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157: Interstellar Comet Breakup, Black Mirror ‘The Waldo Moment’ and ‘White Christmas’

This week on the Space Nerds podcast: SPACE NEWS: (starts at 9:52) Interstellar Comet 21/Borisov may have come to our solar system to die! Learn more in the article from sciencealert.com: https://www.sciencealert.com/interstellar-comet-2i-borisov-seems-to-have-come-here-only-to-die BLACK MIRROR: (Starts at 14:48) Our episode by episode journey through Black Mirror continues! This week we face Read more…

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150: NASA’s Muscular Mice, HBO’s Watchmen

This week on the Space Nerds podcast: Alexandria, Doug, Jayne and Jesse are all together for a special discussion of HBO’s Watchmen!SPACE NEWS: (starts at 1:55) NASA’s genetically engineered mice designed to teach us about living in zero gravity have returned from space! Read the original article from Futurism.com: https://futurism.com/the-byte/nasa-muscular-mice-return-earth-space Read more…

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145: YOU Could Move to Mars, DS9 ‘The Passenger’ & ‘Move Along Home’

This week on the Space Nerds podcast: SPACE NEWS: (Starts at 3:13) Elon Musk wants to send a million people to Mars by 2050. He plans to offer loans and jobs to anyone who wants to go, and is currently building a fleet of Starships to get us there. Alexandria, Read more…

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141: Space Germs, Firefly #8 ‘Out of Gas’

This week on the Space Nerds podcast: PATREON LAUNCH: The Space Nerds Patreon campaign has launched! Jesse and Alexandria break down everything you need to know.SPACE NEWS: (starts at 12:20) NASA’s protocol to keep our microbes from spreading through the solar system are woefully out of date. Jesse and Alexandria Read more…

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139: Mushroom House on Mars, Black Mirror ‘Be Right Back’

This week on the Space Nerds podcast: SPACE NEWS: Would you live in a mushroom house on Mars? Jesse beams in Doug to discuss a whole new type of space mushrooms. Read the original article from Futurism.com: https://futurism.com/the-byte/nasa-grow-moon-base-mushrooms BLACK MIRROR: Alexandria and Jesse break down ‘Be Right Back,’ in which Read more…

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135: Living on Mars, Black Mirror ‘The Entire History of You’

This week on the show: SPACE NEWS: We discuss what it would take to live on Mars, and where we could get the resources. Turns out we’d have to get over our aversion to eating bugs! Check out the original article from Space.com: https://www.space.com/how-feed-one-million-mars-colonists.html You can also check out the Read more…

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133: Time Travel Special! About Time, See You Yesterday

This week we have a special episode about time travel! We start things off by checking in with Alexandria on a comment about last week’s episode, then we jump into the space-time continuum. SPACE NEWS: Is time travel possible? We explore the current theories and experiments taking place. Full article Read more…

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132: Space Junk, Black Mirror ’15 Million Merits’

This week on the show: SPACE NEWS: Did you know Earth has a space junk problem? We discuss the growing issue of orbital debris clogging the space around our planet. BLACK MIRROR: This week we gush over ’15 Million Merits,’ breaking down the plot and examining the societal issues brought Read more…

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129: New NASA Spacesuits, Arrowverse Year 4

This week on the show: SPACE NEWS: NASA has unveiled new spacesuits designed to be more comfortable for women, in preparation of the first women to walk on the moon. ARROWVERSE YEAR 4: We continue our massive TV watching project with the fourth year of Arrowverse shows, including Arrow season Read more…

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