The Snow Show: Making Snowflakes with Peter Veals and Twila Moon

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🗓️ 21 January 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

How do you make snow? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly learn some cold, hard facts about snow and ice with atmospheric scientist and snow maker Peter Veals, PhD and glacial scientist Twila Moon, PhD.

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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 Sports Edition.
0:17.0	You'll be able to grasp to face in here your personal astrophysicist.
0:20.0	And today's topic is all about snow.
0:24.0	Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.
0:26.0	Why? Because this year is the Winter Olympics.
0:30.0	And snow has become kind of a commodity.
0:34.0	Lately, there's been less of it in some places, more of it in others.
0:38.0	And we're going to devote an entire program on just that topic.
0:42.0	I got Gary Arraili, Gary.
0:44.0	I was good to have you there, man.
0:46.0	Bring professional authenticity to the sports edition version of Star Talk,
0:51.0	being X-Football Pro over in the UK.
0:54.0	And of course Chuck Knies, Jeff.
0:56.0	Hey, that's right, Chuck Knies.
0:58.0	You're Chuck with Snow Man, that's right.
1:00.0	Not loud to say that, not loud to say that.
1:04.0	Only you can say it.
1:06.0	Right, exactly.
1:08.0	Oh my god, you can.
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