WEBVTT - Emotions in Outer Space 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:05.960 Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind from how Stuff 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:14.120 Works dot com. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind. 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:17.040 My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Julie Douglas. Julie, 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:19.079 I know you have seen this video that's been making 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:20.880 the rounds. I know you've seen it because we watched 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:23.840 it together and did a whole episode of our video 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:27.000 series about viral videos about it. But we have the 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:31.200 video about crying in space and what that might consist of. Yeah, 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:34.440 it is a great video was put out by the 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:38.960 I S S Commander, International Space Station Commander Chris Hatfield, 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:42.760 and he demonstrates what it is like to cry in space. 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:46.160 Now he doesn't actually he doesn't. Cried a sad novel 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:49.640 and then begin you know, he's a man, he is 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:53.360 he is manned up to a venture into the void 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:55.960 and he has that he seems like a really nice guy. 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:58.840 But you know, he's got a mustache. He has a mustache, 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:01.840 He has kind of a there's a certain machismo to 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:06.640 anybody that goes up into space, male or female. So um, yeah, 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:08.720 So if an astronaut is going to demonstrate what it's 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:10.200 like to cry and space, they're going to have to 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:12.280 escort some water in their eyes because these there are 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:15.280 some hard boiled eggs. That's right, man or woman, you 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:18.120 are a cowboy in outer space. So but one of 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:20.160 the great things about this video is that it really 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:22.360 does pull back the curtains on what it is like. 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:26.600 There's rote day to day activities, including crying, right because um, 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:29.839 I you know, assume that there are lots of emotional 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:31.959 issues in outer space. And we've talked about this a bit. 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:35.640 It's a high stress environment and as we're gonna get 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:38.720 into in in this in another podcast, and it's a 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:42.959 hostile environment, and and so it's possible that that tears 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.840 could occur, and in all likelihood they have occurred. You know, 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:48.880 just we've joked, there's been some pretty tense moments. You know, 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:51.440 they locked themselves in the bathroom and just boo who yeah. Well, 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:53.880 and then also you can there are other reasons tears 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:57.720 can form, you know, various irritations I irritations and sinus 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:00.560 and whatnot. And you know that has happened. But his 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:02.880 work has been great because he has he has done 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:05.080 a really nice job in these videos of shining light 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:09.600 on space minutia. You know, the little tiny bits of 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:11.960 daily life you might not think about, like if if 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:13.880 we didn't know better, I might think that they forgot 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:16.840 to assign him anything to do, and he's just shooting 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:18.360 a bunch of videos. But of course he has plenty 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:21.080 of other well as well. I think that the one 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:22.680 of the cool things about this video is that it 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:28.200 also underscores this idea that, uh, everything in space, everything 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:31.720 in microgravity, behaves differently. So even though we bring our 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:36.840 portable cages with us, right, we bring our own artificial environments, um, 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:39.960 you know in the capsule on the International Space Station, Uh, 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:43.600 we still have to sort of relearn how to be human. 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:47.120 So imagine that you have this really poignant moment that 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:50.720 you're stirring up in your emotions, and all of a sudden, 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:52.960 tears begin to well up in your eyes. Well they 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:55.760 don't just flow down, obviously, because there's no gravity. Instead, 0:02:56.120 --> 0:03:00.480 they just pool atop your eyeballs, growing fatter and more 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:05.400 obscenely large, until they break off into this big glob 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:07.760 in front of you and float off. And then somebody 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.280 could conceivably turn around and they're about to say, hey, 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:13.040 what are you crying about? And then the whole glob 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:15.000 of your tears just goes into their mouth, that's right, 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:18.320 and so it becomes this otherworldly experience, right, And I 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:20.840 imagine that the first couple of times people crying spaces 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:24.320 probably really fascinating. In fact, I bet that whatever you're 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:27.560 sad about, you know, that kind of no matter, it 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:29.840 no longer matters, right, because in front of you is 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:32.320 this big glob that you can play with. What if 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:35.560 you were missing gravity, You're crying because you miss gravity 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:36.920 so much, And then that just makes it all the 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:38.680 worse because you're like, I can't even cry, like nor 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:42.320 this is how I cry now. My tears mock me. Yeah. 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:46.000 As I mentioned in the video, I'd also um reminded 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:49.160 me a bit of Dante's Inferno. There's a bit there 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:51.880 where Dante and Virgil are in the on the frozen 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:54.560 lake of Casitas at the bottom of Hell, and these 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:57.720 individuals are are frozen in this lake with their heads 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:01.440 facing up, so that when they cry out in tears 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:04.000 and you know, repenting their sins or tears of anger, 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:08.040 the water pools in their sockets and freezes there. Um. 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:10.560 Which you know, if you start to think about it, 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:13.560 if you start to imagine worst case scenarios, you could 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:17.560 possibly envision in a situation where you're crying in space 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:21.279 and there's been a temperature failure in the capsule, temperatures 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:25.360 are plumbering, and those globs of of water in your 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:31.760 eye sockets could potentially freeesaw, so you get eyeball popsicles. Yeah. Nice. Now, 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:34.000 if you're exposed to the void itself, then the tears 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:36.400 will probably just boil off. But that's that's an entirely 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:40.640 different situation. Yeah, an entirely different episode as well. Uh Well, 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:42.800 in order for us to really talk about what it's 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:46.600 like to be human in space exploration, or to relearn 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:49.640 our humanness and how to deal with it, particularly emotions, 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:52.200 we should probably talk about space itself and then the 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:54.320 International Space Station, which is sort of where the grand 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:58.200 experiment has been playing out. Okay, yeah, Well, space itself, 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:03.120 the void, the great black yonder as it is, it's uh, 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:06.039 it's it is a very hostile environment because one of 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:07.440 the one of the things we always have to to 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:10.320 drive home here is that as human beings, we are 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:13.800 a We're an organism that is evolved to live in 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:18.280 a very thin layer of even our own atmosphere, in 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:21.120 our own environment. There are places on Earth that we 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:26.960 cannot live without the significant technological help. So if you 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:29.640 take us out of the planet entirely, then you're you've 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:32.480 taken us into a place of death. Yeah. True. I 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:34.800 mean we don't think about it because we don't see it. 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:37.599 But we are dealing with hundreds of pounds of pressure 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:39.680 in the air, right, We're just kind of used to 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:42.600 moving around in it. But in space, as we know 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:45.160 is that it's a vacuum. There is no air pressure. 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:48.720 Molecules are scant, right. But the way I like to 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:50.440 think of it is is think back to Star Trek. 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:54.040 You see William Schattner walking around um and he's he's 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:56.120 wearing his girdle, of course, and he's very he's very 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:59.840 confident in his in his torso because that girdle is 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:01.960 pressing in. And take that girdle away and he's going 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:04.240 to be very very self conscious, is going to be 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:07.520 totally put off. Nothing's going to feel right, and he's 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:09.800 going to have to relearn how he's doing everything around 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:12.840 the ship because the atmospheric pressure is kind of like 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:15.520 a girdle pressing in on us all the time, and 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:17.800 it becomes such a part of who we are and 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:20.400 how we experienced the world. We we don't even begin 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:23.400 to register it unless there's a significant change. And it's 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:26.559 funny because it's hard to divorce yourself from this uh 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:30.839 notion of air pressure or or even air molecule molecules 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:33.600 not being present because we think it there's empty air, 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:36.520 but of course air is not empty. Is it is heavy, 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:38.920 it is thick, it is pressing in on us and 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:42.440 spaces an environment where that is not present, and the 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:45.279 temperature space is at its coold is just the temperature 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:48.440 of the leftover glow from the Big Bang, the radiation 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:51.839 known as the cosmic microwave background based the entire universe 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:55.360 in the temperature of only two point seven kelvin. That's 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:58.960 less than three degrees above absolute zero or minus four 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:02.320 hundred and fifty five degrees fahrenheit. And of course we 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:05.400 have even more stats about what the environment of space 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:07.599 is like if you don't happen to have a space suit, 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:10.120 but that's a separate podcast episode. Tune in for that. 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:13.320 But if you do have a space suit and your 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:16.400 destination is the International Space Station, you are luck because 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:20.920 this is a habitable artificial satellite in low orbit space, 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:25.840 traveling about seventeen thousand miles plus change an hour in 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:29.000 order to stay in orbit, making gentle curve around the Earth. 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:33.840 And it's up there about two miles kios. And when 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:35.880 you're an orbit like that, things are waitless because they're 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:39.600 all falling at the same velocity. So, um, we should 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:42.160 point out that the I S S is actually in 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:45.160 its thirteenth year. That's right, first module went up in 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:50.360 we keep adding more to it. Yeah, I keep hearing 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:54.640 uh descriptions like frailer park or modules that snapped together, 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:56.800 and well, because that's the only way to do it right. 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:58.480 You can't take the whole you gotta bring it up 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:00.400 piece by piece and a symbol it there. It's kind 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:02.360 of kind of like my my bookshelf here at work. 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:04.480 Like if I ever lose my job, there's no way 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:06.120 I'll get all of them home because I brought them 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:07.480 in a little bit by a little bit by a 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:09.280 little bit. They would taking like a year to clear 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:11.320 all of it out. Yeah, it's just and and you know, 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:14.360 and that and all the other junk. But I've seen 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:17.400 the cost estimated at around a hundred and fifty billion dollars. 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:19.840 But then I've also seen people talk about the cost 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:22.120 of the International Space Station is really being the sort 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:25.640 of thing that you can't maybe more than the cost, 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:27.920 but the value. It's it's something you really can't even 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.680 put up a dollar amount on because so much work, 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:33.080 so much effort has gone into it. It is, uh, 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:34.760 it's kind of you know, we don't have much in 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:37.439 the way of super projects today here on Earth, but 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:40.840 it is. It is basically one of the modern marvels. 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:43.800 It is. It is like a pyramid for us. It is, 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:46.080 and there has been a ton of research conducted in 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:51.240 every expedition actually has certain research goals in mind. So 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:53.960 not only is it about maintaining that the actual I 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:55.800 S S, but it's also like, let's let's take a 0:08:55.800 --> 0:09:01.040 look at how X behaves in microgravity or some other experiment. 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:04.480 In fact, Expedition three five, which is right now the 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:08.920 the expedition that's in use is um being conducted by 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:12.080 a six person crew. Again, Chris Hadfield is the commander there, 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:18.000 and they are using an instrument called the Alpha bagnetic 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:21.719 Spectrometer two by the way, not one. It is a 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:24.800 state of the art particle physics detector. And recently in 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:27.680 the news there was an item about how they've gotten 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:32.080 a whiff of dark matter the spectrometer, which is really cool. Yeah, 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:34.120 So it's it's right that the I S. S is 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:37.120 not just a place where astronauts pretend to cry and 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:39.440 then take videos. It's not just a place where there 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:42.120 occasionally there's some sort of spat about a toilet going 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:45.040 off the whack. But it is a place on the 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:48.480 cutting edge of science. It is, and it is a very, 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:52.120 as we said, small space of cutting edge science going on. 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:54.560 We're talking about a living space that amounts to the 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:57.920 equivalent of roughly one and a half Boeing seven forty seven. 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:03.120 So let take a listen to what it sounds like 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:06.560 life aboard I S. S S and to some of the 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:10.840 ambient noises, so we can get an idea of what 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:13.680 sort of emotional landscape you might be butting up against 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:33.600 that if you are an astronaut. Now, I love that 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.200 because that that sounds like a lot of a lot 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:38.719 of music that I actually listened to. Like, I get 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:41.640 kind of a a pecker meets nurse with wound kind 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:45.200 of vibe there, a little ambient, a little industrial. It's 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:47.760 it's nice. Yeah, And those again we sort of take 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:51.520 uh quietude or you know this when we really want 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:53.920 quiet in our lives, for granted, because there is a 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:56.040 way that you can actually get to some sort of 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:58.400 total silence. Not always right, there's always going to be 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:01.599 ambient noise. I now a world like that, though I 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:03.440 would go to sleep to that, would you? I would 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:05.920 prefer that to absolute silence because absolute silence is just 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:09.360 a little loud to me. M okay. Actually, you had 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:11.360 a good block post about that recently, didn't you, Or 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:13.319 maybe it was on Facebook that you threw that up. 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:18.120 But there was a room that was sealed, wasn't itbook 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:21.959 Absolute Science and Silence, and people could not stand it. Correct. Yeah, 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:23.920 it can be a little maddening, And so I kind 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:25.880 like a little white noise or a little music when 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:27.400 I go to and go to sleep if I can 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:29.560 get it. I used to. I used to live in 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:32.880 a a living space where the bedroom is really close 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:36.280 to the kitchen, and so I could hear the dishwasher 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:39.439 really well at night, man, and I love that. If 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:41.199 it were up to me, I'd have the dishwasher in 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:44.520 the bedroom. Have you seen those toys that are four 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:48.920 babies that basically have like a white noise um sound 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:50.320 and it was such a sound like I guess like 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:53.640 the amnionic fluid rushing through I have not I have 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:56.000 not heard of it. And there's also a heartbeat setting. 0:11:56.200 --> 0:12:01.120 Is there a berg noise but a digestion noise? No, 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:03.560 but there should be giddings part because they're probably they 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:07.400 probably identify that as a as as a friend. I'm 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:10.600 just trying to imagine now, um getting one of those 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:14.120 uh sleep CDs and it having proper green meat me 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:18.719 digestion noises on it. Alright, So I mean we're spiraling 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:22.080 off here, um, losing altitude. Must must climb back up 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:26.800 realry back in capsule. Alright. So you're on the I 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:30.040 S S. You're having a bad day. What might a 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:35.680 bad day be in space? Well, I mean, you know, 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:37.959 it can get really bad if you want to get 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:41.600 into worst case scenarios, but just thinking about like a 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:45.880 normal day again, you're in close confines with your co 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:50.480 workers all the time, floating up in each other's business, 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:53.960 having to take care that your lunches don't float into 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:56.760 each other, that there's nothing you know, falling off your 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:58.800 face or or out of your face that's going to 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:02.160 float into the next person. It's true, and just the 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:05.280 act of eating. I've noticed it reminds me of um, 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:08.319 like broom hockey, Like you kind of have to use 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:11.320 your hands to direct food into your mouth, you know, 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:14.679 the goal hole of food. Otherwise, yes, that's going to 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:17.559 hit your coworker in the face. Yeah. And and thecorum 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.199 kind of goes out of the out the door a 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:22.440 little bit with the with the with the the eating 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:24.120 in space like the videos you see, it's a totally 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:27.680 different sort of philosophy of eating. It's just kind of 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:31.319 sending things up and catching them and other things. You're 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:34.640 just slurping out of a little box. It's it's interesting. 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:36.240 Do you like that you can kind of chomp it 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:38.440 and catch it in your mouth? Um? But yeah, so 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:42.160 they're they're a little um indignities that could be visited 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:44.679 upon you, right, I mean not to say nothing else 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:47.000 of you know, things can get pretty hectic when you 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:49.440 have situations like oh, something might hit the station and 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:52.480 we all have to crowd into one capsule just in 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.600 case we lose the station. I mean that it can 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:58.600 get really stressful as well. Plus they're there are various 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:01.600 stages that people to to go to when they're exposed 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:05.560 to micro microgravity first, I mean, first of all, when 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:09.840 you first step into microgravity UM, you spend the first 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:12.080 phase of your judney, your journey just adjusting to that 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:15.840 cramped environment with an upset stomach, headaches, and space most 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:19.640 space motion sickness. According to NASA's Johnson Space Center, you'll 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:25.560 also experience a drop in sleep efficiency greatly reduced rim. 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:29.200 Uh so, in other words, you may experience dream deprivation 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:33.080 as well. So you're uncomfortable, you're sluggish, and you're still 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:35.600 having to work with all these people. I mean, it's 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:39.080 it's hard enough to deal with people when you when 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:41.520 you're just having a trouble getting a full night sleep, 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:43.320 much less when you have all these other factors going 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:47.080 on UM and path that it gets even weirder. There's 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:51.040 like a second stage UM where you'll you'll you'll have 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:54.320 like a complete adaptation they say, for about six additional weeks. 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:56.080 So once you passed that first slump, you have kind 0:14:56.080 --> 0:15:00.280 of like the salad weeks there in space. But then 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:04.280 so you have a sense of euphoria. No, no, not euphoria, 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:06.120 you're just confident. You're like, all right, I got this. 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:07.800 I know how to use the bathroom, I know how 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:10.480 to eat peanut butter in space, Thank you very much. 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:13.520 I know how to move through the space without upsetting 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:17.600 everybody's laptops and everything else. Sleep patterns are decent. Uh, 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:19.840 And I mean that's a whole area. There's the sleeping, 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:21.440 because I've seen the One of the things you have 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:24.120 to remember is when we're sleeping, you you might touch 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:26.000 your face or whatnot. You might have some other kind 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:28.680 of sleep issues that could cause some sort of weirdness 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:31.120 or nightcares. But imagine sleeping and there's you have to 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:34.120 strap your your arms down because otherwise it'll float up 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:36.920 and just start pawing at your face during the night. Well, 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:39.040 it really is it tethered existence. And I was thinking 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:41.080 about this, is that you tether yourself to sleep. You 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:43.760 tether all the items that you need so that they're 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:45.800 available and you can find them. Otherwise everything is just 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:48.240 floating around. Yeah, you can't just set stuff on the nightstand. 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:50.600 You've got to have them to tether. Do your body 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:54.720 or do your bed wrappings. Well, and at this point 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:58.479 to presumably you have adjusted to the lack of diurnal 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:01.960 or nocturnal triggers rights the day and night. Um, you 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:04.760 are beginning to say Okay, so this is a this 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:08.320 is my brain adjusting to this lack of light, this sunlight, 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:12.560 and um a lack of touch as well, because this 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:14.360 is something that's pretty important. We've talked about this before. 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:17.680 It's very comforting to be touched. But obviously you are 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:20.480 you're with coworkers in the first place. Second of all, 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:23.200 it's not really you're not a situation where you would 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:27.200 be cuttling up presumably, And and just imagine too, like 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:29.200 so you wanted to stay cuttle up without you say, 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:31.040 we say you had like a nice blanket with you. 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:34.200 The experience of cuddling up with that blanket would be 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:36.840 extremely different in microgravity because it imagined like a nice 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:38.840 heavy blanket, how it sort of sits on you like 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:40.640 you wouldn't be able to You wouldn't get that because 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:44.280 the gravity is not not strong enough. That's true, right, 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:46.680 just even though the most basic thing of having that 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:50.480 pressure around you is removed. And so in time between 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:53.480 week six and week twelve, things start to get a 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:58.800 little moody, typically with people aboard the space station. Russian 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:02.400 observations found that a number of the symptoms were linked 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:06.119 to boredom and isolation. You become hyper sensitive, irritable, less motivated. 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:09.200 You may fly up the handle whenever a crew member 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:11.960 drifts into your personal space or you know, borrow some 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:14.560 of your stuff, you know, sort of you know, dorm 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:17.879 room annoyances uh too and uh and so yeah, you 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:21.399 get you get more uh sensitivity to allowed noises, uh, 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:26.080 your your musical preferences may change, uh, exhaustion, sleep disturbances, 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:28.720 loss of appetite. You might creep back into everything. It 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:31.199 becomes a very negative time before finally, towards the end 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:35.120 of your journey, you can expect to experience agitation, lack 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:38.160 of control and uh. And then it sort of culminates 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:40.960 with the sense of space euphoria where you finally sort 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:43.760 of rise above it. So you have this whole um 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:49.359 sort of journey through the through the various ranges of 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:52.760 human emotion. There's are huge ups and downs and emotion. 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:56.040 And of course, uh, those people who are administrating the 0:17:56.119 --> 0:18:00.480 program are very cognizant of this, and obviously they try 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:04.640 to choose people who are the healthiest mentally. In can 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:07.639 kind of roll with the punches, right, because if you 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:10.159 slight someone, or if you're the one who's slighted, you 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:13.359 cannot go off the handle in this situation. In fact, 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:16.320 one of the crews of sky Lab, NASA's first attempt 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:20.760 at a space station, became so annoyed with their circumstances, 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:25.200 uh that they placed that annoyance on mission control during 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:27.560 their eighty four days in space, and they mutiny need 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:31.920 they felt, and they turned off all communication. Because again, 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:36.600 this is a very specific psychological situation. And if you 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:39.640 need someone to blame, you can either blame each other 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:43.080 or one another, or you can blame mission control, right, yeah, 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:46.440 I mean you can also blame inanimate objects like I. 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:49.439 I've certainly stubbed my toe on like coffee tables before, 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:51.480 and I think if I had an airlock, I would 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:54.000 have I would have sent the coffee table out the airlock. 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:59.160 I think the room bout too. The room was blameless. Really, 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:01.119 I feel like you've turned a corner with Romo, Like 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:02.800 you were, there were some annoyance with it, and now 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:05.480 there's love. I don't remember having annoyance with room. Roomba 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:10.280 requires a certain amount of upkeep and and and PLC 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:14.280 and and battery life to h to maintain its objectives. 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:17.720 So it's it's a much more nurturing relationship than people 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:23.679 tend to think when they first purchased a robotic vacuum cleaner. Well, 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:26.320 and I suppose the same thing is going on with 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:28.479 I F S AND's in the same way. It's kind 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:30.200 of like a giant room, but it's very sensitive and 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:32.199 you have to keep maintaining. I wonder if anyone ever 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:34.120 gets annoyed with a coworker and then goes and talks 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:36.280 to Robina about it, and they're they're just like, oh 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:40.000 my god, Cindy will not shut up, and about the 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:44.520 batter cats, and so you're just you know, completely over there, 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:48.520 just trying to robinot about it. Well, that's the thing, um, 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:53.480 you know, astronauts are basically trained to sort of self soothe, 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:57.680 and they're they're trained in conflict resolution, because the idea 0:19:57.800 --> 0:20:00.320 is that you don't you want to be able to 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:04.200 board uh the I S S with as even keel 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:07.400 and as many tools in your toolbox and dealing with 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:11.000 others as opposed to um sort of dealing with the 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:15.920 after effects of that, right because because obviously somebody sulking 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:19.479 and turning off all communication is not really an option, 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:21.920 that is that is to be avoided at all costs. 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:24.399 And I have read to that in instances where there 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:28.879 are some really dire situations that that astronauts or astronauts 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:33.840 can then video sort of their complaint and send it 0:20:34.000 --> 0:20:37.560 kind of like MTV reality, like when I think they're 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:42.679 the precursorvice right, um, and then mission control can review 0:20:42.720 --> 0:20:45.640 it and sort of give feedback. But those are really 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:48.600 dire situations. The idea is to to board and to 0:20:48.800 --> 0:20:52.600 try to self suthe and to correct yourself as many 0:20:52.600 --> 0:20:56.800 places as possible. So to that end, another tool in 0:20:56.840 --> 0:21:01.760 the toolbox. Uh, well, drugs, right, I mean, medication is 0:21:01.760 --> 0:21:05.439 is certainly extremely helpful um in situations such as this, 0:21:05.520 --> 0:21:07.439 and there are a number of them. Um. Some of 0:21:07.480 --> 0:21:10.040 these are medications that of course deal with just the 0:21:10.359 --> 0:21:13.359 some of the physical symptoms of of of weightlessness that 0:21:13.480 --> 0:21:16.160