An Astronaut's Guide to Isolation

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC

Comedy, Science

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by a stellar panel of space travellers as they get tips on surviving isolation from a group with a truly unique insight. They are joined by astronauts Helen Sharman, Chris Hadfield, Nicole Stott and Apollo 9's Rusty Schweickart to talk Space X, the future of space travel and how a trip to Mars will be the ultimate test of our ability to survive isolation.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.8	Hello, I'm Robin Inz.
0:06.1	And I'm Brian Cox, and this is the Infinite Monkey Cage.
0:08.5	And yet again, we are joined by a lockdown audience
0:11.0	dotted around the country,
0:12.2	are hundreds of people just staring at Brian Cox's face
0:15.9	on their laptop, which of course is nothing unusual.
0:18.9	Except, I mean, it is, it's a smashing face for a screensaver.
0:22.4	But this time, you can actually talk back to Brian Cox.
0:26.8	So for our audience here, would you like to say hello to Brian?
0:29.7	Brian.
0:31.7	Brian, say hello back.
0:33.4	Hello.
0:34.4	See, it's lovely, isn't it?
0:35.4	It's just not having around the house, but even better,
0:37.8	because if you did have it around the house,
0:39.1	what you'd have done is you'd have taken your nutri-bullet
0:41.2	and you'd have taken your kettle and tried to make
0:43.1	some kind of cold fusion reactor,
0:44.8	and it would be in a right old mess.
0:46.8	What's a nutri-bullet?
0:49.3	You wouldn't know your man makes your drinks for you,
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