From the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and beaming out across all of space and time.

This is Star Trek, where science and pop culture collapse.

This is StarTalk. I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.

I serve as the director of New York City's Hayden Planetarium right here in New York City and we are in my office.

I've got with me Charles Liu, friend and colleague and Geeks Patisse is what he carries.

Chuck Nice, as always.

That's right.

This is Cosmic Queries, the science of pop fiction, the sequel.

We had so many questions and Charles and I took so long answering them, damn question, that we had to spill into an entire other display.

You know, these questions and answers.

So let's get right in it.

This is pop fiction, science of pop fiction, Infinity Wars.

No, no, that's when it was Infinity War. This one is endgame.

Oh, endgame.

Did you get your sequel straight?

I really need to get my sequel.

All right, all right, Charles. What do you have here to go?

Here we go.

Okay, here we go.

Camilo Arasco from Facebook says,

Do you think science fiction can influence real science in the development of groundbreaking technologies all the time?

Or is it that the groundbreaking technologies are actually informing the science fiction?

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