Distracted by so many of the threats from Nuclear North Korea to iran, shipping and together in the pacific to political divisions and this country and others, economic disruption around the world that the threats posed by terror are seeing more and more as lone wolf driving cars through open spaces in europe and in the United States and other places. And many seem to forget that the potential of even a lone wolf getting his hands on something very frightening in the biological realm is still quite possible and, in fact, some would say likely and certain sometime in our future. So as we address all of the many things that are frightening as an terrorizing us, and we must deal with around the world, we want through the the Potomac Institute, take a moment and see if we cant refocus on the issue of biological terrorism. We are releasing today a couple new works by the Potomac Institute that summarize an awful lot of the activities that have gone on here at the institute on biological ter
Dart mission. I heard there is an asteroid or comet or something that you dont like the looks of. Tell me about it. You have 20 minutes. 20 minutes . Go. A comet that we estimate came from a cloud, and using a method of orbital determination and the average uncertainty of. 0 4 whoa. That is a lot of words. Just tell us what it is. What the doctor is trying to say is there is a, headed directly towards earth. It would be far more catastrophic. Mile high tsunamis. How certain is it . There is a 100 certainty of impact. Please dont say 100 . Can we just call it a potentially significant event. But is it potentially going to happen . 99. 7 to be exact. Ok, 70 . Call it 70 and its just move on. Host that is a clip from the trailer of the current hit movie on netflix titled dont look up, one over long series of hollywood disaster films centered around asteroids or meteors striking the earth. But now, science is catching up with art, and you are involved in a project called dart that revolves
That is a clip from dont look up. It is a disaster movie senator and meteors striking earth but now science is catching up with art and you are involved in a project called dart revolving around this. Tell me about it. Susan we have seen news reports of the past about meteors striking. What is the difference between an asteroid and meteor . When they get bright in the atmosphere, you can look up and see meteors come in. Some make meteorites, which are the rocks that survive here on the planet. It really depends on the size when talking about objects. A meteor hits the earth once every year, roughly. I got my phd studying meteors. I love them. They are like free samples from space. Its not all bad. There is quite a lot of good about it. Its just when it gets bigger that you can have devastation. So it is important to distinguish between the size and objects sides of objects. Susan how large would an object have to be to cause significant damage . That is an important question. A lot of
As the president mentioned, well youll receive a report that our task force received formally this week from bill bryant of the science and Technology Director at the department of Homeland Security. He will outline as the president said encouraging news about the impact that heat and sunlight have on the coronavirus, which will increase the confidence that we feel about the coming summer. On the subject of testing at the present moment we have reports of 4. 93 million tests having been performed across america and encouraging news as states have been engaging commercial labs at a higher level across the country. Yesterday our commercial lab system did more than 100,000 tests in a single day. So were beginning to activate all of the capacity. And tomorrow at the president s direction, our task force will convene a Conference Call with all of the nations governors to talk about their progress that they are making on testing and were going to hear from governors about the practices and m
Of a debate nationwide over race will be removed from the South Carolina State Capitol grounds. For the last time a month ago it would have been unthinkable. But then came the massacre at charlestons emanuel a. M. E. Church, perpetrated by a man who symbolically wrapped himself in those stars and bars. Omar villafranca is in columbia. Reporter with the stroke of a pen, South Carolina governor nikki haley made history. Im proud to say that the bill has been signed. Reporter she was surrounded by former South Carolina governors and by the families of the emanuel nine, crediting those who died and their loved ones with paving the road to forgiveness that brought the state together. The action of nine individuals laid out this long chain of events that forever showed the state of South Carolina what love and forgiveness looks like. Reporter the victory wasnt easy. For weeks outside the state house, there were heated demonstrations on both sides. You cant tell me nothing about that flag. Re