- Do aliens exist?
- I think they exist, do you think they exist?
- Yes, actually I don't want them to invade.
- You don't want them to invade?
- They come in peace.
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- Hello.
- Hi guys!
- Hello, my name's Ethan.
- Nice to meet you Ethan, I'm Alyssa.
- Nice to meet you, I'm Phoebe.
- It's nice to meet you, Phoebe.
- I'm Nicholas.
- I'm digging the shirt, I'm digging it a lot.
- Thanks.
- We're like matching now.
- [Producer] Nicholas, do you have any guesses
about what this person does?
- You're training to go to Mars?
- That's a very good guess.
Yeah, I mean that's kinda dead on what I do.
(Alyssa laughs)
- How old are you?
- I am 18.
- Wow.
- And you're an astronaut?
- So I'm training to be an astronaut.
- That's cool.
- I started getting interested around three or so.
And then started going to the space camp at seven.
And eventually doing more realistic training at fifteen.
So, been involved basically all my life.
Are you interested in space at all?
- Yeah, so for a few years I've actually
kinda been interest in becoming an astronaut.
That's something that I really want to do.
- What do you want to be when you get older?
- I was thinking maybe like a writer,
and then I could be a bit of an astronaut.
Maybe once I go into space,
I could make a science fiction book about it.
- Is there any food in space?
- Yeah, so the astronauts
have mac and cheese. - Aah.
- They have sandwiches.
But the sandwiches have to be on tortillas
because we can't have bread in space.
- Why?
- Because bread is very crumby.
You think about when you bite into a sandwich,
and all the crumbs fall.
- Yeah.
- Well in space, all those would float.
- Is there any others?
- We can't have Coca-Cola,
or any sort of carbonated drink.
- Why?
- It makes you burp, right?
In space everything is in your stomach is floating.
So when the astronauts would go to burp,
everything would come up.
- Oh no.
- Yeah.
- [Producer] Do you have the same problem with farting?
- I don't think it would be necessarily the exact
same affect as burping,
where a whole bunch of stuff would come out.
But I think that it may give you a little jolt.
- How do you go pee in space, if you go pee or poop?
- It won't float up?
- So we actually have two systems.
One is called Mr. Thirsty, that one's for pee.
And then we have the target, and that's for poop.
Mr. Thirsty is like a tube, and the tube has suction.
The target for your poop looks like a normal toilet,
except it has these little straps that go over your legs,
you know, to keep you from floating off.
And astronauts have to practice,
because the hole is so small (boy laughing)
right, and we're not used to it.
- How big do you think Mars is?
- The planet itself is actually smaller than Earth.
But because on Earth we have oceans,
Mars and the Earth have the same amount of land mass.
You know how we have the Grand Canyon here on Earth,
well Mars also has a canyon.
But it's even bigger, even longer, even deeper.
- The canyon's name is Valles Marineris?
- Yes it is.
When I would want to go to Mars,
I would want to land near Valles Marineris
because I think it would be pretty cool to see.
- Have any people been to go inside Mars?
- So we haven't sent people there yet,
but that's what we're planning on doing.
So in the next few years we want to send people to Mars.
And some of the things we'll be doing
is like going out on the planet,
collecting rocks, collecting samples,
bring some of that back to Earth,
and keep doing more tests.
And hopefully we can get more regular missions to Mars,
and maybe someday we could have vacations on Mars.
- Do you agree with colonizing Mars?
- I do think that as we can continue,
and population continues to grow,
I think Mars would be really awesome
to almost have to be a second planet.
Would you be interest in going
and colonizing Mars, maybe living there?
- I think it would be a super cool thing, temporarily.
But I feel like especially with how
a lot of people think the Earth is going,
with all the greenhouse gasses,
and climate change, I'd be worried that
we'd just hop from planet to planet doing that.
- I kind of agree with you.
You know I don't want Mars to just become
a second planet just to go and destroy.
But I also think that we could possibly,
in transforming Mars into a planet
that we can live on, we can actually use the same systems
to bring Earth back to a better state.
- Would you be annoyed if Jeff Bezos
got to go to Mars before you?
- I feel like he could go maybe after the first mission.
I definitely think that first mission should be
for investigating and learning more.
I think that it would be more beneficial
to have a better understanding,
and then eventually we'll get to the point
of having those tourists go.
Hearing all this stuff about space,
would either of you want to go?
- Yes. If I could take my dog,
my bird, a frigerator, a house.
- If everyone would be going to a planet,
just hanging out on the space station,
that would be great!
- Good luck in space!
- Thank you!
- Safe journeys to space!
- Thank you!
Hey guys, it's Alyssa Carson.
Thank you so much for watching this episode of Kids Meet.
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