it had never been used before so it was a test flight of that new suit which worked beautifully and it was also a test flight of the backpack that i used which people use on the moon when you're in space testing all that amazing self and basically laying out the foundation for man to go to the moon. how much depends on you not on your skills and how much depends on the genie's of the person who equipped designed the equipment and the technology that actually brought you there. what it will only say that if i'm performing a concert. a list concerto in carnegie hall certainly a lot of the audience enjoyment will be the list composition but only if i perform it well so it's both the design of the equipment and the execution of its use both are part of success i wouldn't want to raise as you do now as you know

there are thought of it that way. is it true that you're feeling a bit sick when you were up there oh i know it's i was a feeling a bit sick i barfed twice i got sick i may sound like a naive question but who and what am i going to ask about feeling sick in space what is it like when you think they can say well it feels subjectively if eales the same as if you're if you get seasick or if you're susceptible to motion sickness in a car motion sickness is motion sickness so it feels very much the same way now it's quite different however because of space with no gravity things don't go things don't go down. so you end up with you know something here you have to carry things off so it's not as. physically comfortable as it is on the ground. simply because gravity doesn't work with you and separating you know sticky

things like when you barf from your mouth so it's unpleasant now after you do it find you feel better and of course after one day a problem then i had adapted entirely and there was no problem after that but it was very disruptive for the one day that happened twice so looking back you were the one to test it to do that to them and to them when 50 years later if you compare right now to the modern manned spaceflight is it any different with like minor technical adjustments or is a completely different. well it. it's not a very good comparison. looking back 50 years of the spacecraft the technology that was used and that kind of thing from the technology that's available today i mean there are quite different it's drastically different

that's what i'm asking or is it the same with the physical principles you're dealing with in terms of maneuvering and all i mean to physics is physics and the physics hasn't changed over 50 years so the environment itself isn't changing but the technology which we have available today to to execute is quite different. rocket technology is still fundamentally the same thing you know we're a bit more efficient there are some new materials and that kind of thing programming the software aspects are much much more capable today you know the i mean in my i phone i have a 1000 times the capability of the of the computers that we had on board the spacecraft at that time i mean it's ridiculous that in my back pocket i have much much more capability than we had in the entire apollo program. so the things have changed in that sense but the challenge the physical. environment that you're

dealing with with the vacuum maneuvering rendezvous techniques all of those things are basically the same challenge you're simply using a more capable tool to do the same job so after you left you actually devote your career to the issue of asteroid danger and defense against the impact you can create a foundation what is it about asteroids that made you to vote so much of your life's work and time to. well it you know there are very few who x.'s stench will threats. to life on earth i'm not talking about my survival or yours i'm talking about the whole life experiment here on earth. there have been mass extinctions in the past and the the impact that wiped out the dinosaurs 64000000 years ago wiped out 75 percent of all life that exists people

hear about the dinosaurs but it was 75 percent of all species disappeared with that impact so the asteroid impacts at the largest scale which is very rare that that type of an impact occurs nevertheless there is a 1000000 existential threat to life on earth if you if we put it in simple words what could it be like it could destroy a city a country a continent whole plan a while i'm delighted to be a little bit careful because we're just what the when we talk about the potential destruction that an asteroid impact can cause we're talking about the threat to life we're not talking about the threat to the planet the planet will survive i mean the we don't worry about the planet per se worry about the life carrying capacity of the planet the capability to support life that can be destroyed. we're very fragile occupants of the surface of this planet

so yes a city can be destroyed a continent can be destroyed and life on the planet can be destroyed civilization is very fragile frankly. so it doesn't take much to destroy civilization and we can protect civilization and life on the planet with the technology and the capability we have today if we do this job correctly so how many how do you imagine asteroid defense system because in my have like i have all this 5 films and i have a king it's a ring of orbiting the sun satellites like in starship troopers or something what does it look like quick do we have technical capabilities for such thing at this point well 1st of all asteroids occasionally hit the earth in fact asteroids hit the earth every day we call them shooting stars these are very very small asteroids

ok but $100.00 tons of material comes into the earth from shooting stars every night. so we're always hit by the saying the issue is not are we going to be hit we're always hit the issue is how big are they going to be and the larger you get the less frequent they are and so what we're protecting against is the occasional asteroid impact perhaps only once every 100 years or once every 400 years how often the lennix last time i looked like a huge warning china right in 15th century that killed 10000 people and there was one inch a lab and that was the talked about well show yes the most recent one was a want to show evidence which did not kill anybody but had it come in just a little bit steeper than it did it came in a fairly shallow angle had it been a little bit steeper we probably would have seen a few deaths with that but that's only about once every 75 years that one of those

will hit more to the point is the one that hit in 1008 in. again in siberia but that one would have had that come in over a city today. you know that there are not that many cities you know on the surface of the earth but had it come in over a city it would have wiped out an entire city so what does this defense looks like or what is it like no you don't build a defense in space translated to our language what is it like yes you predict by by knowing what these asteroids these asteroids are out there finding them. determining their orbit i can then predict they're there they go around the sun the same way that the earth does but they're pez cross the orbit of the the earth and if they do cross the orbit of the earth you have

a 3 dimensional intersection and sooner or later the earth and the asteroid will be in the intersection at the same time it's just like 2 cars you know if there are only 2 cars in the whole 'd on the whole planet not often have an intersection but on rare occasion you will and if you can predict that then you can take action to prevent that asteroid from arriving at that intersection at the same time that the earth goes through there so how masoom is our chance that's what i'm doing as i'm changing the arrival time of the if i know it's going to be in the intersection at the same time as earth 5 years ahead of time i need to slow it down or speed it up a little bit using space technology so that it arrives slightly ahead of the earth or behind the earth but not at the same time as the earth that's a deflection so do i understand correctly that you do that by costly observing.

where is coming from how do you detect it like i don't have years ahead yes i don't have to constantly observe if i use telescopes on the earth to find an asteroid whose orbit does cross the earth then by having this in my database i know i can predict it in the same way that i can rendezvous with mars or the moon or another spacecraft if i know the orbit something's in i can go to meet that to rendezvous so if i know that there is an asteroid that isn't in orbit this going to hit the earth i can go up ahead of time and slightly change its orbit so that it doesn't arrive at the same time as ears that's that's a deflection we don't have to blow it up we don't have to change its orbit we just changes arrival time at that intersect so you're not changing to jack terry right well you have to be careful i don't read or wrecked it i simply make it go faster or slower that's also changing its orbit but it's not by turning to direction it's

going is by making it go faster or slower you know i'm asking right because you know as humans everything good that was start often turns into evil i mean can this possibly be used i don't know by governments against our enemies like take trajectory change it directed towards your enemy or something that you know what i mean yes this is this is a question that's existed for a long time there's even a phrase for which i forgotten but it is not a serious issue. let me put it this way. it is much easier for me to destroy you or vice versa using other means than to find an asteroid in exactly the right orbit i can change it just a little bit so the hits you mean that i would have that opportunity maybe once every 10000000 years well if i want to get rid of you i get rid of you tomorrow i don't want to have to wait for the right asteroid

a 1000000 years from now to get rid of so this is not a this is not a serious issue in a sort of hypothetical way yes. there's a possibility but it's easier. much much much less expensive. to take a short break right now when we're back. thousands

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a sex offender who was not even going to justice or put on the registry this is simply an issue of tower and violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether that's men or women. nobody wants to look at the wildfires and say the obvious number one the taxes are being misused they're not being adequately distributed to where they are needed on the infrastructure side because there's a government failure number 2 climate change regardless of whether you believe it's happening or not the damage that is going to be applied to your pocketbook that you will pay for climate change whether you believe it or not you know it's still the price is still there. you mentioned the c 35 if you have a career and career involves using your arm flew in your computer it seems that

that would be in the north as. perhaps you sort of getting going it's circular. you're going to have to stop doing all of this i mean this is kind of you lou the new it's. my world became smaller and smaller and smaller until i ended up living it in a box. very strong magnetic field. you know to my head. it's like a real hard pressure on my skin burns and that wireless access point here just continues on saying with our students in the school it's. just can. when you really are citizens in this microwave radiation it is certainly electro small and it's getting worse. seems wrong. to me. yet to see.

this day. and in. the trailer. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. and we're back with resting heart former nasa apollo 9 austin not resting after it it's a planetary threat right now so it does require a planetary effort to do yes and that is the biggest challenge it is because when i look at global warming i mean how much more proof do you need that it's here and we needed to take care of it not today and tomorrow but yesterday and places are still

doubtful this is also this is also a very big question but there are good answers to this that the 2 issues planetary defense in the sense of being an x. essential issue and climate change also in existential issue are both big and existential issues. so they have some similarity on the other hand with climate change all of us have to change our behavior to be more responsible for the way we act in terms of our relationship with the earth and this living system when it comes to asteroid defense none of us have to change our behavior all we have to do is spend about a $1000000000.00 or $500000000.00 on the rare occasion when there is a threat to deflect it but you and i don't have to change our behavior so the 2 issues are much the planetary defense issue is much easier to deal with in the

sense of who has to act and how much it's going to cost on rare occasion to use you know to save life on earth who is it private business is it government what's your take on it. that in my opinion is in the long run an open question the assumption right now is that governments will have to act but that's not a mandate i mean it's clear that private industry is developing greater and greater capability in terms of. private interests being able to act in space and this will simply increase over time so in the long run when we have to defend. you know a city or something you know protect life on earth from an asteroid impact it may be that private industry can be contracted to to do this to change the orbit of this asteroid the assumption is it's government. the important thing however

is that. this is not a simple thing and this statement is simple but it's a complex issue. in a deflection. in order to avoid the risk to everyone in order to prevent a threat to everyone on earth. we need to deflect an asteroid in that process people who are not at threat will be a threat temporarily as you're deflecting something so you cannot avoid other people being threatened in the process of deflection in order to eliminate the threat to everyone and therefore this is a geo political challenge because various nations have to accept this increase temporary threat in the process of eliminating the threat to everyone that's why this is a planetary decision and therefore

a geo political challenge the technical challenge plate he says the right word geopolitical and you know that when and it's ploughed into a challenge that when you know countries get together and try to figure out something the bargaining starts they are they are the idea in the bio debate are right so what do you think what could special interests or a government bargains be when it comes to asteroids asteroid dangers well as i said in some sense. what you're doing is you're taking an impact point somewhere on earth and you're dragging the impact point off the earth but in the process of dragging it off the earth you drag it through other places other countries other people on the way to getting it off earth all of those other countries should have something to say about it and i did rather as no i did it 1st oh i'd rather see drag it that way you know drag it that way you see that's the that's the issue so to eliminate the threat to everyone. other people have to accept

a temporary increase in risk in order to eliminate the threat to everyone we have to act responsibly for all of life on earth and this is going to be this is the geo political challenge do we understand it we are all one family to the point where we're people can accept a slight increase in risk to my to me or to my country to my people in order to eliminate the risk to everyone so we have to act as a planet in deciding to deflect an asteroid and that is the geo political challenge the technical challenge of deflecting it or being able to predict an impact is simple in comparison with the joe political challenge so when you flew up all 9 it was the cold war and. now. like there's like nothing really going on do you feel like there could be any other race into

space but not between the russians and the americans because now we have china so black america china russia or. do you think that nobody really cares much about the space and more of the space stream i'm no better at forecasting the future than anybody else but let me say that while in the days of apollo 50 years ago the cold war was at its height and you had the soviet union and the united states competing for. technical dominance in the world . there will always be competition between nations any if you if you can identify a difference the 2 sides of that difference will always be competing for something they are land whatever. so there is always going to be competition at the same time i think we have an international space station i form the association of space

explorers because whether it is a russian cosmonaut an american astronaut a chinese astronaut whoever we have people who have flown from 37 countries we come together in the association of space explorers as a group of people from around the planet who have seen this beautiful planet that that provides the source of all life for all of us we're all the same we're all one family and that's far more important than the political differences between us or whatever. the international space station i think is indicative of the trend that when we go out from planet earth in the future into deep space whether that's mars or beyond we will go as people from earth not as russians or americans or chinese we will still be russians chinese and americans but it won't be or it will be and we will go together internationally what do you think are humanity's

perspective on space right now because there's a lot of talk about marr sexploitation and even rendering resources from asteroids but it all comes down to it's to expensive you know getting there and doing let me tell you it was expensive if we do not capitalize on all of the energy that's available in space and the materials in the form of asteroid materials or whatever then we will have to continue digging up the earth it will have to continue creating waste on the planet that in the long run is to the long term future of wife is far more expensive. resources in space are going to be available to allow humanity and life to expand out of planet earth we have been born into the causeway the apollo was the moment of cosmic birth when humanity from planet earth has 1st begun to move out this is like birth and the future of

expansion the long i'm talking not you and i or our children or grandchildren talking about long term future of life is going to emerge out of earth only if we are available to make use of the available resources in space but it would just keep digging out of the earth so how do we get to those resources that's how to make it cheaper i don't like a lift that would take you from earth to the technology will be improving and once you access resources off the planet to expand you're no longer having to dig up the earth that's the long term expense is continuing to demand more and more from mother earth in order to continue and expand life if we utilize the resources that are out there in space to continue moving outward it's inexpensive it's much cheaper than digging up the earth and taking it out of the gravity well of earth to

provide our energy and resources do you think humans could ever take the space the way they take the oceans or do we what we have to change our bodies to do that you know i mean. i really don't like the word taming the earth i need any space. we need to understand how to live within the expanding environment that is available to us and the long term future of life as we move out from earth will be to utilize and understand and work with the resources of space in order to move outward from the or. in the future so it's a matter of learning. and live with the expanding environment. we. thank you.

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