The global 3000 talks with team british researchers who take a more optimistic view. The world is not always a good plan but its much much better than i was. Really getting better. A global 3000. 00 special reports. Start august 19th on digital. Welcome to tomorrow today the science show on t w coming up alexander from home but was born 250 years ago we follow in the footsteps of the great scientist and explorer. The tablo physique is one of hubbards most important creations it
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therefore, we re going to have to prioritize our resources into those areas. what do you say to that rationale? well, i think that s a self-licking ice cream cone. if you only have so many resources, and more threats than resources can cope with, you re not going to do very well. the united states obviously has to face the threat of china in asia and around the world. it s the existential threat of the 21st university, but it doesn t mean other threats have disappeared. we have new threats like cyber. we can defend the united states. what are we good for if we could defend the united states by the application of adequate resourcing, and they re out there. another argument that s been made is 20 years ago we didn t
this method would have freed alex hunter from whom boyd in his day it was almost impossible to find deposits hidden deep underground. down most. men in the dark then mines were only in places where orders had been found on the surface when people found them they pursued them for today that s not possible anymore because practically the entire surface of the earth has been studied and we have to go down deep. there are currently around 5000 known minerals and many of them are on display here in freiburg ringback over the centuries they ve been brought to the surface by minus and by researchers like. ringback studied at the u. we found that mining academy in freiburg. it was the 1st university of its kind in the verge and he a homebody learnt the state of the art mining technology of his time.