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Speaker 2: As he's in space. I hadn't realized it was only
Speaker 2: two years ago. Australia actually launched his own space agency.
Speaker 3: With very little fanfare. I don't remember that being a
Speaker 3: big thing in the country.
Speaker 2: One of the last countries in the world not to
Speaker 2: have a space agency. You've all seen everyone up there.
Speaker 2: He's thinking it were flying up there. You like public
Speaker 2: holiday today for certain states, but two years ago inside
Speaker 2: maybe there is something in the old space Oh, Nigeria
Speaker 2: got their space program ten years ago. Australia two years ago.
Speaker 1: Well, what's the British space program doing? I hadn't hear
Speaker 1: much about the British space program.
Speaker 2: Command to Tim, we've had actually had to go on
Speaker 2: the space station.
Speaker 1: Really, yeah, I'll have to take your word for a Commander.
Speaker 1: Tim is not a famous name to me.
Speaker 2: Great British space name, though, isn't he? Yeah? He Tim?
Speaker 2: What is his surname? And the only reason I remember
Speaker 2: Tim is four years ago he went up to it,
Speaker 2: became the first British guy to go up to the
Speaker 2: International Space Station. And I remember he was doing a
Speaker 2: thing and one of my kids school was selected where
Speaker 2: they had like a four minute window where three kids
Speaker 2: could ask him a question.
Speaker 3: I've heard about this, so why they're orbiting over? Then
Speaker 3: it's like a Ham radio.
Speaker 2: So the whole school special assembly. They're going live to
Speaker 2: the International Space Incredible, right, So I asked the kids
Speaker 2: later on, you know, I was so excited. I was like,
Speaker 2: what was it? Like? What was it like? God? Then
Speaker 2: he was talking about what he's doing up there? Right,
Speaker 2: and then it was his speciality was apparently he was
Speaker 2: going up there to sort of do some scientific experiments
Speaker 2: up at the International Space Station. The kids said, right,
Speaker 2: Ruby went, it was so underwhelming. For four weeks they've
Speaker 2: been building up. We're going to chat to him. He's
Speaker 2: an astronois, the spaceman, he's British, he's tim science Okay,
Speaker 2: science fiction, they said. Basically he got he had some
Speaker 2: cress seeds that he'd grown up there out of a
Speaker 2: little cup. You know, little crest seeds. You water them
Speaker 2: and they grow, Yeah, little sprouts, that's all he was doing.
Speaker 2: Said do you do that in junior school when you're seven?
Speaker 1: Isn't that the first proto Russians?
Speaker 2: Right? Those Russians must have been working on all kinds
Speaker 2: of stuff up there. The British guy turns up for
Speaker 2: a were the toilets a block block? Mate? Can you
Speaker 2: have a look at that? And then have you got
Speaker 2: your crest seeds? Oh? Yeah? Whoa Tim? How are they
Speaker 2: getting on? If they watered them today? Tim old school
Speaker 2: and then he got this cris out of a looking
Speaker 2: like see through cup you get by the water fountain
Speaker 2: at work and went, look, I've been working on this.
Speaker 2: And when everyone was like can we go back to classroom?
Speaker 1: You only have a four minute window to him, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's enough.
Speaker 2: Okay. So if the bridge space astronauts called Tim, what's
Speaker 2: your austraining guy called? Is it? Who have you got
Speaker 2: going on?
Speaker 4: We've got Andy Thomas as our Astronautusts South Australian gentlemen. Yeah,
Speaker 4: Andy Thomas.
Speaker 2: I think that he's been up there, Yes he has.
Speaker 4: He's been a couple of times. I can't think which
Speaker 4: missions they were, but it was quite a while ago,
Speaker 4: maybe eight or ten years ago. I'd have to google it.
Speaker 2: Right. Yeah, then he catch a lyft because you haven't
Speaker 2: got your own space program. So when you catch a
Speaker 2: lift or somebody, you know.
Speaker 1: Like swing by Australia.
Speaker 2: And then we're going to take so yeah, they're taking her.
Speaker 2: How they're talking about how on the next thirty to
Speaker 2: fifty years there could be an Australian in space and
Speaker 2: even on the Moon. My question this morning is, right
Speaker 2: when the Americans land on the Moon, they hit a
Speaker 2: golf club, they got six signs, Alan Shephard, it was
Speaker 2: like forty eight forty nine years ago used to six
Speaker 2: sign and hit the ball two hundred Technically, I was
Speaker 2: reading about this right, You could in theory hit a
Speaker 2: golf ball if you didn't have that big suit on,
Speaker 2: but due to the lack of graviton and it would
Speaker 2: go into orbit six case, it would go for six
Speaker 2: ks to be up in the air a minute and
Speaker 2: a half. Imagine that. But anyway, because he had the big,
Speaker 2: bulky space suit and he sounds like me, someone's learning
Speaker 2: not very good at golf. He only is shanked a bit.
Speaker 2: He had it. The first two goes, he missed it
Speaker 2: because you've got the big, big space suit and they
Speaker 2: got gold globe in all.
Speaker 3: This, and I don't need a spacesuit to miss the
Speaker 3: golf ball.
Speaker 2: And then he hit it. It went about two hundred yards.
Speaker 2: And then this is what guys do. Five years later,
Speaker 2: another American takes his golf club up. They're thinking I
Speaker 2: hit it further than that. He does six hundred yards.
Speaker 2: So the record at the moment is six hundred yards.
Speaker 2: But what would an Australian on the moon, what would
Speaker 2: you be taken up? You're taking up a footyball.
Speaker 1: Or how fa you can launch a or chuck the.
Speaker 2: Cricket ball or whatever. You're definitely taking that. What else
Speaker 2: would Australians take up to the moon.
Speaker 3: Frisbee would be another good one. See how long you
Speaker 3: could launch a frisbee in the air?
Speaker 2: Yep, definitely to me. You know you are a nation
Speaker 2: of dog lovers. You know you've got your dog parts
Speaker 2: of that. There's a dog coming up as well. There
Speaker 2: has to be a dog, a little dog helmet, yes,
Speaker 2: little space suit you know with the poor You know
Speaker 2: you see some dog owners where the Kavoodo and they've
Speaker 2: got the big old winter jacket and on stuff like that.
Speaker 2: What do you think Ozzie's in space? What would you
Speaker 2: be taking up for a space trip to the moon.
Speaker 2: Let me know this morning, Christian Iconnell, Christian O'Connell show,
Speaker 2: Fantasy Black Box on Gold Commander Tim Peat. That was
Speaker 2: the name of the British astrot or went up there
Speaker 2: for like, I've been really disrespectful to the guy.
Speaker 1: And how are those sprouts going? Did they grow into
Speaker 1: the full? Reckon?
Speaker 2: The Russians are still looking after is water crises, mung
Speaker 2: bean seeds. He's really contributed to where science understanding? Bossie's
Speaker 2: in space? Going to the article I read this morning,
Speaker 2: could be happening in the next fifty years? Or don't
Speaker 2: rush at Australia fifty years ago Americans went to the Moon.
Speaker 2: During the next fifty years, could we see in Australian
Speaker 2: on the moon? Where are we.
Speaker 1: Getting the money to pay for this space?
Speaker 2: Exactly? I mean America. That's why they're partner up with
Speaker 2: Elon Musk It's billions billians. Also, I was just looking
Speaker 2: at some of the names of the space shuttles that
Speaker 2: they've gone up over the years. Enterprise, Columbia of course, Challenger,
Speaker 2: Discovery at lant Endeavor, fast forward to Australia, the s
Speaker 2: S shit be right, all right? What what would you
Speaker 2: send up into space? What wouldn't Australian bring to the moon.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Anne, Good morning, Ann. What do you
Speaker 2: think I think there's nothing more ousy than a boomerang. Christian,
Speaker 2: You're quite right, that would look genuinely cool up there
Speaker 2: as well. What happened in gravity? Would it come back
Speaker 2: or just go?
Speaker 1: I think it probably might.
Speaker 2: It's hard to really know, obviously, but I just thought, well,
Speaker 2: there's nothing more ouzy than a boomerang, So I thought,
Speaker 2: were you going to go up there and give it
Speaker 2: a shot? I suppose, so you know what, I get
Speaker 2: a feeling. I know a scientific expert. Well, with the
Speaker 2: lack of gravity, I wonder if someone if through it
Speaker 2: and then there's another space mission five years later someone
Speaker 2: gets hit in the back of their space.
Speaker 1: Have you ever tried to throw a boomerang?
Speaker 3: We know, I remember taking one out and proper wooden one,
Speaker 3: and it's taking so long for it to actually swing
Speaker 3: back to me. But then the first time I properly
Speaker 3: got onto it and come cycling back at me, I'm.
Speaker 2: Not going to catch contigus for hunting, and that it's
Speaker 2: a probably sort of weapon as old as the spear. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but no, that would be amazing and that's a great idea.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. You cool, have a good day, Okay,
Speaker 2: but is here just cut them off like that? Uh? Stephen,
Speaker 2: good morning. Obviously in the rush to Dale were to
Speaker 2: get tonight Stephen, good morning, Hey Christian stay step sorry mate, Sorry,
Speaker 2: sounds like you were breaking down the lines there. It's
Speaker 2: just so emotional getting to speak to.
Speaker 1: Us, Stephen.
Speaker 2: What do you think then? And as in space, what's
Speaker 2: he taking up there? Nothing more Australian than cracking a
Speaker 2: can and asked Bundy rum. Therefore you've got to have
Speaker 2: the eski as well, being wheeled down the steps of
Speaker 2: a lunar landing module, you know, and Escie being wheeled
Speaker 2: out there in a little kind of lawn chair to
Speaker 2: sit there and enjoy some Bundy rum.
Speaker 1: And then how do you get it under the helmet
Speaker 1: if you've.
Speaker 2: Got a beer helmet as well? Have you know, well
Speaker 2: those beer helmets with a straw. He can't forget to
Speaker 2: motorized this as well. Yes, yeah that's right, Steven, Thank
Speaker 2: you very much. You cool. Have a good day. Take
Speaker 2: that mate. Andrea, good morning, Good morning there you going, yeah,
Speaker 2: we're good. What do you think? Then he's on the moon.
Speaker 2: What are you taking up there?
Speaker 3: Sift forward?
Speaker 1: What are you going to surf on?
Speaker 2: It?
Speaker 1: Went fl Sorry, my dog's backing in the background. It's gravity.
Speaker 2: It was stage. I mean, this show isn't great with
Speaker 2: science that game, but I don't think that's how it
Speaker 2: works gravity.
Speaker 3: I guess like in this actual spaceship when it's like
Speaker 3: zero gravity in cyber spaceshime, you can float along on it.
Speaker 3: But when you're actually on the Moon, there's a little
Speaker 3: bit of gravity.
Speaker 1: Oh is there?
Speaker 3: Well, that's how they walk on the Moon and they
Speaker 3: they're bouncing. But I don't think they can just surf around.
Speaker 2: Because they've got heavily weighted boots. Otherwise they would just
Speaker 2: take off and go into orbits. So I guess if
Speaker 2: one of the Australian astaurant ever goes up there, if
Speaker 2: he starts surfing thing, is he not just going to
Speaker 2: go one giant for the rest of his life? The
Speaker 2: twenty years later, how is Dave? He's just about to hit.
Speaker 3: Something at the moment, you know, have that rope between
Speaker 3: yourself and the fin connected to the board.
Speaker 2: Let's get the particalities of this now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, then you'd have you'd have to have one
Speaker 1: that tighten in the spaceship so that you don't just
Speaker 1: you know, float off.
Speaker 2: Oh God, another the way we're all trying to work
Speaker 2: this through together so you can contact the space station
Speaker 2: SY in Australia.
Speaker 1: But meanwhile, the dog wants breakfast.
Speaker 2: What's somebody to turn about going? Is it feeding time?
Speaker 1: No, she's well, it's sexually getting to that point. No,
Speaker 1: she's looking at the bedroom window and deciding that there's
Speaker 1: something out there that she didn't like.
Speaker 2: Fair enough, all right, Andrew, thank you, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Give us a call. I have a good day.
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