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So what is going on in the NASA news of it all? There's a lot of Virginia Beach native, didn't know this dude,

was selected to live one year in one of the simulations, a habitat. I guess he's on here on Earth, but to see if he's survivable, I don't think I would feel good about living with four other white folks that I don't know in a contained environment. So that's Gucci.

This is the crew health and performance exploration analog. It's to begin in June at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. One of the three planned one year Mars surface simulations, they will live and work in the 3D printed 1700 square foot habitat. That actually sounds kind of dope.

They're watching crew performance and health changes based on realistic Mars restriction and lifestyle of the crew members, but how are they going to, there's no gravity on Mars, so that's going to be interesting, because the effects of gravity and radiation levels potentially, it's going to be a real consideration.

So it's not going to be that close to the Mars environment.

And what did I even say, dude's name Ross Brockwell, a structural engineer and public works administrator from Virginia Beach. Yeah, good luck with that, Brock. Also, not even fully formed or the Artemis program. We even got back to moon yet.

The SLS rocket is already 6 billion over budget. They're basically trying to put lipstick on a pig, meaning they are trying to integrate old repurposing existing technology contracts and workforce with constellation.

That is in charge of the Artemis moon mission, and that's why they're having 6 billion in over runs, because I'm sure they're trying to integrate this old shit into the new shit, but it doesn't integrate, so they have to rebuild it anyways.

So all of these, that is led to not only the over cost over runs, multiple delays, because they're realizing that the newer systems are not applicable, or they can't be integrated into the old analog systems.

Yeah, I could told you all that for a lot less money. And, and to me, that's just like one more that the private sector really needs to take a little bit more control, because they would have this shit up and running, kept costs down and kept it pushing.

But this whole government BS red tape, that's what's leading to this program, draining, being so draining. Same thing when we, when we talk about the web telescope, there's caught the delays and delays, a bunch of government bullshit red tape.

Now, the last of it is Kepler, in its last days, it appears that it, there was data included in there that led to the discovery of three lifestyle exoplanets.

This is K2416 B, it's about 2.6 times earth size and orbits, it's red door star, about every 13 days. You talk about a short month. Wow, then there's K24417 B, it's about three times earth size, it, oh, it orbits its star in 6.5 days.

And then epic 246 2519 A8B is four times earth size and orbits is sun, like star in about 10 days.

And they are named after the K2 with the exception of epic, which is named after the Ecliptic plane input catalog, is because there was in the, in its final coat campaign number 19.

It, that was the, the last time Kepler was transmitting data, any type of useful data back for citizen scientists and other astronomers to actually gather this information. And of course, the artist's renderings are wonderful.

So check out the long form of my notes for this bonus content, to get those drawings and illustrations.

Over a year ago, the NASA panel that was created for to examine all these unclassified UFO sightings or unidentified aerial phenomena, which we call UFOs, they basically have, this is what they have concluded in their first public meeting.

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