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The Harsh Reality of Space Exploration: Are We Ready?
Hello, Earnest Mann here! In this episode, we're peeling back the layers on the true state of space exploration. While space exploration might seem glamorous, the reality is starkly different. With two astronauts stranded on the ISS, we’re reminded that we are far from the 24th century's futuristic fantasies. Space is unforgiving, and our current technology simply isn't advanced enough to handle the challenges it presents.
Why Mars' Water Discovery Isn't the Breakthrough We Need
During a casual conversation at a local bar, I was struck by a young man's excitement over the recent discovery of water on Mars. While many might see this as a monumental step forward, I had to point out the harsh truth: Mars' water discovery, despite its potential, means nothing for us right now. Our current capabilities barely allow us to land on Mars, let alone make use of its resources. This isn't Star Trek; we can’t just zip around the galaxy.
The Danger of Romanticizing Space Missions
Moreover, the ongoing space missions and the idea of humans living on Mars or other planets are far from reality. The ISS astronauts currently stuck in space are a grim reminder of the dangers involved. Prolonged exposure to space can have devastating effects on the human body, and the longer these astronauts stay up there, the more they risk permanent damage or even death. It’s time to stop romanticizing space exploration and acknowledge the risks and limitations we currently face.
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Transcripts
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everything is absolutely wonderful about
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space until it isn't and right now it
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isn't we have two people stred in space
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and that's what I'm going to talk about
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because this is the actual realization
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that we are not in the 24th century but
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the
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21st and space is very unforgiving
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if you work for a living why do you kill
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yourself
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working I was sitting at the bar my
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local uh bar restaurant you got pretty
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good pizza I was ordering a sandwich on
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this particular
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occasion and a young guy sat next to me
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when I say young I guess maybe mid-30s
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and of course we struck up a
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conversation
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and he was so excited and so animated
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and I I said hey what's the story he
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says oh it you know have you heard about
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the discovered you know Mars says
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water and I said well I I kind of heard
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something it's like under the surface or
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yeah yeah but the thing that got me was
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just how like really crazy animated he
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was about this as though I don't know
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like like he [ __ ] discovered oil in
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his backyard or something I don't know
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but so I decided to tag along and I said
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yes so I said so yeah so they
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discovered you know all this maybe a
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large body of water and he's like oh
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yeah guzzle guzzle the beer and [ __ ]
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it's like okay so after I thought about
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it I figured okay let's see how far I go
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with this I said so um so what's that
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mean and suddenly I got this you know I
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got this the look from him like suddenly
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I grew six [ __ ] heads or something
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and he says well it's water don't don't
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you large amounts of water and they
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discovered it could be huge it could be
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like I said what like the [ __ ]
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Pacific Ocean
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yeah I said okay so what's that
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mean and I think maybe at some point I
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kept asking him what it meant because he
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grew kind of annoyed and and I said I I
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just cut him off I wanted to I wanted to
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save his mind because you could see like
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the the the rusty gears were starting to
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turn but it was painful and I just
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wanted to save him the trouble I said
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actually tell you what I'm going to tell
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you what it means
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and and I said yeah it it doesn't mean a
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[ __ ] thing
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doesn't mean for all intents and
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purposes doesn't mean a [ __ ] thing
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nothing to you or I or you know even a
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few Generations it does it means
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nothing well what do you mean it Waters
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life and yeah so you can tell that you
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know he's been eating this this
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corporate McDonald munchkin land
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[ __ ] from the nass holes as a uh
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call them um you've been swallow you've
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been drinking the [ __ ] Kool-Aid as it
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wills and
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so here's what I'm going to tell you uh
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basically like the roundabout way that I
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was explaining to him I don't care if
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they found the [ __ ] Pacific Ocean
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under somewhere under the surface of
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Mars there's nothing we can do with it
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and the reason for that is because all
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we can do is go to Mars and at the
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absolute furthest stretch of our current
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technology yeah we can get to Mars we we
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know that we can get there so we get
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there and if we're really lucky we could
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land and nothing
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happens and then over time we die and I
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mean time it could be I don't know three
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weeks three months three days who
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[ __ ] knows but the goal is to get to
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Mars and then you die
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we don't this is not the 24th
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century this is not Star Trek it's not
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like whizzing through space at light
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speak well they discovered water so uh
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now we have these carriers that are
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tankers that are just going to come and
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we're going to pump the [ __ ] water
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out of the ground and then we we could
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we could we could send it back to
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Earth well [ __ ] for that matter why
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don't we just set up an Intergalactic
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lemonade stand on Mars for all the
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passers by 10 cents a cup I'd say it's a
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pretty good [ __ ]
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bargain it ain't going to happen it
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doesn't matter if there is
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water we can't [ __ ] utilize it this
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is not the 24th century
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speaking of which if I may segue further
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and speaking of the nass holes and case
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of you uh may not have heard of this we
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have currently two astronauts trapped on
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the
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ISS and um here's what I can tell you
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the unvarnished version of this
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situation I believe it
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is very possible if not even
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probable that those two people are not
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going to make it back to
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Earth and there's a whole host of
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technical reasons for this I certainly
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hope they
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do but I think there's a very distinct
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possibility that they
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won't and so I am here to let you know
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that to stop waving the flags and stop
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cheering like
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children because this is not a child's
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game you
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see and I can't emphasize this
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enough in case they haven't told you
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this through all their constant
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programming because anytime you see
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anything with an [ __ ] and this
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engineer and that researcher but they're
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always really happy and really
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animated and that's not by AC accident
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because they are there not only well for
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their own advancement of course they're
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there to sell you a product and the
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product is the future and it's all
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Hightech and star treky and what we
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believe and and what we can do and it's
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basically actually a bunch of
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[ __ ] they know from all of the [ __ ]
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that's already been done not just with
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the Americans of course but certainly
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the data from the Russians and others as
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well from all these years of all their
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experience they pretty much know
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everything they pretty much need to
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know that includes the
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moon and hell for that matter to a
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greater or lesser extent that also
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[ __ ] includes
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Mars what they're not telling you is
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that the whole business business here is
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just that it's a business they don't
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need people in space we should wait
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another I don't know eight or 10
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Generations when the technology goes way
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way up there then maybe we could return
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to space we pretty much maxed out our Li
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our limitations in space and the space
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station and all of that because we are
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basic basically
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overshooting ourselves on this why are
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we doing this why is the organization
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quite purposely keep having well humans
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going up into the space station over and
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over again well they're doing research
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and they're doing experiments and well
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they may be doing a little research okay
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fine and maybe they're fine doing some
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experiments but I'm saying I'm telling
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you you're being sold a a of
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[ __ ] you're being sold a bill of
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goods their number one reason for doing
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this is for this because guess what that
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organization and all the people that
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includes the scientists the researchers
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all of them they get some pretty sweet
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salaries out of this and that is the
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real [ __ ] reason nothing else because
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what they know and the main thing and
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they really do know this I'm telling you
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they know this is that space is a very
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very very dangerous and inhospitable
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medium in and of
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itself and you know what I as I said um
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the fate of these two trapped people on
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this which has really been played down
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really been played
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down that is side and like I said we
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hope they make it back okay fine but
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here's what I can tell you with absolute
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certainty the longer they are in Space
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the longer anyone is in Space the sicker
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and the more it breaks you down and
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destroys the [ __ ]
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body
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besides the natural functioning of the
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body you know you the muscles atropy
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from well lack of gravity sure they can
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do some exercising they have some kind
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of uh resistance work there are some but
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regardless of all that your body is not
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designed to be in a weightless State
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we're not made of space particles that's
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not what we are okay
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okay not to mention on top of that
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the station or any Space Capsule is not
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totally blocked maybe they have stuff to
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have a reduction in
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it but they are being subjected
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constantly not only to you know
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radiation but to you know the cosmic
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Cosmic dust and
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Cosmic Cosmic dillary effects let's say
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gamma radiation and such that's why for
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any extended period I don't care how
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much resistance equipment they have or
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what have you you'll notice at any kind
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of longterm anything over I don't know
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34 months whether it's Americans
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Russians whoever they can't even [ __ ]
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walk they have to be assisted or at best
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maybe they can
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stand you know that's how bad it
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is and the long-term effects they're not
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good so at bare
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minimum the longer they stay the worse
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they physically Andor
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mentally
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become please allow me just a few
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moments as a pause for the cause I know
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episode or [ __ ] they're stuck and they
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may be stuck permanently who knows it's
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anyone's guess but the point is and my
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bigger point on top of that
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point they never should be [ __ ] there
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in the first
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place there should I don't know maybe at
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most
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maybe maybe once or twice a year if
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you're going to have this International
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Space Station for a very
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shortterm you know I don't know research
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or
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experiments humans shouldn't be right
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now with I'm saying with the current
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technology this is not the 23rd or 24th
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[ __ ]
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Century this is not Star
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Trek this is you can't beam me here and
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we're not whizzing around in the [ __ ]
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Intergalactic not even the outer
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Galactic but even The Intergalactic
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space it it practically at you know warp
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speed light speed semi light speed
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nothing like that we get in basically
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very pretty tin cans and we
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barely [ __ ] get around there barely
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and we've been extremely lucky and
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that's that's the truth and then what
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happens if those [ __ ] people die if
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they die in the station if they die
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being transported trying to extract them
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and return them from the station the key
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Point here is death and like I said if
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that even that's not the case they're
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going to be seriously you know
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debilitated who knows maybe for Life who
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knows and then everyone this is what
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happens this this you see this is the
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thing I'm telling you that pisses me off
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so much are things needless suffering
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that could have been prev prented then
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if they die there's a huge another huge
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media
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blitz and it's time to break out the
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hanky so
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terrible she had so much to
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offer and he had so much to offer their
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lives terribly cut
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short they knew the
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dangers doing this
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one they're adults or at least they're
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supposed to
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be and who's ultimately
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responsible you
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are because like children lining up for
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a [ __ ] Carnival as soon as the some
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[ __ ] researcher representative PR
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person from you know from NASA the nass
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holes shows that but we're going to
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people of ours we're going to we're
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going to and we're
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[Music]
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allay like super [ __ ] Afflicted
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[ __ ]
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9-year-olds no one thinks about the
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threats no one thinks about the and no
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one thinks about the cost where are
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these billions and billions of dollars
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going they're going to those guys and
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then when things don't work out then
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they turn on the Queue here come the
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pianos with soft angelic music comes you
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violin shame sit and
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died serice to your
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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country when what I
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say and what I think any [ __ ]
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reasonable person
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should is I never should have been there
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in the first place
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they need to stop
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pretending that we're children this is
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the 23rd or 24th
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century this is not and
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space is a very
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unforgiving
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environment so is what I had to say here
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