Cosmic Queries: Science Fiction

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🗓️ 8 December 2013

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Science Fiction meets science fact as Neil deGrasse Tyson and Eugene Mirman explore time travel, warp drive, force fields, transporter beams, parallel universes and Dyson spheres.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk, your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.4	Star Talk begins right now.
0:15.5	This is Star Talk.
0:23.9	I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson.
0:25.8	I'm an astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural History, where I also serve
0:29.9	as the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium, and I'm here in studio
0:35.8	in New York City with Eugene Merman, Eugene, thanks for being back on.
0:40.1	It is great to be here.
0:41.6	And do you know your task today?
0:43.1	Yes, it is to ask you what?
0:45.1	No, no, I don't know.
0:46.8	It is true.
0:47.8	You've called these questions off of our Facebook presence, or Twitter, and these are questions
0:52.3	on what topic?
0:54.4	Science fiction.
0:55.4	Nice.
0:56.4	Okay, I haven't seen these questions before, but this is the cosmic queries.
0:59.7	The addition of Star Talk radio.
1:01.7	Yes.
1:02.7	So let's get right to it.
1:03.7	Let's do it.
1:04.7	What do you got?
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