1 00:00:07,133 --> 00:00:10,453 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast 2 00:00:10,573 --> 00:00:11,733 Speaker 1: from News Talks at be. 3 00:00:12,853 --> 00:00:16,933 Speaker 2: And the pictures made it look like a parody. Eleven 4 00:00:17,013 --> 00:00:20,813 Speaker 2: minutes after taking off from a West Texas launch site, 5 00:00:21,093 --> 00:00:25,813 Speaker 2: Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin space capsule touchdown with its all 6 00:00:25,933 --> 00:00:30,573 Speaker 2: female celebrity crew. Bezos opened the capsule door and greeted 7 00:00:30,573 --> 00:00:33,653 Speaker 2: his fiance, and one by one the women filed out, 8 00:00:33,813 --> 00:00:39,293 Speaker 2: each in their snazzy blue flared space outfits. Having technically 9 00:00:39,293 --> 00:00:43,053 Speaker 2: been in space for just four minutes. The pop star 10 00:00:43,213 --> 00:00:48,613 Speaker 2: Katie Perry knelt down and kissed the ground. I feel 11 00:00:48,613 --> 00:00:52,333 Speaker 2: the same about space tourism as I do about climbing 12 00:00:52,373 --> 00:00:56,773 Speaker 2: Mount Everest. In the broadest possible terms, the idea is 13 00:00:56,813 --> 00:00:59,453 Speaker 2: really appealing. Yeah, I would love to go to space, 14 00:01:00,413 --> 00:01:05,213 Speaker 2: but as it stands today, actually appreciating how much resources involved, 15 00:01:05,253 --> 00:01:08,733 Speaker 2: and the extent to which money, rather than talent, is 16 00:01:08,773 --> 00:01:13,373 Speaker 2: the only thing separating anyone from the loftiest heights, I 17 00:01:13,533 --> 00:01:17,333 Speaker 2: just cannot bear the thought. We all know that Jeff 18 00:01:17,373 --> 00:01:21,173 Speaker 2: Bezos isn't spending billions upon billions of dollars to push 19 00:01:21,253 --> 00:01:26,053 Speaker 2: the boundaries of scientific understanding. He's going as a vanity project. 20 00:01:26,253 --> 00:01:28,133 Speaker 2: And I don't know. To me, at least, it all 21 00:01:28,173 --> 00:01:34,333 Speaker 2: just feels a bit gross. Perhaps when space tourism is 22 00:01:34,373 --> 00:01:38,013 Speaker 2: a little more normalized and they can achieve economies of scale, 23 00:01:38,053 --> 00:01:40,333 Speaker 2: I will quietly eat my words and find the whole 24 00:01:40,333 --> 00:01:42,613 Speaker 2: thing a little more palatable. But for what it's worth, 25 00:01:42,693 --> 00:01:47,053 Speaker 2: I would hand my Explorer of the Week award not 26 00:01:47,253 --> 00:01:50,293 Speaker 2: to Katie Perry and not to Jeff Bezos's other half, 27 00:01:50,413 --> 00:01:53,853 Speaker 2: but to the crew of the Schmidt Ocean Institute's folk 28 00:01:54,013 --> 00:01:57,453 Speaker 2: Or vessel, who just captured the first ever footage of 29 00:01:57,493 --> 00:02:01,253 Speaker 2: a colossal squid in its natural environment. I just find 30 00:02:01,293 --> 00:02:06,493 Speaker 2: this stuff fascinating. So colossal squid are the largest invertebrates 31 00:02:06,573 --> 00:02:10,333 Speaker 2: on the planet, five hundred kilograms without a spinal column, 32 00:02:10,973 --> 00:02:14,493 Speaker 2: and yet for all that science has achieved, we know 33 00:02:14,693 --> 00:02:18,613 Speaker 2: remarkably little about this species. It's only a century actually 34 00:02:18,653 --> 00:02:20,893 Speaker 2: since the species was first discovered, and we know most 35 00:02:20,893 --> 00:02:23,213 Speaker 2: of what we know about them today because of their predators, 36 00:02:23,493 --> 00:02:26,853 Speaker 2: sperm whales, it turns out, are much better at tracking 37 00:02:26,933 --> 00:02:31,653 Speaker 2: down colossal squid than humans are. But six hundred meters 38 00:02:31,653 --> 00:02:33,973 Speaker 2: below the surface of the South Atlantic somewhere off the 39 00:02:34,013 --> 00:02:37,453 Speaker 2: coast of the Antarctic South Sandwich islands and an area 40 00:02:37,693 --> 00:02:41,613 Speaker 2: so remote that the next closest human beings were on 41 00:02:41,653 --> 00:02:45,693 Speaker 2: the International Space Station. The group of scientists used an 42 00:02:45,853 --> 00:02:50,293 Speaker 2: unmanned submersible to film the most extraordinary footage of a 43 00:02:50,373 --> 00:02:55,413 Speaker 2: juvenile colossal squid, and honestly, forget anything that Katy Perry 44 00:02:55,533 --> 00:02:58,373 Speaker 2: or Jeff Bezos's wife to be might have been seeing 45 00:02:58,413 --> 00:03:02,693 Speaker 2: out the window of their shuttle. Set against the absolute 46 00:03:02,933 --> 00:03:07,573 Speaker 2: black of the deep deep, the square was sort of 47 00:03:07,613 --> 00:03:16,533 Speaker 2: purplish and orange, other worldly, elegant, brilliantly, beautifully alien. Isn't 48 00:03:16,573 --> 00:03:19,493 Speaker 2: it amazing that our species can send a rocket with 49 00:03:19,533 --> 00:03:23,133 Speaker 2: a pop start of space, and yet it has taken 50 00:03:23,213 --> 00:03:28,173 Speaker 2: us until twenty twenty five to actually record an earth 51 00:03:28,373 --> 00:03:32,373 Speaker 2: based tentacled beast that can grow as long as a 52 00:03:32,413 --> 00:03:36,293 Speaker 2: bus and weighs as much as a cow. Think about that. 53 00:03:36,893 --> 00:03:39,333 Speaker 2: There is a creature on the face of this Earth 54 00:03:39,533 --> 00:03:42,653 Speaker 2: that grows as long as a bus and weighs as 55 00:03:42,733 --> 00:03:47,693 Speaker 2: much as a cow, and is extraordinary looking with tentacles 56 00:03:47,893 --> 00:03:51,453 Speaker 2: in every direction, and it's taken us until twenty twenty 57 00:03:51,493 --> 00:03:55,093 Speaker 2: five to record this thing in its natural environment. I 58 00:03:55,093 --> 00:03:58,493 Speaker 2: think that's remarkable. I think that's incredible, and I just 59 00:03:58,533 --> 00:04:02,253 Speaker 2: think It is such a timely reminder for whatever fascinations 60 00:04:02,293 --> 00:04:06,333 Speaker 2: and discoveries await us in the infinite depths of the cosm, 61 00:04:07,373 --> 00:04:12,653 Speaker 2: there are still so many miracles and mysteries much closer 62 00:04:12,693 --> 00:04:18,013 Speaker 2: to home, in the infinite depths of the real Blue Origin. 63 00:04:18,613 --> 00:04:21,733 Speaker 1: For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live 64 00:04:21,813 --> 00:04:24,653 Speaker 1: to News Talks at B from nine am Saturday, or 65 00:04:24,693 --> 00:04:26,613 Speaker 1: follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.