StarTalk Live! from SF Sketchfest 2015

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🗓️ 5 April 2015

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Explore the Moon, asteroids and Mars from the stage of San Francisco’s Nourse Theater with Bill Nye, Eugene Mirman and guests astrophysicist Dr. Yvonne Pendleton, “Mars Czar” Dr. G. Scott Hubbard and comedian H. Jon Benjamin.

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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	Greetings.
0:20.0	Eugene, we're on fire. Welcome, welcome, welcome. Tonight we have a fabulous show.
0:25.0	We're going to be talking about space.
0:31.0	So our first guest tonight is, may I say, full disclosure? Wait, okay. That would take a long time.
0:37.0	Some disclosure. He's a friend of mine. He is former director of the Ames Research Center here in the Bay Area.
0:45.0	He was the first Mars program director. He developed the airbag assisted landing of ferovers on Mars.
0:52.0	He's on the board of the B612 Foundation. You'll hear about that.
0:56.0	He's the editor of New Space Magazine and most importantly to me.
1:00.0	So in the board of the Planetary Society, ladies and gentlemen, Dr. Scott Hubbard.
1:04.0	Doctor, so we're going to see one arm guy, hot. Yes.
1:08.0	Thank you. He's the Mars arm. The Mars arm.
1:13.0	Wait, wait, there's more. Like so many of you.
1:17.0	Our next guest got her PhD in astrophysics.
1:21.0	She's now the head of Survee, which is a fabulous NASA acronym.
1:27.0	She's advancing space science and human exploration into the solar system.
1:32.0	Ladies and gentlemen, Dr. Revon Pendleton.
1:36.0	And we have one more comic guest. It is my great pleasure to introduce.
1:41.0	He plays my father on Bob's burgers that he is the voice of our cheer ladies and gentlemen,
1:48.0	a John Benjamin. Wow. He's got us a proud people.
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