- If you're overwhelmed by all the DMs,
Instagram has figured out a way for you now
to block selected Dms.
Bustle reports that a new update
makes it easier for you to sort out all your messages
and get more control over who's Dms you see.
So goodbye to all your ex's.
I told you to stop contacting me.
I need to let go start healing.
Goodbye, bloop.
It's true, that's how it goes.
It's been so long.
I don't remember.
If you need to get cheered up after crying about your Dms,
that's right, there's something you can do.
It's bulb planting season
and the Washington Post put together an excellent guide
for getting your garden ready for the spring.
The Post says planting bulbs is an act of hope
And I feel like this year, well, we could all use that.
So take that bulb and plant it
and know that the next time you see it again,
it won't be 2020.
(cheering and clapping)
Now our next guest who is a woman,
is a woman who is unafraid to get messy
in the name of science.
You can catch her cooking up experiments
on Emily's Wonder Lab on Netflix
and today she's here to talk about the latest in space news.
Please welcome Emily Calendrelli
- Hi.
- Hi Emily.
How are you?
- I'm good.
How are you?
- I'm so good
and I am so excited that you're on the show,
because I feel like we give a nice yin yang
and I want to get right in.
So our first story is, if I'm honest,
it gets my goat a little bit.
It ruffles my feathers.
So NASA just announced that they're spending $14 million
to get 4G cell service to the moon
and while I do hope the moon can one day stream Hulu,
I feel like we've got a bunch more urgent nuts to crack
right here on the pale blue dot.
So I say hesitantly, but earth first.
Emily.
- I hear, I hear you.
- What's your take though,
because you're so much smarter than me about this stuff?
- Oh, no, but listen, I hear what you're saying,
but what it will do is it will help us create
a sustainable human presence on the moon
and eventually a permanent presence on Mars
and that's going to help
make the human species more sustainable.
It'll allow us to survive extinction
and so I would say I am humans first,
because you know what a fun fact
that's not actually that fun,
is that 99.9% of all the species
that have ever existed on earth have gone extinct
and you know the difference between them and us.
We have a space program.
(clapping)
(laughing)
- Well, all right, sticking with the moon, the BBC reports
that NASA hopes to put a woman on the moon in 2024,
and that's going to be the first female
to ever do the moonwalk.
Emily, could it be you?
- I would love that
and I think this is such a big deal,
because out of all of the people
who have ever gone to space, only 11% have been women.
So NASA sending the first woman to the moon
it's gonna be for their Artemis program
and they're going to be able to make
our human presence on the moon a bit more sustainable.
We're not just gonna go to the moon, gather rocks
and then come back home.
We're going there to stay this time.
- And CBS New York reports
that NASA has landed on an asteroid for the first time ever
and that landing lasted 16 seconds
and a robotic arm snagged a sample
and should be back here on earth in three years time.
So Emily what could that asteroid dust tell us?
- That's leftover remnants from the early formation
of our inner solar system.
So studying that asteroid dust
will help tell us how planets form
and how planets like the earth form.
So it's a really, really big deal.
- Emily, the camera wasn't on me,
but this was my expression.
Well, you know Emily,
you're going to make me really think about my opinion
about making sure earth is first,
because I do love space
and thank you for teaching us more
about the wonderment of the universe
and by the way, you know what,
if we just think that we're here on this planet
and we don't understand to have the most expansive horizon
and thought and respect and energy
then you know what, you know what Emily universe first.
(clapping)
- Love it, love it.
- Thank you Emily.
Thank you for helping me be a better person.
Please watch Emily's Wonder Lab on Netflix.
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