Cosmic Queries: Time Travel

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🗓️ 2 March 2014

⏱️ 37 minutes

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In this Cosmic Queries episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson gets all wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey as he answers fan questions about time travel with Colin Jost, Saturday Night Live’s new Weekend Update anchor. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, Credit: aussiegall from Sydney, Australia.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk, your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.6	Star Talk begins right now.
0:21.9	Welcome back to Star Talk Radio.
0:23.5	I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist with the American Museum of Natural History
0:28.8	in New York City.
0:31.2	We're going straight into time travel questions.
0:35.8	Time travel questions, I need help because these questions come to us from the internet,
0:40.6	from Facebook and Twitter and on the phone and Google Plus.
0:46.4	And so I combed the neighborhood and I found Colin Jost wandering, Colin, welcome to Star
0:52.4	Talk Radio.
0:53.4	Thank you very much.
0:54.4	It's great to be here.
0:55.4	You've been like a comedian your whole life.
0:57.1	When you were a kid, did your parents say, what are you, a comedian, are you one of those?
1:03.2	I totally was.
1:04.2	I was in grade school.
1:05.8	I was impersonating David Letterman and doing David Letterman shows you as a class clown.
1:10.9	I was, you know, I wasn't like the goofy class clown.
1:14.4	I was trying to, you know, aspiring to be the smart class clown.
1:17.2	The smart class clown?
1:18.2	Good.
1:19.2	Good.
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