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EPISODE #18: SCI-FI

Our hosts are right out of this world this week, well, almost! Tyler makes the trek to the Mojave desert and gets a rare chance to step right inside the largest antenna at NASA's Deep Space Network Control Headquarters.

Once inside the space-age looking dish, which is about ten stories off the ground and weighs about 12 million pounds, Tyler learns how to lock the antenna into place so it can receive signals from a spacecraft that's more than 90 million miles away from Earth. The space scientists at NASA will then show Tyler exactly how that data is received from so far away and what they are able to learn about space missions from the information gathered by these gigantic dishes.

Vanessa gets her dose of science-fiction when she pays the creators of the SPAWN comic book a visit in their Arizona offices. Started back in 1992, SPAWN is now one of the coolest superheroes on the planet with the comic book translated into 19 languages and read in more than 100 countries around the world.

The SPAWN artists will let Vanessa watch them work and actually teach her how to do the inking-in of a comic panel. She'll discover how a computer is used to colour the comics and then gets a chance to try her own hand at creating her own science-fiction masterpiece.

Charlie gets himself in a knot and all upside-down when he teaches us how to defy gravity. Better eat lunch after this segment!

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