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How Space Stations Work

2016-06-21 | 🔗

It seems like we largely take it for granted these days, but the fact that we have humans living in space is the realization of a scientific dream a century old. Visit the space stations orbiting Earth past, present and future in this episode.

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three miles. I can remember that. Would Eads Pudding Year, your zip code, and it sends you text seller when the ice is gonna, be flying overhead. Other. You can say one of that. The lead astronauts with this text, you ve, like George load up. What are you doing were over your house right now. But I mean basically it's not from the astronaut, but it's the same thing at hearing like look up in this direction. At this time and you should be able to the highest us pretty need yeah. I dont think we actually everyone. I looked at it because it was always that three in the morning or civilian, yet this really like thrills me to know end once I started looking into this, I got it. I never paid a lot of attention and it really just dawned on me like people are living in outer space continuous, full time. The international space station is being continued
the inhabited since it was launched the ninety nine the year. In fact, they just took their one hundred thousand orbit of earth. That's really need in May of this year, an expedition. Forty seven began in March that so comment it like we just it's like you say you don't really stop and think about it, but we're living in Spain. Yeah. Humanity is extended, at least in the earth orbit right. That's where we're living, and we just kind of seem to take that for granted. But there wasn't always the cases actually, and I think the reason why we do can I take it for granted is because the conception of living space- where it right now is remedial compared to where everyone expected it to be. Like the MID seventies year when the idea space colonization was at its peak yeah, I mean now
The aims research centre was conducting summer. Studies is what they were called, where they would just get the public really jazzed about living in space. In the best he can say where the least we can say is that the boy, Some pretty awesome artists, renderings days colonies, look like it seem like every other issue. A popular science was just some cool new picture right of lichen. You know when they were can be living out here right, exactly the one day seemed a lot closer than than it does now right, yes, but as the most you can say that that space called fever that was going on in the seventies. Definitely the groundwork, pave the way for where we are now which is living in space. We just don't have like Stanley Cubic Ask space hotels that are big rotating at the moment doesn't mean we're not going to it just didn't happen as fast as everybody thought it was going to, and I was
forgot. Why in apparently, because the shuttle programme like the these this space, colony fever, was based on the idea that launching the space shuttle was going to be way cheaper. Then to any of the Rockets had been previously that didn't pair to be the case and that there will be something like I'm like us can be a space taxi, Those yards sixty one likes to end sixty launches a year which is which didn't turn out to be the case either, but they thought that years is get we're gonna be gone back and forth the space for like next to nothing now the time and that we would be colonizing space pretty quickly. They didn't panel, the space Shuttle Programme didn't didn't pay out to be that as cheap or is frequent, and so this dream space colony of this enthusiasm for space kind he was kind of lost, but luckily it wasn't lost by the actual engineers who were in charge of putting people in space and figuring out how to live in space, and the whole idea is probably still coming adoption.
A little further down the road Yan there are many, many many hundreds and hundreds of people that helped make this reality over the years. But a lot of this can be laid at the feet of Mr Verna VON Braun, who was the architect of the? U S space programme, and he was that the the big champion of space stations early on like in a real viable way, though he was like the Carl Sagan of his death. He realized tat. He had a quote. He said there were published scientific papers and treatises still health freezes over. But if we don't get the attention of taxpayer, we're gonna we're not going anywhere, and how do you do that? You start putting people on the moon and start building space station or even even more basic than that certain. He wrote like popular articles and popular magazines to get the public's imagination,
crime for that kind of thing yet, and his idea was it was it was not just like hey look at anything. We can do it. You know you have an end arctic outpost. You have back in the old Asian out West outpost. He was likely. We need an outpost, we need a place where people can live and work and as their base station essentially shirt. Spaces of frontier by you want to start trick knows that the final frontier right, let's everything, so we thought back that right, sure, there's other frontiers dimensions to explore. Sure I can't think back well, let's talk about why? What? What are some? The reasons we should do this you mention, I'm just capturing the public and it certainly will would do a lot to rally people around spending funds on be no say,
ever NASA allocating funds towards this kind of thing, but you may like public authorities, tourism. None are no, not space tourism, but just initially you know they needed the support of the the popular american bright opinion right, which is why VON Brown said. I'm gonna play it out to the public directly through collars magazine? He did a three part. He hosted a three part show, unlike the wonder, world of Disney about living in space creature, and we really got people just about this back in the fifties. Yet then it picked again in the seventies, like I was saying you have, but one of the big reasons that you would want to have a working space station is aside from the convenience of haven't. I haven't it up there and I have to go back and forth every time you want to do something right is two things are different up there and you can do different things without gravity the you can't do it
on earth right like research, yet like remarkable things, so I've been turns out. A gravity has a weird effect on crystals in the way they form the flotsam yet like. Inevitably, but if you out there. Microgravity there are far fewer flaws in the crystals tend to form more perfectly, so you can do things like make really good semi conductors idea for micro chip, sir, you can also crystallized drugs better yet to make them more potent yet an early knock, your socks off. So research up there that can make things better. It right. The salient not just research, put figure out how to do it there and then build on that by building a manufacturing facility for semi conductors out in space Yemen and bring him back to earth me like watch how fast this baby goes.
Another thing that no gravity or microgravity does is it makes flames in flames here on earth with our stupid gravity point in every direction makes a flame very unsteady and unpredictable makes setting combustion more difficult member. When we talked about fire, yet fire and spaces very consistent, indirect its round, yet so cool. So you could you could potentially, with with a perfect flame like that then perfect, claim this gotta be a song eternal flame. Is everything now thing perfectly
No, you thinking of maternal flame, such Josh's and my favorite. If microgravity, that you can have that it turn of flame that around and you can set it combustion in a more pure fashion and you get build a better furnace, maybe or find out how to reduce air pollution by making things more efficient. But this is like two things that you could do in spite of sugar thousand things we could strike in. As a matter of fact, some of the early ideas force base stations were these were concepts that were that used like moon, mind, mill, minerals and materials, yet in assembled and stated that you didn't have to launch him from earth here. So this whole idea, like creating things in space, is even used to form the basis of these places where we would actually live. Are we doing this?
critical. Yet it also offers a unique perspective on the earth for talking about Landforms in oceans, your atmosphere, speaking of which they can take much better pictures looking in the other direction and a deep space, because they don't have that pesky atmosphere in the way by so lots of great reasons to be up there, not the least of which is something you mentioned earlier. Space tourism, which is is gonna happen at some point. Right people are looking into it. Was this one company galactic sweet year? There were still at it were another There are really still says they're planning on launching in two thousand twelve. Oh, I thought that they thought there still kind of I'm you, obviously not on that point It was a little villa somebody still paying for the domain, but that doesn't mean I put it still says: like they're gonna be they're gonna head register the stars in two thousand and twelve.
And then I found another row in one that was looked pretty promising, but their sight appear. Lee was not updated and citizen ten, but a company called Bigelow Industries very recently had Spacex fairy capsule up to the eye assess it was an inflatable capsule. There was a habitat module, there was meant to be a prototype for space hotel. They couldn't get it inflated, he wasn t they just boarded the mission by Adam, like people are still working on it ancestors of space tourism like today, while another galactic Sweet sat down there like we, we think it'll cost of four million dollars for weekend stay and our data suggests that there are about forty thousand people in the world that can and will pay for this so on. Maybe maybe they their site has been updated because they get scared,
the end of the world, two thousand twelve thing, maybe a mother, a hiding in a cave somewhere. Somebody played a prank item and there are still too scared to come out and update the site, maybe while richer Branson, you know he's trying to fly people on the space so yeah. I looked at those like wait a minute. This is the alaskan airlines, mergers that kill virgin galactic and apparently no. I was just virgin America that that Alaskan Airlines took over apparently in a hostile takeover bids. Virgin galactic still at it. What's good, I guess if your loaded and want to write and space deaf ear ass in future. What are your area? They were analysed right sure they have disposable income should send the catch up their catch either. One I feel like I should take a break in regroup and then we'll start talking about the space station past I'll, take woman.
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moon basically here, which we pointed out in our show, really got us going sure and lead to our advancements. Yet by all. What was it em there's another showed a recently Sputnik later Superboss Betty. Remember. We are talking about the super ball in the supervisory, showed how Sputnik like me. Erica, Post or America way of meal a k, supping coddled in and lazy. Yet we need to get back to it. Innovation near generating again, and Airbus Sputnik. That did that. Nothing like the thread of communist Russia, Soviet Union to get people go in for being left behind so back. Then there were the Soviet Union and they were the first, as we said with the Soviet one station nineteen, seventy one do they have people living in space near the year. I was born it's crazy, yet it was actually coming
son of a couple of different system. One armies in the soil, as the farmers with a military system and the Soyuz was the actual spacecraft, varied people too They still use- and I think the whole american astronaut to get to the irish citizens who use them rockets that really here. Well, what number that I wonder? Who knows who knows a lot. They bought him a lot from the cosmic sign, I think, really very nice. One little on Eighty five feet long had three main compartments use: your standard compartments, which are like dining and recreation, food, water, storage, gotta, be toilet, exercise, equipment and then your science, he stuff yet that's easy stuff, it's a big deal chair because not only are they looking at how to make crystals better, there also study,
the effects of microgravity on the human body which were still giving a handle on it. We should do an entire episode on how space a picture body. Ok, I think that would be like. I think I got three or four episode ideas as this one: Oh, oh yeah. We should do and just an IRA says to exert, but what this can briefly one of the things that they found so far about living, it's Is that your bone, mineral density decreases by one percent a month which you like one percent, is still ninety nine percent left? Who cares epic here on earth? If you're in a senior adult you lose about one percent of bone Mass a year, So that's pretty significant and another thing that they found out was that the living in my gravity when you here on earth, the your fluids in blood- and certainly stimulating your lower extremity there in my
gravity. It tends to accumulate up in your upper body in your upper chested in your head and your brains like oh bathed in this stuff. I need a shut down production on fluids, including blood, so they went astronauts get back on earth. They tend to be faintly out because they they don't have enough blood for a while, until their bodies like wolves, we're just happened and it is making blood and they SAM and he because a space somebody gimme some time a butcher is there. The other thing I found out was in space. No, I can hear you scream yeah. They try fifteen after every hour how the astronaut screams loud as they can and nobody can hear, and that, of course, was a famous tagline from the first alien movie. Oh yeah, I remember seeing the add, with a big egg, near space, no canoe scream,
I thought that's terrifying. Now, I'm gonna watch one other thing that the earning about affecting gravity so Scott Kelly, the astronaut who famous just then a year on the idea that he has a twin, who is also an astronaut. His name is MIKE and MIKE has been studied here on earth has been taken. But those guys are over the same over the same year that Scott has yet another can Are you an apparently Scott came down he was like an inch or two shorter than is identical twins away. There was just one thing their examining them on a genetic level to see what differences of have happened. Get a better handle on what in gravity dies human body set of shorter and more fancy for starters
fell dead away and they just slapped his face. Import Tang down as well, I think we're lost a lot of people is that these are real. Human experimentation is going on and who knows what the long term effect is gonna be that these people are really like sacrificing potentially right, I mean not just being away from Emily and stuff, but who knows faintly might turn into some really that will not only that yours. There also exposed to solar radiation and space radiation that the earth's atmosphere protects most thus from here they are exposed to it and dumb, apparently there's a huge possibilities. Their lifetime risk of cancer just goes through the roof out there. So yeah there's a lot of questions. We that it's good that we're not all just living out and space, because we can. We get a lot of have to figure out beforehand, hero, sir. What I said
so the soil as ten crew for the very first Sally it space station that Russia had they were. They were supposed to live up there, but they couldn't doc correctly. So they can never entered the space station, so they never could even get in big big disappointment near fitness, one whose hung their heads and put in reverse in the little module, went off one, so the soil, as eleven crew actually successfully live there for twenty four days and nineteen seventy one which is remarkable, but very sadly, they all perished upon reentry, coming back to earth, the other capsule depressurize Andy the third cattle. The time was designed for them to wear suits, so they they were all asphyxiated. Yeah dislike die instantly right pretty much here there would have like lost consciousness
almost immediately so after the eleven Soyuz alone. And they launched a different space station altogether. The Sally it too didn't even get up into orbit, so they were like net went through three four and five and pretty quick succession and each one. Basically, they got better at getting people to from and make it stay at their longer and longer yeah. I think the last one was launched in. You need to, and it was up there until like ninety. Ninety two, ninety ninety four and they actually used it s like, I think, the when they launched the mere which will talk about anything. I can only six, I guess those other than they were going back and forth between Solly at seven in the mere yeah. I guess probably going like we can. We can
like over. Here we gotta go, get it from, saw you and take it over to the mere throws up there for a while. They think other thing they figured it out and when a big differences between the early solutes check in the later one was that there was a docking, a secondary, docking module you're the first and only had one parking space essentially right, and so you had the parking space for the crew. That was there. Anything Eads applies both here and there is no it apart, but if you had a second docking port, then you can use. While these the unmanned ship called progress yet to ferry supplies from earth to the solutes stations yeah. I'm surprised that it took them up to the solid six to realise it needed another parking space
You're gonna forget something right. You left the iron on so long. They were stuck up here. No one can visit a success socially while he said that he figured out which is wonderful and that led to the United States in eighteen. Seventy three launching there very famous sky lab one space station return, the best patch of any necessary did I space based anything schuyler? One is the best he has. Guy lab was awesome, but it got off on a very bad start on a bad foot because upon launch like just getting it out there, Had these two main solar panels, I wanna completely ripped off the other one
extend out like it should have, and so the single most burned up completely initially, because it had very little power, they couldn't controlled the heat right. You can call it the Interior, the capsule one of silk, a hundred and twenty six yeah, so they said, hey guys, the thought you needed to go up there and fix this, and they actually, there are three different crews: the words that were sent to Schuyler Bonn APOLLO capsules here and on the skylight you'll itself is actually designed, roughly initially by Werner VON Bron out of Saturn five Moon rocket. Yet the third stage of it became schuyler and I think at the Errand Space Museum in Washington, not the one it does, but the
Well, that's in like that, like all round the mall yeah Africa has a replica skylight become walk through alcohol, which is so often dude. I would love to do that, but so that the three cruising had sent up their chuck. They manage to kind of like put schuyler back together with the tape and Bobo gum. Yet at first one sky lab to they descend them up a weakened half after the fate will not fail bunch but problematic, locking, and it's so funny how some of this NASA stuff is so simple. They said, go up there and essentially take this big, such aid. It looks like an umbrella and pop it open right to call it. And then see that that solar panels in stretch out far enough stretch it out they stood up and they did Commander Charles P, Conrad, Paul Whites and Joseph Kirwin, essentially saved sky lab yeah right up I noticed them. There were again there are three crews that kind of did one after the other.
They didn't overlap, but they finally get the thing working. I think the last crew spent eighty four days in orbit, yet the first one spent twenty eight, the next one, fifty nine, the final and eighty four days in the seventies- and I remember- and this is a big deal- you know this is the first time they were testing these long duration. Man missions to see like you know, can we go to the moon, cause it takes I'll get their back right. There was the thing like all those data we had was on moon missions, which is about a two week mission get Sweden. Data on what happens to people longer than that. Yet can we can we set up shop? There colonise moon, even so, they called anything over two weeks along durations fight, and I remember and nineteen seventy nine Urbino eight year old kid- and I remember hearing about his. This is now in the seventies when families would sit around watch the news, and I like how you got all your
formation, and I remember sitting around and hearing that sky lab is coming back down to earth and unpredictable way, and I remember being sort a scared and they can make. While this is suitable, weird and Canada Big Deal here like even though eight year old shut new like something then seem quite right. There are a lot of people who are really anxious about it, because NASA very famously said that everybody calm down there isn't there. A one in one hundred and fifty two chance that somebody will be killed by skyline, Well yeah. They wanted one. Fifty two.
You wanna hear numbers from NASA, like one million are one in a billion, not one in a hundred and fifty two, if you like, I know two hundred people, I know a hundred fifty three people, it also force NASA to admit we were so excited about getting the thing up there. We didn't really think a lot about how to control its descent, because I was essentially the story they write or like. We can't. We know really guide this thing back that they said it would quote costs too much to have designed in a way to bring it down safely here, and I think they were there in a hurry were also the problem is, as they thought that they were just its or with decay a little bit and then, following that, basically the orbit of space chunk yeah circling the earth, and would you stay? indefinitely nature, but its orbit decayed more than expected, because there were solar, flare activity that NASA hadn't, anticipated and so on. Odin sky lives on a collision course with Earth NASA saying
it'll, probably inner somewhere over this thousand, Kilometer stretch of earth yeah includes Australia, so heads up Australia, right and dumb. There were lots of like Schuyler parties on the other is its American. The seventies people went like Schuyler, crazy disco parties area in the San Francisco examiner. Actually, offered ten thousand dollars to anybody who could bring an illegitimate pieces sky within seventy two hours of crashing. Yet in some kid actually collected the Australian yeah, you got on a plane. He had a little piece of sky lab, is worded in depth crashing and crashing has proved so manure, Perth
I mean mostly in the ocean, but they did get up pretty good amount of debris in Australia, nearly two sizeable parts but its Australia, their tough there, like everything, tries to kill us. You you're silly space station, can't do it. This kid flew over in San Francisco and said here TAT Sky LAB is they must stand for new seventeen and like without, even Thinking twice about he grabbed it hath on a plane. I went to see MRS Gillig, he said and they examiner pay them, which I did the West Egg inflation calculator. That's about thirty, three thousand dollars in today's money now bad night. I do the monoplane further at the salary of a first year teacher,
right fairly. Here you can also by pieces of sky web today. If you got some dough and an internet connection, alleged pieces of scale, em well sure to suck anything should be not verified what he thought verify authenticated yet authenticate supposedly NASA's. Instead of exerting its domain over pieces sky lab the debris that was founded thing, you would give her back that some people sent their pieces to NASA Nasa authenticated em and send him back mounted saying. This is an official pieces, Schuyler melted in good peeps, but that good peeps wearing brown polyester pants to their chests are able
take a break in. Let's go for a little jog around our one hundred percent gravity office and then we'll talk about a mere, and I says the is about us, which resolutions do you, plan to conquer and twenty twenty become more mindful, Orkut a healthier lifestyle through diet, exercise and, of course, improved sleep. The sleep number three, sixty smart that helps everyone get the proven, qualities, leap that will change their life uselessly by queue up to help create a redeem. The sleep number three sixty smart bed is the smartest choice for better
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When we talk about the the saw it, which was the Soviet Union's big first success in some failures, but overall I think they sought as its success and, at the same time, a couple years later. Merrick had sky lamp and then the soviets said we can do better than then what we're doing we can do better than anybody else, we're going to create the mere yeah and by the way Schuyler was not supposed to be permanent. No, that was never the intention, but mere was was supposed to be permanent Mere yes, ok, so are the later arms associates? Ok, so the mere definitely was meant to be a permanent one
well the first crew cosmonauts Leonid Cassim, why? The mere so lay off salami off straightening, I think uses to do this. They shuttle between the salient seven. Would you ve been retired and mere and those some like. You said it, though some cross over their right and overlap with their where'd. You get the vodka, yet they had to fight They spent seventy five days on the mere and it was continually manned over the next ten years and you, and and builds its not they. They build these things out there or assemble them out there. I guess we should say, but they don't just launch a space station. Robots like like a ready to go. They carry pieces of it out there just like ice S and they put him together, although I think otherwise will see later. I think the Chinese launch the full space station area. Of course he did. They think they didn't overtime,
two doesn't thirteen come. I so the mere had twelve twelve main parts which we won't go over all those because we like to just read lists, but You know something you would expect. There was a Gee whiz space Station, I need a lot of lot of modules. Living quarters, transfer, compartments, docking places at more than one parking space. They figure the old miss out here. You know like you know, it should have guessed and they did have guessed. They had american guess, actually, they sure, databases, pretty cool. It wasn't until the nineties, after the Soviet Union dissolved and actually there was a cosmonaut aboard mere when the union dissolved and December twenty six. Ninety ninety one, his name was Sergei Kirk of Kiev Turkic have started to say the new thinking and he was known as the last
the citizen, is apparently being its face, made him immune from the the dissolving and Soviet Union area yeah, not really, but that's what everybody said about, whether we like it or not. Well, the mere they had. Some problems can later and it's like those in a fire one year and then that brought the supply ship was caught the progress of the convention, it actually crashed in the mere trying to park and its little parking space. I which damaged it, and at that point they said you know what we should just make the same space junk, even though he thought be permanent? U S is talking about this. I assassination they want us to come help them with, and those of a campaign to keep the mere alive called. Keep mere alive in private corporation step then said: no, let us take it over with privatized sing and they said yet not gonna. Do it near we're, not gonna just hand over space station, ok,
we're gonna crashing into their Viking. Have you no one can pretty much. So I'm they had a little bit more advanced capabilities and sky lab had as far as directly in February, two thousand one it the slow those in his down and re entered the atmosphere. On March twenty third, two thousand one burned up broke up and again tried to kill Australia analyses like what the Why does everyone trying to land their space junk on us, but it was about a thousand miles east of Australia in the ocean. Has anyone found these things as well? I was wondering mere
I'm getting out of the ocean, I'm sure somebody's found some parts of it pretty any talk about like space wreckage along the ocean. That's a movie who was it was a gift vessels that one got like one of the APOLLO early stages that had been scuttled in the ocean recently probably think it wise to possess or change we talk about him too much the so that brings us to assess nineteen. Eighty four around Reagan said you know I gotta do Reagan, but I thought the better. I think everybody wants to hear your Reagan. He said it was, he said: hey Man was getting us go into dead, honouring their good will call the international spaces
gonna be super expensive, so we need some help but partner up with with fourteen other countries, Canada, Japan, Brazil and then the European Space Agency the UK, France, Germany, Belgium, ITALY, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden and they set as a good faith. Measured. Let's invite the soviets. That was all those Russia by then yeah yeah, yeah you're right and the Russian said sure I ran through anything, not just Vienna friendly, but you know they. They were probably the second leading well enough by that point, there are other players in space science, yeah, but they were still pretty highly regarded sure yeah, bigtime yeah yeah folly more than they get credit for again over here agreed, so they started putting thy it's an orbit and ninety ninety eight and the first people showed up front
I was launched for they were launched from Russia there in two thousand and they spent about five months there like briskly getting everything up and running man taking all of the the little death can packets out of everything, but I felt like that. You know these things that keeps it dry. What is that our silica gel yeah yeah and pulling follow the cellophane from everything her little lamp shades, which I thought was tasteless well shiny, so they ve been living there like it said they just launched the one hundred thousand. I'm sorry that forty seventh, but one hundred thousand orbit of earth And when the one I'm really think respect, I did look a little
another day to day life. They work about ten hours a day Monday to Friday, about half that on Saturday and may take Sunday off, then the rest of the time. As you know, relaxation emailing your family hanging out poolside face timing. They have sixteen sunrises and sunset. Today is decidedly weird. Body, so they generally just keep those windows closed. So we can get on a reg sketch and partly the food isn't great. They don't love the food now and they have to over spice it. I didn't know that one of the things space does is reduce Europe, since it tastes. I've heard that microgravity figure makes everything teeth like styrofoam s. Apparently they like really over spice everything, to try my kit palatable and they have to be
be careful of crumbs because earlier member homer simply do you remember where the great outside the scene when he opened a bag of chips in space, great great scene and then pooping and p p Gotta go somewhere there too toilets guys chair homely too,. And others- usually only three or four people at their mother, six right now, six with two toilets here: how many hairdressers, who knows that keep their hair short there, because their cause, there's very few hydrogens face. Well, there's no showers them! They can wash themselves everything. Why don't you get but not the same? Not sent men are better for sir, when they get back down to earth is so good here, but the tutorial it sees a fan, driven section system
and you have the latch yourself to the toilet. Oh yeah, for that too, in their restraining bar soon sure there's a good seal, because you know what happens if there's not a good ceiling. Microgravity things are flooded and then there's a lever that they hit as such and whole slides, open and a big stream of air carries a waste away at the solids are collected actually into an aluminum container and the there then transferred to the progress to take away the little shuttle ship like yours or poop, progresses yeah. Well, it goes progress and there now the PPP is about you,
I hope that attached to the front of the toilet drink it they do I'm getting there but sure. I'm sorry! Now it's recycled. It's a recovery system in the eventual recycling backing to drinking water is like chicken and the toilets for people are an atomic the correct Debbie's funnel adapter. So men and women have different adapters. Does you know they have different parts? He is they do you have given that, like a second great You don't think about this stuff. Like that, the first thing I thought it was like a man had they eat Boop. But what do they watch movies? Do they watch movies here that the they d sit back? I think it was. The Atlantic had a great photo spread of photos that this new mission is taking of space in the earthen. You know all that stuff, but then pictures on board- and I am one of them there-
That is a huge flat screen watching the revenant. What's in the revenue higher while so look like, I can see that you guys on a horse is hard itself at risk in the background, but I think it was a revenant better cloudy with the chance of people Probably not the movie gravity so Vienna, thereby make it never happened maroon near the rest. Thyssen lost his mind about gravity he Chapelle he went on twitter ran about air. Then we should talk about the chinese living about unfair, not to
The Chinese launched something called the ongoing one back into doesn't three: they became the third nation on the planet to launch a human into space and they launched their space there space station there in two thousand and eleven and there's been to two missions to to the space station. I think it's it's. It's no longer active, but it's still up there, but the Chinese admitted this year that they lost contact with the space station. There was no longer under their control, so it may end up coming back down to earth and will have a new. Schuyler Party for right, but the m. The two missions included China's first to women astronauts Lou Yang. In weighing up being
and down they weren't. You doesn't twelve in two thousand thirteen, and they did. I mean they lived in space for awhile dislike everybody else head, but the Chinese don't participate nice, as I dont know, if they ve not been invited. They declined invitation but they're doing their own parallel thing, which I could get the impression that making people nervous interesting, align it's important that they had the women astronauts fino astronauts, and I assessor because you know you- you need to see what space does to them, and I just wonder if they're gonna like get to the point where, like while we needed. If we really want to colonise space, we need to see what happens
A baby is up there or give birth in outer space yeah or have a ten year old or a seventy. Five year old man a ten year old, aboard a space station for lay at it a year here mean nothing. You there's one other thing I want to mention chuck. There's the there's talk about saving a lot, a lot of money with a space station by putting it would follow the Grange point- And there's the Grange point, L for in all five of them, and they are these, these little despots between the earth and the moon. To where the gravity between the earthen moons counterbalanced. So all it does is just go in but around the earth and the moon, and it will stay in the orbit forever because gravity is not pull. I'm it one way or the other c drive use fuel to keep it in their orbits ever right and
is actually like an early idea that that I think Arthur see, Clark was the first to put it out there in nineteen sixty one and these the Grange pointer ignite. Ninety the orbits like ninety thousand miles across he can put a bunch of space stations in these things in this leave him out there that there is actually something called the EL five society that came about. That is all about this kind of thing that their parties, her wicked Gracie, while they they plan to disband on a space station in the EL five banned at some point in the future, really
when they all come together there for the first time sounds wonderful. I want more thing. Valerie Polly Archive yeah record hold right, yet, four hundred and thirty eight days he did aboard Mere nineteen. Eighty four nineteen, eighty five, and he done like two hundred and thirty eight days before that crazy. I bet he super fainting enough. All the time he's russian that he can take it anything else. I gotta think out sooner or later precisians for now. If you want to learn more about him, you can take those words in this report. Has the ports and citizens rights will remain? I'm, you recall this old trucks, graduation post, so I put out opposed about me: he graduating high school. Oh yeah, I didn't really give no eyes graduate
I saw in the same year my niece Reagan graduating college romantically, moving in New York City, like a good girl, and my other niece Abbe moved on matriculated into high school, familiar nothing further, matriculating, nothing better. So I want to know is graduation and it really like affected me much more than I thought it would cause I've been to a graduation since my own, oh yeah. I guess I didn't walk in the college when I literally have not been to a ceremony since nineteen eighty nine wreck and stirred up all these amazing field. So I thank you for me now is really really need- is to hear these kids in their speeches and put a facebook ourselves like you know it were great people millennials give out a crap like talk to a seventeen year old for little love is doing it right in and we're headed in the right direction like this very
that carrying like for thinking generation, nice, so is, it was really neat thing side is gradually to list all the graduates yeah specially. Well, if you listen, I guess you are listening, but I stuffy Schnell listeners that have been with us throughout high school. We appreciate a girl named hand, I want to say, wrote in and ass for any advice for registration mention you in the speech area, so pretty rejoices hers well pretty great stuff, baby right, all savishna listeners who are graduating. Matriculating, congratulations, yes, very big accomplishment self is from bank brandy in Kansas. Hey guys want to thank you so much for that. Faced with post about knowest graduation, how you have so much hope for the up and coming generation and really excited about the world changes coming up. It's a rare to hear someone come out sale. Often they are on that thread.
You considered it doing a show on kids today. Fallacy that's well document phenomena were each generation downplays the bad things are own generation, didn't believes the ones that follower lazy, spoiled entitled there are quotes literally dating back to thousands of years ago. This very thing, while in the music stinks, do I'm sure that's the other part of that area, there are none of them, yet the music. Today's things are regular. I would love to hear you explain this nonsense, help people stop being so crotchety instead recognizer role in helping to shape the future generations. Second request: come to Kansas, yes, make fun of us enough in its time to face a visit. We top some list for the most beautiful so set the landscapes and also have cities on national list of places to live, takes more than beautiful sunset. To get us to do. A live, show and listicles
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