Tim Lloyd
Co-Host of The Monte Hall Effect
Tim works on the Lunar Permanence team at Blue Origin. He lives in the Seattle area with his family.
In his spare time, Tim can be found renovating his 1925 Craftsman home, or learning historical swordfighting.
Tim's favorite movies include Annihilation, Sunshine, Mad Max: Fury Road, Let the Right One In, Mandy, RRR, Pan's Labyrinth, Suspiria (both), The Thing (1982), Princess Mononoke, and Blade Runner.
Tim Lloyd has hosted 17 Episodes.
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1: Sunshine
April 16th, 2021 | 1 hr 26 mins
Tim and Tola talk about the 2007 Danny Boyle film "Sunshine." A bunch of people travel to the Sun with a nuclear bomb the size of Manhattan. What could possibly go wrong? Some of the things we talk about: engineers vs scientists, risk analysis, what happens if you suddenly find yourself in outer space (tl;dr: you don't explode), why you shouldn't cut holes in your heat shield, purposely dabbling with opium when you're part of an Arctic expedition (tl;dr: bad idea), the limits of realism, and the tradeoffs you have to make as a filmmaker between scientific accuracy and dramatic necessity. Tola tells a Polish space joke (it's OK, he's Polish.)