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[rumbling music]
[wind] [building music]
[interviewer] OK, recording on.
[Christiane] Obviously, many people can live in big cities
without being able to go hike in
the woods or hike in the mountains or anywhere
outside for a very long time.
[door squeaks] [footsteps]
You can live without plants, without sunlight,
without friends or family.
It's a difficult question.
What do humans really need to be happy, healthy and sane?
[dreamy music fades]
[car rumbles]
[reporter] For centuries, humans have looked up and wondered
what life on Mars might be like.
Well, NASA scientists, setting their sights on a
manned expedition,
are already testing the limits of the human mind
to see if astronauts can even handle the trip.
[inspirational music builds]
[cheers]
[interviewer] Six scientists are living in
a Mars simulation habitat
for one year to study the effects of isolation.
The experiment will create guidelines for
future missions to the Red Planet.
[music continues]
[male reporter] The project is known as
the Hawaii Space Exploration
Analog and Simulation, or HI-SEAS, for short.
[Dr. Kim Binsted] These are problems that we need to solve
before we can send
people on long duration space flights and crew cohesion,
that very question, how do you keep astronauts sane and happy?
We're going to go a long way towards solving that.
[music continues] [applause]
[woman] Bon Voyage! Enjoy Mars! [door shuts]
[music continues]
[camera beeps]
Okay, sorry. [laughs]
Hi!
We're the Hi-Seas Four Mission crew.
We're currently simulating a one year mission
on the planet Mars.
[camera rattles]
[inspirational music]
[camera rattles]
[lens whirs]
[camera beeps]
[Sheyna] Welcome to our Habitat.
Upstairs are the crew quarters.
It's pretty roomy for a 1200 square foot place.
[muffled voices and music]
OK, let's see what's going on in the airlock.
Hey!
[laughs] It's our astrobiologist.
How is the beach?
It was cool. Warm.
Warm, yeah. [chuckles]
Alright, so, this is the C-Can.
We have a wide assortment of
freeze dried everything you could ever imagine.
[Christiane] Yay.
[Sheyna] Yeah. Alright.
Our bathroom. [laughs]
And the probably most important piece, the timer.
[laughs] The timer.
[Christiane] So, don't take a 20 minute shower please.
[Sheyna] Yeah, no.
Our showers are like, on the order of 30 seconds
to two minutes.
[footsteps]
And that's the view from simulated Mars.
This is what we see. Every day.
[footsteps]
[clicks]
[air hisses]
Testing, testing.
One, two, three.
[Sheyna] Camera.
Hi, I'm Christiane Heinicke, and I'm the Chief
Scientific Officer of HI-SEAS Mission Four.
And, as you can hear from my accent, I'm German.
When I heard about this project,
I thought it was a very cool project,
which is advancing space exploration.
But also, it's a personal challenge for me because
not everyone can endure the darkness,
can endure the isolation,
being around the same people all the time.
I was just curious if, you know,
if I have the right stuff to go to Mars.
Oh, yeah, and so far, I'm doing good.
[dreamy music]
[music continues] [typing]
[dialogue from The Martian] Alert the media?
[character] Sorry, what are you doing today, Martinez?
Making sure the mav is still upright.
[dialogue continues]
The quiche is really, really good.
Very good.
[razor whirs]
I'd never shaved anybody before coming here.
I'd never grown a beard before coming here.
Fair enough.
[Andrzej] We essentially started as six strangers.
NASA is testing our psychological and mental
well-being while we're here to learn
how a small crew gets along together
when separated from planet Earth.
The psychological aspect, how do we deal with that?
[device rattles]
[Andrzej] Surveys.
[Sheyna] Surveys.
[Andrzej] So many surveys.
[Sheyna] So many surveys.
So many surveys.
[laughs]
[Sheyna] I'll be right there to do mine. [chuckles]
I think this one's better than the forecast.
[Carmel] A quiet night? - Yeah.
I think so. - Yeah, those--
[camera beeps]
Zooming? [Christiane] Yeah.
Okay. [chuckles]
[stammers] Voila. [laughs]
She's official.
[harmonica and ukelele play "House of the Rising Sun"]
[music continues] [treadmill whirs]
[Sheyna] See? [laughs] [Cyprien] Yeah!
OK, high five.
Sure, well done. [claps]
[Sheyna] We are science.
Everything about our perceptions and our communication
and how we work together as a group,
everything about us in our lives,
inside and out, is being studied.
[cheerful music continues]
Yep, that's it.
Turn this over? - Yep.
[orchestral music]
[typing]
[music continues] [treadmill whirs]
[Tristan] I originally had no intention
of running a marathon.
You look out the window and watch the sunlight change,
which when you don't have
most technology or Internet connection
is actually fascinating - and I just kept going.
[contemplative music]
[water spritz]
Come on, run faster!
[treadmill continues]
[Carmel laughs]
I think a big part of this for me is that I'm doing
graduate school for architecture and have chosen
to focus very exclusively on space architecture,
which is, kind of a less than typical thing.
[Tristan] What I'm working on is more of
the design side of space architecture.
You leave the ship to the guys, you can, sort of,
do the math and the engineering and work
much more on the human elements.
So, instead of going to school and reading some
lecture-y things and going through journals,
all that stuff, I actually am kind of getting to live it.
[inspirational music]
[treadmill beeps]
[Sheyna] Tristan! Tristan!
Oh yeah I just got it. That's how I'm walking now.
[Cyprien] Yay!
[claps] [Tristan sighs]
[Tristan] And it turns out, that treadmill's motherboard is
a little shot and everything is not measured so appropriately,
that at the pace I was running, I actually ran 32 miles.
It's kind of an interesting
forced environmental change, like,
everybody sort of reacts to the places they're at, you know,
people go to college
and put on their Freshman 15 or start grad school,
put on the Grad School 45, or more sometimes.
I mean, we always sort of change based on where we're at,
and up here, it's sort of--
[Sheyna] You're losing weight.
Yeah, basically losing weight.
You have to work out every day
and you need to find something to fill
the hours because you can't really
browse online or go see your friends.
There's no drinks, no parties, no, you know,
place you can go get a crazy tan.
It's like almost forced into
the austere, vaguely monkish life.
[treadmill whirs]
[Andrzej] Gonna get the potatoes done and out the way.
[Sheyna] OK.
[Andrzej] Turkey constituting and gravy going.
We'll figure that bit out last.
[spoon taps]
[Andrzej] I made this turkey all by myself.
[Sheyna] You did, I saw you add the water.
[Andrzej] Yeah! [laughs]
Ooh! I get my own little one.
[murmurs] [chairs creak]
[laughs]
[Cyprien] Christiane, what is your favorite
part of the habitat?
[footsteps]
[Christiane] So, that's the airlock
my favorite part of the Habitat.
One, because it's the brightest, well,
one of the brightest parts of the Habitat.
See? It's all bright.
And two, the other reason why I like it so much,
right now, there's a lamp in front of it.
But if we get to go on E.V.A., that is the door right
there through which we're leaving for E.V.A.'s.
[murmurs]
Good, hold the face plate. - Yeah.
[suit rustles]
Good?
Alright, arms in first.
[Andrzej] So battery goes in.
[velcro crinkles]
[Andrzej] Putting weight on you. [Christiane] Mhm.
And black with black?
[Andrzej] Yeah. Make sure you're connecting
the one that says battery.
OK.
So, top fan all the way and then slightly back.
[taps]
[footsteps crunch]
[Carmel] Tristan, Christiane, Cyprien and I
are always exploring,
learning something new about this foreign landscape
that we knew nothing about when we got here.
[radio crackles] [footsteps]
[Christiane] Lava tubes are very important for Mars research
because, one hand,
they might provide shelter for the crew
from solar radiation events,
and they might also be the place where
you could find life that has survived on Mars.
[dreamy music builds] [breathing]
[radio crackles] [deep breaths]
[heavy breathing]
[radio crackles]
[music continues]
[music builds]
[footsteps] [heavy breathing]
[tense music]
[Christiane] Suddenly I noticed,
huh, it's quiet in here.
[deep breathing]
If it's quiet, that means there's no fan.
If there's no fan, that means there's no air.
I mean, it's not a fully functional suit,
but it's functional enough so that you don't
get any air into the suit if the fan is out.
[music builds] [breathing]
So, I signaled Cyprien.
He immediately went to my backpack
and he tried to turn it off,
turn it back on again, didn't help.
He checked the cables, didn't help.
And then, we were like, well, if I don't have any air,
we have to go back to the Habitat immediately.
[music and breathing continue]
[Christiane] So, I was like, "OK, stay calm.
If you start panicking, well,
then you're using up your air even faster."
[music quickens]
[footsteps crunch]
[tense music fades]
[breath slows] [door squeaks]
[Christiane breathes deeply]
[zipper whirs]
[footsteps] [plastic crinkles]
[Christiane] I mean, we were on Earth.
If I had passed out, I mean,
all Cyprien had to do was take the helmet off.
But then, the whole accomplishment
of surviving the dome
with these five other people would be for nothing.
[Tristan] Worse comes to worst, there is an emergency
phone where you could call Mission support,
who could always do something.
And if I want to leave, I mean, I can. Nothing's stopping me.
I could walk out the door any time I want,
but there are probably hundreds of people
and I'm sure something over a million
dollars making everything happen.
The more I suffer in there,
the more accurate all of the data will be.
[pensive music]
NASA will use the data after it's been processed
and published for the actual mission to Mars,
and there's so few people in the whole of humanity
that are doing this kind of research.
If I even went and screwed around the data a little
bit somehow,
left or lied on my surveys,
That would end up having a huge impact negatively on
the whole of what people are trying to do with space travel.
[music continues]
[murmurs] [silverware clinks]
[Sheyna] It's winter. I think a lot of the people...
[uplifting music]
[ice creaks]
[wood creaks and shatters]
[music continues]
[wind howls]
[music fades]
[Christiane] If you read accounts
of any expeditions,
if you think of mutiny and you know,
there must be something that makes it difficult for
people to be in isolation for a very long time.
If we want to send humans to Mars,
can we as a group manage surviving
essentially just the six of us for an entire year?
[peaceful music]
[inhales]
[Sheyna] I'm a physician, but it's a childhood thing,
I've always wanted to be an astronaut.
For humans to travel in space
to Mars, to other planets,
to other stars and other planets around other stars
is interestingly us being the most human we can be.
Our bravest, our most innovative,
our boldest, our most courageous.
It really epitomizes who we are as a species.
[music continues]
I have been thinking about this since I was 18 years old,
what it would be like to do a real Mars mission.
I have imagined that and it's something I want.
It has to be something you really are driven to do.
The fact that I have two cats, a home in St.
Louis, a husband is almost irrelevant.
Family, that's not useful in space.
So, in this V.R, the sun is coming in from that side.
[Andrzej] I want to be an astronaut for NASA
and a lot of the missions that NASA is
looking at doing in the future
are more long duration type missions.
So, six month stays on the International Space Station,
missions to asteroids, mission to Mars.
And these are missions that take months or even years.
So, NASA is looking for the kind of people that have experience
being isolated for extended periods of time.
[Sheyna] OK, is that toastie good or toastie bad?
That was toastie Australia.
[laughs]
[Sheyna] OK, well, that is, 'cause
this is actually a beach in Australia.
[Andrzej] So, I think at least in my case,
I'm the sort of person who's OK with
not feeling the sunshine on his face or the wind in his hair.
I'm OK with that.
It turns out I feel quite at home and quite comfortable
in very cold mechanical environment.
Thank you for brunch.
No, no worries.
[Sheyna] From a medical perspective,
any time people step out the door
even to do simple things,
I'm worried. That's just part of my job.
I worry professionally.
Humans, if they're going to make it to Mars in one piece,
they've done a great job already.
But the real trick of it is to stay alive and come back alive.
People are scrabbling down rocks.
You're wearing a suit.
Can't see well, it's very slippery.
This is real danger.
Real need to follow protocols
to ensure of everybody's safety.
[slow guitar music] [rocks crumble]
[deep breathing]
[Carmel] So, four of us really like to have fun
and we like to go out
and do all different crazy things
you can do out here without,
like, being dangerous because you can't really
hurt yourself when you're out there anyways.
[Tristan] Caramel and I and the Europeans
very much enjoy going outside,
running around the rocks.
We'd have E.V.A. 's with something of an objective,
but it was more us just like exploring and having
a good time getting out of the dome.
[music continues]
Alright same thing as before.
Down and to the side.
[Sheyna] So, NASA talked about the knowledge gaps that
exist, that we have to solve before we,
any of us can go to Mars or actually...
[Sheyna] We're up there to survive and do the work,
get the data, prepare for the mission to space.
That's just the way priorities have to be.
[Tristan] Both Shey and Anjay want to join NASA
and become an astronaut,
and they were extraordinarily rigid in what they
were perceiving as the right thing to do.
The by-the-book thing to do.
This is how NASA does it. This is the only way.
[Sheyna] This is a hard fact.
You want less partial pressure to go through
cause you don't like it when things catch on fire.
[Tristan] Like you could totally get hurt out there.
You get a couple of little cuts or whatever.
But there's being safe and then there's Shey and Anjay,
who would not leave the dome to do anything
except the absolute mandatory tasks.
[Sheyna] Draw a line, draw a line down the middle
from the little notch in their neck.
How was it?
[grunts]
[lights buzz]
We can see a change in how people behave
because in the beginning, you know,
people don't really know each other and they're--
they're at their best,
they show their best side,
but you cannot do that for many months.
Yeah, so, as time goes by,
people reveal themselves more and more.
[soft music]
[murmurs]
I would not object to that.
[Tristan vocalizes] [inaudible conversation]
[Tristan laughs]
[music continues]
[music fades]
[grunts]
[Tristan] Oh! [laughs]
[stair creaks] [thud]
[footsteps]
Forward. [laughs]
[grunts]
[fans whir]
[wind] [suits crinkle]
[Tristan] People might be out there in those suits,
two teams of two people for four hours,
and so I'm just like drinking coffee,
hanging out at my desk in the living room.
I'm just like, [vocalizes]
"Got all this time to myself, nobody's around,
This is the best thing I ever."
Everybody on Earth sort of is like, "Oh,
dinners must be everybody's favorite time,
you finally get to be social and talk to everyone,
get your quota of human interaction."
That is not the actual case.
You're very isolated from everybody else,
but the people you're with are always right there.
There's no soundproofing, you hear everything.
[guitar plays]
[treadmill whirs]
[pipe plays]
[inaudible conversation]
I'm waiting a little bit because they're very loud.
Can you be a bit quieter?
I'm teaching myself here how to play the harmonica.
[Tristan] How does everybody tell?
[laughs]
[Christiane] Right.
How do you and your fellow crew members define personal space
and recognize each other's boundaries
in such tight quarters?
Boundaries, which boundaries?
[Christiane laughs]
[laughs]
apparatus,
[Christiane] Let me ask them to be a little bit quiet.
[tent zipper]
Um, guys, can you tone it down a little bit?
We're recording.
[Tristan] You can see into almost
every other spot from any spot, especially in the living room.
You can look up and see which rooms have their door closed.
Even if the light is on, you can see into the kitchen,
half the c-can, down into the bio lab.
You're always just a little tense or watching
what you say or psychologically wound up.
I wouldn't mind if friends and family sent
a few more e-mails or video messages.
We're actually up here in isolation and confinement.
There is very little news.
There's no real contact with the outside world.
Starts to get to you a little bit.
[can thuds]
[cauliflower crinkles]
[ham crinkles]
[water splashes]
[food sizzles]
[Carmel] I like being isolated
and not being connected to the real world.
It's nice to not hear about another school shooting
or another tragedy that's happened.
We get news probably once a week from mission support.
They give us a big batch of news that's happened.
Other than that really the only thing you find out is from
friends and family when they send you e-mails and they say,
"Oh yeah like, the farm down the road
is now becoming a bunch of condos."
And all sorts of other crazy things that,
you're like, "I don't want to know about that."
[Carmel] There's so much grass.
Oh, my gosh, look at this guy.
These are the only chives that have survived
and only chives that have been able to start.
And so, now we will have--
This guy's growing good.
[Sheyna] Yeah.
Christiane has got a pea, that has a flower on it.
[Sheyna] Aw.
And you can see her little flower.
[Sheyna] Yeah. - So pretty.
So, growing plants is really important both for
a nutrient aspect as well as mental health.
Because I'd say that growing plants definitely helps keep
some of us more sane than we would be otherwise.
[soft music]
Pretty much anywhere you can put plants, we have put them.
We have them under the stairs and in our bedrooms
and in the c-can.
[Tristan] Let's see.
So, we've got this Nalgene bottle that Carmel put by
the toilet and she demands that all the boys pee in it.
Cause I use the pee to water the plants.
[music continues]
[Tristan sighs]
It makes me so happy.
[Sheyna chuckles]
This is my tomato
and the tomato was about this big and it was dying,
and now it's growing, and it's happy,
and it's very healthy,
and it's very-- it makes me happy
to watch plants grow because
it's nature in the Hab and it smells [sniffs]
it smells like a tomato.
Let's let the camera smell.
You know,
I wonder what the psychology is behind
why plants make people happy.
It probably has to do with a connection to nature
and a meaning in your life,
and I don't know enough about it, but...
[camera beeps]
[Christiane] Camera is on.
Alright.
So, we're going to harvest some radish greens.
[snip]
I will give everybody two today.
[inaudible]
It has a purpose.
[Sheyna] These the radish greens?
[Cyprien] Yes.
[Sheyna] Awesome.
[murmurs]
Wow, those are so good.
It's OK.
Whoever made the radish greens, good job.
[Carmel] The sun and the light and water and the rock.
Delicious. How long did they take?
About three months.
Wow.
So, every three months
we get a bowl with about six leaves in it?
[wind]
[foreboding music]
[background chatter]
[Tristan] We try very, very hard to
conserve as much water as we can.
I think our average is something like five
to seven gallons per person per day.
So, when you compare that to the typical 80 to 100 gallons
of water used by most people a day, it's ridiculous.
[music continues]
[pan sizzles]
[foreboding music]
[water runs]
There's no perfect solution for this problem.
I'm kinda worried that when I get out of here,
I'll go back to my old place and start annoying my
roommates with constant bickering about washing
suds off of plates and taking 15-minute showers
when you can do it totally fine in 50 seconds.
We only had so much water and we would seriously
jeopardize the data if we went over.
[music continues] [background chatter]
Why don't you just-- keep up and try it, right?
OK.
So, we're making some fresh cream cheese,
and starting from scratch.
We had some dry cultures
that we started the mission with that we can bring along with us,
and we've just kept them going throughout.
[Tristian] Do you want me to just, like,
chat at you and you can pontificate?
Into the camera. Don't look at me.
Sorry.
Until Mr. Loud Face downstairs shuts up.
No, I'll just finish and then bedone.
[Tristan] OK. - OK.
What's the next one? [Tristan] Uh...
What has surprised you about your experience
living in the dome,
aside from the fact that you have not yet killed anyone?
I honestly think that if they actually
got to Mars and they had their like,
little line of tiny tin can habitats,
the number one cause of death would be eople
airlocking other people for being annoying.
[laughs]
Like,
that's what's going to happen if they survive
the radiation and the pressure
and the trip and everything and managed to get there,
they'll just kill each other.
Yeah, there's little things that start to bother you
that in normal life you can just walk away from.
If you have a co-worker at home that chews food
in a weird way or they walk really loudly
or they snap their fingers when they're
walking or whatever it is that they do,
you can just ignore it or you can walk away
from it and know at the end of the day
you can go home and you never have to see
them until you see them the next day.
But here you see them all day, every day,
and you never, ever, ever get a break from them.
And eventually it comes to the point where you can't
live with it anymore because it's so goddamn annoying.
And you're like, "I cannot take this anymore."
Like, do your fucking dishes.
Sorry.
And we do get to go outside on E.V.A., which is nice,
but that's only twice a week and for only a couple hours,
whereas I would just love to be outside all day,
every day for the rest of my life, which is
what I plan on doing now.
Um... [laughs]
Yeah, I like being outside.
It's just weird that I chose to live inside for a year.
Who's the 1,000 pound goblin stomping around outside?
Maybe we can put more pillows and stuff here.
[Tristan] That's not gonna block out his voice.
[Andrzej speaks distantly]
It's doing something at least...
Oh, it did nothing.
[Tristan] Did nothing. - Okay, next question.
[Tristan] What do you enjoy about dome life?
Hm...
Um...
[Andrzej] Alright there should be plenty
I saved a little bit, just in case
we lose this batch--
[Carmel] Alright remember to look at the camera.
There we go.
[sighs] As possessed as you can do.
How does it feel to stay in touch with
family and friends only through delayed email?
It feels like they never write back,
and no one's keeping in touch.
So that's pretty much it.
Yeah.
I'll write them a big email and then I'll get
maybe a paragraph back, maybe once a month,
a couple of sentences and all except maybe two friends
who've just completely stopped writing.
So, it's not so much a delay as it is an ignore,
But I would presume that on a real Mars mission,
NASA would have like correspondance ninjas
forcing people to actually respond, hopefully.
But really, we have been totally forgotten up here,
by even family.
[Carmel] Yep.
Yeah, it's fantastic.
[pensive piano music]
Hey Cash, happy birthday!
It's Auntie, and I just wanted to say that
I love you very much,
and that I hope you had a very happy birthday.
I want you to know that I think about you all the time.
And I've got pictures of you up on that wall,
and I've got your drawing pictures
up on my other wall with my plants that I'm growing.
Love you! Happy birthday.
[music continues]
[Tristan] When you remove TV and social media,
all your familial networks,
all the distractions of life,
for hours and hours every day, and it's just you,
and the only thing you can do is have yourself a company.
And I mean, I had five other people up there, but, you know,
sometimes you wouldn't share more than three or
four words with them over a couple of days.
It's just a horrible psychological nightmare.
[salt shaker]
[dishes clink]
[wind]
[dreamy violin music]
[music continues]
[typing]
[music continues]
[chatter] [microwave beeps]
It's really because the noodles are kind of, they're too long.
Have you heard?
- Start heading up that way... - Yep.
Alright, two cards please.
[table creaks]
Beijing gets a second one.
You think that you can go there.
- Miami gets a third. - Uh oh.
[dreamy music]
[chatter]
[music continues]
[dishes clatter]
[kiss]
[ukelele plays]
[Cyprien] Because that's another part of the habitat where
we are growing plants and cyanobacteria.
You know, there was room.
[laughs]
Now I have to do it again.
Okay, this is another part--
[Christiane] Having someone that you can talk to,
that you can vent to,
but also someone who is venting to you
so that you feel useful,
that you feel needed.
I felt like a sponge that had been compressed
for a long time and was suddenly released.
[ukelele continues]
[Christiane] So I'm a French media now.
Do you have a girlfriend?
[laughs]
Alright, does it ever get boring and monotonous?
[laughs] [chatter]
[Christiane] I had a conversation with Carmel
once our relationship
was public within the crew and she asked me,
"Do you know what you're doing?" I'm like, "Yes,
I know what I'm doing." So she was like, "I trust you."
NASA is kind of trying to keep the topic down,
you know, relationships, sex, those things, they don't happen.
That's kind of the official line.
You know, if we really want to think about sending humans
on missions that are two and a half years long,
it's totally idiotic to believe or to try to make people believe
that there's not going to be any kind of relationship.
Alright, ready to just give it up?
Yep.
[razor buzzes]
[beeping]
[Christiane] Are there any plain ones here?
[grunts]
Sure.
[laughs]
[beeps]
[clatters]
Hey sweetie! By now you've gotten the photos I sent.
I hope you had a good day, and I love you a lot
and I will make another video for you tomorrow.
I just want to give you a quick goodnight video,
and I'll see you tomorrow, bye.
[silence]
[Shey] I have always liked the idea of being an astronaut,
but I didn't know what it meant to actually
commit yourself to being at work 24 hours a day,
seven days a week for months on end.
I thought I knew what it was like to always be
at work when I was working in the hospital,
arriving at 5am, going home at 8pm.
This is different.
[treadmill whirs]
I think the primary lesson in coming to Mars is that
pretty much all you need to survive and be happy:
water, food and someone to talk to the end of the day.
[gentle music]
[camera beeps]
[Cyprien] Certain.
Sorry, another question.
Stop it! You're making fun of me.
Not true.
[Cyprien] Have you been reading the news?
What have you most kept up on?
So since we got here,
I've been reading the news quite frequently,
Um...
although less frequently than back at home.
So maybe several times a week or so.
Um...
I basically read everything that, you know,
comes through
to me, that makes it to my screen,
Um...
Um, too much um, I'm gonna try again.
What was the question?
[laughs]
Have you been reading the news?
What have you most kept up on?
So since I got here,
I've been following the news quite frequently,
although not as frequently
as I would have if I would have been at home,
Um...
What else? Damn it. I'm too tired, I can't focus.
I have...
What have you most kept...
I've been reading and whatever, whatever happens,
[coughs]
- Yep. - Okay, I will try again.
OK. OK...
Have you been reading the news?
What have you most kept up on?
So since...
[stammers]
[uneasy tone]
[Sheyna] Knock knock.
Yeah.
[zipper]
[uneasy music builds]
What else can I say?
[music continues]
[shaky breathing]
[breaths continue]
[treadmill whirs]
[Christiane] One of the side experiments of HI-SEAS was
to test our cognitive development during
the mission because there's some suspicion
or some fear that people in isolation,
because there's a lack of stimuli,
that their cognitive abilities are declining.
We were picked for certain characteristics,
not being the kind of person who
panics about something very easily.
But there was always this nagging question
I was wondering about
is the stress level that we're experiencing,
is that like the normal stress level that you're supposed
to experience or is it already going beyond?
[muffled conversation]
Should we worry about this, what we are experiencing,
is it normal or is it already so high that
we should take some action against it?
[conversation distorts] [dark music builds]
It creeps up on you.
Like the frog that you're putting into the water,
if it's boiling, then it jumps right out.
but if you gradually increase the temperature,
then it stays there until it's dead.
And it's just overwhelming.
[muffled wind]
[somber music]
[disconcerting music]
[wind]
[typing]
[camera rattles and beeps]
[air whirs]
[treadmill whirs]
It's just kind of frustrating because it was the middle
of the night in Paris.
It was evening in the beginning,
but then when I-- I was getting more news,
towards getting into the night and so I don't
have any way to contact my friends and family.
I could not pick up the phone, of course.
I could just send emails, which I know would arrive later on,
probably not being answered before the next day.
That's why I didn't know before the day after whether anyone
within my family and friends had been killed.
So we are reading mostly what people send us,
which is mostly what people expect us to want to know.
So most of the news we have here are space related,
like I knew quite well to...
news about space,
but I just learned that Paris was rioting because
of a new law which was presented already several weeks ago.
And that it's very hard to find gas.
It's very hard to take the train and so on.
And there are people mobilizing the streets.
There are violence against the cops and things like these.
And, well, I just heard about it weeks after.
It's going to be weird to come out and see everything.
[somber music]
[muffled chatter] [laughs]
[Christiane] OK, camera... running.
I think that...
[Christiane] Why do you care?
You will be dead anyway.
Yeah, but... [laughs]
[serene music]
[seagulls call] [flesh tears]
[ship bell tolls]
[wind]
[chuckles] [murmurs]
[laughs]
[Tristan] We had taken the pump apart,
moved all these tubes,
drained the solar water here,
trying to find out why we can't get the PSI on
everything above 20,
because we needed to be 30 or 40
to actually run all the water systems.
And for two weeks, we're like
trying to have people troubleshoot things.
[footsteps]
[foreboding music]
[breaths] [lid rattles]
[Tristan] You know, they're arguing about how to do this.
Should we leave the pump on?
And they're just back and forth, back and forth,
completely disagreeing about how it should be done.
[Tristan] People were very intense and emotional.
No one's had a shower or anything
and nothing's working at all.
[somber music]
[soap squelches]
[brush rustles]
[wind]
[camera rustles]
[sighs]
[hammer thuds]
OK.
[laptop rattles]
[hammer thuds]
[hopeful music]
[saw]
[music builds]
[suits crinkle]
[music continues]
[footsteps] [breathing]
[hopeful music continues]
[driving music]
[laughs]
Things that are popular right now, we're not aware of.
We're gonna go back out at the end of the mission
into a world full of jokes we've never heard,
music we've never listened to.
[Carmel] I love the outside.
I don't what else to say other than that. [laughs]
[indistinct chatter] The sky is burning.
[Andrzej] The sky is burning?
- Have you seen this? [Andrzej] Yes.
[Sheyna] The door's gonna open.
I'm sure the sun will be blinding.
I'm sure the wind will feel great.
My husband is gonna be right there.
Irrespective of whatever else is in the way,
they better move.
They will need to part, so that I can pass.
I'm looking forward to that very much.
It will also be great to see friends and family again.
Be able to run outside, to swim.
I'm going to enjoy also some good wine and cheese too.
[Carmel] It is recording.
[peaceful music]
Goodbye. [laughs]
[music fades]
[crowd chatters]
[woman] Right, Oops, okay.
Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.
Come on. - They have returned!
[applause] [cheers]
[inspirational music]
Yeah, it's really surreal.
So I don't even know if-- [laughs]
[crowd chatter] [laughter]
I haven't felt this, though.
This is pretty great.
[laughs] This is pretty great.
Little rain, little winds. Yeah.
[inspirational music continues]
[interviewer] Psychologically, how are you guys
feeling right now?
Is it very overwhelming? - Happy!
[laughs]
[Carmel] It's great to be out here
and have so many people out here also,
'cause we're used to just the four of us walking
around and never seeing another soul, so.
This all seems kind of illegal.
Yeah. [laughs]
[music continues]
[waves]
[traffic]
[plane whirs]
[footsteps]
[waves]
[seagulls] [music fades]
[waves crash]
["Inner World" - Dirty Projectors]
♪ What if I don't know the way ♪
♪ to get back to the way I was? ♪
♪ What if I don't wanna stay
♪ along the path uninterrupted? ♪
♪ Is there a prayer I could say ♪
♪ to click my heels and be above it? ♪
♪ Lost the habit
♪ Calling to get through
♪ Remedy calls
♪ I'm losing me for you
♪ All through the undertow
♪ I pursue the bay
♪ Ceaselessly swept out though ♪♪
♪ Swimming the other way
♪ Inner world
♪ Wanted to help it
♪ Fold it up in two
♪ Spaces for roses
♪ They forgot to hold
♪ Where is it taking me?
♪ I can only know, yeah
♪ After the tides recede
♪ And we are free to grow
♪ Inner world
♪ Lost the habit
♪ Calling to get through
♪ Remedy calls
♪ I'm losing me for you
♪ All through the undertow
♪ I pursue the bay
♪ Ceaselessly swept out though ♪♪
♪ Swimming the other way
♪ Inner world