1 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:05,960 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind from how Stuff 2 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 1: Works dot com. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind. 3 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:17,040 Speaker 1: My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Julie Douglas. Julie, 4 00:00:17,079 --> 00:00:19,079 Speaker 1: I know you have seen this video that's been making 5 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:20,880 Speaker 1: the rounds. I know you've seen it because we watched 6 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:23,840 Speaker 1: it together and did a whole episode of our video 7 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:27,000 Speaker 1: series about viral videos about it. But we have the 8 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:31,200 Speaker 1: video about crying in space and what that might consist of. Yeah, 9 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:34,440 Speaker 1: it is a great video was put out by the 10 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:38,960 Speaker 1: I S S Commander, International Space Station Commander Chris Hatfield, 11 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 1: and he demonstrates what it is like to cry in space. 12 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:46,160 Speaker 1: Now he doesn't actually he doesn't. Cried a sad novel 13 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:49,640 Speaker 1: and then begin you know, he's a man, he is 14 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 1: he is manned up to a venture into the void 15 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:55,960 Speaker 1: and he has that he seems like a really nice guy. 16 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 1: But you know, he's got a mustache. He has a mustache, 17 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 1: He has kind of a there's a certain machismo to 18 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:06,640 Speaker 1: anybody that goes up into space, male or female. So um, yeah, 19 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:08,720 Speaker 1: So if an astronaut is going to demonstrate what it's 20 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 1: like to cry and space, they're going to have to 21 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:12,280 Speaker 1: escort some water in their eyes because these there are 22 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:15,280 Speaker 1: some hard boiled eggs. That's right, man or woman, you 23 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:18,120 Speaker 1: are a cowboy in outer space. So but one of 24 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 1: the great things about this video is that it really 25 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 1: does pull back the curtains on what it is like. 26 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:26,600 Speaker 1: There's rote day to day activities, including crying, right because um, 27 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:29,839 Speaker 1: I you know, assume that there are lots of emotional 28 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:31,959 Speaker 1: issues in outer space. And we've talked about this a bit. 29 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:35,640 Speaker 1: It's a high stress environment and as we're gonna get 30 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 1: into in in this in another podcast, and it's a 31 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:42,959 Speaker 1: hostile environment, and and so it's possible that that tears 32 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:45,840 Speaker 1: could occur, and in all likelihood they have occurred. You know, 33 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:48,880 Speaker 1: just we've joked, there's been some pretty tense moments. You know, 34 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 1: they locked themselves in the bathroom and just boo who yeah. Well, 35 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:53,880 Speaker 1: and then also you can there are other reasons tears 36 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 1: can form, you know, various irritations I irritations and sinus 37 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:00,560 Speaker 1: and whatnot. And you know that has happened. But his 38 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 1: work has been great because he has he has done 39 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:05,080 Speaker 1: a really nice job in these videos of shining light 40 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 1: on space minutia. You know, the little tiny bits of 41 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:11,960 Speaker 1: daily life you might not think about, like if if 42 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 1: we didn't know better, I might think that they forgot 43 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:16,840 Speaker 1: to assign him anything to do, and he's just shooting 44 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:18,360 Speaker 1: a bunch of videos. But of course he has plenty 45 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:21,080 Speaker 1: of other well as well. I think that the one 46 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:22,680 Speaker 1: of the cool things about this video is that it 47 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 1: also underscores this idea that, uh, everything in space, everything 48 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:31,720 Speaker 1: in microgravity, behaves differently. So even though we bring our 49 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:36,840 Speaker 1: portable cages with us, right, we bring our own artificial environments, um, 50 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:39,960 Speaker 1: you know in the capsule on the International Space Station, Uh, 51 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 1: we still have to sort of relearn how to be human. 52 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:47,120 Speaker 1: So imagine that you have this really poignant moment that 53 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 1: you're stirring up in your emotions, and all of a sudden, 54 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:52,960 Speaker 1: tears begin to well up in your eyes. Well they 55 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,760 Speaker 1: don't just flow down, obviously, because there's no gravity. Instead, 56 00:02:56,120 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 1: they just pool atop your eyeballs, growing fatter and more 57 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:05,400 Speaker 1: obscenely large, until they break off into this big glob 58 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 1: in front of you and float off. And then somebody 59 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 1: could conceivably turn around and they're about to say, hey, 60 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 1: what are you crying about? And then the whole glob 61 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 1: of your tears just goes into their mouth, that's right, 62 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:18,320 Speaker 1: and so it becomes this otherworldly experience, right, And I 63 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:20,840 Speaker 1: imagine that the first couple of times people crying spaces 64 00:03:20,919 --> 00:03:24,320 Speaker 1: probably really fascinating. In fact, I bet that whatever you're 65 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 1: sad about, you know, that kind of no matter, it 66 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:29,840 Speaker 1: no longer matters, right, because in front of you is 67 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 1: this big glob that you can play with. What if 68 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:35,560 Speaker 1: you were missing gravity, You're crying because you miss gravity 69 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 1: so much, And then that just makes it all the 70 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 1: worse because you're like, I can't even cry, like nor 71 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 1: this is how I cry now. My tears mock me. Yeah. 72 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 1: As I mentioned in the video, I'd also um reminded 73 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 1: me a bit of Dante's Inferno. There's a bit there 74 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:51,880 Speaker 1: where Dante and Virgil are in the on the frozen 75 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 1: lake of Casitas at the bottom of Hell, and these 76 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 1: individuals are are frozen in this lake with their heads 77 00:03:57,720 --> 00:04:01,440 Speaker 1: facing up, so that when they cry out in tears 78 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:04,000 Speaker 1: and you know, repenting their sins or tears of anger, 79 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 1: the water pools in their sockets and freezes there. Um. 80 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:10,560 Speaker 1: Which you know, if you start to think about it, 81 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 1: if you start to imagine worst case scenarios, you could 82 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 1: possibly envision in a situation where you're crying in space 83 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:21,279 Speaker 1: and there's been a temperature failure in the capsule, temperatures 84 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:25,360 Speaker 1: are plumbering, and those globs of of water in your 85 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 1: eye sockets could potentially freeesaw, so you get eyeball popsicles. Yeah. Nice. Now, 86 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:34,000 Speaker 1: if you're exposed to the void itself, then the tears 87 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 1: will probably just boil off. But that's that's an entirely 88 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:40,640 Speaker 1: different situation. Yeah, an entirely different episode as well. Uh Well, 89 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:42,800 Speaker 1: in order for us to really talk about what it's 90 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:46,600 Speaker 1: like to be human in space exploration, or to relearn 91 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:49,640 Speaker 1: our humanness and how to deal with it, particularly emotions, 92 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 1: we should probably talk about space itself and then the 93 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:54,320 Speaker 1: International Space Station, which is sort of where the grand 94 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 1: experiment has been playing out. Okay, yeah, Well, space itself, 95 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:03,120 Speaker 1: the void, the great black yonder as it is, it's uh, 96 00:05:03,279 --> 00:05:06,039 Speaker 1: it's it is a very hostile environment because one of 97 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:07,440 Speaker 1: the one of the things we always have to to 98 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 1: drive home here is that as human beings, we are 99 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:13,800 Speaker 1: a We're an organism that is evolved to live in 100 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:18,280 Speaker 1: a very thin layer of even our own atmosphere, in 101 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:21,120 Speaker 1: our own environment. There are places on Earth that we 102 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 1: cannot live without the significant technological help. So if you 103 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 1: take us out of the planet entirely, then you're you've 104 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:32,480 Speaker 1: taken us into a place of death. Yeah. True. I 105 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:34,800 Speaker 1: mean we don't think about it because we don't see it. 106 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:37,599 Speaker 1: But we are dealing with hundreds of pounds of pressure 107 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:39,680 Speaker 1: in the air, right, We're just kind of used to 108 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:42,600 Speaker 1: moving around in it. But in space, as we know 109 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:45,160 Speaker 1: is that it's a vacuum. There is no air pressure. 110 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:48,720 Speaker 1: Molecules are scant, right. But the way I like to 111 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:50,440 Speaker 1: think of it is is think back to Star Trek. 112 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:54,040 Speaker 1: You see William Schattner walking around um and he's he's 113 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:56,120 Speaker 1: wearing his girdle, of course, and he's very he's very 114 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:59,840 Speaker 1: confident in his in his torso because that girdle is 115 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 1: pressing in. And take that girdle away and he's going 116 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,240 Speaker 1: to be very very self conscious, is going to be 117 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 1: totally put off. Nothing's going to feel right, and he's 118 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:09,800 Speaker 1: going to have to relearn how he's doing everything around 119 00:06:09,839 --> 00:06:12,840 Speaker 1: the ship because the atmospheric pressure is kind of like 120 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 1: a girdle pressing in on us all the time, and 121 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 1: it becomes such a part of who we are and 122 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:20,400 Speaker 1: how we experienced the world. We we don't even begin 123 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 1: to register it unless there's a significant change. And it's 124 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:26,559 Speaker 1: funny because it's hard to divorce yourself from this uh 125 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:30,839 Speaker 1: notion of air pressure or or even air molecule molecules 126 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:33,600 Speaker 1: not being present because we think it there's empty air, 127 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 1: but of course air is not empty. Is it is heavy, 128 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:38,920 Speaker 1: it is thick, it is pressing in on us and 129 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 1: spaces an environment where that is not present, and the 130 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:45,279 Speaker 1: temperature space is at its coold is just the temperature 131 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 1: of the leftover glow from the Big Bang, the radiation 132 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:51,839 Speaker 1: known as the cosmic microwave background based the entire universe 133 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:55,360 Speaker 1: in the temperature of only two point seven kelvin. That's 134 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 1: less than three degrees above absolute zero or minus four 135 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty five degrees fahrenheit. And of course we 136 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:05,400 Speaker 1: have even more stats about what the environment of space 137 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:07,599 Speaker 1: is like if you don't happen to have a space suit, 138 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:10,120 Speaker 1: but that's a separate podcast episode. Tune in for that. 139 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:13,320 Speaker 1: But if you do have a space suit and your 140 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:16,400 Speaker 1: destination is the International Space Station, you are luck because 141 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:20,920 Speaker 1: this is a habitable artificial satellite in low orbit space, 142 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 1: traveling about seventeen thousand miles plus change an hour in 143 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:29,000 Speaker 1: order to stay in orbit, making gentle curve around the Earth. 144 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 1: And it's up there about two miles kios. And when 145 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:35,880 Speaker 1: you're an orbit like that, things are waitless because they're 146 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:39,600 Speaker 1: all falling at the same velocity. So, um, we should 147 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:42,160 Speaker 1: point out that the I S S is actually in 148 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:45,160 Speaker 1: its thirteenth year. That's right, first module went up in 149 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:50,360 Speaker 1: we keep adding more to it. Yeah, I keep hearing 150 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:54,640 Speaker 1: uh descriptions like frailer park or modules that snapped together, 151 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:56,800 Speaker 1: and well, because that's the only way to do it right. 152 00:07:56,840 --> 00:07:58,480 Speaker 1: You can't take the whole you gotta bring it up 153 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 1: piece by piece and a symbol it there. It's kind 154 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:02,360 Speaker 1: of kind of like my my bookshelf here at work. 155 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:04,480 Speaker 1: Like if I ever lose my job, there's no way 156 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:06,120 Speaker 1: I'll get all of them home because I brought them 157 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:07,480 Speaker 1: in a little bit by a little bit by a 158 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:09,280 Speaker 1: little bit. They would taking like a year to clear 159 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:11,320 Speaker 1: all of it out. Yeah, it's just and and you know, 160 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:14,360 Speaker 1: and that and all the other junk. But I've seen 161 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:17,400 Speaker 1: the cost estimated at around a hundred and fifty billion dollars. 162 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:19,840 Speaker 1: But then I've also seen people talk about the cost 163 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:22,120 Speaker 1: of the International Space Station is really being the sort 164 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:25,640 Speaker 1: of thing that you can't maybe more than the cost, 165 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:27,920 Speaker 1: but the value. It's it's something you really can't even 166 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:30,680 Speaker 1: put up a dollar amount on because so much work, 167 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:33,080 Speaker 1: so much effort has gone into it. It is, uh, 168 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:34,760 Speaker 1: it's kind of you know, we don't have much in 169 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:37,439 Speaker 1: the way of super projects today here on Earth, but 170 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:40,840 Speaker 1: it is. It is basically one of the modern marvels. 171 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 1: It is. It is like a pyramid for us. It is, 172 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:46,080 Speaker 1: and there has been a ton of research conducted in 173 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:51,240 Speaker 1: every expedition actually has certain research goals in mind. So 174 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:53,960 Speaker 1: not only is it about maintaining that the actual I 175 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:55,800 Speaker 1: S S, but it's also like, let's let's take a 176 00:08:55,800 --> 00:09:01,040 Speaker 1: look at how X behaves in microgravity or some other experiment. 177 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:04,480 Speaker 1: In fact, Expedition three five, which is right now the 178 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 1: the expedition that's in use is um being conducted by 179 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:12,080 Speaker 1: a six person crew. Again, Chris Hadfield is the commander there, 180 00:09:12,679 --> 00:09:18,000 Speaker 1: and they are using an instrument called the Alpha bagnetic 181 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:21,719 Speaker 1: Spectrometer two by the way, not one. It is a 182 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:24,800 Speaker 1: state of the art particle physics detector. And recently in 183 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:27,680 Speaker 1: the news there was an item about how they've gotten 184 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:32,080 Speaker 1: a whiff of dark matter the spectrometer, which is really cool. Yeah, 185 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 1: So it's it's right that the I S. S is 186 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 1: not just a place where astronauts pretend to cry and 187 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:39,440 Speaker 1: then take videos. It's not just a place where there 188 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:42,120 Speaker 1: occasionally there's some sort of spat about a toilet going 189 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:45,040 Speaker 1: off the whack. But it is a place on the 190 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:48,480 Speaker 1: cutting edge of science. It is, and it is a very, 191 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:52,120 Speaker 1: as we said, small space of cutting edge science going on. 192 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:54,560 Speaker 1: We're talking about a living space that amounts to the 193 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:57,920 Speaker 1: equivalent of roughly one and a half Boeing seven forty seven. 194 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:03,120 Speaker 1: So let take a listen to what it sounds like 195 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:06,560 Speaker 1: life aboard I S. S S and to some of the 196 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:10,840 Speaker 1: ambient noises, so we can get an idea of what 197 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:13,680 Speaker 1: sort of emotional landscape you might be butting up against 198 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:33,600 Speaker 1: that if you are an astronaut. Now, I love that 199 00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:36,200 Speaker 1: because that that sounds like a lot of a lot 200 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:38,719 Speaker 1: of music that I actually listened to. Like, I get 201 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:41,640 Speaker 1: kind of a a pecker meets nurse with wound kind 202 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:45,200 Speaker 1: of vibe there, a little ambient, a little industrial. It's 203 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:47,760 Speaker 1: it's nice. Yeah, And those again we sort of take 204 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:51,520 Speaker 1: uh quietude or you know this when we really want 205 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:53,920 Speaker 1: quiet in our lives, for granted, because there is a 206 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:56,040 Speaker 1: way that you can actually get to some sort of 207 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:58,400 Speaker 1: total silence. Not always right, there's always going to be 208 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:01,599 Speaker 1: ambient noise. I now a world like that, though I 209 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:03,440 Speaker 1: would go to sleep to that, would you? I would 210 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:05,920 Speaker 1: prefer that to absolute silence because absolute silence is just 211 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:09,360 Speaker 1: a little loud to me. M okay. Actually, you had 212 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:11,360 Speaker 1: a good block post about that recently, didn't you, Or 213 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:13,319 Speaker 1: maybe it was on Facebook that you threw that up. 214 00:11:13,920 --> 00:11:18,120 Speaker 1: But there was a room that was sealed, wasn't itbook 215 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:21,959 Speaker 1: Absolute Science and Silence, and people could not stand it. Correct. Yeah, 216 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:23,920 Speaker 1: it can be a little maddening, And so I kind 217 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:25,880 Speaker 1: like a little white noise or a little music when 218 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:27,400 Speaker 1: I go to and go to sleep if I can 219 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:29,560 Speaker 1: get it. I used to. I used to live in 220 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:32,880 Speaker 1: a a living space where the bedroom is really close 221 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:36,280 Speaker 1: to the kitchen, and so I could hear the dishwasher 222 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:39,439 Speaker 1: really well at night, man, and I love that. If 223 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:41,199 Speaker 1: it were up to me, I'd have the dishwasher in 224 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:44,520 Speaker 1: the bedroom. Have you seen those toys that are four 225 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:48,920 Speaker 1: babies that basically have like a white noise um sound 226 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:50,320 Speaker 1: and it was such a sound like I guess like 227 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:53,640 Speaker 1: the amnionic fluid rushing through I have not I have 228 00:11:53,679 --> 00:11:56,000 Speaker 1: not heard of it. And there's also a heartbeat setting. 229 00:11:56,200 --> 00:12:01,120 Speaker 1: Is there a berg noise but a digestion noise? No, 230 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:03,560 Speaker 1: but there should be giddings part because they're probably they 231 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 1: probably identify that as a as as a friend. I'm 232 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:10,600 Speaker 1: just trying to imagine now, um getting one of those 233 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 1: uh sleep CDs and it having proper green meat me 234 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:18,719 Speaker 1: digestion noises on it. Alright, So I mean we're spiraling 235 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:22,080 Speaker 1: off here, um, losing altitude. Must must climb back up 236 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:26,800 Speaker 1: realry back in capsule. Alright. So you're on the I 237 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:30,040 Speaker 1: S S. You're having a bad day. What might a 238 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:35,680 Speaker 1: bad day be in space? Well, I mean, you know, 239 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:37,959 Speaker 1: it can get really bad if you want to get 240 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:41,600 Speaker 1: into worst case scenarios, but just thinking about like a 241 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:45,880 Speaker 1: normal day again, you're in close confines with your co 242 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:50,480 Speaker 1: workers all the time, floating up in each other's business, 243 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:53,960 Speaker 1: having to take care that your lunches don't float into 244 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:56,760 Speaker 1: each other, that there's nothing you know, falling off your 245 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:58,800 Speaker 1: face or or out of your face that's going to 246 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:02,160 Speaker 1: float into the next person. It's true, and just the 247 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:05,280 Speaker 1: act of eating. I've noticed it reminds me of um, 248 00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:08,319 Speaker 1: like broom hockey, Like you kind of have to use 249 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:11,320 Speaker 1: your hands to direct food into your mouth, you know, 250 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:14,679 Speaker 1: the goal hole of food. Otherwise, yes, that's going to 251 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:17,559 Speaker 1: hit your coworker in the face. Yeah. And and thecorum 252 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:20,199 Speaker 1: kind of goes out of the out the door a 253 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:22,440 Speaker 1: little bit with the with the with the the eating 254 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:24,120 Speaker 1: in space like the videos you see, it's a totally 255 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:27,680 Speaker 1: different sort of philosophy of eating. It's just kind of 256 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:31,319 Speaker 1: sending things up and catching them and other things. You're 257 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:34,640 Speaker 1: just slurping out of a little box. It's it's interesting. 258 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:36,240 Speaker 1: Do you like that you can kind of chomp it 259 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:38,440 Speaker 1: and catch it in your mouth? Um? But yeah, so 260 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:42,160 Speaker 1: they're they're a little um indignities that could be visited 261 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:44,679 Speaker 1: upon you, right, I mean not to say nothing else 262 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:47,000 Speaker 1: of you know, things can get pretty hectic when you 263 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:49,440 Speaker 1: have situations like oh, something might hit the station and 264 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:52,480 Speaker 1: we all have to crowd into one capsule just in 265 00:13:52,559 --> 00:13:55,600 Speaker 1: case we lose the station. I mean that it can 266 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:58,600 Speaker 1: get really stressful as well. Plus they're there are various 267 00:13:58,640 --> 00:14:01,600 Speaker 1: stages that people to to go to when they're exposed 268 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:05,560 Speaker 1: to micro microgravity first, I mean, first of all, when 269 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:09,840 Speaker 1: you first step into microgravity UM, you spend the first 270 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:12,080 Speaker 1: phase of your judney, your journey just adjusting to that 271 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:15,840 Speaker 1: cramped environment with an upset stomach, headaches, and space most 272 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:19,640 Speaker 1: space motion sickness. According to NASA's Johnson Space Center, you'll 273 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:25,560 Speaker 1: also experience a drop in sleep efficiency greatly reduced rim. 274 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:29,200 Speaker 1: Uh so, in other words, you may experience dream deprivation 275 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:33,080 Speaker 1: as well. So you're uncomfortable, you're sluggish, and you're still 276 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:35,600 Speaker 1: having to work with all these people. I mean, it's 277 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 1: it's hard enough to deal with people when you when 278 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:41,520 Speaker 1: you're just having a trouble getting a full night sleep, 279 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:43,320 Speaker 1: much less when you have all these other factors going 280 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:47,080 Speaker 1: on UM and path that it gets even weirder. There's 281 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:51,040 Speaker 1: like a second stage UM where you'll you'll you'll have 282 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:54,320 Speaker 1: like a complete adaptation they say, for about six additional weeks. 283 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:56,080 Speaker 1: So once you passed that first slump, you have kind 284 00:14:56,080 --> 00:15:00,280 Speaker 1: of like the salad weeks there in space. But then 285 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 1: so you have a sense of euphoria. No, no, not euphoria, 286 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:06,120 Speaker 1: you're just confident. You're like, all right, I got this. 287 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:07,800 Speaker 1: I know how to use the bathroom, I know how 288 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:10,480 Speaker 1: to eat peanut butter in space, Thank you very much. 289 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:13,520 Speaker 1: I know how to move through the space without upsetting 290 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:17,600 Speaker 1: everybody's laptops and everything else. Sleep patterns are decent. Uh, 291 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:19,840 Speaker 1: And I mean that's a whole area. There's the sleeping, 292 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:21,440 Speaker 1: because I've seen the One of the things you have 293 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:24,120 Speaker 1: to remember is when we're sleeping, you you might touch 294 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:26,000 Speaker 1: your face or whatnot. You might have some other kind 295 00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:28,680 Speaker 1: of sleep issues that could cause some sort of weirdness 296 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:31,120 Speaker 1: or nightcares. But imagine sleeping and there's you have to 297 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:34,120 Speaker 1: strap your your arms down because otherwise it'll float up 298 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:36,920 Speaker 1: and just start pawing at your face during the night. Well, 299 00:15:36,920 --> 00:15:39,040 Speaker 1: it really is it tethered existence. And I was thinking 300 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:41,080 Speaker 1: about this, is that you tether yourself to sleep. You 301 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:43,760 Speaker 1: tether all the items that you need so that they're 302 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:45,800 Speaker 1: available and you can find them. Otherwise everything is just 303 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:48,240 Speaker 1: floating around. Yeah, you can't just set stuff on the nightstand. 304 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:50,600 Speaker 1: You've got to have them to tether. Do your body 305 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:54,720 Speaker 1: or do your bed wrappings. Well, and at this point 306 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:58,479 Speaker 1: to presumably you have adjusted to the lack of diurnal 307 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:01,960 Speaker 1: or nocturnal triggers rights the day and night. Um, you 308 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:04,760 Speaker 1: are beginning to say Okay, so this is a this 309 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:08,320 Speaker 1: is my brain adjusting to this lack of light, this sunlight, 310 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:12,560 Speaker 1: and um a lack of touch as well, because this 311 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:14,360 Speaker 1: is something that's pretty important. We've talked about this before. 312 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 1: It's very comforting to be touched. But obviously you are 313 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:20,480 Speaker 1: you're with coworkers in the first place. Second of all, 314 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:23,200 Speaker 1: it's not really you're not a situation where you would 315 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:27,200 Speaker 1: be cuttling up presumably, And and just imagine too, like 316 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:29,200 Speaker 1: so you wanted to stay cuttle up without you say, 317 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:31,040 Speaker 1: we say you had like a nice blanket with you. 318 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:34,200 Speaker 1: The experience of cuddling up with that blanket would be 319 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:36,840 Speaker 1: extremely different in microgravity because it imagined like a nice 320 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 1: heavy blanket, how it sort of sits on you like 321 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:40,640 Speaker 1: you wouldn't be able to You wouldn't get that because 322 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:44,280 Speaker 1: the gravity is not not strong enough. That's true, right, 323 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:46,680 Speaker 1: just even though the most basic thing of having that 324 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:50,480 Speaker 1: pressure around you is removed. And so in time between 325 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:53,480 Speaker 1: week six and week twelve, things start to get a 326 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:58,800 Speaker 1: little moody, typically with people aboard the space station. Russian 327 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:02,400 Speaker 1: observations found that a number of the symptoms were linked 328 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:06,119 Speaker 1: to boredom and isolation. You become hyper sensitive, irritable, less motivated. 329 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:09,200 Speaker 1: You may fly up the handle whenever a crew member 330 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:11,960 Speaker 1: drifts into your personal space or you know, borrow some 331 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:14,560 Speaker 1: of your stuff, you know, sort of you know, dorm 332 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:17,879 Speaker 1: room annoyances uh too and uh and so yeah, you 333 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:21,399 Speaker 1: get you get more uh sensitivity to allowed noises, uh, 334 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:26,080 Speaker 1: your your musical preferences may change, uh, exhaustion, sleep disturbances, 335 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:28,720 Speaker 1: loss of appetite. You might creep back into everything. It 336 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:31,199 Speaker 1: becomes a very negative time before finally, towards the end 337 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:35,120 Speaker 1: of your journey, you can expect to experience agitation, lack 338 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:38,160 Speaker 1: of control and uh. And then it sort of culminates 339 00:17:38,359 --> 00:17:40,960 Speaker 1: with the sense of space euphoria where you finally sort 340 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:43,760 Speaker 1: of rise above it. So you have this whole um 341 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:49,359 Speaker 1: sort of journey through the through the various ranges of 342 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:52,760 Speaker 1: human emotion. There's are huge ups and downs and emotion. 343 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:56,040 Speaker 1: And of course, uh, those people who are administrating the 344 00:17:56,119 --> 00:18:00,480 Speaker 1: program are very cognizant of this, and obviously they try 345 00:18:00,560 --> 00:18:04,640 Speaker 1: to choose people who are the healthiest mentally. In can 346 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:07,639 Speaker 1: kind of roll with the punches, right, because if you 347 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:10,159 Speaker 1: slight someone, or if you're the one who's slighted, you 348 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:13,359 Speaker 1: cannot go off the handle in this situation. In fact, 349 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:16,320 Speaker 1: one of the crews of sky Lab, NASA's first attempt 350 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:20,760 Speaker 1: at a space station, became so annoyed with their circumstances, 351 00:18:21,359 --> 00:18:25,200 Speaker 1: uh that they placed that annoyance on mission control during 352 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:27,560 Speaker 1: their eighty four days in space, and they mutiny need 353 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:31,920 Speaker 1: they felt, and they turned off all communication. Because again, 354 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:36,600 Speaker 1: this is a very specific psychological situation. And if you 355 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:39,640 Speaker 1: need someone to blame, you can either blame each other 356 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:43,080 Speaker 1: or one another, or you can blame mission control, right, yeah, 357 00:18:43,119 --> 00:18:46,440 Speaker 1: I mean you can also blame inanimate objects like I. 358 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:49,439 Speaker 1: I've certainly stubbed my toe on like coffee tables before, 359 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:51,480 Speaker 1: and I think if I had an airlock, I would 360 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:54,000 Speaker 1: have I would have sent the coffee table out the airlock. 361 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:59,160 Speaker 1: I think the room bout too. The room was blameless. Really, 362 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:01,119 Speaker 1: I feel like you've turned a corner with Romo, Like 363 00:19:01,119 --> 00:19:02,800 Speaker 1: you were, there were some annoyance with it, and now 364 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:05,480 Speaker 1: there's love. I don't remember having annoyance with room. Roomba 365 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 1: requires a certain amount of upkeep and and and PLC 366 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:14,280 Speaker 1: and and battery life to h to maintain its objectives. 367 00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:17,720 Speaker 1: So it's it's a much more nurturing relationship than people 368 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:23,679 Speaker 1: tend to think when they first purchased a robotic vacuum cleaner. Well, 369 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:26,320 Speaker 1: and I suppose the same thing is going on with 370 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:28,479 Speaker 1: I F S AND's in the same way. It's kind 371 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:30,200 Speaker 1: of like a giant room, but it's very sensitive and 372 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:32,199 Speaker 1: you have to keep maintaining. I wonder if anyone ever 373 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:34,120 Speaker 1: gets annoyed with a coworker and then goes and talks 374 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:36,280 Speaker 1: to Robina about it, and they're they're just like, oh 375 00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:40,000 Speaker 1: my god, Cindy will not shut up, and about the 376 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:44,520 Speaker 1: batter cats, and so you're just you know, completely over there, 377 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:48,520 Speaker 1: just trying to robinot about it. Well, that's the thing, um, 378 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:53,480 Speaker 1: you know, astronauts are basically trained to sort of self soothe, 379 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:57,680 Speaker 1: and they're they're trained in conflict resolution, because the idea 380 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:00,320 Speaker 1: is that you don't you want to be able to 381 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:04,200 Speaker 1: board uh the I S S with as even keel 382 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:07,400 Speaker 1: and as many tools in your toolbox and dealing with 383 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:11,000 Speaker 1: others as opposed to um sort of dealing with the 384 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:15,920 Speaker 1: after effects of that, right because because obviously somebody sulking 385 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:19,479 Speaker 1: and turning off all communication is not really an option, 386 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:21,920 Speaker 1: that is that is to be avoided at all costs. 387 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:24,399 Speaker 1: And I have read to that in instances where there 388 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:28,879 Speaker 1: are some really dire situations that that astronauts or astronauts 389 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:33,840 Speaker 1: can then video sort of their complaint and send it 390 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:37,560 Speaker 1: kind of like MTV reality, like when I think they're 391 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:42,679 Speaker 1: the precursorvice right, um, and then mission control can review 392 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:45,640 Speaker 1: it and sort of give feedback. But those are really 393 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:48,600 Speaker 1: dire situations. The idea is to to board and to 394 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:52,600 Speaker 1: try to self suthe and to correct yourself as many 395 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:56,800 Speaker 1: places as possible. So to that end, another tool in 396 00:20:56,840 --> 00:21:01,760 Speaker 1: the toolbox. Uh, well, drugs, right, I mean, medication is 397 00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:05,439 Speaker 1: is certainly extremely helpful um in situations such as this, 398 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:07,439 Speaker 1: and there are a number of them. Um. Some of 399 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:10,040 Speaker 1: these are medications that of course deal with just the 400 00:21:10,359 --> 00:21:13,359 Speaker 1: some of the physical symptoms of of of weightlessness that 401 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:16,160 Speaker 1: deal with nausea or headaches and what have you. Um. 402 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:18,240 Speaker 1: There are also things to deal with the bone mass. 403 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:21,720 Speaker 1: But then there are there are also various medications that 404 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:25,600 Speaker 1: are very homed in on the mind and the mental 405 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:29,240 Speaker 1: states moti pheno. Right, this is this is a mood enhancement, 406 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:34,240 Speaker 1: memory improving and mood brightening psychostimulants. So this enhances weightfulness, 407 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:37,200 Speaker 1: attention capacity, and vigilance, which is really important, right because 408 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:38,639 Speaker 1: if you're trying to adjust to all of this and 409 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:41,560 Speaker 1: you have research that you have to conduct, if you 410 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:43,920 Speaker 1: have a space walk, you want to be alert. Yeah, 411 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:47,000 Speaker 1: it's all about optimizing their performance, no matter how fatigued 412 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:49,840 Speaker 1: or cranky they are. So because I mean, it comes 413 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:51,879 Speaker 1: down to it. If there's something that really needs to 414 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:54,040 Speaker 1: be done on I s s uh you know, and 415 00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:57,600 Speaker 1: it's you know, potentially life or death, it doesn't it 416 00:21:57,640 --> 00:21:59,360 Speaker 1: doesn't matter if you're tired, it doesn't matter if you're 417 00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:02,080 Speaker 1: in a cranky mood. Here, take three of these and 418 00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:04,600 Speaker 1: go do a space wall. Yeah, it's kind of the 419 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:08,159 Speaker 1: suck it up drug. Alright, let's take a quick break 420 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:10,000 Speaker 1: and when we get back, we are going to talk 421 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:22,520 Speaker 1: about this psychotic contingency plan. All right, we're back. So 422 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:27,880 Speaker 1: duct tape it's not just something that's super useful here 423 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:31,920 Speaker 1: on Earth, also in outer space. It turns out, yes, now, 424 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:35,960 Speaker 1: duct tape it comes in handy in cases of space madness. Now, 425 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:39,320 Speaker 1: of course, space madness is one of the great tropes 426 00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:42,199 Speaker 1: of of science fiction, the idea that people will go 427 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:45,119 Speaker 1: into space and they'll they'll go a little mad, and 428 00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:47,440 Speaker 1: there as we've discussed here. There's a certain amount of 429 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:49,800 Speaker 1: truth to that. It's a it's a it's an environment 430 00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:52,400 Speaker 1: that can tax the human body and the human mind. 431 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:56,200 Speaker 1: It can force people uh into into places in their 432 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:58,520 Speaker 1: own minds they're maybe not used to going. Someone could 433 00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:00,960 Speaker 1: conceivably snap. So you see it all the time and 434 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,240 Speaker 1: films people are always experiencing space. Man's to be it 435 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:07,440 Speaker 1: like Sunshine or Pandorum or I mean, the list goes on. 436 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:10,440 Speaker 1: People go nuts, they do crazy things, and certainly duct 437 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:12,280 Speaker 1: tape could be helpful in this case. If you needed 438 00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:15,440 Speaker 1: to duct tape, you're saying, uh, coworkers up and then 439 00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:17,359 Speaker 1: force everyone to have a tea party on the outside 440 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:20,880 Speaker 1: of the ship. But it's also goodly specific. But it's 441 00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:24,480 Speaker 1: also very useful according to NASA, in dealing with that 442 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:28,760 Speaker 1: um individual before he or she makes everyone go out 443 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:31,159 Speaker 1: for a teat party. It's true. So that's why. In 444 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:35,280 Speaker 1: addition to duct tape, NASA also has tranquilizers on hand 445 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:38,040 Speaker 1: in case anyone flies off the handle in the serious way. 446 00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:40,560 Speaker 1: According to a two thousand and seven report from the 447 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:44,840 Speaker 1: a P Associated Press, astronauts keep a few tranquilizers on hand, 448 00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:49,080 Speaker 1: and NASA recommends binding the individual for wrists and ankles 449 00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:51,640 Speaker 1: with duct tapes, strapping them down with a bungee cord, 450 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:55,800 Speaker 1: and if necessary, sticking them with that tranquilizer. That makes 451 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:57,199 Speaker 1: me feel better, just to know that there is a 452 00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:01,840 Speaker 1: contingency plan. Yeah, because again it's a high stakes environment 453 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:03,399 Speaker 1: and if somebody goes off the handle, there's not a 454 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:05,160 Speaker 1: lot of room to deal with them. There's not a break. 455 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:07,960 Speaker 1: You're gonna have to just duct tape them up and 456 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:11,800 Speaker 1: and settle them down with some some soothing pharmaceuticals. It's true, 457 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:15,399 Speaker 1: if someone flies off the handle here at hs W headquarters, 458 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:17,760 Speaker 1: they can just go down to the little store in 459 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:21,760 Speaker 1: our building. They can get some smarties, banana yea cool 460 00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:24,840 Speaker 1: off a bit. But yeah, outer space, you've got a 461 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:28,560 Speaker 1: lot of money at stake and a lot of man hours, 462 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:31,639 Speaker 1: so you can't have the craziness going on. Yeah, you 463 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:33,680 Speaker 1: can't just go out for a stroll. I mean, you 464 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:36,000 Speaker 1: could go out for a stroll, but that's because me 465 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:40,560 Speaker 1: even more pressure. So that leads us to this next 466 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:43,560 Speaker 1: sort of idea of how to deal with emotions in space, 467 00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:46,240 Speaker 1: how to deal with our humanness, and that is soothing 468 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:50,239 Speaker 1: The Savage Beast with music. Yes, I mean music has 469 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:52,639 Speaker 1: always been a part of our journeys into space. I 470 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:55,600 Speaker 1: mean that if you've followed my Space music block series 471 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:57,480 Speaker 1: at all, you'll see that. In addition to me just 472 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:01,560 Speaker 1: sharing stuff that has very levels of connection to the 473 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:03,960 Speaker 1: space and space exporation, I I've done a number of 474 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:08,280 Speaker 1: posts about astronauts bringing up instruments, smuggling instruments aboard, various 475 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:10,800 Speaker 1: music that has taken place in space or somehow involved 476 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:14,920 Speaker 1: UM space exploration data in one way or another. And uh, 477 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,200 Speaker 1: and as we've talked about before, music is a powerful 478 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:21,000 Speaker 1: thing and it can It can really change your mind. 479 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:23,280 Speaker 1: It can control the way you're feeling, it can dictate 480 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:26,560 Speaker 1: the way you feel so and also more importantly, it 481 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:29,480 Speaker 1: is a slice of life on planet Earth that you 482 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:31,200 Speaker 1: can bring up with you. It's another part of our 483 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:35,560 Speaker 1: environment that can be taken into this hostile, unreal environment 484 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:39,200 Speaker 1: and make everything seem a little more normal. Yeah. I mean, 485 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:41,159 Speaker 1: there are a raft of studies that talk about the 486 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:44,800 Speaker 1: healing qualities of are the healing properties of music? Just 487 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:49,200 Speaker 1: recently this week there was an item about how live music, 488 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:54,280 Speaker 1: in particular played in neonatal intensive care units actually helped 489 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:58,600 Speaker 1: premium babies to um sort of recover from some of 490 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:03,919 Speaker 1: those um complications that arise from premature birth much faster. 491 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:07,600 Speaker 1: So you know, imagine, yes, you are in this environment 492 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:09,800 Speaker 1: on the I S S. You've got some sensory deprivation 493 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:11,720 Speaker 1: going on. You're not able to cuddle all the time 494 00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:14,080 Speaker 1: and have that twenty second hug that we know releases 495 00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:15,760 Speaker 1: oxytose and it makes you feel better unless you're going 496 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:19,639 Speaker 1: and then I don't know how how nice he hugs are, 497 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:22,119 Speaker 1: or you have your hug shirt on. That's true. You 498 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:26,160 Speaker 1: can have technology, can you You can. You can bring 499 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:28,919 Speaker 1: that music with you, you can play it. Chris Hadfield 500 00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:31,879 Speaker 1: actually has a special guitar that he plays on board 501 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:35,080 Speaker 1: the I S. S Uh. The thing is, you still 502 00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:38,159 Speaker 1: have to try to relearn that right because your hands 503 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:40,639 Speaker 1: are moving differently. He says that when you're moving fast 504 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:43,040 Speaker 1: on the neck of the guitar, you often miss the 505 00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:45,520 Speaker 1: threats because on Earth you're used to the weight of 506 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:47,119 Speaker 1: your arm, which kind of helps you track where your 507 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:50,200 Speaker 1: hand is going. But without gravity, you overshoot the mark. 508 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:54,960 Speaker 1: So in this soothing, in this soothing version of music, 509 00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:57,800 Speaker 1: you still I'm sure have a bit of frustration getting 510 00:26:57,840 --> 00:26:59,760 Speaker 1: to that point we're like, Okay, it's going to take 511 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:02,560 Speaker 1: the week the master playing the guitar again in space. 512 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:05,520 Speaker 1: But when I do, boy will. What I love about 513 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:08,280 Speaker 1: this is that here on Earth he probably doesn't even 514 00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:10,920 Speaker 1: rank um. Like, I mean, there's no doubt he doesn't 515 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:15,119 Speaker 1: even rank among the top guitarists there are. There are 516 00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:17,679 Speaker 1: many great guitarists on Earth, and he's he's been an 517 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:20,560 Speaker 1: aunt in their shadows. But take the game up into 518 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,960 Speaker 1: orbit and he outclasses them all. I bet everyone else 519 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:28,040 Speaker 1: would be just fumbling in spacey shreds. Yeah for sure. UM. 520 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:31,399 Speaker 1: But here's the thing about musical instruments. Uh, any of 521 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:34,399 Speaker 1: them can be brought up, but for safety, they all 522 00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:39,840 Speaker 1: have to meet certain standards. Yes, which instrument were, like 523 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:42,520 Speaker 1: an organ would be kind of difficult or yeah, grand 524 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:45,639 Speaker 1: piano would be sort of difficult to do. UM. So 525 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:48,880 Speaker 1: for safety, the current electronic keyboard that's on the ISS 526 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:51,399 Speaker 1: had to be tested to ensure there wasn't a significant 527 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:55,240 Speaker 1: source of electromagnetic radiation which could throw off the instruments 528 00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:58,359 Speaker 1: on board. UM. And then all instruments have to be 529 00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:01,679 Speaker 1: tested for toxicity, even a trace amount to something like 530 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:05,480 Speaker 1: an oil based chemical like benzene. Is dangerous for astronauts 531 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:08,480 Speaker 1: to inhale an enclosed space. Yeah. Like, I think back 532 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:10,919 Speaker 1: to when I played trumpet in high school and that 533 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:14,040 Speaker 1: thing was just I mean, it's full of oils and spit. 534 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:17,679 Speaker 1: I mean, the spit valve is pretty nasty and disturbing 535 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:21,240 Speaker 1: here on Earth. Imagine an orbit, whereas just you, it's 536 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:23,919 Speaker 1: just I don't even know where how it would collect. 537 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,000 Speaker 1: I would have to I have have not researched it. 538 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:28,760 Speaker 1: But now I'm suddenly really interested in trumpet playing in orbit. 539 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:31,360 Speaker 1: I'm sure someone's brought one up. I bet they got 540 00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:33,600 Speaker 1: a stink I if they played it, though, right, you 541 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:36,080 Speaker 1: probably have to go in the bathroom cry there and 542 00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:41,960 Speaker 1: then play your trumpet there. Um. Another way that I 543 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,800 Speaker 1: think is really important that we've seen emerge out of 544 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:47,640 Speaker 1: the I S s UM is this idea of documenting 545 00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:50,760 Speaker 1: your experience is a way to sort of cope with 546 00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:54,680 Speaker 1: the realities. Yeah. This has been a part of NASA's 547 00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:59,520 Speaker 1: plan for a mental stability and space from pretty early on. 548 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:02,080 Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, And I think that it's even just 549 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:04,920 Speaker 1: that these wrote things. This minutia, I think, to me 550 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:09,840 Speaker 1: sort of gets at least me excited about space exploration. 551 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:12,920 Speaker 1: Because it really does pull back the curtain. So not 552 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:16,760 Speaker 1: only does Chris had Feel regularly tweets stunning photos of Earth, 553 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:21,240 Speaker 1: which in and of itself is glorious to behold. Um, 554 00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:25,160 Speaker 1: he's got his SoundCloud samples as we heard at the 555 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:29,520 Speaker 1: top of the episode, of just various things in space 556 00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:33,120 Speaker 1: or on the I s s that you hear. And 557 00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:36,760 Speaker 1: I think that's one interesting because it's sort of like 558 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:40,920 Speaker 1: a soundtrack tor raiser Head, which has lots of crazy 559 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:43,920 Speaker 1: ambient noises to it. But two really does give you 560 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:47,680 Speaker 1: insight into to what that existence might be like. So yeah, 561 00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:50,000 Speaker 1: it might just be uh, you know, some sort of 562 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:53,440 Speaker 1: insight into like how do you deal with fingernail clipping 563 00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:57,160 Speaker 1: in space? But still that is is something that you're like, 564 00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:58,800 Speaker 1: you know, I never thought about that. I never thought 565 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:00,760 Speaker 1: that just clipping my nails with fly off into the 566 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:02,640 Speaker 1: face of coworkers, or that you'd have to have a 567 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:04,840 Speaker 1: special process for that. Well, if you've ever been hit 568 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:07,320 Speaker 1: in the face by a fingernail flying off of clippers, 569 00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:09,280 Speaker 1: then you know that it can be extremely dangerous. Well, 570 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:11,880 Speaker 1: you already know how I feel about fingernail clipping in 571 00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:14,360 Speaker 1: the office, so I think you can imagine the sort 572 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:16,480 Speaker 1: of tackles that would be raised for me if I 573 00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:20,120 Speaker 1: were an astronaut next to someone who was clipping their fingernails. 574 00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:24,000 Speaker 1: But again, this drives home this idea that nothing is 575 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:27,440 Speaker 1: sort of normal or just wrote or boring in space, 576 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,920 Speaker 1: because everything has to be rethought, relearned and thought about. 577 00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:33,520 Speaker 1: You know, if I can come back to media board 578 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:35,680 Speaker 1: I S S for a minute. A few years back, 579 00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:38,680 Speaker 1: they actually released a list of the various books, DVDs 580 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:41,440 Speaker 1: and albums that were available up there, and I imagine 581 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:43,360 Speaker 1: it's changed since then because now everything is even more 582 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:45,080 Speaker 1: and more digital. It just doesn't make sense for there 583 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:48,400 Speaker 1: to be a bunch of physical albums or physical books 584 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:51,000 Speaker 1: located on the I S S. But some of the 585 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:54,680 Speaker 1: musical options included, um The Age of Aquarius by the 586 00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:58,880 Speaker 1: Fifth to mention, there was the album American Patriot by 587 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:02,600 Speaker 1: Lee Greenwood. Are was Woven in Time by Steve green 588 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:04,320 Speaker 1: There was a College that you could also listen to, 589 00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:09,280 Speaker 1: College Fight Songs Volumes one, two and three, Beethoven Symphony 590 00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:11,520 Speaker 1: Number nine, the Very Best of Staying in the Police 591 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:15,280 Speaker 1: Elephant by the Black Eyed Peas. It was a pretty 592 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:17,840 Speaker 1: interesting list. And then when you weren't listening to those musics. 593 00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:20,480 Speaker 1: You could watch a DVD of a brother where art 594 00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:24,960 Speaker 1: thou uh Serenity Sea Lab and you could you could 595 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:28,600 Speaker 1: also read the likes of Isaac Asimov's Foundation, and so 596 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:31,800 Speaker 1: that reminds me that it's not just that their astronauts 597 00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:35,280 Speaker 1: up there doing things um in a very autonomous way. 598 00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:37,280 Speaker 1: There is a sort of big brother figure, I guess 599 00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:41,000 Speaker 1: you could say, in the form of mission control making 600 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,440 Speaker 1: sure that things are going smoothly. And I thought it 601 00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:46,240 Speaker 1: would be interesting to bring up that they are keeping 602 00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:49,320 Speaker 1: an eye and ear out. In fact, it was a 603 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:53,560 Speaker 1: Russian support staff remember that spotted that the canary in 604 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:58,360 Speaker 1: the coal mine during a mission is the cosmonauts speech rhythms, 605 00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:02,320 Speaker 1: because this will tell you early signs of strain. So 606 00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:06,680 Speaker 1: even just monitoring the speech patterns gives mission control an 607 00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:09,280 Speaker 1: idea of what is going on. And in the case 608 00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:13,440 Speaker 1: of the Russian supports staff member, they actually would arrange 609 00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:17,600 Speaker 1: surprise gifts when they heard attention in speech patterns like 610 00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:23,480 Speaker 1: hidden on the on board already in supply ships. Yeah, 611 00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:26,600 Speaker 1: and then then they would arrange for cheery telephone calls 612 00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:30,200 Speaker 1: from celebrities or you know, from family members, just to 613 00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:33,760 Speaker 1: try to keep everybody's spirits up. Interesting, yeah, the man 614 00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:37,560 Speaker 1: behind the curtain. Yeah. And then there's this idea that 615 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:39,800 Speaker 1: you can keep your spirits up by focusing on the 616 00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:43,360 Speaker 1: wonder and the awe of it all. Nicole Stott is 617 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:45,880 Speaker 1: an astronaut, and she said I believe that she was 618 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:48,120 Speaker 1: in a two thousand and ten mission. She described the 619 00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:51,000 Speaker 1: sense of wonder and awe by saying that one of 620 00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:53,000 Speaker 1: the most interesting things to me is that while I'm 621 00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:56,720 Speaker 1: still in floating, I can feel the reaction or maybe 622 00:32:56,760 --> 00:33:00,479 Speaker 1: better described as a motion through my body from something 623 00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:03,520 Speaker 1: as slight as my heart beat. My heart beats, and 624 00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:06,440 Speaker 1: I can actually feel like this space station is moving 625 00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:09,360 Speaker 1: around me because of it, when in fact it's really 626 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:12,480 Speaker 1: my whole body gently moving in response to it, and 627 00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:15,640 Speaker 1: not the station motion at all. Well, there you have it, 628 00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:20,120 Speaker 1: life and space, crying in space, emotion and space. Um 629 00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:23,320 Speaker 1: that it does make you think. So let's call over 630 00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:26,680 Speaker 1: our own Robinot to provide us with a little listener mail. 631 00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:30,880 Speaker 1: This first one comes to us from Murphy. Murphy rights 632 00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:32,880 Speaker 1: ten and says, Hi, Robert and Julie. I go to 633 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:35,720 Speaker 1: school in Boston, and so I ride the elevators every 634 00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:38,160 Speaker 1: day when I ride with other people, I tend to 635 00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:41,640 Speaker 1: act with normal elevator behavior, but when I ride them alone, 636 00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,320 Speaker 1: things get a little strange. After the door closes, I 637 00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:46,680 Speaker 1: like to kneel on the ground, then as the elevator 638 00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:49,920 Speaker 1: starts to lift, I stand up on one foot, knee out, 639 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:52,760 Speaker 1: elbow in, and one arm in the air. I kind 640 00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:54,960 Speaker 1: of hope that if anyone was watching me with X 641 00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:57,120 Speaker 1: ray or something, it would look like I was a 642 00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:00,920 Speaker 1: superhero leaping up off the ground with amazing drink. Sometimes 643 00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:03,239 Speaker 1: I just pay some circles as I go up, and 644 00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:05,320 Speaker 1: other times I face with my back to the door 645 00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:08,920 Speaker 1: and turn around dramatically after it's full open. I love 646 00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:14,200 Speaker 1: the show dirt Pad and stuff. I love everything about that, 647 00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:18,279 Speaker 1: including the sign off being on an elevator alone. It 648 00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:20,920 Speaker 1: does sort of I don't know if there's anything particularly 649 00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:22,799 Speaker 1: weird I do. I guess I'm more prone to to 650 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:25,480 Speaker 1: move around and sort of bob and weave a little 651 00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:28,719 Speaker 1: bit if I'm caffeinated. Sure, I think all of us do, 652 00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:31,960 Speaker 1: maybe maybe do some personal grooming if there's a mirror, right. 653 00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:34,080 Speaker 1: Sometimes I feel like like when you know when the 654 00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:35,799 Speaker 1: door opens and you don't think anyone's on and then 655 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:38,400 Speaker 1: you go on. And then but if somebody's already aboard 656 00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:40,239 Speaker 1: and they're like and and so there's this awkward moment 657 00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:41,600 Speaker 1: where they're like, I'm trying to get off, and then 658 00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:43,400 Speaker 1: you're like, I'm sorry, I should have been rushing on 659 00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:45,839 Speaker 1: board the elevator. But then like I kind of judge 660 00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:47,560 Speaker 1: them too, because I feel like you were hiding in 661 00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:49,840 Speaker 1: the shadows or something, you know, like where did you 662 00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:52,480 Speaker 1: come from? You should have been more clearly visible. Why 663 00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:55,560 Speaker 1: weren't you standing right at the door. I challenge you 664 00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:57,960 Speaker 1: next time that happens, to have that discussion with that 665 00:34:58,000 --> 00:34:59,719 Speaker 1: person and be like, you know, I have got to 666 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:02,840 Speaker 1: talk you about something. Can I pull you aside and 667 00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:04,359 Speaker 1: talk to you about how I feel like you're doing 668 00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:06,919 Speaker 1: this intentionally and hiding in the shadows and what that's 669 00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:09,880 Speaker 1: doing to me emotionally. Al Right, here's another one. This 670 00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:12,759 Speaker 1: one comes to us from Eric, who writes into us 671 00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:15,880 Speaker 1: pretty regular and says, when I was a kid, my 672 00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:18,239 Speaker 1: dad was part owner of a small plane. We were 673 00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:20,480 Speaker 1: flying at night and I noticed a faint blue ring 674 00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:23,560 Speaker 1: where the prop was. My dad took his hand and 675 00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:26,040 Speaker 1: put it close to the windshield, and tiny bolts of 676 00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:28,960 Speaker 1: lightning shot out of his fingers. I tried it too 677 00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:31,759 Speaker 1: and felt a slight tingling, but it was fun to 678 00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:35,279 Speaker 1: pretend to be Emperor Palpatine. I know St. Almo's fire 679 00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:37,759 Speaker 1: isn't lightning, but it was still cool. I've never been 680 00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:40,520 Speaker 1: struck myself, but it's a subject that fascinates me. There 681 00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:43,000 Speaker 1: was actually a televised soccer game that was struck by lightning. 682 00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:45,520 Speaker 1: It was strange because several players were hurt while several 683 00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:47,920 Speaker 1: were not. Some of the injured players were much farther 684 00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:51,080 Speaker 1: away from where the lightning struck the field than players 685 00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:53,520 Speaker 1: who were not hurt. It was later discovered that only 686 00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:55,560 Speaker 1: the players with both feet on the ground were the 687 00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:59,160 Speaker 1: ones hurt. Eric This just reminded me that one of 688 00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:02,080 Speaker 1: our was Sures I'm very fond of, was was asking 689 00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:05,799 Speaker 1: about us doing an episode on Tonitas, and recently there's 690 00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:09,920 Speaker 1: a news item about the connection between Tonitas and lightning. 691 00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:12,439 Speaker 1: So perhaps something that we want to explore the sort 692 00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:14,560 Speaker 1: of after effects, and we did explore a bit in 693 00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:20,400 Speaker 1: terms of migraines as well. But any who cool, All right, Well, hey, 694 00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:23,319 Speaker 1: you guys know the uh the speel If you would 695 00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:25,560 Speaker 1: like to talk to us about any of this if 696 00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:29,160 Speaker 1: you have some comments about elevators, comments about lightning, comments 697 00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:33,799 Speaker 1: about the the I S s about weightlessness in reality 698 00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:38,040 Speaker 1: or in fiction, your expectations of life in orbit, or 699 00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:41,799 Speaker 1: what do you think about these cool SoundCloud files of 700 00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,200 Speaker 1: of ambient noise aboard the I S. Would you be 701 00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:46,359 Speaker 1: able to sleep through that? Or you, like me, would 702 00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:48,319 Speaker 1: you prefer to sleep through that? We'd love to hear 703 00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:50,640 Speaker 1: from me. You can find us on Facebook. 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