A Golden Goose story: Adjuntas, La Perla and resilience

27:29>> Yeah. So, so that's like significant changes at the ground level because of um you know, I mean this is like a a classic Golden Goose story, right? You're chasing uh random holiday lights and it turns into this incredible um story where communities are changed forever. >> You know, now that I'm Frey, I love salsa music more than I used to when I was a kid. >> Okay. >> And there's this amazing singer songwriter. His name is Isma Lea. And now I every time I go to God, I have, you know, Amazon music on. I'm listening to Mayo. And he talks about this little shantita

28:09off of San Juan called La Pera. If you ever seen the video, music video of Despacito, that's right. >> Oh, okay. All right. >> Sorry. I I I do I have seen the video. Yes. And they talk about this town outside the walls, the old walls of old one about he talks about this community with dignity, you know, and it funny like it took me I had to come work at NASA to understand some of the things this man was saying that a lot of what we have learned from Black Marble are just basic things about protecting a community,

28:51right? Not everything that's important in life is the thing that shines the brightest. It's hard for me to translate that. Yeah. You know, >> um people can get hit really hard >> and they get off. That's a very American thing. You see it everywhere in hurricane torn regions, in tornado torn regions. People just build back better. They just get up. And again, the credility comes by understanding that community at a personal level. And we just came back from Puerto Rico last week. We open a an Earth information center at the local science museum. >> Okay. Nice.

29:31>> And we it was a small event. So we had to we had 50 registrations every hour. So we did 300 people, right? people from all over the island wanting to learn about black marble, wanting to learn about how can NASA data help their communities. I would have never thought, you know, we would be able to reach communities from Puerto Rico learning about what we're doing at NASA. It's just in >> that's that is that is really cool and that must have been so meaningful for you to go back to that community and >> and going back to a community where you

30:12see the outages that of places that you know streets that you have lots >> right right >> yeah it hits you