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  • Episode 118: Prizzly Bears

    Episode 118: Prizzly Bears

    This episode contains: Long days, word fighting, Dark Tower, “long days and pleasant nights”, secret words, interesting sayings, Brooklyn, super Irish names, Terminator Genesis, stupid viewers, Steven digs time travel, listing the Terminator movies, shape shifting, the machines of Terminator, Steven reads Wiki, happy birthday Star Trek Human Blood Lasers: Components of a laser, glowing sea creature proteins, replacement…

  • Episode 117: Shellfish Wishes and Centauri Dreams

    Episode 117: Shellfish Wishes and Centauri Dreams

    This episode contains: Skype problems, Devon is quiet, the guys are not in the same room, Steven doesn’t know geography, the coastline paradox, how map makers get their +/-, squiggles, measuring the coastline is confusing, now Steven agrees, Devon faces is mortal enemy, Anal Cavity, petty lawyers, sleazy lawyers, Devon wins at gambling Nature Watch: People are enhancing the…

  • Episode 116: Pale Red Dot Data

    Episode 116: Pale Red Dot Data

    This episode contains: Devon is sick, taking Airborne, there is a kid in the background, sleep is good, medicine doesn’t work, doing nothing is good, killing time, Hell or Highwater, banks are crappy, modern westerns, The Nice Guys, Steven likes his blu-rays, renting vs. buying This week in space: Unpacking the story, new planet, Proxima Centari is dim,…

  • Episode 115: Corvids of Corruption

    Episode 115: Corvids of Corruption

    This episode contains: pressing buttons, jokes with no payoff, Devon tends toward sweet things, Devon is watching HarmonQuest, Rick and Morty, Sci-Fi, RPG’s, excited texts Bird Brains: Races for Cheetos, science people, Mag Pies vs. Crows, crows are magpies body guards, beaker Cheetos, crows are cautious, bad jokes, Steven reads his article, metal words, Steven can’t hear Devon, registering…

  • Episode 114: The McConaughey Solution

    Episode 114: The McConaughey Solution

    This episode contains: Definitions for Steven, lots of nothing, Witcher 3, No Mans Sky, 18 quintillion planets, survival exploration, gobbledygook is racist, mixing colors We are all gonna die: We are using all of our resources too fast, ecological debt day, Steven reads his article, Steven does not have excel, too many people, Dazed and Confused, transmuting matter, we’re…

  • Episode 113: The Mars Thing

    Episode 113: The Mars Thing

    This episode contains: Devon has a lot of passports, passports are alien to Steven, hole punching old people This week in space: Io’s collapse, volcanic activity in space, how do you determine the most volcanic object in space? Io’s is cold, Devon has trouble talking, colonizing planets may be dangerous, tidally locked planets, super clusters, expansion of the…

  • Episode 112: Triangular Bodies

    Episode 112: Triangular Bodies

    This episode contains: Old school intro, Devon gets drunk, Russian River, Steven has bad jokes, day drinking, rope swings, knots to the crotch, busted eardrums, lost Giants hat, mystery bruises, rope swing disasters, Steven was in the Bay Area, fact checking the museum, trolling SFP, Stranger Things Cryo-Medicine: ALS Ice bucket challenge, Steven didn’t donate money, Hawking has…

  • Episode 111: Monkey Music

    Episode 111: Monkey Music

    This episode contains: Nice Guys, 5 out of 5, Ryan Gosling, Monkey Tools: different stones used for cashew processing, “hammer stones,” technological development, PBS video series, monkey’s hunting footage https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160711150920.htm Symphony of Destruction: Why we like the music we do, cultural influence, western music theory, dissonance, consonance,  testing different populations, finger nails on a chalkboard,…

  • Episode 110: Orbital Obfuscation

    Episode 110: Orbital Obfuscation

    This episode contains: Independence Day, fireworks, buying guns and bongs, Blue Apron, Tinkle Bell Peppers, Kurzgesagt In a Nut Shell This Week in Space #1: Origin of Mars’ Moons, captured asteroids, impact with Mars, geological composition, inside gas giants, Juno Mission  http://gizmodo.com/a-badass-new-theory-on-the-origin-of-mars-moons-1783059254 This Week in Space #2: problems with space junk, testing satellite to collect…

  • Episode 109: Swiss Army Arm

    Episode 109: Swiss Army Arm

    This episode contains: Stephen King, How Did This Get Made?, Maximum Overdrive crazy trailer, Trucks (short story) This Week in Space: “I want to die on Mars but not impact” Elon Musk, growing plants in Moon/Martian soil, heavy metals in soil, amount of metal absorbed by plants, metric and imperial system songs https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160627095316.htm Let’s Get…