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Extraterrestrial Oceans – StarTalk Live!

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

4.614.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

What are the oceans like on Enceladus? Neil deGrasse Tyson explores the oceans of other planets in the search for alien life with planetary scientist Kevin Hand, oceanographer Julie Huber, and comedians, Eugene Mirman, Ellie Kemper, and John Mulaney!

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0:00.0

Live from the Beacon Theatre in New York City and beaming out across all of the faith and time.

0:08.0

Welcome to Starts Hot Live from the Beacon Theatre in New York City.

0:19.0

Tonight, we explore the depths of our search for life on water worlds, from the bottom of the Earth's oceans to the ICC's of Jupiter's Moon Europa and Beyond.

0:37.0

My co-host tonight is comedian Eugene Murman. Eugene, come on out.

0:47.0

The voice of Gene, the little boy Gene, I'm Bob's Burgers, and one of my favorite comedians, Eugene Murman.

0:54.0

Excellent. Joining us tonight on this subject is planetary scientist Kevin Han.

1:01.0

Kevin, come on out.

1:05.0

Kevin.

1:08.0

Kevin has some NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and also joining us is Deep Sea Oceanographer Julie Hubert.

1:16.0

Julie, come on out.

1:25.0

She has from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Cape Cod. So Gene, who do you have for us tonight?

1:31.0

I have comedians, the first I'd like to bring out John Malaney.

1:38.0

John, pleasure to meet you.

1:45.0

And she's the star of the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, ladies and gentlemen, Ellie Kemper.

1:55.0

Let's do this. Alright, Julie, Kevin, you do ocean research.

2:02.0

You go under the ocean, and you find oceans on planets, or moons, or anywhere else you can find them.

2:07.0

And how are they related? Other than that, I know they're made of water.

2:12.0

Otherwise, why does your research intersect?

2:16.0

Sure, well, I study life at the bottom of the ocean, where I study single cell life that basically eats rocks to get energy.

2:26.0

And that's kind of a weird way to make a living.

2:30.0

For the things that eat the rocks?

2:35.0

For you, it would, you know, it'd be strange.

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