Reader's Room ponders the best speculative fiction and and science for the week. This week we talk about why they brought a pistol along when going on the first spacewalk, and The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.

Show links:

• Two Sides of the Moon by Astronaut Dave Scott and Cosmonaut Alexi Leonov
• (Excerpt about the first spacewalk 

at Air & Space Magazine

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• Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland
• Podcast: Big Picture Science on Science Fiction.
• Linkdump:
  • Neural networks to name Guinea Pigs
  • The History of 16th-Century Narcoleptic Walruses
  • Carbon Capture plant growing veggies in Switzerland.

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