This episode of scienceTASTIC was scheduled to be a blockbuster, but due to reasons we fully explain (and detail in photograph) we had to settle for it just being pretty fantastic. In honor of the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing it's also fairly space-centric, and Mark kicks things off with new images of the landing site. Mike briefly goes all Steve-Austin-bionic-eyeball* on us before Joe returns to the moon with some crisp, clean HD footage of the Apollo mission. Factor in chimps that can ape, autonomous rovers* and computing power from video games, and, yeah, 022 is pretty fantastic.

What we didn't get to: another rover, a new concept in gaming, and an ejection seat that will hopefully never get used.

*Popular Science, July 2009

Summertime, America's birthday, and another episode of scienceTASTIC... bring a dish and join in the celebration! Mark kicks off the festivities with a fine selection of cheese and crackers, and a trip around the world in a solar plane. Everyone goes wild over Mike's Firecracker Hamburgers (with pepper jack cheese and pico de gallo) and his story about making farmers go green using social pressures. Joe spoons out a mound of chunky potato salad onto your plate, with a dollop of not-so-quiet hybrid cars on the side.  Finish off with (non)self help books, a buch of like-minded people, an apologetic Vatican, and a delicious trifle with pound cake and fresh berries and you have yourself a party.  Who wants to run through the sprinkler?

What we didn't get to: automated cars and El Nino 2.0.