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Aug 2024
45m 40s

Cosmic Queries – Back to School Edition

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
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What do you wish you had learned in school? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice go back to school to answer questions about simulation theory, time dilation, white holes, the sound of space, and more!

NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: 
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Thanks to our Patrons Goat34, Mark Dent, Edwin J Roldan, Evan Moorhead, and Abby GIll for supporting us this week. 

(Originally Aired Tuesday, October 4 2022)

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