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Welcome to SpaceVidcast Episode 003 for April 11th 2008. 

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I almost said 10th, are you going to do … really the whole show?

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(laughter)  .. oh man that does not bode well for us at all.

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My name is Benjamin Higginbotham and with me is the beautiful and wonderful Cariann Higginbotham.

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And, we are the hosts of SpaceVidcast.com

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We’re here to educate YOU about space travel and why it is the future of humanity.

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I’m also here to educate…her as to why it’s so critically important …

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to the future of humanity.  That was a little redundant.

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I could just have kids.  (laughter)  Yes, but if they were destroyed by a giant asteriod – what’s the point.

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But, I won’t be here.  Well, yeah because you’ll be destroyed be the asteroid.

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I know!  That’s awesome.

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Let’s get started with Space News.

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Alright.  No open yet.  Ok, we’ll pretend like there was an open there.

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This last week the Soyuz TMA-12 Expedition 17.  How many more names do they need for that thing?

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I don’t know.  Launched and docked with the International Space Station.

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Oh yeah check it out – here we go.  Are you ready for this.  Yeah.

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Now if I could  hit the buttons.  Awesome.  Alright, there it is.

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Some launch coverage – it’s blasting off.  Slowly.  (laughter)

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There it goes and it hit zero, they take off.

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Slowly.  Slowly.  And, who’s on that?

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Ah..I can’t pronounce her name – do you remember her name?

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Well, I know we do have Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko.

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It’s her right there.  She’s the first South Korean in space.

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She’s really cute – I don’t remember her name.

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Her name is So-yeon Yi.  So-yeon Yi, that’s it.

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There’s actually some incredible video of her on YouTube.

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This is an American saying that so I’m sorry.  Yeah, exactly.

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There’s some great video of her on YouTube during the interview process.

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Ok.  There are three versions of the video, they’ve got translation at the bottom

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so you can actually read it.  Check out the SpaceVidcast.com site

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and I think there is some information there.  And, if I might just reiterate -

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she’s the first South Korean in space.  Not just the first woman.  Right.

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The first ANY South Korean in space.  Any?  Yes, and I think that’s a big deal.

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Oh no, absolutely.  And, she went through this rigorous trial to -

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there was like 35,000 people initially sign up, they whittled that down to

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500, then 100, then so forth and so on.  And, she talks about this in her interviews

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and it’s kind of fun to watch these interviews on YouTube – she goes from this

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skittish little creature in the first interview to “Eh, I’ve done this one hundred times before”.

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And, unfortunately we have not been able to get the third interview to play.

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Ok.  So, if we get that to work we’ll let you know on SpaceVidcast.

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We’ll add it to the RSS feeds so everyone can watch it.

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But, definitely I think it’s a lot of fun.  So, they launched on Monday, I believe it was.

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This last Thusday they docked with the International Space Station.

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Seamless docking and they already had the hatch opening and they’re already in the ISS.

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They’re swapping out our favorite ISS Commander, Peggy.  I’m sorry SpaceVidcasters.

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Peggy will be coming home.  I know, everyone’s sad.  Because we love Peggy.

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‘Cause mission control will do something not quite perfect and she’ll just kinda be like;

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“Yeah, no, you just have me loop the circuit in a circle.  I’m gonna go ahead and not do that.”

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(laughter)  It’s hilarious, we love Peggy; she’s a lot of fun.  Peggy’s very cool.

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So, that will be .. we’ll have .. we’ll continue our launch coverage of the

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Soyuz Rocket TMA-12 Expedition 17 and whatever all there name they want to throw on there

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throughout the week.  I believe they land, actually check SpaceVidcast.com/calendar for thier landing date.

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Ok.  Because that could shift and change, but as soon as they undock I believe it’s a few hours later they will land.

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Unlike the Shuttle, where they spend hours tweaking.  Right, right.  They can come straight back in.

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Leave it to those Russians man, they get it done.  Check this out, this is kind of cool -

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this is a robotic lunar base.  This is scary looking.  …that can move.  Scary.

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Yeah, check out the tiny url at the bottom.  (http://tinyurl.com/5kgfgo)

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And that comes to us from our friends at Space.com and SpaceNews.com.

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The idea is that this can roll anywhere on the lunar surface, so we build a lunar base on top of this thing.

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And, then you can roll it around the moon anywhere you want to go and it can go

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up and down hills and a bunch of neat little things.  I just hope it doesn’t become self-aware.

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It only has legs – it doesn’t have arms and eyes and a heart.  Hahaha.  The really nice thing about this,

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which I didn’t understand until I read the article because I saw the headline and said – “Yeah great – that’s neat-o.” -

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that this .. it’s an autonomous robot habitat.  Which is slated for testing or that’s part of it anyway.

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It’s ah, but – what is my point?  It was right here, right in front of me just a second ago.

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Well, and Colton just said the legs turn into arms.  Actually, I don’t think they turn into arms.

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That would be kind of cool though.  (robot noises)  Start fighting .. robot wars.  Oh yeah.

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On the lunar surface.  Like what is that Transformers?  Yeah, exactly.

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It’s the ATHLETE, which is the All-Terrain Hex-Legged Extra-Terrestrial Explorer.

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Basically, they came up with ATHLETE first and then decided we have to make each letter mean something now.

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(laughter)  Pretty much – oh that’s horrible.  Ok, this is what I thought was very interesting -

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it lets astronauts have a nomadic experience, covering much more of the lunar surface in general.

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Now, Colten just said he’s seen the videos – and if Colten you don’t mind .. private message me the url.

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Apparently, it does actually act as arms and it can pick up tools.  Unfortunately,  I didn’t see any

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videos or I would have included it in our little video … thing we do here.

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I prefer videos over pictures, but here we’ll take another look at this thing.

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I mean, I don’t understand where the arms come from?  Those look like their pretty much attached wheels, Colten.

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I don’t see where – or how it could pick anything up?  I suppose the wheels could come out and smash things.

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Ohhh.  (laughter)  So – Colten will private message me that url, it will actually pop up at the bottom of your screen -

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shortly here.  Ah, what else do we have in the news?  One news item I had, I’m just going to admit -

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ended up being almost a year old.  So, we’re going to go ahead and not cover that.  Sorry.

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The last news item came from fox814 and that is there was a new planet found.

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Check this out – well this is an artist’s rendition of the planet.  But, there it is right there.

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There’s a new planet.  No – that is exactly what it looks like.  Haha.  I’ve seen it.  Have you been there?

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Well yeah, it’s just down the block.  Haha, so read off a little bit about that new planet you see there.

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It says Spanish and UCL scientists have dicovered a possible terrestrial-type planet

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orbiting the star in the constellation of Leo; the new planet, which lies at a distance of 30 light years from Earth has

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a mass five times that of our planet, but is the smallest found to date.

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One full day on the new planet would be the equivalent to three weeks on Earth.

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Which I just think is incredible.  That is pretty cool.  Yeah, absolutely.  Awesome.

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Did you want me to keep reading, or?  Nope, nope that’s great.

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So, that’s the new planet and we’ve got – Colten has added the .. You can see links scrolling past

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the bottom of your screen.  Yeah, sorry about that.  Check out the YouTube links at the bottom right down there.

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That’s for the space vehicle that can pick up stuff and maybe on one of the next shows -

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we’ll actually show video of that.  I suppose I should have checked YouTube for that.

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Didn’t even think of doing that.  Legs, arms, and soon looking like a Caprica-Six near you.

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Oh, it is Friday so you got all your Battlestar Galactica references in there.

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Yes, I’m sorry my BSG’s.  Yes, absolutely.  You are all on the front of my mind right now.

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When we come back we will be talking about public or private space transit -

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another words – Virgin Galactic vs. say NASA or the European Space Union.

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And, which route we should go and where we think the future of space should be.

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So, all of that on SpaceVidcast – when I hit the button.

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This segment is sponsored by Brain TonIQ – get rid of the head fog with zero caffiene

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or processed sugar.  For more information go to SpaceVidcast.com/braintoniq.

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That – is a good chunk of money.  Yeah.  Ah, it’s nothing – no big deal. (laughter)

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I sneeze that out every other day … that’s not a problem at all.

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So, the topic for this part of the show is going to be be how – I’m sorry – private or public space transit.

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You can’t twist like that.  I’m not.  And NASA verses say a Virgin Galactic and we’re going to

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make this interactive – invite members of the chat room to chime in as to what they think the future should be.

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Because there are pros and cons to each.  Yes.  You know NASA has a, like you just said,

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there’s 1.7 billion dollars to build Space Shuttle Endeavor.  Amazing.

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I don’t know how many private companies are willing to spend that much money on a single vehicle

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that has a 1 in 50 chance of failing.  Right, may or may not work.  That’s pretty high odds.

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But, at the same time there’s no incentive for NASA to really streamline their workflow

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or do much of anything.  They’re not .. they’re not held accountable like a traditional business is -

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like Virgin Galactic.  Right, right.  So, Virgin Galactic – they can’t have a 1 in 50 failure rate,

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that would be bad.  Would you buy a ticket – good question for the chat room -

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would you guys buy a ticket on Virgin Galactic if it had a 1 in 50 chance of blowing up while you’re on it?

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For $200,000!  Well, that’s kind of like buying a plane ticket on American Airlines right now.  (laughter)

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So, the room is basically saying – no,no.  November wouldn’t, THX wouldn’t.

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So, you know – what is the future of space travel?  Because I don’t really see these guys commingling all that much.

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I don’t see there being a NASA and a Virgin Galactic.  I see one of them – maybe for a little while there will be both.

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But, I see one of them going away.  Why would we keep NASA around if we can privatize

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the whole space channel?  Especially, when you said – I forgot which show it was.  I think it was two of them ago -

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how it, NASA is eventually within the next couple of years laying off what was it -

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8,000 some-odd jobs?  Well, no – there’s the potential for 8,000 jobs to be lost at NASA.  Ok.

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But, that may or may not happen – that’s when the Space Shuttle program ends.  But keep in mind the Contellation program

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will begin.  So, some of those jobs may translate.  Yeah, but some of them will – some of them won’t.

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And, those people are going to need jobs, they’re going to want jobs.

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And, I can pretty much guarantee they’re not going to be wanting to be pushing fries

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and hamburgers to the local teenagers.  You know, they are going to go out there and they are going to hook up

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with the Virgin Atlantic’s.  Galactic.  …Galactic – I’m sorry.  The other Virgin people, you know what I’m saying.

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(laughter)  It’s the same people.  The space virgins – how’s that?  (laughter)

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They will be hooking with those people.  They will be hooking up with the – are you just laughing too hard?

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I’m so sorry.  We hadn’t talked that one through before.  Just look at us as…

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Just keep going – I’ll be over here.  Ok, good.  They are going to be hooking up with some of those people.

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They are going to be hooking up with the people who are trying to get…

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Is it Google that sponsors the… The X-PRIZE – the Google X-PRIZE. To get a rover on the moon.

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Yeah, yeah – exactly.  And, their going to be joining those kinds of programs.

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Even if they are still pushing fries and burgers to the local teenagers like I said.

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And, I think for – to a certain extent they will be commingled just simply because

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some of the people came out of NASA and they are going to go into the private sector.

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Yup.  Right?  But, no I don’t ever see them completely cohabiting.  You know -

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where’s the money in the private sector?  Here’s what I don’t understand.

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So, there’s a little bit of money in what Virgin Galactic is doing because people will

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probably pay.  I know I would pay $200,000 for a ticket into space.  But, the number of people that

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are crazy like me – are few and far between.  Yeah, there’s like what – 20 people in our…

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watching this right now.  (laughter)  Yeah, so you know I’m not sure how big a business model

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that is.  First, we’ll have to drive the price down of course.  But, even so that business

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is in the lower part of our — I’m sorry the upper part of our atmoshpere, not very

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far out into space.  Where is the money for building a lunar base, for building a Mars colony,

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for everything else?  You know how are you going to make that happen?

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Where are the business plans behind that?  Well, as soon as they start a nuclear war.

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Everyone is going to be highly, highly motivated to get the hell out of here.

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Yeah.  So.  I don’t think that is going to happen though, because even if you become motivated

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it’s still going to 20, 30 years of research to actually get to where you need to go.

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Unless you just want to get out.  No, even then…  Now!  But we can’t.  Just leave.

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You can’t – I mean we.  It’s like Katrina – just go.  But they couldn’t.  A lot of them got..

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Yeah, so that’s my point – you can’t.  You’re a big party pooper.  I’m sorry, you just can’t do it.

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So, that’s part of what the argument is.  Right.  We give money to NASA because

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it’s a government based organization and they can do what’s best for the people.

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Right.  They don’t have to worry about making numbers.  Whereas, a corporation – their big thing is they have to actually

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have to make profit.  Fox says we could go to the new planet – that’s only 30 light years away!

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Well, and that brings up another interesting point and actually we will talk about this in the

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next segment.  And that is – how do we get to these new planets?  We discovered

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this new planet, it takes seven years to get to Pluto.  So, how are we going to actually?

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And Pluto is in our system.  Exactly.  So, how are we going to expand our space travel

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beyond what we have today?  Right, right.  I say light rail.  Just a giant light rail?  Yeah, yeah.

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I like that – light rail.  Alright.  We don’t have any … lying around?   No.

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That brought this conversation to a screeching halt, that was amazing.  Wow, sorry.

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Just (stopping sound, laughing).  A space bullet – thank you 86046.  Fox actually asks

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if we can live on Pluto.  We don’t know yet because it takes so long to get to Pluto.

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We haven’t been able to send a lot of vehicles out to Pluto.  Coming up we’ve got the

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New Horizons satellite, I believe, that will be going to Pluto and examining it.

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But, they only have like a 24 hour window to look at Pluto.  We do know that Pluto

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has a light atmoshpere.  We think it might have water underneath the surface.

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We don’t know.  So, if it does we could possibly live on Pluto.  Ok.  Although, it comes

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back down to – we need to learn how to live on inhospitable planets.

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Pluto is not a real planet.  It’a a dwarf planet.  It’s not a real planet.  It’s a dwarf planet.

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It’s not a real planet.  Someone came in here and called it a moon.  It’s a moon -

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Pluto is the moon.  (laughter)  I’m not livin’ on no moon except my own.

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Well, 649, 69, geez guys log in.  Wow, 64696, 64696.  Well, yeah we have to learn how to live on

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inhospitable planets.  Which will involve creating either domes of environment or basically

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I think domes on the planet are more likely at first, at least.  Or, actually building cities on those inhospitable areas

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and you can just never step outside.  But, you know the areas will be just so large you’d never actually need to.

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Right.  That’s kind of the concept behind it.  So, you know can we do it?

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Yeah, absolutely, we just need a lot more people to get interested in doing it.

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Which comes back to my fundamental argument of..  Yes.  We’ve got one disaster – and I

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could name off… just ask me to start naming disasters and I could just start going through them.

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It’s actually kind of fun when we’re doing it in pre- and or post-show.  And, you know these are things that

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could absolutely happen at any moment in time and there’s nothing we can do to stop them.

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The only thing we can do is get off of this planet.  This planet is very hostile towards species.

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We’ve seen many extinctions before and it’s all from the planet, so.  We can’t rely on this

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planet as our sole source of sustenance.  So sad.  Oh, I said that without stumbling.

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(together) Sole source of sustenance.  Pretty good.  Maybe we should just stop there.  (laughter)

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Yeah, actually we should.  It’s all downhill from here.  So, we’re going to go ahead and do that.

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We can get to Mars in three months, we can get to Pluto in seven years.  So, what do we do beyond that?

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New transportection technology, what are we planning to do with that and fun things like that.

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$450 million dollars to launch each shuttle mission.  Again, I don’t know why you’re freaking out about these numbers.

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It’s not a big deal.  (laughter)  It’s a lot of money.  That’s a lot of money.

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That’s half a billion dollars to launch a shuttle mission.  That’s, I believe, the original goal was to actually have

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it be $100,000.  Really?  Per shuttle launch, I believe it was sopposed to be $100,000.

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Well, when you use monkeys and paper mache.  No, I mean the whole vision of the space shuttle

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was that it would be a reusable vehicle that you could…  Right.  just launch

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with the boosters and everything else and it ends up costing a lot of money.

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That’s $100,000 in like 19… what would that be?  In 1960 money.  So you know.

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Yeah, well yeah I suppose – inflation, but it’s.  Absoutely, you inflate that – maybe a million.

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Maybe instead of 100,000 it was a million.  Ok.  I’m pretty sure it was like 100,000 though.

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Something like that.  Yup.  Incredible.  NovemberKat said that’s 450 missilies in the war.

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Wow.  Yeah, we spend a fantastic amount of money on the war as well.

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So, part of the reason we are building a new space vehicle is because it never actually did live up to it’s expectations.

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And – it’s freaking old.  The Space Shuttle is like 30 years old now.  Yeah, I wouldn’t want to..

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It was envisioned, it was envisioned before we landed on the Moon.  Wow.

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Yup, so.  It wasn’t build then, but that’s when the process started.  No, I understand.

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Yup, and actually for more information during the Challenger disaster – there is a document

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that outlines that whole thing.  It was the ah… unfortunately I forget it’s name.  But, there’s a…

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it’s a really long document.  You can search the Internet for it and they actually talk about where the Space Shuttle program

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came from.  How it was founded.  Why it is here.  What was expected out of it.  What we ended up doing and things like that.

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It’s a fascinating document – if you’re interesting at all in space travel or how we got to where we are at -

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definitely read that.  And, of course it does cover the Challenger disaster, but the first

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three or four chapters are just… don’t even cover that… they are just about how we got to where we are at.

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Wow.  Yup, so awesome stuff.  Well, you know just the content.  Right.

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So you know earlier we were talking about space travel and someone had a comment in

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the chat room.  I want to go back up.  I think it was – let’s see here.  Give me one second guys.

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Ah, ok, talk for me for a moment.  I’m talking – what should I talk about?

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Oh, I’m sorry it was fox – he said we haven’t survived here very… I’m sorry – we have survived here for so long.  Right.

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before they were wiped off the face of the planet in one fell swoop.  Just… and they’re gone.

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one event – one simple event wiped them off the face of the planet.  And, there’s absolutely nothing

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that will prevent that exact same event, or a similar event from happening here to us, again.

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Right, right and there’s nothing to prevent it and there’s no way of getting around it or out of it.

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Oh, no there absolutely is we’re just not taking the proper steps to do that.

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We need to get off of this planet.  But should it happen and we’re all here.

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Yeah, there’s not a whole lot we can do.  You know Yellowstone National Park goes up.  Say goodnight.

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hundred thousand years.  Scheduled?  Well, yeah.  It’s going to let us know?

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Well, actually yes it will.  Absolutely.  It’s going to call you?  Similar, yeah.

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it will actually explode and that is a super volcano.  It will devastate most of North America.

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Within several months most of the Earth will have some ash and a lot of the plant life will die off.

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And, we’re going to have substantially large numbers of humans die because of the super volcano

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underneath Yellowstone.  Nice.  And, that’s just one event.  An asteroid plows into us – you get the idea.

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That’s one of the things that will happen.  The Sun will be blocked, we’ll be coated in this, there are many things that can happen.

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Just a solar flare that ignites in our direction could light our atmoshere on fire.

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Cool to look at – not very good to breath in.  Right.  I’m just saying.  Bad, bad things can happen.

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So, we need to get to other planets.  So whether that is NASA or privitized space travel -

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I guess I really don’t care.  I just want someone to start getting us to other planets.

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Though, NASA has the mission.  Do it!  Do it now!  NASA has the mission of going to – back to the

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Moon and back to Mars and ‘beyond’.  A little bit cheesy, but hey we’ll go with it.

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And, that’s great.  Mars is only a three month travel away.  Right.  Six months in each direction.

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But, what happens to these other planets?  Like fox just said – the one that we just found.  How do we

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get to those planets?  What kind of propulsion are we developing and should we be developing that on Earth.

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Ok.  Think about this we are working with super colliders, right?  Right.

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These things take two particles, ream them around these giant super collider tunnel type things.

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They slam back together and you create fusion as opposed to fission.  Nuclear fission, so nuclear fusion.

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Right, right, right.  And, I believe – it’s my understanding that when you do this you’re generating

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micro black holes.  Right.  So we’re starting to mess with antimatter and black holes.

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We could really mess things up here on the planet.  Yeah, just a little bit.  Right.

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So, we need to advance science in the human race.  But, to what end?

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I mean do we really want to test that stuff here?  What happens?  What happens if they could just

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rip half of the planet apart?  I hope I’m on the other half.  No, that’s not the right answer?  No, that’s not going to help you.

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Yeah, I mean I don’t know.  I guess I hadn’t thought about it in that particular way really.

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I guess I look at movies and I don’t think that our planet is going to blow up.

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I think that our moon is going to blow up or think… you know what I’m saying?

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planet is going to.  Maybe the core will stop and we’ll have to drill down there.

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Oh, what a horrible movie.  (laughter)  It’s a good movie.  It’s a horrible movie.

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But, I guess I just don’t think of us – breaking apart like that.  You stumped me – I’m sorry.

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Yeah, well, but it would be self-induced.  We would be doing it to ourselves.  Yeah.

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But, the point of this is traveling to other planets.  We’re going to need this technology and this power to get to other planets.

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to take a lot of power.  And, we don’t have a power source today that will allow us to do that.

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And it’s my understanding that… I was talking with someone from NASA on facebook.

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Apparentely nuclear powered satellites and things in space are forbidden right now.  Ok why?

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You probably don’t want that nuclear object falling back to the planet.  Oh, ok.

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That would not be a good thing.  Right.  It’s my understanding, again I haven’t actually verified

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a lot of this data.  So, we’re going to make some assumptions.  But, they are recently opening

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that back up.  If anyone in the chat can confirm that that’s true – that would be great.

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A little Wikipedia or Google action would be awesome.  But, they are opening

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that back up and allowing us to do that again, but that’s still not enough power.

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So, how do we get from here to Pluto, in say three months?  Well, you already said it takes three

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months to get to Mars.  Exactly.  Now you want it to only take three months to get to Pluto?

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Exactly.  This isn’t Star Trek.  Well, maybe we need Star Trek.  We need some sort of drives.

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We need to start working on…  Where’s my Jean-Luc Picard?  Jean-Luc!  Jean-Luc!  (laughter)

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How are we going to explore past our own solar system if we can’t even get out of it?

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I mean come on.. think about it this way, imagine it like this.  A few hundred years ago

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Christopher Columbus is sailing across the known world, it must have seemed like an insurmountable task.

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Well he didn’t know what he was doing.  Alright, well we don’t know what we are doing either.

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So, it’s not so insurmountable is it?  You just go out there and do it and hopefully you hit India.

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(laughter)  Oh look planet!  (laughter)  We’re going to call you Planetians.  Plantains.

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Plantains.  (laughter)  Oh, I love that idea.  Can I go – can I be first?  You wanna…

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I give you Plantains.  (laughter)  I think we just derailed again.  I’m sorry, I know.

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It’s really my fault.  That is just funny.  Yeah, you know I think these are – I don’t necessarily

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have the answer to these.  But, these are things that I definitely think that people should be…

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These are questions I think people should be asking.  How do we make this go?

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How do we push humanity forward?  Otherwise we are just sitting here – we’re all going.. oh there’s a war

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and oh there’s so many problems here and dadada.  I mean how miserable of a life is that.

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They could be meeting Plantains.  We could be meeting Plantains – right here, right now.

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Dude.  I’ve said this for awhile – space travel has the potential to do one of two things.  Yes.

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One – it will unite the planet.  Yes.  In my idealistic world everyone will sing Kumbaya and hold hands.

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(singing)  If I could get the world to sing.  Ah, yeah basically.

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Or the second thing it will do…  Create another war?  Yeah, pretty much.  Sweet!

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We’re going to start factioning off into…  50/50 shot.  Yeah, whoosh.  (laughter)

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Ohh..snake eyes!!  You know what, as long as – even if we are in a war – as long as I get off of the planet, I’m happy.

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Well, Virgin Galactic will let you do that.  Heck yeah!  So we’ll close out this episode…

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things that you should think about and actually, absolutely come back in.

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Let us know what you think.  Let us know how you think that we can get off of this planet.

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How we can get to other planets – way, way out there.  I’m not just talking Mars.

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Right, Mars is three months – we can do that.  I don’t know why it’s taking us so freaking long.

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But, you know whatever.  We can do Mars.  We can do other planets.

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We just need to dedicate ourselves to it.  But, how do we get to the things that

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are just a little bit outside of our reach?  How do we get to something that is one light year away?

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The Delta Quadrant.  In the Delta Quadrant, exactly.  How do we visit Star Trek: Voyager?  (laughter)  Janeway!

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Chakotay!  Chakotay.  (laughter)  So, seriously think about that.

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and the other sites.  Of course YouTube only gets ten minutes of this video.

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So, they don’t get to see this anyhow.  They don’t care.  Nah, they don’t care.  They’re just click, click, click.

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But, leave your comments – let us know what you think.  Please do.

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And stop on back next week.  We do this live every Thursday?  Thusday.

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Take us out – give them the normal stats.

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We are normally on..well our regular show is a Thursday.  Every Thursday we are live.

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At 7pm Central – is it daylight time?  Yeah we’re in daylight time.

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Central Daylight Time.  Because that’s where we live and we really identify with Houston.

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And so that’s why we do that then.  And really what else are you going to do?

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I mean there’s nothing on tv.  And even if there is, you should have a TiVo by now.

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What are you – science geeks?  C’mon chop-chop.  Yeah bring your friends in.

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Get people excited about this.  We live and thrive off the chat room at the bottom.

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Yeah, absolutely.  So the more people we have commenting and…

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I noticed we had a couple trolls in there.  So, thank you admins and operators for taking care of that

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during the show.  Yes.  Well, you know stopping, leave your comments.

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Let’s get a good conversation going and figuring what the best thing to do is.

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Because there are a lot of really cool things we can do for humanity.

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And you know, if your one of those people who really likes profit and wants to make money.

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There is that there in this too.  Absolutely.  Look at Virgin Galactic.  So you know there are chances

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to advance in many different areas here.  It’s not just a idealistic view of the world.

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But, it is easier together.  Oh really!  I’m taking us out on that one.  What?