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elliott ranch elementary school this is

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mission control houston please call

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station for a voice check

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station this is elliott ranch elementary

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we hear you loud and clear

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hi my name is ritwick

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the and this question is from mr wiseman

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well that's a great question because

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right now uh my commander here steve he

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could just pick his feet up he can float

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all around so as far as we can tell

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there is no gravity up here but we're

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actually being pulled around the earth

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and the gravity that's affecting the

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space station is almost exactly what

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you're experiencing right now on the

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hi

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well alex we can see the same planets

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you can see pretty much and just like we

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look out our night sky it's kind of like

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your night sky it's just a little

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clearer and the stars and the planets

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don't twinkle because we don't have any

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hi my name is harper and this question

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is from mr

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what are the first things that you are

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3d print for the iss

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and once you're done 3d printing what

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well that's a really good question we're

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hoping to have a 3d printer up here in

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october and i really hope i get a little

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bit of time before i leave to play with

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it so the first thing that we will print

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is actually going to be a design from

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school children i think a little older

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than you all that they submitted to nasa

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and that'll be the first thing we print

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and it's still a surprise to me i don't

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know what it's going to be so i'm really

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excited to find out what uh what they

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picked but i'm sure it'll be great and

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what would i print if i could in my own

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free time right now i miss my kids so i

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think if i could make little uh 3d

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models of my kids and just float them

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around up here i think that would be

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hi my name is amina and this question is

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for dr swanson on earth we know that it

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is night and day by looking at the sky

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how do you know when it is night and day

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that's a really good question we do we

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see 16 sunrises and sunsets every day up

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i know what time it is by my watch and

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that's what we live off of we live off

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of actually the time that would be in

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england and that's what we set our

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watches to and when it's uh six in the

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morning we get up and when it's ten and

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8 at night we go to bed so that's how we

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hi my name is ethan and this question is

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from mr wiseman i have been researching

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the space elevator idea for the iss what

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do you think the benefits are and do you

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think it would be possible that it will

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well that's a that's a great question i

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think uh it's really complicated and

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with the materials and the and the

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engineering and science that we have

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right now i i would say it's almost

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impossible under today's technology but

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that doesn't mean it is impossible and

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what benefits well when i flew up here

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on a rocket ship

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almost 90 percent maybe even a little

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more of my vehicle was all fuel just to

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get me through the atmosphere into space

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uh so if we could have a space elevator

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that could just slowly bring cargo up to

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the space station well that would be

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phenomenal it would be a huge savings

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for time energy and money but we'll see

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i think it's a little ways in the

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distance but keep doing the research

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hi my name is evan this question is for

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surprising or challenging about your

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work on the iss that all your special

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training beforehand did not prepare you

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that's a good question too

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for me it's been when you work of course

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in this environment you can see

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everything floats and so it's actually

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keeping track of everything when you

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work on a project all your tools and all

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the parts you have to keep organized and

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keep secure someplace so they don't

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float off and all of a sudden you don't

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know where they are so that's one thing

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we really have to work on up here and

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that's i think almost the hardest thing

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hi my name is monica and this question

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is from mr wiseman what projects are you

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so uh we're super busy right now

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with more than playing with balls here

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but it is fun and uh so what i'm

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currently working on we just finished up

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some pretty interesting flame research

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and uh right now we're installing some

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new science racks over in our european

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module this actually has a

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electromagnetic levitator in it and we

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will have molten spheres of metal alloys

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that we will float in there and research

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what happens to them uh in all different

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sorts of states so that's going to be

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really amazing and we're spending a lot

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of time with that right now and then i

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think tomorrow dr swanson has a really

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amazing activity we have a cool robot up

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here and right now our robot doesn't

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have any legs and tomorrow he'll be

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putting the legs on the robot and we

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should be able to see this robot uh very

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soon take its first steps in space which

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will be a big big thing for us up here

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hi my name is gemma and this question is

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for dr swanson

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i like doing chores however

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if i were doing chores in zero gravity

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it would be a lot more fun

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that's a good question i mean i really

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do enjoy working up here in the zero

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gravity environment it makes everything

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so much more fun and for me for the

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chores almost anything again is good but

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i think i like to repair things so when

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things break around here i kind of get

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excited because i get to repair

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something and take it apart see how it

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works and put it back together again and

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and fix it and that's ma it's the best

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hello my name is caitlin liangbob and

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this question is from mr wiseman what

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are some parts of toys you hope to 3d

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print and successfully use aboard the

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well i would say the first tool i would

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love to print is a simple one i would

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love to just have a screwdriver

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maybe slightly specialized that we could

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use around the space station that we

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built and i think that's a simple tool

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that we have at home and they'll be the

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perfect kind of simple first step for us

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to have up here and i can't imagine in

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the future what kind of crazy tools

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we'll be able to think up tools that we

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haven't even dreamed of yet but we could

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just print them out use them if we need

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them and then throw them away i think

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hi my name is krishna and this question

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protect the iss from solar flares or

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protect it from storms and so when we do

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sun's doing but we can tell when it

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hi my name is desha and this question

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i don't want to answer it this way but

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everything everything the mountains look

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united states the oceans are so blue and

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they're so vast

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provide the most amazing aurora the

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northern and southern lights that we can

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hi my name is samuel and this question

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is for doctor swanson how can i become

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well that's a good goal in life we both

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it just takes hard work just like

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anything else uh you have to do well in

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school and you have to find something

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that you really enjoy doing and it does

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have to be most likely for us to be in

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the science or math or engineering

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related technologies and but if you just

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do well at it and exceed in that nasa

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hi my name is matthew and this question

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got up here so maybe i need to eat just

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a little bit less but all of our food is

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shipped up from the earth and it's

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a pouch open and inside will be i don't

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of beef enchiladas and really the food

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how stable it is and how long it lasts

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occasional pizza and i would love to

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hi my name is caitlin snyer and this

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dogs and a cat and i would love to have

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an animal up here maybe but i think it

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hi my name is john and this question is

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for dr swanson do you have any favorite

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games that you like to play when you

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yeah we do have games we do like to play

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they're based around games on earth but

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they're all a little different up here

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because everything floats so we have

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other games we like to do

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say one of them is we'll take this ball

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and we'll try to aim it down the module

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way away and we can then change we'll

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start doing light throw on it and then

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we change where it goes by by blowing on

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either side of it and making it move and

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can make it move by that and so we try

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to aim that way it's just a game we play

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and see who can get it close to a

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certain object at the end but we have

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many games like that we play

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and they're all fun up here because

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this is brian mcneil the principal at

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elliott ranch that completes our

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i have a question

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last week you discovered

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plant life growing on the outside of the

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space station what are your theories as

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oh i don't know that that's a great

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question i theory i've been thinking

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about this when i'm floating in my bed

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at night trying to go to sleep uh how

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could this even be so first i'm ecstatic

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that they actually have found this and

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uh it's it's just one of the many

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amazing things that happened up here

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when it's the unexpected discovery i

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think that's my favorite part of living

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on the space station uh here's something

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that we didn't think was possible we

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never even thought to look for it here

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they're looking for it and we find it

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and now we got to answer those questions

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that come from that and the answers are

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well we'd like to say thank you mr

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wiseman and dr swanson for your time we

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know you're very busy this completes all

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of the questions from elliott ranch

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it was our pleasure those were some

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i believe we have time for a question

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from the crowd possibly is that correct

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wow all right any questions from the

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crowd

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is it you

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aliens

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real

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well that's a good question uh i don't

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know sometimes i think he might be alien

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but that's a different destroy but no i

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i don't know for sure you know the way i

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look at it is there are so many planets

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out there that could be possibly have

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life in in this universe that we have i

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mean they're just it's an enormous

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number that it almost seems to be there

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has to be something out there i don't

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know what it is i don't know where it is

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all right mr wiseman and dr swanson

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thank you again so much for your time

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we'll let you get back to your busy

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schedule we appreciate your expertise

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my pleasure