"I'm in basically zero pressure atmosphere, right? So you have to put pressure back on me so that my blood doesn't boil or weird things don't happen," he says. "You need some kind of mechanism to get through all the joint parts ... Yeah, so there's two ways to do it." He adds: "The more you can be like giraffes, getting the better"
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