Planetary Defense with Bill Nye

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🗓️ 9 August 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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What would we do if a life-destroying asteroid was coming our way? Bill Nye and comedian Chuck Nice answer questions about planetary defense, asteroids in space, and sci-fi technology.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:09.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:14.0	Welcome to Star Talk All Stars. I'm your all-star host of the evening, Bill Nye.
0:19.0	And I'm here with my co-host the remarkable and exciting Chuck Nice.
0:24.0	Hey Bill.
0:24.8	And on this episode of All-Stars Chuck,
0:27.0	we're talking about planetary defense.
0:29.8	Nice.
0:30.6	Defending the Earth. I did not know that we need defending. From an asteroid. Are they
0:36.1	are they defending our honor? No it's asteroids. It's just asteroids. In comets.
0:39.9	So the okay and comets. Yeah which in some level are hard to distinguish, but.
0:44.8	The universe is a hostile place.
0:46.4	Can be.
0:47.4	Yeah. So there is no evidence whatsoever that the ancient dinosaurs had a space program.
0:53.0	Yeah.
0:55.0	And it was hard on them.
0:56.0	Is that because they didn't have a postable thumbs?
0:58.0	Well, their hands were, their arms are so short.
1:00.0	Just tiny, tiny, tiny arms.
1:01.0	Some of them.
1:02.0	But I would try, but I can't read. tiny, tiny arms. Some of them.
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