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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 from BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44771942 ABOUT TIME: Andi joins us to recommend the British time travel romantic comedy ‘About Time.’SEE YOU YESTERDAY: Special guest Lauren Du Pree 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 up in the episode.

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131: Space Meat, DS9 “A Man Alone” and “Past Prologue”

This week on the show: SPACE NEWS: Synthetic meat has been grown in space for the first time. Would you eat space meat or is it time to go vegetarian? DOUG SPACE NINE: We discuss the episodes “A Man Alone” and “Past Prologue” from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 1, asking the hard questions like what happened to Ibudan’s clone and was Garak in this episode?

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130: Lunar Space Elevator, Firefly #7 Jaynestown

This week on the show:SPACE NEWS: Scientists are proposing the construction of a lunar space elevator to lower the cost of traveling from Earth to the moon. Alexandria and Jesse debate whether or not this sounds like a good idea. Check out the full article from The Observer here: https://observer.com/2019/09/moon-space-elevator-lunar-exploration-columbia-study/ FIREFLY: Jayne returns to discuss the hero of Canton in Firefly episode 7 “Jaynestown.” We examine the moral issues present in the episode, and get 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 4, Flash season 2, Legends of Tomorrow season 1 and Supergirl season 1.

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126: Space Nerds Relaunch! Aron Eisenberg, Moon Jelly, Firefly “Our Mrs. Reynolds”

SciFi with Jesse Mercury is relaunching as Space Nerds! Jayne, Alexandria and Doug officially join the crew as we blast off into this new podcasting adventure. This week our new Space News segment features Alexandria discussing the discovry of a strange jelly on the moon. Doug and Jesse discuss the tragic passing of Aron Eisenberg, who portrayed Nog on Star Trek Deep Space Nine, and then Jayne joins us for an in depth look at Read more…

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