Cosmic Queries: Super Powers

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🗓️ 2 August 2015

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

If Superman followed the laws of physics, how could he fly? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice answer this and other questions from our fans about super powers, from the scientifically sound, to the supremely silly.

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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.
0:22.2	This is Star Talk.
0:23.2	I'm your host, Neil deGraz Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:27.8	I'm Michael from New York City, where I work at the Hayden Planetarium, serving as its
0:32.3	director, part of the American Museum of Natural History.
0:35.4	You're all invited.
0:36.4	Come on by Upper West Side of Manhattan.
0:39.4	I got with me in the studio the one the only Chuck Knight.
0:43.0	And thank God for that.
0:45.1	That he's one and the only Chuck Knight.
0:47.6	Yes.
0:48.6	You've been thanking God for a lot of stuff lately.
0:50.0	He's even that busy with you.
0:52.0	You know, I try to keep him on his toes.
0:55.0	You know, Chuck, keep him on his toes.
0:57.7	Those are the things you thank God for.
0:59.3	I mean, you know, given like we have a whole universe here, you thank God because you're
1:02.9	like the only Chuck Knight.
1:04.2	Well, I'm saying that facetiously.
1:07.0	I'm not truly grateful.
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