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. >> for lawrence livermore lab. yes, she's got an important job, so they don't sound nervous.. and as they learn more, they'll be able to figure it out better. but, dan, you're not changing your life plans because of this. >> no, i'm not. but one of the things that fascinates me more than anything is the cosmos. so i'm very interested in this, i will say, and i know we've done some testing uh- have been hit many times before over the eons, and we'll be hit again likely. so i think all the research to try to protect us is probably a good idea. >> yeah, this reminds me of y2k. remember in 2000? >> oh, yeah. disaster. >> we were all, you know, waiting for that disastrous moment. never happened, thankfully. but how do you prepare for an asteroid? >> yeah. i don't think there's a way to prepare, but, i mean, the fact that, you know, the likelihood is going down. yeah. is comforting. >> that's okay. we can blow it up now. we can blow it up before it gets us. all right. >> a hair raising theory is causing the new york yankees to ditch their policy banning beards. players can now wear

the one i visited at lawrence livermore, the national ignition facility out in california, which successfully pulled off nuclear fusion for the first time, even for just less than a nanosecond, is that's this is the look at that one in livermore. they use a round room with lasers pointing in from all different directions to create that. this facility would be 50% bigger, possibly than the one in livermore there as well. but this is happening at a time when china is going all in on energy, and especially wind and solar. they installed more solar last year than the rest of the world combined, and it looks like they're trying to catch up on fusion as well. >> yeah, bill, it's also a time where china's global ambitions have rubbed up against the united states. this could also be something more ominous. well. >> china is part of the nuclear nonproliferation non-testing agreement. so like most countries, they can't fire off a test nuclear weapon. so any research is done in facilities like this one in livermore. most of the funding came from the defense department. as you think about this. so that's