Cosmic Queries – ALIENS! with Jake Roper
24 October 2025 - 49 minsWhich Alien movie would be easiest to survive? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice answer Cosmic Queries about aliens in film alongside Jake Roper, host of the YouTube channel Vsauce3 and their series “Could You Survive The Movies?”
Originally aired January 13, 2020.
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