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Speaker 1: Job mission with join Z and Amanda. It's really an

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Speaker 1: interesting story the other day about the new NASA mission

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Speaker 1: to Mars. Over the years, the missions have been a

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Speaker 1: mix of men and women. Well that's what happened in

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Speaker 1: The Martian, and The Martian was so good. I actually

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Speaker 1: thought that it happened. No, that's a movie. This is

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Speaker 1: real life. I yes, I know, but it was so good.

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Speaker 1: I thought, Oh, I actually, haven't we been to Mars

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Speaker 1: but we have it. No, we haven't. And the new

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Speaker 1: mission to Mars could be all female and it would

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Speaker 1: be a one and a half year journey to the

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Speaker 1: Red planet, which is a pretty extraordinary set of circumstances

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Speaker 1: for the people they select. But here's why they think

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Speaker 1: they may be best suited for women. But they haven't

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Speaker 1: done it in the past because they NASA said it

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Speaker 1: felt like a stunt. But women are potentially better suited

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Speaker 1: for long space travel. Women are generally smaller and sending

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Speaker 1: lighter humans into space, less weight, less maneuvering, less fuel,

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Speaker 1: cost less money. So obviously there's all also less waste products,

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Speaker 1: et cetera. Women suffer less waste products. Well, they're eating

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Speaker 1: less food, there's less output, less in less out, smaller women,

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Speaker 1: smaller staff. I'm not a scientist, Brendan, but try and

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Speaker 1: keep up. Hang on, this is you well certain other

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Speaker 1: body excretions less for women, so lower demands on the spacecraft.

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Speaker 1: Women suffer. Women suffer less from problematic physical effects of spaceflight.

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Speaker 1: They've shown women's bodies have an edge in tolerating spaceflight's

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Speaker 1: effects in terms of the effect on your eyesight, immune responses,

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Speaker 1: et cetera. Female bodies are better adapted. Women have some

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Speaker 1: personality traits suited for longer duration missions. Studies show that

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Speaker 1: men excel it shorter term goal oriented situations where this

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Speaker 1: would be longer term habitation style circumstances and where interpersonal

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Speaker 1: groups get center set up and you need to be

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Speaker 1: sensitive to how everyone's feeling in this bigger group for

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Speaker 1: a lot longer period of time. They're saying that would

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Speaker 1: be better for women, and populating the world requires reproduction.

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Speaker 1: You have to have women to do that. There's a

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Speaker 1: suggestion that sending an all female crew and a sperm

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Speaker 1: bank really would economize on increasing the genetic diversity of

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Speaker 1: the parental pool. What's locking from the bachelor doing having

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Speaker 1: it off with a jar As we speak, But what's

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Speaker 1: very interesting, The most important reason as to why they

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Speaker 1: don't want men and women on this mission is they

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Speaker 1: say that male and female astronauts over a year and

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Speaker 1: a half could get frisky, and they say that that

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Speaker 1: could lead to feuding between the other people on the flight.

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Speaker 1: If two astronauts were to get frisky and the female

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Speaker 1: felt pregnant, there's a lot of radiation. They don't know

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Speaker 1: what the effects on the baby would be. They asked

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Speaker 1: them to maintain professional standards, but they are saying for

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Speaker 1: a year and a half one point five years, they

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Speaker 1: can't control the fact that they want to have it off.

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Speaker 1: My wife should go on that she see someone to

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Speaker 1: have it off. That both of you could be there

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Speaker 1: and you'd both be fine. You'd be winging on the

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Speaker 1: potatoes and that'd be about it. Mister and missus Jones

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Speaker 1: were worried about you getting frisky. No, no, we're fine.

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Speaker 1: We'll be fine. We'll be married thirty years with join

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Speaker 1: Z and Amanda