Cosmic Queries: The Science of Humans at War

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🗓️ 22 July 2016

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Author Mary Roach is back to help host Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-host Chuck Nice answer fan-submitted questions about the softer side of military science: people, from advances in combat medicine, to the possibility of building super soldiers.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:09.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:13.0	I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:25.0	And this is Star Talk.
0:30.0	This is a Cosmic Query's edition of Star Talk.
0:33.0	Yes, it is.
0:34.0	And in this Cosmic Query's, we're going to be talking about the science of war.
0:38.0	Yeah, man.
0:39.0	Ooh, science of humans at war.
0:41.0	Yeah, and I have to tell you, man, people are obsessed with this subject.
0:45.0	I don't understand how, I don't get it.
0:49.0	I have never received the breadth of queries.
0:54.0	Because you solicited questions on this topic already.
0:57.0	Yes, we have questions from all over the internet.
0:59.0	I told this morning that this would be the topic, but you've been scheming all week on this.
1:03.0	We've been receiving questions, and I have to tell you that.
1:06.0	People are very passionate about it, and they're doing a lot of deep thinking.
1:11.0	Okay.
1:12.0	Some of the questions, I'm like, you were clearly high when you wrote that question.
1:16.0	You had to be high to write that question.
1:19.0	Because I don't have any, I mean, while you don't get to see the questions.
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