[applause] thank you. My presentation today is about the Mars Exploration rovers with robotic laboratories that began operating eight years ago on mars. One of which took several years to explore mars today and is as most of you know i am sure, curiosity i know theyre rover landed just a few weeks ago and i will have a few words to say about that at the end of my presentation. My story is about how people relate to these robotic systems. The Mars Exploration Rover Mission also known as mer challenge is how we usually think about the role of robots in Space Exploration. It provides a new way of understanding how computer tools and a proper social operation can be orchestrated to extend human capabilities. Whether flying by beautiful blue neptune like voyager in the 1970s, orbiting saturn like you see today, or roving mars, like mer. The spacecraft must be computer controlled the cut is the communication time delay at the. Light and their great distance makes it impractical to control th
Tavis how do you know what interest you will interest other persons . Its very funny. I had lunch with paul simon, and i was talking about this very thing. How for a while the stuff that interested him did interest people. Top of the charts. They were revolutionary in a lot of ways as musicians, and he said, sometimes you get to a place and not everyone react. Ups and downs. I think you cannot predict anything, but you do the best you can to go, this feels like something that actually interests me. Idea that spark something in me. All you can do is that. If you go at it from the beginning saying, the audience will like this, i think the odds of it working at all dropped enormously. I think its a dangerous aiding th ing the interests a dangerous thing. Lunch let me explore this that i wish i could have been part of. Between abrams and simon is simon is called think artists at their best are called upon to speak a certain truth through their music. Simon has to live and speak and express
Tavis how do you know what interest you will interest other persons . Its very funny. I had lunch with paul simon, and i was talking about this very thing. How for a while the stuff that interested him did interest people. Top of the charts. They were revolutionary in a lot of ways as musicians, and he said, sometimes you get to a place and not everyone react. Ups and downs. I think you cannot predict anything, but you do the best you can to go, this feels like something that actually interests me. Idea that spark something in me. All you can do is that. If you go at it from the beginning saying, the audience will like this, i think the odds of it working at all dropped enormously. I think its a dangerous aiding th ing the interests a dangerous thing. Lunch let me explore this that i wish i could have been part of. Between abrams and simon is simon is called think artists at their best are called upon to speak a certain truth through their music. Simon has to live and speak and express
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Tavis jj abrams is the force behind such hit tv series as person of interest. The upcoming almost human and returning revolution. He will reboot westworld. George lucas chose him to launch the new series of star wars. I am tired of reading these. Long guaranteed an audience. Lets take a look at lution cant go revolution. We searched. She would have never left atlanta. She would have waited for me to her, waited until the skin melted off her bones. I know in your modesty you will not accept this, but my friends and i think you are the most powerful man in television. Deflect that. L it is obviously not true, but its a lucky thing to get involved at all. I feel blessed to be able to entertain people in any capacity. Tavis how do you manage you asked how i was doing. I said, i am doing great. I know how you are doing. I expected you to be broken down when you come in here. It is one thing to have all these opportun
Nomination of a u. S. District judge for illinois. We take you live to the floor of the senate here on cspan2. Under the previous order, all postcloture time has expired. The question is on the nomination. Is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote ask l vote vote vote the presiding officer on this vote, the yeas are 53, the nays are 45, and the nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the president will be immediately notified of the senates actions. Ms. Stabenow madam president. The presiding officer the senator from michigan. Ms. Stabenow thank you very much, madam president. I rise today to speak on behalf of american women. Our fundamental rights and our freedom to make our own health care decisions. Its shocking that in this day and age that we have to actually stand up and fight for something as basic as making our own Reproductive Health decis