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  • Episode 079: Law and Orbit (Dun Dun)

    Episode 079: Law and Orbit (Dun Dun)

    This episode contains: Devon is a certified open water diver, 60 ft, out of air, emergency ascent, all day in a swimming pool, wet suits, breathing under water, buoyancy control device, decompression sickness, dive tables, dive computers, first world problems, life-time certification, enriched air, diving the Titanic This Week in Space: certified astronaut, atmospheres of…

  • Episode 078: The Earth Collective

    Episode 078: The Earth Collective

      This episode contains: Devon may be a little intoxicated, binge watching Rick and Morty, R2 squared and R2 ring bearer, http://www.r2d2.media-conversions.net/, Devon has a lot of free time apparently, Rick and Morty = Futurama + Archer + Back to the Future, scale and grading system issues, tease for interview Biomechanics: standing v. sitting, pro-standing…

  • Episode 077: Metroid Mindset

    Episode 077: Metroid Mindset

    This episode contains: No second chances, Fallout 4, wisdom teeth and babies, medieval dentistry, Devon is Home Alone, scuba diving lessons, Devon leans as a kid from Rescue 911 that he never wants to scuba dive, WWII wrecks, Futurama or The Little Mermaid Nature Watch: Ant colonies respond to predators as a super organism, two types…

  • Episode 076: Boldly Going back to TV

    Episode 076: Boldly Going back to TV

    This episode contains: Sitting far away, having a beer and relaxing, Steven’s Loot Crate is finally coming, Apple Watch and unwrapping videos, Fallout 4 coming out so soon! This Week In Space: most earthlike worlds haven’t been born yet, NASA’s Kepler Mission, looking into the past, we’re early in the universe, more stars to be…

  • Episode 075: The Turkinator

    Episode 075: The Turkinator

    This episode contains: High school drink, no beer, no mixers, The Quantum Entanglement or The Solution (peppermint vodka and ginger beer), Star Wars tease (that’s never paid off) This Week in Space: Gizmodo, simple design change to build a thruster to Mars, Hall Thruster, less fuel use, ion thruster, the engine of the future, just using…

  • Episode 074: A New Hope Awakens

    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…

  • Episode 073: The Back to the Future is Now

    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,…

  • Episode 072: Scratching that Itch

    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,…

  • Episode 071: From Mars to Arrakis

    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…

  • Episode 070: To Tame a Land

    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,…