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Choices at the ready to grab and go on Dr Sanjay Gupta hoping you live a better life. Washed . Afghanistan Iraq. Very good evening to you I learn from. A book about Vietnam. George Orwell once upon a time sat back in the mid 20th century the fastest way to end the war is to lose it so tad it's taken us a long time to lose in Afghanistan the observation you make is that the war is ending badly badly how is the Taliban going to run a parade down the center of Kabul is the Taliban going to be exacting tens of billions of dollars from Washington as we leave good evening to here Good evening to you John it's just wonderful to hear your voice anyway yes I mean that's Mr Orwell was absolutely correct the quickest way to win a war or to get out of a war is to lose it and frankly we have done that rather well over the past couple of decades and we are now looking at Afghanistan through rose colored glasses supplied by Mr. The special envoy for Mr Trump for Afghan reconciliation and he is now saying that he has a road map for peace in Afghanistan which include guarantees and enforcement mechanisms that are going to ensure Afghanistan won't ever become a safe haven for terrorists such as. State. Doubts about that and I think frankly anybody should at this point Boy is that a low bar to add. Remember. The Taliban these guys regard war crimes as a sport so we're going to say if they if they don't actually allow our Qaida wannabes to set up shop we've won that it well yeah I mean we're looking at another goshi ation don't forget John that includes all or some of the Taliban fab 5 who were released from Gitmo and returned to the battlefield immediately of course in exchange for the mole Bergdahl being released from their custody but they're now part of the negotiation team for the Taliban so they're patterning their negotiation strategy and tactics just the same as the Vietnamese use the North Vietnamese used in the early 1970 s. When we're getting out of Vietnam parallels are be just really amazing and very very close as I understand a little sod is insisting that the Taliban and there are several iterations of the south and that will go to the one that's being heavily influenced by Pakistan the Taliban will deal with the present government in Kabul how does that what is the language there Chad that suggests failure well the language is very clear in only one respect we don't know what the so-called agreement contains but we know that they're signing up the negotiations are hung up on 2 points we want to have a ceasefire before the peace agreement can be signed the Taliban want us to pull out before any sic peace agreement is signed and we also want them to negotiate with the. Kabul government of Ashraf Ghani and they are refusing just like the North Vietnamese refused to engage with the South Vietnamese government that they're refusing because they say that the Afghan government is our puppet so there's no prospect here for any reconciliation and we're quite frankly again looking through Mr Zalmay Colonials odds rose colored glasses I will tell you one side bar in December of 2000. 5 I was in Baghdad and I had met with mystic a little sod at that point he assured me that Iran was not a problem and far frankly the very next day on the other side of Baghdad I met with the lieutenant general j.r. Vines that was telling me in great detail how the Iranians were manufacturing the explosively formed penetrators that were used to kill dozens of American soldiers and they were sending them through a rock Well frankly into Iraq from Iran where they were manufactured so most girls obvious not have a really good track record to go on I'm old enough to remember 2000 and. 7 you know what happens when you when you outlive your own analogies just Ok we've now moved to another war that we're going to end by lose against Iraq Muki out there and help the younger people remember movies part in the in the Iraq War back in 2000 forward 2005 well the title solder is an Iranian Well an Iranian Iraqi cleric he went to Iran to study to be an ayatollah for a couple of years and apparently didn't quite make the grade b. Came back and he has run a militia based in Soccer City the other side of Baghdad where no one really dares go unless you're part of their mechanism they have been running the Caudal solder has been running a militia that was fighting American troops now he really is kind of a bipolar Ayatollah he's really an Iraqi nationalist but he's also quite faithful to Iran so he is on both sides our enemy and now a large chunk of the Iraqi parliament is under His control he's a major political force over there so he's trying to get the Iraqis to get us out of there by voting in Parliament to throw us out and there's really not a lot of prospect that we're going to be allowed to stay and quite frankly I'm not sure we want to at this point this is the Iraq that we have rescued how many times are dead. In Iraq more than we've rescued Europe and they all want to so even gab leave before of course they lose their country half their country again to the predators in the north Well they pretty much have lost their country to Iran the predators to the east you know I can't quite say that Iraq is an Iranian Satrapi but it's pretty darn close I have new information sitting in front of me here to the effect that one of the bare branches of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps under the control of Qassam Solomonic their commander General is being incorporated into the Iraqi army while still under the control of so money so you have a situation where the tot all solder is loyal bolter Iraq and Iran you have him as a major political force you have the Iraqi army being I don't think it's even subverted I think they're welcoming these people from the Iranian forces into their own so it's kind of hard to see that Iran is not in control of Iraq and that Iraq would be anything other than pretty much a satellite state of Iran we moved to the 3rd war that we're going to end quickly by losing at this would be Syria now the u.s. Presence in Syria is shadow a jet a jet at this point we have to have spotters on the ground otherwise the air elements would not be active However we're told that the 2000 that was the number were given. The 2000 commitment troop commitment is leaving Have we lost series. Well I don't think we ever really had it to be to be quite clear I think that we react recognized rather late that Iran and Russia and Syria were all in cahoots with each other and quite frankly the 3 are not the 3 the Iran Russia and Turkey have actually signed a treaty year and a half ago to keep Assad in power so we really never had Syria but we injected them to try to maintain some sort of fight against ISIS in one corner of northeastern Syria the Kurdish fighters are they are now trying to help us and allied with us and we want to get out but the problem is we can't really abandon the Kurds and the Kurds you know we're trying to negotiate with Turkey and Syria to protect the Kurds and the demands of each side are quite frankly irreconcilable So I think we have lost there but I think we're going to end up staying as we will and Afghanistan for quite a while my sense Chad right now politically is that this is now I hot and this is now not a hot debate the Republicans and the Democrats pretty much avoid talking about losing these wars is that your measure in Washington I think you're absolutely right John I think that no one wants to talk about it I mean the president said in his State of the Union Address that we are you know great nations don't fight endless wars Well that's true but great nations fight them to an end either to win or to lose and we have not fought in a manner calculated to win decisively so we are losing I mean war is a binary choice to one or 0 and right now all 3 of these wars are zeros Jed Babbin deputy undersecretary of defense the George h.w. 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Only as I did last summer and the summer before to learn about the politics of the energy resources of the Caspian Sea Bass and once upon a time I learned from my gas Robert Cutler University where he's an and sensitive European Russian and Eurasian studies once upon a time it was considered to fantastic to in any way exploit the gas and oil of the Caspian Sea Bass and how would you get it to market who who would buy it after all Central Asia is not a roaring our column in the 20th century but here we are on the 21st and forget all that because the politics of energy turn on Europe's over dependence upon Russia Russia since Ukraine has been a follower of NATO and of the European Union and the United States and therefore it is a paradox that Germany and France and the rest of the Western European economies are trading partners must depend on energy entirely from Russia either through Ukraine or through northern Europe however the Caspian Sea basin answers all that and to help us understand the prospects for Caspian Sea Energy weighing in for NATO for Western Europe for the United States now Robert Robert what is the trans Caspian pipeline it was in the news when I was there last August and it's in the news again what does it describe Good evening to you. Hello John good to talk to you always trans Caspian pipeline as the name said is a pipeline this time for natural gas that goes under the Caspian Sea from Turkmenistan to Azerbaijan and by various other routes from Azerbaijan to Europe so it is a way a pipeline for Central Asian gas to get to Europe are quite fantastic prospect however right now there is something that is anticipating all this which is the agreements of the Caspian Sea basin contraries no easy matter Robert we're talking about Russia Iran Turkmenistan which until recently was a closed door and Kazakstan how they worked out their ability to share the Caspian Sea Energy and to agree to shipping a tiara. Well yes they reached an agreement after 22 years of negotiation they reached and signed agreement last summer and it's in the process of being ratified by the different states and they have decided that the surface can be basically free for all as long as you don't hang around in someone else's waters too long and that the subsurface resources are divided into national sectors there's no common area of energy resources like Russia and Iran wanted back in the ninety's Instead it's going to be divided up has partly been divided up already in 5 ways amongst these 5 countries you mentioned Turkmenistan is critical right now because it has a natural gas in abundance it has been hesitant these years but it is not managed and now ready to ship its natural gas through as a buys on to Europe yes to reason Turkmenistan is hesitated in recent years is because they were afraid they have some some of what's called Stranded Gas in the offshore all of their big gas is in the south is in the south in the southeast of the country and they have a pipeline now that they built themselves to take it to the Caspian shore but the Malaysian firm Petronas has this so-called Stranded Gas meaning it means it has nowhere to go and what the Europeans were saying and you still have some so-called experts who say that well you know Europe can take the Stranded Gas The problem is that the so-called Stranded Gas is one 6th as much as Turkmenistan wants to export from the eastern part of the country and they're not going to sign a contract for Europe for 5 or $8000000000.00 cubic metres a year there have been holding out for $32.00 That's why have Turkmenistan has been hesitating and that natural gas now there's a pipeline that exists from Azerbaijan through charge to the Black Sea and then south to Turkey and then to the depots where the oil is taken on tankers in the Mediterranean will the natural gas pipeline follow that same route and then cross Turkey. Well yes that's the famous bucket of Lisi Che Han contract of the century pipeline from 20 years ago and that in fact was a demonstration project back when everybody was still extremely skeptical and no one was even thinking about natural gas. To get the oil out from Baku is offshore and the s g c Southern gas quarter all follows that wrote until it gets a little bit into eastern Turkey and then it cuts west across the Anatolian Peninsula to Europe so yeah that gas pipeline that runs parallel for a little while through Azerbaijan Georgia at a little bit of turkey that's been around for. Over 10 years it's been it's being expanded in the anticipation that Azerbaijan's going to be exporting more gas but also by John's not going to be exporting more gas for 5 or 10 years whereas Turkmenistan is ready to come online in 2 years and that natural gas will flow $3030.00 through a great touch Albania and then under the stage to Adelaide and from Italy will be distributed through our present only going to take all the natural gas. Italy's been reforming their pipeline structure it's going to go from Italy up through Austria and Austria has a large large network for distribution into the rest of Europe there's a 2nd string as they call it of the trans Caspian pipeline that's going to be laid it's planned to be laid parallel to the 1st but it's going to take to take that gas in the 2nd pipeline a little parallel instead of cutting into Turkey what they intend to do is to take it all the way across Georgia to the Black Sea then under the Black Sea through the white Stream pipeline which is a project that they have and it's going to land in Romania right directly again into the e.u. And that's one of the reasons why the trans Caspian pipeline is so such a law thing these days is that the Germans have made turkey and gas officially part of their energy supply for the forward looking strategic document so by the middle of this century 2050 which is a mere 30 years away we can remember 1989 so we can think to 25 to 2050 we expect your up to have multiple sources of energy and no longer be entirely dependent upon Russia and whatever happens in Ukraine is that is that generally correct Yes Well not only that the bucket Tblisi Jihan oil pipeline was a demonstration project that showed people that this could be done and it's thanks to that demonstration project that the gas started coming out of Azerbaijan now and that's why we have the sub the gas corridor with the trans Caspian pipeline looks set to do is to be as like another demonstration project for investors and for gas consumers to say hey look we really can't we got gas and oil from the western shore of the Caspian Sea 20 years ago we're actually able now to get it from the eastern shore and that includes oil and gas from Turkey from. Yes from Kazakhstan Yes from Turkmenistan and their number of pipelines I doubt I could read maybe I have about another chance another time to go into detail about those plans certainly well because I'm headed to the Caspian Sea base and then when you stand on the on the beach watching out for the sea snakes when to stand on the beach and cast your eyes across the Caspian Sea you try to imagine what it's going to look like in 30 years and not only for the pipelines but also for the transportation of goods back and forth from Kazakhstan which is of course a direct route to China Robert Kotler helping me understand the plans underway now no longer speculation these plans are underway to my reading there is no blocking Robert is the Canadian Energy Research Fellow at their Canadian Energy Research Institute as well as a senior research or at the Institute of European Russian and Eurasian Studies at Carleton University I'm John Bachelor. You're listening to. Change. Places with. 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Only the empty of those savage nation listen for free on your Free Bird Bob Almost one more note for. Better Life with Dr Sanjay Gupta Sometimes it's possible to solve 2 problems at once I'm Dr Sanjay Gupta C.N.N.'s chief medical correspondent we've been reporting a lot recently about teens vague being or smoking cigarettes the most startling data came from the c.d.c. Last year which showed teen babying was up 78 percent from the year before now a study out a u.s.c. Finds teens who live in areas with stronger tobacco retail licensing requirements also smoke fewer electronic cigarettes and these requirements include annual license fees from all retailers that cover enforcement programs and compliance checks as well as provisions that any violation of a law is a violation of the license a look of course teens could still order some of these products online but the f.d.a. Is cracking down on that point is don't underestimate the power of community standards and the reason for these regulations they being isn't harmless you can come with some serious health risks I'm Dr Sanjay Gupta hoping to live a better life. Killer Show. 6. We're talking. To John dancers I'm changing. I'm John Vause John Ransom. We're going to the surface of the planet Mars the surface of the planet moon we're also going to stay on the surface of the planet Earth to look at NASA and Ross cosmos but not before I mention this is February Bob's every man's birthday fund rising fundraising drive your contributions your help is enormously Chandra's Pay-Pal works so does a monthly subscription or a one time payment to Bob This is the way he can keep being trouble for now and trouble for Cosmos and a helpmate to beleaguered commercial space and you will see the beleaguered being is no overstatement Bob your fund raising month has is going to be extended because I was unfortunately out of out of combat for a few weeks but I'm back here Bob to swing into action about NASA and it strikes me as an amateur reader of space rocketry and the success since Sputnik. More than 60 years ago it strikes me that we're always advancing or rewarding those who advance so this story puzzles me NASA is looking to hire Russia for I s s flights now Bob Russia has a broken program they're out of money their quality control doesn't exist and NASA has the ability right now to choose commercial space as a transfer from the earth to the I s s so why are they hiring Russia that's my amateur. Question Good evening to your boss Good evening John Well my amateur not so amateur and so would be that the NASA bureaucracy and the Washington swamp that supports it and the bureaucracy to supports NASA that swamp prefers Russia and sending money to Russia that helping American private companies they have more allegiance to the bureaucracies of Ross cosmos and they have 2 independent private American companies I know it's a bold statement but I haven't seen anything to make me disabuse me of that because you know I've been talking repeatedly for several years now about how NASA is bureaucracy and its safety panel will get to its safety panel have been slow walking the development of the manned capsule being built by Boeing and Lockheed Martin and more than slow walking if they have been actually acting as. Blockers like in football to do anything they can to stop it from a curry and so because of that national faces by the end of this year difficulty they won't be able they won't have any more they don't have any. Russian contracts to launch astronauts I assess at least a moment and so they're faced with they wanted anyway to get their astronauts on the s.s. They did announce while you were gone John that they were going to stretch out the last 2 missions in 2019 so that they can use the saw use seat that they've paid for through April of 2020. But now they're suggesting that there was an announcement that they're considering buying more Soviet astronaut flights from Russia at least 2 more and what that would give them the ability to continue to get to I assess without using American capsules would allow them to continue to slow walk. And block the American companies that's what this would do now they're doing this as you mentioned the Russian problems I want to just emphasize we had of Soviet launch abort last year with the humans on board Fortunately no one was hurt and we also had someone in the Soviet in Russia in the sole use cap. Assembly Building drill a hole in a man's cap yet and that is not solved that drilled often after the sabotage that Russia has still not explained or solved so that means the possibility of it happening again is is there someone I say is going to trust people who draw a whole thing can explain them rather than trust space x. Which has got a spacecraft ready to go that's right that's exactly right and it's b. I just tell you while you were gone John I was out a bunch of different shows and I was also writing about this and if I can tell you where angry This makes me that the and this is a perfect example of our swamp the Washington corruption that has no interest in the interests of our nation they are not interested not only Ross cosmos Ross cosmos is troubled nobody denies it why do you take your business and pay them a lot of money this is not we're not getting a discount here why do you take your business to a troubled company where you've built in a catastrophe there is a catastrophe ahead of us if they choose only one reason and that's to your loyalties to them more than it is to United States and this brings me to Mr Trump President Trump our American 1st guy I mean this is a perfect example of. Why he should step in and say hey NASA you've got to speed this up we'll take some risks with our American companies it's better that the business is in America and it's worth the risk stop being so an obstacle to American achievement that's what should happen but I haven't seen any action on this and he's so what we've got instead is political gamesmanship that's favoring a foreign power over American citizens and that company Space x. Space x. Has problems more than they slow walking out of a man reading dragon it also has it just been running for a long time now with you ally what's the base all Ok there are actually 2 stories here and they're both related to each other and I think this ties in to a certain extent in the corruption in the manned space program in. And we'd say sex and NASA NASA about a month ago NASA awarded to launch contract to you all a full launching that Lucy asteroid mission in 2023 well in the past week space x. Files a protest against that contract which by the way was for almost $150000000.00 stating very clearly that they could do that mission at a dramatically lower cost and that's the obvious yes they could and so they're saying that NASA has unfailingly gave an award to a company it shouldn't get and it's challenging the award and now that's that this challenge came after. The. Military. The military inspector general announced that he was going to review the suit launch certification that the Air Force gave to space x. a Few years ago which makes no sense at all because. Say it has been has already launched 2 things for the military it's completed 40 successful launches in a rose tinted glass problem and that launch certification. Was followed the rules far as I know it why suddenly open this investigation now and it's also tied in to another story where 2 California lawmakers Dianne Feinstein Senator and Congressman Kevin 10 Calvert. Have sent a letter to the Air Force calling for him to been to independent review of the aft forces launch procurement strategy because they or they issued half a 1000000000 to a 1000000000 dollar development contracts to all of Space X.'s competitors to develop the next generation of rockets but none of the money to space x. Now space x. Has indicated they don't want the money but nonetheless that that they're asking for an investigation of the parent bias of the Air Force against space x. All this ties to gets me to say John that there's a gigantic war going on within that swamp that the Scots being swamp that doesn't really care about the interests of the nation but is now fighting for power between these various big space and new space companies and then there's serious my involve Bob and there's a transfer of the old way of doing with government and the new way which is space tax so we're dealing with a transition that is not only the swamp but generational Bob generation Pollie that John but you know what's suddenly have partly happened is here is space x. Is being captured by that swamp because they're playing this game of power politics to try to protect themselves they have no choice but what that ends up doing is poison you because the focus space x. Has always had up to now and Carly is the rockets to cheaper faster and smarter and squash slashes so therefore you build a customer base but instead what they're doing now is a you it appears that there is political games being played by them which means. The focus is going to start shifting and they're going become a player like the others and I fear that the intelligent approach to business will go downhill about the puzzle in addition about money in all directions and we care about money is that there is money in commercial space if you're transparent and straightforward to the public I mean right this is rocket engineering and taking risks where knowledge all of that there's one man who has upset me from the beginning and his name is Richard Branson he's not an American citizen he's a prejudiced and so he has a different way of doing things any and he believes in boasting I understand all that but really Bob I've I've made it very clear for some time that I don't want to news the do news about Prince and but this story I like Bryant's and he needs money why well all right so he's got 2 space companies one and they used to be one but because one is failing he separated the one that out that might succeed so the 2 companies a Virgin Galactic conversion all that version like this is the one he's been saying for the last decade is going to fly in space on a sub orbital mission you know many weeks months of course no that's ever happened he made that same promise again just a few weeks ago he's going to live for the end of this year. I don't believe it but he is but is it but he backed out of a did dollar invested in space you know we had with Saudi Arabia recently because he was horrified by their actions having to do with. The man that they killed in there and I'm not going to get into the politics of that particular thing but Branson decided he was going to Virtue signal and said I'm pulling out of that deal because I think was horrible sort of Britain has done well having got out investment the only suddenly discovered the for both Virgin Galactic and his more successful likely to be successful company Virgin all that you need doesn't have the capital e. Needs anymore now I should mention a virgin all that is virgin all because of the centrally a new small set rocket company they're going to use an employee as a 1st stage small launcher to put small steps out of. And all that they've got a bunch of contracts and expect to do the 1st launch in just a matter of months I think actually they're likely to make some money there because there's this bull going on in small sats there's a need for these rockets and this is one of them online but they don't so he's asked to raise. What is it a lot of money he wants to get at least 250000000 and he's and he's saying people can invest either or both of these 2 companies and I wouldn't be surprised if you get some money for virgin all of it because they really at the cusp of a renaissance and they're in the we're positioned well and they've shown that they can get it done. Virgin Galactic But Bob Bob like Ross cosmos Why take your business to someone with questionable transparency when there's so many other choices for a small fee for investing in a small site company well there are a lot of people that don't I can't believe that any major investor out there is not aware of the questions having to do with Virgin Galactic So that's why I do not expect them to raise any money for Virgin Galactic stage I do expect and I think Virgin or. Good luck at that company will say yeah this possible possibilities it's worth investing in but if Branson insists that the money goes to both or none I don't think we'll get a dime and that's where we stand right now this I think Virgin Galactic is on the verge of death right now and this is the 1st nail near you not only a very good care you've heard it here for years and years Branson is always promising as by the end of this year by the middle of the by the being we're going back years and Branson is not the sort of promoter that commercial space requires what you need is somebody who delivers over delivers immediately upon talking about it Bob Zimmerman who always over to leverage remember this is the Bob Zimmerman birthday month. Your contributions. Are. Extremely welcome. This is a. 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Capital One Bank USA Any into the john budgeter show it's. Actually. A set. This is your show I'm with Zimmerman It is February it is fund raising. To contribute to. The discernment of space rocketry but we now turn to Bob's joy of talking about space exploration and a moment here for the Smithsonian that will land on Mars soon enough and collect the hardware and software of the 21st century opportunity has no longer given a signal that we can trust and they've made a decision at NASA. Opportunity 1st time was exceeding all possible. Is a. Possible that opportunity could come back as something could blow the dust off of its. Solar panels Yes John just to be clear opportunity is dead you know for the last like 32 and a half years I've been doing regular Rover updates on behind the black to track how they travel and opportunities been working through inside the ram which is some interesting to rain inside the rim of Endeavor Crater and when the dust on happened it didn't get sunlight it depends on sunlight for power and so when the dust on cleared they were hoping something would blow the dust off the solar panels we've heard nothing for 6 months they made more than a 1000 ping was trying to get in touch with it and heard nothing and so they declared last week that they have a fish that officially a popped and he's considered dead could it come back to life it is not impossible Well I wouldn't put a lot of money on that because after a period of time without power things start to corrode and not work anymore but it isn't impossible that if the dust devil happens to fly by and clear off those panels and start to charge the batteries and it'll come back to life then we have a problem letting them be listening to it. You know it wouldn't be a stupid thing for NASA or somebody not your say NASA to periodical e take a look. Because if it starts to signal back it won't just do it once and stop it will do it on a regular basis and sooner or later someone will hopefully hear it I would not put a lot of money on that and that is why I think at this stage of the game to shift its money to of the things we've got a lander on the surface right now besides curiosity we've got a 2nd Rover coming in 2020 and more to come after that so I wouldn't invest a lot in opportunity this point it is a shame it was a spectacular success it was only supposed to last 90 days and. Surface It lasted just under 15 years on the surface you drove it they didn't really expect to drive probably more than a kilometer you drove almost not more than a mile let's say get a little bit more but he drove 28 miles more than a marathon eventually a spectacular share her exit record there's a sad version of the last words of opportunity which I read here because it's romantic My battery is low and it's getting dark opportunities did not actually say that because it doesn't talk about language or talks and technical language data and the data can be translated that way an addition that we could translate the back of the data just say my battery is low so does several problems by I'll be back in touch with you we could translate it that way however it was a great kid John it was a great cartoon which I joked about opportunities great success and expect extrapolated that success until the days we settled on mods and the punchline was that's the opportunity half of Maus we're not allowed to go that far so who knows what will happen down the road as who knows all right Peter now inside inside what is inside inside the lander that landed in the most boring spot it could find on Maus just like 6 months ago and its purpose wasn't to do roving it was to take great pictures it wasn't to do any geology really its purpose was to give us this thermal and seismic record of what's going on in the interior was the surface so they've now the ploy the seismograph size of media and it's starting to gather and they have deployed the thermal sense it's now just about to begin drilling that 15 feet down into the surface to get the temperature but it will set another instrument on the spacecraft a weather station there's also a similar weather updates of some curiosity on this weekly updates from Ron Marz reconnaissance all because of you all know. The weather on Maus you now have at least 2 on Planet stations and it all begins station to tell you how it's going it's called Edge on there's no doubt about that. But it's not so cold that with a with proper clothing you could walk the surface right called is what Chicago was a couple weeks ago and yet again the polar vortex is not the same temperature due to you $22.00 and is on the far side of the moon and we need an update Bob said moving around well Ok basically what they're doing is they're only going to have it move for a few days during the daylight period when the heat of the sun so that when the sun comes up they move it they do stuff for a few days then during the heat of the day they shut it down then as the sun's going to set they open it up again run for a few more days and then when the sun sets they set it down for the night time 14 day night they have moved it they've moved it several 100 what is it about 30 meters about 100 feet from the land to the northwest there's a great picture on behind the black that was taken by Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter showing both spacecraft on the surface try cool we'll be able to track it even if the Chinese don't give us any money or any information because hello is that it takes a look and they I. Suddenly I Chinese entity Yeah I would do it that way I a you instantly appear instantly I mean literally instantly approved all China's pose names for the landing site the features around it they haven't approved any American proposals ever that quickly that they always protest American choices the bias of that organization is unclear bob them and he keeps a Web site behind the black your contributions are wonderful I'm John batch. This isn't John natural on changing. Technology truth brought to you by a guy called. Truth you will certainly send any check. To your supervisor. That. She that. Her. Then sent no no no no no truth it's so easy to switch. Janet I think my phone was hacked or something 15 minutes could save you 15 percent or more. That he's getting caught is. The key. To getting cars to Keith. 77 cars picky. Picky. That having ties to Keith. And don't visit us on. Dot com remember it. Because it's quick and easy. To listen. To that. Was Dead god. Can. 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