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25 years ago, America launched Overture, a generation ship to a nearby star.

Today, Overture is the set of the first reality show shot in space.

Through confessionals, we'll learn the crew's love, fears, and most secret

dreams. Welcome to Personal Space.

We are not flying 12 light years with no music. If it's the printer...

Or the record player? I choose the record player.

Leonard wanted to replace the broken record needle with a pin from the

We never print anything, so I said sure.

Sometimes I have to listen to the printer to sleep.

It's a medical issue, so as ship's doctor, I have no choice but to take my

side.

Also, Freeman listens to Rush.

If it were the other way around, I'd take his side. But it's not, because I

don't listen to Rush.

I mean, he can't be one of those assholes who listens to jazz so he can

jerk about time signatures.

He just can't. I told him I find patterns in the sound of the printer.

There's a pureness to white noise.

Random sophistication.

Reminds me of jazz.

Random sophistication.

What the hell?

Rush has actual sophistication. I'm not sure this is so much about music as it

is Freeman yelling at us about taste.

And there's no accounting for taste.

Captain LeBar killed a guy in a bar fight once, and Reagan still picked him

the mission. So taste is a pretty bad way of making decisions.

Music and mathematics, they're the same. You know that because you're a

computer. Rush knows that because they're musicians.

Did they sing And I Ran?

I do like that song.

That song is by Flock of Seagulls, a similar band.

Perhaps you could ask Leonard about them.

Flock of Seagulls.

If she was anyone else.

I wish Gloria were awake.

She and Leonard could share this weird obsession.

Maybe they've never actually had a chance to truly experience this music.

going to replace the part, get this fixed.

And play it over the comm as often as I can.

So one of the Rush records met with a tragic airlock accident.

Nothing I could have done.

If this was a Chuck Berry record, we could just detour 60 years to one of the

Voyagers and pick up a replacement. But it's not a fucking Chuck Berry.

Fortunately, Rush's other records were safe in my locker when this incident

occurred.

Absolutely.

What's up?

I like Rush.

I do.

But when I couldn't immediately name one of my favorite Rush songs, Leonard

accused me of vinyl side.

Oh, boy.

He asked if I would rather listen to the Garden Song.

Inch by inch, blah, blah, blah.

You're a rake and I'm a hoe.

That's not right.

The Garden Song. I mean, I'm not five.

No, I love that song.

Really?

Doesn't sound like you.

My grandma used to play it when I'd drive my little cousin over.

She had the most beautiful garden, and we'd help her weed it.

She always used to joke that's why she fell in love with a gardener.

I'll talk to Leonard.

Don't mention my name?

I'll tell him. Blasto put me up to it.

Thanks.

I proposed a compromise.

Freeman will get the record player on the condition that he may not talk about

Rush. I'm mad enough to admit that Gale saved a lot of nuisance.

Good for her.

I'm excited to suggest some third -stream jazz to him, and he has no way

fight back.

I considered filling the beans that the ship's computer has a mini -library of

thousands of pieces of popular music, but this might be the most excitement I

could hope for.

Huh?

These people are going to hear Rush for the next 1 ,200 years.

Now that's a time signature.

Today we're joined by Dr. Ian Hahn, who I, who you, might remember from when he

hosted the educational children's show, Science March with Hahn.

Well, today he's an exoplanet researcher with Caltech.

Dr. Ian, welcome to personal space.

It's so good to talk to you again. I wrote you a letter one time. Thanks,

Happy to be back on the airwaves.

Your research revealed troubling facts about Overture's target star system. Can

you elaborate?

Yes. Well, Overture was launched when exoplanet study was in its infancy. We

knew there was a binary system of rough solar analog.

Solar analog?

Stars like our own.

We knew each had an Earth -sized rocky planet in its habitable zone.

More recently, we've been able to study one of the planet's atmospheres as it

passes in front of its star.

We found a worrying amount of CO2. Wow, that sounds complicated.

You know, when I was a kid, and this is after you went into cryo for 20 years, I

caught a couple episodes of your show when my geology teacher had a hangover,

but I didn't remember that you had such a baby face. Am I right?

Thanks. Well, you should know, the Twitterverse is very curious to know

you are single.

I don't see how that... I am.

I am single.

There you go. So the air might not be breathable.

It might be.

It might not be.

The other planet could be fine, but it doesn't look as good as it did when they

launched. Oh, so they could be headed straight to their deaths?

Ma 'am, these are real people we're talking about.

This isn't dancing with the stars.

Yeah, it's more like flying to the stars.

Thank you for joining us, Dr. Ian.

Thanks. You can follow me on Twitter. Later, Spacer. See you next time.