Live at the Bell House: “The Space Between Your Ears” (Part 2)

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🗓️ 28 March 2013

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Part 2 of our brainy show at the Bell House explores the psychology of astronauts and the chemistry of love.

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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 back to StarTalk Radio!
0:24.0	I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist.
0:33.0	And I've got two neuroscientists on the stage with me.
0:36.0	We've been talking about the brain.
0:38.0	And right now, I want to talk about the mental health of astronauts.
0:44.0	Why?
0:46.0	Why did you gas?
0:48.0	Oh my god, they could have problems.
0:51.0	No, no, think this through.
0:53.0	Yeah.
0:54.0	If there is ever a mission to Mars, and I'm working desperately on that right now,
0:59.0	yeah, just don't...
1:02.0	So a mission to Mars, in the way we would do it, would take nine months.
1:06.0	Yeah.
1:07.0	Then you got to hang out there a year or two until Earth and Mars line up again,
1:10.0	and then you come back.
1:11.0	So a round trip is like three or four years.
1:13.0	This is the last time that it takes to make Chinese democracy.
1:18.0	If that's really if a return mission is possible.
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