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university of illinois how do you hear

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illini i hear you loud and clear and i'm

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and uh without further delay let's

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mike my name is bentik that sounds great

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from experience what aspect of human

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travel still needs better solutions and

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what should the focus be for college

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students like us to solve for future

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can you tell us one thing about the

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station space station that none of us

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the station is even more amazing than i

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i wish we could do this more in fact i

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in touch with you a little bit and

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because i know there was more questions

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and so uh i think if your email is out

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there i'll i'll try and get a hold of

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you and and maybe we can continue the

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bye everyone

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station this is houston acr thank you

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thank you university of illinois station