Natalie Starkey is a comedian on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. She has two books under her belt: Catching Stardust and Fire and Ice. Paul Mercurio also co-hosts Inside Out, which he's been on since his days at The Daily Show. Is it possible to get energy from a planet's core? If it's not, how could we hypothetically do that?
Have we disproven the idea of a “goldilocks zone”? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Paul Mecurio learn about space geology, magnetic fields, volcanoes, and the origins of life with cosmochemist Natalie Starkey, PhD.
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