Astrobotany & Plant Intelligence with Simon Gilroy

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🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Are plants more aware than we think? Do they have feelings? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Gary O’Reilly, and Harrison Greenbaum explore the intelligence of plants with astrobotanist Simon Gilroy. From venus flytraps to space farming, we dig deep into the secret world of plants.

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0:00.0	I was skeptical, but now I'm all in on plants as people.
0:05.8	Plants that have feelings, and they know their environment, and they have sensors, and they want to live too, and they don't want to die, and they have reaction functions to preserve that.
0:14.6	There's a lot more going on in plants than we realized.
0:17.5	All this technology and research, and we're still going to be stuck with kale in Mars.
0:22.1	Coming up on StarTalk, special edition.
0:27.3	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:29.9	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:35.9	StarTalk begins right now.
0:40.2	This is StarTalk, special edition.
0:43.5	Neil deGrasse Tyson here, you're a personal astrophysicist.
0:46.6	And if it's special edition, it means we've got Gary O'Reilly.
0:49.6	Hi, Neil.
0:50.2	Hey, Gary, former soccer pro.
0:51.6	Yes.
0:52.5	And I still can't get out of my head the Google search on you that delivered your wiki page
1:00.0	where you got sexy legs on the field, on the pitch.
1:03.0	I'll have that deleted.
1:05.0	How about that?
1:07.0	Today, this is a topic you and fellow producers have picked.
1:11.6	Yeah, it's something we've been wanting to do for quite some time, and it's finding the right guest and the right time to bring it forward.
1:19.6	So we feel this is about, just about right.
1:21.6	This is the right time.
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