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Moment Of Um

Could a bird or fish live on the International Space Station?

Moment Of Um

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

The International Space Station is the largest structure that humans have ever launched into space. Hundreds of people have visited the space station over the past 25 years, but what about animals? Could birds or fish live there? We asked astronomy professor Chris Impey to help us find the answer. Got a question that’s launched you into a tizzy? Send it to us at BrainsOn.org/contact, and we’ll sparrow no time finding the answer! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um comes to you from APM Studios.

0:26.8

I'm Marty McFly and I'm in Eastern Bluebird.

0:30.6

Um.

0:32.8

I was just re-watching my favorite movie, the 1985 sci-fi comedy Back to the Future.

0:39.7

Have I ever mentioned that I had a starring role in it?

0:42.3

I'm serious.

0:43.5

Here, watch this.

0:47.1

Right there.

0:49.1

See?

0:50.0

I'm sitting in a tree in the opening scene.

0:55.3

First eight seconds of my life.

0:58.8

Anyway, I just got cast in another movie called Birds in Outer Space.

1:06.2

It's about a bunch of birds who travel to the International Space Station.

1:10.4

Still, as a bird actor, I pride myself on making sure the subject material is true to life.

1:17.6

And that got me thinking, could birds and other animals actually live on the International Space Station?

1:24.6

Abby was wondering the same thing.

1:26.8

Tell us quickly, I'm late for my first rehearsal.

1:31.7

So no. So this would be a bad scenario for both the bird and the fish. My name is Chris Impi. I'm a

1:38.9

professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona. If you just took up a fish tank, a regular

1:44.1

fish tank into the regular fish tank,

1:44.9

into the International Space Station that had fish in it,

1:47.8

and it's managed, they survived the launch or whatever,

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