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Spencer Pratt Falls Behind in LA Mayoral Race | Cool Space News w/ Rod Pyle · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're list Saints KFI AM six forty. The bill handles
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  Speaker 1: a Monday morning.
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  Speaker 2: now we'll see. Okay, a couple of stories. I want
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  Speaker 2: to talk about the election in Los Angeles. This is
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  Speaker 2: the primary. The final vote for mayor comes up in November.
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  Speaker 2: November elections, and this has to do with three people
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  Speaker 2: Nithia Rahman, a Democrat, very left wing. You've got Karen
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  Speaker 2: Bass who is sort of I would say, a moderate
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  Speaker 2: left winger, although conservatives will certainly argue with that, and
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  Speaker 2: either one and we have not gotten a And then
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  Speaker 2: of course Spencer Pratt, who is the MAGA. He's the
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  Speaker 2: MAGA candidate. Now, mail in ballots will continue through today
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  Speaker 2: or tomorrow. And here is what's going on. She is
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  Speaker 2: moving and that's Raman if moving into second place against
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  Speaker 2: incumbnent Karen Bass. So what why? What is going on? Well,
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  Speaker 2: it all has to do with male in balloting and
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  Speaker 2: the ability to change the ballots. California has some rules
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  Speaker 2: allowing people to vote later than almost any other state,
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  Speaker 2: allows more ways to vote, and the allegation is that
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  Speaker 2: that is fraudule and I'll deal more without a few
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  Speaker 2: minutes later, Pratt was substantially ahead of Raman. Karen Bass
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  Speaker 2: had to lead the whole time. So she's gonna make
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  Speaker 2: it to the general clearly because the top two that
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  Speaker 2: was a sneeze. The top two candidates moved to the
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  Speaker 2: general notwithstanding apology or notwithstanding the party they are with.
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  Speaker 2: So you're gonna have two Democrats. You can have two Republicans,
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  Speaker 2: and here we may have to wed Democrats probably will
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  Speaker 2: because here is what happens whenever you have these votes,
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  Speaker 2: any vote, whether it's city, whether it's county, whether it's statewide,
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  Speaker 2: and that is that on election day, Republicans do very well.
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  Speaker 2: Because Republicans tend to vote on that day, they don't
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  Speaker 2: do as much mail in. They certainly don't do afterwards.
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  Speaker 2: And California allows mail in bean ballots to continue on
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  Speaker 2: beyond election day if it is postmarked election day and
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  Speaker 2: I voted very late, so I had to go to
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  Speaker 2: the post office to drop off my vote the day
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  Speaker 2: of the election, and it's going to be counted later.
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  Speaker 2: On the other thing, if I had dropped it off,
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  Speaker 2: well I did, and as long as it's postmark it
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  Speaker 2: can be counted up to seven days afterwards. And therein
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  Speaker 2: lies a big problem has been a dramatic shift in
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  Speaker 2: Ramen's favor because those male in ballots are starting to
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  Speaker 2: be counted. Pratt led Ramen by several thousand votes. However,
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  Speaker 2: the latest update Pratt Ramen leads by three thousand votes.
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  Speaker 2: I mean nothing because in the latest updated Ramen took
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen thousand votes. Bass got sixteen thousand votes. Pratt
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  Speaker 2: only received eighty four hundred votes. And this is the
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  Speaker 2: reason why Republicans are yelling fraud. And there's two types
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  Speaker 2: of fraud and I'm going to talk about that in
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  Speaker 2: a minute that are being alleged. One is just plain
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  Speaker 2: old stupid, and that is, we know fraud, and when
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  Speaker 2: asked about specifics, there are no specifics. We just know
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  Speaker 2: fraud is happening. The other argument, and this one actually
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  Speaker 2: is an argument saying that the entire system the way California,
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  Speaker 2: the laws and the rules in California that allow those
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  Speaker 2: later votes, even to the point where if you have,
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  Speaker 2: for example, put your signature on wrong, you can't change
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  Speaker 2: that signature up to two weeks, which means it will
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  Speaker 2: be it can't be before June twenty six that the
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  Speaker 2: official count is published. And so the argument is that
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  Speaker 2: the entire system is fraudulent. Okay, I mean I don't
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  Speaker 2: agree with that. I don't think it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: Dean fraudulent. But you can argue that the system is fraudulent. However,
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  Speaker 2: arguing that specific races are fraudulent, which is being bandied about,
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  Speaker 2: that is downright stupid. You know why there's no proof.
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  Speaker 2: It's an allegation. It's just a straight allegation. And when
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  Speaker 2: asked about specifics, and this goes all the way from
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  Speaker 2: the President on down among Republicans, where's the proof, where's
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  Speaker 2: the beef? Well, we don't actually have any, but we
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  Speaker 2: know it's happening. So the allegation has already started that
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  Speaker 2: fraud has taken place. And there's two allegations. Number one,
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  Speaker 2: the whole system is fraudulent or at least susceptible to fraudulent,
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  Speaker 2: and the other some specific races, for example, the PRAT
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  Speaker 2: race is fraudulent. Okay. Where well, they really don't have
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  Speaker 2: any proof, but it's fraudulent. Where what are the specifics, Well,
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  Speaker 2: we don't have any specifics, but we know is fraudulent.
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  Speaker 2: And when asked, how do you know it's fraudulent if
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  Speaker 2: you don't have specifics, Well, we may not have specifics,
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  Speaker 2: but we know it is. Okay. Here's the example. You're
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  Speaker 2: being tried for a crime. It's only allegations, there is
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  Speaker 2: no proof, and you're in front of the jury and
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  Speaker 2: the jury says, we don't have any proof of you
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  Speaker 2: committing a crime, but we know you've committed a crime.
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  Speaker 2: In our hearts. We know that's what you have done.
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  Speaker 2: But wait a minute, how about our system that says
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  Speaker 2: you have to look at the evidence. We don't have
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  Speaker 2: to look at the evidence because we know that fraud
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  Speaker 2: has taken place. Okay, let me make an example. Just
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  Speaker 2: because you think if my grandmother had balls, she'd be
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  Speaker 2: my grandfather. She does not, so therefore she is not
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  Speaker 2: my grandfather. But we know she is. Even though there
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  Speaker 2: are no balls, we know she's your grandfather. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: do you see the problem. This is one of the
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  Speaker 2: reasons that Rudy Giuliani got bounced and lost his license
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  Speaker 2: and was disbarred is because of the allegations that were
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  Speaker 2: made as to specific fraudulent voting that went on. So
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  Speaker 2: he makes the allegation, goes to court to unravel the vote,
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  Speaker 2: and the judge says, said, where is your proof? I
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  Speaker 2: have it in my hotel room. And the judge says, okay,
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  Speaker 2: that's what he said. We'll recess until you come back
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  Speaker 2: with the proof. And so he comes back at two
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  Speaker 2: o'clock and the judge once again says, okay, where's your proof? Well,
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  Speaker 2: I know I had it, but I don't know where
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  Speaker 2: it is. So all the Way to the top. Christian
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  Speaker 2: Welker of NBC was interviewing the president where he said
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  Speaker 2: fraud has taken place, and she said give me some
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  Speaker 2: specific saying he wouldn't. It's I know the system is fraudulent.
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  Speaker 2: Is there any proof of widespread fraud? That is the
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  Speaker 2: that's really the question, widespread fraud. You got one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and fifty million votes. You think you're going to find
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  Speaker 2: some fraud someplace. Yeah, yeah, but it's wide spread fraud.
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  Speaker 2: There was Oh my god. California Attorney General has said
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  Speaker 2: that the monitoring of the election, the voting was absolutely crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Justin Levitt, an election law expert, said that sel who
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  Speaker 2: is the US attorney And he said Levitt said, well,
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  Speaker 2: we go ahead and we conduct investigations for fraud all
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  Speaker 2: the time, which you can't offer specifics. You don't have
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  Speaker 2: anything to go on, and it's straight out you're investigating
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  Speaker 2: something that really doesn't exist. You're just doing this. And
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  Speaker 2: when asked specifically, he said, well, the US Attorney we
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  Speaker 2: go after fraud all the time. Okay, what kind of
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  Speaker 2: fraud do you go after? Well, criminal fraud, we go
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  Speaker 2: after embezzlement, we go after elder fraud, where people have
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  Speaker 2: been defrauded of money. How about the election fraud? Do
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  Speaker 2: you have any specifics? No, we don't, but it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: Specifics don't matter when a Democrat wins. The president is
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  Speaker 2: still arguing the twenty twenty election was fraud, complete utter fraud.
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  Speaker 2: Joe Biden won, and once again the question is, show
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  Speaker 2: show me the beef. We don't have any, but we
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  Speaker 2: know as fraudulent. See, those are the two issues, big issue,
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  Speaker 2: that the entire system is flawed and fraudulent. You can
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  Speaker 2: make that argument all there is absolutely no proof of
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  Speaker 2: it at all. If there was proof, why don't you
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  Speaker 2: bring it to the table. If there was proof. When
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  Speaker 2: all the lawsuits were filed for the twenty twenty election
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  Speaker 2: declaring fraud, sixty three judges wanted specifics and couldn't and
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  Speaker 2: it couldn't be brought to into court. And so the
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  Speaker 2: lawsuits are flying again and the same thing is going
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  Speaker 2: to happen. Where's the beef, Well, there isn't any, but
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  Speaker 2: we know, we know exactly what's happening, because in our
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  Speaker 2: heart of hearts we know this is fraudulent. It's pretty
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  Speaker 2: scary stuff. Don't get arrested, by the way, right. Don't
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  Speaker 2: get on the radar screen of any authority, because if
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  Speaker 2: they haul you into court and you haven't done it,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter as long as in their heart they
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  Speaker 2: know you have all right. Moving on to a fun
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  Speaker 2: topic I always love to do. Rod Pile, our space expert,
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  Speaker 2: Cool Space News is a segment his podcast is This
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  Speaker 2: Week in Space, Rod, let's start with the NASA Moon
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  Speaker 2: base plans. How close are we to putting a base
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  Speaker 2: on the Moon?
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  Speaker 4: Good Morningville. We are not close. We have a lot
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  Speaker 4: to do, and we have a lot to do before
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  Speaker 4: last week when that new Glen rocket blew up and
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  Speaker 4: that throws a monkey wrench into our plans for the
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  Speaker 4: earliest landings. But a few weeks ago NASA did announce
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  Speaker 4: this new plan for a Moon base, which had kind
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  Speaker 4: of been in discussion but drifting a bit. And they're
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  Speaker 4: committed to spending twenty billion over seven years, which isn't
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  Speaker 4: all that much for what they're trying to do, but
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  Speaker 4: it's a commitment, and basically, I mean, I look at
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  Speaker 4: it as Elon Musk's coffee creamer money, but you know,
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  Speaker 4: twenty billion is twenty billion.
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  Speaker 3: So they've got the.
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  Speaker 4: Three phase plan first to explore the surface by twenty
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  Speaker 4: five ish robotic flight, then start landing cargo, then start
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  Speaker 4: landing actual modules. And interestingly, some of these modules may
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  Speaker 4: already be built, because we had plans for an orbiting
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  Speaker 4: lunar station called the Gateway, which got canceled in that
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  Speaker 4: same press conference, and it had been kind of on
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  Speaker 4: the ins and outs for a number of years. So
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  Speaker 4: it looks like they may take some of those things
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  Speaker 4: and actually try and land them on the surface and
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  Speaker 4: use those for the earliest habitat.
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  Speaker 2: What are they comprised of? What is it going to
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  Speaker 2: look like? Yeah, two story building, it's going to look
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  Speaker 2: like a bunch of tents that you would find downtown
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  Speaker 2: LA for the homeless. And how many of them and interconnected?
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  Speaker 2: And how are people going to live? And how are
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  Speaker 2: they going to be able to grow broccoly outside? So
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  Speaker 2: describe what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 4: So these will look a lot like the modules we
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  Speaker 4: see on the International Space Station already, accept smaller for
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  Speaker 4: the existing ones.
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  Speaker 3: For the new ones, it's anybody's guests. I don't think
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  Speaker 3: there's been major work.
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  Speaker 4: Done on them, but they're basically either cylindrical or roughly rectangular,
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  Speaker 4: and very industrial looking.
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  Speaker 3: Hopefully the interiors.
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  Speaker 4: Will be a little bit more user friendly than the
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  Speaker 4: space station because on the Moon, of course you do
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  Speaker 4: have gravity. It's only one sixth verse, but you do
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  Speaker 4: have gravity. So you want to have a sense of
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  Speaker 4: a floor, maybe some side windows, ceiling, deckcre because people
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  Speaker 4: are going to be living here for a long time,
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  Speaker 4: whereas in the space station, because you're floating, there is
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  Speaker 4: no floor, ceiling or sides. Everything is just up. So
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  Speaker 4: I think it'll look very different in terms of assembly.
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  Speaker 4: They'll be landed as far as we know so far. Anyway,
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  Speaker 4: this is still very early in separate modules and then connected.
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  Speaker 4: Hopefully they'll be able to do some of that robotically,
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  Speaker 4: because at least the plan for today is to do
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  Speaker 4: this at the south pole of.
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  Speaker 3: The Moon, and we want to be down there.
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  Speaker 4: Because there's water ice, and water ice could be made
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  Speaker 4: to breathe the blocks of gender and rocket fuel and
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  Speaker 4: drinking water and so forth.
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  Speaker 3: So that's very valuable.
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  Speaker 4: But the south pole of the Moon is w the
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  Speaker 4: hardest places to get to, in a tough place to
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  Speaker 4: work because if some of the coldest temperature in the
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  Speaker 4: Solar system. So hopefully they'll be able to assemble those robotically.
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  Speaker 4: There is one more thing You've got radiation to worry about.
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  Speaker 3: There.
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  Speaker 4: So in the International Space Station that's still under the
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  Speaker 4: bulk of the Earth's magnetosphere and most of the radiation
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  Speaker 4: is blocked out.
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  Speaker 3: It's equivalent to.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe flying very high in a jet airliner, whereas on.
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  Speaker 3: The Moon you're getting radiation.
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  Speaker 4: Straight in from the Sun and from outside the solar system.
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  Speaker 4: So over time you're probably going to see them stacking dirt,
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  Speaker 4: like up to maybe five or six feet of dirt
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  Speaker 4: over this thing, because lunar soil is a very good
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  Speaker 4: absorber of heavy radiation.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so you describe a very small facility that people
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  Speaker 2: are going to be camped at. It seems pretty claustrophobic,
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  Speaker 2: where there's just going to be enough room to move around,
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  Speaker 2: a little bit, sleep, and obviously you have toilet facility
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  Speaker 2: these I mean, how how long are people going to
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  Speaker 2: be there? And it's going to be a tough way
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  Speaker 2: to go in terms of living, just in terms of
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  Speaker 2: the environment, living environment.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're right, I mean it's kind of an extended
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  Speaker 4: camping trip. I suspect the early deployments will.
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  Speaker 3: Probably be a month to ninety days.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just I'm in Rushing and DC right now finishing
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  Speaker 4: a conference. A bunch of astronauts were here, and when
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  Speaker 4: you spend time with them, you always reminded they're a special.
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  Speaker 3: Breed of people.
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  Speaker 4: One of them was apoll of seventeen, Harrison Schmidt. He
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  Speaker 4: spent three days on the Moon doing three eva's there,
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  Speaker 4: and I got to tell you, man, these guys they
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  Speaker 4: were tough because you know, you think this is primitive.
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  Speaker 4: Living in two hundred and twenty cubic feet for that
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  Speaker 4: number of days on the moon is really primitive. But
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  Speaker 4: you know that's how they downselect these people. Over time,
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  Speaker 4: as it gets better, more scientists and more technicians to
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  Speaker 4: be able to go out there, and it'll be a
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  Speaker 4: little easier. But for the first ten years it's going
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  Speaker 4: to be compacts, you're right, and very very science driven.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, rod air leak on the space station and so
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  Speaker 2: a couple of things. How dangerous was it and how
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  Speaker 2: did they fix it with either, for example, a tutsi
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  Speaker 2: roll or duct tape.
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  Speaker 4: Well you almost could, So you know, it's important to
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  Speaker 4: know this leak's been going on for seven years. So
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  Speaker 4: the space stations as finished twenty six years old. This
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  Speaker 4: is the Russian module, the Vestia module. It was actually built.
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  Speaker 4: It started nineteen eighty two, completed in eighty five to
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  Speaker 4: be flown as a Russian space station, and then the
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  Speaker 4: Soviet Union collapsed. We said, okay, we'll take it and
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  Speaker 4: put it on the ISS. We don't want you giving
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  Speaker 4: it to evil people or anything, so we want it.
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  Speaker 4: So it became part of the International Space Station. And
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  Speaker 4: again that's been a service twenty six years now. So
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  Speaker 4: this crack appeared about seven years ago. It's weird. It
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  Speaker 4: comes and goes in severity. This is another one of
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  Speaker 4: those periods of time where apparently the structure flex that
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  Speaker 4: opened up a bit bigger leaks, so they sent there
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  Speaker 4: were seven people up there right now. Five of them
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  Speaker 4: went and took refuge in the SpaceX screw Dragon capsule,
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  Speaker 4: which is their getaway car if they need it, and
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  Speaker 4: then the two Russian cosmonauts went over into their module.
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  Speaker 3: And tried to fix it.
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  Speaker 4: Now, the problem is you got cabinets and electronics and
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  Speaker 4: wires and all this stuff bolted to the wall, so
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  Speaker 4: you have to train it behind that stuff and then
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  Speaker 4: steal it with epoxy. But every time something docks with
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  Speaker 4: the space station or every time, and the dozens of
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  Speaker 4: times they have to do it every year they have
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  Speaker 4: to move it to get out of the way of
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  Speaker 4: an errant satellite or something. That whole big structure flexes.
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  Speaker 4: And the concern is that if this is metal fatigue,
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  Speaker 4: it could really open up and just suddenly let the
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  Speaker 4: air out at some point, which could be calamitous. So
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  Speaker 4: that's why they're so careful about it and take these precautions.
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  Speaker 2: I'm assuming that there are plans and they practice and
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  Speaker 2: they are dealing with this from literally the inception and
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  Speaker 2: number two question on this one, the Russians collapsed. Russia
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  Speaker 2: collapsed where the Soviet Union did? Did they finish their
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  Speaker 2: portion of it or just hand it over the United
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  Speaker 2: States for completion.
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  Speaker 4: That's a really good point. It was a little bit
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  Speaker 4: of both. I think this particular module and the second
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  Speaker 4: one they provided were pretty much finished.
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  Speaker 3: But they've been sitting in.
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  Speaker 4: Mothballs for a long time, and NASA had different standards
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  Speaker 4: than Soviet Union slash now Russia did and do, so
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  Speaker 4: they had to have a meeting of the mines in
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  Speaker 4: the middle. What's amazing is that since the invasion of
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  Speaker 4: Ukraine and earlier of the CRIMEA. Things with the space
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  Speaker 4: station between Russia and the US have continued to go
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  Speaker 4: really well. On the ground, it's a total mess. We
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  Speaker 4: hate each other, but up there they're working together, they're
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  Speaker 4: getting along, and even on the ground, the two Michigan
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  Speaker 4: controls really work well together. The question now is how
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  Speaker 4: long do we keep the space station. There's a lot
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  Speaker 4: of people when I do talks and stuff that will say, well,
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  Speaker 4: why can't we keep it up there as a private
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  Speaker 4: hotel or something. It was really purpose built just for research,
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  Speaker 4: and it's really old, and the astronauts at this point
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  Speaker 4: spend almost sixty percent of their time just keeping it going.
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  Speaker 3: So it's time to bring it down.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: All it's past its lifespan, isn't it is proposed lifespan?
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well passed, okay.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: And then bringing it down means they just stop using
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: their thrusters that keep it up, and then this thing
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: just falls to the Earth because of gravity and entering
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: the atmosphere.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: Do I have that right kind of? I mean, you
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: don't want another skylab where it was out of control
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: and we couldn't get up there in time to aim
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: at exactly where we want it, So Actually, they've given
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: SpaceX a contract to build a thruster module that would
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: dock with it and push it down at the time
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: that we choose, because you want this to re enter
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: and come down over this big empty patch of the
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: Pacific Ocean, which is a spacecraft graveyard. We used it
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: for years, so that it doesn't end up somewhere in burbank.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Is there an official date to bring this thing down
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: or they're just going to keep it going as long
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: as they can.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: They're talking between twenty thirty and twenty thirty two. I
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: think unless this leak gets worse or another one appears,
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: they'll probably push it out to twenty twenty thirty two,
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: maybe twenty thirty four.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: But at that point the.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: Hope is this three companies have been contracted, with a
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: fourth coming in behind them, most of interestingly located in
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: Long Beach, who are building private space station.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: NASA's giving them some money.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: One or two of them will dock with the ISS
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: first and then on dock before that's brought down, and
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: eventually the whole operation they're hoping to turn over to
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: private contractors with three or four space stations.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: All right, Rod, as always, thanks for the information. And
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: you can go to the podcast and get a whole
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: lot more information this week in space that Rod hosts.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: So we'll talk again next time we have either a
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: major leak where that would be entertaining, but you know,
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: get that all right, Take care Rod? All right. Oh
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