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How To Know If You're Ready To Travel To Mars · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Christine, you want to go to Mars? Really? Yeah? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: We're getting closer every single day to go into Mars.
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  Speaker 1: And good morning, it's light FM Cubby Christine, producer Christen.
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  Speaker 1: I'm reading a fascinating article. The European Space Agency has
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  Speaker 1: launched a new experiment in Germany to study how humans
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  Speaker 1: cope and social isolation and emulate parts of a potential
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  Speaker 1: future mission to Mars. There are six participants who have
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  Speaker 1: voluntarily entered a sealed simulated space station and will not
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  Speaker 1: be allowed out until August. They got to stay in
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  Speaker 1: there until August. Conditions inside are highly controlled and structured,
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  Speaker 1: with a daily schedule of experiments. If you think you'd
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  Speaker 1: be interested, here are some of the rules you'd have
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  Speaker 1: to follow to be a part of the team. Ready
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  Speaker 1: for the rules, let me know when you're hitting the
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  Speaker 1: eject button and you're out. Okay. Number one, you must
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  Speaker 1: submit to a regular blood test. To number two, you
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  Speaker 1: can't communicate or make eye contact with medics or any
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  Speaker 1: other officials. Get instructions and routines through short audio briefings.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of weird, but I could probably do it.
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  Speaker 1: You must exercise for an hour every day. Why I'm out?
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  Speaker 1: You can only shower for five minutes twice a week.
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  Speaker 1: Who keep in mind, I'll get to the you know,
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  Speaker 1: I mean you can survive this. I'm not gonna like it,
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  Speaker 1: but because you have to remember, you're gonna be in
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  Speaker 1: isolation for six months. It takes that long to get there.
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  Speaker 1: And then when you get to whatever they build in Mars,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure it'll be more spread out than the capsule
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  Speaker 1: you're going in, but you're still gonna be isolated. So
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  Speaker 1: you have to keep all these things in mind. You
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  Speaker 1: can only eat rationed, prepackaged space style foods. There's no
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  Speaker 1: fresh fruit or vegetables you can. You have limited clothing
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  Speaker 1: and laundry facilities, all right, tougher and tougher, And this
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  Speaker 1: is where I'm really out. Yeah, there's no alcohol or
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  Speaker 1: energy drinks. And you're out too because there's no tea
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  Speaker 1: or coffee. It's very limit. That's it. Yeah, you've gone
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  Speaker 1: too far. Right. You're allowed just one two hour video
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  Speaker 1: call from your family once a week. Only one small
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  Speaker 1: shoe box of personal items are allowed. I only have
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  Speaker 1: a couple of more. These are all the rules if
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  Speaker 1: you want to go to Mars. Yeah, you only get
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  Speaker 1: privacy in your tiny sleeping pod and in the bathroom,
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  Speaker 1: and you can only sleep at regulated times eleven p
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  Speaker 1: to seven as when you sleep. And forming relationships with
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  Speaker 1: other travelers is frowned upon because it could impact team
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  Speaker 1: dynamics and performance, and there is a strict no sex rule.
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  Speaker 1: The room silence of the room silent. I mean you
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  Speaker 1: had me at coffee. And this is the final little
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  Speaker 1: tipen here. You know, a trip to the moon, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the the Artemis thing. Yeah, that just took around four
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  Speaker 1: days and they didn't even stop on the moon and
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  Speaker 1: they had each other and they had each other. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but traveling to Mars takes about six months, and that
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  Speaker 1: means astronauts will be trapped together in confined quarters and
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  Speaker 1: limited resources as the journey far away from home. So
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  Speaker 1: they're trying this right now. Again, it's a study going on.
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  Speaker 1: I believe these six participants are already in this thing,
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  Speaker 1: and you really be you really have to be mentally prepared.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, the isolation would do me in. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't. Could you do it? Text us at four, four, three,
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  Speaker 1: six y three? At what point did you say on
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  Speaker 1: that list, I'm out