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Back in the ’50s, when even I was young, nothing could get my blood rushing, my imagination humming and the nightmares coming like science fiction movies. What could be scarier than 1951’s “The Thing From Another World,” about a team of Air Force men and scientists who pull an alien humanoid from the North Pole ice near its crashed flying saucer. Turns out the creature is a plant-based fiend, a kind of giant asparagus, who terrorizes an arctic science station until the good guys manage to microwave him.

Pass the oil and vinegar. Husband and wife Larry Crumpler and Jayne Aubele, both staff members with the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, say science fiction films and TV shows influenced their pursuit of careers in science. The museum will show three science fiction movies in its planetarium this summer.



“Star Wars” droid R2-D2 is a prominent part of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science’s “Sci-Fi & Sci-Fact” exhibit. In conjunction with the exhibit, the museum is going to show some science fiction films in its planetarium this summer. Jayne Aubele, left, the adult programs educator at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, and her husband Larry Crumpler, the museum’s research curator in volcanology, hang out with “Star Wars” save-the-day droid R2-D2.

The museum is about to launch a science fiction film series in its planetarium. A “Stars Wars” rebel trooper uniform is part of the New Mexico Museum of N.

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