Break out those Granny Smith apples, folks! Dr. Harry Vanderspeigle of SYFY's
Resident Alien has now got his hands on some Grade-A Tellurium, but just what the heck is it?
"Tellurium is a mineral that finds in a mine in Patience," the show's star, Alan Tudyk, explains to SYFY WIRE. "They always talk about 'The 59!' It's this bar, and it's about the 59 miners [who died to save one]. So in that mine, he finds Tellurium ... he mixes it up, he heats it, he gets some rust, he gets all sorts of stuff, and then he puts it together and that is what makes his spaceship fly. I'm getting pretty technical here, so I don't want to lose you. It's got 'fly-y' properties, and that's what it is."