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Fascinating People Fascinating Places

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Fascinating People Fascinating Places

Daniel Mainwaring

Documentary, Society & Culture:documentary, History, Society & Culture

51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

In season 3 Dan talks to NASA astronauts Jim Wetherbee and Steve Hawley as well as Smithsonian space historian Cathy Lewis. He discusses Gallipoli with Australian Department of Veteran’s Affairs historian Ian Hodges and explores the 1798 rebellion in Ireland.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is a huge thing here's to say again please

0:11.1

uh... here's gonna be about that coronavirus and say again please. Oh, Houston, we've had a problem.

0:13.0

That coronavirus is a work of God.

0:16.0

There were sectarian relations in Ireland which had not abated since the 1690s or even since the 1640s.

0:24.0

I left grad school, went to NASA so that I could put this telescope in space so that after NASA

0:30.5

I can come back and use the telescope to come back to my original project.

0:35.0

More than 90% of Australians at the time were even born in the United Kingdom or their parents

0:40.7

had been born there.

0:42.1

So there was an intense loyalty to Britain.

0:44.4

I definitely knew I was going to be an astronaut.

0:47.2

It straddles fantasy and reality.

0:49.8

People make all kinds of mysteries about this stuff. Some people say they had telepathic contact.

0:55.2

I went to work the next day to tell my coworkers

0:57.6

and a coworker told me about the evil foe he had seen the night before.

1:00.9

You showed me a church that hasn't filled their pews with divorce and remarriage and have young people

1:06.5

fornicated.

1:07.9

You show me that church.

1:09.6

They were guinea pigs because they simply didn't have the understanding of what they were doing.

1:14.0

There were a number of spies and he named five different forms.

1:18.0

It's the most powerful feeling you could ever imagine.

1:21.0

There were four crashes within four hours in four different lakes.

1:26.4

The military investigated all of them and I never found the explanation to them.

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