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Titre
Date
Durée
Le Voyage dans la Lune
26 Sep 2026
00:54:51
In this episode of "Popcorn Science," we discuss the 1902 film Le Voyage dans la Lune.
Topics
Science Gripes (5:36)
Space gun?
"Raspberry jam" problem
600 km long gun
Pressure suits, life support?
Breathable air? Snow? Aliens?
Anthropomorphic... everything?
Return trajectory... by falling off a cliff.
Two solar eclipses?
SCIENCE Shine (21:30)
Academic Dress
Man in the Moon
Mythology
Ice and caves on the Moon!
Celebration parade.
Earth rise
What did we know about the Moon in 1902 (36:00)
Robert Hook (1665): Moon made of rock, modified by volcanism.
In this episode of "Popcorn Science," discuss the 2026 film Project Hail Mary
The Martian
14 Jun 2026
01:17:55
In this episode of "Popcorn Science," we discuss the 2015 film The Martian
The Abyss
30 May 2026
01:03:11
In this episode of "Popcorn Science," discuss the 1989 film The Abyss
Close Encounters
17 May 2026
01:03:29
In this episode of "Popcorn Science," discuss the 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Expanse
03 May 2026
01:17:04
Jurassic Park
19 Apr 2026
01:00:27
God creates dinosaurs, God destroys dinosaurs. God creates Man, Man destroys God. Man creates podcasts. Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the Earth.
In this episode of "Popcorn Science," discuss the 1993 film Jurassic Park
Topics
Science Gripes (5:30)
DNA from mosquitoes = impossible. Half life is too short.
Humans cannot produce lysine either, we're alright.
Not "billions of strands" in a drop of blood.
T-Rex, from brain casts: Good sense of smell, vision, and hearing... sitting still not a good strategy.
Velociraptors: not so big, not so fast.
Humans can probably outrun dinosaurs (19:15)
$112k/yr. Enough for fieldwork?
What do dinosaurs sound like? Mating tortoises.
Science Shine (27:34)
Dinosaurs related to birds, checks out.
Animals fail to show up at the safari ride.
Cloning is a thing, sequencing older samples produce good science
Mosquitoes did exist contemporaneously with dinosaurs.
Chicxulub impact described well
Dinosaur gizzards / gastroliths.
Sex switching does happen in some species.
Chaos Theory
Of it's time (40:39)
What could have been
James Cameron: Dark Jurassic Park
Jim Carey as Malcolm?
Groundbreaking CGI, but also practical effects.
Clothing is firmly rooted in the 90s
CRTs and floppy disks, adjusted refresh rates.
"That's not what unix looks like". This was an actual unix system called IRIX running a real program called fsn ("File System Navigator for cyberspace").
90s hacker tropes and fat shaming
John Williams: Wrote the score for everything in the 70s, 80s and 90s
A new life awaits you in the Popcorn Science Podcast. The chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure!
In this episode of "Popcorn Science," discuss the 1982 cult classic Blade Runner. Catherine and John have seen things you people wouldn't believe. If you don't listen to this episode, all those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
In this episode of "Popcorn Science," John and Catherine hear nothing but the rain while discussing the 2003 Battlestar Galactica miniseries. So grab your gun and bring the cat in.
In this episode of "Popcorn Science," John and Catherine discuss the science behind the 2018 movie "Clara." Clara tells the sotry of a down-on-his-luck
astronomer who succeeds in making a momentous discovery with the help of a mysterious artist. Featured in the Toronto International Film Festival, this
movie has a familiar science advisor - Dr. John Moores!
In this episode of "Popcorn Science," John and Catherine discuss the science behind the movie everyone loves to hate: "The Core"! First released
in 2003, this movie explores what would happen if the Earth's outer core stopped spinning, and sends a courageous group of "terranauts" down to
start it up again.
In this episode of "Popcorn Science," John and Catherine discuss the science behind two Star Trek episodes: "The Trouble with Tribbles" (1967) from
The Original Series and "Trials and Tribble-ations" (1996) from Deep Space Nine. In both episodes, the crews try to grapple with an outbreak of a
number of fuzzy spheroids known as Tribbles, with the DS9 crew coming from the future to help out Kirk and Spock!
Contact
31 May 2025
01:01:54
In this episode of "Popcorn Science," John and Catherine discuss the
science behind the 1997 movie "Contact".
Based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Carl Sagan, Contact
explores what would happen if humanity were to receive a message from
an extraterrestrial civilization.
In this episode of "Popcorn Science," John and Catherine discuss the science behind the 2013 movie "Ender's Game".
Based on the 1985 novel by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game follows a young boy as he learns to defend the
Earth from an invasion by a mysterious alien species known as the Formics.
In our first episode of "Popcorn Science," John and Catherine discuss the science behind The X-Files two-parter "Tunguska/Terma".
These episodes first aired in November 1996, and follow Mulder and Scully around the world as they try to get their hands on a rock filled with
a mysterious alien oil.