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hi everybody josh barley here inside

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mission control houston i'm sitting next

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to you astronaut ron garan we're going

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to be talking about uh one of the i

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think one of the cooler aspects of space

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flight is something that's very

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interesting you know over the past 50

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astronauts have been flying i think one

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of the more remarkable things is that

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pictures of our own planet have been so

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powerful and i'm not sure that was

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expected but you think back to some of

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the more iconic imagery of apollo the uh

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you know the earthrise and the the blue

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marble that apollo 17 took and it's been

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our own planet which is really sort of

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taking people's breath away hasn't it

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and i think that was a big surprise i

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think you know we went to the moon to

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discover the moon and i think we

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discovered ourselves and the process and

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i think it's a

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it's a really um

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really important part of space

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exploration is to be able to not only

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capture what we're doing

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in space but also to capture what's

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happening on the ground what's happening

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here on earth and it really gives us a

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unique perspective to do that yeah we're

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going to start taking a look at some of

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the pictures that ron and his crew gap

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capture back there in expeditions 27 and

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28 correct twenty seven twenty dollars

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i'll make sure i have my numbers right

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so let's take a look at them real quick

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on the screen and we'll talk about some

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of these uh so that is this is uh the

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north island of new zealand and actually

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um the significant significance of this

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to me is that that this was the first

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picture that i tweeted from space oh wow

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and um that is a really you know a very

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very powerful um tool that we have to

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interact with with people on the ground

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and this uh this particular picture i

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think got about 120 000 views in the

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first 24 hours it was retweeted by the

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white house and it was

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it generated a lot of buzz and it's a

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it's a way for us to to really bring

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people along on our mission not just as

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spectators but as fellow crewmates

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because we can interact with uh people

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on the ground and and it really um opens

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up a whole new way of interaction for us

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yeah let's take a look at the next one

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this is i think this is botswana

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this is uh this is botswana that's right

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that's the uh acavango uh delta

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and you know this is this is one of the

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the most recognizable um

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features on the ground when you look

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back at earth there's there's a number

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of places around the world that when you

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are and this is botswana and it's um you

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know it's a beautiful beautiful scene

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it's in the middle you know if we panned

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back you'd see nothing but desert for

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you know hundreds and hundreds of miles

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and so this is a gigantic oasis you know

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that skinny part on the left is is about

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six miles wide the whole thing is about

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a hundred miles long uh and it is it

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contains incredible biodiversity this

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you know this is a perfect example that

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water is life and and this water right

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here in the middle of the otherwise uh

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desert uh is home to you know enormous

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amount of species of animals and

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um you know it really is is striking

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from space it looks like this giant

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paintbrush on the ground so it's such a

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contrast between everything that was

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the middle let's talk about something

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that you guys call earth glow right yeah

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next which i think is australia that

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um yeah that's right yeah so that's a

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picture i i believe mike fossum took

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this picture of me in the cupola there

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pictures a lot of the time lapse has

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this air glow effect in it and uh people

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mistake that for the atmosphere the

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limits of the atmosphere and the

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atmosphere is is significantly thinner

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than that so if you look at that air

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glow and you look to the left uh the

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dark part between the green and the

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earth is the atmosphere wow so that's

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how paper thin it is and it really is

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sobering to think that that paper thin

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layer is all that protects every living

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thing on on earth and

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that city down there is sydney i'm not

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exactly positive about that but this is

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a good um shot that shows how we get

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these how we get these pictures i mean

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of choice on the space station to take

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pictures because it has such a great

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view and you could see out on the

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horizon and you know you know we're not

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taking shots just straight down yeah at

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the end of your side yeah and it's it's

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some of the emotion that you have when

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you're up there now we take all these

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pictures in our free time we're not

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scheduled um normally to take pictures

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of the earth and so it's um something

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that we like to do you know there's

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these pictures we like to document the

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effects of human impact on the

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environment of natural disasters and um

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experience of being in space and

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sometimes uh you know a place like the

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cupola allows us to do that i think

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that's why it gets the attention that it

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does yeah you know so let's take a look

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you did a spacewalker a few actually

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um and this is this is not intended to

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be an earth ops picture but but it

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arabia and you can see bahrain and and

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um iran off to to the right um beautiful

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the world do you get a sense of how high

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second so we're okay so but um

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tremendous view and

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falling down the earth

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you are concerned and your concentration

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here now the question i've got about

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this is that you know you guys took

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engineering reason that you took

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pictures of themselves right heat shield

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point-and-shoot cameras onboard the

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space these are actually high-end

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professional level cameras you have to

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the rpm so this rotation maneuver that

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technical pictures of the the heat

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shield underneath the shuttle and this

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long island to the right um and exuma

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progress uh in the view and i actually i

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purposely framed that so you can get a

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sensation that we're taking that from

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the from the uh space station and you

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some fires over uh south africa if i'm

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crop burning but what really struck me

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effect it basically like i said fills up

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the entire atmosphere oh and in this

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case you know a whole part of a very

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large continent was completely engulfed

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in smoke as far as you could see and you

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only get that perspective whenever you

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get actually off the planet and take a

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look down below and see exactly how

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these things are you know

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affecting a continent right at that

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point you know right so all right

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hurricanes are always popular i think

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we've got a shot of hurricane irene if

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yeah this is a hurricane irene we took

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this picture you can see cuba there in

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the in the foreground

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and um you know hurricanes are scary

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even from space and this is right before

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it made landfall

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barreling down and it's and it really is

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the hurricane but a lot of times we do

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capture uh the eye and and it really um

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three hurricanes while we're up there

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wow and one of the things that we really

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it and i think that was really a good

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tool to show um you know help with the

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projections and also uh you know have

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people on the ground take the cirrus hey

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you know yeah if you're getting an

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evacuation order you might want to take

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this seriously this is a pretty big one

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well and you know one thing about the

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hurricane pictures you know we've got

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satellites to take pictures of these i

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think there's something

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that captures people's uh attention

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whenever a human takes the picture it's

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a little bit different because it's like

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they're experiencing it with you you

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know from your advantage right right

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exactly and it's interesting you know

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you feel uh at the same time you feel

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detached when you're living for months

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and months in space but at the same time

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you feel more connected because we could

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you know watch on the news you know we

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do get the news up there watch about a

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wildfire or a hurricane or or some type

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of conflict around the world and go oh

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we're going to fly over that in five

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minutes let's go take a look and so you

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feel more connected because you can see

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it with your own eyes um even though

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you're in this disconnected world of of

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the of the international space station

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yeah let's take a look at our home state

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we've got one from texas i think there's

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some fires burning

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uh yeah we've got some we've got a lot

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of fire wildfires burning now right as

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we speak uh around the world and

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certainly in our own country and this

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was um during a period of where in texas

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we had a lot of wildfires and uh did a

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tremendous amount of damage and again

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you know natural disasters from space

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since you get to see such a wide you

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know area and see see the the um the

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effect of that those area you know the

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wide um part of the part of the view

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there it's it really is is very

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impressive and very um

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concerning which part of texas is this

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we're looking at so i i this is uh east

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texas actually um it's uh not far from

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shreveport i believe um so i'm i'm

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actually not even convinced that's one

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of the wildflower pictures but um maybe

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a random fire i think it is a random

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fire but it's at the same on the same

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day that there was some significant

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fires i think in the boston

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bastrop area of texas well i'm from east

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texas we tend to build big fires and he

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part of the world all right last picture

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let's take a look at libya uh real quick

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this is this is striking to me just

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because of the color it is it is

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striking for the color and the beauty

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and but what what you don't realize out

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of this picture is this is the day that

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tripoli fell wow and so this is an

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example of one of those times where

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you're watching the news um usually we'd

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watch the news during lunch as we're

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eating our lunch and

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and realize that tripoli just fell and

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hey we're going to fly over that in a

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few minutes let's take some pictures and

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you can see i mean it looks very

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beautiful and peaceful and tranquil and

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you don't realize what's raging below in

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that in that picture it's really uh

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quite a contradiction sobering

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contradiction you know the question i've

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got is the the colors that you see here

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i mean do these cameras actually capture

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what you're seeing with your own eyes i

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i think they do i think they do there's

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parts of the world that are just very

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very unique in the colors that you see

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the bahamas um you know jump out

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the almost like this neon glowing jewel

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out in the middle of the ocean um the

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himalayas are the same way um and so it

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really really is striking um the

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difference in colors and watching the

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colors change too they don't they mean

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they change as you're watching them but

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well and we can watch that line of of

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the the colors of the leaves changing

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you know go from south to north or north

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to south depending on which hemisphere

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you're in and just watch that uh happen

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over the weeks and months is really

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really interesting to say it almost

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gives you the sense that we have this

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living breathing organism that we live

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on we tend to stay very green or brown

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here in houston we don't look at that we

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don't really get the fall leaves

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anything down here so well tell

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everybody what your twitter account is

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so they can follow you oh it's at astro

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underscore ron at astro underscore ron

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so follow along with ron he's always

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tweeting out some interesting photos and

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observations thanks for the plug

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yeah

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that's what we're here for

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ron garan astronaut here of course if

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you'd like to take a look at all these

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photos that you saw follow ron on

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twitter or you can log on to the nasa

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station there's literally hundreds of

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thousands of photos out there so uh so

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you can even find your hometown on there