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Science Talk

Mary Roach Is Packing for Mars, Part 2

Science Talk

Scientific American

Science

4.2644 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2010

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Podcast host Steve Mirsky talks with author Mary Roach about her new book "Packing For Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void." Part 2 of 2. (Part 1 is at http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=mary-roach-is-packing-for-mars-10-08-20). Web sites related to content of this podcast include www.maryroach.net. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode is presented by eBay.

0:03.7

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0:23.7

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0:25.9

importantly, free. It's free, Rob. When it's this easy to sell for free and there's great deals

0:31.6

on things you love. You can't help but say when it's eBay. It excludes vehicles and business

0:35.9

sellers.

0:44.9

Welcome back for part two of the Science Talk podcast with Mary Roach, author of the new book Packing for Mars. I'm still Steve Merski. After her session with an audience, which you heard in

0:50.4

part one, Mary and I found a quiet corner of the Upper West Side Barnes & Noble

0:54.3

and discussed further how bad it is to be in space.

1:01.2

Hi, Mary.

1:02.3

Hi, Steve.

1:03.9

Just coincidentally, a couple weeks ago, I watched 2001.

1:07.5

Yes.

1:07.8

And even before reading your book, I remember thinking,

1:12.0

the space station, the ship they're on, it's so clean.

1:16.6

It's so pristine.

1:18.7

And they're shaved.

1:20.6

They look all together.

1:22.7

It's nothing like that in space, right?

1:25.2

It's not, no.

1:26.2

Yeah.

1:27.3

And I know because I found those papers from the space cabin simulator studies where they

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