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This is 99% invisible I'm Roman Mars and this week I'm talking to you directly the podcast audience who I like to call the 99th percentile

and not the radio people because I took a week off the radio show just to do some other work and catch up on some things. But this is

actually a piece that I really want to present to you because it's an older

piece I did about a year and a half ago for a tech show pilot that never got

picked up so it only got the pilot itself only got picked up.

So it only got the pilot itself only got heard by about 15, 20 people.

But I really love this piece.

I put a lot of effort into it and I liked it.

And a lot of my job in general is to pilot shows and to work on new things and

sound design new programs but the consequence of that is sometimes you make radio

that isn't on the radio, which is weird.

And so this is one of those pieces.

What makes it so appropriate is this actually represents a design problem.

And the problem, if you see it as a problem or design challenge is how do we get humans on

Mars there's certainly technological solutions to this problem there's a

solutions that involve a lot of willpower and money maybe but there's also some out of the box thinking that might come into play

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