Could a bird or fish live on the International Space Station?
Moment Of Um
Lemonada Media
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🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 5 minutes
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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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