Mission Interplanetary: Closing Time

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🗓️ 20 April 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Nothing lasts forever, including the universe. So how will it all end? Cady and Andrew talk with theoretical astrophysicist Katie Mack about the ultimate destruction of the cosmos. Also, comfort food on the ISS, crocheting, and a new Sounds of Space. This week’s Sounds of Space link. Data processed by Alexander G. Kosovichev. Hosts Cady Coleman & Andrew Maynard Twitter Natalie Trevino: @AstroKatie Interplanetary Initiative: @II_ASU Cady Coleman: @Astro_Cady Andrew Maynard: @2020science Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So Katie, what's the weirdest comfort food you've come across in space?
0:23.4	Ooh.
0:24.4	Well, there's ones that were really disappointed because they weren't comforting.
0:28.2	Interesting.
0:29.2	Okay.
0:30.2	What disappointed you then?
0:31.2	About half of our food is dehydrated and the other half is this meal's ready to eat.
0:36.6	And they put a certain kind of preservative in there to make sure that you don't die
0:40.1	when you eat it, right?
0:42.0	And it has this kind of taste and they put it in all the desserts, the cherry cobbler.
0:48.3	I mean, all the cobblers, it was crumbly.
0:50.0	I mean, I'm up there.
0:51.0	I'm like, cobbler, here we go.
0:52.0	I love cobbler, love pie.
0:53.4	And then you get that taste.
0:54.6	And even I chose not to eat that.
0:57.1	So the reason I asked was I was actually listening to Helen Sharman on BBC TV.
1:02.3	Oh, I love Helen.
1:03.3	And the first British female astronaut going up.
1:06.9	And she was commenting on how being in space affects your sense of taste.
1:10.7	So you're constantly looking for bigger and bigger hits as you're out there.
1:14.0	And they got me wondering about the comfort food side of things.
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