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the spacex is preparing for a launch on

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next friday exactly a week from now

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it'll be delivering some more supplies

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and equipment to the international space

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station as well as a lot of research and

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experiment hardware as part of that

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it'll be carrying up a special payload

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for about 12 different student teams for

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student experiments that will be

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performed on the international space

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station to talk with us a little bit

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about this special payload is dr jeff

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goldstein from the national center for

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earth and space science and education

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thanks for joining us

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thanks for being uh for having me

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so why don't we start with uh if you

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could just tell us a little bit about

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the special payload the yankee clipper

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payload can you tell us a little bit

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about that and how many students have

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been involved in these experiments

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yeah that that's our eighth flight

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opportunity to low earth orbit and the

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yankee clipper payload is part of

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mission six to the international space

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station there are 18 experiments aboard

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yankee clipper and each experiment

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represents the culmination of hundreds

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of students at the local level in a

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school district or a community

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um designing microgravity experiments

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and and writing formal research

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proposals just like professionals so

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across the entire yankee clipper payload

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those 18 experiments represent the

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combination of 6

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900 students fully immersed in formal

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microgravity experiment design and 1

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1487 proposals

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submitted by student teams for flight

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experiments and then one experiment is

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selected to fly for each community so

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the student flight team

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truly represent an ambassadorial corps

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for the hundreds of students back home

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that are absolutely invested in this

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effort and feel that they are part of

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america's space program

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that's amazing

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so some of these experiments are at

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least some of them are reconstituted

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experiments that were lost on the recent

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loss of the orbital cygnus vehicle and

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these teams turned around in less than

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two months to get their experiments

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reflown on spacex can you tell us a

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little bit about that effort yeah well

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the these teams are designing

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experiments over a whole range of

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possible uh science disciplines um you

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know i'm looking down at my spreadsheet

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here crystal growth composting seed

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germination life cycle of micro aquatic

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life tin whisker growth

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food preservation bacterial studies i

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mean it's a smattering of what we see

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from the professional community

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and on october 28th

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we had

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130 delegates from the ssep the student

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communities

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um at the launch site we had 42 student

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researchers

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and we were at a public site arbuckle

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neck road which i think is the closest

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viewing site that's um within the safety

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it's only 1.7 miles away from the launch

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pad and the road terminates on the water

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oyster bay and looking a lot

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past the water you can see the the

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rocket on pad 0a

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and just to give you a sense of what it

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was like um this was a night launch um

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the sun was setting

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the moon hung very low um in the sky the

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rocket was awash in in spotlights

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floodlights it was a beautiful night

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this was the second time we came we had

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been there the night before

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uh but that was scrubbed because if you

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remember there was a boat in the

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restricted zone

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and this time we got past that t-minus

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12-second hold and everybody felt that

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that it was going to fly this time

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and we had a patch to mission control

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and brought up

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a portable pa system with us so we had

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mission control filling the air on the

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shoreline

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and uh we we all got together and did

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the 10 second countdown and you could

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look at the faces i remembered it i took

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time to look at everybody's face

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and you could see a for euphoria um in

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both young and old young and old across

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generational lines there was this

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euphoria and this spirit of exploration

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in everyone's face

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and the rocket ignited and everybody was

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cheering and then it became very clear

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that something was very wrong and a few

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seconds later there was a massive

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detonation

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two seconds after that the blast wave

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hit us

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and it went from euphoria to despair and

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security was incredibly effective they

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hustled us out of there very quickly

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and many of our teams we didn't have any

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time to decompress they they were they

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were scattering and many

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drove through the night to get back home

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in the midst of this depression

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and this was a national news story there

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were media outlets that were waiting for

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them in the in the early morning hours

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and what we were trying to do on social

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media is keep their spirits alive and

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let them understand that you know

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failure is a part of life failure

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happens

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and what we do in the face of failure

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defines who we are

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and we didn't know how mission 6 was

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going to proceed but we

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we sort of got a glimpse of this very

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quickly within with le within less than

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an hour of the accident

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jeff member the uh managing director of

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nanorack's alarm services provider

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called me

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and said we are uh working on

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on on how we can re-manifest this and

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behind the scenes he was talking with

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nasa the space station uh the space

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station office he was talking to folks

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and we were just telling the students

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we're trying to figure out how we can

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make this work whether it's going to be

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six months a year we didn't know what

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the turnaround time would be our hearts

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went out to nasa and orbital sciences

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and then within a week we were notified

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we were given marching orders by

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nanoracks that we need to move forward

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and process a new uh yankee clipper two

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by november 21st it had to be in houston

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my by november 21st just three weeks

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after the accident because nasa had

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pulled non-essential payload

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off of spacex five and was making room

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for this um for this new uh

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reconstituted payload

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and um all of the teams um really

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stepped to the plate on this um they

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they felt that you know this was a

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life-changing experience that they were

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really part of

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the space program and they all

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17 of the 18 experiments

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um were reconstituted and got to houston

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for payload integration on time

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they stepped to the plate and did

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everything expected of a profession

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professional microgravity researchers

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and the 18th experiment didn't make it

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on only because there was a swap out of

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one uh

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critical component so they needed to go

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through flight safety review review

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again and they're going to be flying

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with mission seven so we are go for

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launch we are incredibly excited and we

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are very um proud to be part of the

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space community dr goldstein we're so

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excited that that the teams were able to

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jump into action and get these

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experiments put back together to be

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i know we just have one minute left you

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kind of spoke to it but i guess i'm just

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kind of curious what is the sentiments

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of the students now

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um i think

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there's a higher level of euphoria now

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than there was before

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because we you know we met the challenge

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and came through and i think um this is

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really an incredibly powerful lesson

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that um you know research is not

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supposed to be easy human exploration is

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not supposed to be easy it's hard

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so what

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failure happens and we just got to punch

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through it and that's what we all did

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so we