Space Archaeology with Sarah Parcak

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🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Who really built the pyramids? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice learn about space archaeology, LIDAR, and discovering tombs, pyramids, and new Nazca lines with space archaeologist Sarah Parcak.

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0:00.0	Chuck, I think everyone should have their own personal archaeologist.
0:03.0	Is it Indiana Jones?
0:04.0	Yeah, I'll take that.
0:06.0	You just never know when you need one.
0:08.0	That's true. Exactly.
0:09.0	You never know where you're going to end up on a dig and be, and just be curious's buried here what is that and why yes exactly I
0:16.7	need an emotional archaeologist is what I need to dig into your've just been burying so much over the years.
0:25.0	All right, a little bit of space archaeology and more coming right up.
0:29.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:33.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:38.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:42.0	This is a Talk. Neil Degrass Tyson here, your personal
0:48.4	astrophysit. Got with me Chuck Knight, Chuck, baby, how you doing?
0:51.3	What's happening, Neil?
0:52.6	How's it going?
0:53.2	All right, we got a topic today
0:54.5	we've never covered before.
0:56.0	Yes, that's correct.
0:57.2	We've been doing this for more than a dozen years,
0:59.6	more than a dozen years.
0:59.7	More than a dozen years.
1:00.3	It has never come up.
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