60. NASA Astronaut Jessica Meir Went Off The Earth, For The Earth
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
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4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2020
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
This week, Outrage! and Optimism goes galactic to talk about the relationship between policy and science. In a world riddled by authoritarian divisions and isolating nationalism, how do we bring ourselves and our neighbors to the realization that we are one human race on a fragile planet that we need to protect?
Upon her return back to Earth, NASA Astronaut Jessica Meir agreed to sit down with us and talk through her experience of leaving the Earth, and how communicating what is often described as "The Overview Effect" can transform how we live our lives here on our tiny, blue marble.
Our musical guest this week is Mesadorm. They recorded an intimate rendition of their song, "Easy" for us. Stick around to hear it!
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Check out the Expedition 62 Patch designed by Jessica! So cool.
https://www.shopnasa.com/products/expedition-62-patch
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Mesadorm's music video for "Easy"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASD5cx8Axtk
This week's musical performance was brought in partnership with Sofar Sounds. You can learn more about supporting artists around the world through live shows and performances at https://www.sofarsounds.com
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Transcript
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| 0:16.0 | Hello and welcome to Outrage and Optimism. I'm Christina Figueroomism. I'm Tom Rifik Karnak. And I'm Christina Figuerais. |
| 0:18.0 | And I'm Paul Dickinson. |
| 0:19.0 | This week we discuss science as the basis of a functioning society and we speak to astronaut |
| 0:24.4 | Jessica Meir and we have music from Mesodore. Thanks for being here. Nice. |
| 0:39.0 | Yeah, we'll never kick that when he's on holiday. |
| 0:41.0 | We'll never match that. |
| 0:42.0 | And this is the problem Paul. |
| 0:43.8 | You know, Tom is going to be away for two ways |
| 0:45.8 | and I'm already getting very nervous. |
| 0:48.0 | You can't, you're not going to be able to properly introduce this, |
| 0:51.2 | you or me. |
| 0:52.2 | The passengers don't fly the airplane, Tom. |
| 0:54.3 | It's that simple. |
| 0:55.3 | It's reading two sentences. |
| 0:56.3 | You're going to be fine. |
| 0:57.5 | Okay, will you send us the two sentences? |
| 1:00.3 | Yeah, exactly, thank you. You've been doing it in your sleep all this time and we've become |
| 1:05.1 | Molly coddled. That's the word and we're just not ready now to strike out on our own. I'm sorry. |
| 1:08.9 | How do you spell that word? That's a nice word, right? Well, so I'm going on holiday next week. |
| 1:13.7 | I'm going to be away for two weeks. |
| 1:16.9 | What are you going to do? |
| 1:17.8 | You're going to have a guest co-host? |
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