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on earth it's very hard to find old rocks. earth is active still, volcanoes are going off in the landscape keeps changing. it moves the continents around. half of the surface was very old. we can get at the ancient history by landing on the surface. >> the modern landscape is a very ancient one. working to go to another media question. >> i appreciate the time. [inaudible question] [inaudible question] >> i believe he's asking about how the discovery will fit in with the legacy of the mars curiosity rover in your view of that? >> that's a great question. sometimes being evolve so deeply in the day today you have to look at the bigger picture. where think about it is that we have a role in this ongoing exploration that's been going on for 50 years and will continue in the future as we get closer and closer to life on mars. and eventually sending humans there and maybe colonizing mars one day. we didn't know if mars is have little before the we went there. or that lakes could survive. we did not know the extent to which organic

realized until the last decade how much we're actually changing it so if we look at the amount of earth or soil that we move remove more than the rest of the natural processes if you think about the amount of concrete we make we can actually have covered the whole of the world two millimeters thick in concrete so all these massive changes and actually what we've realized is that we were entering a new geological period a period that wasn't dominated by plate tectonics or by super volcanoes but actually by us and so we are now controlling the destiny of the earth and clingfilm the book is full of the exclusion of the last six yes we hate plastic. simon this book dates it to sixty in ten i should say there are lots of ice core data or proofs of this these as well but sixteen tell them what happened in the year so we need to say in terms of the anthropocene that earth is moving to a new state and then we need a marker to say when it began and this marker we think is when different species from different continents started to jump continent as europeans arrived in the americas the first tim

earth's history as an entire day modern humans that look like you and i we appear at four seconds to midnight so we're incredibly recent but we've had enormous impact on the planet so much so that we are now a force of nature like the old forces of nature changing over billions and millions of years we're now changing it today so what we do now matters. surely we've only recently got this kind of full range of data because there were a lot of scripts is a lot of sketches skepticism when people would just go it's warmer or since records began britain has got warmer records beginning in the eighteenth century homeport was the that kind of new data to support this and to proceed in argument well i think the most important thing is that the anthropocene goes beyond just climate change it actually looks at all of our impacts and in many ways us discussing climate change for the last twenty five to thirty years has mosque the fact that humans are doing huge amounts of damage to the planet as well as changing the climate given example since the industrial revolution we've cut down three tri

we see these on earth. there are records of rocks on mars that suggest there are ancient hydrothermal systems. that might be another place to look. right now the larger mars science community is talking about where it is they want to go. and these are some of the key scientific motivator for choosing place. paul: let me add to that a little bit. we have two things, we have a huge amount of day tark we have capable orbiters orbiting mars. on those we have imagers that can see a few feet, we can see our revers on the surface, we can see rover track. that's one tool we use. e other tool we use is spectroscopy. one thing that brought us to gail crater was finding minerals that had been hydrated. but the other fun thing on mars, on earth it's hard to find old rocks because earth is see the still, you hawaii volcanos going off, the land is change, plate tectonics. in mars that stopped billions of years ago. half the surface practically is very, very, very old. we can get the ancient history of mars by landing on

and the reason is earth is so active still. you see the hawaii volcanos going off and the landscape keeps changing. a plate tonics moves continent around. on mars that stuff throws out billions of years ago. so half the surface practically is very, very old. so we can get at the ancient history of mars by landing on the surface and looking at what happened early in the history of the solar system. >> the modern landscape is a very ancient one. >> yep. >> yeah. >> so we will go to another media question and this comes over the audio line? >> thank you next question is from mike wall with -- your line is opened. >> thank you guys i appreciate your time. -- this is a question for ashwin. -- it's been a couple years on mars and so how do you think -- so, -- >> ashwin i believe the person is askinabout how we discoveries will fit in with the legacy of the mars curiosity rover and your view of that. >> yeah. it's a great question. and sometimes being involved it's so deeply in the day to day we forget to look at the bigger picture. b

what's the usual distance between satellites and how far are they from earth. the first satellites were launched more than sixty years ago and there are currently thousands of them orbiting the globe at different altitudes depending on the job they do. most are in low earth orbit or leo an altitude of up to two thousand kilometers in the lower part of this region are satellites that monitor the earth the international space station also orbits in the stone. medium earth orbit or meo accommodate satellites the distances of two thousand to thirty five thousand kilometers from earth this region of space is frequented by navigation satellites. the next level at just under thirty six thousand kilometers is geostationary orbit satellites here follow the direction of the earth's rotation they're typically used for telecommunications including global television broadcasts each geostationary satellite is assigned to a box around one hundred kilometers wide the distance to the next box is around five hundred kilometers geostationary satellites have a habit of drifting ou

way and they need to treat their garbage in some way and they need food these housing units called earth ships address all of these things all over the world and these are the same six things that humans all over the world need to have addressed . living in the ship community here in the greater welds there's about there's more than seventy houses about one hundred forty people with families living here who know what when i was little i used to feel like some kind of like. fairy old thing there because you know it's so very. very organic very like you look at basic things like like i was a woodland fairy living man a secret castle. it feels really good feels really solid and there's this sense of solidity living inside an earthen structure itself there's this sense that. we connect to something stable. and cool in kind of see the little different than we can get the house. conventional. materials. because it's a little more connected to the outdoors as well you know when you're indoors but it's quite comfortable i think to like a few people can compare you know being in a suit to a womb

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interests here on earth. a lot of people forget that the gps that your phone uses, that little chip in your phone -- that is relying on military satellites. gps is a military satellite constellation. in other countries are developing ways to defeat that, to cause gps to go down and to not work. we need to be better protected against that. union forrding to the concerned scientists, last year about 800 u.s. based satellites currently orbiting the earth. 470 six commercial. 159 military. 150 government. 18 civil. .ou talked about gps what are the capabilities if those satellites are disrupted? guest: wii's satellites for everything from monitoring the weather -- and noaa will tell you one of their biggest honor abilities is cyberattack. there have been documented instances in the past where what we believe our state actors have hacked into the command and control system for some of our noaa satellites, and could have destroyed those by taking control of them. we use satellites for things like missile mornings.

what's the usual distance between satellites and how far are they from earth. the first satellites were launched more than sixty years ago and there are currently thousands of them orbiting the globe at different altitudes depending on the job they do. most are in low earth orbit or leo an altitude of up to two thousand kilometers in the lower part of this region are satellites that monitor the earth the international space station also orbits in the stone. medium earth orbit or meo accommodate satellites a distances of two thousand to thirty five thousand kilometers from earth this region of space is frequented by navigation satellites. the next level at just under thirty six thousand kilometers is geostationary orbit satellites here follow the direction of the earth's rotation they're typically used for telecommunications including global television broadcasts each geostationary satellite is assigned to a buck's around a hundred kilometers wide the distance to the next box is around five hundred kilometers geostationary satellites have a habit of drifting out

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full of pounded compacted earth they become compression bricks and they're laid just like bricks and they'll last forever. termites don't eat em they don't rot and their tremendous structure and tremendous thermal mass and thermal mass is what you want to hold temperature mass holds temperature and that makes it so that the building stores heat for the winter and the heat is brought in with the sun. absorbed into the walls and given back when you need it most at night. so two buckets just went to. this point you're not going to be really wailing on this thing yet because that's. what we're going to do is i'm going to use a tool to push the material into the sidewalk at the time. i feel welcomed everybody here and welcome you not just this session but to a global family that had this from all over the world students from eight different countries speak english. ok so this is celeste. my friend and she's from portugal i come from slovenia my name is mario. i was born in greece and many moved to put. two years ago it was kind of our dream and then we got slammed with this super storm an

interest here on earth. a lot of people forget that the gps your phone uses, the chip in your phone is relying on military satellite. gps is a military satellite constellation. other countries are developing ways to defeat that. to cause gps to go down and not work. we need to be better protected against that. >> according to the union for concerned scientists, last year there are 800 satellites orbiting the earth. you talked about just gps alone, what are the widespread capabilities of those satellites are disrupted? >> we use satellite today for everything to monitoring the weather. there have been documented instances in the past where what we believe are -- have been hacked and to the command control system for some of our noaa satellite. they could have destroyed them i taking control. we use satellites for missile warning. we rely on space to do that. we use satellites for communications of all kinds. commercial, civil government and the military as well. communication signals can be jammed from space.

well earth one is certainly the front runner in this election but what we've seen is an unprecedented campaign by the opposition led in primarily by old ones main challenger. who has launched a crisscross campaign across the country over one hundred meetings and that culminated in the last few days in a series of mega meetings during millions of people so while earth one is seen as the front runner the opposition believe they have the momentum and what they will be looking for is to prevent securing more than fifty percent of the vote that would force a runoff two weeks later that is their priority equally in the prime parliamentary election it is a closely fought contest with the earth once ruling party facing a challenge and according to the last polls they could possibly lose parliament so both campaigns both elections are seen to be a very closely fought affair and results may depend on whether these elections are free and fair what are you hearing dorian. well that is certainly a big concern raised by the opposition about this the fairness of these polls last year's referendum to

can just come straight back to the ground again above the radiation shielding belts around the earth going to be different environment for humans and we can learn for the next steps going on tomorrow there's a huge amount still to be learned from the ais yeah alexander yes he's very good at inspiring people i mean if you just look at his twitter feed today before he took off just the way he describes what he's feeling and what he's looking forward to it makes you want to be there so you've got that you know in your favor right now when you look at the future do you see a mission to mars happening within the next ten to twenty years or is it something i mean we were talking about a mission to mars in the one nine hundred seventy s. and then he nobody's well i think the first thing to remember is that when we talk about going to mars it's for exploration and it's for science but it's also for inspiration as you said you know alex and the other astronauts the young astronauts in an hour. say they are all very connected and they all say the same thing is that is the classic thing about l

america is the greatest nation on earth. now, after the 2016 election was over, i spent some time thinking "great." word to be a great country, one has to be a strong country but strong is only one dimension. another is being good. we were talking about america's conflict at the time in the middle east. he said, i want to make something clear. america is the greatest nation in the history of their. in the history of the earth, whenever there has been conflict between two nations, one takes land from the other. historyone nation in lay down the lives of hundreds of thousands of sons and daughters. only one nation has taken no land. america is the greatest nation on earth. have taken iswe enough land to bury our dead. we are strong state. the fastest growing economy in the country. we are also a good state of good people. over 50,000 raise their hands. i see some volunteers here. what i have learned is, when the it, ifo needs needed i'm lucky enough to become the united states senator, i would everything in my power to keep am

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seeing earth from outer space not many people have had the experience. one is an exam that gets to is just started his second mission to the international space station. each of these images during his first run. will be seeing. germany's very own super star astro alex. he's been doing the rounds of the t.v. talk shows. and he has lots of fans in high places to. the true history and different yes of course we should be following the news about astro alex very closely myself included for four. other. the guest is the first german astronaut to win a large fan base for himself and space travel. guys astronaut alexander gets here from baikonur he's a cool dude and also down to earth he talks to his fans on twitter where his handle is astro alex he has more than a million followers they're excited about the horizons mission on the international space station. and it's gas second time up there but his first as commander. very humbled by the trust that people have in me to actually come on this. fantastic space station but of course it's comes with a big respon

radially reinforced rammed earth brick is what they really are the tires are radially reinforced with steel for being tires but that. works perfect for a radially reinforced brick. full of pounded compacted earth they become compression bricks and they're laid just like bricks and they will last forever termites don't eat them they don't rot and they're tremendous structure and tremendous thermal mass and thermal mass is what you want to hold temperature mass holds temperature and that makes it so that the building stores heat for the winter and the heat is brought in with the sun and absorb into the walls and given back when you need it most at night. but let me. go to back to just one to. this point you're not going to be really whaling on this third thing yet because the. well we're going to do is i'm going to use a tool to push the material into the sidewalk at the time. i think welcome everybody here and welcome you not just this session but to a global family. from all over the world students from eight different countries speak english. ok so this is a list. my friend and she's

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america is the greatest nation on earth. after the 2016 eleiowas over, i spent time thinking about the were great. order to be considered a great country, one would have to be a strong country, strong military, strong economy. being strong is only one dimension of being great. there is another dimension, being good. i was able to make shimon perez who was the president of israel. we were talking about america's conflict at the time in the middle east. i asked what he thought. make somethingto clear. america is the greatest nation in history of the earth. he said the nation that wins takes land from the nation that loses because land has always been the source of value on the planet, strategically, economically. he says one nation in history has laid down the lives of hundreds of thousands of sons and daughters and taken no land. america is the greatest nation on earth. the only land we had taken is enough plan to bury our dead. is also a great state for many of the same reasons. we are a strong state. we are the fastest grow

for the astronauts social media is a way to connect with the earth even from so far away. and eager to share the news. with everybody who's interested down there and i. would write out there on the on the trends. the most and work with the big secret positions with people out there apparently actual antigravity is easier to handle than the training required in order to prepare for it during their six month stay on the station that's really will be carrying out over three hundred experiments ranging from topics on the effects of space on human bones to robotics to quantum physics and the hope is that the results of those tests will one day be able to benefit those of us way down here on earth but it's not all work and no play the world cup may be taking place on earth but the results will be followed in space as well or better riding on the outcome of the lose lose. lose the ability to consume. the sun some place flew through the. systems you didn't need to. use the you see the new pleaded with. the flight it's a lose lose lose sleep. this is the new. blast off today from b

for the astronauts social media is a way to connect with the earth even from so far away. and. shared. with everybody who's interested. when they're on the on the terms. the most and work with. the conversations with the apparently actual antigravity is easier to handle than the training required in order to prepare for it during their six month stay on the station three will be carrying out over three hundred experiments ranging from topics on the effects of space on human bones to robotics to quantum physics and the hope is that the results of those tests will one day be able to benefit those of us way down here on earth but it's not all work and no play the world cup may be taking place on earth but the results will be followed in space as well or better riding on the outcome of the movie. do. you. the third some was food in the soup even though this isn't going to need to. use the year to see the new can we do it do you do do we need new theme through the floor that certainly is the new tools we need to exhibit this is the. blastoff is next to our thanks for joining us here

so this is the gravel pits and all of the earth and gravel that was taken from here is. it was used to build the road between towers and three spiritus the sixty four so basically they took all of the earth out of this area and now we're building houses on to it and the idea is to turn it into a vibrant community but also to have you know vegetation and grow food onto it so basically you know from what we have done to kind of take from the earth we're trying to get it back in another way and create a sustainable community here and we're going to go and visit brenda who lives there right now. hello hello thank you i heard very well the l.s.c. spillway is ok. cool. yeah this is brenda she's she was an academy student born in chicago raised in ireland but mostly chicago after the academy and went right back to chicago and sold my house just there's something about living in these earthen structures or sleeping in these earthen structures that is just so comfortable. i sleep better than i've ever slept in my whole life the double greenhouse gives you three zones of temperatu

america is the greatest nation on earth. after the 2016 election was over, i spent some time about the word great. i thought in order to be considered a great country, it would have to be a strong country, strong military, strong economy but being strong is only one dimension of being great and there is another dimension. that is being good. some years ago i had the occasion to meet shimon perez who was the president of israel and we were talking about america's conflict in the middle east and i asked him aut what he thought and he said before i go on, governor, i want to make something very clear. america is the greatest nation in the history of the earth. beenid whenever there has conflict between two lands, the nation that wins takes when from the nation that loses because land has always been a source of value on the planet. he said one nation in history has laid down the lives of hundreds of thousands of its sons and daughters and taken no land. america is the greatest nation on earth. the only land we have taken is eno

nine spacecraft that's going to take those guys back down to earth from board the russian cosmonaut and so on scapular forty six year old expedition commander it's his third flight he's just leaving also on board but a little pod there former commander of the i assess as well now says flight engineer scott tingle a fifty two year old it was his first flight and there from the japanese aerospace exploration of the sea in agency dock to get can your forty one year old pretty young guy his first flight they got up there a hundred sixty eight days ago on the nineteenth of december twenty seventh incurred a fair few experiments up to fifty up there but now it's time will say farewell and to come back again that all happened exactly as we thought it would be seventeen moscow time with word in mind everything that happens here on the international space station up there regarding the soyuz spacecraft that takes stuff up there brings people back again usually from baikonur is control just outside moscow so a lot of concentration on this at the moment of course just outside moscow mission contro

our planet earth but there's a lot of science that he does he's a very is a guy who's very focused on the science he has a scientific background where previously astronauts were like you know test fighter pilots and that sort of thing the new generation of astronauts are scientists and so he really stands there is germany's and one of europe's main ambassadors in space a lot of buzz about that but no this is because even though he's been there before it is space we're talking about everybody's nervous about a space launch that is what you're talking about twitter we're looking actually at live pictures in the split screen there they are getting ready for liftoff we're talking about twitter i ask you alex as he calls himself has also been teaching and think the move to him and the team is a super earth so he's augustine looking forward to this in a mission we are also looking at some internal pitches coming there live from baikonur. yeah you know it stands to reason he should be excited he's been excited for two years now to go back and it's a it's a moment of prestige as well you know

life is earth then it is hard to make life and earth might be pretty unique in the cosmological scaleund that mars had life and we found there was life on their moons as well, we would think life is fairly abundant in our solar system alone, which would imply that it is likely fairly abundant throughout the universe. we will come back to you on this. i'm sorry, we have to leave it there just for now. hello there, good morning. in wales, it's just been the warmest day of the year so far. here, 27 degrees. in scotland, we had some slow—moving, thundery downpours yesterday, bringing some flash—flooding. and, across the southern half of the uk, much more cloud, and there's sufficient cloud over the next few days to bring the chance of one or two heavy and perhaps thundery showers. again, the worst of the storms, the more widespread storms, are likely to stay over the near continent. but we're looking at a few home—grown downpours in the next couple of days or so. difficult to pick out exactly where they'll be. but we've got this zone of weakness on friday, from wales up towards the humber

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america is the greatest nation in history of the earth. he said the history of the earth, whenever there has been conflict between two lands, the nation that wins takes land from the nation that loses, because land has always been the source of value on the planet. he said one nation in history has laid down the lives of hundreds of thousands of its sons and daughters and taken the land -- america. america is the greatest nation honors. and also a tweet from to mittt trump romney. so much to do, a great and loving family will come to d.c.. with that in mind, if mitt romney wins the senate the, how will he get along with the president and what the administration wants to do? guest: mitt romney is in a unique position. he is probably the only republican in statewide office at this point who can be critical of the president without losing the election. we have seen that the most critical republican senators are ones who are not seeking the election, mainly bob corker and jeff flake. isolateromney cannot the trump space, but in utah, there was

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jesse: the members of your nation live on earth. >> so far.esse: you plan on later going into space and living. >> we'll be moving to the other planets. it's been discussed from great philosophers from the 19th and 20th century. jesse: your plan is to lead your people into space. you are living in space, do you think you might need protection? >> of course, protection is needed everywhere. jesse: the space force donald trump is launching would provide that protection. >> donald trump is the president of the united states of america. we at asgardia are for the quality for all people living anywhere in the world. so i have no problem with protection. everybody needs protection. but we need equal protection to every citizen. jesse: the way it works on earth, the united states, usually, controls the seas, controls the air, and allows for the peaceful interaction of citizens in their own countries. where the problems arise is when the use the does not take a direct role and protect people. wouldn't you like america of all the countries in the world