ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Chris Hadfield - Astronaut
Tweeting (and covering Bowie) from the International Space Station last year, Colonel Chris Hadfield reminded the world how much we love space.

Why you should listen

“Good morning, Earth.” That is how Colonel Chris Hadfield, writing on Twitter, woke up the world every day while living aboard the International Space Station. In his five months on the ISS (including three as commander) Hadfield became a worldwide sensation, using social media to make outer space accessible and infusing a sense of wonder into the collective consciousness. Check out his cover version of David Bowie's "Space Oddity," sung while floating in his tin can, far above the world ...

Now back on our home planet, he continues to share the excitement of science and space travel. He's the author of the 2014 book An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth. As he says, "There are no wishy-washy astronauts. You don't get up there by being uncaring and blasé. And whatever gave you the sense of tenacity and purpose to get that far in life is absolutely reaffirmed and deepened by the experience itself." A photography geek, in 2014 he also published an album of his photos from the shuttle: You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes.

Hadfield is also a font of Canadian firsts: He was Canada’s first shuttle mission specialist, and the first Canadian to board a Russian spacecraft (he helped build the Mir), do a spacewalk (he's done two), and of course, to command the International Space Station.

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Chris Hadfield: What I learned from going blind in space

Chris Hadfield: Cfare mesova kur u verbova ne hapesire

Filmed: 2014-03-18

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Ka nje shprehje astronautesh qe thote: Ne hapesire, "nuk ka asnje problem kaq te veshtire te cilin ti nuk mund ta veshtiresosh edhe me." Keshtu, si perballesh me kompleksitetin, presionin e plote, si te perballesh me situata te frikshme dhe te rrezikshme? Koloneli ne pension, Chris Hadfield, vizaton nje portret te gjalle sesi te pergatitesh per me te keqen ne hapesire (dhe ne jete) - dhe fillon me ecjen ne nje rrjete merimange. Shikojeni per te perjetuar nje performance te vecante hapesinore.

Chris Hadfield - Astronaut
Tweeting (and covering Bowie) from the International Space Station last year, Colonel Chris Hadfield reminded the world how much we love space. Full bio

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00:12

What's the scariest thing you've ever done?

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Cila eshte gjeja me e frikshme
qe keni bere ndonjehere?

00:17

Or another way to say it is,

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Ose nje menyre tjeter
per te thene kete eshte,

00:20

what's the most dangerous
thing that you've ever done?

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cila eshte gjeja me e rrezikshme
qe keni bere ndonjehere?

00:24

And why did you do it?

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Dhe perse e bete ate?

00:28

I know what the most dangerous thing is

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Une, e di se cila esht
gjeja me e rrezikshme qe

00:30

that I've ever done

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qe kam bere ndonjehere

00:31

because NASA does the math.

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sepse NASA i ka bere llogaritjet.

00:33

You look back to the first five shuttle launches,

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Shikoni pas tek pese leshimet e para
te anijeve kozmike,

00:35

the odds of a catastrophic event

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gjasat qe te ndodhte
nje ngjarje katastrofike

00:38

during the first five shuttle launches

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gjate pese leshimeve te para

00:40

was one in nine.

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ishin nje ne nente.

00:42

And even when I first flew in the shuttle

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Madje edhe kur une fluturova
per here te pare me anije kozmike

00:44

back in 1995, 74 shuttle flight,

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ne 1995, fluturimi i 74 me anije kozmike,

00:47

the odds were still now that we look back

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gjasat ishin, tani qe ne shohim pas,

00:49

about one in 38 or so -- one in 35, one in 40.

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rreth nje ne 38, nje ne 35, nje ne 40

00:55

Not great odds, so it's a really interesting day

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Jo nje rastesi e madhe, keshtu qe eshte
nje dite shume interesante

00:57

when you wake up at the Kennedy Space Center

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kur zgjohesh ne Qendren Hapesinore Kenedi

01:00

and you're going to go to space that day

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dhe ti e kupton se do shkosh
ne hapesire ate dite

01:02

because you realize by the end of the day

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sepse nga fundi i saj ti kupton

01:04

you're either going to be floating
effortlessly, gloriously in space,

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se do te jesh ose duke fluturuar,
lehtesisht dhe triumfues ne hapesire,

01:07

or you'll be dead.

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ose do te vdesesh.

01:10

You go into, at the Kennedy Space Center,

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Ti shkon, ne Qendren Hapesinore Kenedi,

01:14

the suit-up room,

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ne dhomen e kostumeve,

01:16

the same room that our childhood heroes

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ne te njejten dhome
ku heronjte e tu te femijerise

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got dressed in,

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visheshin,

01:21

that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin got suited in

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aty ku jane veshur dhe Neil Armstrong
dhe Buzz Aldrin

01:24

to go ride the Apollo rocket to the moon.

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per te shkuar ne Hene me anijen Apollo.

01:26

And I got my pressure suit built around me

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Dhe kam rreth meje kostumin e presionit

01:30

and rode down outside in the van

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dhe dal jashte me furgon

01:34

heading out to the launchpad --

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e i drejtohem vendit te nisjes--

01:35

in the Astro van -- heading out to the launchpad,

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ne furgonin Astro -- duke u drejtuar
drejt vendit te nisjes,

01:38

and as you come around the corner

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dhe teksa kthehesh ne kthinen

01:40

at the Kennedy Space Center,

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e Qendres Hapesinore Kenedi,

01:42

it's normally predawn, and in the distance,

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eshte normalisht para agimit,
dhe ne distance,

01:46

lit up by the huge xenon lights,

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ndricuar nga drita te stermedha neoni,

01:49

is your spaceship --

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eshte anija jote kozmike --

01:52

the vehicle that is going to take you off the planet.

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mjeti qe do te largoje nga planeti.

01:56

The crew is sitting in the Astro van

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Ekuipazhi eshte ulur ne furgonin Astro

01:59

sort of hushed, almost holding hands,

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te heshtur, pothuaj te kapur perdore

02:01

looking at that as it gets bigger and bigger.

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duke pare ate qe po behet
gjithmone e me e madhe

02:03

We ride the elevator up

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ne ngjitemi siper me ashensor

02:06

and we crawl in, on your hands and knees

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dhe perkulemi, kembadorazi

02:08

into the spaceship, one at a time,

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drejt anijes kozmike, njeri pas tjetrit,

02:10

and you worm your way up

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dhe zhvendosesh

02:11

into your chair and plunk yourself down

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drejt karriges tende dhe perthyhesh

02:14

on your back.

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mbrapa.

02:16

And the hatch is closed,

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Dhe kapanxha eshte mbyllur,

02:20

and suddenly,

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dhe papritmas,

02:22

what has been a lifetime of both dreams and denial

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ajo qe ka qene gjate gjithe jetes
enderra dhe refuzime

02:27

is becoming real,

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po behet realitet,

02:28

something that I dreamed about,

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dicka per te cilen une kam enderruar,

02:29

in fact, that I chose to do when I was nine years old,

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ne fakt, ajo qe une zgjodha te bej
kur isha nente vjec,

02:32

is now suddenly within not too many minutes

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tani papritmas per disa minuta

02:35

of actually happening.

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do te ndodhe ne te vertete.

02:37

In the astronaut business --

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Ne biznesin e astronauteve--

02:40

the shuttle is a very complicated vehicle;

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anija kozmike eshte
nje mjet shume i komplikuar;

02:42

it's the most complicated flying machine ever built.

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eshte makina fluturuese
me e komplikuar e ndertuar ndonjehere.

02:46

And in the astronaut business,
we have a saying, which is,

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Ne biznesin e astronauteve,
ne kemi nje thenie, e cila eshte,

02:49

there is no problem so bad

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nuk ka problem kaq te keq

02:51

that you can't make it worse.

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qe ti nuk mund ta besh edhe me keq.

02:53

(Laughter)

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(Te qeshura)

02:55

And so you're very conscious in the cockpit;

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Dhe keshtu jeni i ndergjegjshem ne kabine;

02:58

you're thinking about all of the things

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po mendoni per te gjitha gjerat

02:59

that you might have to do,

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qe do te beni,

03:00

all the switches and all the
wickets you have to go through.

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te gjtha celesat dhe hapat
qe duhet te kaloni.

03:03

And as the time gets closer and closer,

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Dhe nderkohe qe koha afrohet

03:05

this excitement is building.

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emocionet shtohen.

03:06

And then about three and a
half minutes before launch,

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Dhe tre minuta e gjysem perpara leshimit,

03:09

the huge nozzles on the back,

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hunda e madhe ne pjesen e pasme,

03:10

like the size of big church bells,

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me permasat e zileve te medha te kishave,

03:12

swing back and forth

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lekundet para dhe mbrapa

03:13

and the mass of them is such

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dhe masa e tyre eshte kaq e madhe

03:15

that it sways the whole vehicle,

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sa lekund te gjithe mjetin,

03:16

like the vehicle is alive underneath you,

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sikur mjeti te ishte gjalle poshte teje,

03:19

like an elephant getting up
off its knees or something.

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ashtu si nje elefant qe ngrihet ne gjunje.

03:23

And then about 30 seconds before launch,

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Dhe me pas, 30 sekonda perpara leshimit,

03:25

the vehicle is completely alive --

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anija eshte plotesisht e gjalle --

03:27

it is ready to go --

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gati per tu nisur --

03:28

the APUs are running,

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APU po punojne,

03:29

the computers are all self-contained,

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kompjuterat jane vete-funksionues

03:31

it's ready to leave the planet.

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gati per tu larguar nga planeti.

03:33

And 15 seconds before launch, this happens:

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Dhe 15 sekonda perpara leshimit ndodh kjo:

03:36

(Video) Voice: 12, 11, 10,

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(Video) Zeri: 12, 11, 10,

03:40

nine, eight, seven, six --

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nente, tete, shtate, gjashte --

03:44

(Space shuttle preparing for takeoff)

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(Anija kozmike pergatitet per t'u ngritur)

03:47

-- start, two, one,

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-- fillo, dy, nje,

03:50

booster ignition, and liftoff of
the space shuttle Discovery,

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ndizen motoret,
dhe ngrihet anija kozmike Discovery,

03:54

returning to the space station, paving the way ...

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duke u kthyer tek stacioni hapesinor,
duke hapur rrugen

03:58

(Space shuttle taking off)

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(Anija kozmike po ngrihet)

04:11

Chris Hadfield: It is incredibly powerful

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CH: Eshte pabesueshmerisht e fuqishme

04:13

to be on board one of these things.

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te jesh ne bord te njeres
prej ketyre gjerave.

04:15

You are in the grip of something

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Ju jeni ne kthetrat e dickaje

04:17

that is vastly more powerful than yourself.

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qe eshte me e fuqishme sesa ju.

04:19

It's shaking you so hard you can't focus

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Po te lekund kaq fort
saqe nuk mund te fokusohesh

04:22

on the instruments in front of you.

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tek instrumentat perpara teje.

04:23

It's like you're in the jaws of some enormous dog

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Eshte sikur te jesh tek nofullat
e nje qeni shume te madh

04:26

and there's a foot in the small of your back

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dhe eshte nje kembe mbrapa kurrizit tend

04:29

pushing you into space,

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qe te shtyn drejt hapesires,

04:30

accelerating wildly straight up,

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e cila e shton shpejtesine drejt,

04:32

shouldering your way through the air,

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duke te shtyre drejt ajrit,

04:34

and you're in a very complex place --

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dhe ti je ne nje vend shume kompleks--

04:36

paying attention, watching the vehicle

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duke i kushtuar vemendje, duke pare mjetin

04:38

go through each one of its wickets

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duke kaluar nje e nga nje secilen prej tyre

04:40

with a steadily increasing smile on your face.

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me nje buzeqeshje gjithmone
e ne rritje ne fytyren tende.

04:42

After two minutes, those solid rockets explode off

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Pas dy minutash,
ato raketa te qendrueshme shperthejne

04:46

and then you just have the liquid engines,

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dhe me pas ke vetem motoret e lengshem,

04:48

the hydrogen and oxygen,

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hidrogjenin dhe oksigjenin,

04:49

and it's as if you're in a dragster

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eshte sikur te jeni ne nje pershpejtues

04:51

with your foot to the floor

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me kembet ne dysheme

04:53

and accelerating like you've never accelerated.

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dhe duke e rritur shpejtesine
pa e perdorur pershpejtuesin.

04:55

You get lighter and lighter,

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Behesh gjithmone e me i lehte,

04:56

the force gets on us heavier and heavier.

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forcat behen gjithmone e me te forta.

04:59

It feels like

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Ndjehet sikur

05:00

someone's pouring cement on you or something.

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dikush po hedh cimento mbi ty
ose dicka te ngjashme.

05:02

Until finally,

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Dhe ne fund,

05:04

after about eight minutes and 40 seconds or so,

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pas rreth tete minutash e 40 seconda

05:06

we are finally at exactly the right altitude,

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ne jemi me ne fund ne lartesine ekzakte,

05:08

exactly the right speed,

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me shpejtesine ekzakte,

05:10

the right direction, the engine shut off,

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ne drejtimin e duhur, motoret jane fikur,

05:14

and we're weightless.

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dhe ne jemi te papeshe.

05:16

And we're alive.

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Dhe ne jemi gjalle.

05:19

It's an amazing experience.

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Eshte nje ekperience e pabesueshme.

05:20

But why would we take that risk?

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Por perse do ta ndermerrnim
nje risk te tille?

05:23

Why would you do something that dangerous?

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Pse do ta benit nje gje kaq te rrezikshme?

05:27

In my case the answer is fairly straightforward.

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Ne rastin tim
pergjigja eshte e drejteperdrejte.

05:29

I was inspired as a youngster

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Une jam inspiruar qe ne femijeri

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that this was what I wanted to do.

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se kjo ishte ajo qe doja te beja.

05:34

I watched the first people walk on the moon

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Shikoja njerezit e pare qe shkuan ne hene

05:36

and to me, it was just an obvious thing --

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dhe per mua ishte nje gje e qarte --

05:38

I want to somehow turn myself into that.

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Doja qe ne njefare menyre te kthehesha
ne dicka te tille.

05:41

But the real question is,

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Por pyetja reale eshte,

05:42

how do you deal with the danger of it

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sesi e perballon nje rrezik te tille

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and the fear that comes from it?

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dhe friken qe vjen me te?

05:47

How do you deal with fear versus danger?

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Sesi perballesh me friken kunder rrezikut?

05:51

And having the goal in mind,
thinking about where it might lead,

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Dhe te kesh nje qellim ne koke,
te mendosh se ku do te te coje kjo,

05:54

directed me to a life of

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me ka drejtuar mua ne nje jete qe

05:56

looking at all of the small details to allow

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e shikoja te gjitha detajet e vogla

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this to become possible,

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qe te lejoja qe kjo te behej e mundur,

06:01

to be able to launch and go
help build a space station

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te mund te leshohesha e te shkoja te
ndihmoj ne ndertimin e stacionit hapesinor

06:04

where you are on board a million-pound creation

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kudo ku je ne bordin e nje krijimi
me nje peshe prej 450 mije kg

06:06

that's going around the world at five miles a second,

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qe shkon perrreth botes
me nje shpejtesi 5 milje ne sekonde,

06:09

eight kilometers a second,

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tete kilometra ne sekonde

06:10

around the world 16 times a day,

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perreth botes 16 here ne dite,

06:13

with experiments on board that are teaching us

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me eksperimente ne borde
te cilet na mesojne

06:17

what the substance of the universe is made of

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se nga cfare substancash
eshte i perbere universi

06:19

and running 200 experiments inside.

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dhe te realizosh 200 ekperimente brenda.

06:22

But maybe even more importantly,

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Por ajo qe ka edhe me shume rendesi,

06:23

allowing us to see the world in a way

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e cila na lejon ne te shikojme
boten ne nje menyre

06:27

that is impossible through any other means,

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qe eshte e pamundur
nepermjet menyrave te tjera,

06:30

to be able to look down

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te jemi ne gjendje te shohim poshte

06:31

and have -- if your jaw could drop, it would --

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dhe te kemi--nese nofullat tuaja
mund te binin, do te binin--

06:35

the jaw-dropping gorgeousness of the turning orb

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renia e nofullave
ne orbiten rrotulluese magjepese

06:39

like a self-propelled art gallery of fantastic,

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si nje galeri fantasike arti vetelevizese,

06:43

constantly changing beauty that is the world itself.

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e cila ne menyre konstante ndryshon
bukurine qe eshte vete bota.

06:47

And you see, because of the speed,

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Dhe per shkak te shpejtesise, ju shikoni

06:49

a sunrise or a sunset every 45 minutes

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nje lindje dhe nje perendim dielli
cdo 45 minuta

06:52

for half a year.

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per gjysme e vitit.

06:56

And the most magnificent part of all that

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Dhe pjesa me magjike e gjithe kesaj eshte

06:58

is to go outside on a spacewalk.

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te shkosh jashte per nje ecje ne hapesire.

07:01

You are in a one-person spaceship

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Je ne nje anije kozmike per nje person

07:06

that is your spacesuit,

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qe eshte kostumi yt,

07:08

and you're going through space with the world.

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dhe po shkon rreth hapesires
bashke me boten.

07:12

It's an entirely different perspective,

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Eshte nje perspektive plotesisht ndryshe,

07:13

you're not looking up at the universe,

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ti nuk po shikon universin,

07:15

you and the Earth are going
through the universe together.

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ti dhe Toka po shkoni
drejt universit se bashku.

07:18

And you're holding on with one hand,

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Dhe je duke u mbajtur me nje dore,

07:20

looking at the world turn beside you.

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duke veshtruar boten
e cila rrotullohet prane teje.

07:22

It's roaring silently

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Eshte nje zhurme e shurdhet

07:26

with color and texture as it pours by

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me ngjyra dhe tekstura te cilat derdhen

07:29

mesmerizingly next to you.

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duke te te hipnotizuar.

07:31

And if you can tear your eyes away from that

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Dhe nese mundesh te largosh syte nga kjo

07:33

and you look under your arm

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dhe sheh poshte krahut tend

07:35

down at the rest of everything,

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poshte gjithckaje,

07:37

it's unfathomable blackness,

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eshte nje erresire e padepertueshme,

07:42

with a texture you feel like you
could stick your hand into.

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me nje teksture te cilen e ndjen sikur
mund te vendosesh duart ne te.

07:45

and you are holding on with one hand,

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dhe ti po mbahesh me nje dore,

07:48

one link to the other seven billion people.

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dhe tjetra te lidh
me shtate miliard njerez.

07:50

And I was outside on my first spacewalk

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Une isha jashte ne shetitjen time
te pare ne hapesire

07:52

when my left eye went blind,

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kur u verbova ne syrin tim te majte,

07:56

and I didn't know why.

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dhe nuk e dija pse.

07:58

Suddenly my left eye slammed shut

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Papritmas syri im i majte u erresua

08:00

in great pain

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ne dhimbje te medha

08:01

and I couldn't figure out why my eye wasn't working.

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dhe nuk mund te zbuloja se pse
syri im nuk po punonte.

08:05

I was thinking, what do I do next?

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Po mendoja, cfare te bej tani?

08:06

I thought, well maybe that's why we have two eyes,

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Mendova, prandaj kemi dy sy,

08:08

so I kept working.

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keshtu qe vazhdova te punoja.

08:10

But unfortunately, without gravity,

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Por fatkeqesisht, pa gravitet,

08:13

tears don't fall.

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lotet nuk bien.

08:15

So you just get a bigger and
bigger ball of whatever that is

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Keshtu qe merr nje top gjithmone
e me te madh apo cfaredo qe eshte

08:18

mixed with your tears on your eye

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te perzier me lotet e tu

08:20

until eventually, the ball becomes so big

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derisa rrjedhimisht,
topi behet gjithmone e me i madh

08:22

that the surface tension takes it
across the bridge of your nose

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saqe tensioni i siperfaqjes e con ate
drejt hundes tende

08:25

like a tiny little waterfall

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si nje ujvare te vogel

08:27

and goes "goosh" into your other eye,

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dhe shkon "drejt" ne syrin tjeter,

08:29

and now I was completely blind

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dhe tani isha komplet i verbuar

08:32

outside the spaceship.

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jashte anijes kozmike.

08:35

So what's the scariest thing you've ever done?

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E pra, cila eshte gjeja me e frikshme
qe keni bere ndonjehere?

08:38

(Laughter)

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(Te qeshura)

08:42

Maybe it's spiders.

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Ndoshta jane merimangat.

08:43

A lot of people are afraid of spiders.

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Shume njerez kane frike nga merimangat.

08:45

I think you should be afraid of spiders --

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Une mendoj se duhet te keni frike
nga merimangat --

08:46

spiders are creepy and they've got long, hairy legs,

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merimangat jane te frikshme
dhe kane kembe te gjata, me push

08:49

and spiders like this one, the brown recluse --

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dhe merimanga si kjo, merimanga violine --
eshte e tmerrshme.

08:52

it's horrible. If a brown recluse bites you,

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Nese nje merimange e tille ju pickon,

08:55

you end with one of these
horrible, big necrotic things

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perfundon me ndonje
nga keto gjerat nekrotike te tmerrshme

08:56

on your leg

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ne kemben tuaj

08:57

and there might be one right now

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dhe mund te jete njera tani

08:59

sitting on the chair behind you, in fact.

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e ulur ne karrigen mbrapa jush ne fakt.

09:02

And how do you know?

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Dhe si e dini?

09:03

And so a spider lands on you,

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Keshtu qe nje merimange te pickon

09:04

and you go through this great, spasmy attack

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dhe ti shkon drejt kesaj gjeje fantastike,
nje atak spazme

09:06

because spiders are scary.

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sepse merimangat jane te frikshme.

09:08

But then you could say, well
is there a brown recluse

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Pastaj ju mund te thoni,
eshte nje merimange violine

09:10

sitting on the chair beside me or not?

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e ulur ne karrigen pas meje apo jo?

09:12

I don't know. Are there brown recluses here?

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Nuk e di. A ka merimanga violine ketu?

09:14

So if you actually do the research, you find out that

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Nese beni kerkim, do te zbuloni se

09:17

in the world there are about
50,000 different types of spiders,

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ne bote ka rreth 50 mije
lloje te ndryshme merimangash,

09:20

and there are about two dozen that are venomous

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dhe ka rreth dy dyzina
te cilat jane helmuese

09:22

out of 50,000.

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nga 50 mije.

09:24

And if you're in Canada, because of the cold winters

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Dhe nese je ne Kanada,
per shkak te dimrave te ftohte

09:26

here in B.C., there's about 720,
730 different types of spiders

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perpara lindjes se Krishtit, ishin rreth
720, 730 tipe te ndryshme merimangash

09:30

and there's one -- one --

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dhe ja ku eshte nje -- nje --

09:32

that is venomous,

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qe eshte helmuese,

09:33

and its venom isn't even fatal,

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dhe helmi i saj nuk eshte fatal,

09:35

it's just kind of like a nasty sting.

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eshte thjesht nje shpim i shpifur.

09:37

And that spider -- not only that,

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Dhe ajo merimange -- jo vetem kaq,

09:39

but that spider has beautiful markings on it,

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po merimanga ka shenja te bukura,
eshte si "une jam e rrezikshme,

09:42

it's like "I'm dangerous. I got a big radiation
symbol on my back, it's the black widow."

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kam nje simbol te madh rrrezatimi
ne shpine, eshte vejusha e zeze."

09:46

So, if you're even slightly careful

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Keshtu qe nese je pak i kujdesshem

09:48

you can avoid running into the one spider --

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mund te shmangesh
te ndeshesh me nje merimange --

09:51

and it lives close the ground,

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ajo ndodhet ne dysheme,

09:53

you're walking along, you are
never going to go through

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ti po ecen aty,
ti nuk do te ndeshesh kurre

09:55

a spider web where a black widow bites you.

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me nje rrjete merimange
kur nje merimange e zeze te pickon.

09:57

Spider webs like this, it doesn't build those,

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Rrjeta te tilla te merimangave,
nuk i nderton ato siper,

09:59

it builds them down in the corners.

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i nderton ato poshte neper cepa.

10:01

And its a black widow because

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Dhe eshte merimange e zeze sepse

10:02

the female spider eats the male;

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merimanga e zeze ha merimangen mashkull;

10:04

it doesn't care about you.

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nuk interesohet per ty.

10:06

So in fact,

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Keshtu ne fakt,

10:07

the next time you walk into a spiderweb,

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heren tjeter qe do te ecesh
ne nje rrjet merimange,

10:09

you don't need to panic and go
with your caveman reaction.

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nuk duhet te shkosh ne panik
dhe te reagosh si nje njeri shpelle.

10:13

The danger is entirely different than the fear.

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Rreziku eshte totalisht i ndryshem nga frika,

10:18

How do you get around it, though?

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Si sillesh ti, pavaresisht?

10:20

How do you change your behavior?

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Si e ndryshon sjelljen tende?

10:21

Well, next time you see a spiderweb,

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Heren tjeter qe ndeshesh
me nje rrjete merimange,

10:23

have a good look, make sure
it's not a black widow spider,

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shikoje mire, sigurohu qe nuk eshte
nje merimange e zeze,

10:25

and then walk into it.

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dhe me pas ec mbi te.

10:27

And then you see another spiderweb

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Dhe me pas shikon nje rrjete tjeter merimange

10:29

and walk into that one.

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dhe ecen mbi te perseri.

10:30

It's just a little bit of fluffy stuff. It's not a big deal.

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Eshte thjesht nje gje me gezof.
Nuk eshte nje gje kushedi cfare.

10:32

And the spider that may come out is
no more threat to you than a lady bug

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Dhe merimanga qe mund te dale prej saj
nuk eshte nje kercenim per ty

10:36

or a butterfly.

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sesa c'eshte nje buburrec apo nje flutur.

10:38

And then I guarantee you if you
walk through 100 spiderwebs

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Dhe me pas une ju garantoj se nese
ecni drejt 100 rrjeta merimangash

10:41

you will have changed

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ti do te kesh ndryshuar

10:43

your fundamental human behavior,

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sjelljen tende themelore njerezore,

10:45

your caveman reaction,

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reagimin tend si njeri shpelle,

10:47

and you will now be able to walk
in the park in the morning

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dhe tani do te jesh ne gjendje te ecesh
ne park ne mengjes

10:50

and not worry about that spiderweb --

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dhe te mos shqetesohesh
nga rrjetat e merimangave --

10:52

or into your grandma's attic or whatever,

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apo ne qilarin e gjyshes apo kudo,

10:54

into your own basement.

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ne bodrumin tend.

10:59

And you can apply this to anything.

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Dhe mund ta perdoresh kete kudo.

11:03

If you're outside on a spacewalk and you're blinded,

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Nese ecen ne hapesire dhe je i verber,

11:05

your natural reaction would be to panic, I think.

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reagimi yt me natyror
do te jete paniku, mendoj.

11:08

It would make you nervous and worried.

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Do te te bej ty nervoz
dhe do te te shqetesoje.

11:10

But we had considered all the venom,

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Por ne kemi marre ne konsiderate
te gjithe helmin,

11:13

and we had practiced with a whole
variety of different spiderwebs.

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dhe jemi praktikuar me lloje te ndryshme
dhe te shumellojshme rrjete merimangash.

11:15

We knew everything there is to know

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Ne dime gjithcka qe eshte per tu ditur

11:17

about the spacesuit

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per kostumet hapesinore

11:19

and we trained underwater thousands of times.

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dhe jemi trajnuar nen uje me mijera here.

11:21

And we don't just practice things going right,

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dhe ne nuk praktikohemi me gjerat
qe shkojne mire,

11:23

we practice things going wrong all the time,

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ne praktikohemi me gjera
qe shkojne keq gjate gjithe kohes,

11:26

so that you are constantly walking
through those spiderwebs.

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keshtu qe jeni gjate gjithe kohes
duke ecur mbi keto rrjeta merimangash

11:29

And not just underwater, but
also in virtual reality labs

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Dhe jo vetem nen uje, por edhe
ne laboratore me nje realitet virtual

11:32

with the helmet and the gloves

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me helmeta dhe me dorashka

11:33

so you feel like it's realistic.

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keshtu qe ju e ndjeni qe eshte reale.

11:35

So when you finally actually
get outside on a spacewalk,

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Keshtu qe kur me ne fund
del me te vertete ne hapesire,

11:38

it feels much different than it would

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do te ndjehej shume here me ndryshe
sesa do te ndjehej

11:40

if you just went out first time.

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nese shkon per here te pare.

11:42

And even if you're blinded,

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dhe nese ti je i verber,

11:44

your natural, panicky reaction doesn't happen.

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reagimi yt natyror, paniku nuk ndodh.

11:47

Instead you kind of look around and go,

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Ne te kundert ti shikon
rreth e rrotull dhe e le kete,

11:49

"Okay, I can't see,

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"Mire, une nuk mund te shoh,

11:50

but I can hear, I can talk,

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por mund te degjoj, mund te eci,

11:53

Scott Parazynski is out here with me.

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Scott Parazynski eshte atje jashte me mua.

11:55

He could come over and help me."

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Ai mund te vije dhe te me ndihmoje."

11:56

We actually practiced incapacitated crew rescue,

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Ne te vertete kemi praktikuar
shpetim ekuipazhi te paafte

12:00

so he could float me like a blimp

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keshtu qe ai mund te vinte
tek une si nje aeroplan

12:02

and stuff me into the airlock if he had to.

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dhe te me conte ne kabine nese duhej.

12:04

I could find my own way back.

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Ose mund te gjeja rrugen time te kthimit.

12:06

It's not nearly as big a deal.

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Nuk ishte dhe aq shume e veshtire.

12:07

And actually, if you keep on crying for a while,

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Dhe ne te vertete, nese vazhdon te qash
per pak kohe,

12:09

whatever that gunk was that's
in your eye starts to dilute

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cfaredo mase qe ishte tek syri yt
fillon te tretet

12:12

and you can start to see again,

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dhe ti fillon te shikosh perseri,

12:13

and Houston, if you negotiate with them,

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dhe Houston, nese mund te negociosh me ta,

12:15

they will let you then keep working.

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ata mund te te lejojne
te vazhdosh te punosh.

12:18

We finished everything on the spacewalk

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Ne perfunduam cdo gje ne hapesire

12:21

and when we came back inside,

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dhe me pas kur u kthyem brenda,

12:22

Jeff got some cotton batting and took
the crusty stuff around my eyes,

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Jeff mori disa kunja me pambuk
dhe hoqi ate gjene e forte nga syri im,

12:26

and it turned out it was just the anti-fog,

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dhe doli se ishte vetem kunder-mjegull,

12:28

sort of a mixture of oil and soap, that got in my eye.

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nje perzierje vaji dhe sapuni,
qe shkoi tek syri im.

12:32

And now we use Johnson's No More Tears,

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Dhe tani perdorim Johnson Pa Lot,

12:35

which we probably should've been using

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te cilet duhet ta kishim perdorur

12:37

right from the very beginning. (Laughter)

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qe nga fillimi. (Te qeshura)

12:40

But the key to that is

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Por celesi i kesaj eshte

12:45

by looking at the difference

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duke pare diferencen

12:47

between perceived danger and actual danger,

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ndermjet rrezikut te perceptuar
dhe atij te vertete,

12:49

where is the real risk?

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cili eshte rreziku i vertete?

12:50

What is the real thing that you should be afraid of?

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Cila eshte gjeja e vertete
nga e cila duhet te kesh frike?

12:52

Not just a generic fear of bad things happening.

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Jo vetem nje frike e pergjithshme
e gjerave te keqinja qe mund te ndodhin.

12:55

You can fundamentally change
your reaction to things

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Ne menyre rrenjesore mund te ndryshosh
reagimin tend ndaj gjerave

12:57

so that it allows you to go places

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keshtu qe te lejon te shkosh ne vende

13:00

and see things and do things

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dhe te besh dhe te shikosh gjera

13:02

that otherwise would be completely denied to you ...

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qe ne te kundertetn do te ishin
komplet te ndaluara per ty

13:04

where you could see the
hardpan south of the Sahara,

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ku mund te shikosh token
e Jugut te Saharase,

13:08

or you can see New York City

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mund te shikosh New York City

13:10

in a way that is almost dreamlike,

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ne nje menyre qe eshte pothuaj enderr,

13:12

or the unconscious gingham
of Eastern Europe fields

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ose fushat me kuadrate te Evropes Lindore

13:16

or the Great Lakes

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ose Liqenet e Medha

13:18

as a collection of small puddles.

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si nje koleksion pellgjesh te vogla.

13:21

You can see the fault lines of San Francisco

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Mund te shikosh
linjat e gureve ne San Francisco

13:24

and the way the water pours out under the bridge,

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dhe menyra sesi uji rrjedh nen ure,

13:26

just entirely different

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pothuaj ne menyre te ndryshme

13:28

than any other way that you could have

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sesa cdo menyre tjeter qe ti mund

13:30

if you had not found a way to conquer your fear.

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nese ti nuk do te kishe gjetur nje menyre
per te pushtuar frikat e tua.

13:33

You see a beauty that otherwise

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Mund te shikosh nje bukuri
qe ne te kundertetn

13:35

never would have happened.

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nuk do te kishte ndodhur kurre.

13:39

It's time to come home at the end.

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Eshte koha per tu kthyer ne shtepi
me ne fund.

13:41

This is our spaceship,

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Kjo eshte anija jone kozmike,

13:42

the Soyuz, that little one.

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Soyuz, ajo e vogla.

13:44

Three of us climb in,

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Tre nga ne ngjiten ne te,

13:45

and then this spaceship detaches from the station

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dhe me pas kjo anije kozmike
largohet nga stacioni

13:47

and falls into the atmosphere.

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dhe bie ne atmosfere.

13:49

These two parts here

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Keto dy pjese ketu

13:51

actually melt, we jettison them and they burn up

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ne te vertete shkrihen, ne i hedhim ato
dhe me pas i djegim

13:53

in the atmosphere.

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ne atmosfere.

13:54

The only part that survives is the little bullet

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E vetmja pjese qe mbijeton
eshte plumbi i vogel

13:56

that we're riding in,

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qe ne kemi hipur,

13:57

and it falls into the atmosphere,

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dhe bie ne atmosfere,

13:59

and in essence

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dhe ne esence

14:01

you are riding a meteorite home,

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ne i kemi hipur nje meteoriti per ne shtepi,

14:05

and riding meteorites is scary,

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dhe te hipesh mbi meteorite eshte e frikshme,

14:08

and it ought to be.

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si duhet te jete.

14:09

But instead of riding into the atmosphere

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Por ne te kundert nga fluturimi ne atmosfere

14:11

just screaming, like you would

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duke uleritur, si do te beje

14:13

if suddenly you found yourself riding a meteorite

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paprimtas e gjen veten duke fluturuar
mbi nje meteorit

14:15

back to Earth -- (Laughter) --

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drejt tokes -- (Te qeshura) --

14:18

instead, 20 years previously

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ne vend te kesaj, 20 vjet me pare

14:20

we had started studying Russian,

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ne kemi filluar te studiojme rusisht,

14:23

and then once you learn Russian, then we

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dhe pasi mesuam rusishten,

14:25

learned orbital mechanics in Russian,

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mesuam mekaniken orbitale ne rusisht,

14:28

and then we learned vehicle control theory,

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dhe me pas mesuam
teorine e kontrollit te pajisjeve,

14:31

and then we got into the simulator

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dhe me pas shkuam tek stimuluesi

14:32

and practiced over and over and over again.

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dhe u praktikuam perseri e perseri
me rradhe.

14:35

And in fact, you can fly this meteorite

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2010

Dhe ne fakt mund te fluturosh kete meteorit

14:37

and steer it and land in about a 15-kilometer circle

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dhe e drejton dhe ulesh
me nje rreze prej 15 kilometrash

14:39

anywhere on the Earth.

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kudo ne toke.

14:41

So in fact, when our crew was coming back

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Keshtu ne fakt, nderkohe qe ekuipazhi yt
po vinte prape

14:44

into the atmosphere inside the Soyuz,

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ne atmosferen brenda ne Soyuz,

14:46

we weren't screaming, we were laughing;

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ne nuk po bertisnim, po qeshnim

14:48

it was fun.

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ishte qejf.

14:50

And when the great big parachute opened,

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Dhe kur parashuta e madhe u hap,

14:51

we knew that if it didn't open

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ne e dinim se nese nuk hapej

14:53

there's a second parachute,

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atehere ishte nje parashute e dyte,

14:54

and it runs on a nice little clockwork mechanism.

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qe do te hapej ne nje mekanizem te vogel ore.

14:56

So we came back, we came thundering back

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Keshtu qe ne erdhem, ne erdhem perseri

14:58

to Earth and this is what it looked like

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ne Toke dhe keshtu ishte te ulesh

15:00

to land in a Soyuz, in Kazakhstan.

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ne Soyuz, ne Kazakistan.

15:03

(Video) Reporter: And you can see one of those

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(Video) Reporteri: Dhe ti mund te shikosh
nje nga ato

15:05

search and recovery helicopters, once again

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2716

helikopteret e kerkimit, edhe njehere

15:08

that helicopter part of dozen such Russian

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nje helikopter pjese e nje dyzine si

15:11

Mi-8 helicopters.

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helikopteret Mi-8 ruse.

15:15

Touchdown -- 3:14 and 48 seconds,

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Ulja -- 3:14 dhe 48 sekonda,

15:19

a.m. Central Time.

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paradite, Central Time.

15:21

CH: And you roll to a stop

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CH: Dhe ti shkon tek nje ndalese

15:22

as if someone threw your
spaceship at the ground

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sikur ndonjeri e hodhi anijen tone ne toke

15:24

and it tumbles end over end,

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dhe ajo rrokulliset,

15:25

but you're ready for it

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por ti je gati per kete

15:26

you're in a custom-built seat,

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ti je ne nje sedilje te ndertuar per ty,

15:27

you know how the shock absorber works.

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1437

ti e di sesi punon absorbuesi.

15:29

And then eventually the Russians reach in,

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Dhe kur me ne fund vijne ruset,

15:31

drag you out,

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te nxjerrin jashte,

15:32

plunk you into a chair,

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te vendosin ne nje karrige,

15:34

and you can now look back at

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dhe tani ti mund te shikosh pas

15:37

what was an incredible experience.

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tek ajo eksperience e paimagjinueshme.

15:40

You have taken the dreams of that

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Ti ke marre enderrat

15:42

nine-year-old boy,

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e atij djali nente vjecar,

15:44

which were impossible

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te cilat ishin te pamunduara

15:45

and dauntingly scary,

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dhe te frikshme,

15:48

dauntingly terrifying,

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1700

tmerrruese,

15:50

and put them into practice,

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dhe i vendose ne praktike,

15:53

and figured out a way to reprogram yourself,

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dhe gjete nje menyre sesi
ta riprogramoje veten,

15:56

to change your primal fear

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te ndryshoje friken tende primare

15:58

so that it allowed you to come back

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qe te lejonte te ktheheshe pas

16:01

with a set of experiences and a level of inspiration

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me nje sere eksperiencash
dhe nje nivel inspirimi

16:05

for other people

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per njerezit e tjere

16:06

that never could have been possible otherwise.

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qe nuk do te ishte e mundur ndryshe.

16:11

Just to finish, they asked me to play that guitar.

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Per ta mbyllur, me kerkuan te luaj me kitare.

16:17

I know this song,

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Une e di kete kenge.

16:19

and it's really a tribute to the genius

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dhe ajo i ben homazh gjenialitetit

16:25

of David Bowie himself,

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te vete David Bowie,

16:27

but it's also, I think,

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1913

por gjithashtu, mendoj,

16:28

a reflection of the fact that we are not machines

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eshte nje reflektim i atij fakti
se ne nuk jemi makina

16:31

exploring the universe,

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qe eksplorojne universin,

16:32

we are people,

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ne jemi njerez,

16:33

and we're taking

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dhe ne po cojme

16:36

that ability to adapt

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aftesine per tu adaptuar

16:38

and that ability to understand

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dhe aftesine per te kuptuar

16:39

and the ability to take

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1976

dhe aftesine per te kapur

16:41

our own self-perception into a new place.

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veteperceptimin tone ne nje vend te ri.

16:46

(Music)

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(Muzike)

16:52

♫ This is Major Tom to ground control ♫

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♫ Ketu eshte Major Tom
ne kullen e kontrollit ♫

16:56

♫ I've left forevermore ♫

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♫ jam larguar pergjithmone ♫

17:02

♫ And I'm floating in a most peculiar way ♫

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♫ dhe po fluturoj ne nje nga menyrat
me te vecanta ♫

17:08

♫ And the stars look very different today ♫

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♫ dhe yjet duken shume ndryshe sot ♫

17:15

♫ For here am I floating in the tin can ♫

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♫ ketu jam duke fluturuar
ne nje kanace konservash ♫

17:23

♫ A last glimpse of the world ♫

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♫ nje veshtrim te fundit botes ♫

17:30

♫ Planet Earth is blue and
there's so much left to do ♫

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♫ Toka eshte blu dhe nuk ka
shume gjera per te bere ♫

17:38

(Music)

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(Muzike)

17:56

Fear not.

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Mos kini frike.

17:58

(Applause)

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(Duartrokitje)

18:11

That's very nice of you. Thank you very much.

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Ishte shume e kendshme nga ana juaj.
Shume faleminderit.

18:14

Thank you.

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Ju faleminderit.

Translated by Eva Hoxha
Reviewed by Iris Xholi

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Chris Hadfield - Astronaut
Tweeting (and covering Bowie) from the International Space Station last year, Colonel Chris Hadfield reminded the world how much we love space.

Why you should listen

“Good morning, Earth.” That is how Colonel Chris Hadfield, writing on Twitter, woke up the world every day while living aboard the International Space Station. In his five months on the ISS (including three as commander) Hadfield became a worldwide sensation, using social media to make outer space accessible and infusing a sense of wonder into the collective consciousness. Check out his cover version of David Bowie's "Space Oddity," sung while floating in his tin can, far above the world ...

Now back on our home planet, he continues to share the excitement of science and space travel. He's the author of the 2014 book An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth. As he says, "There are no wishy-washy astronauts. You don't get up there by being uncaring and blasé. And whatever gave you the sense of tenacity and purpose to get that far in life is absolutely reaffirmed and deepened by the experience itself." A photography geek, in 2014 he also published an album of his photos from the shuttle: You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes.

Hadfield is also a font of Canadian firsts: He was Canada’s first shuttle mission specialist, and the first Canadian to board a Russian spacecraft (he helped build the Mir), do a spacewalk (he's done two), and of course, to command the International Space Station.

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Chris Hadfield | Speaker | TED.com

THE ORIGINAL VIDEO ON TED.COM

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