Live at the Bell House, The Astronaut Session (Part 2)

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🗓️ 28 March 2013

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In part 2 of our December 2011 Bell House show, we discuss the dangers and dilemmas of current and future space travel.

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0:00.0	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.0	StarTalk begins right now.
0:21.0	Welcome to StarTalk Radio!
0:27.0	We are live at the Bellhouse in Brooklyn, New York.
0:31.0	Kings County, that is.
0:33.0	I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist with the American Museum of Natural History,
0:39.0	where I also serve as director of the Hayden Planetarium.
0:43.0	And I'm here with my special guest, two-time shuttle astronaut, Mike Massimino,
0:47.0	and my co-host, Eugene Merman.
0:49.0	Hello!
0:51.0	You've got your two special guests.
0:53.0	Kristen Shaw and John Hodren.
0:56.0	Hello!
0:59.0	We're talking about space and what it is to be up there in some of the latest discoveries,
1:03.0	one of which is the Kepler-22B Goldilocks Planet.
1:07.0	And so, with the bartenders, we concocted a special drink for this evening called the Kepler-22B.
1:14.0	Okay?
1:15.0	That drink has blue curacao, because that planet is in the Goldilocks zone where it can sustain liquid water.
1:22.0	And so, perhaps it has oceans, perhaps it has land, perhaps it has water.
1:25.0	And alien bacteria.
1:28.0	So, it's a mixture of blue curacao, green meduri, some vodka to make that sit up straight,
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