Episode 30: We're Just Standing Outside the Aliens' Planet with a Boombox | E1 & E2 of Another Life

We’re back! Caitlin finally edited the episode! In fact, you might say that this episode was Lost … on Caitlin’s Hard Drive. In this episode, Caitlin and Nicole are joined again by Caitlin’s long-suffering brother Ryan to discuss episodes 6 and 7 of Lost in Space. (Stars alive, when will we get through this series? How much more can I take? [sobs internally] ) Join us in this episode to discuss black holes, tar pits, and puzzling through what the heck the writers were trying to accomplish with Dr. Smith.Find the articles for the episode, as well as several outtakes, here.Find us all on Twitter:Caitlin: twitter.com/CaitlinVanasseNicole: twitter.com/NicoleLucklessRyan: twitter.com/ryanvanasseTNHSW Podcast: twitter.com/TNHSWpodTNHSW on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tnhswpodthatsnotscience.comKaleidoscope Media Network:KMN on Twitter: twitter.com/KaleidoNetworkKMN on Instagram: www.instagram.com/kaleidoscopemedianetworkKMN email: [email protected]’s Johnny: twitter.com/HeresjohnnycastWizard Studies: twitter.com/WizardStudies

It turns out that Caitlin and Nicole have multiple rocket scientist friends! Longtime friend of the podcast Space Nicole joins our hosts along with newtime friend of the podcast Grant to discuss the Nolan space behemoth, Interstellar. There is … a lot to unpack in this movie. Some of the science is surprisingly good, which makes sense considering that Nolan consulted with actual physicists during the production of the film (Flash writers, take notes). Some of the science is, well, odd, to say the least. Join our crew of intrepid science friends as they journey into a discussion of rockets, docking, relativity, time, black holes, whatever the heck “the blight” is, and the possibly horrible truth behind this secret science program headed by a bunch of all-American scientists(?)Also, Nicole came up for an idea for a TARS and Cooper-themed spin-off television show, complete with theme song, because of course she did. Does anyone know someone at Netflix we can pitch this to? #TARSandCoopFind the articles for the episode here.Find us all on Twitter:Caitlin: twitter.com/CaitlinVanasseNicole: twitter.com/NicoleLucklessTNHSW Podcast: twitter.com/TNHSWpodGrant’s blog: https://quietevangelism.blogspot.comTNHSW on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tnhswpodthatsnotscience.comKaleidoscope Media Network:KMN on Twitter: twitter.com/KaleidoNetworkKMN on Instagram: www.instagram.com/kaleidoscopemedianetworkKMN email: [email protected]’s Johnny: twitter.com/HeresjohnnycastWizard Studies: twitter.com/WizardStudies

We have come to a movie that is apparently somewhat infamous in the scientific community for its terrible and ridiculous science: The Core. Patricia joins us once again to discuss how plausible it would be that the Earth’s core would stop spinning, that we could drill down to the core, and that we could restart it with nuclear weapons!If your guess was, wow, that sounds insanely implausible, ding ding ding, you got it right!If you thought, huh, that sounds like something that is a very likely problem but also very fixable with nuclear weapons, I am not sure how to help you.Find the articles for the episode here.Find us all on Twitter:Caitlin: twitter.com/CaitlinVanasseNicole: twitter.com/NicoleLucklessPatricia: twitter.com/Gravity_PatTNHSW Podcast: twitter.com/TNHSWpodTNHSW on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tnhswpodthatsnotscience.comKaleidoscope Media Network:KMN on Twitter: twitter.com/KaleidoNetworkKMN on Instagram: www.instagram.com/kaleidoscopemedianetworkKMN email: [email protected]’s Johnny: twitter.com/HeresjohnnycastWizard Studies: twitter.com/WizardStudies

Well … this episode ended up being a bit of a mess for reasons that are explained therein. But you know what? It kind of fits because we’re covering episodes 1 and 2 of Another Life, and this show is a lot of a mess. We’re joined by our longtime podcast friend Space Nicole for the ride. In this episode we discuss the whole gamut of crazy science: - How dark matter isn’t a scary cloud - How pigeons navigate with but don’t produce infrasound - Why space helmets don’t have a retractable visor - And more! But mostly, we’re still confused why Niko didn’t tell her crew that she killed a man because he was trying to murder her and not simply because “it had to be done.”Find the articles for the episode here.Find us all on Twitter:Caitlin: twitter.com/CaitlinVanasseNicole Prime: twitter.com/NicoleLucklessSpace Nicole: twitter.com/SpaceAgNicoleTNHSW Podcast: twitter.com/TNHSWpodTNHSW on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tnhswpodthatsnotscience.comKaleidoscope Media Network:KMN on Twitter: twitter.com/KaleidoNetworkKMN on Instagram: www.instagram.com/kaleidoscopemedianetworkKMN email: [email protected]’s Johnny: twitter.com/HeresjohnnycastWizard Studies: twitter.com/WizardStudies

You mission, should you choose to accept it, is to listen to this podcast episode in which we discuss all of the ridiculous science in Mission Impossible: Fallout, a movie that seems to know as much about plutonium as I know about Black Sabbath — which is to say, basically nothing other than the fact that heavy metal is involved. And, of course, because we’re discussing plutonium, we are joined by longtime friend of the podcast and nuclear scientist, Madicken! Because this isn’t just the plutonium podcast, we also talk about the logistics of HALO jumps and RFID tags.Oh, and Nicole wrote another insane EDM song based on the vocal stylings of Madicken sampled during this episode. It’s in the episode, and you can also find it on the blog post for this episode.Find the articles for the episode here.Find us all on Twitter:Caitlin: twitter.com/CaitlinVanasseNicole: twitter.com/NicoleLucklessMadicken: twitter.com/munkiumTNHSW Podcast: twitter.com/TNHSWpodTNHSW on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tnhswpodthatsnotscience.comKaleidoscope Media Network:KMN on Twitter: twitter.com/KaleidoNetworkKMN on Instagram: www.instagram.com/kaleidoscopemedianetworkKMN email: [email protected]’s Johnny: twitter.com/HeresjohnnycastWizard Studies: twitter.com/WizardStudies

To the chagrin of everyone involved except, perhaps, Caitlin, we have returned to cover three more episodes of the Netflix prestige show Lost in Space. Caitlin and Nicole are also joined by Ryan and Brady from their sister podcast Out of Contreks to discuss all that … didn’t … happen in these three episodes. Believe me, there was a ton of ranting that I cut out, though some of that has been preserved in the outtakes on the blog post for this episode.Find the articles for the episode, as well as several outtakes, here.Find us all on Twitter:Caitlin: twitter.com/CaitlinVanasseNicole: twitter.com/NicoleLucklessRyan: twitter.com/RTHowitzerTNHSW Podcast: twitter.com/TNHSWpodTNHSW on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tnhswpodthatsnotscience.comKaleidoscope Media Network:KMN on Twitter: twitter.com/KaleidoNetworkKMN on Instagram: www.instagram.com/kaleidoscopemedianetworkKMN email: [email protected]’s Johnny: twitter.com/HeresjohnnycastWizard Studies: twitter.com/WizardStudies

Find the articles for the episode here.Find us all on Twitter:Caitlin: twitter.com/CaitlinVanasseNicole: twitter.com/NicoleLucklessDeboki: twitter.com/okidoki_bokiTNHSW Podcast: twitter.com/TNHSWpodTNHSW on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tnhswpodthatsnotscience.comKaleidoscope Media Network:KMN on Twitter: twitter.com/KaleidoNetworkKMN on Instagram: www.instagram.com/kaleidoscopemedianetworkKMN email: [email protected]’s Johnny: twitter.com/HeresjohnnycastWizard Studies: twitter.com/WizardStudies

Welcome to the apocalypse, my friends.Wait, that sounds really bad with everyone currently in self isolation from COVID-19. We at That’s Not How Science Works don’t actually think we’re in the middle of a real apocalypse. The current pandemic will eventually pass, so hang in there! Wash your hands! Self isolate! Don’t touch your face! But in this episode we’re joined by Larry and Justin from the Here’s Johnny podcast to discuss zombies and viruses. You know, the classic fictional apocalypse.This is a little bit of a different episode because we aren’t discussing a specific piece of media in this episode. Instead, Larry and Justin are here to provide some context on zombies since, you know, Nicole and Caitlin are babies when it comes to horror. Then, we discuss the science of viruses and vaccines in three zombie movies in particular: I Am Legend, World War Z, and 28 Days Later. And we also end up talking a bit about coronaviruses and COVID-19 because it was a bit inevitable.Find the articles for the episode here.Find us all on Twitter:Caitlin: twitter.com/CaitlinVanasseNicole: twitter.com/NicoleLucklessLarry: twitter.com/beaverlaJustin: twitter.com/picklethingTNHSW Podcast: twitter.com/TNHSWpodTNHSW on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tnhswpodthatsnotscience.comKaleidoscope Media Network:KMN on Twitter: twitter.com/KaleidoNetworkKMN on Instagram: www.instagram.com/kaleidoscopemedianetworkKMN email: [email protected]’s Johnny: twitter.com/HeresjohnnycastWizard Studies: twitter.com/WizardStudies

Caitlin and Nicole are joined by Nicole’s friend Patricia, who is a geophysicist and studies volcanoes. (No, Patricia is not a vulcanologist. That’s a different thing. Nicole already made that mistake.) Per Patricia’s request, the group has gathered together to discuss the cheesy 1997 disaster movie, creatively named "Volcano”. Patricia is here to answer all of your lava-related questions? Can volcanoes just shoot out of the ground like daisies? How hard is it to outrun a lava flow? If you step into lava, will you melt into it just like the Wicked Witch of the West?These may all sound like stupid questions, but they all literally come up in the movie Volcano.Find the articles for the episode here.Find us all on Twitter:Caitlin: twitter.com/CaitlinVanasseNicole: twitter.com/NicoleLucklessPatricia: twitter.com/Gravity_PatTNHSW Podcast: twitter.com/TNHSWpodTNHSW on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tnhswpodthatsnotscience.comKaleidoscope Media Network:KMN on Twitter: twitter.com/KaleidoNetworkKMN on Instagram: www.instagram.com/kaleidoscopemedianetworkKMN email: [email protected]’s Johnny: twitter.com/HeresjohnnycastWizard Studies: twitter.com/WizardStudies

Heeeeeeeeeeey, we haven’t forgotten about the fact that we have a podcast! In this episode Nicole and Caitlin celebrate our one-year anniversary, which was … some … time ago. But hey, it’s our birthday, so we get to celebrate it the way we want to, right? Right? RIGHT?At any rate, since lots of people voted in our “Which TV show should we watch next?” poll but didn’t actually send us any questions to answer for our anniversary celebration, Nicole and Caitlin discuss some questions that Caitlin thought up — questions related to science, to our interests, and so on. We also discuss the cutest Science Corner topic of all time and, drumroll please, announce the results of said poll! Was Caitlin happy with the results? Was Nicole happy with the results? This was a zero sum game, with no way for both our hosts to be happy. Listen, and find out! Or at least skip ahead to the end, and find out! Either way, don’t miss the best science corner ever!Find the rat study article here.Find a report on the rabbit cuteness study here.Find us all on Twitter:Caitlin: twitter.com/CaitlinVanasseNicole: twitter.com/NicoleLucklessTNHSW Podcast: twitter.com/TNHSWpodTNHSW on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tnhswpodthatsnotscience.comKaleidoscope Media Network:KMN on Twitter: twitter.com/KaleidoNetworkKMN on Instagram: www.instagram.com/kaleidoscopemedianetworkKMN email: [email protected]’s Johnny: twitter.com/HeresjohnnycastWizard Studies: twitter.com/WizardStudies