Cosmic Queries Live: Galactic Gumbo Edition

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🗓️ 10 November 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Explore relativity, panspermia, Van Gogh’s Starry Night, the multiverse, tachyons, marijuana legalization, and more with Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-host Chuck Nice as they answered questions in front of a live audience at Sessanta and on Facebook Live. NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free

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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.
0:09.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:13.0	This is Star Talk. I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:31.0	We are actually live at Cessanta, a restaurant at 60 Thompson Street in Soho, New York.
0:37.0	I got my co-host Chuck Nice.
0:40.0	Chuck Nice tweeting. Chuck Nice comics.
0:42.0	Yes, comic. Yes. And so this is going to be a cosmic queries of malange.
0:50.0	We like to call it a galactic gumbo. Galactic gumbo. Galactic gumbo. Galactic guarantee.
0:58.0	So this is just whatever. So we haven't themed the questions as the point.
1:02.0	No, we have not. But they're all cosmically related. Hence my expertise will apply.
1:06.0	It's correct. And we already have people chiming in on Facebook. But you know what?
1:10.0	We're going to start things off in our show with an actual query from the audience.
1:15.0	Do we have our first audience member? Hello. What's your name? Please stand up.
1:19.0	Well, first she's wearing a vango dress. Can we get some attention to that?
1:22.0	Oh my god. Is that your, like, one of your favorite paintings?
1:25.0	Yes.
1:30.0	That's not one of your favorite paintings, right?
1:31.0	It's not like one of my favorite paintings. It is my favorite painting.
1:34.0	A, B, B. We'll get you a question a minute. I will put a riff in on your dress.
1:40.0	So vango painted in 1889. It's obviously an impressionistic representation.
1:47.0	It's not the sky that he saw. It's the sky that he felt.
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