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Dear Hank & John

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🗓️ 1 March 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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How will humans keep track of days on Mars? How do I stop imagining mice in books? What's it like being a systems engineer for the Perseverance Rover?

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Dear Hank John. Or is that prefer to think of it? Dear John and Hank,
0:09.7	oh my god, perseverance is on Mars edition. It's a podcast for two brothers answer your
0:16.4	questions about Mars and give you news about Mars and that's it. And we also maybe occasionally
0:23.6	provide dubious advice about Mars. And then at the very end we squeeze in a bit of news about
0:28.8	a third tier English football team. Hank, no, John, I have a joke. Hey, I have a joke. Don't
0:32.8	you step on my joke, John. Why aren't there any cats on Mars? Why aren't there any cats on Mars?
0:37.5	Because you've heard what curiosity does to cats. I mean, that would have been a great joke in 2013.
0:46.4	It's still there. Curiosity is still a great work. I know it's still a good joke,
0:51.1	but it would have been a great joke. Yeah, I would have been better. This true. What an incredible
0:56.8	accomplishment by the people behind the Perseverance mission just astonishing. I know that I am not
1:06.0	alone in this, but when I watch the live stream, especially of those seven minutes of terror as they
1:12.2	were described. I was so anxious and nervous and worried and hopeful. And I felt everything at
1:20.4	the same time. And then when they exploded into joy, I mean, I might cry just remembering it.
1:28.1	I just felt so hopeful and so encouraged and so and I felt alive to Perseverance, like not the
1:36.8	rover, but the feeling. And it was just what what a moment. Yeah. And Hank, thank you for getting
1:43.7	me into Mars so that I could enjoy that moment. Yeah, it was really good. It's funny. Like my
1:48.8	my major emotion I did cry, but Orrin, Orrin always gets really upset when we cry. So I, which
1:55.1	I'm trying to work through with him. Yeah. But the major emotion I have had then and have had
1:59.6	sense every time I think about Perseverance is just like happiness and like it's not coming from
2:05.6	anywhere bad. It's just a good happy that I yeah, like is really like unadulterated, pure happy.
2:14.4	And I like it's just it's there. It's doing its work. The video, the videos, the videos and the
2:21.2	and the pictures are coming and will continue to come. And we're going to get those, you know,
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