Cosmic Queries: Human Impact on Earth with Dr. FunkySpoon

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🗓️ 22 June 2014

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Planetary scientist Dr. David Grinspoon is back as guest host to answer your questions about the human impact on Earth during the “Anthropocene Era.”

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.8	You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.4	Star Talk begins right now.
0:12.8	Welcome to Star Talk Radio.
0:23.6	My name is David Grinspoon.
0:25.1	I'm an astrobiologist and a planetary scientist and I'm here with my co-host Chuck Nice.
0:32.2	Hey, Dave, how are you?
0:33.6	I'm fine. How are you doing Chuck?
0:34.8	Great man. So I'm happy to see you.
0:37.4	Yeah. I'm also curious as to where Mr. Tyson, Dr. Tyson is.
0:42.4	Oh, I'm busted. Now people know I'm not Neil Tyson.
0:46.4	I am sitting in for Neil Tyson who's off filming cosmos somewhere, right?
0:51.5	Literally he has left the galaxy.
0:53.9	So Neil's off doing the cosmos as he is want to do.
0:57.0	And we're left here to carry on without him as best we can.
1:00.3	And so we will be today doing cosmic queries, answering your questions.
1:06.9	And what's the topic today?
1:08.8	Okay. So today of course we call all of our resources and Facebook and Twitter and all
1:15.9	of the various outlets where we appear on the internet.
1:18.9	And today we have questions about human impact on our very own planet Earth.
1:25.3	Oh yeah.
1:26.1	It's a planet.
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