Kind: captions
Language: en
we're gonna have to emigrate from this
planet
at one point under the other and
astronomers it is our duty to look for
the next ohm so my focus in the last
couple of years is studying the planet
Mars
so that humans could one day visit and
survive once you leave the Earth's
magnetosphere you have no protection
from the from the gamma rays and the
radiation from space which are deadly so
first can we make it to Mars without
getting cancer and then once we get to
Mars Mars has an atmosphere that's
relatively thin which does not protect
us from the radiation hazards so what do
we do
[Music]
Hurricane Maria was in mid-september
and I was in Tampa Florida
watching the hurricane as it was moving
along the Atlantic I knew it was gonna
be a bad one
the infrastructure here is horrendous
with most of my families in Puerto Rico
cousins uncles everybody 24 hours we
wouldn't hear anything 48 hours we would
hear anything
[Music]
no to vino tratando de communique no con
la familia no se podía ok Nuria
comunicación
then about a week later think it's first
text message finally from my cousin said
everybody's ok I was like ok what do you
mean by everybody he goes everybody's
okay and then it was like a big relief I
was like ok everything's everything's ok
so we're here in la la puerta Rico which
is the center of the island with Paolo
actually means in between mountains it's
just one big valley and when the storm
came through here it has nowhere to go
it's like one big funnel this terrain
here it's mostly sand and when we get a
lot of rain and you've got 100 50
mile-per-hour winds
the homes were just washed away
throughout the night
[Music]
you had tons and tons and tons and tons
of the breeze mud human waste from from
the destroyed homes I basically made
this water undrinkable this this is
enough water for 20 families for today
that's the go give them a case of water
[Music]
all right let's go give out this water
I grew up here in Newt wallow in the 80s
and 90s
I remember I think I was 10 years old
and I was with my buddy can we should
dress up his army and we could go
camping up in the mountains then I was
not too far from here looking up at the
stars and ice saw my first meteor shower
it was like fireworks
I mean aw I thought that was probably
one of the coolest things in the world
from that point forward I knew I wanted
to be a scientist my blanco someday
training goes up with Jonathan Ian the
resilience of Khorasan Melinda that
right there behind the trees that is
Mars this is what I call the parade of
planets so if I go this way it's over
here that's Saturn you can't see up
there it is and that is Jupiter so if I
straighten them up in the line right
that's the path around the Sun that is
the orbit around the Sun which we call
that the ecliptic that's pretty cool
[Music]
the great thing about this hematite it
protects you from the radiation right so
if we can build a glues huts and
complexes where the astronauts can live
in and be protected than their survival
increases we're not going to survive on
any other planets in the solar system as
a species if we don't take care each
other here it's just not gonna happen I
drop off water I don't ask for any
questions I don't ask for any money and
I just move on to the next house
emotionally yeah this is hard for me
especially seeing my people suffering
from all this you know me Hank they see
losing nagua
sink hace mucho Sedonas you know parody
Iraqi army pueblo mi gente una cosa
bonita que yo no se lo dije que hicieron
when this is um then I feel glad if I
can just help one person and make them
smile for a couple hours I think for me
that's a big success so when I saw what
happened in Puerto Rico it was more than
just
that's my island I saw it as these are
human beings we're all in the same
little bubble on earth
[Music]