Characterize your book . Guest i think you did it very well. I would characterize it by saying my point is that we dont have to be the hapless helpless victims of nature. My friends at nasa and elsewhere in the Space Community like to say if the dinosaurs had a Space Program they would still be here. We have the wherewithal to save ourselves and the book though its an important part of the book is that explains that and comes out with a plan and they plan was not invented by me. It is universally accepted within the community. Host its my impression it leaves you are advocating spending quite a lot more on this problem and on Planetary Defense. Is that right . Guest yes, the cold war is over. Peace allies has broken out and what i like to tell people who say it will cost an astronomical amount of money to do this i say what is your collective life as a civilization were . The dinosaurs got blown away. It can happen again. The chances are its not going to happen very soon but doomsday i
Was getting notices from sweden, from their embassies and friends that pasternek was shortlisted for the prize and he could cause a scandal if he won and the book was banned in the soviet union so a memo was written proposing they publish 10,000 copies and circulate them to no one. So, they would announce, weve published dr. Zhivago but we wouldnt distribute it to anyone. That idea was rejected and instead they came up with a plan to vilify pasternak and force him to renounce the prize, which they did. He was the first recipient of a nobel prize to be forced to renounce it since hitler did the same to some germans in the 1930s. [inaudible conversations] a problem we have. I first read the book when it was out. Then came to work for the cia, and then i had to read it again once i discovered the significance of the book that i had not it would so complicate, nonetheless, it became very popular and the cia currently, historical division, does in fact plan to have more special events relat
Worst happens, and were on the moon, and on mars, we have not lost the record of our civilization. Host we already have the feed library in the arctic, called i cant pronounce it where were keeping all the important crop grains and things like that, and the amazing thing is that they at the at the polls of the map there are places that are almost absolute zero and they just sit there for a billion years. Its like if you could you wanted to store something for somebody a billion years from now, you could actually do that. Thats unfathomable you. Couldnt do that anywhere. Everything on earth changes in a billion years, but so, that was a little bit of a tangent. But okay, lets get back to your book. Im going to give you an opportunity to sort of sum up what you think are the important points we havent covered here and just convince people they should buy your book. Guest covered the important points, but to reiterate again, Planetary Defense is what is important here, because we have acc
Williams. Good evening. The spread of ebola is now a truly scary very dangerous epidemic in africa, made even scarier for americans now with the first case diagnosed in this country. And now the effort to find out who came into contact with the man who is now a patient in isolation in the hospital in dallas, texas. On top of that, there is the unbelievable challenge of trying to track an illness in the jet age. And there are questions about whether the dallas patient, Thomas Duncan, told the truth about his expose yur to ebola before embarking on International Air travel to the u. S. Were on top of all of it tonight starting with nbcs ron mott at the hospital where the patients being treated in dallas. Ron, good evening. Reporter brian, good evening to you. As this man continues fighting for his life tonight at this hospital, nbc news learned that before he traveled to the United States he checked no on a health form asking whether he had any contact with any people infected with ebola
Truly scary very dangerous epidemic in africa, made even scarier for americans now with the first case diagnosed in this country. And now the effort to find out who came into contact with the man who is now a patient in isolation in the hospital in dallas, texas. On top of that, there is the unbelievable challenge of trying to track an illness from overseas in the jet age. And there are questions about whether the dallas patient, Thomas Duncan, told the truth about his exposure to ebola before embarking on International Air travel to the u. S. Were on top of all of it tonight starting with nbcs ron mott at the hospital where the patients being treated in dallas. Ron, good evening. Reporter brian, good evening to you. As this man continues fighting for his life tonight at this hospital, nbc news learned that before he traveled to the United States he checked no on a health form asking whether he had any contact with any people infected with ebola. Now that contradicts what some of his n