Cosmic Curiosities, with Paul Mecurio

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🗓️ 23 August 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Paul Mecurio answer a grab bag full of fan-submitted Cosmic Queries on the Big Bang, the boundaries of the universe, space tourism, Star Trek, dark matter, neutrinos, communicating with extraterrestrial life, and much more. Thanks to this week’s Patrons for supporting us: Valentín Elizalde, Tyler Ford, Ted Shevlin. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons and All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.startalkradio.net/show/cosmic-curiosities-with-paul-mecurio/ Photo Credit: V. Springel, Max Planck Institut für Astrophysik, Garching bei München.

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0:00.0	From the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and beaming out across all of space and time.
0:09.0	This is Star Talk, we're science and pop culture.
0:14.0	This is Star Talk, your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:31.0	And we have a cosmic queries edition, but now it's kind of their questions that kind of land in their own category.
0:40.0	And so what do you do when you put questions together that belong each in their own category?
0:45.0	You get a kind of a grab bag, a kind of a cosmic curiosities all mixed together.
0:52.0	And I got one guy who's a cosmic curiosity himself.
0:55.0	Paul MacKurio, Paul!
0:56.0	How are you?
0:57.0	Well, thanks for being on Don Talk.
0:58.0	I've been on your show.
0:59.0	Yeah.
1:00.0	Paul MacKurio, show multiple times.
1:01.0	Yeah, you're great.
1:02.0	That one, thank you.
1:03.0	Yeah.
1:04.0	You say that to all of you.
1:05.0	No, no, no, no.
1:06.0	You're actually, I didn't think you knew much about science, but I was surprised.
1:09.0	You're actually killed it.
1:10.0	No, I'd love being on your show because you're curious and you're, you know, your fans are curious.
1:15.0	And, and I like being a mid curious people because then I can fulfill my prime directive as an educator.
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