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Joe Nuth: My name is Joe Nuth. My title is Senior

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Scientist for Primitive Bodies. I work for the Solar System

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Exploration Division, and, uh, we basically are tasked with exploring

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the solar system. The NASA Center for Astrobiology was conceived

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as the one place to study how organics

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got made that became the stuff that

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led to life on Earth. We wanna see what the original stuff was

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that came down onto the surface of the Earth that may have actually stimulated the

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origin of life. A lot of this primitive material

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is in meteorites, it's in comets, so we have

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missions that we're proposing and are working on. The

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mission stuff--I wish I had, actually, sort of a clone of me so that I could

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actually work more times on the missions--uh, spend more time on the mission

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proposals than I do--and on the mission activities than I do.

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Finding out what's actually there for the first time is something that's phenomenally exciting.

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A lot of scientists--not a big surprise--are, uh,

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highly devoted to their work, which means that some of them

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had no clue the World Cup was going on, as an example.

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There are many people here that are very outgoing and personable, that

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follow the World Cup closely, so, y'know, we're like any other group of people,

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except a lot more nerdy, I guess. [beeping]

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