WEBVTT - Bonus: Astronomer Alan Duffy On How Astronauts Entertain Themselves On Board

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<v Speaker 1>They are homes.

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<v Speaker 2>And splashdown, CREWD I'm back on Earth.

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<v Speaker 3>Jesus nun.

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<v Speaker 2>Waiting him in the sky. Splash down, copy, flash down,

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<v Speaker 2>we see main shoots, cut Nick, Alex Butch, Sonny on

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<v Speaker 2>behalf of s Basic, Welcome home.

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<v Speaker 1>And there you have it.

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<v Speaker 2>The side hatch is open for the first time since September.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh, looks like we're getting our next crew member here.

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<v Speaker 3>That is none other than Sonny Williams. Big smile, big waves. She,

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<v Speaker 3>like her other crew members, now will be assisted onto

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<v Speaker 3>the Nobility Aid.

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<v Speaker 2>There we have it. Some waves, some thumbs up and

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<v Speaker 2>some smiles.

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<v Speaker 4>Well you did you and got some food and missed

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<v Speaker 4>a key moment of it, but I was glued to

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<v Speaker 4>the screen.

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<v Speaker 5>Hi, y'all, let's bring in Professor Alan Duffy. Now, good morning, professor.

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<v Speaker 5>What a cue teacher day yesterday, I'm gathering it all

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<v Speaker 5>went to plan.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, good morning. It was a great outcome, absolutely perfect

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<v Speaker 1>de orbit landing, and they even got a pod of

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<v Speaker 1>dolphins to greet them, which is one of the more

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<v Speaker 1>surreal experiences. It was incredible, right.

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<v Speaker 4>It was like watching a movie watching that whole scene

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<v Speaker 4>play out. As an expert in the field, were you

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<v Speaker 4>watching it with any nerves or trepidation or did you

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<v Speaker 4>just know that it was going.

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<v Speaker 6>To work out?

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<v Speaker 1>No, No, I was worried for the crew. There's a

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<v Speaker 1>few stages which are incredibly dangerous. That there's the one

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<v Speaker 1>where you're coming from essentially twenty eight thousand kilometers an

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<v Speaker 1>hour and slowing down, burning through the atmosphere. That's very dangerous.

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<v Speaker 1>I guess the sixteen hundred degrees on the outside, there's

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<v Speaker 1>flames flicking up over the windows. These are the really

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<v Speaker 1>dangerous which is.

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<v Speaker 7>One it looked like a bit of a burnt marshmallow, right,

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<v Speaker 7>What's happening to your body when you're traveling that quickly?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, so look you're getting an incredibly violent roller coaster.

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<v Speaker 1>It's been described as so the crew are coming from

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<v Speaker 1>this kind of serene experience sitting in orbit. They haven't

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<v Speaker 1>walked for nine months, they haven't felt gravity, the weight

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<v Speaker 1>of gravity, They've become very frail, and then they have

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<v Speaker 1>to go through that on the way down, which becomes

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<v Speaker 1>an extremely grueling physical experience. Just two minutes and it's over.

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<v Speaker 5>Was about to say how long would that part be?

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<v Speaker 5>Just the two minutes, because all that was it a

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<v Speaker 5>seventeen hour trip home.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, so seventeen hours of agonizingly boring I think tension

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<v Speaker 1>building orbits of the Earth getting ever closer until finally

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<v Speaker 1>they go in for that last plunge through the atmosphere.

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<v Speaker 7>So they press the button like they decide when they plunge.

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<v Speaker 1>No, they've got no control there.

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<v Speaker 6>They just strapped in.

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<v Speaker 1>They're strapped in the moment from the space station. They've

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<v Speaker 1>got a seventeen hour automated roller coaster.

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<v Speaker 5>This might be a stupid question, go here we go.

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<v Speaker 5>Is there any sort of on board entertainment?

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<v Speaker 6>I knew you were going to ask for seventeen.

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<v Speaker 5>Hours, I'm sorry, Like you download a podcast or something,

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<v Speaker 5>wouldn't you.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a great question. There's a lot of there's a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of screens monitors on board the Dragon particularly, it's

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<v Speaker 1>it's drag. Yeah, the Dragon capsule. It's made by SpaceX.

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<v Speaker 1>Same that's a Lottle Master. It's the same as test Us.

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<v Speaker 1>So there are screens that it looks like an incredible tesla.

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<v Speaker 1>And but my understanding is there are no entertainment. There's

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<v Speaker 1>no movie streaming. You might sneak a podcasts through the earpiece,

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<v Speaker 1>but I think they probably would prefer the astronauts. Wow,

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<v Speaker 1>focusing on the mission.

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<v Speaker 4>So it's obviously, like you said, like a violent rollercoaster

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<v Speaker 4>for a couple of minutes coming in and then you

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<v Speaker 4>saw those we also those extraordinary pictures of them floating

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<v Speaker 4>down to land in the ocean, coming in through the

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<v Speaker 4>atmosphere is very dangerous. What about the parent like the

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<v Speaker 4>parachutes to me just looked so basic. Is that like,

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<v Speaker 4>were you scaring that part or once the parachutes had

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<v Speaker 4>come out, were you like, no, we are safe as

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<v Speaker 4>houses now.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. No, it was the big moment for the parachutes

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<v Speaker 1>are the deployment. When they fully perfectly deploys and you

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<v Speaker 1>get four of them, then you know you're fine. But yes,

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<v Speaker 1>there was always there's always a sort of a heart

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<v Speaker 1>in the mouth moment watching for the deployment. If they tangle,

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<v Speaker 1>then yeah, very bad day. So yes, thankfully it was

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<v Speaker 1>a perfect deployment. There's even if you lose one, you

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<v Speaker 1>can still descend safely. But yes, that was another scary

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<v Speaker 1>moment for sure.

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<v Speaker 5>We are on the air with Professor Alan Duffy this morning.

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<v Speaker 5>We are talking about Butcher and Sunny, the astronauts returning

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<v Speaker 5>to Earth. After what nine months? They were saying, because

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<v Speaker 5>you know, zero gravity nine months, they wouldn't be able

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<v Speaker 5>to obviously walk straight away. But then I've just seen

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<v Speaker 5>shots this morning of them getting off a plane back

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<v Speaker 5>at NASA. So is that almost like a pins and

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<v Speaker 5>needles job, You just got to slightly work your legs

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<v Speaker 5>until they kick in or would they just have no muscle?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah? No, so's there's two issues they're facing. The first

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<v Speaker 1>is that sitting on board the space station, they haven't

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<v Speaker 1>felt the weight of gravity quite literally, I mean their

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<v Speaker 1>bodies have been floating for nine months, meaning they've become frailer,

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<v Speaker 1>the muscles have wasted away, the bones have even become

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<v Speaker 1>less dense, they've aged, essentially have become very frail. On

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<v Speaker 1>the other challenge, they also don't they haven't walked for ninemens.

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<v Speaker 1>They haven't got a sense of down, a direction of down.

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<v Speaker 1>So once they finally get on the Earth and their

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<v Speaker 1>bodies are feeling this is the direction down, it confuses

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<v Speaker 1>the inn ear. They get unbalanced. In other words, they

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<v Speaker 1>have to regain their land legs and they come off

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<v Speaker 1>swaying and very confused as well as frail. So if

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<v Speaker 1>they then do full they really can hurt themselves, which

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<v Speaker 1>is usually why they're off in stretchers or wheelchairs and

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<v Speaker 1>off actual and that key key first few hours.

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<v Speaker 7>Hey, professor, what did they be? Gods? They were stuck

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<v Speaker 7>up there for so much longer than they anticipated. Were

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<v Speaker 7>they given extra tasks? Like did they achieve anything that

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<v Speaker 7>they weren't actually initially set out to do?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's great question. They had lots of duties. They

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<v Speaker 1>pulled their weight while up there. There's always tasks to

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<v Speaker 1>fix this aging space station, but in particular there are

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of science experience. I think Butcher clocked nine

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<v Speaker 1>hundred hours of science experimentation up there my own Unich

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<v Speaker 1>swimmer and we actually fly up experiments every year to

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<v Speaker 1>the space station with schools across the country. So these

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<v Speaker 1>are Sadly, I'm not sure that any of ours were

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<v Speaker 1>getting helped by bus that would call moment. But yes,

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<v Speaker 1>there's a lot of science done on board the space station.

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<v Speaker 4>Exactly were they how far away from land from Earth

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<v Speaker 4>were they on the space station?

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<v Speaker 1>Yes? So the space station orbits about four hundred kilometers

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<v Speaker 1>above our heads. It doesn't lap. It's really a few

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<v Speaker 1>hours at highway speeds to get up there. It's a

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<v Speaker 1>very In fact, it's close enough and it's big enough

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<v Speaker 1>the space station that during sunset, if the timing is

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<v Speaker 1>just right, you can actually see the space station so overhead.

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<v Speaker 1>Is this the brightest star in the night sky? And

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<v Speaker 1>it would slowly move across across the sky in a

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<v Speaker 1>couple of minutes.

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<v Speaker 6>Space freaks, man, that's pretty.

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<v Speaker 1>Well.

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<v Speaker 5>I recently watched Matt Damon in The Martian where he

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<v Speaker 5>grew the potatoes because he was stuck on Mars. Enough

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<v Speaker 5>food at the space station for the nine months they

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<v Speaker 5>were stuck their head. How they go with supplies?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, look, they do grow a little bit of food

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<v Speaker 1>up there. Mostly let us another other perishables, get some

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<v Speaker 1>you know, actual variety in their diet. Most of it. Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>it's packaged up. It's their little squishy sacks food. It's

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<v Speaker 1>not great. It doesn't look very fun. Well, the biggest

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<v Speaker 1>challenge is they can't. They've got no sense of taste

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<v Speaker 1>or smell because without gravity to pull all the fluids

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<v Speaker 1>from your head to your feet like we have every day,

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<v Speaker 1>it just builds up. It swells your sinuses. It's like

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<v Speaker 1>you've got a cold for nine months. You cannot smell

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<v Speaker 1>taste anything.

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<v Speaker 6>Oh would be so fit if we couldn't smell or taste.

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<v Speaker 4>Hey, professor, bro Bro, Professor, do you believe in aliens?

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<v Speaker 1>I do? I think there are so many habitable We

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<v Speaker 1>have now discovered so many twins of the Earth in

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<v Speaker 1>our galaxy alone. We've not yet found life on any

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<v Speaker 1>of them. But the chances are billions to one against alone,

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<v Speaker 1>So I think the stats have to play out the way.

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<v Speaker 4>Alon's really work getting Do you think he's going to

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<v Speaker 4>get there in our lifetime.

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<v Speaker 1>Bro, I actually think he does. He's a billionaire who

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<v Speaker 1>has the most powerful rocket in the world.

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<v Speaker 6>We're taking the Tesla's and we're going to Mars, Baby.

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<v Speaker 5>Professor, our and Duffy joining us on the air Mate,

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<v Speaker 5>thank you so much. That was a great insight. We

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<v Speaker 5>appreciated that.

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<v Speaker 6>I think Smith, imagine you serious.

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<v Speaker 5>You would have had a few yesterday watching that thing.

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<v Speaker 5>My an, Professor, I'm actually training for a run. I

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<v Speaker 5>had nothing coffee, I know, but it was it was

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<v Speaker 5>a ninety year What am I going to do?

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<v Speaker 4>No time doesn't count in space, Professor, Like the international

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<v Speaker 4>departures at the airport, Champagne is fine at anytime. Jason

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<v Speaker 4>Lauren Jason Lauren Wake Up Feeling Good on number one hundred.

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