Eyes in the Sky with Larissa Rodrigues & Jennifer Holm

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🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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How is new tech helping protect the rainforest? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice learn how space technology is helping uncover illegal gold mines and protecting the Amazon, with illegal mining expert Larissa Rodrigues and Earth researcher Jennifer Holm.

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0:31.3	I'm going up a driveway, there's a crack in the pavement and a
0:34.6	mushroom is coming up through the crack. Yeah. Why is it that all you need to grow a
0:39.2	healthy plant is a crack in the pavement and you're telling, you can't grow a tree in the Amazon.
0:43.4	Maybe we should pave over the areas.
0:46.5	Yes!
0:47.5	We should pave them over and then just put some cracks in them.
0:51.5	No.
0:53.0	Thank you, Chuck.
0:55.0	For your problem solved.
0:57.0	There you no.
0:58.0	Bovar solved by Chuck.
0:59.0	Good.
1:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
1:03.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
1:08.0	Star Talk begins right now.
1:12.0	This is Star Talk.
1:15.0	Neil Degrass Tyson here,
1:17.0	you're a personal astrophysicist.
1:19.0	Got with me Chuck Knight, Chuck it baby, how you doing?
1:21.0	Hey Neil, what's happening?
1:22.0	Well, so in this episode episode we're going to explore what
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