Cosmic Queries – Life on Exoplanets with Sara Seager

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🗓️ 15 March 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Is there life on other planets? On this episode of StarTalk, Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-host Matt Kirshen dig into the search for extraterrestrial life with exoplanet expert and author of the memoir, “Smallest Lights in the Universe,” astrophysicist Sara Seager.

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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.
0:10.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:14.0	This is Star Talk.
0:17.0	I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:20.0	And this week is a Cosmic Queries edition.
0:24.0	The Always Popular Cosmic Queries.
0:28.0	And the topic, the Always Popular, search for life in the universe.
0:33.0	And I've got with me as my co-host Matt Kirschend, man.
0:36.0	Hey, hey, Neil, how you doing?
0:38.0	I spent all day, yesterday trying to memorize the name of your podcast.
0:41.0	It's probably science that I get it right.
0:44.0	I always mangled it.
0:47.0	I always mangled it.
0:49.0	I stumbled in my efforts there.
0:51.0	I found a podcast called Sometimes, or Mostly Science.
0:54.0	It's a whole other podcast.
0:56.0	I hate them. No, we've got a running rivalry with them.
0:58.0	It's going to be interesting.
0:59.0	Totally have rivalries.
1:00.0	I got to make sure I get your stuff right.
1:02.0	Probably.
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