Inside DARPA: Sci-Fi Meets National Defense

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🗓️ 3 August 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Explore the intersection of science fiction and national defense inside the high-tech government agency developing America’s top-secret weapons of the future with Neil deGrasse Tyson, co-host Chuck Nice, former DARPA Director Arati Prabhakar, journalist Sharon Weinberger, and roboticist Hod Lipson. NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.startalkradio.net/all-access/inside-darpa-sci-fi-meets-national-defense/ Photo Credit: J.Krohn, courtesy of JPL-Caltech.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:09.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:13.0	Welcome to the holiday universe.
0:25.0	I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal ask-go-businessist.
0:29.0	Tonight, we will explore the intersection of science fiction and national defense.
0:35.0	Inside the high tech government agency, developing America's top secret weapons of the future.
0:42.0	So let's do this.
0:45.0	Oh!
0:48.0	I got with me a coarse-checked nice.
0:51.0	Hey, Neil.
0:52.0	Hey, Chuckie Baby.
0:53.0	Can you see your body feeling good?
0:55.0	Always. Always.
0:56.0	Always.
0:57.0	Get your let's make America smart again, shirt.
1:00.0	This is my Let's Make America smart again shirt, which quite frankly is a very cool shirt.
1:06.0	And we got with us tonight, Sharon Weinberg.
1:09.0	Hello.
1:10.0	All right.
1:11.0	So, you're the author of this fact that people are still right and read fat books.
1:20.0	They write them. I hope they read them.
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