I just saw the premier of his new show, Bad Universe, and it was lots of fun…and he's a very entertaining host. I do have a few questions, though.
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Why does he hate Sydney so much?
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He was blowing things up right and left, and he was just talking about little rocks. What's he going to do when he has shows about black holes or supernovae?
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Hey, where was the biology? Most species don't go extinct by way of astronomical disasters, so the explosions are a bit unrepresentative of how the universe is likely to destroy us.
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