StarTalk Live! at the Beacon: Searching for Life in the Universe (Part 1)

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🗓️ 17 February 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Neil deGrasse Tyson and Eugene Mirman welcome planetary scientist Carolyn Porco, Sean Ono Lennon, Vanessa Bayer, and Michael Ian Black to search for life in the universe in Part One of our StarTalk Live! show recorded at the Beacon Theatre in NYC. NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can listen to this entire episode commercial-free. Find out more at https://www.startalkradio.net/startalk-all-access/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:09.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:13.0	Hello everybody.
0:24.0	Welcome to Star Talk Live.
0:31.0	We have an awesome show for you.
0:36.0	It is my incredible pleasure to bring out your host,
0:39.0	the amazing science communicator and natural wonder, Neil Dickrow, my dad.
0:47.0	Thank you.
0:56.0	Eugene, always great to have you here.
0:59.0	Thanks for making a support of your comedic universe.
1:03.0	Thank you.
1:04.0	So I get to invite the...yes.
1:05.0	Eugene Merman.
1:07.0	Star Talk Live first appeared as part of Eugene Merman's comedy festival.
1:11.0	He organizes groups of comedians and they make you laugh.
1:15.0	And he said, let's add a little science to one of the spots.
1:18.0	And ever since then, Star Talk Live was born.
1:21.0	And now it started out at a small bar in Brooklyn and now it's like the beacon theater.
1:29.0	So tonight we're going to talk about the exploration of the universe and the search for life.
1:35.0	And what impact they might have on us philosophically, culturally, religiously, on our artwork.
1:43.0	And all that we are and define ourselves to be as humans.
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