SENSES.
KENNEDY: JOINING ME NOW ASTRO
FITS
ASTS
ASTROPHYSICIST, HOIST -- HOST OF
STAR TALK.
WARMED UP.
>> YOU TRY TO HAVE CONVERSATION
WITH PEOPLE YOU ASSUME WOULD NOT
BE SCIENCE PEOPLE TO SHOW PEOPLE
THAT LOVE OF SCIENCE IS ALMOST
UNIVERSAL.
>> THAT IS ONLY REASON WHY I AM
HERE TO SAY WHAT YOU SAID, WE'RE
DONE.
KENNEDY: WE'RE DONE.
THANK YOU.
GREAT SHOW.
>> PEOPLE WHO ARE ICONS IN THEIR
OWN FEEL DOING WHAT IT THEY DO.
ALL THEM ARE NOT SCIENTISTS,
THEY HAVE A FOLLOWING, WE BRING
THEM ON.
AND I HAVE CONVERSATIONS WITH
THEM ABOUT ALL OF THE WAY THAT
SCIENCE TOUCHED THEIR LIVES,
WHETHER OR NOT THEY KNEW IT.
THIS IS A EPLORING
THIS IS A E--ORING
THIS IS A E-- EING
THIS IS A E-- EXPG
THIS IS A E-- EXPLORING A IN
CONVERSATION, WE CUT THE SHOWING
IN IN STUDIO, MY COHOST IS A
STAND UP COMEDIAN AND GUESTS IN
ACADEMIA WHAT WILL EXPLORE
TOPICS RAISED BY THE CELEBRITIES
I INTERVIEWED.
>> WHO IS MORE FEARFUL?
>> THE WAY I THINK ABOUT IT
ACADEMICS BRING IN A LEVEL OF
GRAVITY TO SHOW, AND COMICS A
LEVEL OF LEVITY, I CONTROL THOSE
TWO KNOBS, WE HIT THE RIGHT
LEVEL.
SO WHAT VIEWER GETS A -- IS
INFORMED, ENTERTAINED, THEY WILL
SMILE, IT IS LATE AT NIGHT.
YOU DON'T WANT IT TO BE TOO
HEAVY BUT YOU DON'T VICE
PRESIDENT TO WASTED
PRESIDENT TO WANTED
PRESIDENT TO WANT D
PRESIDENT TO WANT TO -- YOU
DON'T WANT TO HAVE WASTED AN
HOUR OF YOUR LIFE, LEARN
SOMETHING.
KENNEDY: YOU ARE A.
>> SO IS ANYONE THAT CARES ABOUT
OBJECTIVE TRUTHS.
KENNEDY: BUT, THE IDEA THAT
WOULD WANT TO SOMEHOW DETACH
FROM THIS SENSES, IS FUNNY.
>> RIGHT.
KENNEDY: THAT IS WHY YOU HAD
THAT DIRECT.
>> I LIKE MY SENSES.
KENNEDY: THAT IS IMPLICIT TOO TO
YOUR BEING.
>> I HAVE NOTHING AGAINST THAT,
I MIGHT DO IT AS AN EXPERIMENT
BUT NOT A NATURAL STATE OF LIFE.
KENNEDY: SPEAKING OF STATE OF
LIFE, WE'RE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT
IF THERE IS LIFE MUSCULAR
DYSTROPHY -- IMMEDIATELY AROUND
US ON MARS, NOW WE'RE LEARNING
ABOUT MASSIVE ROCKETS BUILD BY
PRIVATE SPACE COMPANIES CAN GET
US TO NOT ONLY THE MOON BUT RID
PLANET, FASTER AND CHIPPER THAN
GOVERNMENT, HOW IMPORTANT IT
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP
IN DEEP SPACE.
>> THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN THAT
PARTNERSHIP, SINCE THE EARLY
DAYS OF SPACE PROGRAM.
KENNEDY: TANG.
>> THE LUNAR EXCLUSION MODULE
WAS BUILT IN LONG ISLAND, THIS T
WAS BUILT IN LONG ISLAND, THIS I
WAS BUILT IN LONG ISLAND, THIS S
THIS DAY PEOPLE WALK TALLER AND
PROUDER THEY HAVE A UNCLE OR
AUNT OR SOMEONE THAT
PARTICIPATED.
KENNEDY: IF WE'RE GOING TO HAVE
FURTHER SPACE EXPLORATION FUNDED
BY GOVERNMENT, WE CAN'T AFFORD
ANYTHING, ON LIST OF THINGS WHAT
HAS TO GO TO FUND NASA.
>> YOU SAID WE CAN'T AFFORD IT,
WE SPEND 4/10 OF 1 CENTS OF YOUR
TAX DOLLAR, YOU SAID, I CHOOSE
TO SPEND 99. 6% OF YOUR TAX
DOLLAR ON OTHER THINGS.
AND POINT 4% TO THE EXPLORING
THE UNIVERSE.
KENNEDY: I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM
WITH THAT, I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH
OTHER STUFF.
>> THIS IS --
>> WE'RE NOT BREAKING THE BANK,
BY THE WAY IT PRIVATE
ENTERPRISE, BECAUSE THIS IS FOX
BUSINESS, THAT IS GOING TO MARS
OR SOME PLACE INTERESTING, WITH
PEOPLE, THEN THEY ARE NOT LIKELY
DO ITDO IT FIRST IN A SENSE IF
THEY DO BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT
SAID, WHO HAS A SPACESHIP TO GET
DLUS?
US THERE, WE DO, THEN THEY PAY
TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.
>> WILL WE DO IT BEFORE RUSSIA
AND CHINA.
>> WE ARE ACTIVE RATHER THAN
PROACTIVE, REMEMBER, SPACE
PIONEERS, WE DID PRACTICALLY
EVERYTHING FROM SPACE PROGRAM
ONLY BECAUSE RUSSIA EITHER DID
IT OR SAID THEY WOULD DO IT.
KENNEDY: BECAUSE OF VALENTINA.
>> SHE WAS UP THERE FIRST, WE
TRIED TO DO IT NEXT.
SO, WE WERE LESS PIONEERS THAN
OUR MEMORY TELL US.
KENNEDY: WE'RE UP AGAINST A HARD
BREAK AND THEY ARE GELLING
BREAK AND THEY ARE YELLING AT
ME.
>> OKAY.