Cosmic Queries: Mayan Apocalypse and Other Disasters

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🗓️ 28 March 2013

⏱️ 38 minutes

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What are the facts behind the most common doomsday predictions? Get ready to have your mind blown as Neil deGrasse Tyson explores the apocalypse.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk, your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.6	Star Talk begins right now.
0:22.3	This is Star Talk Radio, I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson.
0:26.8	I'm an astrophysicist with the American Museum of Natural History right here in New York City,
0:32.3	where I also serve as director of the Hayden Planetarium.
0:36.1	I'm here in studio with Chuck Knice.
0:40.7	Chuck Knice, comic that you tweet by.
0:43.1	That's right, my friend.
0:44.1	Last I check, well thanks for coming back on.
0:45.9	Always a pleasure.
0:46.9	This is the Cosmic Queries portion of Star Talk.
0:51.4	I like to think of it as Star Talk after hours.
0:54.6	The after party.
0:56.5	The after party.
0:57.5	Star Talk after party.
0:59.5	And we're talking, the subject today is calendars and I know you've done some thinking
1:06.8	about this.
1:07.8	You had some run-ins with people.
1:09.6	Yeah, I had a, you know, I was just in Dallas and there seems to be this huge preoccupation
1:17.6	with the Mayan prediction of the end of the world.
1:22.4	Which I suppose is connected to their calendar and more on that, I'll get you back to you
1:29.3	on that.
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