This is CBSI on the world.

I'm John Batchel.

Hotel Mars, Episode N.

David Livingston, Dr. Space is my colleague and co-host and co-pilot.

And we're looking forward to the ambitious programs for the People's Republic of China,

for the Russian Federation, for the India Republic,

for the American commercial enterprise to land on the moon and stay on the moon, not just

one-off, a couple of footprints in back, but if not a colony, certainly a settlement or an

outpost on the moon.

And then Mars.

Yon must talks much about Mars.

There are a lot of explorers right now.

Landers giving us a great deal of information that didn't exist even 10 years ago, even five years ago.

All of that leads to the expectation that Mars is the next

stop for human habitation. Maybe. There are difficulties in all directions and moving from the

science fiction days of Hollywood. Recently, I viewed a movie called Maroon. It's on Prime TV. I recommend it.

It's dated 2002 and it educates in what Hollywood didn't know about the surface of Mars and conditions on Mars before the

spirit and opportunity rovers, before the Mars reconnaissance orbiter, before there was ability to analyze the soil of Mars,

to analyze what it looks like when you have less than one gravity, how things hang on a cliffside

and don't move. All of that is since 2002. So all of the Hollywood movies we've ever watched about Life on Mars or Battles

with Mars or Buster Crab, all of that, has to be regarded as that was then. This is now, and we're

very pleased to welcome our longtime colleague, Professor Hyme Beneroya, of Rutgers University, the Department

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