Visualizing Our Universe, with Dr. FunkySpoon – StarTalk All-Stars

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🗓️ 30 August 2016

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Astrobiologist David Grinspoon and his guest, Carter Emmart, take us behind the scenes to see how Carter creates a virtual “Google Map” of our universe. Plus, Chuck Nice asks them Cosmic Queries about black holes, the Big Bang, and Star Trek’s holodeck.

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0:00.0	This is StarTalk.
0:03.0	I'm David Grinspoon, astrobiologist.
0:11.6	I go on Twitter as Dr. Funky Spoon.
0:14.2	Now, some people have asked me if your name is David Grinspoon.
0:17.2	Why are you on Twitter as Dr. Funky Spoon?
0:19.4	And all I can say to that is like...
0:21.7	I'm David Grinspoon.
0:28.7	Understand? All right.
0:31.7	Where are we?
0:33.7	We're going to do...
0:34.7	Yeah, that's right.
0:35.7	We're on StarTalk All Stars.
0:37.7	I'm David Grinspoon and I'm with my awesome co-host, Mr. Chuck Nice.
0:43.7	Amen. How are you?
0:44.7	Tell us what's going on, Chuck.
0:46.7	Well, you know, we're doing some cosmic queries here.
0:48.7	And first of all, thank you for the blues riff.
0:52.7	Yeah, well, there's a lot more where that came from.
0:55.7	Well, that's cool.
0:56.7	Well, you know, we're talking about the virtual universe.
1:01.7	And the man sitting next to me is pretty much responsible for the virtual universe itself.
1:08.7	Yeah, we're so happy, so lucky to have with us an old friend and a genius of science communication.
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