ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Nagin Cox - Spacecraft operations engineer
Nagin Cox explores Mars as part of the team that operates NASA's rovers.

Why you should listen

Nagin Cox has been exploring since she decided as a teenager that she wanted to work at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She was born in Bangalore, India, and grew up in Kansas City, Kansas, and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Her experiences as a child in a Muslim household showed her how easily we separate ourselves based on gender, race or nationality, and it inspired her to do something that brings people together instead of dividing them. The Space Program helps the world "look up" and remember that we are one world. Thus, she has known from the time she was 14 years old that she wanted to work on missions of robotic space exploration.  

Cox realized her childhood dream and has been a spacecraft operations engineer at NASA/JPL for over 20 years. She has held leadership and system engineering positions on interplanetary robotic missions including the Galileo mission to Jupiter, the Mars Exploration Rovers, the Kepler exoplanet hunter, InSight and the Mars Curiosity Rover.

In 2015, Cox was honored as the namesake for Asteroid 14061 by its discovers. She has also received the NASA Exceptional Service Medal and two NASA Exceptional Achievement Medals. She is a U.S. Department of State STEM Speaker and has spoken to audiences around the world on the stories of the people behind the missions. She has also served on Cornell University’s President's Council for Cornell Women.

Before her time at JPL, Cox served for 6 years in the US Air Force including duty as a Space Operations Officer at NORAD/US Space Command. She holds engineering degrees from Cornell University and the Air Force Institute of Technology as well as a psychology degree from Cornell. (Sometimes she is not sure which one she uses more: the engineering degree or the psychology degree.)

Cox is currently a Tactical Mission Lead on the Curiosity Rover, and every day at NASA/JPL exploring space is as rewarding as the first. You can contact her at nagincox(at)outlook.com.

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Nagin Cox: What time is it on Mars?

Nagin Cox: Koliko je sati na Marsu?

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Nagin Cox je prve generacije Marsovke. Kao svemirska inženjerka u NASA-inom Laboratoriju za Mlazni pogon, Cox radi u timu koji upravlja roverima SAD-a na Marsu. No, rad od 9 do 5 na drugom planetu -- čiji dan je 40 minuta duži nego na Zemlji -- predstavlja određene, i često smiješne, izazove.
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00:13
So manymnogi of you have probablyvjerojatno seenvidio
the moviefilm "The MartianMarsu."
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Dakle, mnogi od vas su vjerojatno vidjeli
film "Marsovac."
00:17
But for those of you who did not,
it's a moviefilm about an astronautastronaut
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No, za one od vas koji nisu,
to je film o astronautu
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who is strandednasukan on MarsMars,
and his effortsnapori to stayboravak aliveživ
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koji je nasukan na Marsu
i njegova nastojanja da ostane živ
00:25
untildo the EarthZemlja can sendposlati a rescuespasiti missionmisija
to bringdonijeti him back to EarthZemlja.
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sve dok Zemlja ne pošalje misiju
spašavanja da ga vrati na Zemlju.
00:31
GladlyRado, they do re-establishponovno uspostaviti communicationkomunikacija
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Na sreću, oni uspostave komunikaciju
00:34
with the characterlik,
astronautastronaut WatneyWatney, at some pointtočka
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sa likom, astronautom Watney-em,
u jednom trenutku
00:36
so that he's not as alonesam
on MarsMars untildo he can be rescuedspašeni.
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tako da on nije tako sam na Marsu
sve dok ne može biti spašen.
00:42
So while you're watchinggledanje the moviefilm,
or even if you haven'tnisu,
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Dakle, dok gledate film,
ili čak i ako niste,
00:45
when you think about MarsMars,
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kada razmišljate o Marsu,
00:47
you're probablyvjerojatno thinkingmišljenje about
how fardaleko away it is and how distantudaljen.
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vjerojatno mislite o tome koliko je daleko
i koliko je udaljen.
00:51
And, what mightmoć not
have occurreddogodio to you is,
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A, ono što vam možda ne bi
palo na pamet je,
00:54
what are the logisticsLogistika really like
of workingrad on anotherjoš planetplaneta --
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kakva je zapravo logistika rada
na drugom planetu --
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of livingživot on two planetsplaneti
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živjeti na dva planeta
01:00
when there are people on the EarthZemlja
and there are roversroveri or people on MarsMars?
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kada postoje ljudi na Zemlji
a tu su i roveri ili ljudi na Marsu?
01:06
So think about when you have friendsprijatelji,
familiesobitelji and co-workerssuradnicima
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Razmislite o tome kada imate prijatelje,
obitelji i suradnike
01:10
in CaliforniaCalifornia, on the WestZapad CoastObala
or in other partsdijelovi of the worldsvijet.
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u Kaliforniji, na Zapadnoj obali,
ili u drugim dijelovima svijeta.
01:14
When you're tryingtežak
to communicatekomunicirati with them,
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Kada pokušavate
komunicirati s njima,
01:16
one of the things
you probablyvjerojatno first think about is:
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jedna od stvari na koju vjerojatno
prvo pomislite je:
01:18
wait, what time is it in CaliforniaCalifornia?
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čekaj, koliko je sati u Kaliforniji?
01:20
Will I wakeprobuditi them up? Is it OK to call?
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Hoću li ih probuditi?
Je li u redu nazvati?
01:23
So even if you're interactingu interakciji
with colleagueskolege who are in EuropeEurope,
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Dakle, čak i ako ste u interakciji
s kolegama koji su u Europi,
01:27
you're immediatelyodmah thinkingmišljenje about:
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odmah razmišljate o:
01:29
What does it take to coordinatekoordinirati
communicationkomunikacija when people are fardaleko away?
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Što je potrebno da se uskladi
komunikacija, kada su ljudi daleko?
01:36
So we don't have people on MarsMars
right now, but we do have roversroveri.
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Dakle, sada nemamo ljude na Marsu,
ali imamo rovere.
01:42
And actuallyzapravo right now, on CuriosityZnatiželja,
it is 6:10 in the morningjutro.
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I upravo sada, na Curiosity-u,
je 6:10 ujutro.
01:47
So, 6:10 in the morningjutro on MarsMars.
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Dakle, 6:10 ujutro na Marsu.
01:50
We have fourčetiri roversroveri on MarsMars.
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Imamo četiri rovera na Marsu.
01:52
The UnitedUjedinjeni StatesDržava has put fourčetiri roversroveri
on MarsMars sinceod the mid-sredina1990s,
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Sjedinjene Države su postavile četiri
rovera na Marsu od sredine 1990-ih,
01:56
and I have been privilegedprivilegiran enoughdovoljno
to work on threetri of them.
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a ja sam imala privilegiju raditi sa
njih tri.
02:00
So, I am a spacecraftkosmički brod engineerinženjer,
a spacecraftkosmički brod operationsoperacije engineerinženjer,
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Dakle, ja sam inženjerka svemirskih
letjelica, inženjerka operacijaletjelica,
02:05
at NASA'sNASA-in JetJet PropulsionPogon LaboratoryLaboratorij
in LosLos AngelesAngeles, CaliforniaCalifornia.
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u NASA-inom Laboratoriju za Mlazni Pogon
u Los Angeles-u, Kaliforniji.
02:10
And these roversroveri
are our roboticrobotski emissariesizaslanici.
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I ovi roveri su naši robotski izaslanici.
02:15
So, they are our eyesoči and our earsuši,
and they see the planetplaneta for us
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Dakle, oni su naše oči i naše uši,
i oni posmatraju planet za nas
02:21
untildo we can sendposlati people.
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sve dok ne možemo poslati ljude.
02:23
So we learnnaučiti how to operateraditi
on other planetsplaneti throughkroz these roversroveri.
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Tako smo naučili kako raditi
na drugim planetima kroz te rovere.
02:28
So before we sendposlati people, we sendposlati robotsroboti.
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Dakle, prije nego što pošaljemo ljude,
šaljemo robote.
02:33
So the reasonrazlog there's a time differencerazlika
on MarsMars right now,
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Dakle, razlog zbog kojeg postoji
vremenska razlika na Marsu sada,
02:37
from the time that we're at
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u odnosu na vrijeme na kojem smo mi sada,
02:38
is because the MartianMarsu day
is longerviše than the EarthZemlja day.
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je zato jer je dan na Marsu
duži od dana na Zemlji.
02:42
Our EarthZemlja day is 24 hourssati,
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Naš Zemaljski dan traje 24 sata,
02:45
because that's how long it takes
the EarthZemlja to rotaterotirati,
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jer toliko je potrebno
Zemlji da se okrene oko svoje osi,
02:49
how long it takes to go around oncejednom.
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toliko dugo traje da se jednom okrene.
02:51
So our day is 24 hourssati.
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Dakle, naš dan traje 24 sata.
02:53
It takes MarsMars 24 hourssati and approximatelypribližno
40 minutesminuta to rotaterotirati oncejednom.
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Marsu je potrebno otprilike 24 sati i
40 minuta da se okrene jednom.
03:00
So that meanssredstva that the MartianMarsu day
is 40 minutesminuta longerviše than the EarthZemlja day.
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Dakle, to znači da je dan na Marsu
40 minuta duži od dana na Zemlji.
03:07
So teamstimovi of people who are operatingradni
the roversroveri on MarsMars, like this one,
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Dakle timovi ljudi koji upravljaju
roverima na Marsu, kao što je ovaj jedan,
03:12
what we are doing is we are livingživot
on EarthZemlja, but workingrad on MarsMars.
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ono što radimo je da živimo
na Zemlji, ali radimo na Marsu.
03:17
So we have to think as if we are actuallyzapravo
on MarsMars with the roverRover.
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Dakle, mi moramo razmišljati kao da smo
zapravo na Marsu s roverom.
03:23
Our jobposao, the jobposao of this teamtim,
of whichkoji I'm a partdio of,
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Naš posao je, posao tog tima,
kojeg sam ja dio,
03:27
is to sendposlati commandsnaredbe to the roverRover
to tell it what to do the nextSljedeći day.
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slanje naredbi roveru i reći joj
što učiniti sljedeći dan.
03:33
To tell it to drivepogon or drillbušilica
or tell her whateveršto god she's supposedtrebala to do.
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Reći joj da se vozi ili buši ili joj
reći što god da je potrebno učiniti.
03:37
So while she's sleepingspavanje --
and the roverRover does sleepspavati at night
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Dakle, dok ona spava --
a rover spava noću
03:42
because she needspotrebe
to rechargepunjenje her batteriesbaterije
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jer treba napuniti svoje baterije
03:44
and she needspotrebe to weathervrijeme
the coldhladno MartianMarsu night.
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i treba prebroditi hladne Marsovske noći.
03:48
And so she sleepsspava.
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I tako ona spava.
03:49
So while she sleepsspava, we work
on her programprogram for the nextSljedeći day.
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Dakle, dok ona spava, radimo
na njenom programu za sljedeći dan.
03:54
So I work the MartianMarsu night shiftsmjena.
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Dakle, ja radim noćnu smjenu na Marsu.
03:57
(LaughterSmijeh)
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(Smijeh)
03:59
So in ordernarudžba to come to work on the EarthZemlja
at the sameisti time everysvaki day on MarsMars --
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Dakle, da bi došli na posao na Zemlji
u isto vrijeme svaki dan na Marsu --
04:06
like, let's say I need to be
at work at 5:00 p.m.,
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kao, recimo moram biti
na poslu u 5:00 sati popodne,
04:08
this teamtim needspotrebe to be at work
at 5:00 p.m. MarsMars time everysvaki day,
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ovaj tim treba biti na poslu u 5:00
popodne po Marsovom vremenu svaki dan,
04:14
then we have to come to work
on the EarthZemlja 40 minutesminuta laterkasnije everysvaki day,
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onda moramo doći na posao
na Zemlji 40 minuta kasnije svaki dan,
04:22
in ordernarudžba to stayboravak in syncsinkronizirati with MarsMars.
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kako bi ostali sinkronizirani sa Marsom.
04:24
That's like movingkreće a time zonezona everysvaki day.
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To je poput pomicanja vremenske zone
svaki dan.
04:27
So one day you come in at 8:00,
the nextSljedeći day 40 minutesminuta laterkasnije at 8:40,
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Dakle, jednog dana dođete u u 8:00,
sutradan 40 minuta kasnije u 8:40,
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the nextSljedeći day 40 minutesminuta laterkasnije at 9:20,
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Idući dan 40 minuta kasnije u 9:20,
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the nextSljedeći day at 10:00.
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dan nakon toga u 10:00.
04:37
So you keep movingkreće 40 minutesminuta everysvaki day,
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Znači, pomičete 40 minuta svaki dan,
04:41
untildo soonuskoro you're comingdolazak to work
in the middlesrednji of the night --
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sve dok ne dolazite na posao
u sred noći --
04:44
the middlesrednji of the EarthZemlja night.
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u sred Zemaljske noći.
04:46
Right? So you can imaginezamisliti
how confusingzbunjujuće that is.
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Jel'da? Možete zamisliti
kako je to zbunjujuće.
04:49
HenceStoga, the MarsMars watch.
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Stoga, sat za Mars.
04:51
(LaughterSmijeh)
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(Smijeh)
04:53
This weightsutezi in this watch
have been mechanicallymehanički adjustedprilagođen
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Ovi utezi u ovom satu
su mehanički podešeni
04:56
so that it runsradi more slowlypolako.
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da rade sporije.
04:59
Right? And we didn't startpočetak out --
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Jel'da? I nismo počeli --
05:01
I got this watch in 2004
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Dobila sam ovaj sat 2004. godine
05:03
when SpiritDuh and OpportunityPrilika,
the roversroveri back then.
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tada sa roverima Spirit i Opportunity.
05:06
We didn't startpočetak out thinkingmišljenje
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Nismo krenuli sa razmišljanjem
05:08
that we were going to need MarsMars watchessatovi.
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kako ćemo trebati Marsovske satove.
05:10
Right? We thought, OK,
we'lldobro just have the time on our computersračunala
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Jel'da? Mislili smo, u redu, samo ćemo
imati vrijeme na našim računalima
05:15
and on the missionmisija controlkontrolirati screensekrani,
and that would be enoughdovoljno.
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i na kontrolnim zaslonima misije,
i to će biti dovoljno.
05:18
Yeah, not so much.
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Da, i ne baš.
05:20
Because we weren'tnisu just
workingrad on MarsMars time,
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Jer nismo samo radili po Marsovskom
vremenu,
05:23
we were actuallyzapravo livingživot on MarsMars time.
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mi smo zapravo živjeli
po Marsovskom vremenu.
05:26
And we got just instantaneouslytrenutno confusedzbunjen
about what time it was.
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I odmah smo postali zbunjeni koliko
je sati.
05:30
So you really neededpotreban something
on your wristručni zglob to tell you:
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Tako da ste stvarno trebali nešto
na zapešću što će ti reći:
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What time is it on the EarthZemlja?
What time is it on MarsMars?
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Koliko je sati na Zemlji?
Koliko je sati na Marsu?
05:38
And it wasn'tnije just the time on MarsMars
that was confusingzbunjujuće;
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I nije samo vrijeme to što je
bilo zbunjujuće;
05:44
we alsotakođer neededpotreban to be ableu stanju
to talk to eachsvaki other about it.
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morali smo biti u mogućnosti
razgovarati jedni s drugima o tome.
05:49
So a "solSol" is a MartianMarsu day --
again, 24 hourssati and 40 minutesminuta.
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Dakle, "sol" je dan na Marsu --
ponovno, 24 sati i 40 minuta.
05:54
So when we're talkingkoji govori about something
that's happeningdogađa on the EarthZemlja,
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Dakle, kada govorimo o nečemu
što se događa na Zemlji,
05:58
we will say, todaydanas.
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reći ćemo danas.
06:00
So, for MarsMars, we say, "tosoltosol."
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Dakle, za Mars, možemo reći: "dasol."
06:03
(LaughterSmijeh)
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(Smijeh)
06:05
YesterdayJučer becamepostao "yestersolyestersol" for MarsMars.
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Jučer je postalo "jusol" za Mars.
06:10
Again, we didn't startpočetak out thinkingmišljenje,
"Oh, let's inventizumiti a languagejezik."
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Opet, nismo počeli sa razmišljanjem,
"Oh, izmislimo jezik."
06:15
It was just very confusingzbunjujuće.
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Jednostavno je bilo vrlo zbunjujuće.
06:16
I rememberzapamtiti somebodyneko
walkedhodao up to me and said,
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Sjećam se netko mi je prišao i rekao,
06:18
"I would like to do this activityaktivnost
on the vehiclevozilo tomorrowsutra, on the roverRover."
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"Želio bih napraviti ovu aktivnost
na vozilu sutra, na roveru."
06:22
And I said, "TomorrowSutra, tomorrowsutra,
or MarsMars, tomorrowsutra?"
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I rekla sam, "Sutra, sutra,
ili Mars, sutra?"
06:27
We startedpočeo this terminologyterminologija because
we neededpotreban a way to talk to eachsvaki other.
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Počeli smo sa tom terminologijom, jer
smo morali imati način da razgovaramo.
06:33
(LaughterSmijeh)
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(Smijeh)
06:34
TomorrowSutra becamepostao "nextersolnextersol" or "solorrowsolorrow."
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Sutra je postalo "idusol" ili "soltra."
06:39
Because people have differentdrugačiji preferencesosobne postavke
for the wordsriječi they use.
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Jer ljudi imaju različite preferencije
za riječi koje koriste.
06:42
Some of you mightmoć say "sodasoda"
and some of you mightmoć say "poppop."
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Neki od vas bi mogli reći "piće"
a neki od vas bi mogli reći "napitak."
06:46
So we have people who say
"nextersolnextersol" or "solorrowsolorrow."
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Dakle, imamo ljude koji kažu
"idusol" ili "soltra."
06:50
And then something that I noticedprimijetio after
a fewnekoliko yearsgodina of workingrad on these missionsmisija,
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A onda nešto što sam primijetila nakon
nekoliko godina rada na tim misijama,
06:55
was that the people who work
on the roversroveri, we say "tosoltosol."
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je da mi koji radimo sa
roverima, kažemo "susol."
07:00
The people who work on the
landedsletio missionsmisija that don't roveRove around,
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Ljudi koji rade na misijama na tlu
kojima cilj nije lutati okolo,
07:03
they say "tosoultosoul."
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kažu "susoul."
07:05
So I could actuallyzapravo tell what missionmisija
you workedradio on from your MartianMarsu accentnaglasak.
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Tako da mogu reći na kojoj ste misiji
radili po vašem Marsovskom naglasku.
07:10
(LaughterSmijeh)
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(Smijeh)
07:13
So we have the watchessatovi and the languagejezik,
and you're detectingotkrivanje a themetema here, right?
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Dakle, imamo satove i jezik,
i nazirete temu ovdje, zar ne?
07:17
So that we don't get confusedzbunjen.
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Tako da nismo zbunjeni.
07:20
But even the EarthZemlja daylightljetno
could confusezbuniti us.
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No, čak i Zemljino dnevno svjetlo
nas može zbuniti.
07:24
If you think that right now,
you've come to work
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Ako pomislite da ste upravo sada,
došli na posao
07:27
and it's the middlesrednji of the MartianMarsu night
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sredina je Marsovske noći
07:29
and there's lightsvjetlo streamingtekući in
from the windowsprozori
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a svjetlo ulazi kroz prozore,
07:32
that's going to be confusingzbunjujuće as well.
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to će isto tako biti zbunjujuće.
07:35
So you can see from
this imageslika of the controlkontrolirati roomsoba
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Dakle, na ovoj slici kontrolne sobe
možete vidjeti
07:37
that all of the blindsžaluzine are down.
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da su sve rolete spuštene.
07:39
So that there's no lightsvjetlo to distractodvratiti us.
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Tako da nema svjetla koje nam
odvraća pažnju.
07:42
The blindsžaluzine wentotišao down all over the buildingzgrada
about a weektjedan before landingslijetanje,
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Rolete su bile spuštene po cijeloj zgradi
oko tjedan dana prije slijetanja,
07:47
and they didn't go up
untildo we wentotišao off MarsMars time.
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i nisu se podigle sve dok nismo
prešli sa Marsovskog vremena.
07:51
So this alsotakođer worksdjela
for the housekuća, for at home.
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Dakle, to također vrijedi i za kuću,
po doma.
07:54
I've been on MarsMars time threetri timesputa,
and my husbandsuprug is like,
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Bila sam na Marsovskom vremena tri puta,
i moj muž je rekao,
07:57
OK, we're gettinguzimajući readyspreman for MarsMars time.
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OK, spremamo se za Marsovsko vrijeme.
07:58
And so he'llpakao put foilfolija all over the windowsprozori
and darkmrak curtainszavjese and shadesnijanse
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I tako će on staviti foliju preko prozora
i tamne zavjese i zastore
08:05
because it alsotakođer affectsutječe your familiesobitelji.
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jer ujedno djeluje i na tvoj obitelji.
08:08
And so here I was livingživot in kindljubazan of
this darkenedpotamne environmentokolina, but so was he.
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I tako sam živjela u zatamnjenom okolišu,
ali isto tako je i on.
08:13
And he'don bi gottendobivši used to it.
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I priviknuo se.
08:15
But then I would get these plaintivetužan
emailse-mail from him when he was at work.
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Ali onda bih dobila tugaljive e-mailove
od njega dok je bio na poslu.
08:19
Should I come home? Are you awakebudan?
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Trebam li doći kući? Jesi li budna?
08:22
What time is it on MarsMars?
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Koliko je sati na Marsu?
08:25
And I decidedodlučio, OK,
so he needspotrebe a MarsMars watch.
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I odlučila sam, u redu,
potreban mu je Marsovski sat.
08:28
(LaughterSmijeh)
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(Smijeh)
08:29
But of coursenaravno, it's 2016,
so there's an appapp for that.
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Ali, naravno, to je 2016. godina,
pa postoji aplikacija za to.
08:34
(LaughterSmijeh)
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(Smijeh)
08:35
So now insteadumjesto of the watchessatovi,
we can alsotakođer use our phonestelefoni.
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Tako sada umjesto satova,
možemo koristiti naše telefone.
08:40
But the impactudar on familiesobitelji
was just acrosspreko the boardodbor;
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No, utjecaj na obitelj je bio potpun;
08:44
it wasn'tnije just those of us
who were workingrad on the roversroveri
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nije bio samo na nama koji smo radili
sa roverima,
08:48
but our familiesobitelji as well.
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već i na našim obiteljima.
08:50
This is DavidDavid Oh,
one of our flightlet directorsdirektori,
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Ovo je David Oh,
jedan od naših direktora leta,
08:53
and he's at the beachplaža in LosLos AngelesAngeles
with his familyobitelj at 1:00 in the morningjutro.
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i on je na plaži u Los Angeles-u
sa svojom obitelji u 1:00 ujutro.
08:57
(LaughterSmijeh)
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08:59
So because we landedsletio in AugustKolovoz
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Jer smo sletjeli u kolovozu,
09:02
and his kidsdjeca didn't have to go back
to schoolškola untildo SeptemberRujna,
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a njegova se djeca ne moraju vratiti
u školu sve do rujna,
09:06
they actuallyzapravo wentotišao on to MarsMars time
with him for one monthmjesec.
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oni su se prebacili s njime na Marsovsko
vrijeme za cijeli jedan mjesec.
09:11
They got up 40 minutesminuta laterkasnije everysvaki day.
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Ustali su 40 minuta kasnije svakog dana.
09:16
And they were on dad'stata work scheduleraspored.
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I bili su na tatinom rasporedu.
09:18
So they livedživjeli on MarsMars time for a monthmjesec
and had these great adventuresavanture,
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Tako da su živjeli na Marsovskom vremenu
mjesec dana i doživjeli su avanture;
09:22
like going bowlingkuglanje
in the middlesrednji of the night
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poput kuglanja usred noći
09:24
or going to the beachplaža.
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ili odlaska na plažu.
09:26
And one of the things
that we all discoveredotkriven
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I jedna od stvari koju smo svi otkrili
09:29
is you can get anywherebilo kuda in LosLos AngelesAngeles
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je da možete ići bilo gdje u Los Angeles-u
09:33
at 3:00 in the morningjutro
when there's no trafficpromet.
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u 3:00 ujutro kada nema prometa.
09:37
(LaughterSmijeh)
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(Smijeh)
09:38
So we would get off work,
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Tako da bismo završili s poslom,
09:39
and we didn't want to go home
and bothersmeta our familiesobitelji,
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i nismo htjeli ići kući i uznemiravati
naše obitelji,
09:42
and we were hungrygladan, so insteadumjesto of
going locallylokalno to eatjesti something,
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a bili smo gladni, i umjesto da odemo
pojesti nešto blizu,
09:46
we'dmi bismo go, "Wait, there's this great
all-nightSvi-noć delidelikatesni proizvodi in Long BeachPlaža,
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rekli bismo, "Čekaj, ima odličan restoran
koji radi cijelu noć u Long Beachu,
09:49
and we can get there in 10 minutesminuta!"
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i možemo doći tamo za 10 minuta! "
09:52
So we would drivepogon down --
it was like the 60s, no trafficpromet.
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Tako da bismo se vozili tamo --
bilo je poput 60-ih, bez prometa.
09:54
We would drivepogon down there,
and the restaurantrestoran ownersvlasnici would go,
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Vozili bi do tamo, a vlasnici restorana
bi pitali,
09:58
"Who are you people?
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"Tko ste vi ljudi?
10:01
And why are you at my restaurantrestoran
at 3:00 in the morningjutro?"
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I zašto ste u mom restoranu
u 3:00 ujutro?"
10:05
So they camedošao to realizeostvariti
that there were these packsomot of MartiansMarsovci,
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Spoznali su da postoje horde Marsovaca.
10:11
roamingroaminga the LALA freewaysAutocesta,
in the middlesrednji of the night --
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lutajući autocestama LA-a usred noći --
10:17
in the middlesrednji of the EarthZemlja night.
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usred Zemaljske noći.
10:19
And we did actuallyzapravo
startpočetak callingzvanje ourselvessebe MartiansMarsovci.
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I počeli smo se zapravo
nazivati Marsovcima.
10:24
So those of us who were on MarsMars time
would referuputiti to ourselvessebe as MartiansMarsovci,
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Dakle, mi koji bismo bili na Marsovskom
vremenu bi se nazivali Marsovcima,
10:30
and everyonesvatko elsedrugo as EarthlingsZemljani.
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a sve ostale bi zvali Zemljanima.
10:33
(LaughterSmijeh)
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(Smijeh)
10:34
And that's because when you're movingkreće
a time-zonevremenske zone everysvaki day,
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A to je zato kada pomičete vremensku zonu
svaki dan,
10:40
you startpočetak to really feel separatedodvojen
from everyonesvatko elsedrugo.
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počinjete se osjećati odvojeno od
svih ostalih.
10:45
You're literallydoslovce in your ownvlastiti worldsvijet.
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Doslovno ste u svom svijetu.
10:50
So I have this buttondugme on that sayskaže,
"I survivedpreživio MarsMars time. SolSol 0-90."
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Dakle, imam ovaj gumb na kojem piše
"Preživjela Marsovsko vrijeme. Sol 0-90."
10:57
And there's a pictureslika of it
up on the screenzaslon.
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A gore na zaslonu je slika tog gumba.
11:00
So the reasonrazlog we got these buttonstipke
is because we work on MarsMars time
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Razlog zašto smo dobili te gumbove je
jer radimo po Marsovskom vremenu
11:06
in ordernarudžba to be as efficientučinkovit as possiblemoguće
with the roverRover on MarsMars,
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kako bi bili što učinkovitiji sa roverima
na Marsu,
11:11
to make the bestnajbolje use of our time.
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kako bi najbolje upotrijebili
naše vrijeme.
11:13
But we don't stayboravak on MarsMars time
for more than threetri to fourčetiri monthsmjeseci.
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Ali ne ostajemo na Marsovskom vremenu
duže od tri do četiri mjeseca.
11:17
EventuallyNa kraju, we'lldobro movepotez to a modifiedpromjene MarsMars
time, whichkoji is what we're workingrad now.
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Na kraju, prebacit ćemo se na modificirano
Marsovsko vrijeme, kako sad radimo.
11:22
And that's because it's hardteško on
your bodiestjelesa, it's hardteško on your familiesobitelji.
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A to je zato jer uzima danak na vaše
tijelo, na vaše obitelji.
11:27
In factčinjenica, there were sleepspavati researchersistraživači
who actuallyzapravo were studyingučenje us
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Zapravo, bili su znanstvenici iz polja
spavanja, koji su nas proučavali
11:31
because it was so unusualneuobičajen for humansljudi
to try to extendprodužiti theirnjihov day.
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jer je bilo toliko neobično za ljude
nastojati produžiti svoj dan.
11:37
And they had about 30 of us
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I imali su nas oko 30
11:38
that they would do
sleepspavati deprivationlišavanje experimentspokusi on.
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nad kojima će provoditi eksperimente
nedostatka sna.
11:42
So I would come in and take the testtest
and I fellpao asleepzaspao in eachsvaki one.
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Tako bih došla i uzela test
i zaspala bih u svakom od njih.
11:45
And that was because, again,
this eventuallyeventualno becomespostaje hardteško on your bodytijelo.
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A to je zato jer, ponovno,
to postane teško za vaše tijelo.
11:52
Even thoughiako it was a blasteksplozija.
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Iako je bilo potpuno fora.
11:55
It was a hugeogroman bondingvezivanje experienceiskustvo
with the other membersčlanovi on the teamtim,
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To je bilo veliko iskustvo povezivanja
s drugim članovima u timu,
12:00
but it is difficulttežak to sustainodržati.
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ali je to teško održati.
12:04
So these roverRover missionsmisija are our first
stepskoraci out into the solarsolarni systemsistem.
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Tako su te misije roverima naši prvi
koraci u Sunčevom sustavu.
12:10
We are learningučenje how to liveživjeti
on more than one planetplaneta.
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Učimo kako živjeti
na više od jednog planeta.
12:15
We are changingmijenjanje our perspectiveperspektiva
to becomepostati multi-planetarymulti planetarni.
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Mijenjamo našu perspektivu kako bismo
postali multi-planetarni.
12:20
So the nextSljedeći time you see
a StarZvijezda WarsRatovi moviefilm,
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Dakle, sljedeći put kada vidite
Star Wars film,
12:23
and there are people going
from the DagobahDagobah systemsistem to TatooineTatooine,
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i postoje ljudi koji idu od Dagobah
sustava do Tatooine,
12:27
think about what it really meanssredstva to have
people spreadširenje out so fardaleko.
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razmislite što to zapravo znači imati
ljudi proširene toliko daleko.
12:32
What it meanssredstva in termsUvjeti
of the distancesudaljenosti betweenizmeđu them,
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Što to znači u smislu
udaljenosti između njih,
12:36
how they will startpočetak to feel
separateodvojen from eachsvaki other
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kako će se početi osjećati
udaljenima jedni od drugih
12:39
and just the logisticsLogistika of the time.
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i o samoj logistici vremena.
12:43
We have not sentposlao people
to MarsMars yetjoš, but we hopenada to.
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Još uvijek nismo poslali ljude
na Mars, ali se nadamo da hoćemo.
12:48
And betweenizmeđu companiestvrtke like SpaceXSpaceX and NASANASA
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A između tvrtki poput SpaceX-a i NASA-e
12:52
and all of the internationalmeđunarodna
spaceprostor agenciesagencije of the worldsvijet,
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i svih međunarodnih svemirskih agencija
na svijetu,
12:55
we hopenada to do that
in the nextSljedeći fewnekoliko decadesdesetljeća.
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nadamo se da ćemo to učiniti
u sljedećih nekoliko desetljeća.
12:59
So soonuskoro we will have people on MarsMars,
and we trulyuistinu will be multi-planetarymulti planetarni.
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Dakle, uskoro ćemo imati ljude na Marsu,
i doista ćemo biti multi-planetarni.
13:06
And the youngmladi boydječak or the youngmladi girldjevojka
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A mladi momak ili mlada djevojka
13:08
who will be going to MarsMars could be
in this audiencepublika or listeningslušanje todaydanas.
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koji će ići na Mars bi mogli biti u ovoj
publici ili slušati danas ovaj govor.
13:16
I have wanted to work at JPLJPL
on these missionsmisija sinceod I was 14 yearsgodina oldstar
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Htjela sam raditi u Laboratoriju za Mlazni
Pogon na tim misijama otkad sam imala 14
13:21
and I am privilegedprivilegiran to be a partdio of it.
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i imam privilegiju biti dio toga.
13:24
And this is a remarkableizvanredan time
in the spaceprostor programprogram,
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I ovo je izvanredno vrijeme
u svemirskom programu,
13:28
and we are all in this journeyputovanje togetherzajedno.
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i svi smo na tom putovanju zajedno.
13:31
So the nextSljedeći time you think
you don't have enoughdovoljno time in your day,
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Zato sljedeći put kada mislite kako
nemate dovoljno vremena u svom danu,
13:36
just rememberzapamtiti, it's all a matterstvar
of your EarthlyZemaljski perspectiveperspektiva.
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sjetite se, to je samo stvar vaše
Zemaljske perspektive.
13:41
Thank you.
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Hvala vam.
13:42
(ApplausePljesak)
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(Pljesak)
Translated by Tilen Pigac
Reviewed by Ivan Stamenkovic

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Nagin Cox - Spacecraft operations engineer
Nagin Cox explores Mars as part of the team that operates NASA's rovers.

Why you should listen

Nagin Cox has been exploring since she decided as a teenager that she wanted to work at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She was born in Bangalore, India, and grew up in Kansas City, Kansas, and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Her experiences as a child in a Muslim household showed her how easily we separate ourselves based on gender, race or nationality, and it inspired her to do something that brings people together instead of dividing them. The Space Program helps the world "look up" and remember that we are one world. Thus, she has known from the time she was 14 years old that she wanted to work on missions of robotic space exploration.  

Cox realized her childhood dream and has been a spacecraft operations engineer at NASA/JPL for over 20 years. She has held leadership and system engineering positions on interplanetary robotic missions including the Galileo mission to Jupiter, the Mars Exploration Rovers, the Kepler exoplanet hunter, InSight and the Mars Curiosity Rover.

In 2015, Cox was honored as the namesake for Asteroid 14061 by its discovers. She has also received the NASA Exceptional Service Medal and two NASA Exceptional Achievement Medals. She is a U.S. Department of State STEM Speaker and has spoken to audiences around the world on the stories of the people behind the missions. She has also served on Cornell University’s President's Council for Cornell Women.

Before her time at JPL, Cox served for 6 years in the US Air Force including duty as a Space Operations Officer at NORAD/US Space Command. She holds engineering degrees from Cornell University and the Air Force Institute of Technology as well as a psychology degree from Cornell. (Sometimes she is not sure which one she uses more: the engineering degree or the psychology degree.)

Cox is currently a Tactical Mission Lead on the Curiosity Rover, and every day at NASA/JPL exploring space is as rewarding as the first. You can contact her at nagincox(at)outlook.com.

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