Welcome to Star Talk, your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.

Star Talk begins right now.

This is Star Talk Radio, I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, I'm an astrophysicist.

With the American Museum of Natural History right here in New York City, and in studio with me is my co-host, Chuck Nice Comic, K-Neil.

It's good Chuck, when did the word comic apply to human beings rather than what you see in the Sunday paper?

Uh, you know, I'm not sure, I think once I put it on my Twitter handle.

Chuck Nice Comic, I'm gonna go with this Twitter handle.

That was a good plot, that was really not bad, right?

That was smooth, that was smoother than usual.

This is Star Talk, after hours, it's the Cosmic Queries part, many Star Talk episodes.

What we do is we collect questions on a specific topic from all of our media outlets,

and we're almost everywhere.

Google Plus, well sorry, look over to my Facebook.

Yeah, definitely Facebook, you can like us there, and Star Talk, I mean Twitter?

Yeah, Star Talk Radio is our Twitter handle, and just Google Star Talk and find the medium you like the best, and there we are.

There's a veritable corneacopia of Star Talk for you to avail yourself of.

That had way more syllables than necessary.

He's just showing off your eight vocabulary words.

You picked up this fast word.

What are you talking about, eight?

I got those this morning from a calendar.

So these are questions I haven't seen these before.

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