Cigar Nerds Podcast Episode 39: Finding Francis. This week things get a little crazy and Canadian as our nerds sign up for the Weapon X program and break some fourth walls. This week we are talking about everyone’s favorite merc, Deadpool. We discuss the everything from the origins of the
The Cigar Nerds Podcast Episode 25: Mission Improbable. Your mission, if you choose to except it, is to listen to us talk about all things mission impossible. This week we take a look back at the TV series and previous movies and review the new Mission Impossible Rogue Nation. We
The Cigar Nerds Podcast Episode 23: Judgement Day. This week our nerds prepare for the eventual robot uprising by studying the Terminator films. We review the new film, Terminator Genisys, then travel back in time to stop Joe from making bad Arnold impressions. We failed. We sit down with cigar
The Cigar Nerds Podcast Episode 11: High Skool Reunion. This week we get old school, all the way back to high school. We talk common themes in school movies and see how our own school adventures compare. In beer 30, we sample the Left Hand Brewing Wake Up Dead, and
By Matthew Jackson, Source: Blastr.com A few months ago, we heard that NASA’s determined to launch some kind of new Mars mission by 2018 regardless of budget cuts. Now a proposed plan for just such a mission has been revealed, and it’s one of the most ambitious searches for Martian
By Trent Moore, Source: Blastr.com Though science fiction can help inspire us to create and strive toward new technological breakthroughs, it can also have a decidedly negative effect, at least according to one former NASA scientist: It makes people forget that rocket science is, you know, rocket science.
By Matthew Jackson, Source: Blastr.com Two weeks ago, NASA’s woes got deeper when they took a 20 percent cut to their space exploration money. That money might mean we never make it to Mars, but NASA’s not giving up on the Red Planet just yet. On Monday, the space agency
By Matthew Jackson, Source: Blastr.com The bright side to not knowing what exactly will come out of NASA next is hearing about all the ambitious ideas they’re generating over there right now. Sure, some of them might never see the light of day, but that doesn’t make them any less
BY WAYNE HARRIS-WYRICK, Source: newsok.com Last month, the International Space Station, an orbiting space laboratory as big as a football field, had to move. A piece of space junk 10 centimeters (four inches) across was aimed at it. To ensure the safety of the crew, its engines were fired for
By Jeff Spry, Source: Blastr, The final frontier got a bit more crowded today with NASA’s cosmic discovery of two Earth-size planets. Astronomers monitoring the Kepler spacecraft found the twin orbs, one as big as Earth, the other smaller than Venus, 950 light years away from our solar system. But
By Evan Ackerman, Source: DVICE.com; Of all the places in our solar system (besides Earth) where life has a real shot at being lifeish, Europa is probably at the top of the list. This is why, in defiance of the warnings in 2010: Odyssey Two, NASA may send a pair
By Evan Ackerman, Source: Dvice.com; The Voyager 1 space probe is currently about 11 billion miles from the sun. This is really, really far away: it’s three or four times farther away from the sun than Pluto is. Astronomers have been expecting Voyager to to make the transition between our
