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i improve my appetite when i exercise

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well i'm guessing that that was for a

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chubby little cubby little

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bear well endeavor that music was

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brought to you by tigger and eeyore and

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and john about another minute or so and

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and your stripes are nicely aligned now

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this is um for all of you or anyone

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yeah um the experiment you're referring

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to is our fluid generic bioprocessing

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coca-cola is the

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major corporate sponsor for that

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experiment

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two-phase system meaning it does involve

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a liquid and a gas uh the liquid uh

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a uh sweetened beverage and then the

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coke or coke

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and the uh and the gas being uh the co2

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um no pun intended but it has had a

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little bit of mixed success uh some of

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it has worked perfectly um and uh it

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tastes just like it does uh on earth and

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something uh different but it pretty

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much uh tasted the same

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we've had problems uh or we've had

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some problems with differences in the

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amount of carbon dioxide that does end

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up in solution and that's the whole

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controlling how much co2 goes into

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the solution and transferring it and

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stephen young with reuters question for

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john casper when they come to write the

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history books on this mission and the

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flight has to be condensed to a few

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short lines what do you think will be

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the one or two highlights of this

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stimulating part

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which are the inflatable antenna and the

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small test satellite unit

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uh i think some of the more dramatic

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results in the long term may be these

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semiconductor crystals

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that we're growing uh it's it's hard to

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know in the future

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what the what the most beneficial thing

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will be that comes out of this flight as

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i said we have over 30 experiments on

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board they're in many different areas of

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technology and also commercial areas uh

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plant uh plant animal science medical

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uh in the years to come who knows it may

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be something completely different that

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we we didn't pay much attention to but

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it will prove to be a definite benefit

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to humankind

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bill horowitz cbs news uh on pam stew

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would whichever one of you is the expert

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on that system if you cannot get the

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laser system to work like you want it to

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what does that mean to the overall

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experiment in other words how good is

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the data you get from radar and cameras

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not quite as precise

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as uh as the laser in the payload laser

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in the payload bay is my understanding

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could get the angle could resolve the

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to within a degree or less probably

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within a tenth of a degree now the video

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that we get i believe we'll be able to

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get it within uh on the order of a few

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degrees so it's not quite uh probably

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not quite as exact as they would want

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setting up the cameras that and

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board with low light capability that

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the retro reflectors that are located

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are just inside the diameter of the skew

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satellite and that's how they determine

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the angle of the satellite and i believe

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mark i wonder if you could talk a little

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whole bunch of little aquariums and in

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those aquariums we've put sea urchins

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embryos really and what we want to do is

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their development so that we can then

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how they have developed in some cases

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weightlessness and sometimes over a

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matter of a few days

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in the development of these marine

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species uh we hope in the process to

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formation but in this case

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bodies of these small marine animals

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osteoporosis which happens in human

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beings and certainly is a possibility

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this is stephen young with reuters again

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a question for kurt brown

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this mission was described as a

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commander and pilot stream flight

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little bit about the flying that's

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been doing and the rendezvous that's

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planned tomorrow and whether there's any

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analogy

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between the station keeping you do and

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hovering over a particular site or a

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ship fighting against the current to

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uh it is a uh i think the commanders and

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pilots dream we have completed

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the training we received on the ground

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we were in the simulator but the view

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the best way to describe flying a a

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station keeping such as we're doing on

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to flying formation in an aircraft which

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the changes that are taking place and

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optical alignment device or a site very

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much like the crosshairs on a telescope

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radar that's in the payload bay which we

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range and range rate and an angle

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tracking device which locks onto the

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satellite and tracks it

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a handheld laser which is very much to

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departments use to uh make sure folks

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are not going too fast

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in recent years we have a laptop

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computer which we put all this

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information we're getting from the other

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three devices into this laptop

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relation to the satellite and also gives

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us predictors to show us where we'll be

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in the next say 10 15 20 minutes and by

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knowing that we can use orbital

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mechanics to our benefit

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and by using orbital mechanics which is

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pure physics we can save a lot of props

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great training we've had

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a couple hundred pounds in the negative

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our total uh after the first three

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rendezvous we've made up basically about

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400 pounds so we've uh

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we've done a good job and we can't take

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credit for it up here it has to be the

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folks on the ground that did all the

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planning all the training and all the