
0:59.7	which means you have some expertise and you're not sort of a red-blooded astronaut,
1:03.7	you're brought in for your expertise.
1:05.7	And they are a poser as we like to cause.
1:08.7	And George Clooney, who's sort of flyboy astronaut, and it's basically only the two of them in space.
1:13.7	It's a survival movie for 90 minutes.
1:15.7	Stuff has happened in every minute, something they've got to survive, figure out, be clever about.
1:20.7	Now, I got to tell you right now.
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