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Confronting Neil with Our Burning Questions… Yet Again!
StarTalk·Jan 3, 2026
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Cosmic rays act as an additional source of heating and ionization that contributes to the evolution of molecular clouds and galaxy development.
“but the cosmic rays that we've been talking about they can penetrate into the molecular clouds deeper than anything else okay and provide a source of heat and what we've noticed is that molecular clouds are a little hotter than one might predict they should be really coolor there and so there seems ”
StarTalk · Feb 2025 · 1 episode · 667K views on this topic
Computer glitches in airplanes should be addressed through engineering redundancy rather than blaming cosmic rays for single incidents.
“If you're gonna blame it on the universe, it would be happening to way more than one plane.”
StarTalk · Jan 2026 · 2 episodes · 1.6M views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
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