Cosmic Queries – World Space Week

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🗓️ 4 October 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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To celebrate World Space Week, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Matt Kirshen and astrophysicist Charles Liu, PhD, answer fan-submitted questions on a variety of celestial topics including parallel universes, solar energy, speed of light travel, Mars, and 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-world-space-week/ Thanks to this week’s Patrons for supporting us: David Vives, Kelly Holman, and Nick Bryant. Photo Credit: NASA/Tony Gray and Kevin O’Connell.

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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.
0:16.0	This is Star Talk. I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:31.0	And this is a cosmic queries edition where we are celebrating space week.
0:37.0	That would be the first week of October. That happens to contain my birthday.
0:42.0	I'm just saying.
0:44.0	Who's making those whoopee noises?
0:46.0	I've got my co-host for this Matt Kershian. Matt, welcome back.
0:50.0	Thank you, Neil.
0:51.0	Excellent. What came first, by the way, a space week or your birthday?
0:55.0	Did it become space week because it was the New York University of New York?
0:58.0	My birthday precedes the official celebration of space week.
1:02.0	So maybe.
1:03.0	Maybe that was the designation.
1:05.0	Maybe. I got a lot of fun questions coming up.
1:09.0	We showed it.
1:10.0	And I got back up here.
1:11.0	In fact, I'm his backup.
1:12.0	If it's on a show with me, I'm his backup.
1:14.0	The one that only the geek and chief Charles Lou.
1:17.0	I am so happy to be here, Neil.
1:19.0	Thank you.
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