James is absent excused commissioner serlina commissioner itani commissioner loo commissioiner ow commissioner roy commissioner nelson and executive director is present. May i have a motion to approve the agenda that was modified a few weeks ago we have a copy. Move forward second. Thank you narrating approval of the minutes of the consent calendar agenda. So moved. Second. Any questions or comments thank you. The motion carries next item approval the april 6, 2016, minutes has everyone had a chance to review them any changes or comments from did Public Comment public so moved. Seconded by. All in favor, say i. I. That motion carries. Employee of the month aaron perez. Yeah. clapping. so its a great occasion to honor karen perez as the employee of the month of may we usually like to honor kearney want to talk about the dodges i think the commissioners are familiar with people from the office on aging he hear them present but not honoring them here in the people prosecute the office of
Director rubke and director nolan is absent with notification item 3 please silence all electronic devices. Any person responsible for disruption may be asked to leave the room. Cell phones set on vibrate can cause interference with the microphones, we respectfully ask they be turned off. Item 4 approval of the minutes. Do we have any Public Comment on the minutes. No members of the public have come down forward wait herbert wiener. Mr. Wiener 2 minutes please. Herbert wiener id like the minutes to amend the following when stated i took you know the bus lets say i had to walk a block to the ophthalmologist on Mission Street yesterday id like to add this and it makes it somewhat rocky on the minutes i want to a traffics of the eliminates of the accumulation of bus stop and outlines mta can truly be called the broker of passengers they might as well be sold as commodities on the stock exchange. Thank you, mr. Wiener. Normally in the minutes would we include something that was more opinio
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
Memberse have six crew appear, three russians, two americans and one german. Mostly, what we do up here is science. We have 170 experiments going on right now. We have to maintain the station and keep it running smoothly and efficiently. With the experience express your conducting, what categories to the following to and why does need to be conducted in an atmosphere such as your . Rs . We are looking for dark energy and dark matter. It is something were try to figure out, just the basic physics of how our universe came to be. From that we go all the way to human research, other bodies. How do we change in the microgravity environment . Specifically, our eyes and muscles and bones. We have applications for people on earth with diseases. We can see it at a more rapid pace appear. Thingsa here is that change enough that people can pieces orw different objectives change in this microgravity environment. It is different than on earth and it gives another data set to look at and compare to.
Correct. This is how certain he was for these ideas. But thats just one example. When it comes to cosmology and the big bang, we can use the equation to make predictions for how much residual heat should be left over from the big bang today, socalled cosmic microwave Background Radiation. And make predictions on how the temperature of the heat should vary from one location in space to another. And do measurements and measurements agree with the theoretical prediction to fantastic accuracy and that is breathtaking confirmation mathematics is not just speculation, the math is actually aligning with how the world works. Give me an example of that measurement of the cosmic Background Radiation . They go to the north pole or south pole . There are many ways to access it. You can access it through satelliteborne telescopes such as wilkinson Background Radiation probe, which has done a fantastic job measuring microwave Background Radiation. But the recent one i think youre referring to is bic