A Stronger Me Cast Episode 568 in situ resource utilization.

Welcome to a Stronger Me Cast, a weekly facts-based journey through the Cosmos where we help you

understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.

I'm Fraser Kane, publisher of Universe Today with me as always, Dr. Pamela Gay, a senior

scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director of CosmoQuest.

Hey, Pamela, how are you doing?

I'm doing well. How are you doing, Fraser?

Good. We sound particularly cheery for the apocalypse.

It's a Friday. I'm going to go in the yard and burn things later today.

We've definitely moved from the existential crisis, the deep grief phase of this process

to the marathon portion where we are settling in for what is probably going to be months,

if not maybe years of on and off again, restrictions, lockdowns and quarantines.

Although it is still terrible out there and please everybody, you know, we, through this

collective sacrifice, have made a dent in many countries on the spread of this disease.

Now we have to lock it in.

Keep it up. Yeah.

We have to lock this in. We have to lower the rate that is transmitting to other people

to below one and wipe it out of existence.

New Zealand's already succeeded. This is possible. It requires a massive combination of testing

and quarantine and tracking down contacts. But that little island nation or two island nation

proved it is possible. Now a lot of places out there are lifting their shelter in place

warnings. Well, you're about to be in trouble in three weeks and we're very sorry.

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