 First, our astronaut friend Ed Lu, who you'll meet in a moment, was an innocent participant in this demonstration. He was not a confederate. He knew only that he was instructed to take along with him on his latest space voyage, a sealed deck of cards. And nothing in this videotape has been re-enacted. While the taping was in progress, neither party, here on Earth, or up in space, could see the other party. Okay, Ed, I think everybody's on board space to ground two, and we're looking forward to watching y'all work. Watching, being amazed. I guess I will be too. And go ahead, Mr. Andy. Are you there? Oh, I'm here, all right. We lost contact for a minute there, but we're fine now. Hey, I do have a deck of cards right here. And it's sealed, is it, Ed? Unopened. Very good. You're doing well. Hey, would you like me to open the deck now? Okay, you've got a couple of cards on us beside you there. We have access to one at the moment, so it's just going to be me here. But I am being filmed, so that ought to count, correct? Okay, fine. So Ed, what I'd like you to do is I have a brand new deck of cards that we just picked up from the local drug store here, and I'm going to open my deck now for the first time. It's going to be exposed to the light of day. And here it is. Are you opening yours, too? Look at that. And do you have somebody reputable there to make sure you're not cheating? Do we have somebody reputable? We have a gentleman from the local newspaper here who is rather a gog on all this and a couple of photographers as well. Now, I have a couple of noticed on this new deck. I have a couple of jokers here, so I'm putting them aside and a couple of advertising cards as well from the bottom, and I'm putting those aside as well. If you have those in there, do the same thing, please. Can Ed down here at Mission Control, we'll vouch for you. I'm opening it up now. Okay. And take out any jokers or any advertising cards. The joker has got the rid of the ads and just got a plain old deck here. And then I'll be doing a ruffle shuffle, but I want to make sure that your deck is as well shuffled as mine, so start shuffling your cards. But Ed, be careful, because in outer space, I think it's more difficult to shuffle cards. I'm going to be right here. I'm going to see if I can do this without having these fly all over the place. Can't place these cards because they don't fall down. I assume you are. It's your shuffle. Let me know. Let me shuffle it twice more here. Yeah, I guess so, right? Flip and cut it once for good measure. Without looking at the pack, I'm going to put it underneath the table, and I'm going to take one card out from somewhere around the middle of the deck, turn it over, and place it back inside the pack. I want you to do the same thing, please. Oh, I can't really put it under. Say, close enough for government work. The government here. Yes, I said that you don't know what card you turned over, so you'll be able to find the card that you've chosen. I'm done with that. All right, now. And I have not looked at it. All right. Now, take the box that you had the cards in, and without looking, place the deck of cards back into the box and seal the box up as I've done. All right, you got that now? I got to get the box back out of the plastic bag. I suck it in. Of course. I would like you to take inside of the camera that you have there. I want you to turn the pack to face the camera and go through the cards until you come to the card that's turned over. It is upside down. And that must be the card that you chose. Would you perch it in the end of the pack so that it shows plainly to the camera and tell everyone what is that card? And, Ed, we see the card. It is, I'm showing it to the camera right now. And it is the seven of diamonds. The seven of diamonds. Now, Ed, I'm going to open up my pack. And I'm doing this in front of our cameras here. And I'm going to go through it. And I'm going to look for the card that I turned over. And here it is right here. As a matter of fact, it's the only card in the pack that is turned over. And I got a surprise for you. It is the seven of diamonds. Five dollars. Now, I'm going to ask the partial observer. Yep. Did you notice that? Yes. And it is the seven of diamonds. Now, Ed, this is a question for you. It's a mathematical question. But it's not too difficult. Though you may get it wrong. This is a trick, of course. It's a card trick. But tell me something now. What are the chances of us both having chosen the same card? What are the chances of that? If you were just an ordinary Joe Blow off the street, I would say one in 52. But who's familiar? You're a professional magician. I would say 100%. Very good. That's the answer I was looking for, Ed. Congratulations. The chances of a trick working, if it works, 100%. So it's not one in 52. You don't have to be a scientist to work these chances out. One in one is 100%. And you are a scientist, Ed. So you came up with the right answer. I congratulate you. And thank you very much for your help. And by the way, we should say to our audience... I'm skeptical. I know you. We should say to our audience that you knew nothing about this in advance that you simply took with you up on the Soyuz what, a couple of months ago now, you took a deck of cards in a sealed condition and you're not in on this as a stooge or anything like that, correct? Is correct. Very good. Thank you, Ed. One card. Check back to the camera now, since I guess you can't see. I might want a souvenir. So bring that deck back with you just in case. I'd like to have that as a souvenir. Well, at least bring back this one card. Well, thanks very much, Ed. It's been a pleasure talking with you. Yeah. And come back safely to us now, Ed. Thank you again. And from Earth to space, thanks and bye-bye. I'll be talking to you when I get back on the ground. Bye-bye. Good. Bye-bye.