StarTalk Live! Water World (Part 2)

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🗓️ 31 January 2015

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Navigate the stormy seas of greed, politics, economics and the science of water with Neil deGrasse Tyson, Eugene Mirman and their guests Robert F. Kennedy Jr., The Gyalwang Drukpa, Dr. Tess Russo and Jason Sudeikis in Part 2 of our show from The Beacon Theater.

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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	We are back live at the Beacon Theater in New York City.
0:25.0	Star Talk Live!
0:28.0	We are talking about water in all its forms, in all the consequences of too much water, too little water, dirty water, clean water, tests.
0:42.0	You've also studied disruptions to the hydrologic cycle.
0:45.0	What are examples of disruptions to that?
0:48.0	I would say changes, not only at this rupjion.
0:51.0	What's an example?
0:52.0	If you build a dam on a river, you are.
0:54.0	Like what beavers do?
0:56.0	Exactly.
0:57.0	Humans do it too, but we learned it from beavers.
0:59.0	That's an example of disrupting the flow down the river.
1:04.0	Is that always bad?
1:06.0	No.
1:07.0	Okay, so what else would disrupt it?
1:10.0	If you pumped lots and lots of water out of the ground.
1:14.0	You might be a redneck.
1:16.0	I don't know where to go from.
1:24.0	That's a jet fox where they are right there.
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