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Ferdowsi was recently featured in a cameo for the eighth and final episode of Netflix's "3 Body Problem," the alien invasion miniseries from "Game of Thrones'"David Benioff and D.B. Weiss and "True Blood's" Alexander Woo. During the doomed Staircase Project sequence where an experimental probe carrying Will's brain was launched out to meet the San-Ti invasion fleet, Ferdowsi calmly portrayed a fictional mission director doing routine tracking call-outs. We chatted with the popular rocket scientist to discuss his work as science advisor and actor on "3 Body Problem," taking cues from the episode's veteran director Jeremy Podeswa, and the feasibility of the show's nano-sail probe pushed out into deep space by a lineup of triggered nuclear bombs.