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Private Enterprise win real Private Enterprise win real Space Elevator & Innovation win real Bodily Effects of Space win real

Date:	10-12-04
Host:	George Noory
Guests:	Robert Zimmerman, Scott Gulbransen, Peter Davenport

Author Robert Zimmerman returned to the show to discuss various aspects of space exploration and development. Rather than teaming up with other countries on say a mission to Mars, he advocated for competition. Cooperative efforts between nations can become bogged down in political game playing whereas competition often yields more efficient and less expensive ways of doing things, he opined.

Zimmerman also touched on the profusion of new private space endeavors, the "space elevator" project which uses nanotube technology and the repair of the Hubble telescope. The effect of Hubble, with its clear photographs of far away objects such as nebula has been profound, he said and "has changed our impression of the universe."

The way astronauts experience life in space has some interesting ramifications, he said. For instance, in their weightless state, the floor and ceiling become interchangeable and their orientation is based on their perspective. There are a number of physical changes, such as the legs becoming thin, heavier blood flow to the head, the spine stretching slightly and most troubling, the gradual loss of bone density, the longer they are in space, he detailed. However, efforts to solve the bone density problem could help to treat osteoporosis here on Earth, Zimmerman added.

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Bumper music from Tuesday October 12, 2004

1.	Carly's Song Enigma	2.	Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) Rolling Stones	3.	Everyone's Gone to the Moon Jonathan King
4.	Eye In The Sky Alan Parsons Project	5.	Fly Me to the Moon Frank Sinatra	6.	Fly Me to the Moon Joe Harnell
7.	Hey Nineteen Steely Dan	8.	Inca Dance Cusco	9.	Midnight Express (The Chase) Giorgio Moroder
10.	Midnight Express (The Chase) Giorgio Moroder	11.	Miracles Jefferson Starship	12.	Sailing Christopher Cross
13.	Space Oddity David Bowie	14.	Spooky Atlanta Rhythm Section	15.	Spooky Classics IV
16.	Sultans of Swing Dire Straits	17.	Tiny Dancer Elton John	18.	Watching the Wheels John Lennon
19.	Side Travis