Number of papers published on astrobiology increased 10 times, and the two pick report that cited astrobiology increased 25 times. Astrobiology is a serious subject studied i serious scientists around the world. Reflecting this interest, next september, the library of congress and nasa will hold a twoday astrobiology symposium on what the societal impacts could be of finding microbial, complex, or intelligent life in the universe. Whether life exists on other planets continues to be a matter of debate amongst scientists. Around the world, number of astronomers listen to naturally occurring radio frequencies. They try to filter out the cosmic noise and interference of human made satellites and spacecraft to find anomalies that could be signals from civilizations elsewhere. At the citye array institute of finance by microsoft cofounder paul allen and the telescope in puerto rico are two wellknown locations for conducting radio astronomy searches for life in the universe. Astronomers have
And he was i believe he is in tikrit area right now. And the other one flew the last airplane out of tikrit and they , wherey disillusiononned we cant depend on the u. S. And they were the same kids who are rotc ike any of our graduates academy graduates, sharp, intelligent, motivated its veral of them said not our generation that is going o experience the peace and tranquility. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] good morning. Happy early 4th of july. I hope you all have big plans tomorrow. Im going to make a couple of opening comments and then ask chairman dempsey for some thoughts and well go to your questions. I know as chairman dempsey does, you have been receiving updates on the situation in iraq here on a regular basis. And i would like to focus a couple of comments on iraq as i start. Our efforts here at d. O. D. Have been focused on two specific missions. And i want to lay a bit of a framework down an
Sterling stood behind. And then where his words came out, it was so obvious and shocking and just disgusting. One. Hose things wrapped in the surprise of it, to find that type of sentiment and someone who relies on black americans for so much of his success and public profile is amazing. I just couldnt believe that someone who could have that much to retreat inside and think that it was ok. July 4 on cspan, a look at racism in sports. Later, exploring the red planet with mars probe engineers and senior nasa officials, beginning at 3 40. Later, discussions on gun rights and the personal recovery of former arizona congresswoman debbie giffords. Giffords. That is according to figures released today by the bureau of labor statistics. The president talked about the job numbers and the u. S. Economy at a visit to a tech startup hub in washington dc. This is an incubator for all sorts of tech startups. A lot of them focused on social change issues, on education, health care. We have a range o
Contingency required to cover the additional risk. I just want to make sure you heard you correctly you said only covering 65 percent with our current budgeted these are things that may happen or may not happen so we run an analysis to get the probability of how much of the list budget we think might need to be used. So you dont think well have enough money . Thats not what im saying. So actually were 65 percent confident that the remaining contingency will cover the remaining construction risk in the program. Thats not very comforting that you are 65 percent confidence id like to hear that you are a hundred percent confident. Then wed need to request 3 or 4 times that amount of money and we dont think its appropriate to request money that may not be needed in future years. At what point will you determine that we have enough money for the project. The risk will continue to come down and well be increasingly confident over time. Thats what we thought about calaveras and then we had geo
Risk profile has diminished and 65 percent would be an appropriate level for where we stand today. Certainly it is a policy call and so as the policy component of our organization if you would like us to revisit that 65 percent we would certainly be willing to do that but this is what we believe to be the best but if theres concern over 65 percent and a desire to go with a higher contingency profile certainly we would do that. I think i want to add i want to thank commissioner torres i think the conversation is valuable and then your response about whether or not we want to take a long hard look at that policy but i want to thank commissioner torres its an important line of questioning. Are we going to continue the report. Thank you very much emilio. I guess were not going to revisit the policy of 65 percent at this point. Im fine with it i just want to make sure 65 percent is a comfortable number i had the same reaction seems like a low number but in understanding how that number is d