Scott Solomon
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Uh, you're, you're pretty much stuck there.
Um, the difference there is, you know, they're working within a kind of a military hierarchy system is sort of, you know, built into, to the nature of the experience.
Right.
That's not the case so much in Antarctica.
But, you know, it's knowing that you can't leave is is something that that definitely takes a toll, you know, and you have to you have to train for it.
You have to be prepared for it and you have to have, you know, systems in place to allow people to to deal with whatever comes with it.
Right.
So you need to be able to have.
For example, a therapist available to speak with them.
You need to have resources in place to deal with crises when they do take place as well.
So I think that's something that has to be built in.
But there's an interesting other side to it.
So we think a lot about like, oh, how this is really going to be hard and it's going to be something that's going to have maybe a negative impact on a lot of folks.
But there's also this idea that going to space can have a profound positive impact on people.
So some of the first accounts of astronauts really, you know,
talk about like just the awe and wonder.
I mean, people still talk about that today.
Everybody that goes to space talks about how incredible it is.
Including Katy Perry.
Yeah.