Cosmic Queries – New Year

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🗓️ 4 January 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Happy 2021! Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice are looking at the year ahead, reminiscing on the year past, and answering fan-submitted Cosmic Queries on the speed of light, gas giants, and more!

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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.
0:15.0	This is Star Talk.
0:18.0	Cosmic Query's edition for the New Year.
0:20.0	Chuck, nice.
0:21.0	Go host, Chuck.
0:22.0	Hey, Neil, happy New Year, buddy.
0:24.0	Happy New Year, 2021.
0:26.0	2021.
0:27.0	Yay!
0:28.0	We made it!
0:29.0	We survived it.
0:30.0	Oh, god!
0:31.0	Did you have doubts?
0:32.0	I really did, to be honest.
0:35.0	There were many times through a 2020 where I doubted I would see 2021.
0:40.0	There was a turbulent year on many fronts.
0:44.0	But I tried to take stock in the measures of turbulence that we experienced.
0:49.0	And then I look back during the Second World War.
0:54.0	You know how turbulent those times were?
0:56.0	No.
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