Tola Marts
Co-Host of The Monte Hall Effect
Tola is a Senior Director on the New Shepard program at Blue Origin. He married his college sweetheart in 1992, and they have two wonderful twentysomething kids.
In his spare time, Tola builds and operates drones and motorcycles, and he is a licensed FAA UAS (drone) pilot.
Tola's favorite movies include Solaris, 2001, Mad Max: Fury Road, Blade Runner, Spirited Away, Lone Star, The Farewell, Lord of the Rings, Your Name, and Weathering With You.
Tola Marts 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.)