the adler planetarium, the shed d aquarium. so if we talk about the beginning of the universe, why are we here at the art institute? shouldn't we be at the plan -- planetarium, or the field museum with the collection of fossils and meteorites. paul says think of the people who ask us as vatican scientist about the beginning of the universe, like the ones who want us to choose between the genesis and the big bang, yes says paul. most of them aren't scientists. i'm not sure that addressing addressing the questions at a scientific place like a planetarium or field museum would be all that useful. so often we divide up our time into separate camps, separate buildings. aquarium versus plan tearum work vs. play. science vs. religion. seems it's hard november from one to the other. i want to start out today in a place where science and religionen overlap, here in the art institute. you can't help seeing here there's more than one way to present reality. more than one style of painting, if you would. so humor me a for a moment. let's l

the adler planetarium to shed aquarium.ng to talk about the beginning of the universe why are we here at the art institute? shouldn't we be at the planetarium where we can watch a show to illustrate the big bang or the field museum of natural history with its collection of fossils and meteorites? paul says, think of all those people who are always asking us vatican astronomers about science and religion in the beginning of the universe. like the ones upon us to choose between genesis and the big bang bang. guests says paul. most of them aren't scientists. i'm not sure addressing the question at a scientific place like a planetarium are field museum would be all that useful. so often we divide her her time into separate camps, separate buildings. aquarium versus planetarium, work versus play, science versus religion and so forth grade sometimes it's hard to move from one to the other. i want to start out today in a place where science and religion can overlap here in the art institute. you can't help seeing there's more than

there are certain things you can see every week you can go to the museum visit the planetarium, and we bring in bars and a deejay or band. it is a different feel from during the day, something different every week. tonight , we have beer and music. -- tonight we have great beer and music. it is beer week. we have a dozen local brewers in african hall. we have a deejays to set up throughout the museum and a live performance at 9:00 p.m. tonight. >> what has been your favorite part as a participant or as an observer? >> my favorite part is to walk around the aquarium in to see people with a drink in their hands, getting to know maybe somebody new, may be looking for a day, or chatting with friends. there jellyfish. i mean, they are beautiful. >> the culmination of the animals. >> it is very impressive. we do not have this at home. >> tell us a little about some of the spider's we see here on display. >> at the california academy of sciences, there is a very large collection of preserved and live specimens, which are the evidence about evolution. we have the assassin spiders which are spi

and the director of the hayden planetarium. >> the closer you are to a strong source of gravity the slowers relative to people you left at home. so if you're going to commit to a visit of a planet where time is ticking more slowly, you have to be prepared for the consequences of that. how much more slowly is it ticking? and what are the ages of your kids relative to you when you go back-- >> before i go down that, the line we've got to view time as a resource, like ox jeb. >> as a commodity. >> absolutely. >> it's a great idea. >> jon: the blond guy didn't what neil was talking about. please welcome back to the program neil degrasse tyson. ( cheers and applause ) young man! please! what an exciting time. >> oh man. >> jon: so nice to see you. >> how you doing man. >> jon: what an exciting time to be and you an astrophysicist-- >> you're leaning in here. man, okay. >> jon: let me ask you this. are we going to live on mars? >> i-- as far i can tell, no time soon. >> jon: no time. >> yeah, because mars is-- you know people want throog and hang out. and you have to remind them that you can't b

. >> good evening and welcome to the adler planetarium. i'm dr. grace chase. i'm an astronomer here and also very pleased and honored to be able to present to you tonight's speaker, brother guy consolmagno. brother guy is

. >> good evening and welcome to the adler planetarium. i'm dr. grace chase. and honored to be able to present to you tonight's speaker, brother guy consolmagno. brother guy is

he's the director of the hayden planetarium at new york's museum of natural history and he's here withboth. >> good morning, good morning. >> the podcast is in its sixth year. for those who haven't heard it what are you going to be putting on television? >> well it's the tv version of the podcast and radio show is basically just a tv version of it. i don't say just because it's got the set that we're on and i have to be better groomed to do the tv than i ever had to do for the radio show. >> you're going to be there in your sweats. >> right. >> which by the way that's how he comes to the radio studio. he looks a mess. >> so this show is a blend of science, popular culture and -- >> comedy. >> why comedy? >> oh because i -- >> i'm glad to see we left him speechless. >> comedy -- believe it or not, first of all any serious comedian is going to be a closeted nerd. that's all there is to it. >> you're a secret geek? >> it's no secret anymore. anybody who listens to "startalk" knows. >> we tease it out of him. >> right. i'm a full-blown geek now and i'm proud of it. but yeah. if you're a co