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Cosmic Queries – Take Me To Your Leader

4/28/202658 min

What would you actually do if an alien showed up and asked to be taken to your leader? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Paul Mecurio, and astrophysicist Charles Liu explore fan questions about physics of near-light-speed travel, Dark Forest Theory from The Three Body Problem, and whether the universe itself might be conscious.

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Clips

The Mirror We Hold To Aliens
How To Reach Near-Light Speed
Aging Slower At Relativistic Speeds
If It Looks Human, It’s Human
First Question For Aliens
Signaling Intelligence With Math
Reagan’s Alien Unifier Hypothesis
Four-Dimensional Voyeurs
Dark Forest, Quiet Galaxy
Colonizing A Galaxy In 37 Jumps

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

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  2. Neil deGrasse Tyson· Host0:28

    Paul, love me some aliens.

  3. Paul Mecurio· Co-host0:31

    Dude, I love it as well.

  4. Neil deGrasse Tyson· Host0:31

    That was a good episode.

  5. Paul Mecurio· Co-host0:32

    Oh my God, we could talk about that all day.

  6. Neil deGrasse Tyson· Host0:33

    But why are you trying to convince us that you're one? [imitates alien sound] [laughs] Sorry I asked. Coming up, the alien edition of Star Talk.

  7. Speaker 30:43

    [space sound] Welcome to Star Talk, your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide. Star Talk begins right now.

  8. Neil deGrasse Tyson· Host0:56

    [upbeat music] This is Star Talk. Neil deGrasse Tyson here, your personal astrophysicist. We've got a Cosmic Queries edition, one I'm very much looking forward to. And to help me out here, we got Paul Mecurio. How you doing, man?

  9. Paul Mecurio· Co-host1:14

    I'm good, buddy. Good to see you again.

  10. Neil deGrasse Tyson· Host1:15

    All right. All right. Comedian Paul Mecurio, and sometimes we cannot do a show without our geek in chief. [laughs] That would be Chuck Liu. Charles Liu.

  11. Paul Mecurio· Co-host1:25

    Yeah.

  12. Neil deGrasse Tyson· Host1:25

    How you doing, man?

  13. Paul Mecurio· Co-host1:26

    There we go. Come on.

  14. Charles Liu· Guest1:26

    Doing very well. Thank you so much, Neil.

  15. Neil deGrasse Tyson· Host1:28

    All right.

  16. Charles Liu· Guest1:28

    Hi, Paul. It's a pleasure to be back.

  17. Neil deGrasse Tyson· Host1:29

    Old time friend and

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