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Cosmic Queries – The Deep

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🗓️ 27 September 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Deep space and deep thoughts = deep questions. Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice answer fan-submitted questions on the meaning of life, the human brain, higher intelligence, space exploration, 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-the-deep/ Thanks to this week’s Patrons for supporting us: Andrew Olguin, Jay Eilers, Dr. Janet L. Walsh, Roy Hill-Percival, Jose Clark Photo Credit: NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth and D. Magee (University of California, Santa Cruz), K. Whitaker (University of Connecticut), R. Bouwens (Leiden University), P. Oesch (University of Geneva), and the Hubble Legacy Field team.

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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 Starfall, where science and pop culture collide.

0:15.0

This is Starfall.

0:22.0

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

0:34.0

And I got with me Chuck Nice.

0:37.0

Chuck, today it's Cosmic Queries. That's one of our favorite forms of evolution.

0:44.0

Emileve. Emileve. Emileve. Emileve. Emileve. Emileve. Emileve. Emileve. Emileve. And, we are, in fact, educated people.

0:54.0

My mom is spinning in a grave right now.

0:57.0

So, but this is a Cosmic Queries of a topic we've never solicited.

1:02.0

We have not. Yeah. And the topic is the deep, deep space, deep thoughts, deep questions.

1:12.0

Chuck, you got to give it in your deepest voice. Okay, here we go. And by the way, we did this once. Yes, we did.

1:18.0

And I think I think I beat you by a half a tone or something. Yeah, just bear it. Let me hear it. Here we go.

1:24.0

Right. Deep thoughts. Deep thoughts. Yeah, you got me already. Yeah. See, I got a drink scotch the night before.

1:32.0

And smoke a cigar. Yeah, I got a smoke a cigar and smoke a cigar. And alcohol just fix that right up.

1:37.0

But then it becomes like a deep voice and like somewhat harvied fire steam. That's it.

1:42.0

Oh, but raspy. Yeah, it's like, deep thoughts. Oh my god. If you put on the accent.

1:49.0

Deep. What? Fox.

1:54.0

Scotch doesn't give you the Harvey Farge by accent. That'd be pretty cool if they did a couple of so not just.

2:02.0

Deep. Deep. All right. Someone call me an oob. I've had too much to drink. All right.

2:09.0

Let's get deep. Let's like deep thoughts. Cause usually there isn't a right answer. So you just get to sort of play with it and see where it takes you.

2:16.0

Yeah. All right. So this is deep questions only. All right. Let's do it. So listen it from our fan base.

2:22.0

It's from our fan base. And as usual, we start with a Patreon patron because they're fans that pay us.

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