those were times of earth-based religions and earth-based spirituality. and in the most simple sense, the clan did not need to be inspired to do ritual and magical work, for our life depended on things like harvest and weather and growing and hunts. and today, metaphorically, it still is dependent on our interrelationship. so at that time, it was easy to inspire the clan to work magically together - because we cared about each other, and we knew that how we ate, and how we would survive the winter, was based on our magic, our connections with the god or the world or the goddess - our life force itself. so what i would like us to do is just pretend that you can speak directly to the wind, to the fire, to the water, to the earth, and as i ask you to personify those elements, i'm not asking you to believe that they are humanized, but i'm asking all of us to recognize that one of the ways we enable ourselves to destroy things is to dehumanize them. so if the air could listen to you, if the water could answer you, if the fire would come to your call, what the

rivers are among the most common land forms on earth. although they appear to vary a great deal in their behavior and characteristics, careful study has shown that all rivers have a great deal in common. the impact of rivers on the landscape is often spectacular. they can gouge out deep canyons, create gentle valleys with verdant meadows, or build enormous deltas. in creating these diverse landscapes, all rivers function in the same manner. they erode, transport, and deposit sediment. these processes enable rivers to continuously reshape the surrounding land. one of the most important factors influencing the geologic impact of a river is the velocity of its water. a swiftly flowing river erodes and transports more sediment than a slow river. velocity generally increases with the slope of the river, but channel shape also plays a role. if a channel has a nearly perfect semicircular cross-section, the frictional resistance is the minimum, so the water loses very little energy flowing over the channel. if it's a wide, flat channel, a fairly

the earth was one of many celestial bodies, all of which obeyed the same impartial laws.t the same time europeans learned of that revelation, the discovery of the americas and the exploration of the far east revealed that europe wasn't the center of the world. in this time of spiritual crisis provoked by the explosion of knowledge, artists sought new ways of seeing and understanding. the out-thrust left arm of the disciple startled and astonished its first viewers in 1600. it breaks into the space in which we stand. the naturalism of this painting of christ at emmaus by michelangelo merisi, known as caravaggio, was unprecedented. its intention is to convince us we're participants in this astonishing event, god's presence in the flesh. we may no longer regard the earth as unique, caravaggio seems to be saying, but god has dwelt amongst us. divinity and sanctity are to be found in our midst. caravaggio went out into rome's streets and put people he found there in his paintings. he came to rome from northern italy in the last decade of the 16th century. a strange, violent, d

we're going to watch one more time what happened 23 mes above earth. there's his mother there, ava, with tears in her eyes, and this is the jump once he's disconnected from the umbilical, and this is felix baumgartner in that free fall. the excitement and exuberance from the crew, mission control, and of course mom, the first time ever leaving europe, but you are seeing a very relieved felix baumgartner there on the ground. extraordinary moment. difficult to know where in proximity to mission control he's actually landed. you mentioned, brian, there's the helicopter. you said the chopper would find him, and they did. >> they found him, fredricka. when he was doing his final glide onto the surface, you could see a chopper circling around him. they rushed up to him. very, very exciting. when he landed a couple minutes ago, he got on his knees, he raised his fists and it was just a great moment. >> unbelievable. chad, your impressions. this really is an incredible human feat. it is one for science as well, and all those who love science and love aeronauti

it articulates his idea that the earth is like flesh, and the archaeology and geology in the earth are like the bones, the structure of the earth. this tied in with his idea of mother earth, with the sense that we are all tied to nature and the earth. >> a half dozen bay area museums and private collectors loan the massive sculptures to the museum for its matter and spirit retrospective. but the most unusual contributions came from stephen himself. a wall of autobiographical masks and hence from the early decades of his private study. >> he had one of the most beautiful studios i have ever been in. when you walk in, your first impression is of these monumental figures that you see in the exhibition, but if you went into the back corner of his studio, there was a series of shells with these diminutive figures. he told me, these are the heart of my studio. these little, and held intimate study is that he referred to as his sketchbook. a painter might make drawings. stephen de staebler made miniature sculptures. >> during the 1970's, he was inspired by the monuments of egypt. he assembled

that blue glow that the earth gives off, we were just stunned.t was the most incredible thing ever. >> cinematographer luke geissbuhler loves doing cool projects with his son max, especially when they involve cameras. >> we came upon this project online. and the potential of the outcome was so huge that we couldn't pass it up. >> the boys plan on launching a camera into space with the aid of a helium-filled weather balloon. >> it took about eight months to research it and build different crafts and do tests. >> i mean we attached a parachute to like a little thingy, threw it from the kitchen window down the backyard and we found out how the parachute deployed. >> we did a little altitude test because we wanted to put it up in the air and bring it down. >> the first model of it had wings and a tail fin. >> we were looking at things like how shaky it would be, how much it would be influenced by wind, things like that. it actually told us a lot. >> it's essential the aircraft rise and fall with as little resistance as possible. this will keep it sta

tourism one of the more fun civil ideas of our time or a solid business proposition in orbit around earth for the future well joining me is someone who should know a lot about that question it's eric anderson a space entrepreneur to say back here on earth so mr johnson thank you for joining us it's a pleasure. ok we'll start off your company was founded taking people up to space since the two thousands i remember when i heard recently about idea of a space hotel i made a bet with one of my colleagues but there would be no such thing in my lifetime now aside from the fact that i would never live to see the money if i did win that was the confidence i had that there would be no such thing was i foolish to make that too but unfortunately i think you probably war i have absolutely no doubt in my mind that there will be a space hotel within the next ten years in orbit around the earth why. because there's an incredibly good business plan behind it because millions of people want to go to space and because the technology to provide such a hotel is getting closer and closer every day in terms of

just 50 years ago, two billion people lived on earth. today our global population has reached five billion. within the next generation, it will double once more. our exponential growth now threatens the very resources that sustain life. the abandoned ruins of ancient societies hold clues to our survival. but to learn from our past, we must discard a romantic image of these earlier and more simple societies. archaeologist william sanders. a commonly held notion among the public at large and also among some of my anthropological colleagues is that non-western peoples live in harmony with nature, that they have relatively stable environmental relationships. what archaeology teaches us is that that's not true. keach: in the new world, human beings appeared for the first time more than 10,000 years before the birth of christ. over the millennia, grand city-states emerged in the tropics of mexico, guatemala and honduras. this is the realm of the ancient maya. they built magnificent cities and peopled them with the portraits of their kings. the

it's thursday time to get geeky on planet earth and everywhere with the earth sounds like. that was the sound of planet earth singing in space courtesy of nasa is calling it the clearest recording ever made of what they call chorus which is the audio version of the radio signals that are emitted by plasma waves that are part of the earth's van allen radiation belts the van allen radiation belt seen here are two layers of energetically charged particles or plasma that are around the earth and that are held in place by the planet's magnetic field the belts are thought to be made of a variety of particles some particles that come from the solar wind and others from cosmic rays according to craig quite seeing a physics professor who is part of the team at nasa the collective the sounds the mysterious sound is quote what the radiation belts would sound like to a human being if we had radio antennas for years and quote to capture the chorus sound cloud sing and a team of nasa engineers design something called the electric and magnetic field instrument suite and integrated science

he is right now many, many miles above earth, roughly 105,000 feet above earth.er is roughly, maybe under 10,000 feet away from his goal when he would actually leave the capsule that he is in at the bottom of that balloon that's already taken a different kind of shape. if you saw it earlier, it was a tear dropped shape. now it is more of a lima bean formation. this is live pictures with delay of roughly 20 seconds of baumgartner in that capsule. pretty extraordinary to see these kinds of images that far away. mission control is in roswell, new mexico. you will be hearing some audio momentarily from them. you can also see him kind of conversing likely with mission control right now. brian todd is watching closely as is chad myers in atlanta. brian joins us from washington. brian spent a good part of last week in roswell and got to know some of the players involved in this. chad with a very great understanding of the science behind all of this this morning, all systems are go. there were some moments because of wind they thought perhaps conditions were not perfect.

your show it's a crowd of the jail's more journalists than any nation on earth. also introducing tyler to be activist collective anonymous are set to launch their answer to leaky leaks and are giving it a few min they find out more about the project on r t. two other news now a bomb attack at a police checkpoint on the border between russia's republics of north the sun and has killed one policeman and wounded four others officers the blast occurred when police stopped a car travelling from english at the hour for inspection a checkpoint was demolished by the explosion the interior minister of russia's republic of north the city of visited the scene where an investigation is now underway. all right we turn our attention to some other news headlines and very for you know police have arrested fifty activists after clashes with protesters in panama's port city of cologne the government of panama sent special troops to the caribbean city to disperse the crowd with tear gas and rubber bullets violence erupted over legislation which allows the sale of land to the duty f

the telescope found this rocky planets, about four times the mass of our earth.t might contain water in liquid form, the most important precondition for life. the telescope suggests that planets with water might not be all that rare. there could be several billion of them in the milky way. for a long time, astronomers could not see these planets directly. it was only possible to identify them by the effect they had on the light from the stars, but in 2004, there was a breakthrough -- the first photograph. the red dot is a planet that orbits a star. the picture was taken by another telescope in chile. they use it to research the first iraqi exit planet that was discovered and were even able to analyze its atmosphere -- the first rocky exoplanet. >> we know the emergence of life completely changed the atmosphere of earth, so you have to assume similar processes take place on other planets. >> next year, another european telescope in chile will be complete. astronomers want to use it to look for the building blocks of life across the universe. are there amino acids

[makes sounds] ...hits the earth. and so the earth warms up. but the earth reradiates that energy back out. but what frequency: high or low? low. why low? because the temperature of the earth is like this. and so the frequency of radiation that's emitted is like that. that's way down below the threshold of the red in the color spectrum. we call it below red. in a physics class, you'd never say below red. in a physics class, you'd say what, gang? infrared. so it turns out the sun emits visible light, high frequency, and the earth emits infrared, low frequency. now it turns out different things, different materials are transparent to different wavebands or frequency bands. it turns out the atmosphere of the earth is transparent, very, very nicely to visible light. of course, it is. you can look up and see the sun and the stars right through it. we have a transparent atmosphere for light, high frequencies. it turns out the atmosphere, especially if it has little water vapor in it, is terrible--is a terrible-- well, not terrible but it's a much les

because that's the kind of thing that people get scared about of from destroying earth so what what kind of distances are we talking about how is this actually with this actually look a fully running asteroid mining operation wonderful question so in the solar system we have literally hundreds of millions of asteroids the vast majority of those asteroids lie in the asteroid belt the asteroid belt is between mars and jupiter one hundred million miles away or more however there is a small but not insignificant population of what's called near earth asteroids anywhere between ten and twenty percent of the material on them are what we call volatiles what that means is most of it's water water ice and water is great because when you break down water into its constituent parts you get hydrogen and oxygen not coincidentally of the same fuel. all the space shuttle used to go to and to and from orbit and so we first want to use the asteroids to build propellant depots in space that is gas stations we want to be able to reduce the cost of space exploration by allowing spacecraft and spaceship

after earth fire, she could not get passed the fire. water follow it had ship and wind was able to go across and follow and find him. it was after many years that wind was able to find him. i'll read that last part. [inaudible] all living in the americas, i saw the taken shackled to the land from sun up to sun down working tobacco, sugar cane and rice. i listen to them tell stories different but strangely familiar. now prayer rabbit. i stopped by kitchens and watched our women with cook yams, rice, oh kra and beans. our children had not forgotten. and i rejoice, led by the sound of a black smith's hammer, i travel to charleston, south carolina, john shannon, black smith. a large european with red hair, comfortable. they were apprentices to all africans new and old, familiar yet fresh. i have sold another of your beautiful gape with the rice design, how did you learn to craft so well? a young man stepped into the light. i learned by reaching back with one hand and stretching forward with the other he said. people said you are a genius. m

axis of the earth tilts. and that's what has brought on the great ice ages of the past. these processes are connected with a cycling of the composition of the earth's atmosphere, okay. and during the ice ages the earth's atmosphere goes down to about 180 parts per million of carbon dioxide. i don't want to bore you with too many numbers here, but this is really important that people get this. a hundred and eighty parts per million is at the bottom of an ice age atmosphere. at 280 parts per million that's kind of the natural peak. so nature naturally cycles between 180 and 280 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. we're now at 395. we're moving towards a level of carbon dioxide concentration that hasn't been seen since tens of millions of years ago. and really the main period when the earth had that much of that gas in the atmosphere was back in the days of the dinosaurs when the composition of the atmosphere is really, really different and it alters the basic makeup of life on the planet, the

no doubt in my mind that there will be a space hotel within the next ten years in orbit around the earth why. because there's an incredibly good business plan behind it because millions of people want to go to space and because the technology to provide such a hotel is getting closer and closer every day in terms of its cost effectiveness so there is in theory an impetus there but at the moment the principle impetus is this just the fact of let's go and see what is out there let's be a tourist in space is that really enough of an incentive all the market studies that have ever been done will show you that forty percent of the general public wants to go to space in their lifetime it just has to reach a point where they can afford it and it's safe enough for them to feel like they're not risking their life excessively to do it but i do think the tourism market is a catalyst it's not by any stretch the only reason we would go to space we will go to space for resources will mine the asteroids will get precious metals like platinum group metals from the asteroids people will live in space wil

yes, i am alone on earth. i have always been alone. but france is alone, and god is alone, and what is my loneliness before the loneliness of my country and my god? i see now that the loneliness of god is his strength. what would he be if he listened to your jealous little counsels? well, my loneliness shall be my strength too. it is better to be alone with god. his friendship will not fail me, nor his counsel, nor his love. in his strength, i will dare and dare and dare until i die. i will go out now to the common people, and let the love in their eyes comfort me for the hate in yours. you will all be glad to see me burned, but if i go through the fire i will go through it to their hearts forever and ever. and so, god be with me. [commotion] as god is my judge, if she fell in the loire i would jump in in full armor to fish her out. but if she plays the fool at compiegne and gets caught, i must leave to her doom. then you had better chain me up, for i could follow her to hell when the spirit rises in her like that. she disturbs my judg

in the university they don't teach you that the earth has eyes but the farmers know the earth has eyes you know and through its eyes the earth sees and cries if you take care of it it's happy and if you destroy it your earth cries we set out to convert the poor of us with them and we ended up being converted the farmers have worshiped the mountains for centuries the mountains provide water and water is life. but newcomers have arrived from a different world for them mountains are gone and gold this money. we. we we you know discovered circulation number of years ago. it's the it's a good deposit we four he's been in the workforce before and want to give the maximum upside to our investors in a rising gold market every ten dollar movement in the. price of gold. increases to go on. increases our cash flow by about fifty million dollars increases our earnings by about thirty million dollars. the miners have already destroyed several mountains their next project is mount keeley but the farmers to stop them. if. that's what. the farmers flock the only road to the mine to keep the company fr

that five hundred meters under the surface of the earth the atmosphere is a sphinx c.a.t. heat humidity. i think just make it hard to breathe. level eighteen is the deepest you can get. from levels one thousand to forty four everything is flooded. half the mine is under water and dozens of pumps are trying to pull the water up to the surface. even in this state however. produces about seven kilos of gold a month. this is considered to be a typical global goal deposit he ordered and at the present moment is one of the best in colombia. gold is the barometer of fear. in the midst of the two thousand and eleven coble economic crisis on the twenty second of august it hit a historic high of one thousand eight hundred eighty nine dollars an ounce. and almost unbelievable price considering that ten years ago this much gold cost only two hundred seventy one dollars. today colombia is one of the countries with the largest gold production in south america and one of the most important gold producers in the world. in two thousand and ten it produced approximately fifty four tons whil

that's 18 miles above earth.is top speed in free fall, 536 miles per hour. >> felix has landed safely back to earth. >> reporter: tuesday morning he'll rise higher and fall faster a jump from the earth's stratosphere. that's 23 miles above new mexico. you're going up to a very hostile environment. do you think you are ready for that? >> i know i'm ready for that because i've been trained the last five years. >> reporter: baumgartner, a 43-year-old austrian and elite sky diver will rise before daybreak and be lifted by a helium balloon. the assent will take three hours. temperatures will fall as low as minus 70 degrees. once he jumps, baumgartner wearing a pressurized suit will be in free fall for five minutes. his top speed could hit 700 miles per hour. he'll become the first human in free fall to break the speed of sound. >> nobody can tell me what happens to the human body in free fall when you fly super sonic speed. >> reporter: joe kittinger has held the skydiving record since 1960 when the air force captain

how much earth does it take to produce this amount. in the. no thought about it but i estimate fifty tons. the only thing left to do is to get to the gold shop of donya myra down in town. today the two hundred grams were sold for ten million pesos or about three thousand nine hundred euros nowadays ruben and his thirty eight partners are earning more than ever. in order to sell the gold z. kill needs to first get rid of the mercury which is stuck to the precious metal. they must burn it off and there are dozens of little shops in the center of town which do that i mercury is released into the atmosphere when burned and when it rains it falls on to homes fields rivers and lakes i said is the town most polluted by mercury in the world according to the world health organization with measurements up to one thousand times above acceptable levels. but it's a very dangerous job. that men everyone who works with mercury must get treatment for that because you have mercury in your system and my brother has it and must keep on getting treatment. as the

an asteroid the size of a house was past earth and it came pretty close to earth but pose nod threat.it called 2012 was about 56 feet wide and came within 59,000 miles of earth. >>> and meningitis cases are on the rise in maryland and the latest on the disease everything you need to know ahead. >>> last night the gloves came off. a look at the highs and lows of the one only debate. >>> and a chilly morning in westminster. clear skies and we are following the radar, the rain as we go through time here f you want to do so, just go to our app store and down load the app. we'll be right back. >>> thanks for staying with us this morning. the vice president and paul ryan took to the stage last night for the first and only vice presidential debate. we have the highlights from danville, kentucky. >> reporter: mitt romney and the president called their running mates to tell them they did a fantastic job. the bottom line -- this was one firey debate. place pause the 90-minute debate was the first and only between the two candidates. it covers a wide range of issues like like the economy. >> pus

but the earth is huge.tion is how much extra energy has come in every day, you know, from the sun when you have global warming? >> jennifer: one degree all over the surface of the earth is a huge amount. >> huge amount. but even every day -- over the surface of the earth the equivalent of 400,000 hiroshima atomic bombs every single day. >> jennifer: that's incredible. >> it is not incredible if you compute the size of the earth. it is huge and when you have that much sunlight and that much energy coming in and you have heating trapping that heat through carbon dioxide that's how much extra energy every day comes to the earth. that is why we're having these storms these fires. these droughts. et cetera. all of those are systemically caused. >> jennifer: and the urgency aspect of it is when it gets to two centigrade higher than what would otherwise be considered normal you have major national -- not national -- global catastrophes happening. >> such a catastrophe you can't imagine. you have 13 foot waves comi

buckets fly over the residence bringing down the precious earth from the minds of the mountain. mills work around the clock. grey waterfalls rushed down at slopes with water polluted by cyanide the waste product of processing poisoning the reverse. is a rich yet filthy place hundreds of generations have dug up the ground here the first being the indigenous peoples of the pre-columbian period the spanish and slave them and put them to work in dark passages my motto is one of the oldest gold mining sites in south america. was the four the oldest municipality in the country it was established in fifteen thirty six traditionally it has been a mining town. it is no exaggeration but the ten thousand citizens of this region live on top of a golden mountain. here on elbow estimates say that approximately nine point eight million ounces of the precious metal is hidden within its bowels. almost everyone here is from a family of gold diggers. people trying to make a living surviving as their ancestors did by digging with chisels and pickaxes deep into the earth. this is the oil we look for

that's him hurtling back to earth back then.lix through breaking his own record. okay, here we go. >> reporter: you must know your voice in his ear was so comfort. >> well, i hope so. that's what i was there to, to help him accomplish the task. >> and felix is back to earth successfully, the new record holder. >> reporter: ryan owens, abc news, roswell, new mexico. >> and coming up, something new, our instant index. what had us talking today and starting with this, armchair astronomers discover a planet straight out of "star wars," the th tatoian in our backyard. but your erectile dysfunction - that could be a question of blood flow. cialis tadalafil for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment's right. you can be more confident in your ability to be ready. and the same cialis is the only daily ed tablet approved to treat ed and symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently or urgently. tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medications, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sexual activity. do not

return one of them, any one of them, to the earth and look. such foolish skipping, such telling of bad jokes, such feasting. even a cucumber, even a single anise seed, feasting. and, last poem, foolish of me and yet optimism. the title is only optimism. the other part was a preface. more and more, i have come to admire resilience, not the simple resistance of a pillow whose foam returns over and over to the same shape, but the sinuous tenacity of a tree finding the light newly blocked on one side, it turns in another. a blind intelligence, true, but out of such persistence arose turtles, rivers, mitochondria, figs, all this resinous, unretractable, earth. the next reader is summer brenner. . >> i'm going it read today an excerpt from anana, queen of heaven and earth. i wanted to say a few words about anana. this is the oldest literary work that we have. these are the cuniform tablets that were excavated in the late 1880's and early 1890's by the university of pennsylvania. tens of thousands of fragments of cuniform fragments. the story of anan

she couldn't so she was sent back to roam the earth for all of eternity looking for her children.s so weeping, so she is known as lariona which literally means weeping woman. >> this girl is freaking me out. >> she did a really good job. this is what she really looks like. >> oh, thank goodness! wow, she's really pretty. >> but even if you are cute and pretty looking, you can do all this. she has two different color reels that she's using. one of is known as the zombie wheel. she gives you a really good tutorial on how to make yourself look like you're really skinny. >> she accents the cheekbones. >> and even her clavicle. >> she uses a silicone compound to create the wounds. >> that really looks like a chunk of her forehead. >> eventually she looks like that. >> she does that really, really well. >> really appropriate for halloween. we are going to have the entire tutorial on our website, rightthisminute.com. >>> it's a whole new way of looking at the earth from above. >> were those thunderstorms we were looking at? >> see storms and all the rest >>> reinvent the mousetrap. when

wearing a pressurized suit, he jumped from a space capsule 24 miles above earth. during his four-minute free fall, baumgartner began to spin rapidly but quickly regained control and moments later opened his parachute before landing on his feet, the extreme athlete smashing a number of records -- highest free fall, fastest free fall, and the highest manned balloon flight. for "teen kids news," i'm jamie colby, "fox news channel in the classroom." >> america's first space shuttle has a new home, and brandon has the story. >> it's a lot bigger than i expected. >> it's gigantic. >> i think it's massive. >> in fact, the space shuttle enterpriis as tall as a six-story building and almost half the size of a football field. >> i expected it to be more like a regular-size plane, and it's huge. >> the enterprise is housed inside a giant bubble on the flight deck of the intrepid sea, air & space museum. >> so, adding enterprise to our collection extends our ability to tell the story of america's space program. >> this was the world's first reusable spacecraft. that's why it'