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The Science of "The Spare Man"

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Deep Brain Pain Suppressor

The Deep Brain Pain Suppressor is based on my mom's Parkinson's, and she has a DBS. The centrifugal force and the time lag I partnered with Rocket Engineer Max Fakin to come up with this wackadoo thing that would work. It travels under constant thrust, which gives you lunar gravity, and then is spinning with two rings that are progressively larger to give you Martian and earth gravity. And there was one point where I moved a scene and then had to like rewrite everything in it because the time lag no longer worked.

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