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I really want to go to space
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So I made my own
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Astronaut training program because nobody else would have me. I'm like a pet up for adoption, and I just decided to adopt myself.
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I've already made sure that I won't throw up, and I won't go crazy in confined spaces.
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But there's still this thing weighing me down. The biggest downer on Planet Earth,
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freaking gravity.
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Music]
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So we've rented a sensory deprivation tank. Basically it's this pod filled with a thousand pounds of Epsom salts so
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you can float in it and experience what it's like to be weightless. You ready for this?
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My jump suit game is like an onion. This is like layers upon layers.
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[Music]
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I think that this is the closest I've ever been to climbing back into my mom's uterus.
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[Music]
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This is so weird.
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I don't dare to put my head down.
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I kinda want that neck noodle.
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[Music]
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It kind of makes my fifi hurt.
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TMI, sorry.
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Donald Trump is president, and I'm opting out. #SpaceWomb. I mean #SendSimoneToSpace.
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[Music]
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This is way too relaxing to be space.
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I need something more.
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[Engine revving]
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So we went to San Jose because I got a ticket to the vomit comet. I had to get up at 6am
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So I was fucking excited. A zero g flight is an airplane that does parabolas,
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So it goes up really fast and then down really fast so get you get to experience what it's like to be weightless
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I was really freaking nervous about it because a lot of people do throw up, and if you do throw up you have to get
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back in your seat for the rest of the flight. So basically it'd be the most expensive vomit of your life.
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Unless you like, threw up into somebody's Gucci bag.
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For each parabola you get about 30 seconds of weightlessness, and we did 15 of them.
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So I got about seven and a half minutes of glorious weightlessness. So without further ado,
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here's some footage for me having the freaking time of my life.
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[Worker] 3, 2, 1. Here we go. No kicking! No kicking!
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[Music]
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[Worker] Feet down! Feet down!
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Ahhh
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[Worker] That was a quick one.
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So I was supposed to narrate this as it went, but I could get no intelligent commentary out of myself.
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I have no idea what to say!
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[Worker] Feet down! Feet down!
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Yeah, that's about it. As the airplane is going up you're laying down on your back and first you're getting heavier and heavier and heavier.
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But then you're getting lighter and lighter and lighter until you just float up.
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It was really like flying, and your body doesn't really know what to do. Like your instinct is to just pedal which is
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terribly ineffective.
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[Music]
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Oh my god!
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[Music]
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[Joyful screaming]
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Ha Ha
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They threw up some water and we got to catch some candy.
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[Music]
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I feel like fucking, Pac-man.
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[Music]
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[Video game noise]
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[Music]
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So yeah here we are. Also
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I cut my hair because I felt that I wanted to look even more like one of the Hanson brothers.
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Mmm bop motherfuckers. So going on the zero g flight was
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huge. Like I've been wanting to do it for such a long time.
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And it was the wildest thing I've ever done. Like it was it was like nothing
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I've ever experienced before. And also this is the last episode of DIY astronaut
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Thank you so much to Google's Making & Science Team for giving me a budget for this project.
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But now I've run out of money. So we're back to filming on my iPhone. How's this level of production value for you?
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Get used to it! Get used to it! Also huge thanks to Adam Isaak who helped film and edit
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DIY astronaut and Scott Laurie who produced it and did production coordination.
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They were the best paid friends a woman could have. By the way I set up a store and now you can buy the
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asstronaut T-shirt.
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So if you feel like you want to look both
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offensive and stupid at the same time just click on the link in the description and get one of these beauties.
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It's a solid t-shirt, and I don't know about you, but I feel fully ready to go to space so Richard Branson,
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I'm just waiting for you to call me.
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(Call me) It might go faster if we all tweet him. Shameless plug!
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I have no shame in my space game. Send Simone to space! Not Simone Biles.
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I mean, she seems nice and all, but yeah, Simone Giertz. Whatever. Simone dry heave. Simone queef on a yoga ball.
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Simone can't pronounce yacht, that girl me. I mean otherwise
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I'll just have to build myself a rocket.
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And I don't think any of us wants me to do that. It'd make for an interesting
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tombstone though, so that's something. Anyway check out the DIY asstronaut t-shirt, and I'll talk to you soon.
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Thanks for watching DIY astronaut. I had so much fun!
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Oh gosh, you're gonna hate me.
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[Music]