That was a test. My father had told me stories from sky lab about he had always seen the fires in the amazon and people were clearcutting it. I hadnt thought about it for 35 years. I remember when i was a kid, there were a lot of tv things about it about save the rainforest, shockingly you dont see much these day. Boy, is it still burning and so was big areas of the green belt through central africa, but for me, the great epiphany came on this day. This was probably day eightish. It was the first time i had after having that information about the earth pour into your mind, i finally saw a place i knew personally very well. There is my house off a lake in austin, texas, i could also see houston where i grew up around nasa. I could see the gulf coast where i played on beaches as a kid, up in dallas where i had driven many times, i had driven and walked and biked those areas intimately. I knew the size of it. I knew how big it was. At the time, i could see the whole earth and suddenly tha
And checkout, of which i was the capcom, we just sort of moved over to apollo 11 for that same phase. And the only additional thing was going to be the landing. Apollo 10 went through the descent, didnt land. Came back up, aborted. Then rendezvoused. Well, were gonna do the whole thing. And so ive got to give Mission Control credit during this descent. And all of the troubles and problems that they had on apollo 11 on the descent. Mission control actually saved the day on just about every mission. Those 1201, 1202 warnings that could have aborted . Not really. We thought so. I thought so. This was abort. Oh no, computers frozen up or something, so it was a computer overload alarm that i didnt recognize. But the gnn guys did. And they said were going, that alarm. The apollo computer had a set compute cycle. And it cued up the jobs. And if it had too much to do in that milliseconds or whatever it was, it just dropped off the last jobs, told you it was overloaded, and it flipped back to t
Johnson wrote lectures for him for free. What he did was write his way to the stability of the truth. He just tried to describe accurately the world he tethered himself to that. Many of his effort is hims contain that stability, realism, intense honest realism. One is that a man of genius is seldom ruined by himself. It was an impressive struggle. That is the final thing we would say about solitude, i mean come about character. The people who have character are not the people who climb an external climb. If you see this dr. Seuss book it is about the external climb to success. The eulogy virtues is not about an external struggle, but the internal struggle about the things you fear about yourself. Johnson took all the things he feared about himself, his sloth, his envy, and he wrote about them headon and named them and grab them and they went away. Whether it is lover suffering or self defeat, it is that same shape that is falling down and coming up. I think the people who have characte
As it relates to the relative scale people in different cultures. This is what i want to bring up. A lot of the disruption that people attribute of the last 15 to 20 years has had a great deal to do. Especially wto. An enormous surge the sharp decline. And fortunately much closer to equilibrium policy side an extra five years were not look anything like it. The disrupted power is underappreciated so it does not have i am in favor for negotiating trade agreements. We want surgery it to the most obvious rather than something more subtle. We thought the internet was amazing thing. I dont see how it became. I just dont think thats possible. The other thing i would say is, i do do think that we are, you know, the trade does circumcise some of the things that we do. At the same time they have concern but my worry more about indian textile workers in general employment patterns in the u. S. Talk about utopia to have solar cells but but i think we should be thinking about Technology Working ha
Some of us still believe in battleships, and we are not sure that alaska should have ever been made a state. [laughter] senator king p request with some trepidation, mr. Chairman i want to associate myself with the senator from alaskas questions. The arctic is emerging as any normally important and strategic area. We have one heavy icebreaker and one medium icebreaker. The estimates are the russians have 710 icebreakers. That is just basic infrastructure. And the resources up there and the strategic implications are enormous, so i appreciate the senator raising the question. We have to put the discussion into context in terms of your budget. This chart, which im sure youre familiar with, is the last 50 years of defense spending as a percentage of gdp. Starting in 1962 at about 9 , today it is 3. 3 and headed down , at a time of increasing threat and payroll for our country. Often we get confused about the absolute dollar amounts, but a percent of gdp as a way of comparing apples to app