when i taught journalism at nyu i sam barry students sam barry students how one day to interview the proverbial man on the street about what he or she thinks about the space program and they came back and once said professor burrows the lady i talked to said she's more interested in educating the children. a man said actually -- barges in and paying the mortgage and another interested in putting -- putting food on the table. in answer small percentage. people worried about keeping a roof on and i don't mean the roof that protects us against any ohs but i mean literally a ref on the house and that's where it is. >> host: it seems to me at least in the recent past congress has been motivated about this question so that's important but are you thinking of how to get the word out about this threat and how we need to more -- spend more money than we are now? >> guest: i was privileged to be picked as the only nonscientist of a 14 member panel by their national research council which of course is the national academy of sciences to be on a near earth object survey and mitigation panel a fe