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Behind the Black and we're going to Portugal. Portugal in the 16th century was exploring the earth, which at that time was completely unknown, especially the Pacific Ocean.

They didn't know anything about it, but they'd heard there was a route to the Spice Islands.

Spice in the 16th century was more than lithium, more than gold.

The markup was a thousand percent in Europe for clothes and nutbags.

And there was one island that they knew about.

Marco Polo had brought the news of this from the Chinese traders. And they took the risk and battled with Spain

in Portugal and Spain.

People of the islands of the Pacific Ocean

with castaways and maroons and runaways for the rest of the century.

Here we are in the 21st century and Portugal and Spain are back at it.

Competition.

What's happened, Bob?

Yes, Portugal, Portugal's air Traffic Agency has now signed a deal with a company called Atlantic Space Fork Consortium to build a spaceport on the island of Santa Maria in the Azores, which sits to the west of Portugal in the Atlantic

Ocean.

This would be another space port.

And so they've now signed a deal and they're going to try to get something constructed.

They have no date of when it'll happen, but they're now exploring the possibilities.

We just have another spaceport in the competition, John, worldwide.

The Iberian Peninsula back at the competition. We presume they're not going

to ruin anybody in space. A vision of Mars that looks odd. Bob, these rocks on Mars. Can you explain how the lack of Earth gravity changes rocks in or the way they pile up?

You have less gravity, you have less density so the rocks are going to pile up it be less dense.

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