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Predictions: This Year in Science

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Nature, Nasa, Spacetime, Astronomer, Education, Quantum Physics, Physics, Multiverse, Space, Neil Degrasse Tyson, Scientist, Earth Science, Universe, Cosmos, Science, Astrophysics, Star Talk, Startalk, Climate Science, Astronomy, Astrophysicist

4.614.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Kick the New Year off with Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice as they discuss scientific predictions for 2018 submitted by fans and friends of the StarTalk universe; Neil and Chuck also, not surprisingly, get sidetracked by their great conversation. NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free. https://www.startalkradio.net/all-access/predictions-this-year-in-science/

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0:00.0

Welcome to Star Talk.

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Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.

0:09.0

Star Talk begins right now.

0:13.0

This is Star Talk.

0:17.0

I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson, your host, your personal astrophysicist.

0:21.0

I serve as director of New York City's Hayden Planetarium

0:24.0

at the American Museum of Natural History.

0:27.0

And today I've got my coach, Chuck Nice!

0:29.0

Yes! Chuck a baby.

0:31.0

How are you, Neil? Good, good.

0:33.0

By the way, I serve as patron of the Hayden Planetarium.

0:37.0

You are the director.

0:39.0

I'm a guy who pays to go there.

0:41.0

Pay.

0:43.0

Trun.

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Pay. Trun.

0:46.0

So this is actually a first of a kind show that we're going to do.

0:49.0

Yeah.

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We're going to think about predictions that people have made for 2018.

0:56.0

Yes!

0:57.0

And I'm not a good predictor of things.

0:59.0

People know this.

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