Cosmic Queries: Venus with Dr. FunkySpoon

StarTalk Radio

Star Talk, Nature, Scientist, Education, Astronomy, Astronomer, Physics, Earth Science, Neil Degrasse Tyson, Startalk, Cosmos, Science, Spacetime, Universe, Astrophysics, Astrophysicist, Quantum Physics, Space, Climate Science, Multiverse, Nasa

4.6 • 14.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2014

⏱️ 37 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Join guest host planetary scientist Dr. David Grinspoon and comic co-host Leighann Lord as they answer your questions about Venus while Neil’s off working on COSMOS.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

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 to Star Talk Radio, I'm David Grinspoon, I'm an astrobiologist and I am sitting in
0:28.6	as host for Neil Tyson, who is not here, he's off in the cosmos filming his show Cosmos
0:36.8	and I'm joined by my co-host, Leanne Lorde.
0:40.7	Yes, you know, I'm so glad you introduced yourself because I'm sitting here going, Neil,
0:44.5	you have really changed.
0:45.5	Yeah.
0:46.5	You are not, however, remember you at all.
0:48.2	Yeah, no, I'm not fooling anybody, if I'm not even going to try it.
0:53.0	Nobody could actually fill Neil's shoes.
0:55.0	Unfortunately, nobody has to because we've still got Neil, he's only gone for a while.
1:00.3	But it's nice to have a guest sort of sit in the big chair.
1:02.7	Yeah, well, it's fun to be here and it's great to meet you, Leanne and I have him.
1:06.7	Nice to meet you as well.
1:07.7	Have the opportunity to talk this afternoon, we're actually doing a segment of Cosmic Queries.
1:15.2	My favorite segment.
1:16.7	And the topic is actually my second favorite planet, which is the planet Venus.
1:22.7	I hate you're an expert on that.
1:24.0	Is that true?
1:25.0	Well, it's something I've been interested for a long time.
1:28.2	I've written a couple of books about Venus.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from StarTalk Radio, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of StarTalk Radio and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.