EPISODE · Oct 28, 2015
Lost in Science Fiction: Back to the Future, Eternal Sunshine & Star Wars
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Celebrate Halloween the Lost in Science way with our annual Lost in Science Fiction episode!SPECULATE on the science of the Force and whether, being a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, we could actually watch Star Wars: Episode VII—The Force Awakens if we had a powerful enough telescope.PICK APART the feasibility of memory erasure as seen in Michel Gondry's romance/sci-fi/comedy/drama Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.WEIGH UP what Back to the Future 2 got right and wrong about the far off distant future present recent past of 21 October 2015... Do people today actually wear two ties at once?
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Celebrate Halloween the Lost in Science way with our annual Lost in Science Fiction episode!SPECULATE on the science of the Force and whether, being a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, we could actually watch Star Wars: Episode VII—The Force Awakens if we had a powerful enough telescope.PICK APART the feasibility of memory erasure as seen in Michel Gondry's romance/sci-fi/comedy/drama Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.WEIGH UP what Back to the Future 2 got right and wrong about the far off distant future present recent past of 21 October 2015... Do people today actually wear two ties at once?
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