Cosmic Queries: Potpourri Vol. 2

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🗓️ 26 May 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Neil Tyson and first-time co-host Eddie Brill answer a potpourri of fan-submitted Cosmic Queries. Topics include alien communication, gravity assist, electromagnetism; "Blade Runner," "Interstellar" & "Arrival;" independent thinking, junk science, and more! NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free. Find out more at https://www.startalkradio.net/startalk-all-access/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:05.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.6	Star Talk begins right now.
0:22.6	This is Star Talk.
0:24.6	I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist, and this is going to be
0:29.5	a Cosmic Queries Poperie edition.
0:33.2	And I have a guest co-host today, the one the only Eddie Brill Eddie.
0:39.1	Yes, dude.
0:40.1	Hey, it's good to see you all these years.
0:41.7	You're from the comedy firmament.
0:45.0	You go back, you've been everywhere, you know everybody, and I said delight and a pleasure
0:51.2	and an honor to have you as my co-host for this episode.
0:53.2	Well, it's very, very nice of you.
0:54.5	I've been at this game since I was in college at Emerson in the 1970s and it's just been,
1:01.5	you know, starting.
1:02.5	Well, you wanted the kids in the class that were cut up in class and they say, what are
1:05.4	you a comedian?
1:06.4	You know, yes, no matter what I am.
1:08.4	All right, but no funny stuff.
1:10.2	Exactly.
1:11.2	Yeah, you know, I was very shy as a kid and I was a good student.
1:13.6	I was actually a science and math guy in school.
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