Cosmic Queries – Navigating the Cosmos

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🗓️ 27 January 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Harrison Greenbaum answer fan-submitted Cosmic Queries that explore the techniques, inventions, and ideas for navigating the cosmos including celestial maps, GPS, the North Star, and more. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons and All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free. Thanks to this week’s Patrons for supporting us: Stella Burkey, Derek Pavan, Travis Dunn, Michael Jonsson, Chad Hunt.

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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.
0:13.0	This is Star Talk.
0:18.0	Neil deGrasse Tyson here, your personal astrophysicist.
0:21.0	I got with me Harrison Greenbow.
0:23.0	Hey, hey, hey, hey, do you want to call your Harry?
0:26.0	My mom got really mad one day when somebody called me Harry.
0:28.0	So put the caboch on it, nicknames.
0:30.0	I wanted to be like an asshole.
0:32.0	You want a syllable, Harris, you want the whole thing?
0:34.0	Yeah, I thought I was big into encyclopedia Brown as a kid.
0:36.0	So I thought I could be dictionary Greenbomb.
0:38.0	Uh-huh.
0:39.0	And that never stuck.
0:40.0	Harrison is very wasp, though.
0:41.0	Yeah, it's great because they see the first name
0:43.0	and they're like, oh, we should let him in the country club.
0:45.0	And then they hear Greenbomb and they're like, get that Jew out of there.
0:48.0	Okay, so you have personality issues.
0:51.0	Yeah, exactly.
0:52.0	So thanks for joining me for a cosmic queries edition.
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