Month: October 2015
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Episode 074: A New Hope Awakens
This episode contains: Crashing TIE fighter, trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Star Trek Beyond, Star Wars through the generations, ubiquity of Star Wars, tickets and servers crashing, Football/Star Wars tie-in?, bringing back fans that hated the prequels, playing it safe/similarities to A New Hope, Rey in Star Destroyer hanger, The First Order, who’s…
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Episode 073: The Back to the Future is Now
This episode contains: Delorean doors, Back to the Future Day!, Facebook hoaxes, Biff and Trump, first time watching BTTF, election night, our first sound tracks This Week in Space: NASA’s Kepler Mission, star brightness dropping strangely, scientists baffled!, debris, comets, Oort Cloud, Dyson Sphere, aliens?, radio waves, Calculating God, advanced civilizations retreating to the matrix,…
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Episode 072: Scratching that Itch
This episode contains: No harmonica, dentists and pain, taking it in the mouth, Wild Card game, Devon may be drunk, our extremely tenuous connection to the Nobel prize in physics, neutrinos, SNOLAB, Steve Maguire, https://www.snolab.ca/ Tech Upgrades: The $1 Billion City Nobody Calls Home, full scale town for tech testing, sensors, self-driving cars, energy technology testing,…
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Episode 071: From Mars to Arrakis
This episode contains: Hobo harmonica from Germany, strange recording date/time, having a productive weekend with toys, buying keyboard or drums, homemade steak dinner This Week In Space: water on Mars, Reoccurring Slope Lineae (RSL), spectroscopy, death metal band scientist, Mar’s polar icecaps, Steven quizzes Devon, how much water?, history of Mars, Elon Musk’s plan to…
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Episode 070: To Tame a Land
This episode contains: Carl’s Jr., hamburgers, crazy pizza toppings, TMNT, Gilgamesh Brewing, X-Wing Miniature Game Force Awakens, Star Wars: Armada Evolutionarily Speaking: Republican campaign and evolution, hermit crabs making rash decisions, Scott Walker, Trump http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150911140925.htm Nature Watch: watermelon crossed with tomato, eggplants and Blue Apron, grafting plants, hybrid fruits http://io9.com/woman-fools-local-news-into-believing-she-crossed-a-wat-1732630288 Sci-Fi: the new Muppets show,…