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world in 40 minutes. do you think that is good for humanity or is it, a sort of wasting resources? i think what he is doing is brilliant because he is shaking up institutionalrough the do design phase, production and operation far more quickly and it provides quite a fillip to nasa and the european space agency to think about the row —— there are processes and efficiency. i think he is to a certain extent. at the same time he has his own personal objective. he's interested in reaching mars. i don't think the rest of the world is quite there yet but he is nothing, if not exciting. and i think he is a useful stimulus. that answer could be read one of two ways. do you take a elon musk seriously? absolutely, we do. and do you regard him as a potential collaboration partner or a rival of sorts? i think a collaboration partner and a very helpful competitive stimulus. i don't think i want to call him a rival but i think he is a very good thing in many ways in the space sector. we shall watch this space but we have run out of time. hello again. friday is set to be cooler and fresher, with sunshine and blustery showers. before then, storm bronagh has really been pac

is helping students and researchers access primary sources who do not have resources to drive to institutions all of the worldnd country. i was wondering if you had ideas, apart from digitization which requires tons of resources. you have any ideas or anything about how we can help students and researchers access these resources? >> digitizing is very helpful in terms of the actual collections. also, the library of congress has a program teaching library and you have curriculums connecting you to what's digitized and you can connect to other sources as well. the smithsonian has put up a lot of educational. >> and archives. [laughter] so, being able to help educators with this and it's not just enough to put it up there but to actually have the curriculum guides in k-12 and beyond is one way that were working on that. then, the 18 wheelers, going into communities. >> okay. >> we talked about that, the skin a bagel project. >> to actually go in and have staff and people there that can also work with school groups another people. >> we have something called doc teach and it has thousands of scans as primary sour

world war i. there is lack of resources at the beginning of that war. the americans could institute everything they learn for a quickly, or as quickly as would have been necessary to defeat that in wartime refashion. this is my contact information, the title of my book. anybody who wants to reach out, please do so. i love talking about history and answering questions. please do that. if there are any questions i will take those now. >> just outright lies. primary sources. for the military internal documents that remark onest, and even the german , i did not have that same doubt. when you deal with open sources, you have to watch out for that. newspaper of course in all that. that is consistently wrong. basically i would fact checking through other sources. misidentifying votes in newspaper articles, etc.. there is a lot of that going on in newspapers. the newspapers are good source for personal stories and people who went through these actions. human.it you don't necessarily get that from another report as much. cade tell us more about the sabotage in north america? with a off of su

world war i. there is lack of resources at the beginning of that war. the americans could not institute everything they learn ed as quickly as would have been necessary to defeat that in a more timely fashion. this is my contact information, the title of my book. anybody who wants to reach out, please do so. i love talking about history and answering questions. so please do that. if there are any questions i will take those now. >> when you did your research how did you deal with , misinformation or outright lies in primary sources? mr. hodos: for the military internal documents that remark secret, and even the german ones that were marked secret, i did not have that same doubt. when you deal with open sources, you have to watch out for that. newspaper reports, they are consistently wrong. basically, i would fact checking through other sources. as example, misidentifying boats in newspaper articles, etc. the newspapers are good source for personal stories and people who went through these actions. sort of making it human. you don't necessarily get that from government reports as much. a