Real Science with Bill Maher (Part 2)

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🗓️ 28 March 2013

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

They say “Science thrives on controversy.” So do Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Maher, and Dr. David Grinspoon in Part 2 of Neil’s interview with the feisty comedian and host of “Real Time with Bill Maher.”

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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.
0:21.9	Welcome to Star Talk Radio.
0:22.9	I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and I'm an astrophysicist with the American Museum
0:27.6	of Natural History in New York City, where I also serve as director of the Hayden Planetarium.
0:33.7	My co-host in studio in Manhattan this week is my friend and colleague David Grinspoon.
0:39.6	He's an astrobiologist.
0:40.6	I don't think he was that his whole life.
0:42.6	I mean, he started out as like a legitimate science.
0:47.7	He later turned to thinking about, I knew him as like a planetary scientist and an astrophysicist.
0:53.9	But lately, he's like thinking about life in the universe.
0:57.8	That's legitimate, of course, except you don't have any data, right?
1:01.7	Yeah, well, we have a data about what the planets are like and data that we're learning
1:05.4	about what life needs and has needed in the past, which at least allows us to, in an informed
1:11.0	way, surmise where else in the universe there may be life.
1:14.8	Well, we haven't found it yet.
1:16.1	Using Earth as a foundation for those ideas.
1:18.2	Well, we pretty much have to.
1:19.2	We're stuck here as of now, mostly.
1:22.0	So in these two hours, and this is the final hour of today's show, I have an interview
1:29.0	with Bill Marr, my last trip to LA.
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