Heading into Memorial Day

Today, Doug Pike discusses coral reefs, hurricanes, and the end of the school year.

Episode Transcript

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Friday edition of the program starts rightnow. Beautiful Friday. Outside,
in case you haven't opened the drapesyet, not a cloud. This guy
east from my vantage over on theother side of the building. Here.
I do have a window at mydesk, and about half the time when
I come into work, someone Ipresume housekeeping has come in and laid bare

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all those windows, rolled up.The rolling blind that comes down, it's
a blind pulled down. The blindI guess a shade whatever it is,
and it's not one hundred percent shade, it still allows some light in.
But when it's up, when they'reall up on that about a fifteen square
foot panel, maybe eighteen by fifteenof glass separated into I think three or

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four pieces. They wouldn't have thatone piece that big up there. Too
expensive to replace if ever. Butyeah, this time of year, and
there's a couple of days of theyear too, where the sun in the
morning when I typically get here,shines through between the blind and the window
brace. There's about a two inchgap on either side of those things.

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And when that day happens, it'sabout a week where the sun stays within
that narrow window, no pun intended, and it's just unmerciful. It's just
right in my eyeballs. There's notI can hardly do anything, so anyway,
it doesn't matter. Beautiful day today. Final day of school for
my son, which means I getto sleep a little later on weekdays again

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for about what ten twelve weeks whateverit is, they're out of school.
Stocks were up actually a decent tickthis morning, several hundred points. I
don't know what they're doing now,not gonna look, don't care going into
the Memorial Day weekend, I amhonestly not certain why they were up anyway,
nor why they've been a little bitdown and back and forth. We've

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still got that death ceiling issue hangingover us. And I wish, honestly
wish somebody in Washington would tell meand you and all our great great great
great great grandchildren where they can findthirty something trillion dollars to pay off our
debt. And while they're in thatconversation, maybe they can explain to us
how despite our thirty something trillion dollardebt, we keep sending money and stuff

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to countries all over the world.That's not a sustainable practice. You can't
just keep giving away something you don'thave. If any of us were to
try to do that, if Iwere to call my credit card company tomorrow
and say, you know, I'mnot gonna pay you, but I'm just
gonna give away my money to otherpeople who, when you get right down

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to it, probably in truth,don't need it as much as we do
at this point. They're not thirtytrillion dollars in that because we keep funding
whatever they're doing. Anyway, it'svery frustrating. All too good news Friday
schools out, Memorial Days. Rightaround the corner. There's great personal good
news. The beach front couldn't lookmuch prettier. It's it's a bittersweet thing

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to see the beach front looking asgood as it does right now, because
I know, at this very minute, between the galves and Jetty and the
surf side Jetty, there are probablyfifteen people right now fighting a speckled trout
in the surf, and probably onehundred and fifty people in the water fishing

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hoping to be next to catch aspeckled trout. Depending on my mood and
my level of energy, when Iget out of here, there's an outside
chance I could wind up somewhere downthere along the coast this afternoon. I
want to check the tide schedule.It hasn't favored the afternoon bite, really,
but I'm gonna take a look anywayand force myself to do some of

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that. And it's it's fantastic thatit's happening on the holiday weekend looking like
this. I hope the weather andwater stay that way so that all the
more people can enjoy the who actuallydo enjoy it as much as I do,
and go down there and catch somefish out of the surf. That's
a that's a special place. Itholds great, great memories for me.

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I had. Yeah, I couldbe out and down in an hour and
a half. If I had toswing by the house kind of halfway changed
clothes, I'd wait in the clothesI have on right now, if if
I knew the bike was that good. So anyway, well, by the
way, if you if you areinterested in that, I'll I'll share with
you where I get my information.It's a website an app called Saltwater Recon

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and they've got about two dozen cameras, live cameras set up down there along
the coast, and the app evenlet you take control of those cameras.
You can zoom left right, ormove left and right and zoom in and
out, and I think they'll letyou do that for about ninety seconds or
so at a time, so youcan see some specific thing that you want

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to see. Anyway, weather's good, oil slightly up, but not enough
to cancel a road trip. Summertime. It's some summertime. You know the
song that means sunscreen and insect repellenttoo. And the good news is that
there's lots of new products in botharenas on the shelves. Now, take
care of your skin. Will that'dbe good news for me if all of
you take care of yourself and hangaround a lot longer. So easy to

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put that stuff on. Now,it's not greasy, it's not oily.
You don't have to wash your handsfor ten minutes to get the residue off.
Just do it. Anytime you're gonnabe outside for any kind of a
while. Just take care of that. If you'll all do that, start
taking care of yourself, it'll bebetter. Ah. I have to laugh
sometimes about our summers here. Backwhen I wrote for the paper, I'd

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occasionally mentioned in a column that itwas the summer heat that kept most of
the old guys off the golf courseand out of my best fishing spots.
Too hot for him, Oh toohot. I proposed that anyway, and
felt like it would never happen tome. Same paragraph I'd brag about now,

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it doesn't bother me to go outand hit one hundred golf balls,
doesn't bother me to go out andfish all day. And then this past
summer, while I was on thepractice range trying to get through a second
hundred balls at about four in theafternoon, I had to just stop catch
my breath and go get a bottleof water. Same thing might happen on
a summertime boat trip. This summer, I'm gonna be in big trouble,

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maybe late August, dead calm.I felt a little bit of it last
year, a couple of times,actually, but I pushed through it.
Blue sky, so the sun's comingat you from every angle. I'll just
want to crawl into an ice chestand I just might do it. All
right, we'll take a little breakhere. When we get back, all
kinds of good news to proceed.I'm gonna give Will a couple of pop
quizzes along the way, since itsfinals day for most of the school kids.

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I'll take him. I'll flash himback to his high school days with
some pop quizzes and questions that aretough to answer. Meanwhile, I'll tell
you about ut Health Science Center's Instituteon Aging, where you'll see and hear
nothing but news. Whether you goin there, whether you go to the
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They'll understand what you're saying from theperspective. They're not all seniors themselves,
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perfection. This is fifty plus withDoug Pike dumbed it Dump dune Dump Dump

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dumb dump Friday afternoon, twelve twentyish. I'm never really sure what's on
Wheel's clock over there. Hold onit. I'm going with twelve twenty.
I'm sticking with it. Will yesor no? You're so close it's nineteen
eighteen fifty eight, oh oh soclose. In honor of all the kids

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who are taking their final finals today, will I want to give you a
pop quiz real quick, and I'llI may do it after the next break
two. This one has two twofour parts, actually two questions four parts.
First of all, do you haveweekend plans? Maybe that no,
it's it's a yes or no question. I mean I might have weekend plans,

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but I also don't know, Soyou don't have plans yet. If
we have other we have plans,but they could fall through. Well,
anybody's plan can fall through. Soyou do have a plan. Maybe does
it involve driving it? This isthis isn't just a sidebar question. Do
you have to drive more than anhour? No? Okay? Now for

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here's the main question, and thenthere'll be a follow up extra credit question.
And you know, some of theseexams can be very hard. What
did we cover this past Tuesday?And segment two? And for extra credit?
Will us I have no idea.I don't know either. I don't

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I didn't write down an answer becauseI can't recall perfectly honestly. But well,
this is a good one that youshould know, this one if you
think a little bit about it,because we've discussed it several times. What
is the primary? This is everymonth is something awareness month? What's one
of the one of the two thatI can think of off hand? Something

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Awareness Month? Oh God, likewhat is this? Yeah? What May?
It's May? And that is what? Where in the name of it?
It's a two word name and thefirst word and I'm gonna just hand
it to you on a platter startswith the same letter as the month we're
in right now. Oh okay,So it's an M awareness month, I
M something awareness month. It's uh, yeah, I have no idea mental

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health mental awareness month. But youwouldn't have thought of that. That's okay,
and I didn't expect you to getit. Uh. Doctor Jason Burnette
was the answer to the U theTuesday question and just came to talk about
you just talking about loneliness? Yeah, game right? Do you mmmm?
We also had Steve Davis from TotalWealth Academy on we did. Actually,

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yeah, just it comes back whenyou stop and think about it for just
a second and hit a few strokeson the old keyboard. Maybe maybe just
you know, scroll in five emaillists, you know, all right?
Anyway, in brain news, thisis good news. I think I talked
about this once, but I'm gonnathrow it in here again. Then we'll
get onto some of the stuff Ifound today. I love this. They

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detail, yeah, we did talkabout it. Detailed map now of the
brain of a fruit fly. Andwhy they did it, I don't know,
but they mapped like three thousand neuronsand about five hundred and fifty thousand
connections between those neurons. And thegood news really, it's not good news
for fruit flies. That doesn't swayme one way or the other. But

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what it does is it continues toopen doors in medicine for research into the
human brain. So hopefully we canstay one step ahead of artificial intelligence,
which I'm really not sure we cando. Sticking with the medical front,
an eighty year old antibiotic. Someof you in this audience probably are eighty

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years old anyway, and may notremember it because that would be the year
you were born, But at leastyou might have heard of somewhere along the
lines something called nursio thrison one ofthe original antibiotics, and it served its
purpose well in its day, butwas replaced over time because it tended to

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in some patients impact their liver function. Now that we have better medication and
better testing and better monitoring of liverfunction. There's been a resurgence of this
stuff because it is proving effective againstsome of these newer bacteria that tend to

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be resistant to the current anti biotics. So they're dredging this stuff out and
continuing to work on getting it possiblyback into circulation to handle some of these
contemporary bugs. And the sooner thebetter. We do take a lot of

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antibiotics in this country, and they'repretty necessary, but if we can get
one that can come back into thefight, it's kind of like Rocky.
Every time you turn around, Rocky'scoming back. I think he's about done
now. Though I saw Sylvester Stalloneinterviewed on something that just came up in
my fee the other day. Hewas sitting there with his daughters and he

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old he's too old to throw apunch anymore. Also, for medicine researchers
at you see San Francisco, thisis cool. Have built molecules that act
like cellular glue and bond directly totissue. Which you would say, oh,
that's just like super glue. Itdoesn't mean much, but here's what
it does. This guy's name isWendell Limb. Here's a quote from him,

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we were able to engineer cells ina manner that allows us to controls
which cells they interact with and alsoto control the nature of that interaction.
This opens the door to building novelstructures like tissues and organs. They possibly
that was an end quote, theypossibly can start. Let's say, for

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example, you've got you've got alung that needs partial You've got to take
partial stuff out because it's got acancer in it. So at some point
in medicine they will be able toremove that cancer, sow that lung back
up, and then plug in abunch of these cells, and they will
in turn start regenerating lung cells untilyou have a whole lung again. One

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of the adhesion molecules that says molecules, it says you're coming two parts.
One sits outside the cell and determinesthe specific cells to which it's going to
bind, and the other sits insideand determines the strength of the bond,
which means they can do very softtissue stuff, or they can do harder,

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thicker stuff like a heart or akidney or something like that, or
a liver. Fascinating really is letme put an X through that, so
I don't mention it again. Butthat's pretty exciting stuff, Mercy. We
only got a couple of minutes.Will, I'll let you drive the bus
for a minute. See um goingdown false statistic? Or do better?
People, Let's gope with going down, going down? This is a short

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you do it every time? Likeeight words here one, two, three,
four, five, six, seven, eighteen eleven? Only how many
people? Another pop quiz? Willhow many people have gone scuba diving deeper
than seven hundred and ninety feet sevenhundred and ninety people. That's way at
no, no fewer. I'll giveyou a I'll give you a multiple choice

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answer thirty five, eighty five,one hundred and ten and one hundred and
sixty. I'm gonna go with oneten thirty five. So you're over three
in pop quizzes today. It's nota very good scores so far. Yeah,
you're having a hard time. Wegotta take a break on the way

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is fifty plus with Doug Pike.What is that? Well, just music?

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Never mind, Yeah, it makesany difference. Welcome back to fifty
plus. Thank you for listening.As always a boy, I had somebody
call me this morning as a matterof fact, asking me about how to
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happily walk you through the pro It'svery simple. It's not bad news,
so don't feel alarmed when I tellyou this. The season's first yellow X

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appeared on the National Hurricane Map today, the one I check digitally religiously throughout
the summer, first one I've seenfor the season anyway, and the good
news about it actually two part goodnews. First is that it's off the
Carolina coast and headed inland, andsecond that it's not supposed to get much
worse than a rainy, windy dayas it makes landfall. It'll be good

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news for the surfers of the Carolinasand possibly even up into another two hundred
miles north of there. They'll geta nice fetch, a nice swell off
that thing. South of there.I don't know what they'll get much more
than offshore wind. Now they mayget and this is kind of fun really
when you can catch it right,and they may get an offshore wind coupled

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with a good pulse of ground swell. So maybe the even down into Florida,
possibly they could see some decent surfthis weekend. And that's enough of
that, because we're not going toget any surfing waves, certainly off of
anything that's going on off the eastcoast. What we have right now that

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is I mentioned at the front endof the program is primo, absolutely primo
coastal waiting conditions. In something Ititled baby Oh Baby over in Indoonesia,
researchers have come up with a plan. This is all good news Friday stuff,

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and I'll get there come up witha plan to reuse used baby diapers
as the replacement for up to thirtypercent of the sand used in concrete mixes.
According to the story, disposable diapersare made from woodpulp, cotton,
a particular subspecies of rayon, andplastics, and the used ones, according

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to the story, currently are beingincinerated at landfills to solve hygiene and sanitation
issues. A lot of sanitizing tobe done, obviously, but beyond that
and a few other processes, theremaining materials emerge to work and play very

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well with the ingredients in concrete.I am mixed on this when it sounds
like a wonderful recycling effort over therein Indonesia. But I kind of feel
like, as long as there's sandon the beach enough to go around,
I just soon have my concrete madeout of that. They claim there's no

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issue in using it in structures upto three stories tall about and then we're
talking about twenty thirty percent. Ithink of the sand being replaced with chopped
up baby diapers. I would notif I knew that was what was going
into the house that I was gonnabuy. I might just move down the
street. I'm not so sure.More good news from the farming front.

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Do you remember the story about thecouple who turned an abandoned school up north
into I think believe it was inMinnesota, turned it into an indoor garden,
at least six rooms of it,and they're going to expand to the
whole school, I think because it'sdoing so well well out in Compton,
California, that's the south side Ithink of La County. A growing company
is growing tons of leafy vegetables anda huge indoor facility there. This is

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far more high tech than just takingover classrooms in a library and growing stuff
inside. This is a vertical farmingoperation. I don't know if I put
the name of the company. Didn'tput the name of the company in here,
but it's it's not really that importantjust yet to us. Anyway.
What they're doing is using robots tomanage most of the activity in that place,

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and it's a it's a very largeplace too. They use special lighting
to replicate the cycles of the sun, and then the fertilizer and water are
delivered as a mist and the placeis blooming. It's not booming, it's
blooming, if you'll pardon the pun. For now, they're just growing leafy
stuff and starting with tomatoes, goinginto the vegetables a little bit. They

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promise though, that by this timenext year they will also and they're growing
tons and tons of affordable, easyto make right there in town vegetables.
And now they're gonna start going tostrawberries and other small fruits, which wouldn't
be bad. I don't think we'dknow the difference either between a factory grown

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plant. The only thing that kindof you see where we're going with our
farming. Of all, we're sellingour farm land, which I think is
a huge mistake to foreign entities,primarily China, buying up millions of acres
in this country, and probably notaccidentally, a lot of that is agricultural

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land. So imagine what this countrywould face if China said, yeah,
we're going to grow rice on thatproperty, but we're taking every grain of
rice back to China. We're not. We're not selling it here. It's
it's our rice. We're growing iton our land, and we can do
what we want with it. Thatconcerns me a little bit. I'll move
on though, because this is,after all, good news Friday. So

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coral reefs. I wanted to talkabout how much time do I have here?
Will you have a little to twoand a half minutes? What was
that part? You it? Really? I'm not so sure how much?
How much is thinking? How muchis noise? But I'm gonna guess that

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it's more of the latter than theformer. I don't want to get into
the coral reefs just yet, becausewhen I do, I'm gonna I'm gonna
lab and talk for a good while. I think. So, here's something
for sustainable, reliable power. Idon't believe I mentioned this yesterday. Researchers
at the University of Cambridge. DidI talk about this yesterday? Do you
recall it all? I don't thinkwe had time for it. I would
just say, let's continue, Let'sjust make believe. They have harnessed the

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power of photosynthesis and converted COO towater and sunlight into ethanol and propanol,
all in a single step. Andunlike fossil fuel, which it's gonna be
used in this country and around theworld until the last drops drilled and produced.
Despite what some of the people upin Washington are telling you about the

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future of electric But the oil andgas is gonna get used up first because
it's so readily available in any event. Unlike Unlike the oil and gas,
these solar fuels produce zero carbon emissionsand are really when you think about the
elements of them, and you've gotwater and sunlight and CO two, then

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pretty much an almost indefinitely renewable sourceof energy. And all the better.
You don't have to convert farmland,which I just mentioned. We so desperately
need that stuff to survive. Youdon't have to devote a single acre of
farmland to grow corn to make ethanol. This way, this is something that
just comes out of the air,sunlight, dash, water, little CO

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two. There you go. Nowyou can run your car on that or
hydrogen, and there's a couple ofother alternative fuel options making their way into
the four And for the love ofmeat, when we're already talking about rolling
brownouts, and if these neighborhood brownoutsstart up, it's what you're not going

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to be able to charge up yourcar, your electric car anyway. All
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back to the Friday edition of fiftyplus. Good News Friday. It is
good news and nothing but uh,and I don't I don't think I broke
the I don't think I've broken thestring yet. Have I will if I
said any bad news? I don'tthink so. Just all these pop quizzes
that you've been Oh yeah for you, well, uh, that's so good
news for Friday. For Willy,Well, you haven't gotten a question right

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yet. Maybe if I give youan easier question, I'll give you an
easy question this is it should be. How long have you lived in Texas
most of your life? What isthe only live coral reef in the Gulf
of Mexico and it's off off thestate of Texas. What's the name of

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it? Or where is it?I already told you where it is.
I want to know the name ofit. I have no IDEA flower gardens.
It's a beautiful, fantastic, amazingways. You can't even drop an
anchor on the flower gardens for fearof disrupting the coral out there. It's
an amazing place. Will you shouldvisit it someday? They have boat trips

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that go out there all the time. Where is it in the middle of
the Gulf of Mexico. Oh,it's in the middle of the gulf,
not the middle, It's it's silly. I think. I want to say
it's about ninety miles. Maybe that'swhat I'm guessing. Where would you leave
from Texas? Like Galveston? Yeah, sure, okay, from Galveston,
Corpus wherever you want to leave from. As long as your boat has enough
fuel, you can leave from.You can leave from Cancoon and go visit

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the flower gardens. But that wouldbe kind of an out of the way
trip. One of my favorites thisweek, though, this story is because
I do love me some Ocean andcoral reefs a project off the coast of
Antigua actually in the Caribbean that isfarming coral okay and on grand scale too.
This is first of its kind.Company called or an organization called Ocean

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shot close to a ninety eight percentsurvival rate of its transplanted corals so far,
and their goal, like every otherorganization that's gotten into this game,
is to essentially replenish the corals thatare being wiped out by bleaching, which

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is a product of warming waters.And I'm pretty confident that this era we're
in right now isn't the first inwhich coral reefs bleached out and then ultimately
came back. But the problem isthat right now, between bleaching and other
threats to coral reefs, we're losingthem at a multiple, a pretty significant

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multiple in time of the ocean's abilityto replenish them. I was down in
Honduras once for a presentation on coralreef bleaching, and it was a real
eye opener. And this is thirtyyears ago, and this it's just continuing
to be an issue. And ifwe don't step in, because in a

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lot of cases is anything else,we're part of the problem. So we
need to be part of the solution. And hats off to Ocean Shot for
doing this. Coral reef serve aton of purpose in addition to just providing
habitat for all kinds of fish,for starters, the ones that are anywhere

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near shorelines. Great Barrier Reef,for example, it's out there ways in
the ocean, but it's still whatif a big storm were to come through
there or anywhere there's a coral reeffairly near shore. It what it provides
to the shoreline and anybody who liveson it is a structure that can break

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up almost ninety five percent of thatwave energy. And like I said before,
any place there's coral, really anywherethere's living coral, the fisheries around
those reefs tend to absolutely thrive.Lots of coral restoration projects underwear around the
world. Every one of them isgood news for the oceans and for the

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coral reefs. Will you endo naps? You like a good nap? I
love a nap. Here's some napnews Okay, the big science story this
week one of them. Anyway,Scientists say that they have figured out how
to use ultrasound pulses to make ushibernate. We just go for long,

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long nap. Now. I don'tknow how the human body will react to
an extended period of so I guessit'd be like a medically induced coma.
Okay, But what they see asthe future of this ability to use ultrasound
waves to put us into a deep, deep sleep is that that'll s sure

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make the time go by a quickeron the way to Mars. You're looking
at the two two and a halfyears to get to Mars. I think
if you could sleep away about ayear and three hundred and sixty days of
it, just go out early,stay awake early for the first I don't
know, month maybe, and justwatch the Earth disappear and just gets smaller.

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It looks like a little tiny pinheadway off in the distance. You
can barely see it with your binocularsyou bring with you. It'd be cool.
And then you wake up and youcan't really see the Earth anymore.
But here comes Mars, just rightin the right across the windshield of your
super duper spaceship. That sounds sofar fetched, but in maybe not in

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your time, but in the timeof the children born in your time.
I bet it's got to happen bythem, wouldn't you think. I mean,
let's hope. So why why youdon't like living on Earth? Look
for a new place. I dolike living on Earth. The rent will
be lower on Mars, I think. I think it's gonna be astronomical.

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Let me ask you this, doyou think because based on these balloon things,
we saw about how much it costsjust to go eat dinner almost in
space or what was the other thingthat we're doing up there that we talked
about? Getting married? Yeah,getting married almost in space for like one
hundred and twenty five thousand dollars.I wonder if that's per person for the
couple. But I wonder if peoplewill pay to go to Mars or will

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be paid to go to Mars.I think you might have a mixture of
both. You know, you'll getpaid to go there. I think if
you're you know, the pilot ofthe ship, you're getting paid to go
to Mars. Well, yeah,I think if you want to be on
that ship as a passenger, you'repaying. Yeah, I don't want any
passenger piloting my ship to Mars.Probably wouldn't work out. Well, what

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do we have even twenty seconds left? We have fifteen? Okay? In
twenty twenty one and six people inthe US were sixty five and older.
In nineteen twenty it was one onein twenty of US we are taking over.
Seniors are taken over by guys.So get out of the way,
will I'll see you next Tuesday.Thanks for listening. Audios