Cosmic Queries – Planets and Stuff

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🗓️ 15 November 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Paul Mecurio are back together again to answer your fan-submitted questions on Saturn, Jupiter, neuroscience, tidal forces, lunar exploration, and the science behind your hat size, and more. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons and All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.startalkradio.net/show/cosmic-queries-planets-and-stuff/ Thanks to this week’s Patrons for supporting us: Kay Gilbert, Brendan Brown, Akasha Yi, Tom Hernke, Jonathan Gaffers Photo Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Simon (NASA Goddard) [Public domain]

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0:00.0	From the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and beaming out across all of space and time.
0:09.0	This is Star Talk. We're science and pop culture. Collective.
0:15.0	This is Star Talk and I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:20.0	And today is Cosmic Queries. Planet Edition. But we don't just stick to planets.
0:26.0	This one is planets and stuff.
0:30.0	And today I've got Paul MacKurio with me. Paul.
0:34.0	How are you? Welcome back. Thank you. I am near irregular.
0:38.0	I'm pleased. That's all I want to do.
0:40.0	I didn't call you irregular. A regular. Did I pronounce that?
0:43.0	You actually, I kind of am a little bit.
0:46.0	I have a couple of questions about how I can fix that.
0:49.0	We'll do that. Fix the irregularities.
0:51.0	Great to have you on this.
0:52.0	Thank you. Yes. So glad to be back.
0:54.0	And our normal format is we solicit inquiries from our fan base on different platforms.
0:59.0	And the questions come in. I haven't seen them yet.
1:01.0	Right. This is not stumped Neil day.
1:03.0	But it's if I don't know the answer, I'll say next one, please.
1:07.0	I've never seen you have to say next one.
1:09.0	No, usually I have something to say about it, even if I don't fully know the answer.
1:13.0	Exactly.
1:14.0	Just to tell people, we first meet on it's Stephen Colbert.
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