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Feb 2022
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The Science in "Don't Look Up" with Adam...

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
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Is a comet coming to destroy Earth? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-host Chuck Nice talk about the science behind Netflix’s comet apocalypse movie "Don’t Look Up" with director Adam McKay and astronomer Amy Mainzer. Are we all gonna die? 
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