Cosmic Queries – Science in Pop Fiction

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🗓️ 2 August 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Neil deGrasse Tyson, comic co-host Chuck Nice, and astrophysicist and StarTalk geek-in-chief Charles Liu answer fan-submitted questions about speed of light communication, Batman, the science of invisibility, the future of spaceships, the quantum realm, and much more! NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons and All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.startalkradio.net/show/cosmic-queries-science-in-pop-fiction/ Photo Credit: StarTalk© Thanks to this week's Patrons for supporting us: Katie Gared, Adam Giacobbe, Sergio Rizzuto, Samir Cope, Jesus Rodriguez, and Ronald Warmerdam

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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 Startle, we're science and pop culture.
0:20.0	This is Startle, come your host, you'll digress Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:26.0	And this is a Cosmic Query's edition on Science and Pop Fiction.
0:31.0	Ooh, what does that mean?
0:33.0	I got my resident geek in chief with me.
0:38.0	Charles Lou, Charles, welcome back to Startle Talk.
0:41.0	You're like such a regular on this show.
0:43.0	Because this certain categories of expertise that you just plug that hole and we just sit back and enjoy.
0:49.0	I live to serve.
0:50.0	Oh, thank you for having me.
0:51.0	There he goes.
0:52.0	And check.
0:53.0	That's right.
0:53.0	That's right.
0:54.0	Always a pleasure to be here, man.
0:55.0	All right.
0:56.0	So you got we solicited a question.
0:57.0	We have some in pop fiction.
0:58.0	In pop fiction.
1:00.0	So it's pop fiction's television, you know, maybe comment.
1:01.0	So it could be superheroes, super heroes, sci-fi, sci fantasy, all the above.
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