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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at BE Can.

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Speaker 2: You play banana Grams in space? Something tells me that

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Speaker 2: with the whole gravity situation, they perhaps don't recommend anything

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Speaker 2: with lots of little parts. Anything that's kind of hard

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Speaker 2: to keep as a full set on Earth is automatically

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Speaker 2: disqualified from the International Space Station. So no banana Grams,

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Speaker 2: no Monopoly, no scrabble either. But Butch Wilmore and Sony

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Speaker 2: Williams are going to have to find something to fill

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Speaker 2: their time. An hour from now, the Boeing's space vehicle

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Speaker 2: that transferred them up to the space station is going

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Speaker 2: to undock, propel itself into the Earth's atmosphere, and, hopefully,

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Speaker 2: for the sake of Boeing's ever sinking, sheer price and

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Speaker 2: diminished reputation, land safely in a New Mexico desert. Butch

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Speaker 2: and Soony how will be stuck with no way home,

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Speaker 2: orbiting the Earth at twenty eight thousand kilometers an hour.

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Speaker 2: I love space. I love it right. I love I

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Speaker 2: love the mind melting distances and sizes, the extremes of

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Speaker 2: energy and heat. I love the endlessness of it all,

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Speaker 2: the endlessness of the unknown supermassive black holes. I love

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Speaker 2: the maths, even though I don't really understand it. And

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Speaker 2: given human life gets its richness from relationships, meaningful work,

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Speaker 2: and diverse experiences, there you go, go and put those

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Speaker 2: three things on a tea towel. I would love to

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Speaker 2: visit space sunny and Butch of course felt the same way.

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Speaker 2: And when they took off in Boeing's Starliner on June fifth,

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Speaker 2: they thought that they would be back on Earth just

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Speaker 2: eight days later. But of course that's not what's happened.

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Speaker 2: Three months on. Boeing has been humiliated. Its first crude

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Speaker 2: mission has had problems that can't be fully solved remotely,

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Speaker 2: and the capsule will have to return to Earth empty.

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Speaker 2: Butch and Sunni thought they were going to space for

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Speaker 2: eight days. By the time they're flowing back in February

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Speaker 2: next year, they'll have been orbiting the Earth for eight

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Speaker 2: months instead. What's what's the longest commercial flight you've ever

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Speaker 2: been on? Just for context sake, to try and compare

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Speaker 2: ourselves to Butcher and SONI see mine was about seventeen hours. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: a commercial passenger flight is more cramped and less interesting

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Speaker 2: than a few laps on the International Space Station. But

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Speaker 2: in this smart phone age, nothing has more thoroughly convinced

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Speaker 2: me that I don't have the necessary attention span or

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Speaker 2: temperament for long stints in one place, like a twelve

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Speaker 2: hour stopover in a lower tier international airport. So boring

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Speaker 2: news slash Jack Tame would struggle in prison. The good

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Speaker 2: news is that Butcher and soon you can talk to

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Speaker 2: their families, They can do a bit of exercise, they

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Speaker 2: can socialize with other astronauts, and presumably NASA stumps for

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Speaker 2: a Netflix subscription. But the one thing they can't do

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Speaker 2: easily is return to Earth. And you can imagine that

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Speaker 2: even for the elite of the elite. It's the kind

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Speaker 2: of situation that does funny things to your head. So

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Speaker 2: would you do it? Would you? Would you go knowing

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Speaker 2: that a week on the space station could become the

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Speaker 2: best part of a year or longer. Would you leave

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Speaker 2: your family? Would you leave your life? Leave your cat,

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Speaker 2: your goldfish, leave the lawns to someone else's care. No

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Speaker 2: wind in your hear, no smell of fresh rain, no

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Speaker 2: scrambled eggs that didn't come in a packet. I would,

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Speaker 2: I'd do it. I would still leap at the chance.

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Speaker 2: Still I reckon on one trip might be.

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Speaker 1: Enough for more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame. Listen

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