And the Union Representing writers have reached a tentative deal. Writers have been on strike since early may. The 15,000 plus members will still have to vote to ratify the deal. In a statement, the Writers Guild of america said we can say, with great pride, that this deal is exceptional with meaningful gains and protections for writers in every sector of the membership. Actors are Still Holding industrial action, though. They have been on strike sincejuly. Both strikes have hit the Entertainment Industry hard. Jeanie wolf is an Entertainment Reporter in the us she gave us her reaction to the deal. This is the most positive news weve heard out of any meeting in all these months. What the writers are asking for reflects the changes in the entertainment business. For instance, residuals, replay of programmes and programmes that are successful, especially in streaming, which is where the Television Industry is aiming. And the streaming services dont like to report these statistics of thei
those are good literal steppingstones on the way to mars in terms of our experience in deep space. now we re exploring an object that dates back to the origins of the solar system. we ll find out information that prevents them from running into the earth again. most important for the economy and the industry that we re going to try to build in space are the resources we can find on those objects. water most important but strategic metals and lots of construction materials for building factories, outposts in space. maybe that s the key to long term exploration of the solar system. tom, it sounds like you are hopeful that nasa will have its heyday ahead of it. i think that s the future is out on the frontier and one way to expand our economy, to keep us competitive on earth but also bring in new wealth is to tap into those resources. and nasa should demonstrate the processes to mine resources on the moon and the asteroids but then turn it over to private industry and this should be a
are the resources we can find on those objects. water most important but strategic metals and lots of construction materials for building factories, outposts in space. maybe that s the key to long term exploration of the solar system. tom, it sounds like you are hopeful that nasa will have its heyday ahead of it. i think that s the future is out on the frontier and one way to expand our economy, to keep us competitive on earth but also bring in new wealth is to tap into those resources. and nasa should demonstrate the processes to mine resources on the moon and the asteroids but then turn it over to private industry and this should be an industrial park in space in the next 25 years. the economic leaders here, sorry, brian, the economic leaders who are facing 9,000 layoffs here, high paying jobs, and there s a big wave of 3200 layoffs happening first thing in the morning, bulk of those are in this area around orlando, coco beach but what they really want to start doing, cape cana
when you look at it, one of the things that nasa has done extraordinarily well, and people have sort of missed the boat on, is the exploration of the solar system. i hope everybody realizes that by the time we get to pluto in 2015, nasa will have explored very, very closely every planet of the solar system, and that s a remarkable achievement. so pushing off this other work to another group that can do it better only makes it easier for nasa to do what it does best. is pluto a planet again or do we have to go and ask them or what is it? in my book, i ve always thought it was a planet, and the plutonians don t really care what we think, keith. marvin the pollutonian. do you like the idea of essentially private enterprise being taxi drivers for nasa people? yes, i do like this. and i think it s a good thing to be done, because there s a tremendous amount of capability over in the commercial space sector. and right now, even as we speak, there s a space port being built
his budget has been gutted or is there truth to it? there is a lot of truth to it. when you look at it, one of the things nasa has done extraordinarily well and people have missed the boat on, the exploration of the solar system. i hope they realize by the time we get to pluto, nasa explores every planet of the solar system and that s a remarkable achievement. pushing off this other work to another group that does it better makes it easier for nasa to do what it does best. is pluto a planet again or do we have to ask sf. i always thought it was a planet. they don t care what we think. marvin the plu tonian. do you like the idea of private enterprise being taxi drivers for nasa people? yes. i think it s a good thing to be done because there is a tremendous capability in the