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scott kelly stamp champion very nice to

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hey i'm doing great good to talk to you

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all right i'm just checking the delay a

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little bit um sir we're gonna weather

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channel loves to cover space though it

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may seem like i i hit a couple of topics

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with you this morning but i see us as

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using this in many places so uh i will

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start in one direction and then we'll

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ask you about the health experiment if

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absolutely yeah there seems to be a

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that's all right we'll edit it sir um so

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really nice to talk to you uh astronaut

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scott kelly let's talk a little bit

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about the breaking news of the day today

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so new horizon gets a flyby pluto if you

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will and we all of a sudden now learn

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that it's not just a blurry little dot

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in space it actually has a heart-shaped

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image on it it's got a reddish color to

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it and we will learn a lot more about it

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so tell me what you think what's your

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i'm pretty excited about it that thing's

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been traveling for nine years now

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over uh three billion miles

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and it's gonna pass

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uh seven thousand miles away from

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pluto's surface now pluto is much

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smaller than even our own moon but just

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to be able if you think about it just

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the the technology required to send a

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spacecraft that far

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over that many years and get that close

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been a country that is has existed on

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this planet that's been able to do that

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except for the united states of america

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so i think you know our citizens need to

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really be proud um you know that they

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live in a country that is capable of

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scott kelly i got to tell you uh it's

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amazing to see what you're doing because

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if americans are paying attention you're

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about a third of the way through a

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year-long stay aboard the iss

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you've got about 200 days to go

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you'll look great but how are you

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feeling and how is it to be up there for

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in general i'm i'm feeling pretty good

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can be hard to deal with is you can't

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leave it's the uh kind of the isolation

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factor but from a like a human health

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and performance uh perspective with

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regards to the exercise and everything

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yeah we uh you know we have a

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it feels like i've been here a long time

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actually change or shift the way we send

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you've noticed about your body and about

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stuff on a on a much smaller level from

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isolated environment and uh you know we

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water you know we can't expect to get

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conversation concern about having to

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we wish you the best sir we are watching

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your every move we're following your

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you've been up there a few times

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well tell us about that you're going to

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what what is it about your trip your

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length of stay that is just so important

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so it's uh you know it's a pretty big

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science experiment and it's very

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important to our future to go further

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i want to talk about that in a moment

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but the specifics i mean how are you

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feeling this what are you expecting to

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feel after a year in space and

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simultaneously your twin brother on

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earth has also

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been checked and poked and prodded i

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mean give us a sense of this massive

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intergalactic science experiment that's

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well you know there are there are the

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effects on this environment that that we

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notice and then there are the effects

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that we don't notice and you can only

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uh learn what those are or understand

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them by collecting data and

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you know the ones you notice are effects

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on your vision

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uh you notice uh at certain times

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especially early on a fullness in your

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in your head you notice effects to your

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digestive system because that uses uh

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uses gravity is important to that

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um

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you know physically you feel after a

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while you feel pretty good um you have

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the opportunity to to exercise uh fairly

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often which is important

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um but like i said there are the effects

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you don't you don't see and those are

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the effects of radiation on you uh

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you know on a genetic level uh you know

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the loss of of uh

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bone mass that we experience

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uh structural changes in our eyes for

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instance effects on our immune system

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and that's uh you know that's one of the

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reasons why or you know the main reason

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why misha and i are here for so long to

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understand those and then you mentioned

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my brother you know the fact that we're

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both identical twins and nasa has a long

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history on us

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and uh with regards to our medical data

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it was a uh you know a perfect

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opportunity for them to collect data on

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my brother

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and uh also on me while i'm here and

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compare the two of us on more of a

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genetic level with

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respect to any damage that might occur

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to my dna

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and rna compared to his experience on

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and is this all about

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well i wouldn't say it's all about that

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but it's uh it's definitely about uh

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understanding how to live and work in

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space for longer periods of time uh you

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know

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our path in our future but uh perhaps

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elsewhere

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um

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and this is a you know the space station

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program and our i guess our you know our

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collective history in space is a start

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and this is another stepping stone to to

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understanding how how to live and work

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in space for longer periods so we can go

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talking about going further from our

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planet uh we've been seeing images

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uh of great celebrations at nasa the

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first space probe uh ever to get fly by

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pluto seeing some extraordinary

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photographs what do you make of this

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you know i'm just so impressed and you

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know proud to be part of an organization

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and part of a country uh you know a

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citizen of a country that can send a

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spacecraft

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over that distance three billion miles

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over a period of uh

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of nine years

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to a

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planet that is much smaller than earth's

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moon

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and fly within 7 000 miles of it and you

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know it's just amazing and it's and it's

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an achievement that you know no country

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on earth has ever been able to

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accomplish before

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and so it makes me just proud to be an

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american today and i think you know the

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people at nasa that's worked worked on

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this project for so long really need to

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be uh congratulated and i congratulate

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of course there are many questions i

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would want to ask you but we also put it

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out to twitter and we had some questions

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that

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ordinary people here back on earth want

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to know and two young boys

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uh asked their mum to ask me to ask you

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how do you brush your teeth on the space

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you know

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know there's no sink here so

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it's not like you can fill your mouth

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with with water and and spit the

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toothpaste down the drain

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yeah some people spit it out into a uh

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you know they brush their teeth with you

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know so uh with toothpaste and uh

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and maybe some water and then you have

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two options one you can spit it into a

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towel which is somewhat messy or into a

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napkin

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the other is you could swallow it

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and i would not recommend to any kids

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swallowing it or any person swallowing

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toothpaste for that long a period of

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time but uh

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you know i'm i'm one of the people that

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just swallow it i don't know

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if it's uh

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there any negative effects to that but

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i've been doing it for a long time and

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it

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and and i'm sure some of these kids

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would also be interested to know how you

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make your own water up there on the

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yeah so we have a very uh very

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sophisticated system that takes uh the

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the humidity in the air and it also

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takes our urine

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and it uh you know

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process it processes it through a uh a

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condens a condenser kind of system and

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some filters

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and it turns it into drinking water and

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surprisingly

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when we turn the urine into drinking

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water and we turn the the humidity in

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the air into drinking water the urine

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actually makes better water than the

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humidity for some reason but it's uh

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it's great water it uh you know takes

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tastes better than the water that comes

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out of the sink at my home in houston

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texas and i have no problem drinking it

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and it's a great capability we have here

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and it's a capability that's been you

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know have spin-off technologies on earth

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another twitter question why are you

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yeah so uh you know one's a watch that

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has uh the time we use which is uh

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greenwich mean time um

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on board the space station it's got a

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nice alarm it's got uh

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a uh

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you know a light that you can

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see around a little bit but the the

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other watch is a sleep study uh watch

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that measures light

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and uh it measures acceleration so it

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can tell when i'm moving so basically

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you can tell when i'm asleep and uh you

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know people have issues sleeping in

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microgravity or in you know probably

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stressful high stress environments for

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that matter so this is a part of a

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scientific study to just measure how uh

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how our sleep is

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conducted over the period of the course

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thank you very much sir good luck

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oh nice talking you today