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Katie Bouman

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“Yeah, right. And to like take a risk and explore a little bit. Yeah. And that it's scary. And there's a lot of times when I felt like God, I wish someone else had already done this so that I knew what to do. The path would be there. It's not. And it's like hard to be going your own way. Yeah.”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This, like, totally wacky thing, like fail and whatever. But I think talking more about it, maybe the people who have control and run a business, like let your employees fail. Just see what happens. Like, give them the opportunity. Because really, it's that they're trying. They want to do something new.”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so it was just, but that the, I feel like if you want to do something creative or just something new in the world, like you have to take a risk. And society is so risk averse. I mean, I understand because the consequences of failing for a lot of people are they get fired, they lose their houses. People live on the edge all the time. And so it's hard to say like, well, try.”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Into the stratosphere Yeah, so like all of our stuff worked, the pointing system, which was designed by our French collaborators, that was gorgeous. Everything worked and then the balloon had a hole in it. I remember thinking, like, I didn't even know to be worried about that. Right.”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But I'm here. I'm still doing exactly the work that I want to do, and that I learned so much from that experience and all the stuff that I talk about in my TED talk is like, you know, with the stuff with the detectors, it took years for us to figure out how to get the part that we were working on to work correctly. Every step of the way, it's like, oh, this didn't work. Okay, let's try something else, and then that works, but then something else fails, and you learn the only way you learn is in that space in between the failures. And with the whole balloon payload, all of our stuff worked, but we had this other failure that we hadn't planned on.”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Awesome. And I've always liked to build stuff and use my hands. That's why I liked cooking because you like make a thing. And so I wanted to just like broaden the world a little bit that maybe people will realize like, oh, I could build telescopes. And the other thing I want to do is kind of tell people that it's okay to try something and to. And to like fail spectacularly, like, I think about my experience at MIT and dropping out that like I failed in such a big way. And for like an 18 year old, I like it was like the end of the world.”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, when I was young, I knew that there were astronomers and astronauts, but I didn't know that it could be a job that you build the telescope. I knew people went to telescopes, but then in college, I discovered like, oh, you can make it?”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, yeah. Well, so Shole Nixad, the woman that I worked with at JPL, she has been such an inspiration for me. She's like just a super lovely, wonderful person, and she's always been really supportive of my work. And all the people that I've worked with, like I've had a lot of male mentors and they've been really great. So I feel like I've had a lot of. Personal, very careful attention, which I think is really important”
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“I can do and like at least help bring up the people behind me and make sure that there's new people in the pipeline, younger people, diverse people. And I also just think that'll make the science a lot more vibrant to have more people asking interesting questions. Going to get a lot of exciting results.”
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“Whether a space mission is the way to go. And I've gotten the NASA people that I've talked to are really excited about it, and I'm working with a few other people. And typically I'll go to meetings about space astrophysics and like future missions. And I'm the youngest person in the room. And typically I'm one of the few women. And they're talking about things that are going to get built in the 2030s. And a lot of the people that are in those rooms are not going to be working in the 23rd. Interesting. I hope they're all going to be alive. They're lovely people, and they're so excellent at what they do, but that there has to be people coming up to take their places. And so that's something that I hope”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This is extremely annoying. I feel like Adam Sandler's character in the wedding singer when his fianc ⁇ shows up the next day and she's like, oh, you weren't on a rock star. And he's like, well, this is information I could have used yesterday. And so I originally thought I'd just write a paper that's like, how to build a space telescope and just like list all the things that I learned. And then I've decided instead I'm going to turn it into a workshop and like bring people and actually tell them like, okay, you start with a science question, like what's the thing you want to know about the universe? And then we're going to figure out.”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Working on new ideas for telescope concepts and space telescopes and advocacy about making sure that young astronomers can be the principal investigators of those future space telescopes. So right now I'm working on a proposal for a space telescope to NASA's small explorer program. So that mission is like totally theoretical. We're just kind of like figuring out what's the instrument, what's the spacecraft going to be. And that's been a really interesting process for me as the PI. And there's all this stuff that I think I wish someone had told me this two years ago or six months ago about who to contact at NASA centers or who to contact at an aerospace company.”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So there's a lot, it's like a multi pronged effort. So, usually when I feel like there's a problem that I want to solve, my strategy is like do everything. So I think like developing technology is super crucial because that's the basis that you can do new observations of. So I have been working on one type of detector and I'm starting to set up my lab to test a new kind of detector that is sort of an offshoot of the one I've been working on, but it has even better noise properties. So just continuing to make better tools, I think, is essential. And then”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Fouring is good. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, but I think that's really what drives people is like, well, how do we explain the situation that we're in right now? And we have made a huge amount of progress in just understanding how galaxies have changed throughout time. Like we can look back through history at old galaxies that are really far away and we can see that they're different and there's some change through time of how many galaxies are making new stars.”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, and like our galaxy is a pretty boring galaxy. Our stars are like great. I love our star, but it's also just like a pretty standard star. But we see all this other stuff, these galaxies that are super active, like the one where they detected the black hole last week.”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So we can't really explain how our galaxy got here. And I think a lot of what drives astronomers and just people who are interested in space is being able to say, why are we here? And how did we get here?”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Very low density hydrogen that's outside of galaxies, so it's emitting very, very faintly. But we just haven't been able to take a census because our detectors haven't been sensitive enough. So that's one of the things I want to do.”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And in the longer term, we don't really, so we know a lot about the universe, but then if you like break it down, we don't know anything. We know that 4% of the universe is made up of regular matter, like protons, electrons. The whole rest of it is like dark matter and dark energy, which is totally mysterious. But even that few percent that's made up of stuff that we understand, we don't know where any of it is. If you count how many galaxies we can see, the estimated mass for those galaxies, you add in things like planets and black holes that you can't actually see Add all that up and it doesn't add up to the amount of mass that we know exists in regular matter. So there's this problem where we don't know where everything is. And part of the solution is that probably it's this really faint.”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Whereas this other galaxy that's just a red blob doesn't have any of those filaments. Instead, it has a really hot halo of gas that can't fall into the galaxy because of complicated physics that I won't explain here, but that you can say like, okay, well, this galaxy looks the way it does because of this stuff around it and this other galaxy looks the way it does because of this totally different environment. So that's what I want to do in like the short term.”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We can see them, but we can't say, like, well, this galaxy looks like this because of this reason why behind it is not clear. And so I think that in order to figure out that why, if you look at the environment around the galaxy and you can measure the amount of hydrogen that's there and the other gas that's there, you can say, well, this galaxy is a beautiful spiral making lots of new stars because it has huge inflowing filaments of hydrogen that are coming in and feeding the star formation.”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Your eyes will naturally be drawn to the bright stuff, the stars that are really bright, the galaxies that are really bright, and that's the first thing that always gets explored because. Everything is dim in the universe, so you go for at least the brightest stuff. But if you keep going to lower and lower brightness, you actually get a lot more interesting components. So we know galaxies exist because we can see them. And from simulations, we think that there's these huge inflowing filaments and exploding bubbles. The filaments flow in and bubbles coming out of the galaxy. That's like a dynamic environment around the galaxy of hydrogen and other gas that's kind of swirling around and coming in and out. And some of the hydrogen is originally from the Big Bang. It's like primordial and other gases from mergers are just like a chaotic environment around the galaxy. And we look at galaxies and we see some of them are these beautiful spirals that are like gorgeous. Others are totally messed up like they've had a bunch of mergers. There's others that are just like a perfect ring, like some wacky things out in the universe. And right now,”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To do all that stuff. But the work that I want to do, so we know we look out in the universe and you can see galaxies. And people are lazy, so they want to look at the thing that's easiest to look at. So like if you just look.”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, so I will say that for the technology, I'm part of a really great team of people that are based out of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. And so the woman that actually invented the very base. There's a base process that has to happen that's called delta dopane or superlattice doping. And her name is Shole Nixod, and she's worked at JPL for a long time. So she invented this technology and then has been developing it for like 20 years. And so I came in and assisted in making it even better, basically. But it's definitely been like a team effort and the machinery that we use is so expensive. There's no way that we could one person could really do it because you have to sort of have a team to get enough people.”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. And I think you're being a little modest because I think you help to really invent this new technology. I mean, it sounds like you've helped to invent it or invented it and then have overseen teams to kind of build it. So what is the problem you're trying to solve when you said, I think the idea of like asking new questions about the galaxy, like what is the discovery that you think, what was your inspiration for this?”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But you can't send film to space. You can, but it's really difficult. So the other detectors that we were using, they worked for what they were doing, but the sensitivity was just not great. It's like less than 10%. And the detectors that I've helped develop, you can get sensitivities. The ones that we put on the balloon telescope I built is 60%. So it's a six times improvement, and you haven't changed anything else about the telescope, but you get six times as much information”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so previously we could not detect waves in space-time, and now we can, and this whole new way of looking at the universe has opened up. So for my work on the detectors that I helped develop, they're super sensitive in a wavelength range where we haven't really had sensitive detectors ever. The previous best detector was actually photographic plates. Like film is pretty good in the UV.”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I love it. It's basically a gravitational wave detector. So it's a totally different spectrum that we can explore the universe on. And when two black holes merge, for example, or two neutron stars merge, they bend spacetime so much that it sends waves out through the universe.”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, my big idea is that if you want to discover a new thing about the universe, you have to look at the universe in a new way, that you can do more observations with stuff that already exists, and that work is really important to kind of expand and classify the stuff that we already know, but that if you want to make like a breakthrough discovery, you want to find out what's the new weird thing about our universe, you have to be creative. And a lot of people don't associate science and scientists with creativity, but it actually takes a huge amount of creativity to think about, well, how can I see this thing in a different way? No one has looked for this particular stuff before in this way. And typically, I find that in order to do that, you need to invent something because astronomers are really good about using every technology available. We're trying to capture every single photon so people will always be pushing the limits, but that”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I reapplied to college and I went to Harvard and I tried as much as possible while I was there to make sure that I was doing things that made me happy every day that like it wasn't worth being unhappy because maybe one day there would be an end goal that would make me happy. And so it was a hard choice to like drop out of college because I had identified so much as like an achiever and like being smart. And then I was like an MIT dropout. And so I had to realize that like. Didn't define me, and what mattered was like enjoying my life and making sure that I was doing things because I wanted to do them.”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I went to MIT in the fall of 2001 and I was really naive. I came from a family that we did everything together and the transition to college was rough. And I was like, I met these people who were going to go into business, and I thought people were going to be there because they really love science. And I just, I know those people were there, but I didn't find them. So I left. I took some time for myself to figure out what did I really want to do? And then I went.”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What I want to do is, I want to raise awareness. I really, really want for space to be safe, secure, and sustainable long term. And my pathway to get there is by trying to make space transparent and predictable. And I can't get to transparency and predictability without information from as many different sources as possible. And so I just want to crowdsource the living out of all this information, make it automated, and make it publicly and globally accessible so that nothing hides. I want nothing to hide in space.”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So basically you put something up there, you think it's dead and it can't do any harm and this dead thing all of a sudden breaks up and produces kids after death and these kids now come in. That's terrifying. I know Yeah, so we see evidence of that whole thing. And it's just not so good. So here's the thing. If I can come up with a science that monitors this stuff can quantify the birth and death processes of all these things, if I can develop a taxonomy to classify things and say these species of these things in this region behave this way versus that way, then we can start talking about how do you mitigate this stuff? How do you slow down the rate of this stuff? But you can't get there unless you have that kind of foundational body of knowledge, right?”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, yeah, there is one, and it's called the Geo Graveyard. So the geostationary space highway, if you will, is located about 36,000 kilometers above the Earth's surface. And it's where you put a satellite such that the time it takes a satellite to go once around its orbit is equivalent to an Earth day. So that helps you just point your dish at a certain region of the sky and you'll always get a signal. The geo graveyard is about 300 kilometers above geo, and we've been putting things there for a long time. I can tell you that it's bad news because things in the graveyard are actually coming back to the highway. You know, sooner than people predicted. So we actually have zombies. Yeah, zombie.”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So it's almost like what you're doing in terms of like it's about space junk, but you want to understand it. You want to make a transparent. You want to create, you know, kind of open the veil, lift the veil a bit on what's happening so that it's almost like an ethical pursuit in some sense.”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Country B doesn't have all these assets. You know, when country A goes to talk to country B and says, well, so what's the price of the gold or this and that or your country? Country B can't just say whatever they want because country A can say, you know what, I actually know the answer because I see how much dirt you're actually moving on a daily basis. And based on where your minds are located and how many trucks I see, that means that your yield is only this percent. So it completely gives an advantage to certain groups or entities if they have this knowledge over other people and just doing regular business. Wow. Big time”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, I'll put it this way people are very surprised with the level of knowledge that a company like Google might have. If they start incorporating space based information and linking that with stuff going on on the ground, that's going to blow people's minds big time. Let me give you another example. Let's say country A has all these space-based capabilities looking down and they go to have a conversation with country B about, I don't know, mining.”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Government intelligence agencies that want to track motion of certain people around the planet to people that might say, hey, I want to see what kind of cars are being driven in this parking lot on what days of the week so I can figure out how to strategize and mark. I mean, knowing what people do and how they move and how they interact as pervasive and as persistent as possible, that's a big business. So now if you tie the Internet of Things on the ground with what is on orbit. That's like a mega set of information.”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right, so I would say by and large, they're two kind of dominating camps. One of them is communications, and most of the money made in space is based on communications. Now with the thought of having internet anywhere on the planet 24-7, that's a big business. I mean, like I said, Elon Musk with SpaceX, Bezos with Amazon, they want to put stuff up there. And that's just the US. I mean, European companies have their own ideas. China has their own ideas for this stuff. So that's definitely a big marketplace. The other dominant camp is the remote sensing looking down. So I mentioned things with cameras looking to the surface of the earth. I said, you know, agriculture, disaster relief. But in general, human-based activity monitoring, that's a big deal. Everything from”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So let me give you an example. You have African countries are developing their own kind of space agencies and that sort of stuff. You know, Nigeria has a space agency. They only have a few satellites. Guess what? Nigeria doesn't have a global network of sensors to track stuff in their orbital neighborhood. And so it's like, how do the Nigerians stay safe? How do they know when to get out of the way if something's going to come towards them? And so this basic service would be to facilitate people who just don't have all this capability to know where everything's at all the time, but they are space operators. And so, you know, if they're on the highway, it would be nice to remove the blindfold. And let them see the traffic that's around them.”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, right now, you know, at the University of Texas at Austin, we have, there's this thing called the Texas Advanced Computing Center, which is where Astrograph lives. Autonomously, we're grabbing several sources of information, bringing that into this graph database. And then when you go to the website, it visualizes all these things. So right now we're in the final stages of developing an API that would let people interact with the graph database. I want to open this up to amateur telescope operators, like people from all over the globe, hey, deposit your evidence in this common bucket, and then we're going to have algorithms that are going to try to sort this sort of stuff out to come up with this sort of common knowledge and make it globally accessible. That's the thing, is that anybody can have access to this stuff.”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Basically, I've seen the Air Force Research Laboratory for a decade. I've seen escalatory language in the news, meaning the U.S. is saying, well, you know, China has these capabilities and we need to prepare for a war in space. And China is saying one thing and Russia is saying the other. And before anybody presses some weird red button, I would like to say, hold off, let's really understand what's going on because people In the absence of knowledge, people become very paranoid. And so I want to provide a basis of scientific evidence so that we can make informed decisions and not just act in ignorance. Because right now there's just a lot of ignorance. And I got to tell you, people are very concerned about Oh, well, when this satellite comes close to mine, what's their intent?”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's like a gold rush because people see, oh, wow, there are trillions of dollars to be made with space-based services. There are no space traffic rules. It's like the Wild West. I'm just going to go up there and make my claim and make my money and kind of get out sort of thing. And I'm like, hold on a second. Let's think about long-term sustainability of that environment. But I want to make sure nothing hides. That's my goal, to make space transparent and predictable.”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so one of the things that's very unfortunate is that there isn't a consistent space traffic map around Earth orbit. If you ask the US government, oh, well, what do you think is up there and where it's at? You'll get an answer If you ask the Russian government, you'll get an answer, and they're different. If you ask the Chinese, you'll get a different answer. And so as five people, the question you'll get 10 different answers sort of thing. And so one of the things that I'm trying to do is. Ask people this question How do you know that you have the world's most accurate clock? And the way that you know is because you have hundreds of them.”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so my career started off at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab. I was a spacecraft navigator navigating several missions to Mars and that sort of stuff, but then I stumbled upon the work that the Air Force Research Laboratory was doing. And from a defense perspective, one of the questions is debris or not debris? That is the question.”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Weather warnings, agriculture, TV communications, and soon even the internet, because that's the new thing. I mean, SpaceX and Amazon now, they all want to rush to send thousands of satellites up there to provide global internet.”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Basically, you know, since we've been putting up satellites since Sputnik all the way to the current day, most of what we put up there doesn't come back. It dies, it ages, it falls apart every once in a while two things collide with each other or something will blow up or somebody will blow something up and then these things become many more pieces that are also mostly never coming back. And so the population is just growing and it grows on its own and it grows because we're launching stuff and more and more countries are getting involved in space and they want to put more stuff on orbit. And so currently there's hypothesized about half a million objects ranging in size from a speck of paint all the way to a school bus that could harm any services and capabilities we depend upon, like global positioning system, banking.”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, first, we're going to play my interview with Morbaja, an aerospace engineer who calls himself a space environmentalist. He focuses on old satellites and other debris floating in orbit around Earth, also known as space junk. Trash in space. I was thinking we should shoot all our trash in space. The other day, I was like walking around a dirty neighborhood out there. Apparently it's already pretty full of there. It's not that full. It's space. It's endless. Final frontier. I mean, come on. I don't know. This interview is for you then. All right. Okay. And then after that, we'll hear from Erica Hamden, an astrophysicist from the University of Arizona.”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This is recode decode. I'm Erica Anderson in for Kara Swisher, but Kara's actually here in the studio with me now. Hey, Kara, you still there? Yeah, I'm here listening to Lauren Hill. Well, you're going to have to pause that for a few more minutes because we have to go to space. Okay, all right. Let's go. You got my attention”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, see, you get me with that one. You know, it depends on what we're talking about. So a lot of what I talk about in the evolutionary context is sexual selection. And if you want a really good first introduction to this foundation concept in sexual selection, we call it sexual conflict. And that's because males and females of any species, they're not always on the same page. And so it's the conflict of getting what you want, which may not always line up with what the other sex wants. And so the perfect sound that explains it imperfectly is Lauren heals that thing.”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What y'all need is a southern accent. Yes, I love it. I love it. I love it. Well, I've learned a lot from speaking with you. So thank you for your time. And I guess the one last, last question is, what's the hip-hop song we should all be listening to to learn more about science?”
2019-04-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT