sophie, i wonder, is it just scandal in the media or is it actuality? yeah, i mean i think there are good reasons out there to distrust certain institutions shall we say. i also want to bring up another point which is particularly when it comes to government, trust can be a partisan issue. if you look at trust in the executive branch right now, i think the most recent numbers from gallup show that about 43% of americans have some or a lot of confidence in the executive branch. when you break that out, democrats, about 80% of democrats are expressing confidence because there s a democrat in the white house and about 30% of republicans are not. when you look back to this point in president bush s tenure, those numbers were flipped with 80% of republicans expressing confidence and about 20% of
base on mars because we ll get the nobel prize and our space budget will go up by a factor of three, but the truth is more mundane, probably it s a cosmic ray track that went through the camera and digital software magnified the pixels that are aligned in a streak. bill: so that s an image from the planet mars. that s right. bill: that some may be proves believe proves life on mars, when it actuality it may be a piece of dust in the camera filter? that s right. the internet is burning up it s going viral, people saying it s a base on mars, alien built this base on mars. however, scientists are saying probably it s a cosmic ray that regularly goes through our cameras. we see this all the time. on mars, cosmic rays activity is much greater than on the earth because the atmospheric density is 1 percent that of the earth, then software, software that compresses it and expands it makes it larger. bill: we re going to put you on myth busters soon! thank you michio, see you soon.