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Hey Now, Hey Now · Made of Stars

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  Speaker 1: Warning. The following podcast contains an entertaining look at astronomy, physics,
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  Speaker 1: and space news throughout the known universe. Listeners have been
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  Speaker 1: known to learn about astronomical phenomenon, the scientific method, and
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  Speaker 1: expanded vocabulary to include terms like quasar asterism and uranus. Listen,
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: When made of stars, made them stars, made sides. When
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  Speaker 3: made of stars, you could be from high they would
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  Speaker 3: New Mexicomus, where all stars, When.
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  Speaker 4: We are made of stars.
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  Speaker 5: I'm West Carol, joined by my good friend doctor Sean
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  Speaker 5: cruising from Columbus State University's Coca Cola Space Science Center.
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  Speaker 2: Hey Sean, it wes good to be here today.
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  Speaker 4: We are going to.
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  Speaker 5: Talk a lot about the International Space Station, because well
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  Speaker 5: there's just a lot going on up there. First of all,
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  Speaker 5: there's an incredibly full house at least for the next
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  Speaker 5: little while till around noon or so it'll be slightly
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  Speaker 5: less full, but eleven on the International Space Station for
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  Speaker 5: the crew. That probably means you got people, you know,
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  Speaker 5: just sleeping in weird corners, I guess, or maybe in
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  Speaker 5: their ride home. So at this point I guess this
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  Speaker 5: is this is how I'll start this because I went,
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  Speaker 5: we're going to get into the number and we're going
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  Speaker 5: to get to who all's there.
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  Speaker 2: But my question.
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  Speaker 4: We've talked before about the fact.
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  Speaker 5: That you know, they dock there and their their actual ship,
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  Speaker 5: their craft is attached to the International Space. It then
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  Speaker 5: becomes another room, and we've talked about how sometimes they'll
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  Speaker 5: sleep in there. That's you know, effectively could just become
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  Speaker 5: a private area. There's not a lot of privacy up
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  Speaker 5: there anyway. We know that there's a side that's kind
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  Speaker 5: of designated for the Russians, there's a side designated for
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  Speaker 5: the US. There's shared space and all that. But I
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  Speaker 5: guess what I'm wondering is if at you know, noon today,
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  Speaker 5: which is when they're set to break away and come
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  Speaker 5: back down to Earth there and we'll get to that, but.
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  Speaker 2: Or is there a.
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  Speaker 5: Chance that someone is you know, has been sleeping in
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  Speaker 5: that the same one or has it been prepped? Is
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  Speaker 5: it all like, hey, we got to get all the
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  Speaker 5: extra unnecessary food out to leave behind, and you know,
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  Speaker 5: everything's all all the all the chairs are in exactly
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  Speaker 5: the right position, everybody's got them the way they like
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  Speaker 5: them for the ride home. Or is there a chance
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  Speaker 5: somebody's been floating in a sleeping bag in there overnight,
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  Speaker 5: That's my question.
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  Speaker 2: So so one of the things they do is they
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  Speaker 2: actually do prep the spacecraft, right, And I would imagine
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  Speaker 2: if there's any kind of should we say, living quarters
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  Speaker 2: arrangements that, yeah, all of that has to be stowed
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  Speaker 2: because they actually have to sit in the seats with
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  Speaker 2: spacesuits on. Right, They're in flight suits when they come back,
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  Speaker 2: you know. And if you can imagine, I mean, if
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  Speaker 2: you know, if I had a nickel for every time
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  Speaker 2: I've done this before, you know, I pull up in
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  Speaker 2: my prius to the rented tiny house I have, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, the rented tiny house is so small that
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  Speaker 2: when my friends show up, I just want to sleep
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  Speaker 2: in the prius, you know, and maybe the prius is
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  Speaker 2: able to attach directly to the tiny house. You know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just stretching this analogy, and friends, I neither have
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  Speaker 2: a prius, nor have I stayed in tiny house, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm just imagining. Right, So, the International Space Station is
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  Speaker 2: kind of like it's a veritable tiny house, right. There's
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  Speaker 2: sure it's as big as a football field, but that's
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  Speaker 2: with all the solar arrays and all of the ammonia
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  Speaker 2: cooling panels and all of the you know, the stretched
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  Speaker 2: out spaces between the modules. When you're actually on the
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  Speaker 2: inside on the level, it's a little tight. You know.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, you know, it's like vacationing inside a submarine,
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  Speaker 2: you know, in a way. And so so when there's
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  Speaker 2: eleven people on board, that's a crowded house. Hey, now, hey,
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  Speaker 2: now don't dream it's over. It was in my hair
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  Speaker 2: at a crowded house. It was in my head.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm just glad that you said it, so I
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  Speaker 5: didn't have to say it.
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  Speaker 2: So I didn't have to say it.
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  Speaker 5: So, so what you're getting at is they would sleep
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  Speaker 5: in there, but probably not while it's getting ready to
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  Speaker 5: fly home.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they'll they'll have to get up and you know,
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  Speaker 2: put their accouterments away and you know, store their shaving
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  Speaker 2: gear or whatever they use up there. And yeah, all
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  Speaker 2: of their camping equipment has to be put in the trunk.
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  Speaker 2: You know. That's that's the way to think about it. Right, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: we have to I have this car. Now you can
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  Speaker 2: no longer sleep in the driver's seat with it all
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  Speaker 2: folded back, and you know, we have to actually put
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  Speaker 2: put the seat in the ninety degree position, so we
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  Speaker 2: can drive away in this prius after staying in the
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  Speaker 2: tiny house. So that's that's basically what they're doing. The
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  Speaker 2: crew ten crew is getting the Dragon capsule ready to
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  Speaker 2: go packing up and and they're, you know, they're doing
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  Speaker 2: that as we speak, right, They're they're getting their flight
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  Speaker 2: suits on, getting secured inside the vehicle and getting ready
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  Speaker 2: for us separation from the International Space Station to make
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  Speaker 2: their journey home.
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  Speaker 5: And meanwhile, and I was gonna say, and that will
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  Speaker 5: leave four empty sleeping spots.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Meanwhile, the house gets a little less crowded, you know,
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  Speaker 2: which is a good thing for those who love eighties rock. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: So that the is that rock. It's probably easy listening.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Crossover, Yeah, you could call it any of that.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's from something like that adult contemporary. So
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  Speaker 2: eleven Crew eleven.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: The astronauts on board areas astronauts Xena Cardman and Mike Fink.
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  Speaker 2: Xena Cardman is the pilot for that mission, and Mike
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  Speaker 2: Fink is on board, and then there's mission mission specialists
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  Speaker 2: Kamiya Yui from the Japanese Space Agency and Oleg Platinoff
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  Speaker 2: from roast Cosmos. That's Crew eleven. Crew eleven just arrived
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  Speaker 2: up there on Saturday, and so they've been up there
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  Speaker 2: for a few days, but they were the they're the
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  Speaker 2: latest additions to what they call Expedition seventy three, and
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  Speaker 2: that's the mission actually a board International Space Station. So
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  Speaker 2: the Crew ten, Crew eleven are just the comings and
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  Speaker 2: goings of the Dragon capsules. Right. They joined a Soya's
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  Speaker 2: crew who was already up there. The Soyuz crew is
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  Speaker 2: Alexei Zubritsky, Sergei Rizakov, and Johnny Kim who's a NASA astronaut,
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  Speaker 2: so two cosmonauts an astronaut from the Soyuz crew. And
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  Speaker 2: then the folks that have been up there a while
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  Speaker 2: are the Crew ten astronauts. That's Takuya Onishi, who is
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  Speaker 2: a Jackson astronaut, NASA astronauts McLean and Nicole Ayres, and
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  Speaker 2: then Rose Cosmos cosmonaut Careal Pescoff. So that's the crew
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  Speaker 2: that's aboard the International Space Station now as they are
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  Speaker 2: preparing to have the Crew ten departure and so and
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  Speaker 2: the folks that will be left, of course are the
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  Speaker 2: Crew eleven astronauts and the cosmonauts who are going to
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  Speaker 2: be there for still a few months.
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  Speaker 5: So I like that you're using the camping analogy to
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  Speaker 5: describe all of this. And clearly, my wife, my lovely bride, Jill,
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  Speaker 5: who when we go camping, is very good at checklists,
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  Speaker 5: and I would imagine that it's all about the checklist.
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  Speaker 5: It's just a series of did you do this, did
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  Speaker 5: you do this? Did you do this? Did you do this?
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  Speaker 5: And you know they can't go anywhere till it's all
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  Speaker 5: been done, so she would be very efficient with this.
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  Speaker 2: You know, your wife, Jill would be the kind of
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  Speaker 2: person who could easily make a transition from the beautiful
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  Speaker 2: career she has now right into mission control at the
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  Speaker 2: Johnson Space Center because I know her as well in
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  Speaker 2: a way that I can verify that she's very detail
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  Speaker 2: oriented and she wants to tick off all those boxes. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: And so it's the detailed oriented people who can keep
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  Speaker 2: track of the micro details and check off the checklist
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  Speaker 2: to make sure all of the camping equipment is in
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  Speaker 2: the trunk of the prius. It's those kind of people
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  Speaker 2: that you really want working in mission control. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure that the folks down in Houston right now are
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  Speaker 2: facilitating some of that as they are helping prepare Crew
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  Speaker 2: ten for their final hours upboard the International Space Station
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  Speaker 2: getting ready to head back to the Earth right now.
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  Speaker 5: I mean imagine having a three day camping trip list
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  Speaker 5: and a four day camping trip list. That's what I'm
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  Speaker 5: talking about. You know, you got to have the specific,
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  Speaker 5: correct list for how many days you're going to be
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  Speaker 5: camping and what all you're going to need while you're there.
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  Speaker 5: So I want to quickly touch on the fact you
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  Speaker 5: mentioned the commander and pilot ZENA Cardman. Now she's a
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  Speaker 5: bit of an asterisk right as far as things that
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  Speaker 5: have been a hot topic in the news, because let's
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  Speaker 5: just jump back a little while to the stuck in
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  Speaker 5: stranded astronauts and the plan for getting them home, which
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  Speaker 5: was in place long before they were quote unquote stranded,
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  Speaker 5: and then they sent up a crew to basically like
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  Speaker 5: we're going to send a crew nine up. They're only
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  Speaker 5: going to be two astronauts on there and the other
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  Speaker 5: two have been bumped, and then that way the two
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  Speaker 5: stranded astronauts will have a ride home. And we you
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  Speaker 5: and I talked about this without and maybe then we
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  Speaker 5: mentioned them by name. I don't remember, but or if
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  Speaker 5: we even knew who the two that had been bumped
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  Speaker 5: off of the mission were, but we did mention how
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  Speaker 5: we kind of felt for them, because here they are thinking,
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to get to go. I'm ready to go
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  Speaker 5: to the International Space Station. I'm doing all those preparations.
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  Speaker 5: They got their own checklist, they're doing in life and
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  Speaker 5: family and all of those things, and everything is ready
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  Speaker 5: to go. And oh, by the way, you're not going.
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  Speaker 5: We're going to send up a ship with two empty seats.
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  Speaker 5: And then we think, oh, we feel terrible for him.
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  Speaker 5: So one of those two astronauts is Xena Cardman, and
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  Speaker 5: she is now on the International Space Station, so that
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  Speaker 5: we could feel a little better about that this was
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  Speaker 5: her correct time to go.
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  Speaker 2: You know, imagine you and three of your friends had
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  Speaker 2: tickets to the crowded house concert and and suddenly suddenly
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  Speaker 2: your friend who's actually driving the car, says, hey, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 2: I've got two friends I'm going to meet up with
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  Speaker 2: at the concert. I have to give them a ride back,
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  Speaker 2: so you don't have a ride, and then you miss
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  Speaker 2: the crowded house concert.
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  Speaker 5: That would be that would be devastating, Yeah, it.
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  Speaker 2: Would be devastating. So but but Zena Carbon is there
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  Speaker 2: in the crowded house right now. She was one of
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  Speaker 2: the astronauts who was slated to fly on Crew nine.
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  Speaker 2: On the Crew nine but because of the shall we say,
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  Speaker 2: unfortunate engineering peculiarities of the Boeing Starliner mission, they couldn't
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  Speaker 2: bring the spacecraft back home with astronauts on the inside
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  Speaker 2: of it. They had to leave those astronauts at the
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  Speaker 2: concert and so so then we had to set up
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  Speaker 2: a capsule with four seats but only two astronauts. So
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  Speaker 2: Xena Carbon did not get to ride aboard that Crew
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  Speaker 2: nine mission. Another astronaut by the name of Stephanie Wilson
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  Speaker 2: also didn't get to ride aboard that aboard that mission.
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  Speaker 2: But now Zena is actually on the International Space Station,
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  Speaker 2: and so and you know, let's remember that Stephanie has
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  Speaker 2: had other flights to space, so she got bumped off
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  Speaker 2: Crew nine, but she has been to space aboard Space
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  Speaker 2: Shuttle and other flights to the International Space Station. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's it's unfortunate. It's probably something that's just
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  Speaker 2: understood when you take crew assignments that things can go
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  Speaker 2: wrong and maybe they don't go exactly the way you planned.
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  Speaker 2: But now Zenan Carman finally getting to be aboard the
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  Speaker 2: International Space Station as a member of Crew eleven, in fact,
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  Speaker 2: as the pilot of the Dragon capsule on the way
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  Speaker 2: up to Crew eleven. Uh So, the two astronauts who
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  Speaker 2: were who were stranded or some form of stranded aboard
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  Speaker 2: the International Space Station Sunita Williams, Butch Willmore and and
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  Speaker 2: Sunita Williams was actually the commander of the space station
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  Speaker 2: while she was being stranded up there. It's like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: being in prison, but also the warden I think maybe
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  Speaker 2: something like that charge of the space station while also
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  Speaker 2: being you know abandoned by her country apparently, which didn't
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  Speaker 2: really happen, that's my point. Yeah, yeah, so anyway, so
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  Speaker 2: that's that's Sumita Williams. The other the other astronaut aboard
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  Speaker 2: was Butch Willmore and So some interesting news about Butch Willmore,
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  Speaker 2: which is this is from space dot com. Astronaut Butch
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  Speaker 2: Wilmore is retiring from NASA after twenty five years. He said,
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  Speaker 2: that's it. I've had enough. I've been stranded aboard the
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  Speaker 2: International Space Station. I finally made my way back home,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm gonna go ahead and call it a career now. Listen.
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  Speaker 2: He had four different flights to space. He flew on
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  Speaker 2: four different spacecraft during his astronaut career, which is pretty impressive, right, So,
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  Speaker 2: which began way back in the year two thousand, he
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  Speaker 2: spent a total of four hundred and sixty four days
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  Speaker 2: off the Earth. He conducted five spacewalks during which he
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  Speaker 2: racked up thirty two hours of outside the spacecraft time.
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  Speaker 2: That's a very very impressive amount. So that's a legendary
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  Speaker 2: amount of spacewalking right there, right. So it's one of
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  Speaker 2: the reasons why butch Wilmore is a very famous astrodopt
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  Speaker 2: Wilmore was a captain and test pilot in the US
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  Speaker 2: Navy during both peacetime and wartime. He had wartime operational
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  Speaker 2: and then when NASA selected him to join its astronaut
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  Speaker 2: core in the year two thousand. He also flew to
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  Speaker 2: the space to space three times during his NASCA career,
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  Speaker 2: starting with eleven day sts wine mission to the International
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  Speaker 2: Space Station at Space Shuttle that was a board Space
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  Speaker 2: sal Atlantis back in November two thousand and nine. He
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  Speaker 2: spent five and a half months aboard the International Space
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  Speaker 2: Station during a stint from September twenty fourteen to March
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  Speaker 2: of twenty fifteen, and then he came back down a
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  Speaker 2: board of Russian Soyuz spacecraft. And then he returned to space,
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  Speaker 2: of course on the Boeing star Liner, which is one
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  Speaker 2: way to get to space, but he had to come
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  Speaker 2: back down a board a Dragon capsule, so that's a
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  Speaker 2: different way to go down. So Butch Wilmore on three
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  Speaker 2: trips to space, flew aboard four different kinds of spacecraft,
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  Speaker 2: the Space Shuttle, the Boeing star Liner, the SOYUS Russian
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  Speaker 2: Soyu spacecraft, and then the Dragon Capsule on the way
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  Speaker 2: back down. So pretty interesting space career right there. Certainly
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  Speaker 2: very notable in terms of the number of hours in space,
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  Speaker 2: days in space, and hours outside the spacecraft. That's pretty incredible.
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  Speaker 2: Steve Corner is the acting director of NASA's Johnson's Space
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  Speaker 2: Center in Houston, and he had this statement about Butch Wilmore.
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  Speaker 2: He said, quote Butch's commitment to NASA's mission and dedication
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  Speaker 2: to human space exploration is truly exemplary. His lasting legacy
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  Speaker 2: of fort Tude will continue to impact and inspire the
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  Speaker 2: Johnson workforce, future explorers, and the nation for generations. On
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  Speaker 2: behalf of NASAs Johnson's Space Center. We thank Butch for
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  Speaker 2: his service. There you go. Steve Corner, acting director of
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  Speaker 2: NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston, a quote about Butch.
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  Speaker 4: Wilmore coming up after a quick break. There's a dead
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  Speaker 4: star that's still sending out radio signals. We'll talk about
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  Speaker 4: that next.
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  Speaker 5: All right, So let's talk about as a dead star
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  Speaker 5: sending out radio signals that should have stopped, right at
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  Speaker 5: some point? Is it eventually going to stop? What's going
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  Speaker 5: on with that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? So it's it's it's weird, you know, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: interesting when a star sends out radio signals. It's just
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  Speaker 2: nothing but weird when a zombie star sends out radio signals, right,
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  Speaker 2: it's just a little unusual. And uh, but what's more
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  Speaker 2: unusual is about this system of stars. So this isn't
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  Speaker 2: a story from astronomy dot com, and astronomers have identified
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  Speaker 2: a source of strange radio flashes. So it's a binary
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  Speaker 2: star system that contains a white dwarf, which is indeed
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  Speaker 2: a dead star, and the remnant it's a remnant of
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  Speaker 2: a star like the sun. Right, So, so astronomers found
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  Speaker 2: this source of mysterious radio waves from a location you know,
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  Speaker 2: fairly far away. We call this deep space. It's tracing
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  Speaker 2: the signals back to an unusual stellar pair that, according
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  Speaker 2: to astronomy dot com, is locked in a swift orbit,
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  Speaker 2: flashing out their location for the universe to hear here.
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  Speaker 2: Because why it's radioas we don't really hear radioays, but
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  Speaker 2: it's a nice thought anyway. So in research published in
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  Speaker 2: March in the publication called Nature Astronomy, a team of
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  Speaker 2: astrophysicists has identified this strange source with minute long radio bursts. Okay, well,
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  Speaker 2: so that's that's a little weird. It's not, it's not
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  Speaker 2: too weird yet, but but it's going to get stranger. Friends.
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  Speaker 2: The system is called il t J eleven oh one
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  Speaker 2: plus fifty five twenty one. Just rolls off the tongue.
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  Speaker 2: It's the artist for formerly known as uh Steve anyway,
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  Speaker 2: so but now it's I L t J eleven zero
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  Speaker 2: one plus fifty five twenty one. Those are just catalog corns.
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  Speaker 5: By the way, there I say, artists forming on his
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  Speaker 5: crowded house. What a missed opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: If I could have thought of anyone in crowded house,
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  Speaker 2: I would have loved to have thrown that in anyway.
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  Speaker 2: That just wasn't quick enough. So here's the weird thing.
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  Speaker 2: The source sends out radio bursts that lasts somewhere between
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  Speaker 2: thirty and ninety seconds. They do it every two hours, okay,
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  Speaker 2: And why do I say they Because it's a binary
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  Speaker 2: star system, all right, So none of that is too
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  Speaker 2: weird except this. The orbital period of the stars themselves
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  Speaker 2: around their common center of gravity is also two hours,
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  Speaker 2: so astronomers don't really completely understand the mechanism that's causing
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  Speaker 2: these gigantic bright radio flashes that are in tune with
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  Speaker 2: the period of orbit of these two stars around each other.
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  Speaker 2: That's what is unusual about the story, right, And so
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  Speaker 2: the phenomen when I was first identified in the data
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  Speaker 2: from what's called the low frequency array or the l
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  Speaker 2: O FAR radio telescope, and it was by lead author
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  Speaker 2: Iris de Ritter, who is a student working on her
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  Speaker 2: PhD in Amsterdam at the time. She's now a postdoctoral
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  Speaker 2: research researcher at the University of Sydney and Australia, and
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  Speaker 2: she says this about the system. She says, quote, we
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  Speaker 2: found that the period of the radio pulses seemed to
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  Speaker 2: be exactly equal to the orbital period of the system.
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  Speaker 2: So it takes about two hours for the stars to
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  Speaker 2: orbit around each other, and every two hours we see
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  Speaker 2: a radio pulse. Again, this is Iris Disider, lead author
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  Speaker 2: on the study. She then goes on to say this
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  Speaker 2: strongly leads us to believe that it has to do
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  Speaker 2: with some sort of interaction between the two stars, and
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  Speaker 2: then she goes on to make the statement, which you know,
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  Speaker 2: probably applies to a lot of things in many of
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  Speaker 2: our lives. I don't think we fully actually know what's
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  Speaker 2: going on. And so when you have a scientist saying
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  Speaker 2: I don't think we've fully actually know what's going on,
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  Speaker 2: they're probably investigating some you know, branch of physics that's
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  Speaker 2: really interesting and looking at very complicated processes. If you're
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  Speaker 2: just walking around your house saying I don't think we
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  Speaker 2: fully actually know what's going on, it might be a Tuesday,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and what I'm saying, so so this is
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  Speaker 2: this is one of those statements that maybe you have
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: to think about before you put it out as a quote,
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: but okay, no, it's it's good, right. It leads us
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: to understand that this is a mysterious phenomenon taking place
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  Speaker 2: with this within this two star system, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: the astronomers haven't figured out the mechanism for the tuning
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  Speaker 2: between the orbital period of these stars around each other
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  Speaker 2: and the giant radio flashes that are being emitted once
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  Speaker 2: every orbital period. Very cool stuff.
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  Speaker 5: Now, when you said we don't hear radio waves, clearly
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: you're not talking about when they're blasting out crowded house,
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: So I mean you hear those. And by the way,
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: just got a message from Neil Finn. He said, ouch,
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: thanks for not remembering my name, So.
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  Speaker 2: Neil, and we thank Neil for listening to the podcast.
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  Speaker 5: By the way, so all the way from New Zealand,
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  Speaker 5: we appreciate you styling us up.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about CMME all the New Zealand listeners we
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: can get, by the.
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: Way, we do, yes, yes, and we're we let the Kiwis.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: And the Ausi's. This is an Auzzy story, but we
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: like the Kiwis also we do.
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: Let's talk about CMEs because we got some solar activity
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: worth mentioning going on.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, some fun as we head into the weekend. So
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: on Tuesday, that would be the fifth of August twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty five, sunspot number forty one sixty eight erupted in
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: what's called an M class solar flare. It's an M
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: four point four. It's a pretty strong one. But this
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: particular flair generated what's known as a partial halo CME,
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: and that partial halo CME means it's head right at us, right.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: And so the partial halo CME is now heading directly
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: toward the Earth, and according to NASA's modeling, that coronal
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: If you don't know what a CME is, let me pause.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: A coronal mass ejection is when the Sun gets a
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: little rowdy, shall we say, explodes in a giant solar flare,
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: and that hurls a massive deadly radiation equivalent to the
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: mass of Mount Everest directly at the Earth. That's what
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: we're talking about right now, friends. So that partial halo
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: CME Mount ever sized gigantic wave of deadly radiation is
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: now heading into the Earth and it should graze by
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: the Earth sometime late on August the eighth, that's Friday, okay,
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: And I'm assuming late means Eastern Standard time because this
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: is spaceweather dot com and they typically reference things in
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Eastern Standard Time. So spaceweather dot Colm the story, so
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: it could spawn what we call G two class geomagnetic storms,
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: which means listeners at high latitudes. First of all, thank
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: you for listening, regardless of what latitude you're at. But
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: if you're in high latitudes, you might keep your eye
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: on the sky on Friday evening because there's a bad
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: attitude CME heading in for the Earth and it could
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: cause some what we call solar earth geomagnetic interactions and
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: you might have some northern lights right, so we could
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: see a northern light display across northern tiers of states
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: are up into Canada, and I'd like to welcome all
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: the Canadian listeners as well, and so everybody up there
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: in the Great White North listen look out for some
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Aurora borealis on Friday evening because of this storm.
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: And we've touched on most of the Commonwealth, So we
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: haven't mentioned mentioned the UK, but we've touched on most
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: of the Commonwealth. All right, let's talk about you guys
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: are back into school session because Columbus State Universities having
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: their welcome back this week, and you guys obviously are
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: in the preparations at the Coca Cola Space Science Center.
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: Start looking ahead to having kids starting to show back up.
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  Speaker 5: It's something that you guys do, and it's a big
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: part of growing those future STEM careers and something that
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: you guys do to help get interest in that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And so first of all, we like to welcome
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  Speaker 2: back our Columbus State University students. It's good to have
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  Speaker 2: you back. And I know that there are a few
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: of you out here who are regular listeners to this podcast,
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: and go ahead and just shout out Madeline and Jose
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: and some of the CSU students who I know listening
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: to the podcast. Welcome. Hope you found this mildly entertaining
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: this evening anyway, So welcome back all the CSU students.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: So that happens in the August time frame. But then
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: what we call the K through twelve and the Lingo
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: of education. These are the kindergarteners to the twelfth graders.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: The public school students will begin to return to us
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: after Labor Day typically, and so those field trips begin
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: either in late August or early September. And we're preparing
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: right now the exhibit gallery with some brand new exhibits.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: We're upgrading our Cyber five, which for those folks who've
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: been down to the Space Science Center. Before those are
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: the four motion based flight simulators that are in our
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: exhibit gallery. They're gonna have new control systems, new software,
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: and new skin this fall, so they're going to be
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: looking sharp and flying high, so come down and check
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: those out. We're also working on our new Mars Rover
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: exhibit that is almost at completion, and we are going
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: to be looking at putting some new seating inside the
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Atmosphere theater and so we'll try to have that ready
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: to go for our music end of the Dome concert
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: series which begins this fall as well. So some upgrades
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: taking place around the Coca Cola Space Science Center at
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Columbus State University. If you haven't been down for a while,
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: come down and check out all the new it's all
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: the new hotness. We're trying to replace all the old
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: and busted and put in the new hotness. So come
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: down and check us out at seven oh one Front Avenue,
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Coca Cola Space Science Center, Columbus State University, or just
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: visit us on the website see what you think. Visit
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