Cosmic Queries– Space Junk! with Moriba Jah

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🗓️ 5 July 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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What do we do with all this space junk? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice answer questions about the stuff we put into orbit with astrodynamicist and space environmentalist, Dr. Moriba Jah.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:14.0	This is Star Talk.
0:16.0	I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal master of business.
0:20.0	And today, we're going to talk about the space environment in which business, surveillance,
0:29.0	travel all takes place.
0:32.0	It's like from Earth's surface up to the top of the atmosphere.
0:36.0	That's something we haven't talked about.
0:38.0	Chuck.
0:39.0	That's what we're going today.
0:40.0	Yes, that's right.
0:42.0	I like space junk better than...
0:46.0	You said it all fancy.
0:49.0	I just like space junk.
0:52.0	Space junk.
0:54.0	Almost here like Quincy Jones in the back, plop plop plop plop plop plop plop plop plop.
1:00.0	Plop plop plop plop plop plop plop plop plop plop plop plop.
1:05.0	Sanford and Sun in space.
1:07.0	Exactly.
1:08.0	That's right.
1:10.0	Well, I've got one of the worlds, if not the worlds expert on this very subject right here,
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