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indoor salt water shrimp form. a very. narrow they're over and i asked her you know welcomed r.t.m. travis county. carlina and darryl brown accidental shrimp farming pioneers are you going to now six pounds with thirty two dozen basic backyard pools is growing tanks they've perfected an indoor system with zero waste no chemicals in the ninety percent survival rate. that's a third higher than traditional outdoor shrimp farms well this is like a little laboratory here yes it is in the short form yes it is we do nine tests every single day we do temperature does on oxygen night shite c o two salinity alkalinity ph ammonia and flop as you can see our water is brown the test we're doing here right now is we're trying to see how much bacteria is in our water and we call this settling so you're basically waiting for all this bacteria to go to the bottom and that tells you how much is in how much we have an exact like air for
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over a certain level then we have to get it out of the tanks otherwise it's going to start suffocating the strain that's very important that has to be done every day basically we're not even farmers anymore we ask ourselves guardians of water as long as the water does what it's supposed to be doing the trick to just fine we add no antibiotics no hormones are ever added into our tanks you heard that right no antibiotics no hormones just fish food salts and baking so it's called head root trophic bio flux system a process that revolves around bacteria no it looks very room what is this room that i'm seeing the ground is the bacteria the bacteria is why they sell their way so that they can survive without a major filter here's what's happening below the surface the shrimp eat their feed in excrete ammonia the bacteria turns that into talks ignite troitsky other bacteria turn that into benign nitrates and as the. waters air raided the nitrates
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turned into a harmless gas and around and around how long have you had this water for years and how does it compare to other short forms most of don't have water that law we by mistake actually kept our water it's like it's maturing it's like one yeah and we just found out of the older it gets the better it gets and so too for the shrimp the growing process starts every month with about two hundred fifty thousand newborns called post marvels nicknamed pos now we're going to show you about r p l's and when they come in they're the size of an eye last so it's hard to see inside this water but how many shrimp are actually in here we've stocked about seventeen thousand each one of my six tanks there so with all these tubes coming down those are airlines that adds the oxygen and their oxygen and keeps everything in suspension because if this stuff settles i'll have twenty minutes and then twenty minutes i meant maybe then everything here seems so precise it has to be
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it's mother nature will it is mother nature but with a lot of help from a mother in indiana and i noticed there's foam on top what is this foam foam is mostly c o two mixing with their feed that just comes to the top and it will actually disappear so it's part of the process is part of the process. yes yes. because. this is what you see in the supermarket when you get a shrimp down as they said they can be frozen with a head on their very translucent and one of the characteristics we actually let our minds see the long intent is then tells me they're happy. in their intent is a shark they're fast now if you can see here this is their only protection and these mad right now that mouthpiece have these very angry at me as well horn yeah and if you can look right where your thumb is that that's where it's hard is that also you can see it start being. a month later. they're promoted to the
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production team with a turn in to dinner. forty after you know you have to keep going you would have to . guess they. are you saying on the bed. brown so about five hundred pounds directly to walk ins each month at eighteen dollars thank you very much they. will sold their know how to two dozen start up forms in the us as well as ones in switzerland and spain these companies are really innovators they're trying out new technology johns hopkins microbiologist david love studies true production he gives the production like the browns a high grade with one can of young one that could ultimately make or break in the business world a lot of these farms my start out with a bang but then fizzle after a few years because they don't make money for the browns shrimp farming is paying off no financial fizzle only sizzle as the business continues to grow as it
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already is just a back but the proof of their success is what ends up on the plate in this case innovation tastes pretty good when served with the profit motive so you would. know i still can't get over the fact that possibly the cleanest and arguably the best shrimp in the world may come from the middle of indiana so i guess i'm. in the table looks a little gross i get that but it's chemistry in there and a good end result is really good there's a global problem with using a lot of antibiotics in farming the more antibiotics used the more we're going to start seeing antibiotic resistant superbugs it happens and agribusiness here in the us it happens overseas and it even happens in medical practice you know a lot of people ask should why. we care if there is some superbug that can infect
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shrimp how does that affect us but what they found is that bacteria can actually swap genes so potentially if the bacteria that infect shrimp becomes resistant it could swap the gene into a bacteria that infects us and so that resistance me passed on and the amounts of you know millions of pounds of antibiotics are being used around the world not just in trim but in cattle and poultry as well that is going to catch up to us when it hits or healthcare's yet it's called a it's called a spillover event it's not infection it's an infection that happens in an animal species and then just like that a human can get infected too and it's been the source of most deadly diseases that medicine can't keep up with and that's where you look at the numbers can we have a billion pounds getting imported here only two percent actually gets inspected what about the other ninety percent it's important to have confidence in the system moving forward if we're going to keep eating shrimp and the inspection process missing brandon i mean the amount of shipping that came investors will actually
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made it into a lab is tiny tear what you have coming up for us next you have really interesting story now imagine that you are one of the first pioneers to take a trip to mars but also imagine that you're not allowed to come home it's a one way trip which you guys do at. i met a woman who is already signed up and she's raring to go. for decades humanity has been fascinated with a manned expedition to mars. this is. the definition of pioneering. that doesn't scare here that's what makes it exciting robotic pioneers like mars curiosity rover have been crawling around the cratered landscape uncovering clues. about whether this distant planet can sustain life as we know it do you have the right stuff i have that right stuff
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jamie del rosario is a twenty seven year old entrepreneur and c.e.o. of the international metal stores a raw materials company that supplies metals to aerospace companies like space x. and lockheed martin she is one of one hundred candidates that has been selected by mars one a private company that wants to colonize the red planet the catch there's no return flight home what do you say to people when they say jamie this is a suicide mission why are you doing it call it as i said mission but it's something that i chose i'm creating my own destiny for myself and and if it's a destiny that would help humanity. i'm all for it. according to mars one one of the main goals of the project is to establish an interplanetary species to preserve the human race. i want to contribute directly to me in kind of call for the expansion of the solar system which we have to do it for
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point destroy the world she made it to the top one hundred the third round of a selection process mars one says started with two hundred thousand online applicants ultimately twenty four crew members will be chosen. do you think that anybody with enough training could. common astronaut i believe that if you have. the motivation and it's terminations of wanting to do it you can a mission to mars is obviously no simple matter pasadena california is home to the mars program at nasa is jet propulsion laboratory nasa has taken the man to the moon and back but they've approached this journey with a much more deliberate and rigorous training program. i'm now on the base on mars and i will give you a little tour in two thousand and fifteen six volunteer scientists walked out of a dome on the side of a hawaiian volcano after being locked away by nasa for eight months this was
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a simulated experiment of what life on mars would be like coexisting is one challenge getting there and surviving is an entirely different endeavor landing on mars is still pretty well sometimes it can be quite a terrifying play. dr richard zurek is the chief scientist for the mars program at nasa jet propulsion laboratory a lot of things have to happen right right know we fly into the atmosphere we have would he choose the protection but we're also trying to slow down so that we can land softly. we're talking about a very different scale of endeavor we're landing a metric ton down on the planet today we think for human missions to get stuff down on the surface that they can use that they can be there for a long period of time that means forty fifty metric tons that's a lot of material today we don't know how to land the mars one has come under
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critical fire for their project primarily due to funding issues and for reports of recording the mission for reality television show. in march two thousand and fifteen c.e.o. basilan store took to you tube to respond they are currently selling our documentary series to international brawls costs or there's no deal in place yet but it's looking very promising there's a lot of interest of course when we really fell you are good criticism about our mission because it helps us to improve our mission also tells techno quote there are less serious critics who are only interested to sabotage our mission for example by lying but even if. this nonprofit's mission never launches nasa is laying the groundwork today this is very much in the mode there are going to be humans on mars we're in the first stages of trying to understand what it takes to actually be able to explore with humans on the surface of the planet we've made
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a good start for everybody program first it's to get down there see what the planet is like that those first explorers out there on the surface in that we can see what the future holds not in a million years but i want to go and colonize mars i mean there's so many risks it's so frightening to me what is the value that's different from me and probably from most of the people living on this planet who are afraid to go some people just have different goals and missions i want to do something that would change the world or help the world so if you are selected to go to mars do you foresee yourself getting married on mars having children i'd say that. is you know interesting because it will happen do you think that's going to be a part of your training i would think so i mean that's something that we cannot shying away from because we're the new frontiers of colony and i think another part in the solar system are you scare leaving earth behind i will miss it everybody is
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trying to get to mars and i think what stands out with my swan is a permanent settlement and i think this is the time now. so i'm really interested you guys would you sign up for a one way mission to mars i wouldn't you wouldn't mind. possibly but i don't think i would sign up for this one way mission to mars jeweler through history so many pioneers and explorers were to be fair a little bit crazy and sometimes they succeeded but other times they didn't but it always will push progress forward just a little bit through how i think the merit of this project is the fact that they go lives to try to be able to achieve living on mars and the result of having a go at night which is extremely ambitious is the amount of technology that's going to be developed you know just crazy inventions in innovations that are going to come out of a kind of pie in the sky it's you know i think we've talked sustaining life on
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other planets versus sustaining life here on earth is really interesting topics today guys so thank you for them we'll have a lot more of these stories next on here in techno we'll see you then dive deep into these stories and go behind the scenes with al-jazeera dot com slash techno. expert contributors on twitter facebook instagram google plus and more. we're talking about ivory poachers who have decimated populations of elephants in africa they almost always ship the ivory out of a different country from where it was poached because that's where you start your search to look in the wrong place this radiocarbon dating method tell us their trade ivory is legal or not then we have a place we can focus law enforcement on take those out and perhaps the source of the r.v. from entering the network take no one else is there. this is the journey you've
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no i'm fully back to boyer watching al jazeera live from doha also ahead and a rainy an army plane with sixteen people onboard crashes near the capital tehran. u.s. secretary of state mike on pale meets a saudi leadership in riyadh on the latest leg of his middle east oil. and venezuela's opposition leader remains defiant out to being arrested briefly for pressuring the legitimacy of the presidency of nicolas maduro. thank you for joining us turkey's presidential spokesman says the u.s. must honor its strategic relationship after president donald trump threatened to devastate turkey's economy if its forces attacked kurdish fighters in syria is the
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latest political fallout from the u.s. leaders announcement that he plans to withdraw american forces from syria trying tweeted starting a long overdue pullout from syria while hitting the little remaining isis territorial caliphate hard and from many directions will attack again from existing nearby base if it reforms will devastate turkey economically if they hit kurds creates twenty miles save so i'm well trump's tweet follows the mob ization of the syrian army iran mom bage at the request of kurdish y.p. g. forces and preparing for a long planned offensive against the y p g it views the group as a threat it's near its southern border. has more from istanbul. this is the first time that a u.s. official has threatened turkey by diverse stating its economy when you speak to the politicians and uncle rod they tell that even during the cyprus crisis in one thousand nine hundred fifty nine despite embargoes imposed by the united states
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turkey though no such language has been ever used and until now the turkish reaction was about clarifying that the sink ssion between the kurds and the y.p. g. and the p.k. k. this is what turks have said in their social media accounts on till now and today in the late afternoon our don is expected to say something about this but he has been taking it slow because he is receiving some briefs from his a team in the foreign ministry in the military and intelligence but of course this breaking point between turkey and the united states will have some reactions mainly on the markets as well the turkish lira has lost some value against the dollar since the morning hours but of course the business associations are the key here because if they show support and solidarity with president advantage in his statements and reactions against turkey are gone will be much stronger considering the elections coming up and now the result may be turkey getting much closer with russia over its policies
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for syria which the united states will not be welcoming of course and al jazeera is monitor do is monitoring the situation in northern syria from tape on the turkey syria border. if you do not know what a witch pops off an agreement the u.s. and turkey hide on techie taking a leading role in filling in the void will vacuum left by the withdrawal of u.s. troops will kill eate of course attack you have been reading to go will have been appealing to the united states for not only support but also majestical support in taking on what it was calling terrorists locking in the city of close to talkies no difference between ourselves and the cut is why p.d. and p.k. k. fighters will form the bulk of the fighters of the city and democratic school
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system have been a great ally of the united states in the fight against isis some of the fighting right now is going on in some but in most districts like a gene the right of the border between syria and iraq and of course if. turkey is maintaining that it will cut out on all fronts of against what squatting terrorist elements in syria either way without me in them a talking the forces who are currently engaged in the fight against i saw him talking about that as the fighters will cut his men mainly cut it so it is going to be even more complicated from here on in. in other world news at least fifteen people have been killed after a military plane crashed in iran it happened near five airport just west of the capital tehran iranian state television says severe weather may have played a role the plane had been attempting to make an emergency landing. the u.s.
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secretary of state has been meeting a saudi arabia's leadership in riyadh on the latest leg of his tour of the middle east mike on bail has held talks with saudi arabia's crown prince but he's canceled his leg of the his trip to the middle east to return to the u.s. for family funeral pale was in qatar where he retreated that washington will make sure riyadh holds accountable those involved in the murder of saudi journalist jamal. that's bringing a child who's been following developments for us from kuwait city jim out on bail has met with the crown prince of saudi arabia do we know what's come out of their discussions. well father according to the u.s. embassy in saudi arabia tweeted in the past forty minutes or so quoting the circular st mark my papa saying that he had a very good meeting with king saddam and that they discussed many issues he said including yemen iran and afghanistan and was grateful for saudi arabia support for
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the political process both in yemen and. shortly tweeted another one saying that he met with the crown prince mohammed bin said monday prime suspect in the murder of jamal khashoggi but no mention in this tweet about the assassination of the saudi journalist and said he said on yemen the greed for the need of continued deescalation and an adherence to the sweden agreement sweden obviously has been the place where the. peace talks have been taking place and that there needs to be redeployment for in the data the port city that has seen maybe some of the fiercest fighting so is expected at least publicly fairly promptly or has not mentioned the case of. particular because. they see him as the prime suspect according to the cia the u.s. has an all intelligence agency however the trumpet ministration has from the very beginning made it very clear that it will give a higher importance to business deals and financial benefits true both the trumpet
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illustration and the u.s. economy over the fix that it's a spouse is true a cure or two in terms of its foreign policy namely that of free press and. democracy and therefore there will be definitely criticism for the fact that it hasn't publicly spoken about that it's so as far as we know no mention publicly at least of what about the g.c.c. crisis when he was in darwin sunday night conference and to the dispute between. the emirates and the other countries that are blockading qatar will he have reiterated this call in riyadh today. well there was a quiet murmuring between some of the officials at least off the record in the region and people that i've been speaking through the past couple of days that maybe there was some sort of expectation long necessarily that pomp arrow's research would come up with a solution to this eighteen month long crisis and sensually the blockading of qatar
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and the collective punishment of its people by saudi arabia the united arab emirates in the lead and then obviously behind in egypt however you true this but we haven't and his family has cut his trip short and what's significant about comparing notes coming through kuwait is that's been the leading mediator or at least leading the attempts albeit unsuccessfully to mediate this crisis obviously there is a valid reason in that there is that death there are however people would say that maybe the fact that he's not leaving behind a delegation to continue the work to visit kuwait is maybe an indication that there wasn't a breakthrough in trying to find a solution to this blockade having said that the first part of his trip took place and as we mentioned there was talk of finding a solution to this crisis here is more from. my
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company with a message to the gulf countries and their dispute the political crisis in decades for the gulf cooperation council president and i both believe the ongoing dispute the region has dragged on too long and the dispute benefits adversaries and harms our mutual interests the emir of qatar shaved. and he greeted. after discussions with qatar's foreign minister says mohammed but i will manage those countries say they are keen to consolidate trade and bit your cooperation that includes expanding for a larger. just u.s. military base in the middle east dade near the capital doha is home to the forward operating base of u.s. central command. and then we have discussed all the issues of interest for our country's regional issues starting with the gulf cooperation council and the peace
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process in the middle east as well as the reconsolidation in afghanistan as well as other issues such as syria and counter-terrorism. landed in qatar from the united arab emirates after visiting egyptian and behave in his flying to sandy arabia which have all imposed their eighteen month long land and sea blockade on qatar the accused the title funding extremism allegations strongly dismissed by a qatari leader as america's top diplomat has also visited jordan and is due in a man and kuwait on his middle east tour it's being seen as an attempt to rally support among key players in the region to counterbalance the growing influence of iran and i don't think that the administration plans for dealing with iran by virtue of trying to organize a larger coalition are going to work simply because most states do not agree with
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us in our policies canceling the joint comprehensive plan of action that would have prevented iran if implemented from ever attending a nuclear weapon the u.s. is due to host a conference in poland next month to discuss ways to curb iran's activities in the region and ensure middle east stability the u.s. is keen of building a bridge an alliance to counter what it considers to be a growing iranian influence in the gulf but that may be impossible as long as the diplomatic crisis in the g.c.c. continues. doha. a court in the democratic republic of congo is expected to hear the case of presidential runner martin for you know who's challenging the election result he's arguing for a manual recount haram has more from his. catholic priest as the congregation to pray for peace in d.c.
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as uncertainty grows over the disputed election result the catholic church deployed forty thousand election observers on voting day last month they tallies his opposition leader martin for you lou.

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