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Extended Classic: Cosmic Queries: Human Impact on Earth with Dr. FunkySpoon

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4.614.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Planetary scientist Dr. David Grinspoon answers questions about the human impact on Earth during the Anthropocene Era. Now updated with 13 minutes of Dr. FunkySpoon and Chuck Nice discussing why we must evolve from Homo Sapiens into Terra Sapiens.

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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.

0:14.1

Welcome to Star Talk Radio.

0:23.7

My name is David Grinspoon.

0:25.2

I'm an astrobiologist and a planetary scientist.

0:28.7

And I'm here with my co-host Chuck Nice.

0:32.3

Hey, Dave, how are you?

0:33.7

I'm fine. How are you doing Chuck?

0:34.9

Great, man.

0:35.6

So I'm happy to see you.

0:37.4

Yeah. I'm also curious as to where Mr. Tyson, Dr. Tyson is.

0:42.5

Oh, I'm busted.

0:43.6

Now people know I'm not Neil Tyson.

0:45.9

I am sitting in for Neil Tyson,

0:48.8

who's off filming cosmos somewhere, right?

0:51.6

Literally, he has left the galaxy.

0:54.0

So Neil's off doing the cosmos as he is want to do.

0:57.1

And we're left here to carry on without him as best we can.

1:00.3

And so we will be today doing cosmic queries, answering your questions.

1:07.0

And what's the topic today?

1:08.9

OK, so today, of course, we call all of our resources

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