From the Vault: Five Reasons to Never Take Your Space Helmet Off
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.4 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2019
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
You've consumed enough science fiction to know something the average red shirt doesn't: Never take your space helmet off on a foreign planet. But if you're still tempted to breathe deep the gathering gloom, how about five compelling scientific reasons not to? Join Robert and Joe as they discuss "Alien: Covenant" and explore some very compelling biological and radiological reasons to remain helmeted on an alien hell world. (Originally published May 25, 2017)
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| 1:42.4 | Hey you, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam and I'm Jim McCormick and |
| 1:46.8 | it's Saturday, time to go into the old vault for a classic episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind. |
| 1:50.6 | This one was originally published in May of 2017. It was called Five Reasons to Never Take Your |
| 1:56.9 | Space Helmet Off and I remember why we did this episode is because we went to the theater to see |
| 2:01.3 | alien covenant. That's right. Yeah, which I haven't watched again since the theater, but I'm |
| 2:07.7 | expecting actually despite the bad reviews, it probably holds up pretty well as a new version of |
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