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let's get started the former Soviet
Union launched the first human into
space in 1961 With Yuri gagarin's
historic orbit not long after NASA's
historic Apollo 11 Mission put humans on
the moon in 1969 now that space race
between Global superpowers which lasted
for years kicked off Humanity's Journey
to the stars but now private companies
like SpaceX and blue origin have joined
National Space agencies in launching
both crude and uncrewed missions to the
Stars we are entering a new era of space
exploration that includes plans for
returning to the Moon establishing bases
on Mars and pushing the boundaries of
human achievement beyond Earth's
atmosphere with some hoping that one day
humans could live in outer space this
past September the Polaris Dawn Mission
made history by reaching the highest
Earth orbit in almost 60 years but
here's what's really cool the crew
wasn't made up of traditional astronauts
these were civilian Space Explorers and
they even performed the first all
civilian Space Walk and while they were
up there we hit a new record 19 people
in space at the same time now that may
not sound like a lot but three years ago
that record was only 14 so that's quite
the population Boom for space but living
in space can impact your health did you
know the heights of astronauts can
increase approximately 3% over the first
3 to 4 days in space and about 60% of
space Travelers deal with something
called space motion sickness so why are
scientists so focused on figuring out
what happens to our health in space well
with increased travel to outer space and
the hope that one day our population
could live in ZIP codes outside of
Earth's surface the science of what
happens to our bodies is important CNN's
Dr Sanjay Gupta has
more and liftoff of the Polaris Dawn
mission on the Falcon 9
rocket in September the four crew
members of the Polaris Dawn Mission made
history welcome to orbit by going to the
highest levels of orbit in nearly 60
years and Performing the first all
civilian Space Walk Commander Jared
Isaac men now emerging Jared is
commercial space travel a looming
reality for most people I certainly
think so a great proof point is while we
were in orbit there were 19 people uh in
orbit at once which was a record and
three years ago when I went to space for
the first time the record was 14 now
these are these may seem like uh small
numbers but they're steps in the right
direction but to keep moving in the
right direction there is still so much
to overcome about 60% of people flying
to space are afflicted by space motion
sickness this really hits you for the
first few days Anna Menan was the
mission's medical officer can you give
us some some details what what did you
experience there are all can be a whole
spectrum of experience from you know
lightheadedness nausea all the way to
vomiting I experienced really the whole
gamut it's because of the lack of
gravity that messaging to our brains can
go arai and that can result in motion
sickness like side effects but you
should also know that the brain
physically changes during space travel
look here it shifts up ever so slightly
in the skull and the fluids surrounding
and protecting the brain expand it's a
very auster environment we're all going
to be uh susceptible to something uh for
me it was it was kind of this mild uh uh
headache that I had to deal with that
was Perpetual for for a majority of the
mission Scott potit was the mission's
pilot what he noticed were changes in
his vision more or less my vision Acuity
started to deteriorate those first few
days but immediately came back once I uh
came back to Earth 50 to 70% of
astronauts after spending periods of
time on the International Space Station
have degradation in their Vision Dr
Donna Roberts spent more than 20 years
with NASA trying to understand why
symptoms like that occur we've been
analyzing MRI brain scans of astronauts
that were obtained before they went into
space and then sometime after they
landed back on Earth what you're seeing
is an exclusive look at the post-flight
health data collection the Polaris team
underwent testing everything from their
balance and their
Vision as well as the Imaging of their
brains one of the unique aspects of this
mission is the astronauts went deeper
into space than astronauts have been
since the Apollo days and and more
exposure to radiation and so the
question could have been was there any
evidence of radiation injury and we're
not seeing that on the initial look at
these images so that's a really good
thing do you think we're getting to the
point where humans could reliably live
on Space Station or even a different
planet there's so much that changes when
you're actually in microgravity that's
not how we evolved but I think that
really just underscores the importance
to me of the research we are doing the
data we're collecting that can then feed
into how do we solve some of these
challenges how do we enable so many more
people to get to space it's that sort of
research and data that might lead to
another giant leap for
mankind 10-second trivia according to
current research what animal has organs
that are the closest anatomically to
humans monkey pig dog or bear
if you said Pig organs you are correct
they are roughly the same size as human
organs making them the most suitable for
transplantation what if animals could
talk and I mean talk to you and you
understand them well some researchers
using artificial intelligence have made
a breakthrough with pigs that could
revolutionize how we understand animals
while we might think oinks and squeals
are just random Barnard noises we're
learning that maybe these pretty poor
sign creatures are trying to tell us
something does
this indicate happiness discomfort or
stress with the help of AI European
scientists developed an algorithm that
may just be capable of decoding pigs
noises as well as keeping Farmers
updated on their pigs
wellbe to develop the AI algorithm
scientists collected thousands of
recordings of pig sounds in various
scenarios including play isolation and
competition for
food once collected they were placed in
a database they had this huge database
of calls um that are producing specific
emotions specific context by many
different Peaks and kinds of Peaks
scientists found short grunts typically
signal positive emotions long grunts
often indicate discomfort screams or
squeals could show
stress we developed AI so artificial
intelligence that could tell us um be
trained to tell us if the the calls that
we recorded were um emotionally positive
or negative the study of animal emotions
is a relatively new field it highlights
the importance of livestock's mental
health to their overall well-being most
welfare strategies today Focus only on
the Animals physical health and now with
the explosions of methods it actually
becomes more and more easy to do these
things scientists hope this tool will be
developed into an app for Farmers phones
helping to translate what pigs are
saying in terms of their
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emotions today's store getting a 10 out
of 10 pumpkins that float not in space
not in the air we're talking on water
with people in them we're picking up our
paddles and Gordon to Belgium where
hundreds of people were taking their
life jackets and Jacko lanterns on an
infract tuous journey in an annual
pumpkin
rata these are no ordinary
boats they are in fact giant hollowed
out
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pumpkins the annual pumpkin rata in
Belgium Drew over 300 participants this
year according to rors
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the SNS to De the race began in 2008 as
a creative way for local Growers to make
use of their oversized fruits after the
race the pumpkins are turned into
fertilizer for future crops and the
seeds are stored for next
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