StarTalk Live! from SF Sketchfest 2016 (Part 2)

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🗓️ 1 April 2016

⏱️ 49 minutes

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This week we’re still on Mars with Andy Weir, author of “The Martian”, and Dr. Jim Green, Director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division. Join Bill Nye, Eugene Mirman and Maeve Higgins for Part 2 of our show recorded live at SF Sketchfest. ADULT LANGUAGE.

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0:00.0	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:09.0	StarTalk begins right now.
0:13.0	Welcome back, welcome back to StarTalk.
0:25.0	This week we're on Mars with Andy Weir, who wrote the Martian Mae Viggins,
0:30.0	funniest woman here.
0:34.0	That includes all the women in the audience.
0:38.0	I think the Earth is pretty good.
0:41.0	All the women on the panel, one.
0:44.0	Jim Green, Division of Planetary Science at the Science Mission Director of the NASA,
0:50.0	and our beloved Eugene Marmot.
0:54.0	So we've been talking about Mars.
0:59.0	Andy, how did you pick that place on Mars?
1:03.0	I had the plot line, hey, more spoilers.
1:10.0	He goes to pick a pathfinder.
1:14.0	Pathfinder's the name of another spacecraft.
1:20.0	But I wanted him, that was a plot point I wanted right from the beginning,
1:25.0	is that he goes and recovers pathfinder to communicate.
1:28.0	Is that why they were there?
1:31.0	The excuse I gave for why they were in the NASA.
1:35.0	The reason I wrote it that way was I wanted him to be a good distance away,
1:40.0	but an achievable distance so there would be this adventure of getting there and getting back.
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