Deadliest Cosmic Queries

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🗓️ 25 October 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Could humankind outlive the Earth? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice are ready to get spooky. We’ve gathered your fan-submitted Cosmic Queries that explore all things death, from the death of humanity to the death of the universe.

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0:00.0	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:04.4	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.2	StarTalk begins right now.
0:16.1	This is StarTalk.
0:18.5	Neil deGrasse Tyson here.
0:19.7	You're a personal astrophysicist. Recording now from my office at the Hayden Planetarium, part of the American Museum of Natural History right here in New York City. Chuck Nice. You, what's up, Neil? Chuck Nice comic on Twitter, and this is a Cosmic Queries edition. Yes, it is. Here's what we did. Yeah. Okay. We didn't specifically solicit these.
0:39.1	Right.
0:39.7	These trickle in over time.
0:42.4	Mm-hmm.
0:43.1	So this is a Cosmic Queries morbid edition.
0:46.1	Oh, my.
0:47.0	These are people asking just questions about the ends of things, the death of things.
0:52.9	Yes.
0:53.5	And then I worry about people.
0:57.6	Like what?
0:58.5	I worry sometimes when you read some of these questions.
1:01.3	Yes.
1:02.3	Yeah, we have definitely a very death-obsessed audience.
1:08.4	We have a death-obsessed audience.
1:29.6	We'll see what we can do with them. I don't even know how to bring in an expert on that. Other than an undertaker. Right. Right. Yeah. But okay. So let's try it. Apparently, these are the questions that we get more than anything else. As a category. As a category. Short of soliciting a category, these trickle in as the biggest unsolicited category.
1:30.3	All right.
1:30.6	All right. All right.
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