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Welcome to Star Talk. I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.

This week we're bringing you a special sort of mashup episode.

This week we've got a special mashup episode for you.

It's all about life on Mars.

What would be like if humans lived there, ate there, and more importantly played there?

We wrangled clips from across the Star Talk podcast network.

Star Talk All Stars playing with science, Star Talk TV,

and of course the original flagship, Star Talk Radio.

The Martian by Andy Weir planted an image of human life on Mars in the public imagination.

And I remember the movie. I couldn't get it out of my head.

Living there, eating there, surviving there.

And so you have to ask, is that image scientifically accurate?

Let's find out in our first clip featuring Bill Nye, Andy Weir, Eugene Merman,

Mae Viggins, and NASA Planetary Science Director Jim Reen.

I can't put this idea up for an astronaut stranded on Mars,

but I wanted everything to be physically accurate, just because I always get taken out of a story

when I see some blatant physical inaccuracy.

The book is fairly accurate too, right or very accurate?

Oh, the book's still iPhone, many ways. But you know it is.

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