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The Astronauts Are Definitely Not Stranded Now · Made of Stars

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Speaker 1: Warning.
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Speaker 2: The following podcast contains an entertaining look at astronomy, physics,
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Speaker 2: and space news throughout the known universe. Listeners have been
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Speaker 4: When made of stars, made them stars, madies. When made
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Speaker 4: where all stars, When.
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Speaker 1: We are made of stars.
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Speaker 5: I'm Wes 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 3: Hey Sean, good morning, Wes. Good to be here today.
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Speaker 1: All right day it is.
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Speaker 5: There's a lot going on, and we can now finally
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Speaker 5: maybe I don't know. I don't know if we ever
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Speaker 5: get to really put it to rest. The quote unquote
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Speaker 5: stuck quote unquote, abandoned quote unquote, stranded quote unquote pitiful.
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Speaker 5: I don't know, whatever they want to say. Astronauts are
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Speaker 5: now back on Earth because the Crew nine craft has
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Speaker 5: returned to Earth.
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Speaker 1: That happened.
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Speaker 5: We were you and I were texting each other as
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Speaker 5: all that was going down, and they splashed down their
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Speaker 5: back on Earth.
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Speaker 1: One of the.
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Speaker 5: Things that I still feel like in so many ways
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Speaker 5: was not reported properly by many official media outlets, is
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Speaker 5: that this was a plan for a very long time
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Speaker 5: for them to come home on this particular ship. Know,
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Speaker 5: the Crew ten that took off recently was not going
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Speaker 5: up to be their rescue vessel. It was the team
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Speaker 5: that was tagging in to take over and be on
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Speaker 5: the International Space Station. And as planned for a very
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Speaker 5: long time, Crew nine came home, of which Butch and
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Speaker 5: Sunny were scheduled to be part of once their initial
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Speaker 5: plans to come home and as part of the Starliner
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Speaker 5: mission did not work out. So that's what we got.
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Speaker 5: They're back on Earth and they're going through all of
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Speaker 5: the things that you go through as an astronaut when
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Speaker 5: you've been in space for a long time. And that's
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Speaker 5: what they're going through. So let's talk about them getting
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Speaker 5: back on Earth. And it was a flawless return to Earth.
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Speaker 1: It was.
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Speaker 6: And then they were stranded on a capsule floating at sea,
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Speaker 6: and then they were stranded on a SpaceX barge, and
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Speaker 6: then they were maybe stranded in traffic.
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Speaker 5: Could have been could have happened yeah, I can only
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Speaker 5: imagine when you've been part of this supposed to go
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Speaker 5: for eight days and then it turns into nine months,
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Speaker 5: and then there you are in this capsule floating in
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Speaker 5: the water and they're lifting it up. They're trying to
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Speaker 5: get it set properly in what they call the dragon's
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Speaker 5: nest there on the barge and they're trying to get
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Speaker 5: it and they have to lift it up and they
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Speaker 5: keep telling them, sorry, we don't have it just right.
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Speaker 5: We're trying to get it and they're probably thinking, come on, man,
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Speaker 5: it's been nine months. Have you not had time to
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Speaker 5: prep for this?
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Speaker 6: So there are so many takes out there wes on
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Speaker 6: this story that I feel like here I'm made of stars.
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Speaker 6: I'm not sure the world needs yet another set of takes.
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Speaker 6: But okay, we're here anyway because we do a podcast,
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Speaker 6: so we're gonna we're gonna give you another take. But
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Speaker 6: I'm gonna try to give maybe just a little bit
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Speaker 6: different take from my perspective at least, which is simply this.
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Speaker 1: Wait before you do that.
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Speaker 5: And I know where you're going with this, and I
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Speaker 5: think that needs to be the final, the final words
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Speaker 5: on it. So before you do that, I just want
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Speaker 5: to mention this because I stumbled into this this morning
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Speaker 5: just looking into some of this prepping for today's show. So,
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Speaker 5: Butch Willmore's daughter, Darren Wilmore, and I feel like this
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Speaker 5: needs to be sort of the end of this stuck conversation.
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Speaker 5: That's the only reason I'm going to interrupt you is
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Speaker 5: because so Darren Wilmore has been posting on social media,
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Speaker 5: like basically logging her story and her dad's story from
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Speaker 5: her perspective about her, and it's basically like she's wrapping
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Speaker 5: up her dad's time stuck in space. That's the word
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Speaker 5: that she's used. And she is actually the person who
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Speaker 5: used the term political for why they didn't come home
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Speaker 5: before Elon Musk used it. So she said basically there
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Speaker 5: was more to all this that she didn't know all
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Speaker 5: the details of, but that it was for political reasons.
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Speaker 5: So maybe that gives us a little bit of perspective
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Speaker 5: on why Butch has kind of fallen under that as
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Speaker 5: far as saying that what Elon said is true and
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Speaker 5: not knowing all the details. So it lines up with that. Now,
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Speaker 5: this is the other part of this as far as
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Speaker 5: his daughter, and this is the positives on it she
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Speaker 5: says that she's made a list of all the things
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Speaker 5: he likes and she's going to make sure that he
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Speaker 5: gets all of those things as soon as possible. And
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Speaker 5: the first thing on the list was she's begked him
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Speaker 5: a pecan pie that she's prepped for him, and that's
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Speaker 5: his favorite.
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Speaker 1: So we got that.
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Speaker 5: So anyway that I just wanted to put that out there.
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Speaker 5: We have been putting out the information. That's all we've
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Speaker 5: tried to do. We're not trying to give a slant.
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Speaker 5: We're not trying to put inject anything into it other
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Speaker 5: than saying, look, this has been a contested thing. We
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Speaker 5: have contested the idea of them being stuck versus being
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Speaker 5: stranded or abandoned or whatever those.
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Speaker 1: Things have been.
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Speaker 5: If you get left behind at a party and you
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Speaker 5: have a car outside ready to take you home at
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Speaker 5: the next available team, you're not really stuck. And we've
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Speaker 5: used that comparison all along. So they've had a ride
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Speaker 5: for a while. The ride is back, all right now,
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Speaker 5: you are ready to wrap this up.
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Speaker 3: There is no way.
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Speaker 6: That they had that they did not plan for a
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Speaker 6: contingency where they could not come back on Boeing star Liner.
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Speaker 6: There is no possible chance that they didn't have those
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Speaker 6: conversations ahead of time. It was a test mission on
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Speaker 6: a test vehicle. I know NASA procedures well enough to
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Speaker 6: know they're going to talk about the contingencies at every
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Speaker 6: possible step, and they definitely for them being aboard the
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Speaker 6: International Space Station and not being able to come home
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Speaker 6: on the star Liner, there's no way that they didn't
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Speaker 6: have that conversation about that contingency prior to launch.
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Speaker 5: And they'll have a longer version of that conversation the
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Speaker 5: next time star Liner goes up. Right, well, we do
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Speaker 5: have a star Liner story, we do, but you know
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Speaker 5: they're not going up with people on it.
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Speaker 3: We'll save the story. Part of the Starliner story isn't.
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Speaker 5: Exactly, but I'm just saying the next time it goes
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Speaker 5: up in docs of the International Space Station. I think
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Speaker 5: anybody who goes up and says we didn't know this
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Speaker 5: could happen, you know, then you know they wouldn't have
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Speaker 5: been paying attention to the news.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 5: So anyway, perspective on their time there, as far as
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Speaker 5: Williams and Wilmore.
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Speaker 6: Just four points of perspective. First of all, well, and
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Speaker 6: this is not one of my points. But let me
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Speaker 6: make this quick editorial comment.
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Speaker 3: Did they want this to happen? Did anybody want this
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Speaker 3: to happen?
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Speaker 6: Of course not, Like we're not celebrating the fact that
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Speaker 6: a spacecraft that took out stronauts to space could not
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Speaker 6: also bring them home. That's not a positive thing, right,
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Speaker 6: All I'm saying is planned contingencies.
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Speaker 3: Okay, So here we go.
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Speaker 6: Point number one. Sunita Williams went to the International Space
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Speaker 6: Station in June of twenty twenty four, came back on Tuesday,
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Speaker 6: spent two hundred and eighty six days in space. Lots
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Speaker 6: of noise and chatter out there about how how this
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Speaker 6: extended stay in space terribly bad for their health, all
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Speaker 6: these ramifications, all the stuff. That is actually less than
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Speaker 6: half the time for Sunita Williams. Of her total time
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Speaker 6: in space, Sunita Williams has six hundred and eight days
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Speaker 6: in space, So this Wednesday was less than half of
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Speaker 6: that time, which means she'd already spent longer than this
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Speaker 6: in space. All right, there's one point. Here's the next point.
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Speaker 6: Scott Kelly back in the year twenty fifteen twenty sixteen,
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Speaker 6: spent three hundred and forty days in space as a
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Speaker 6: planned mission like that was the whole point.
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Speaker 3: Scott Kelly's going to spend a year.
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Speaker 5: In space also as a guinea pig, right, Yes, I
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Speaker 5: mean literally, that was the whole point.
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Speaker 1: He had his twin brother on Earth.
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Speaker 5: They were testing them.
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Speaker 6: One. Yes, that was not Scott Kelly's only trip to space,
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Speaker 6: so he that was a cumulative.
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Speaker 3: Time that's longer than three hundred and forty days.
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Speaker 6: That three hundred and forty days what Sunita Williams just
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Speaker 6: spent in space two hundred and eighty six days, and
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Speaker 6: Butch Willmore, by the way, is only eighty four percent
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Speaker 6: of Scott Kelly's planned three hundred and forty.
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Speaker 3: Days in space. Perspective, one more point.
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Speaker 6: A hero of NASA, the woman with the most total
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Speaker 6: time in space, Peggy Whitson, absolute hero of the American
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Speaker 6: Space program, has spent six hundred and seventy five total
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Speaker 6: days in space, which is still more than Sanuda Williams,
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Speaker 6: and Sanuda williams recent two hundred and eighty six days
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Speaker 6: in space is only forty three percent of Peggy Whitson's
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Speaker 6: total time in space.
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Speaker 3: Can we just throw one thing, one last.
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Speaker 6: Point into this pot of stew that I'm making a perspective,
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Speaker 6: stew it's a gumbo of perspective.
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Speaker 3: Did anybody forget? Did anybody remember?
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Speaker 6: I should say that Sunita Williams was the commander of
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Speaker 6: the International Space Station. She was the person in charge
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Speaker 6: of this orbiting laboratory since September of twenty twenty four
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Speaker 6: until just a couple of days ago when she turned aft,
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Speaker 6: turned over command to a cosmonaut named Ovinchkin and came
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Speaker 6: back home. So she wasn't a prisoner of war trapped
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Speaker 6: in a cage. She was actually commanding the entire facility
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Speaker 6: in orbit around the Earth. Anyone anyone did that appear anywhere?
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Speaker 3: No? So, okay, I've said my piece.
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Speaker 1: Nothing.
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Speaker 5: They weren't hostages. They weren't you know, pitiful astronauts in
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Speaker 5: the corner eating freeze dried meals. The freeze dried meals
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Speaker 5: pretty much standard. So anybody who wants to make the
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Speaker 5: case that they were they didn't have enough food or
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Speaker 5: they were being forced to eat this horrible food, that, yes,
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Speaker 5: that's what they get when they're up there. Anyway, they're back.
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Speaker 5: They're definitely not stuck. Now, I mean, I don't know,
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Speaker 5: I don't know if maybe one of them's got a
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Speaker 5: zipper issue. You know, with an article of clothing, you
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Speaker 5: could say that the zipper is stuck in that they're
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Speaker 5: but they're definitely home.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 5: Now, let's transition over to Starliner, because that's what got
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Speaker 5: this whole mess started in the first place. So now
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Speaker 5: star Liner, you know, the typical order of things is
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Speaker 5: you have a test mission that's uncrued, and then you
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Speaker 5: have a if that goes the way you want it to,
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Speaker 5: then you have a crude test mission eventually, and then
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Speaker 5: you you know, make progress and move forward. Well, in
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Speaker 5: this case, it looks like Boeing may have to take
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Speaker 5: a step back now that they've had kind of I
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Speaker 5: guess a half a crude test mission. I mean half
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Speaker 5: of the mission was crewed, the other half was not.
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Speaker 5: So maybe the step back now is to kind of
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Speaker 5: help reset things and figure out have we worked out
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Speaker 5: things with our leaks and can we get a ship
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Speaker 5: back and forth with people on it. So let's send
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Speaker 5: another uncrewed mission up And looks like that's where it's headed.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: So during the comments of the of the Crew nine
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Speaker 6: successfully coming back to Earth, Steve Stitch, who's NASA's director
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Speaker 6: of the Commercial Crew program and oversees the star Liner
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Speaker 6: vehicle as one of those two vehicles. It's from a
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Speaker 6: NASA perspective. He had these comments at a press conference
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Speaker 6: on Tuesday night. He said this, we're looking at some
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Speaker 6: options for Starliner. Should we need to of flying it uncrewed? Now,
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Speaker 6: this is according to Reuters. Steve Stitch went on to say,
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Speaker 6: when we look forward, what we'd like to do is
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Speaker 6: that one flight and then get into a crew rotation flight.
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Speaker 6: What Steve Stitch saying, he's saying, yeah, the next time
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Speaker 6: this star Liner flies, it probably is going to be uncrewed.
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Speaker 6: We need more test data to make sure that this
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Speaker 6: Boeing spacecraft, the star Liner, doesn't strand another crew aboard.
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Speaker 6: ISS because look at this, I'm filling in the blanks
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Speaker 6: here of course, right, you didn't actually say these words,
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Speaker 6: but to me, when I read these words, this is
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Speaker 6: what I'm seeing.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 6: So Steve Stitch did go on to say this, well,
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Speaker 6: kind of weigh all those things as we get the
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Speaker 6: testing and analysis behind us unquote. So there's that from NASA.
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Speaker 6: Now Reuter's in the story that I'm quoting Routers dot com.
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Speaker 6: They did reach out to Boeing for comment. Boeing did
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Speaker 6: not return Reuter's requests for comment. They just said no comment,
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Speaker 6: or they just didn't they they said nothing at all.
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Speaker 6: So so Boeing's not talking, according to Ruyt, at least
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Speaker 6: they're not talking to Reuters. So Stitch did say that
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Speaker 6: Starliner's crude flight last year checked off some of the
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Speaker 6: key testing milestones related to how astronauts command and fly
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Speaker 6: the vehicle, and the purpose of the extra uncrewed test,
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Speaker 6: he said, would be to validate that its thrusters can
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Speaker 6: perform as designed in space and environment impossible to see
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Speaker 6: emulate in tests on Earth. End of story, looks like
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Speaker 6: Boeing may have to go uncrude back to the space
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Speaker 6: station before it can finally carry astronauts again to iss.
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Speaker 5: You know, they say, if you don't have something good
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Speaker 5: to say, don't say anything at all. That doesn't usually
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Speaker 5: work in the PR world, but maybe sometimes that is
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Speaker 5: the best strategy to take.
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Speaker 6: You know.
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Speaker 5: I'm just saying maybe that that could have something to
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Speaker 5: do with it coming up after a quick break. Let's
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Speaker 5: it's officially spring now. If the pollen didn't give it away,
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Speaker 5: we'll talk about that next.
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Speaker 1: It's vernal equinox day.
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Speaker 5: And the pollen has already been trying to kill me
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Speaker 5: for a few days leading up to this. If only
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Speaker 5: it could be so specific and go, okay, well, when
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Speaker 5: the uh first day of spring happens, that's when you
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Speaker 5: have to, you know, wear a helmet full of air filters.
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Speaker 5: But I didn't get the heads up on that. But
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Speaker 5: I do get the extra deep pipes though. I got
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Speaker 5: that going for me. Jill told me I need to
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Speaker 5: record every bit of audio I need for anything over
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Speaker 5: the next couple of days and at least make the
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Speaker 5: most of it. So that's all I got going for me.
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Speaker 5: Otherwise it's trying to choke the life out of me.
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Speaker 5: My lungs feel like a vacuum cleaner bag that hasn't
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Speaker 5: been cleaned out in a couple of years.
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Speaker 6: I mean, I did think that I might be talking
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Speaker 6: to lou Rawls this morning. I didn't know who was
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Speaker 6: on the other end of that.
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Speaker 3: You know, it's my friend Wes Carroll.
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Speaker 5: It's me.
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Speaker 3: Hey, for those who don't know who lou Rawls is,
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Speaker 3: go look it up.
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Speaker 5: Don't make me cough. The pollen's gonna get me. I
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Speaker 5: was gonna give you a good like No, I am
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Speaker 5: your father.
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Speaker 6: But anyway, so one of those of us in the
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Speaker 6: southeast were pumbled by pollen for sure, right now, there's
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Speaker 6: no question about that. Wes is correct. It's being pummeled
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Speaker 6: by pollen time here in the Southeastern United States. But yes,
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Speaker 6: according to the astronomical first day of spring. And we
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Speaker 6: can always have the conversations about the meteorological versus astronomical
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Speaker 6: first days of seasons.
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Speaker 5: Versus the common sense it started in March first, come on.
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Speaker 6: Man, maybe back in February here in the South anyway,
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Speaker 6: So it's all a little silly. But here's what is
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Speaker 6: actually happening in space. In space, the axis of the
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Speaker 6: Earth has lined up in such a way that it's
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Speaker 6: put the sun right on the celestial equator, in other words,
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Speaker 6: in a point right above the equator and at noon today,
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Speaker 6: So therefore we call that an equinox. And that's because
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Speaker 6: there are an equal number of daylight and darkness hours
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Speaker 6: roughly pretty close. And so that day, that special day,
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Speaker 6: the vernal equinox, is March the twentieth, twenty twenty five,
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Speaker 6: that's today. So that's for sure what's happening. And now
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Speaker 6: in the northern hemisphere, the number of daylight hours will
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Speaker 6: increase and in the southern hemisphere they will decrease. Here
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Speaker 6: in the north, we're moving towards summer. Down there where
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Speaker 6: Jill's family is in Australia, they'll be moving toward winter.
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Speaker 3: And we call that the vernal equinox.
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Speaker 5: So there it is, and can when when's the pollen
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Speaker 5: going to stop? Oh? Wait, that doesn't have anything to
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Speaker 5: do with the space. Sorry.
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Speaker 6: There is something though, that also does happen besides pollen
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Speaker 6: this time of year, which is something called the Russell
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Speaker 6: McFerrin effect.
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Speaker 3: And no, that's not Bobby McFerrin's brother.
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Speaker 5: Ah, too bad.
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Speaker 6: It's two different scientists, Russell and McFerrin, and they discovered
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Speaker 6: an effect which is the Earth's magnetic field does something.
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Speaker 3: Kind of unusual this time of year.
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Speaker 6: As the poles are sort of anti aligned to the
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Speaker 6: plane of the Sun, the magnetic field around Earth forms
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Speaker 6: cracks more than.
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Speaker 3: It typically does.
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Speaker 6: It does this always, but it's more common during equinox periods,
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Speaker 6: and those cracks in the Earth's magnetic field they allow
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Speaker 6: solar wind particles to penetrate, and so aurora phenomenon the
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Speaker 6: northern and southern lights are actually more common during equinox
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Speaker 6: times of the year, in March and in September. So
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Speaker 6: for those people who love auroras, Auroras love equinoxes, right,
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Speaker 6: check this out on spaceweather dot com. By the way,
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Speaker 6: cool story there about that. So check out all the
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Speaker 6: information on the Russell McFerrin effect and how we might
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Speaker 6: actually have a few more episodes.
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Speaker 3: Of northern lights. Keep your eyes on the evening skies,
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Speaker 3: my friends.
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Speaker 5: Anything can happen. We learned that twice last year. Anything
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Speaker 5: can happen. Keep your eyes to the skies. All right,
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Speaker 5: let's transition over to James Webspace Telescope. Always fun when
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Speaker 5: we when anything to do with James Web pops up
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Speaker 5: in the news feed, you go, all right, now what
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Speaker 5: and this is our latest? Now what with the James Web?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's this story is out there many places. I'm
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Speaker 3: quoting NASA dot gov.
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Speaker 6: The James Webspace Telescope has directly observed planets around another star.
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Speaker 6: I like to call those alien planets just because it
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Speaker 6: sounds fun, but we really know them as extra solar
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Speaker 6: planets or exoplanets. So a system of exoplanets around a
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Speaker 6: star called Hr eighty seven ninety nine has been observed
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Speaker 6: directly by James Webb. In other words, they got a
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Speaker 6: picture of it. You can actually see these little planets
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Speaker 6: around their parents star. It's really amazing because that's not
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Speaker 6: an easy thing to do now, this young solar system,
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Speaker 6: it's kind of a solar system freshly formed. In other words,
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Speaker 6: it hasn't been around that long. It's only one hundred
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Speaker 6: and thirty light years from Earth now, one hundred and
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Speaker 6: thirty light years. I wouldn't want to walk that distance,
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Speaker 6: but in terms of the lactic scale of things, it's
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Speaker 6: actually reasonably nearby here.
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Speaker 3: In the Milky Way.
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Speaker 6: And so it's been a planetary system that we've been
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Speaker 6: studying for a while as a society and as a
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Speaker 6: group of astronomers. Because it's a newly formed planetary system,
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Speaker 6: we like to get information from those.
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Speaker 3: Well.
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Speaker 6: Now this direct imaging has allowed scientists to have a
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Speaker 6: look directly at these planets and we can say that
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Speaker 6: they are very rich in carbon dioxide. In fact, they
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Speaker 6: took pictures of these planets through JWST with filters that
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Speaker 6: pick out carbon dioxide. So that's really an amazing find
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Speaker 6: that helps scientists understand how these planets may have formed.
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Speaker 6: And it kind of fits a model because it has
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Speaker 6: a heavy carbon dioxide content. It kind of fits a
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Speaker 6: model that scientists have been working with for a while
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Speaker 6: called core accretion, which means this, think of our own
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Speaker 6: in our own Solar system. We have these really mass planets,
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Speaker 6: Jupiter and Saturn, and it's likely that the cores of
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Speaker 6: those planets formed first, and then with the gravity of
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Speaker 6: those solid cores, they pulled in all of those gases
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Speaker 6: from the surrounding planetary cloud.
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Speaker 3: We know that as a nebula. That's a method called
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Speaker 3: core accretion.
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Speaker 6: And so scientists are saying, because of the heavy carbon
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Speaker 6: dioxide content in these newly imaged exoplanets in HR eighty
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Speaker 6: seven ninety nine, that these alien worlds were probably formed
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Speaker 6: by core accretion, and that's consistent with how we think
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Speaker 6: that Jupiter and satur formed right here in our own
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Speaker 6: Solar system.
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Speaker 5: Coming up, after one more quick break, Mars Madness. It's
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Speaker 5: that time of year. We'll talk about that next. Have
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Speaker 5: you filled out your March Madness bracket. Well, there's a
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Speaker 5: little bit more at stake, a little extra something at
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Speaker 5: stake in the tournament this year. How about a trip
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Speaker 5: to Mars.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, if you were looking for some reason to do
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Speaker 6: the brackets.
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Speaker 3: You know you can.
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Speaker 6: There's probably those five dollars versions or whatever, but this
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Speaker 6: one is more fun. And check out the story, by
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Speaker 6: the way, on space dot com, because if you picked
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Speaker 6: a perfect NC DOUBLEA tournament bracket, you could win a
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Speaker 6: trip to Mars on SpaceX's starship. I don't think I'd
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Speaker 6: want to go on starship right now because it keeps
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Speaker 6: blowing up. But they're figuring that out, friends, and they're
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Speaker 6: going to get it figured out, and then they plan
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Speaker 6: to take people to the Red Planet. And if you
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Speaker 6: pick a perfect bracket this year in the NCAA Championship tournament,
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Speaker 6: you could win yourself a trip to Mars aboard SpaceX starship.
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Speaker 6: That's called the X Bracket Challenge X formally known as
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Speaker 6: Prince I mean Twitter, Yeah, something like that. So the
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Speaker 6: ex Bracket Challenge, friends, it's a contest organized by the
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Speaker 6: social media site formally known as Twitter, and you could
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Speaker 6: win a trip to Mars. By the way, should we
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Speaker 6: just say this, it's not known if anyone has ever
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Speaker 6: picked a perfect bracket.
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Speaker 1: I don't know that anyone ever has.
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Speaker 5: I think someone came really close once, but yeah, there
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Speaker 5: have been these contests, and it's usually a safe bet
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Speaker 5: to offer it.
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Speaker 1: But I have a.
24:31
Speaker 5: Sneaky feeling that someone who knows nothing about college basketball
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Speaker 5: could actually just randomly guess them all and win a
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Speaker 5: trip to Mars. That's just my gut, Like maybe they're
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Speaker 5: just picking on mascots. There is an option, by the way,
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Speaker 5: when you go on the NCAA site, you can pick
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Speaker 5: based on mascots.
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Speaker 1: They come up.
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Speaker 5: Side by side and you can. It's really hard to
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Speaker 5: do it when you know a little bit about the teams.
24:56
Speaker 5: I did do some bracket like my boys and I
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Speaker 5: did brackets last night, and I'm gonna try it based
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Speaker 5: on the mascots. And I found myself going, okay, you
25:05
Speaker 5: know the Blue Devils versus I forget who that you know,
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Speaker 5: like Duke is playing somebody and you know Duke's one
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Speaker 5: of the one seeds, And I'm going, this mascot's better,
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Speaker 5: but you know Duke is better, so I'm gonna pick them.
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Speaker 5: And I didn't really do the mascots, but anyway, it's
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Speaker 5: hard to do that, but there are and you can
25:21
Speaker 5: actually do There's a and just as an fyi, if
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Speaker 5: you do a bracket, it can auto fill one for you.
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Speaker 5: So that's another option for you. I guess it's like
25:29
Speaker 5: just letting the lottery pick the lottery numbers for you.
25:33
Speaker 5: Now we should mention this because we're recording this in
25:36
Speaker 5: the ten am hour on the twentieth of March in
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Speaker 5: the year of Our Lord twenty twenty five, so you
25:43
Speaker 5: got like until noon, I think when the games start
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Speaker 5: to get this filled out. So I'm gonna get this
25:48
Speaker 5: thing uploaded very soon. But that's the last of your warning.
25:51
Speaker 5: You should have already known about this, but we're letting
25:53
Speaker 5: you know that there could be a trip to Mars. Well,
25:55
Speaker 5: there is a trip to Mars up for grabs.
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Speaker 3: Go quick, everyone, go quick. Yes, you should do the
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Speaker 3: auto fills. You're as good as anything.
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Speaker 5: You can do that one very very quickly. Or you
26:06
Speaker 5: can take the time to look at the mascots and
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Speaker 5: go you know, I kind of like the boiler Maker,
26:11
Speaker 5: you know, if that's what you want to do. I
26:13
Speaker 5: especially do like the Red Storm, or you know, you
26:16
Speaker 5: can whatever you want to do, however you want to
26:18
Speaker 5: do that.
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Speaker 3: Would be appropriate for this particular challenge.
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Speaker 5: Wes, you know, the Red Storm, it would be and
26:23
Speaker 5: I mean, if they win the whole thing you know,
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Speaker 5: maybe and you decide you don't want to go to Mars,
26:28
Speaker 5: you could offer me up. Since I gave that suggestion.
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Speaker 3: I would say this.
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Speaker 6: I'm just curious that if you do enter the challenge
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Speaker 6: and win, do you have to go? Like?
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Speaker 3: Do they make you go? I mean, can you change
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Speaker 3: your mind and go?
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Speaker 6: You know, I won this challenge, but I picked a
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Speaker 6: perfect bracket and I get to go trip to Mars.
26:46
Speaker 5: But I don't know if I really want to go
26:48
Speaker 5: to Mars? Can I sell my trip to Mars to
26:50
Speaker 5: someone else? Can we Can we send up Michael Strahan
26:53
Speaker 5: or William Shatner to Mars? Is that an option or
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Speaker 5: one of those guys available.
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Speaker 3: To do that?
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Speaker 6: Yeah?
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Speaker 5: And is there a chance I might get stuck and
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Speaker 5: have to be part of the next Crude mission to
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Speaker 5: come back home? Is it a one way trip to Mars?
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Speaker 5: Has there been a flight Bowling or SpaceX?
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Speaker 3: I don't know which one.
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Speaker 5: These are all important questions to ask before you step
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