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🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Can you actually grow potatoes on Mars? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Paul Mecurio explore how to grow plants in space and whether we can farm on the Moon and Mars with space biologists Anna-Lisa Paul and Robert Ferl.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:14.0	This is Star Talk.
0:17.0	Neil deGrasse Tyson here, your personal astrophysicist.
0:20.0	And I got with me Paul McEario, Paul Dude.
0:23.0	I think it's a sea of my man.
0:25.0	Bit too long.
0:26.0	Yeah, I know, I know.
0:27.0	We're gonna get up for lunch again soon.
0:29.0	Yeah, we'll do it.
0:30.0	We'll do it.
0:31.0	Stand up, buddy.
0:32.0	Stand up comedian.
0:33.0	And I just love the fact that every time I'm on Colbert, you're there warming up the crowd
0:37.5	before anything else happens.
0:39.0	So that's why they're laughing and they're always in a good mood.
0:43.0	Or if you're not, it's my fault.
0:45.0	I forgot I could blame you as well.
0:48.0	Why are they so excited but not laughing enough?
0:51.0	Why weren't they laughing?
0:52.0	I really thought.
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