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Gabby Award for Best Podcast Series Winner? Who Us? · 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: expand their vocabulary to include terms like quasar, asterism, and Uranus.
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  Speaker 1: Listen at your own risk.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead. We're made of stars. We're all made of stars.
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  Speaker 3: We are Made of Stars.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Wes Carroll, joined by my good friend, Dr. Sean Cruz,
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  Speaker 4: an executive director at Columbus State University's Coca-Cola Space Science Center.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Sean.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Wes. It's great to be here. You do mean,
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  Speaker 2: of course, the award-winning Made of Stars podcast. That's right.
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  Speaker 4: Multi-Gabby award-winning Made of Stars podcast. Yeah, you know, we
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  Speaker 4: talked about this on the last show, the last two
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  Speaker 4: shows maybe, the fact that you were going to be
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  Speaker 4: gone when the Gabby Awards took place.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome back, by the way.
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  Speaker 2: It's good to be back, yeah. Good to be back.
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  Speaker 3: Usually I know people.
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  Speaker 4: That come back from Italy and they visibly look like
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  Speaker 4: they've put on about 40 pounds.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that's just part of going to Italy.
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  Speaker 4: So congrats on not looking like you've put on 40 pounds.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate that. That's a, that's a compliment. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I will tell you that I, I ate enough food
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  Speaker 2: and drank enough wine to actually have put on 40 pounds,
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  Speaker 2: but we also didn't Uber much. We walked. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's the big difference.
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  Speaker 2: We just walked everywhere. So yeah.
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  Speaker 4: My friends that go like to Disney and they're like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we put on 20 pounds and it's like, how do
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  Speaker 4: you put on 20 pounds of walking at Disney? And yeah,
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  Speaker 4: Like I couldn't afford 20 pounds worth of food at Disney,
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  Speaker 4: first of all, inside the park. But that's another story altogether.
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  Speaker 4: So we were anticipating the fact that the awards were
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  Speaker 4: going to happen and I was going to have to
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  Speaker 4: go without you. And you were going to be overseas
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  Speaker 4: at the time. I did just that, went to the
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  Speaker 4: Gabby Awards. It's the Georgia Association of Broadcasters annual event
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  Speaker 4: to honor– the broadcasters throughout the state of Georgia. And yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we had gotten a notification that we were a finalist
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  Speaker 4: for the top prize in the category of best podcast series.
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  Speaker 4: And Jill and I went and we sat with our
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  Speaker 4: friends at the Georgia News Network at their table. And yeah,
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  Speaker 4: the category came up and sure enough, our names got
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  Speaker 4: called as the winners for the Gabby for best podcast
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  Speaker 4: series in the state of Georgia. And, you know, I
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  Speaker 4: had a moment where I thought, well, this doesn't mean
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  Speaker 4: we're the best podcast in Georgia. And he goes, no,
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  Speaker 4: that's exactly what it means.
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  Speaker 3: It's, it's at least according to our peers, uh.
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  Speaker 4: At the Georgia news network and the, uh, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 4: at the, uh, Georgia association of broadcasters and the, uh,
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  Speaker 4: I guess, whoever the final voters were, whatever state they're in.
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  Speaker 4: They pick people from another state to cast the votes
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  Speaker 4: on it. So it was a great night with our
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  Speaker 4: friends at Georgia News Network. A great night with all
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  Speaker 4: of the winners at the Gabby's. I just was missing
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  Speaker 4: my friend Sean Cruzan. But I understand you were in
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  Speaker 4: Italy and, you know, I loved being there to hear
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  Speaker 4: our names called and pick up the trophy. but I
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  Speaker 4: would have traded with you.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I almost said to my wife, you know
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  Speaker 2: that trip we've been planning to Italy for years? I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to just not go because I'm going to go
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  Speaker 2: to the Georgia Association of Broadcasters Award to see if
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  Speaker 2: we actually win Best Podcast, which we did. And by
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  Speaker 2: the way, I'd like to also thank the Georgia Association
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  Speaker 2: of Broadcasters. Not being a professional broadcaster myself, I have
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  Speaker 2: a giant amount of imposter syndrome every time this happens,
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  Speaker 2: but uh, you know, I like to think that this
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  Speaker 2: podcast is entertaining at least. And, uh, and just say,
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate it. But yeah, anyway, I did not cancel
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  Speaker 2: my wife's trip to Italy so that I could be
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  Speaker 2: there with you. I'm sorry, Wes, but, uh, but I
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  Speaker 2: am happy that you were there representing. I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: give a shout out to all of our friends at
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  Speaker 2: GNN for their awards that they won. Some of our
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  Speaker 2: friends from here in Columbus, Derek Kincaid, among the rest,
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  Speaker 2: Tyler Ballender. Congratulations on your awards and we were just
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  Speaker 2: happy to be there, right? We're just happy to be
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  Speaker 2: there among that group.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you can say imposter syndrome and all that,
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  Speaker 4: but I mean, when I told you the first time
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  Speaker 4: we won in this category, you're definitely a broadcaster now
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  Speaker 4: and your peers with everyone in this room. And now
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  Speaker 4: that it's happened a second time, I hope maybe a
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  Speaker 4: little bit of that imposter syndrome can wear off.
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  Speaker 3: But it does feel good.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, this was the ninth award I've won from
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  Speaker 4: the gab so uh here's to maybe number 10 next
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  Speaker 4: year you know it just seems like a good round
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  Speaker 4: number it feels it would feel weird to just stop
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  Speaker 4: at nine right we will try.
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  Speaker 2: To continue doing this show with excellence that's all that's
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  Speaker 2: all we can do we'll see what happens that's all we.
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  Speaker 4: Can do so um yeah and i think when i
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  Speaker 4: sent you the text and told you that uh we
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  Speaker 4: had in fact won uh first of all jill's like
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  Speaker 4: Looking up the time, she's like, don't bother him.
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  Speaker 3: He's asleep.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm like, I'm pretty sure his phone is on
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  Speaker 4: either do not disturb or off while he's sleeping. So
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  Speaker 4: I don't think we're going to wake him up by
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  Speaker 4: sending him a text about the Gabby's. And then when
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  Speaker 4: I heard from you, I guess after you woke up,
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  Speaker 4: I just remember telling you something to the effect of
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  Speaker 4: I think we're on to something here. So we appreciate
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  Speaker 4: those of you that listen. And that's the other component
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  Speaker 4: to this is if you guys weren't listening, we wouldn't
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  Speaker 4: really have a reason to do it. I mean, we'd
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  Speaker 4: probably still do it because we like doing it, but
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  Speaker 4: it's nice to know that people are listening. And it's
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  Speaker 4: nice to know that people who help decide who wins
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  Speaker 4: awards from the GAB are listening.
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  Speaker 3: That's also good, too.
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  Speaker 2: And I'd like to just point out the fact that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I didn't immediately receive that text. I had
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  Speaker 2: to wait until I woke up is because I was
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  Speaker 2: in a different time zone. Therefore, once again, verifying that
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  Speaker 2: we live on a spherical earth rather than flat.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: There's that whole sciencey thing too there.
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  Speaker 4: I don't, we got a lot to talk about today
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  Speaker 4: and I don't want to get too off on a tangent,
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  Speaker 4: but I am one of those people that doesn't understand.
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  Speaker 4: Like I get the, I get why we have time zones,
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  Speaker 4: but I also get that it would make more sense
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  Speaker 4: if we just had one single time for the whole planet. And,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you just basically woke up and, and, and
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  Speaker 4: went to sleep based on whatever time was appropriate where
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  Speaker 4: you live.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I just feel like that would make a lot more sense.
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  Speaker 3: There's no more of this. Hey, what time is it
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  Speaker 3: where he is?
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  Speaker 4: Cause you know what time it is where it's the
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  Speaker 4: same time as it is where, and I know, I
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  Speaker 4: know this is just my brain doing things. I just think,
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  Speaker 4: I just think it would make more sense if we
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  Speaker 4: just had one big universal time for the whole planet.
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  Speaker 3: And then we don't have to worry about all that
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  Speaker 3: other stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the next time I head over there to the
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  Speaker 2: International Astronomical Union, I'll bring that up to them and
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  Speaker 2: just see what they think about that.
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  Speaker 4: They've probably never had anyone bring this up before.
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  Speaker 3: This is all a brand new.
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  Speaker 4: Idea that hasn't been floating around in my head for decades.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, mind you, astronomers do function with that. We
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  Speaker 2: have what's called GMT, Greenwich Mean Time. We call it UTC,
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  Speaker 2: Universal Time Code. It's a universal time that we all
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  Speaker 2: When we talk about astronomical events taking place, it's basically
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  Speaker 2: Greenwich time, but it's called UTC. And so, yeah, we
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  Speaker 2: have one time already. It's the rest of you that
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  Speaker 2: haven't caught up yet.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: It's the earth dwellers.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just trying to figure out how many problems get
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  Speaker 4: solved with that. And then, yeah, you're going to have
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  Speaker 4: people that are going to live somewhere where they're going
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  Speaker 4: to go. yeah, I go to bed at 3 AM
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  Speaker 4: and I, you know, and that's fine. And then the same,
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  Speaker 4: you know, some people on another part of the planet
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  Speaker 4: are like, well, yeah, well I go to bed at
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  Speaker 4: 3 PM and you know, that's, well, it's just.
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  Speaker 3: Where you live. That lets me know where you live
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  Speaker 3: right away based on that.
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  Speaker 2: I think we should just have it like be Iceland.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why it just seems like that's let's
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  Speaker 2: make that like this. It seems kind of in between
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  Speaker 2: Europe and the United States, you know, it's, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Those people in Asia, they can figure out their own system,
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  Speaker 2: I guess.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody can have, well, and that's, yeah, everybody does kind
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  Speaker 4: of have their own thing, don't they? So I guess
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  Speaker 4: that's what we're back to. Well, while we've been talking
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  Speaker 4: about time, the Crew-12 from NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 has splashed
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  Speaker 4: down and they're currently bobbing around in the water, aren't they?
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  Speaker 2: Oddly enough, we were playing time experiments with that because
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  Speaker 2: I already had the story prepped and ready to go,
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  Speaker 2: but as you and I were getting ready to start recording,
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  Speaker 2: I was still watching the video to see if they
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  Speaker 2: came in and splashed down okay. They have.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right. Nicely done.
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  Speaker 2: So for those of you in the future, you already
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  Speaker 2: know that that's taking place. But Wes and I were
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  Speaker 2: actually watching as the capsule was coming back down with
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  Speaker 2: the Crew-12 folks. So Crew-12 includes Jessica Beer, Jack Hathaway,
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  Speaker 2: both NASA astronauts, European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adno, and
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  Speaker 2: Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrei Fedyaev. So these folks have been able
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  Speaker 2: to re-enter Earth's atmosphere in their Dragon capsule. It is
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  Speaker 2: a SpaceX Crew-12 vehicle. They came back down, landed safely
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  Speaker 2: out somewhere west of Los Angeles in the Pacific Ocean
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  Speaker 2: this morning. And as we're recording live here, that was
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  Speaker 2: all taking place. The last we knew a boat was
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  Speaker 2: pulling up to the capsule and was getting ready to
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  Speaker 2: help those astronauts get back out, get into the boat
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  Speaker 2: and go back to the ship. So again, those of
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  Speaker 2: you in the future, future, future, you already know the
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  Speaker 2: rest of the outcome. They made it back to shore safely.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, so that's where we are right now. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I will tell you that, I'll just remind you, I
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  Speaker 2: should say, that the Crew-12 mission was the one that
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  Speaker 2: went up and was basically going to replace Crew 11.
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  Speaker 2: That seems pretty obvious, but Crew 11 had to leave
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  Speaker 2: a little early. That's because there was a medical incident
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  Speaker 2: on board involving one of the Crew 11 astronauts, and
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  Speaker 2: that was, turns out, was Mike Fink. This is information
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  Speaker 2: that's come out now. But typically, they go up, and
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  Speaker 2: they're up there on the station at the same time,
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  Speaker 2: and then there's a handoff ceremony, and then they come
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  Speaker 2: back down. But Crew 11 couldn't wait around because they
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  Speaker 2: had an astronaut on board with a medical issue. So
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  Speaker 2: when this crew had initially arrived at the International Space Station,
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  Speaker 2: the crew they were going up to replace had already left. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I will tell you that that happened back in February
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  Speaker 2: of 2026. So they've been up there for several months
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  Speaker 2: now as we're getting to this point. But in that
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  Speaker 2: several months, the European Space Agency astronaut, French astronaut named
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  Speaker 2: Sophie Hadenau, Sophie Adno took part in almost 200 scientific
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  Speaker 2: and technological experiments. So look, they're all doing things, right?
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  Speaker 2: They all have jobs. They're all doing things. But this
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  Speaker 2: is a very inordinately large number of experiments that this
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  Speaker 2: French astronaut was able to participate in while aboard the
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  Speaker 2: International Space Station. And a lot of those experiments had
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  Speaker 2: to do with innovations that were monitoring or protecting astronaut health. Now,
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  Speaker 2: why is that important? Well, obviously, it's important to protect
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  Speaker 2: the health of the astronauts while they're aboard, but it
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  Speaker 2: also allows for our knowledge to grow so the astronauts
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  Speaker 2: can then spend longer periods of time in space, hence
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  Speaker 2: leading to hopefully some colonization in the future where they're
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  Speaker 2: spending very long periods of time in space. But the
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  Speaker 2: other thing is that all of these experiments bring knowledge
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  Speaker 2: back to the Earth, new information that helps us treat
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  Speaker 2: some of these conditions right here on the surface of
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  Speaker 2: the planet. So there were ultrasound scans. There were synchronized
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  Speaker 2: physiological sensors. There were measurements of bone density, measurements of
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  Speaker 2: blood flow, monitoring and preventing biological contamination on surfaces. All
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  Speaker 2: of these kinds of things were among the 200 scientific
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  Speaker 2: experiments that Sophie Adno took part in that are going
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  Speaker 2: to bring information back down to make life better right
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  Speaker 2: here on the surface of the earth for all the
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  Speaker 2: rest of us.
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  Speaker 4: On top of all of the experiments and science that
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  Speaker 4: was done there, a number of spacewalks this crew was
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  Speaker 4: involved in. It was just a busy time in space
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  Speaker 4: for this crew, wasn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's great. You know, the International Space Station has
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  Speaker 2: been continuously occupied since the year 2000 for 26 years, right?
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  Speaker 2: And so it's just amazing to think of all of
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  Speaker 2: the things that have been done aboard that laboratory. And again, many,
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  Speaker 2: many of those experiments happened have applications right back here
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  Speaker 2: on the Earth. But as you say, some of them
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  Speaker 2: are just to keep the vehicle up there going and
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  Speaker 2: keep the systems onboard both modern and functioning at the
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  Speaker 2: same time. So there's a sustainability aspect, but there's also, again,
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  Speaker 2: a spinoff aspect. It's not why the astronauts go. They
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  Speaker 2: don't go for the spinoffs back on Earth, but yet
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  Speaker 2: the spinoffs back on Earth happen in large numbers. And
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  Speaker 2: we just like to remind ourselves and recognize that and
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  Speaker 2: remind our audience here that all of those experiments going
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  Speaker 2: on above our head really do have applications and benefits
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  Speaker 2: for those of us back here on Earth.
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  Speaker 4: More Made of Stars right after this. Before you left
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  Speaker 4: for Italy and before we won the Gabby Award for
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  Speaker 4: Best Podcast Series from the Georgia Association of Broadcasters for
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  Speaker 4: the second time, we talked about the fact that SpaceX
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  Speaker 4: getting ready to launch The Starship Flight 14, we talked
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  Speaker 4: about it, and then it got kicked back a week,
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  Speaker 4: and then it got kicked. So we had a couple
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  Speaker 4: times where we were like, all right, we're waiting to
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  Speaker 4: find out when this thing is going to launch. And
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  Speaker 4: it has now successfully launched. And so, again, something else
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  Speaker 4: that happened while you were in Italy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say this. For those of you who
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  Speaker 2: think we're spiking the football about this Gabby thing, we are.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we're, we're nice guys. We're funny, but you know, we're,
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  Speaker 2: we're also the kind of guys that are going to
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  Speaker 2: take that opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: And, you know, just spike the football.
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  Speaker 2: We want a broadcaster's award for this podcast. I'm pretty
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  Speaker 2: happy about that. How can I help it?
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  Speaker 4: If we got to do the icky shuffle, you know,
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  Speaker 4: when we win, we do the icky shuffle.
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  Speaker 3: If we got to do the.
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  Speaker 4: Billy white shoes, Johnson, uh, knee shake or whatever he
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  Speaker 4: called it. I don't know what that one was called.
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  Speaker 4: you know, we're going to do whatever we got to do.
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  Speaker 2: It is simply an end zone dance. That's all it is.
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  Speaker 3: That's all it is.
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  Speaker 2: Don't be offended. We're just having fun.
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  Speaker 3: You know, spiking a football. So that's all it is.
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  Speaker 2: And SpaceX should be spiking football too, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: because in this launch that took place while I was away,
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  Speaker 2: they had a lot of successes. So Starship Flight 14
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  Speaker 2: and launched from the Texas facility down there at Starbase
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  Speaker 2: Texas on September the 28th. And it was a historic
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  Speaker 2: flight because it marked Starship's first ever successful arrival into
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  Speaker 2: Earth orbit. So they were able to put that Starship
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  Speaker 2: spacecraft in orbit around the Earth. They had intended to
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  Speaker 2: go around the Earth six times, but they pulled back
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  Speaker 2: from that number. There were some minor technical difficulties. They
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  Speaker 2: made some decisions to bring it back. They were also
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  Speaker 2: doing this. They were testing what's called the boost back maneuver.
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  Speaker 2: And so that's where they want to really... hit the
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  Speaker 2: target correctly with the booster. And so the first stage
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  Speaker 2: booster performed that boost back maneuver and successfully did what's
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  Speaker 2: called a soft splash down in the Gulf of Mexico.
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  Speaker 2: They also performed some tests with ship itself during the deorbit.
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  Speaker 2: They decided to deorbit after just a couple of hours
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  Speaker 2: in flight. And they were able to pinpoint accurately bring
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  Speaker 2: the ship down, which is, that's kind of the, there's
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  Speaker 2: a booster, which is the rocket part. And then there's
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  Speaker 2: the ship, which is the vehicle part. And the vehicle
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  Speaker 2: part came down just West of Los Angeles in the
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  Speaker 2: Pacific ocean, somewhere out there. And it, it was able
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  Speaker 2: to bring it down into a nice soft landing as well.
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  Speaker 2: So all kinds of testing done, all kinds of, of
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  Speaker 2: really good stuff there, but they also friends on this
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  Speaker 2: mission were able to successfully deploy the 26 next generation
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  Speaker 2: Starlink version three satellites into low earth orbit. And that
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  Speaker 2: became the first deployment of operational commercial payloads from the
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  Speaker 2: Starship vehicle as well. So this was another reason for
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  Speaker 2: them to spike the football. And they are now able
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  Speaker 2: to put commercial payloads into space in a verified manner
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  Speaker 2: with Starship. They have basically deployed dummy drones or just,
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  Speaker 2: you know, mock payloads in the past, but these are
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  Speaker 2: actually functioning operating satellites now. And so they demonstrated that capability.
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  Speaker 2: So a huge multi-faceted success story for Starship from SpaceX
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: on flight 14. And obviously that now leaves them in
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: better position to participate with the Artemis astronauts on the
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Artemis 3 mission. and puts Starship itself in a little
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: bit better spot to be chosen as the ultimate landing
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: vehicle on the surface of the moon for the Artemis
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: IV astronauts. So big, big time for SpaceX, and congratulations
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: to them on their success.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: Folks along the Gulf Coast, all the way from Houston,
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: all the way over into Georgia, of course, talking about
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: there's a hurricane heading in our general direction right now
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: As we're recording the show here on this Thursday, ECES
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: is on its way. It became an actual hurricane in
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: the last day. But that's not the only storm coming
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: this weekend. How's that for a segue?
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: That was a fantastic segue. It might be an award-winning segue.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: Could be. And does that count as team weather coverage?
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Maybe.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe we found another category to enter into.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Let's call Tyler and find out. No, all right. So
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: it's two CMEs. are approaching the earth exactly at the
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: same time the hurricane is coming ashore. Isn't that just coincidental?
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: What's a CME, you might be asking? Well, you must
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: not be a common listener to this show because we've
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: talked about it before, but that stands for coronal mass ejection.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: It's coming from the sun, friends. There's a giant active
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: sunspot group, 4549 is the number, sunspot group number 4549.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: ejecting material at the earth in our direction. These materials
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: are in route now as we speak. uh the the
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: storm that took place was on october 7th uh it
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: looks like from noaa forecasting models that the two cmes
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: may be hitting the earth somewhere in the span of
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: october 9th to october 11th that's anywhere tomorrow as we're
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: recording the show but it's friday anywhere between Friday and Sunday,
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: so sometime during the weekend, hey, guess what? That's about
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: the same time the hurricane's going to be coming on shore.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: So even if there are beautiful northern lights displays, we
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: probably won't see them here in the southeast because there'll
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: be cloudy. That's why, because there's a hurricane coming. So
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: maybe that's not the best thing. But anyway, for those
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: of you who are listening in the northern tier of
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: the United States or possibly in Canada or other more
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: northerly latitudes, The two CMEs striking the Earth. They set
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: the stage for possible G1 to G2 class geomagnetic storms.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: And yes, Northern Lights or Aurora Borealis sometime over the weekend.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: So if you're out from underneath the canopy of the
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: hurricane coming ashore in the southeast, you can actually see
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: the nighttime sky. You might want to go just kind
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: of keep an eye on things. You can also monitor
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: the space weather environment. If you go to spaceweather.com, and
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: that's where we got the story, by the way, spaceweather.com,
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: and check out the real-time monitoring that takes place linked
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: to that website.
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: More made of stars right after this.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: I've been excited to talk about this since we last talked.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: This has become a significant news story. And let's talk
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: about the moon base, eventual moon base. Obviously, it's not
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: there yet, but some significant work being done about colonizing
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: the moon, going back to the moon for good.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: Which, you know, has a double meaning there. It is
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: for the good of humanity and mankind. And it's also
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: about making sure we get there before the people who
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: don't want to go there for good.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: So it's a space race. I mean, that's part of it.
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: But it's also about being there, you know, permanently and
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: having an established base. And there's a lot of layers
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: to this story.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: The double entendre in there. So anyway, yeah. So Artemis,
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: the Artemis program. is designed to return human beings back
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: to the surface of the Earth for the first time
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: since the Apollo program. But as Wes just said, it's
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: also a plan to put some kind of a lunar
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: base near the South Pole of the Moon. And why
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: would we do that? Why would we go to the
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: South Pole? There's a really important reason, because there are
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: water resources that have been identified by various other spacecraft,
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: like the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, They're kind of stuffed up
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: into the craters at the south part of the moon,
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: and they're frozen in there as ice. Well, so we
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: don't talk about water on the moon a lot because
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: water is not really native to the moon. But this
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: is water that's been deposited by the collision of comets
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: and things like that. So it's been deposited after the
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: moon was formed. And it's there waiting for whatever agency
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: or organization or people group happened to get there first.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: to claim those resources. And why is it important? Well, yeah,
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: we want to drink some water while we're up there.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: That's true. But the H2O in water, you can turn
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: that hydrogen and oxygen combinations into fuel. You can do
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: electrolysis and create electricity. Obviously, the oxygen can be breathed, right?
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: So all of these things are very important. It's very
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: important resources if you want to go up there and
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: stay for a long period of time. And there are
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: other interested parties, other interested countries in going up there
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: and claiming those resources, which is just, it's part of
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: the reason why there's some urgency behind the Artemis program.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Now, what just happened? What's the news story? Well, on nasa.gov,
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: we read that three new scientific investigation missions were just
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: selected by NASA to go to this very location on
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: the moon and And make sure we understand that region
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: just a little bit better, both what's there on the surface,
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: but also what's down below the surface. And so that
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: we can understand not just the geography, but the composition
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: of that area. We're trying to learn more about it
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: because we're going to go there and put a colony up, right?
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: And so all kinds of scientific organizations applied to send
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: their mission up and be the best mission. And NASA
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: only chose three. So there were the three missions that
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: were chosen. One of them is called the Lunar Environment
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Monitoring Station. One of them is called the Geophysical Instruments
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: for Marius Lunar Pit Investigation. And one of them is
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: called the Depth Imager with Spectral and Color Optics. Now,
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: these all have fun acronyms, as you can imagine. But
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: those are the three missions that were selected. Okay, so
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: let's talk about each of them briefly, quickly. the Lunar
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: Environment Monitoring Station at the South Pole, or in other words,
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: the LEMS-SP. The LEMS-SP is an autonomous instrument suite that
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: will serve as a long-term environmental and hazard monitoring station.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: The instrument will be designed to build a picture of
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: the lunar environment by monitoring falling micrometeoroids and tracking the
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: abundance of volatiles or materials that can easily shift into
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: gas and that drift into the moon's thin outer layer
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: of gases, thus according to nasa.gov. So that's the LEMS
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: SP mission. Okay, another mission is the Depth Imager with
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: Spectral and Color Optics, better known as DISCO. There's a
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: cool acronym for you. The DISCO payload will provide the
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: first direct on-the-ground measurements of ice hidden in the lunar
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: micro cold traps and also will lay the groundwork for
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: lunar resource utilization and surface operations. So that's the DISCO mission,
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: another one very important. Together, this information will help NASA
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: design safe surface operations and develop technologies needed to turn
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: ice into usable resources for the future moon base. Okay,
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: so there's two. There's LEMS-SP and there's DISCO. The third
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: one is called GIMLI.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, now we're talking.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: There we go. Gimli is the geophysical instruments for Marius
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: lunar pit investigation. All right. Gimli is a payload that
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: will be deployed at the Marius Hills pit on the
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: lunar surface to hunt for subterranean lava tubes and aid
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: in our understanding of the fundamental lunar volcanic processes that
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: have taken place there. So why are lava tubes important? Well,
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: lava tubes can actually provide shelter for astronauts during hazardous
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: radiation events coming from the sun, just like those coronal
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: mass ejections we just talked about in the last story.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Astronauts can be able to take cover in those locations.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: According to NASA.gov, confirming these void spaces now could shift
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: future habitat planning, offer natural ready-made shelters that provide crucial
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: thermal stability and shielding from deadly ionizing radiation and micrometeoroid bombardment. Okay,
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: that's fun. That is a project from the Planetary Science Institute.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Now let me put the punchline on it. The Gimli mission.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: We're particularly interested in this mission. And in fact, I
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: received this text message from a certain friend of mine
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: while I was away last week because that certain friend
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: of mine happens to be one of our own alumni
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: from Columbus State University and the Coca-Cola Space Science Center.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: It's Matt Perry.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: Oh, I thought this was me.
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: When I texted you that we won the Gabby Award
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: from the Georgia Association of Broadcasters for Best Podcast Series.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: I mean, I did spike the football from Italy when
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: I received that text.
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: I thought it was when I messaged you to say
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: that the actor who played Gimli in Lord of the Rings,
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: John Rhys-Davies, tickled me once during a photo op.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: But that wasn't... Which is interesting. It is a weird story.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: It's something that he does, and I didn't know this,
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: and it's better when you don't know it, so I've
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: just ruined it. But if you ever take a picture
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: with him, he's going to tickle you to try to
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: get you to laugh right as the photo's taken. And
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: I didn't ruin it for my brother, who had the
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: same experience.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: But anyway.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: And now I want to take a photo with John
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: this day.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: Well, it was a cool photo to take. But no, seriously,
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: back to Matt Perry. I'm sorry. I've stolen a bit
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: of his thunder.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So alumni, Matt Perry. Matt Perry, one of our
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: former students here at Columbus State University, is actually the
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: science operations manager for the mission. So think about all
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: of these various agencies and programs submitting ideas for missions
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: to go to the moon and help the Artemis astronauts
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: build a colony up there. Only three of them was selected.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: And one of those, the science operations manager for the mission,
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: one of our alumni. So Matt Perry, what we're really
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: spiking the football about today is you, brother.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: That is awesome.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: Congratulations to the Planetary Science Institute crew and to our
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: own Matt Perry for being the science operations manager there.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: I will tell you, I did also, during that same
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: span of time where you text me, Matt texts me,
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: I've received a third text from Zach Coker. And Zach
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Coker is another one of our former student interns here
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: at Space Science Center. Zach actually got promoted and moved
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: over to the NASA proper side Zach is working with
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: a team of technicians that go down and stack the
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: moon rocket, the space launch system down at Kennedy Space Center.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: And he was very proud because he had been shifted
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: from his employment with a subcontractor over to NASA proper.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: He is now a proud employee of the U.S. government
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: through the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. And I'd like
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: to just tip my hat to Matt Perry, Zach Coker,
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: and a couple of knuckleheads who won a broadcaster's award.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's three footballs to spike, really.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: That's a lot of footballs. How many before you get
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: fined by the league? I can't remember.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: Some number of props you can use. I can't remember.
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: You just can't be too excited, and you can't swear
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: at players if you're a referee, apparently, which I just
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: assumed was always happening.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Apparently, you can't send me gambling either. Well, I get
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: that one. That one I understand.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: I get that one.
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: Although there is a certain Sidney Sweeney ad for gambling
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: that makes me want to sports gamble now, but I'm
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: not going to do it. But it certainly makes it
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: seem more appealing for some reason. Let's talk about Galacticon
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: because you guys are going to be hosting Galacticon there
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: at the Coca-Cola Space Science Center on October the 24th.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: If you're one of the regulars or one of the
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: locals here at Space Science Center, you already know about
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: our past event called the Columbus Comic Book and Toy Show.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: We're changing that a little bit. Mr. Dutch Cummings ran
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: that event for years and years. He's now handed it
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: off to the next generation as Dutch has moved into retirement,
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: but he's still acting in somewhat of an advisory capacity
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: for the current crew working here at the Space Science
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: Center who are going to put on a brand new
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: named event called Galacticon. And yes, Galacticon will have some
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: similarities to the old Columbus Comic Book and Toy Show,
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: There are going to be pop side panels, local vendors,
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: artist alley. It's going to be a food truck. Of course,
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: we'll have planetarium shows and NASA artifacts, flight simulators, arts
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: and crafts for the kids, all kinds of fun happening
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: on Saturday, October 24th here at the Space Science Center.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: It's a general admission cost of $ 10 for Galacticon. Make
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: sure you check out all the information for Galacticon, for
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: Music Under the Dome, and for all of the events
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: taking place here at Columbus State University's Coca-Cola Space Science Center.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: at the website, friends, www.ccssc.org, charliecharliesamsamcharlie.org, or heck, why don't
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: you just follow us on Facebook? That'd be a cool
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: place to get information as well.
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: Sean and I thank you for listening to the Gabby
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: Award-winning podcast for Best Podcast Series from the Georgia Association
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: of Broadcasters, and we will do.
• 32:43
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