The Science in "Don't Look Up" with Adam McKay and Dr. Amy Mainzer

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The Science in "Don't Look Up" with Adam McKay and Dr. Amy Mainzer

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Feb 15, 2022

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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?NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free.Thanks to our Patrons Jay Merrifield, Ryan Gurrentz, Kyra Smith, Lyle Baillargeon, Robert Bratcher, Justin Arnold, Rebecca Murphy, Ben Moore, Shanna Reed, and DoujinSimple for supporting us this week.Photo Credit: Otemiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Feb 15, 2022

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