Protecting Earth from Asteroids

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🗓️ 18 March 2016

⏱️ 49 minutes

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How can humanity escape the fate of the dinosaurs? Find out when Neil deGrasse Tyson interviews Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart, co-founder of the B612 foundation, devoted to protecting Earth from asteroids. With co-host Eugene Mirman.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:05.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.6	Star Talk begins right now.
0:14.8	This is Star Talk.
0:16.9	I'm your host, Neil the Grass-Tikeninger Perkhal, Master of Music, and I also serve as
0:21.2	the director of New York City's Hayden Planetarium right here in New York City at the American
0:25.9	Museum of Natural History.
0:28.0	We're featuring my interview this week with Rusty Schweikert.
0:33.4	He's an Apollo 9 astronaut, a genuine Apollo-era astronaut, and he's been hell-bent on trying
0:39.6	to prevent humans from going extinct, preventing Armageddon by trying to deflect asteroids.
0:45.8	And of course, I need some comedic help in this one.
0:49.1	So Eugene Merman, welcome back to Star Talk.
0:51.8	Eugene, thanks for having me.
0:53.0	So what you've been up to before we get cos-
0:54.9	So I just read, like in the news, you released like a nine album comedy track.
1:02.3	A volume album that's also seven LPs and you can buy it in the formats of it.
1:06.5	LP, what year is this?
1:07.5	What are we talking about here?
1:08.5	2015.
1:09.5	Oh, so the vinyl is getting more popular?
1:10.5	No, no, so okay, so you have comedy for audio files.
1:13.5	Comedy for audio files, exactly.
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