[speaker002:] do you know about the space program
[speaker001:] well actually at this point my understanding of the space program is a little on the limited side um
[speaker002:] I think they keep it that way purposely
[speaker001:] yeah well that's to an extent that's understandable
[speaker002:] yeah it's gonna take uh I think it's gonna take a long time before they uh get that space colony out there
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] they uh I remember uh six five six years ago they showed on uh one of the scientific channels you know not Discovery but one of those old ones
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah
[speaker002:] they had some professor on there who was uh building a it was like a it was kind of like a space station but it was supposed to be for people you know and uh experimental stages
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and it's supposed to be about ten miles long
[speaker001:] oh it's supposed to be more of a colony than a than a research lab
[speaker002:] right right well they they were all gonna be research scientists out there and they were just gonna build it up and make it bigger and bigger
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and but the initial stage was supposed to be about ten miles long which is I mean huge for I guess for space
[speaker001:] yeah like a central unit and then everything else kind of rotating out from that
[speaker002:] um no it was more like one big long thing it wasn't uh anything circular I've seen a circular pattern too uh but I don't know if uh you know how far along they went with the circular pattern
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] but uh like I say this was a long time ago and uh they this is one big long one that they had planned on and they had thought out how they were gonna uh regenerate the air with plants and stuff and they had a
[speaker001:] oh okay they they had thought that out or hadn't
[speaker002:] no they had they had thought out they had thought it out only the only thing was it was really really expensive and it was
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] not if you got to think about it was five or six years they said you know by nineteen ninety seven or nineteen ninety eight we would actually be able to uh to start launching this thing
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and they'd have to take several projects to go up there before and add on piece by piece
[speaker001:] yeah so it was all modular like you send up a small section it'd be liveable for a couple of people and they send up another section and bolt it on and
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum right and then they've and once it got big enough they would send more people up once it got established and they got all the systems working
[speaker001:] yeah yeah well that sort of thing could work um
[speaker002:] yeah pretty fascinating
[speaker001:] what did they did did was there any indication what they're going do about uh gravity
[speaker002:] no it was pretty it was no it was a it was a gravity free environment they uh they had shown they had shown like at some sort of uh simulation on how it would be up there and they showed people floating around so uh
[speaker001:] or were they just gonna let you bob around hm yeah
[speaker002:] at at the point I don't think there was any kind of uh you know gravity control whatsoever
[speaker001:] now what what they've started figuring out lately is that gravity or some form of it makes it a whole lot easier to stay up there for long periods
[speaker002:] uh-huh hm
[speaker001:] some of the uh I I've heard little bits of stuff about some of their things they found out about that was was it one and a half year stay some Soviet cosmonauts spent up in space
[speaker002:] uh-huh um-hum
[speaker001:] and they had some problems digestive tract problems and uh uh minor circulatory uh little problems but they could eventually become pretty big problems or if people people with with problems to start with that weren't really noticed yet
[speaker002:] hm yeah I can see that oh um-hum
[speaker001:] they they could generate into big problems um
[speaker002:] hm no uh these these people definitely didn't look into any kind of stuff like that they were just talking about the space station itself and how were they gonna put it up there and spend all this money they uh
[speaker001:] yeah that's why a lot of the um designs for space stations have been circular
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker001:] so they can get them spinning centrifugal force comes close enough to uh uh simulating gravity that there's very little problem with uh uh gravityless uh side effects
[speaker002:] uh-huh hm
[speaker001:] you know I don't know if you saw it was it two thousand and one that uh that double wheel arrangement
[speaker002:] uh-huh yeah uh-huh right right right
[speaker001:] that's uh one of the more popular theories
[speaker002:] hm
[speaker001:] they also have them where you got a long central cylinder kind of like a like a cross connection tube and a lot of pods sticking out from that central core kind of like a big pine cone like deal
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum um-hum hm
[speaker001:] or a bottle brush almost where the pods are all rotating in enough of a a
[speaker002:] hm hm
[speaker001:] a rotation speed so that the centrifugal force pretty much is one uh is is equal to earth gravity
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker001:] so
[speaker002:] that's pretty neat hm then I would I'd mean it makes sense you know I never had thought about it you ever see the uh the EPCOT Center
[speaker001:] no no I've not
[speaker002:] the uh at the EPCOT Center in in uh I think it's the the AT and T display they show a a bunch of uh future space pods and what life would be like out in space
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] it's it's pretty neat I still think it's a long ways away though
[speaker001:] well actually it needs to be put off for a little while for now just because there's so much money going into it that would be a whole lot better spent on on local problems
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah yeah
[speaker001:] um the health care and and uh law enforcement uh
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah and and I tell you the you know it's expensive
[speaker001:] oh yeah
[speaker002:] just just I mean space programs themselves you know I uh I work in the uh in the satellite telecommunication business and putting up satellites is ridiculous expensive and these things are unmanned just a bunch of electronics we shoot out in space you know
[speaker001:] um-hum uh-huh uh the bulk of them probably have aren't even pressurized
[speaker002:] uh no no