Neil deGrasse Tyson

the ocean and the atmosphere in the same phrase.

NOAA is National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

And my sense was they were ocean scientists and they were atmosphere scientists.

And of course you have geologists on the land.

And then as time moved on, the interplay of these major forces on Earth's surface required you guys to play nice in the sandbox.

And then eventually we find, is it more than half of the biotic mass

on Earth is below Earth's surface, there's some staggering fraction of the mass of biology below Earth's surface, which means the geologist has to walk in the room and have something to say about that.

So, can you just reflect on the state of collaborations among the biologists, the geologists, and of course the astro-folk?

Right.

Because of course the universe doesn't care about how we have divided our sciences.

The universe is just the universe.

It's our problem that we have walls between the offices of what we study.

Well, Howard, this has been a delight for you to participate in this conversation.

I've long wanted to do a show on Bennu because it's been in the news a bit now.

So I'm glad we could speak about it with the benefit of the analysis that has been ongoing.

And just to toot the horns of scientists, I presume that

Parts of your sample return from Bennu have been shared with other labs so that whatever your results are could be verified.

Wow.

Impressive.

As science, that's how science works.