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Speaker 1: Heller duple.

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Speaker 2: We are about to have a first out in space.

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Speaker 2: It's the first ever private citizens who will do a

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Speaker 2: space walk, as in like normal punters like you, well,

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Speaker 2: semi normal, that's all billionaires, but otherwise normal punters like

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Speaker 2: you and I not actually astronauts. It's two billionaires who've

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Speaker 2: paid to go up to space with SpaceX and do

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Speaker 2: the space walk, which actually is about the most dangerous

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Speaker 2: thing that you can do once you're up in space.

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Speaker 2: Josh Auraki is Star Dome's astronomer and with us right

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Speaker 2: now on this.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Josh Gilder, how's it going?

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Speaker 2: Well? Thank you? Would you do this?

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Speaker 1: Ah? I mean, if I was given the chance, I

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Speaker 1: honestly probably would just for the views, But I think

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Speaker 1: the technicalities it's it's a pretty scary thing to be

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Speaker 1: doing in space.

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Speaker 2: Yet why is it so dangerous?

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, space is a vacuum, so you know,

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Speaker 1: there's there's no air. You would suffocate. It's extremely hot

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Speaker 1: if you're in the sun, it's freezing if you're in

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Speaker 1: the shadow. So it's kind of just the most inhospitable

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Speaker 1: environment for humans. And you know to comba that you

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Speaker 1: need you know, really heavily heavy levels of protection. So

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Speaker 1: you know, you need a space so you need all

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Speaker 1: the stuff to protect you, but not just the space that.

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Speaker 1: You also need all the stuff that keeps you alive,

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Speaker 1: so you know, water, oxygen, pretty much everything.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, now it sounds like these. So with the NASA guys,

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Speaker 2: when they go out for a space walk, they've got

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Speaker 2: jet packs attached to them, right, So presumably that is

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Speaker 2: if they somehow become untethered and float off, they can

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Speaker 2: zoom back to wherever they need to get back to,

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Speaker 2: not Earth obviously, just the Shuttle, but these guys don't

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Speaker 2: leave that.

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Speaker 1: No, So these are very different. So when you see

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Speaker 1: like astroauts on the Space station do walks, they have

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Speaker 1: their EMU units, which is basically like it's a jetpack basically,

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Speaker 1: But even with that, they're basically tethered to the space

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Speaker 1: station so there's no risk of them, you know, flying off.

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Speaker 1: But what we're gonna what we're going to see tonight

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Speaker 1: is basically these spacesuits modified versions of suits that they

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Speaker 1: already use. So they're quite mobile. You can move pretty

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Speaker 1: well in them, but they don't have that big bulky backpack.

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Speaker 1: So to get those life support systems, you know, the

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Speaker 1: oxygen all that. They're basically going to be on umbilical cords,

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Speaker 1: so they're going to be tethered into the spacecraft and

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Speaker 1: that's going to provide them with the life support systems

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Speaker 1: as opposed to those massive backpacks that you kind of

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Speaker 1: usually seen in space.

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Speaker 2: Which is good, right because it means if they were

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Speaker 2: somehow to let go accidentally, they would still be able

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Speaker 2: to be hauled back and you'd assume, yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 1: So you'll tell it to your spacecraft. There's no risk

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Speaker 1: of them, you know, floating off in a you know,

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Speaker 1: Sondra bullockes gravity moment.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, definitely, Josh, Listen, they're going up there to

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Speaker 2: test these spacesuits, right, They've got to do the twisting

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Speaker 2: and all that stuff. Would you trust anything made by

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Speaker 2: Elon Musk the first time around?

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Speaker 1: I mean it's he's obviously a very controversial person.

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Speaker 2: But didn't you see what's happened to the teaselers.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I can speak to space, I

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Speaker 1: can't speak to cars.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know, like that's kind of just if

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Speaker 2: there's a pattern, you know, like autopilot on the car

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Speaker 2: doesn't work, spacesuit bursts, I don't.

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Speaker 1: Know, what do you is, Yeah, I put it this way.

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Speaker 1: I don't trust it on us, but I trust engineers

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Speaker 1: at SpaceX. I mean the amount of work and advancements

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Speaker 1: in terms of rocketry and space expressions that they've done

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Speaker 1: in the last few it's really incredible. And so you

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Speaker 1: look at the speed of what they're being able to

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Speaker 1: do it, it's really amazing. So it's you know, the

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Speaker 1: thousands of workers at SpaceX that are doing all the

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Speaker 1: hard work for me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, that's a fair point. Do you think this

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Speaker 2: is going to take off? I mean, obviously at the

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Speaker 2: moment it's the plaything of billionaires because of the costs

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Speaker 2: and stuff like that. But in the future, do you

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Speaker 2: think people are going to want to go up there

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Speaker 2: and do this thing just for a bit of a laugh.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's always going to cost a lot of money.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's ever going to be, you know,

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Speaker 1: as cheap as a plane ticket, as a billionaire might teut.

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Speaker 1: But you know, it's it will be an industry. I

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Speaker 1: think there'll be an industry of tourism where you know,

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Speaker 1: wealthy people can go to space, But the reality is,

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Speaker 1: no one really wants to go to space. You know,

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Speaker 1: just for start, it's not necessarily a fun environment. I

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Speaker 1: think it would be beautiful and amazing to experience, but

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Speaker 1: as you know, it's it being there for a long

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Speaker 1: periods of time, it's just not a nice thing. It's

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Speaker 1: really bad on the human body. There's a lot of isolation,

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Speaker 1: and you know, you're literally away from everything that you know,

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Speaker 1: so it's just the most unfamiliar environment that you can

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you'll bang on there. It's a little

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Speaker 2: bit like going to an Antarctica, but even worse. Josh,

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Speaker 2: thank you appreciated. It is always good to talk to you.

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Speaker 2: That's Josh Iarky, who is Stardome's astronomer.

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