the technology is right there are no legal standing and if i remember correctly i think there's about five billion dollars that i've been requested for more drone technology over the next year i mean if huge part of the terrorist industrial complex as my former boss colin powell called it one more addition well and unlike a lot of money could be coming towards the pentagon unless you say leon panetta really does take an axe to thanks so much lance my friend well still to come tonight a presidential candidate has signed a pledge to ban all born. and i'm told i wore it on the final space flight for not underway so what is the end of the shuttle program for space exploration.

and broadcasting live direct from the heart of moscow this is are certainly glad to have you with us let's take a look at your top headlines. thousands demonstrated in egypt angered by the slow pace of reform by the interim government there demanding the prosecution of officials and police involved with the violent suppression of protesters during the revolution that toppled former president hosni mubarak the uprising against mubarak began in late january and claimed the lives of more than eight hundred people many of them anti-government activists. hundreds of. flights but still don't make it to gaza where most were prevented from boarding planes at. european airports while those who made it to israel were detained in tel

aviv mediately deported activists have launched repeated attempts. by israeli commandos. to. zero and lift the final countdown. marking the end of the space shuttle program some feel america will be left counting the costs critics of the move to discontinue shuttle mission say it could lead to a brain drain of highly qualified experts and leave the communities near the space center. coming up carrie johnson will be here with a complete look at your news but first we're going to go back to the second part of the show where they continue talking about the space shuttle program.

all right it's time for tonight's tool time award and it goes to congresswoman michele bachmann since she kicked off her presidential campaign last month in iowa a far right wing candidate is trying to dial back her wingnut ideas but you knew that it wouldn't take too long before as they were that crazy did come back now michelle michelle is the first two thousand and twelve presidential candidate to sign the marriage vows a declaration of dependence upon a marriage and family and the venom was sponsored by the family leader and i will base conservative organization so as you can imagine this group is all about protecting the family and marriage here in the u.s. and i mean marriage as in between a man and woman only so they came up with a very detailed declaration for these candidates to uphold the first thing that you must agree to is personal fidelity to your spouse but i mean how about you just do that because it's the right thing to do there are also several issues when it comes to protecting the institute of marriage the institution of marriage you must always be against same sex marriage where almost every single republican running for the

nomination in two thousand and twelve is against marriage equality they've already said it and michele bachmann is no different there's listen to her speak about gay marriage at last month's c.n.n. debate in new hampshire. i do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and woman but i would not be going into the states to overturn their state law mr but you see there's something in this valley the we're pretty sure is going to cause michelle's votes let me draw your attention to the ninth item on this list it reads quote humane protection of women and the innocent fruit of conjugal intimacy our next generation of american children from human trafficking sexual slavery seduction into promiscuity and all forms of pornography and prostitution infanticide abortion and other types of coercion or stolen innocence now i think that we can all agree nobody out there is for the sexual abuse or slavery or forced anything right away to specially not for children but she's for

the total banning of porn all forms that i am sorry michelle but how are you ever going to win the male vote by trying to take away their porn i'm not sure michelle's aware but porn is big business a report released in two thousand and ten on porn found that every second more than three thousand dollars is spent on pornography worldwide every second more than twenty eight thousand internet users are viewing pornography worldwide and here in the u.s. every year nearly two hundred forty five million pages are viewed and every thirty nine minutes here in america a new pornographic video is being created now you may recall r t that an in-depth report on the porn industry several months ago horn's a thirteen billion dollars a year business just here in america worldwide there's four point two million of porn web sites and by the way that is twelve percent of all web sites out there michele bachmann really wants to stop all porn would not be bad for the economy would not be interfering with someone's personal choices and freedoms you know

michelle and her tea party darling what about that whole don't tread on me model now this valley by michele that you just signed is just her attempt to pander to the christian right but it is not going to win her any votes. just about anyone else and so for trying to ban porn which is an easy kiss goodbye to the white house if you ask me michele bachmann is tonight's tool time winner. now today the lantus took off for the last time as it headed towards the international space station it's the last in line and the official end of the u.s. shuttle program it's the end of an era but many are also asking if it could be the end of space exploration for the u.s. who is now going to dependent on the russian soyuz rocket to transport its astronauts or is this just the beginning for perhaps a new era of private enterprise to take us to that final frontier joining me to discuss this is andrew chaikin science journalist and space historian he's author of a man on the moon and a passion for mars as well as other space exploration books and you're nice to have

you back on the show again beyond if you know it's very honest of me are you are you crying are you are you shedding a few tears today as you watch the lanterns take off. no i'm being honest i am actually feeling more energized and excited about the future of space exploration than i have in a long time and the reason i feel that way is because the commercial companies that are developing the next generation of rockets and spacecraft actually have the potential to do something that the shuttle never did do which is to lower the cost of getting into orbit around the earth and that is the gateway because it's kind of like a toll bridge to new york city you want to go into new york and have a great time in new york city but it's so expensive to get over the toll bridge that you can't even think about it and that's the situation we've been in for fifty

years the cost of entry to space that that realm just a couple hundred miles up has been you know ten thousand dollars a pound or thereabouts ever since space age began and what is needed is the kind of ingenuity and the willingness to do things differently and the ability to do things differently that i think than we al was back. did you did you catch what i was yes i can i cut you sorry we lost you towards the end of her answer there but let me just ask you mean what's to stop private business private enterprise from making this a real money making scheme for themselves if they can mean currently for people like point of play like me start to sell a founders of the world i mean they're paying hundreds of millions of dollars or at least that's what some of these new firms are going to be the ones that can slingshot you. around the. you're bringing in something that's sort of old school

which is really wealthy tourists that get to go up on a russian soyuz and paste scads of money i'm talking about a whole new space age in which these companies maybe make it possible to to launch astronauts necessarily tourists yet but astronauts for a fraction of the cost of the shuttle and thereby make it possible do all kinds of things in space. and nasa can then focus on what it does really well which is pushing the state of the order to give us the technology to go beyond low earth orbit and head out into deep space and that's the transformation that i'm really excited about maybe on the verge of happening thanks to companies like space x. and jeff bezos his company blue origin he's the c.e.o. of amazon these guys are passionate they're smart they've got lots of money and they have assembled very very competent exciting teams and they're just you know

there are several companies that are trying to do this now in the meantime of course there are a lot of people in florida thousands of workers in fact that as soon as they went as returns are going to be laid off and are going to be looking for work and is there going to be enough work out there when it comes to some of these private companies that's that's the pain that unfortunately was set in motion by george w. bush seven and a half years ago when he decided to end the shuttle program. actually the plan was to end it last year it in turns out it's ending now and you know they're going to be a lot of people that that are out of work and that's unfortunate and i'm sorry for that situation but unfortunately this is a process that nasa has deferred for just about forty years thirty or forty years which is the process of making space sustainable the shuttle was never going to be

sustainable that's why it got canceled now the fact that there's a a gap. you know that was set in motion as i say seven and a half years ago the time to debate that cancellation was then not now but i'm hopeful that some of these companies like space x. which has already tested the capsule for taking people to and from the space station although in an unmanned version they they're still working on manned rating it that they will in fact have these things up and running in the next couple years or maybe three years it also depends on how quickly nasa can work through the regulatory issues but you know a little bit of pain now could lead to a truly bright era in space exploration just a few years from now and it is time very quickly one of these things because i think that a lot of americans say they're not going to happy with a little bit of pain now because it's a lot of pain if you look at like i said the the jobs numbers that came out today the general state of the economy but has now the kind of under sold itself

a lot of people say ok fine i went to the moon so what a back at us but tell us about some of those technologies that maybe things that we use everything will day that we had no idea came about because of space i for one because of nasa well for starters i'm talking to you now and sky. and the information technology that we take for granted today whether it's your computer or your cellphone or the scanner in your supermarket or the you know the intelligence in whatever electronic device you pick up. a lot of the technology was jump started by the space program thirty forty fifty years ago and we're still reaping the benefits of that what i think is the thing to worry about is not necessarily that we're going through some pain with a few thousand jobs for the space program right now but that we have been going through a decline in the number of ph d.'s and the number of science candidates and engineering

candidates in this country other countries are eating our lunch in that arena and he needs like these commercial space endeavors and that the exploration that nasa will hopefully still be doing to get us back competitive with the rest of the world in science and technology not that i were actually are actually starting to bring in those engineers and some of these qualified people from the like under the have to wrap it up because unfortunately at a time and her but thank you so much for joining us today and the inspiration factor thank you. now when shuttle atlantis returns to earth ally twentieth it's going to mean that thousands of workers are going to be out of a job and with a shuttle program closing down american astronauts will have to hitch a ride into space where the russians are teens guy and gives us a more personal look at what the end of the air and u.s. space history is going to mean for some americans. empty shells of what was once florida's thriving space coast. up to ten

thousand people will be out of a job as soon as the last shuttle makes its final voyage back to earth home to many of the kennedy space center workers rock which is on the verge of becoming a ghost town without the space program or pretty much nothing i mean this is what you know because the beach is built on the space program you know just a lot of people are going to be out of jobs sorry to be out of homes people are going on welfare left and right food stamps anthony chris a fully spent twenty three years. with the shuttle launch team as an engineer with a plan to splice for its final mission it means the end of his career with nasa and the beginning of uncertainty a year ago he started looking for a new job to no avail i have applied for jobs and so far i haven't got any concrete responses there's not that many jobs out there for sure the u.s. scrapped its shuttle program and now wants the private sector to come up with ways

to get astronauts to space several companies are working on new vehicles but it's not clear when they'll be able to deliver them one thing is certain though they'll be able to hire only a fraction of the skilled space industry workers will be out of work soon this is the first shuttle ever it never made it to space but it was going to put tests before the columbia shuttle first launch into space in nineteen eighty one a total of five shuttles had been used for space missions since that two of them were last name tragic accidents a nine hundred eighty six and in two thousand and three those lawsuits and the skyrocketing price for each launch gradually led to the cancellation of the program but critics say it's hard to estimate the losses that the end of the shuttle program will bring about both for the space industry and the people involved i think it's a really bad thing for the united states to lose the skilled workforce it's going to be difficult to rebuild for years the shuttle has been the only vehicle that

could ferry crew and a massive load of cargo to space officials say one of the reasons the program was scrapped is that it's safer and cheaper to send cargo and people separately something that russia for example has been doing for many years but whatever the reasons for scrapping the thirty year old program for those who devoted their lives to it is the end of their dream job it's kind of sad because i've already seen a lot of few of my friends go you know because they'll be more people that are probably may never see again it also means the end of a once vibrant scientific community that's grown up around the shuttle going to shotgun. coming up just ahead we have fireside friday and then join us for a dose of happy hour that's right trailer for sarah palin's new movie is out and after the casey anthony verdict there's now a new rush to pass a law to explain all that and more.

will. read you the latest in science and technology from the realms of what. we've done to the future of coverage. which brightened if you move on from phones to. spending the year in iraq is military journalist. some ways to go in u.s. contractors there's kind of wasting their time trying to get killed.

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you about the case of humberto liao garcia a mexican citizen who was convicted of raping and killing a sixteen year old girl and he was put on death row yesterday after our show he was executed and he was executed despite the fact that according to the vienna convention he had the right to seek assistance from the mexican consulate when he was arrested that's something that texas. ever abided by in fact they never even told him that he had that right he was executed despite the fact that the president of the united states himself asked texas governor rick perry to rethink this execution as a matter of international relations and diplomacy because it's not about whether this man committed a heinous crime or not it's not like the mexican government would have let him walk free and you see all parties involved here recognize his guilt but it's a matter of holding ourselves up to the same standards we expect of others and he was also executed because when the president asked the u.s. supreme court to step in and place the stay they ruled that they could not and the

possible damage from this move is something that could endanger all americans can you imagine what our government's response would be if other countries were to execute an american citizen without ever letting them contact their consulate and seek legal assistance it would be a diplomatic crisis americans that would be in an uproar but thanks to rick perry we would also all be hypocrites thanks to a governor who wanted to look tough on crime for his own personal gain we now have on our records something that north korea and iran do not but now we've decided to take an international treaty and just spit on it and what's to stop them from doing it to you you know it's not like this is an isolated incident the only time that this country or lawmakers within it of flagrantly violated international laws or ignored them but each time that happens it stains our record more each time that happens is another drop in the bucket of our hypocrisy that's become far too deep and this wasn't an accident it wasn't a necessity this was

a choice so praying isn't going to cleanse rick perry of what he's done. ok it's all right. grabby hour and joining me this evening as our team correspondent lauren lyster and alex sites while reporter blogger for think progress dot org thanks for joining me guys. again. ok the pail and movie trailer is out at the moment that everyone's been waiting for so take a look he blew the whistle already she took it on because she knew it needed to be done i was actually working against sarah palin i mean if you know she was strong enough to have the gravitas courage to try and she's not afraid to your old war saloon where you should be forty six. and then she quit

and you know you tell me that she's not running for example you have the looks like a p.s.a. with the people standing just with the white background all of her achievements and every debuted in iowa with her they're very quick to dental i'm sure are going to see it or you know i take it you know i'm just going to watch the trailer over and over because the most dramatic part that we didn't get to see there is the beginning which is the most dramatic music i've ever heard with all of her accolades mother why just like the most dramatic music ever this is how can you name a movie about somebody who lost the two thousand election the undefeated i mean she raised a few that's i mean there's but there's. also in the end there's a a lengthy scene where they burn money and flush it down the toilet and tear it up which is actually illegal i always heard that but i looked it up today and it's true there is it without every little odds on camera the thing about sarah palin is

nothing she does make sense so i guess making a movie called the undefeated about somebody the last in their world makes sense now let's move on to our next story of course this is one of those scandals that the whole world has been watching and there's been a lot of critique around this perp walk that's now become so famous take a look. and then also dominick strauss kahn has a really cool chin you. to face charges including attempted rape. the man who was widely tipped to be from sits next president was seen in public for the first time since his arrest on saturday and looking drained strauss kahn is set to plead not guilty to claims he sexually attacked an imprisoned hotel maid so it's a d.m.k. had to deal with the perp walk with being paraded around in front of everybody and now of course the entire case is falling apart now it turns out that the accuser may have been you know this whole thing was a scam it was all for money but one thing that the u.s.

media hasn't done compared to the european money the media excuse me is that they haven't mentioned her name out of respect for her do you think about the right thing to do you know i do i agree with that i just do i don't care whether the case against her or against him falls apart as a result of her credibility i think that protecting the possible victims of sexual assault and rape is something really important that most of the press but then once the case if the case does fall apart right and let's say that she was not a victim that is she going to be fair game for everyone to try and dig up every person that she was ever related to or lived next to you and try to get dirt on her i think that's a good question i think it's tricky because just because the case falls apart doesn't mean she wasn't a rape victim and might fall apart for other reasons which is what people have hinted to in this case her attorneys in the case you know it is probably generally a good idea to do i mean it is an awkward situation because with the internet you can google it and find literally hundreds of websites like that because it and your . everybody is already printing the name so it's kind of interesting that there is this you know ethic. on the bridge that doesn't make it ok for you know i mean i

agree she made it and we know today i will say those amazing that we all went from immediately terrible. and now it's like. to go you know and that's a separate issue and i think that that is an issue but i do think that separate from releasing the victim's name ok i agree. with the prize in this case but i always find it kind of odd when they choose to abide by certain ethics and then announce you are just one religion out there would be hypocrites here's another one these are kind of downers so. here's another i never made fun of nonstop is this casey anthony trial but i can't believe how much coverage there has been the because there's been so much coverage because people like nancy grace with everyone into this crazy frenzy now there are some legislation that might be pending because of it or at least there's a petition to take a look. the public emotions still running extremely high following her acquittal on murder charges a handful of states are now considering new legislation called caylee's law so this

creates a felony charges actually if they turn their caretaker does not disclose to law enforcement a missing or deceased child. are i'm sorry i will tell you why i think this is a bad idea not because i don't think that it's good to try to protect children but if anybody out there is actually planning on doing something bad to their kid actually planning on killing them the threat of a felony for not reporting it right away is not going to scare them off it's not going to change their mind meanwhile you have somebody else they get somehow caught in like the bureaucracy of all this if somebody reports someone missing and they weren't really missing and they have a felony slapped on them yeah i mean aside from the law i just don't want to hear about casey anthony's case anymore so if they're going to pass these laws fine past them get it done which unfortunately in our country doesn't happen very quickly but i hope that it will because i just want this case out of the media and you want to know if you're going to have a kind of a felony is that maybe don't need that and if it means that casey anthony will be out of the news fine it's

a little draconian just can't help but think that nancy grace is somehow behind all of us here she started whispering to me here is yeah i mean she's going to personally lobby every state legislature to get this thing i mean and i'm terrified of her or whatever she wants her to depend on that she's seen a huge boost because they. saw their best ratings ever oh yeah oh yeah of all this you know going to one or two spots a lot as a male as that is really annoying and everybody wishes would go away which is planking new images for you if you haven't heard of playing at it's are people to play around with their heads had to be photoshop like he was not. so whatever it's been going on for a while but now exhibit came out today and he tweeted that playing king is basically races he said planking was a way to transport slaves on ships during the slave trade it's not funny educate yourselves don't get it twisted i care. that's where your dumb asses lay face down to take pictures of it i'm just telling you where it came from but i don't think that's actually what it's about because i think the people have been doing that in

england like it's just been kind of a joke yeah i mean a doctor said if that gets planking to go away then go for it and i completely agree with that i think this blanket thing is ridiculous people died sorry planking is not worth dying for yeah people fell off a balcony or something like that but now that you know wind down on the ground i don't really see how that comes from one particular place or any other object that place you know this this newest plucking trend is started by radio you know i was trying to promote something so i remember even doing it on you know it's really it's a bit as incredible as being stupid about it by doing it on a balcony and then die and are trying to outflank and also plot his position so you know choose your own adventure with where i have to run but i forgot but thanks for joining me thanks for joining in and make sure you guys come back on monday we're going to have a whole new week for you with another go to happy hour and meantime don't forget to become a fan of the lower show on facebook or follow us on twitter if there's anything that you missed you can always catch dolly dot com slash below nischelle and coming up next is adam but then i.

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