Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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Speaker 2: We will follow a strange science coming up late in
Speaker 2: this hour. We're going to be talking with Jay Ratliffe
Speaker 2: here in a few minutes regarding the airplane crashes that
Speaker 2: we've seen and whether or not there's any sort of
Speaker 2: connection to FAA cuts and air traffic safety oscars just
Speaker 2: a few days away. So Hollywood's first big round of
Speaker 2: street closures has begun to accommodate all the preps for
Speaker 2: the big day. So starting today, all lanes of Hollywood
Speaker 2: Boulevard closed from Orange Drive to Highland Avenue for about
Speaker 2: a week and a half. The oscars themselves are March second.
Speaker 2: Whatever that Sunday night is, I think it's the second,
Speaker 2: So that road will be closed to believe until the fifth.
Speaker 3: One of the Senate stories that.
Speaker 2: We talked we talked about the cash Betel being confirmed
Speaker 2: by the Senate. We talked about Mitch mcconoy tire. Two
Speaker 2: of John Fetterman's longest serving staff members are leaving his team.
Speaker 2: Charlie Hills, a communications director, and Trey Easton Legislative Director
Speaker 2: soon departing the Democrats office. Both men worked on Fetterman's
Speaker 2: campaign in twenty twenty two. They've been with him during
Speaker 2: his two year Senate career, but they said that they
Speaker 2: don't like the fact that John Fetterman is cozying up
Speaker 2: to Donald Trump, so they are out. First pitch has
Speaker 2: been thrown, by the way in this year's spring training,
Speaker 2: The Dodgers are hosting the Cubs today in the first
Speaker 2: spring training game of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: What else is going on? Time four? What's happening? Well?
Speaker 2: As I quickly mentioned, the Senate has confirmed Cash Patel,
Speaker 2: president Trump's choice to be the FBI director, final vote
Speaker 2: fifty one to forty nine. There were two Republicans who
Speaker 2: voted against Cash Pattel, Susan Collins of Maine Lisa Murkowski
Speaker 2: of Alaska, both of them not huge surprises. They tend
Speaker 2: to be much more moderate when it comes to their
Speaker 2: politics than others, and have said repeatedly that they didn't
Speaker 2: like some of Trump's choices for his cabinet, and in fact,
Speaker 2: Cash Battel was one of those that was touted as
Speaker 2: potentially being unconfirmable. I mean, you figure after Matt Gates
Speaker 2: dropped out to the running to be Attorney General. There
Speaker 2: were still questions about whether Pam Bondi was going to
Speaker 2: be the ag, about whether Tulsey Gabbett was going to
Speaker 2: be Director of National Intelligence, about Cash Battel at FBI,
Speaker 2: about Pete Hegseath at Defense, and RFK Junior at HHS.
Speaker 2: All of those were questions, and it looks like Republicans
Speaker 2: fell in line and voted with their president to fill
Speaker 2: out the cabinet. So it's almost complete now. We've talked
Speaker 2: also about the Idaho college killings and the suspect in
Speaker 2: that case, Brian Coberger. In a major ruling, the judge
Speaker 2: overseeing the case has denied a request to exclude some
Speaker 2: key DNA and other evidence from his upcoming trial. They
Speaker 2: wanted to suppress the DNA evidence that was seen as
Speaker 2: really the key piece of evidence against him. The judge
Speaker 2: said the constitutional rights of Brian Coburger were not violated.
Speaker 3: The police did behave properly.
Speaker 2: The evidence investigators obtained throughout the investigation which led them
Speaker 2: to Coburger is not tainted and can be admitted at trial.
Speaker 2: The judge said that they failed to demonstrate that the
Speaker 2: demonstrate that the constitutional rights were violated by this because
Speaker 2: the cops and the investigators used a controversial new technique
Speaker 2: known as investigative genetic genealogy, which is strange because it's
Speaker 2: been around for several years and has been proven multiple
Speaker 2: times to be a very important tool when it comes
Speaker 2: to investigating. They said that this genetic use of the
Speaker 2: use of genetic genealogy, with that minuscule drop of blood
Speaker 2: that was found on the Knight sheath, was able to
Speaker 2: point investigators in Coburger's direction. They have said that they
Speaker 2: connected it to a family member they haven't told us
Speaker 2: who that is, and then sort of built backwards the
Speaker 2: family tree that led them to this guy.
Speaker 3: So at this point, it's going to be admitted.
Speaker 2: Some debris from the Palisades fire has been washing up
Speaker 2: on beaches in Santa Monica, this after the recent rainstorms.
Speaker 2: The sediment, they said, consists mostly of fine ash mixed
Speaker 2: with sand that washed into and out of the ocean.
Speaker 2: They said, the initial tests show that this is not hazardous.
Speaker 2: County experts are regularly testing ocean water and sediment and
Speaker 2: will health issue health advisories if they have to. You
Speaker 2: might have seen Chris clue the former NFL punter I
Speaker 2: think he punted for UCLA as well. He was at
Speaker 2: the Huntington Beach City council meeting this week delivered a
Speaker 2: speech that criticized this design of a plaque that has
Speaker 2: an acronym at the bottom of it that spells out MAGA.
Speaker 2: Spells out MAGA. That's not what the words are. But Kluey,
Speaker 2: get up there, Got up there. Eight year NFL veteran
Speaker 2: played for the Minnesota Vikings the whole time. He said
Speaker 2: that he denounced MAGA. They were profoundly corrupt, unmistakably anti
Speaker 2: democracy values, and said that he was going to engage
Speaker 2: in peaceful civil disobedience and then starts walking towards the
Speaker 2: city council with his arms behind his back and then
Speaker 2: was quickly put on the ground, cuffed and taken away.
Speaker 2: Four officers led him away from the council chambers. Not
Speaker 2: clear yet exactly what charges he's going to face as
Speaker 2: a result of this. The uber with gun app has
Speaker 2: launched in Los Angeles. Not exactly what it's called, but
Speaker 2: if you're interested in riding in a blacked out suv
Speaker 2: with an armed bodyguard, you are in luck. Protector is
Speaker 2: an app that's now available on the iOS Mac app Store,
Speaker 2: offering ride share services kind of like Uber and Lyft,
Speaker 2: but with a twist. It comes with a personal protector
Speaker 2: in the form of former military or law enforcement professional who,
Speaker 2: by the way, are packing heat and To describe the
Speaker 2: new app in simple terms, one app advisor said, over
Speaker 2: the last few months, I've been advising protectors. It's a
Speaker 2: new app for ordering an on demand security detail, or,
Speaker 2: as Nikita Beer said, it's simply Uber with guns. As
Speaker 2: of today, it's only available in LA and New York City.
Speaker 2: When you book it, you can select the amount of
Speaker 2: protectors you want inside. You can choose their dress code
Speaker 2: from business formal like a traditional suit, business casual, a
Speaker 2: lighter suit no tie, or tactical casual, a polo shirt,
Speaker 2: tac pants and shoes. And an operator as well, which
Speaker 2: would be full on a tire that looks like they
Speaker 2: are a member of the SWAT team. You can select
Speaker 2: as many as three vehicles to be included in a motorcade.
Speaker 2: One passenger requested a single Cadillac Escalade with one protector.
Speaker 2: If you pick them up, it's about one thousand bucks.
Speaker 2: It would offer five hours of protection. The minimum amount
Speaker 2: of time that can be selected would be five hours,
Speaker 2: and you could obviously split that up between different people,
Speaker 2: but the fare does not include a membership which is required,
Speaker 2: and that runs about one hundred and twenty nine bucks
Speaker 2: per year. We've had a series of airline and airplane
Speaker 2: incidents over the last couple of weeks. I guess you
Speaker 2: could say it kind of started with the crash in DC,
Speaker 2: that regional airliner that was coming in that collided with
Speaker 2: an Army black Hawk helicopter. Sixty Seven people died when
Speaker 2: both of those aircraft ended up in the Potomac River,
Speaker 2: and that is being used in conjunction with a series
Speaker 2: of cuts for FAA staff that the administration has announced.
Speaker 2: So wanted to get into some of these incidents that
Speaker 2: we've seen in the lines and talk about the FAA
Speaker 2: and how important it is in terms of air travel.
Speaker 2: Jay Rattliff is iHeartRadio's aviation analyst and joins us and Jay,
Speaker 2: first of all, thanks for taking time for us today.
Speaker 1: It's always my pleasure.
Speaker 2: Let's start actually at the latest incident, one of the
Speaker 2: latest incidents, because I'm curious to get your impression on this,
Speaker 2: the Toronto incident where the plane was coming in from
Speaker 2: Minneapolis and it was on landing. It hit hard, it flipped,
Speaker 2: lost its right wing flips over upside down. When you
Speaker 2: saw the video, because I assume you have, what did
Speaker 2: you think was going on?
Speaker 1: Well, the first I mean, we knew there was a
Speaker 1: weather event, the crosswinds were there. We found out that
Speaker 1: the breaking conditions on the runway were good, so it
Speaker 1: wasn't anything an experienced crew would have any trouble navigating.
Speaker 1: The thing that shocked me is I watched the video,
Speaker 1: is as an airplane comes in normally with a crosswind,
Speaker 1: you're going to have an increase in arrival speed to
Speaker 1: kind of help offset the crosswind. But this one was
Speaker 1: coming in a little faster than that. But the thing
Speaker 1: that stuck out initially was that just before landing, typically
Speaker 1: what will happen is the aircraft nose well just tip
Speaker 1: up just a bit. We call it flaring, where the
Speaker 1: rear landing gears or the main gears will touchdown first
Speaker 1: and then the front rotates down where the front landing
Speaker 1: gear is then comes into contact with the runway. A
Speaker 1: few moments later, this looked like all three landing gears hit.
Speaker 1: It's the same time I heard the fighter pilot Matthew
Speaker 1: Buckley I think his name is, said, this looked like
Speaker 1: an aircraft landing, you know when you come in high
Speaker 1: speed and they've got the net to catch a type
Speaker 1: of thing. Because this was much harder than what we
Speaker 1: would normally see. Now, why did it happen, we don't know,
Speaker 1: but apparently from the video, as soon as the landing
Speaker 1: gears hit you see that immediate pitch to the right,
Speaker 1: and it looked like either a tire blue or probably
Speaker 1: what happened was the landing gear itself collapsed and could
Speaker 1: have been ripped off the aircraft. I don't know about
Speaker 1: that part, but obviously something happened to cause that airplane
Speaker 1: to dip quickly to the right, which unfortunately allowed the
Speaker 1: wing to catch on to something that caused it to
Speaker 1: be ripped off, turn the airplane sideways and then continue
Speaker 1: down the runway. The other wing tipped up and of
Speaker 1: course with the crosswind, it came right on over which
Speaker 1: put that aircraft on its top as it was going
Speaker 1: down the runway. So we don't know what caused this
Speaker 1: hard landing, If it was something weather event that caused
Speaker 1: the crew to land harder than they should have. If
Speaker 1: it was a mechanical situation with the aircraft, we don't know.
Speaker 1: If it was a medical episode, was on the pilots.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot that goes into the investigation
Speaker 1: of the National Transportation Safety Board, and that's the reason
Speaker 1: the investigation will go eight to twelve months and Gary,
Speaker 1: they're going to look at everything, but the visual look
Speaker 1: get things seems to me to center around that Wright's
Speaker 1: main landing gear and what caused it. What happened, we
Speaker 1: don't know, but that certainly seemed to be the first
Speaker 1: event that triggered the other events that led to that
Speaker 1: aircraft ending up on its top. And I've been doing
Speaker 1: these for thirty three years, and I was trying to
Speaker 1: think the last time I had to talk about an
Speaker 1: aviation situation here in the United States where we had
Speaker 1: an aircraft on the top of itself like that, and
Speaker 1: I couldn't think of anything. It's incredibly rare. And then
Speaker 1: to see everyone walk away from that is even more
Speaker 1: of a testament of just a lot of things going
Speaker 1: right after whatever happened wrong took place.
Speaker 2: Okay, so we're in a situation here where these incidents,
Speaker 2: I mean, we had a small plane in Arizona. Yesterday,
Speaker 2: we had a lear jet in Scottsdale. Last week we
Speaker 2: had the airplane crash, the medical jet in Philly. We've
Speaker 2: had some crashes that become high profile because of everything
Speaker 2: that's going on politically. We'll get to that in the
Speaker 2: next segment. But I wanted to ask, isn't the investigative agency,
Speaker 2: whether it's in Canada for the Toronto crash or the
Speaker 2: NTSB for anything that happens here, wouldn't they want to
Speaker 2: get out in front of and give some initial information
Speaker 2: about something, at least to put people's minds at ease
Speaker 2: that this isn't a systemic problem.
Speaker 3: This is kind of a one off.
Speaker 2: It might have been pilot error, it could have been
Speaker 2: the bad weather, just a a rare occurrence like that,
Speaker 2: as opposed to, you know, just to reinstill people's.
Speaker 3: Confidence in the airline system.
Speaker 1: We will get an initial briefing from the NTSB about
Speaker 1: thirty days after each crash, and it's going to be
Speaker 1: a very brief Here's what we know, here's what we
Speaker 1: don't know, and they're going to allow the evidence to
Speaker 1: kind of point the direction of the investigation from that
Speaker 1: point forward. One of the reasons we were enjoying the
Speaker 1: safest there ever of commercial jet travel for nearly sixteen
Speaker 1: years from February of two, two thousand and nine, up
Speaker 1: until that DC crash is because the all star team
Speaker 1: of the National Transportation Safety Board and the job they
Speaker 1: do every accident near accident. They have a final report
Speaker 1: that they give the Federal Aviation Administration saying, here's our
Speaker 1: recommendations from what we've gleaned from this incident that we
Speaker 1: can implement to make the travel industry and the future
Speaker 1: of aviation safer. The problem is that that takes time,
Speaker 1: and this is a group that is not going to
Speaker 1: rush anything. They're really not going to make too many
Speaker 1: conclusive statements up front because so many things have to
Speaker 1: be checked and those things take time, and obviously there's
Speaker 1: a desire to learn more, and of course a lot
Speaker 1: of members of Congress was pushing the NTSB for them
Speaker 1: to release information more quickly, and they simply pushed back
Speaker 1: and said, no, we can't, that's not how we do things.
Speaker 1: And this is a group that, again they're an all
Speaker 1: star team. They do an incredible job. They are the
Speaker 1: reason that we have seats that are as sturdy as
Speaker 1: they have right now that are rated up to six
Speaker 1: TEAMG force on crashes, the fire resistant material inside and aircraft.
Speaker 1: All of the different things that have made aviation safer
Speaker 1: over the last forty to fifty years has been a
Speaker 1: result of each accident or near accident investigation that we've had.
Speaker 1: So I'm totally okay with the pace of the investigation
Speaker 1: because I know that they have to check a lot.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be looking at the pilots, the training, the aircraft,
Speaker 1: the maintenance records. They go through a ton of information
Speaker 1: that takes a considerable amount of time and when they're finished,
Speaker 1: we'll get that final report. And not before.
Speaker 3: iHeartRadio's aviation analysts joined us.
Speaker 2: We're talking about these recent incidents, whether it's the crash
Speaker 2: in DC, the medical jet in Philly, Toronto of course
Speaker 2: on Monday with a plane flipped over on landing, and
Speaker 2: a couple smaller planes in Scottsdale, and also in Marana,
Speaker 2: Arizona from yesterday. There's a lot that's going on in
Speaker 2: terms of discussions of cuts at the FAA, and according
Speaker 2: to Shan Duffy's Secretary of Transportation, there's about forty five
Speaker 2: thousand employees in the FAA, and that about four hundred
Speaker 2: of them were released last week. What's your concern You
Speaker 2: watched this industry for a long time. Do you have
Speaker 2: concern about what's going on in terms of cuts at
Speaker 2: the agency?
Speaker 1: Had any of those four hundred been anything other than
Speaker 1: probationary employees, or had they been air traffic controllers, I
Speaker 1: would be very concerned. I agree that the optics do
Speaker 1: not look good. But the fact is that the President
Speaker 1: has made it clear that the Federal Aviation Administration is
Speaker 1: going to be a priority for him.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: We have heard elected officials Congress, we've heard senators, we
Speaker 1: have heard presidents talk about how they need to support
Speaker 1: better the Federal Aviation Administration, and then nothing ever seems
Speaker 1: to happen. It's one of the reasons that we are
Speaker 1: fighting right now with the outdated technology that the Federal
Speaker 1: Aviation uses, some of it which is based on technology
Speaker 1: from fifty sixty seventy year years ago. We are way
Speaker 1: behind from a technology standpoint, and we desperately need to
Speaker 1: have it upgraded. Although the word upgrade is an insult
Speaker 1: to the word upgrade when you understand just how far
Speaker 1: behind the times we are from a technology standpoint. So
Speaker 1: the President is indicated he's going to push for even
Speaker 1: more air traffic controllers, updated technology, bringing in some of
Speaker 1: the SpaceX team texts to try to assist. And I
Speaker 1: like everything that I'm saying because I've been so frustrated
Speaker 1: over the years, decades really and seeing the FAA tend
Speaker 1: to get what money falls off the table versus a
Speaker 1: concentrated effort on putting in the resources that we need.
Speaker 1: We're short of air traffic controllers, so why do we
Speaker 1: give them anything but the best in technology to make
Speaker 1: their job easier when they are in fact working over
Speaker 1: time and doing the job of one, two or three people.
Speaker 1: We need to upgrade the technology to make it easier
Speaker 1: for them. And I don't know where the promises are
Speaker 1: going to go, but we're pointing in the direction. That
Speaker 1: has me incredibly excited for the first time in a
Speaker 1: long time, because I'm frustrated that members of Congress and others,
Speaker 1: the elected officials we've had over the last five, ten,
Speaker 1: fifteen years, have done nothing to seriously upgrade the FAA's technology,
Speaker 1: and for them to point at President Trump suggesting that
Speaker 1: anything that has been ongoing is his fault. After three
Speaker 1: and a half to four weeks. I find laughable because
Speaker 1: those are the individuals that had an opportunity over an
Speaker 1: extended period of time to do something and chose not to.
Speaker 3: So I had a question about that.
Speaker 2: I have a friend I actually was talking to him
Speaker 2: last night about the technology that exists. He flies seven
Speaker 2: thirty sevens. The technology in those airplanes now, especially the
Speaker 2: ones that have been built in the last couple of years,
Speaker 2: is incredible. I mean, just the amount of control that
Speaker 2: they have over these gigantic machines. How does that compare
Speaker 2: to what you're talking about the technology that exists in
Speaker 2: the control towers around the kind Well.
Speaker 1: When you're talking about something that's built by Boeing, air Bus,
Speaker 1: Bombardier and Brare, any of the aircraft manufacturers around the world.
Speaker 1: The pilots continually have the best of everything on the
Speaker 1: flight deck. They've got backups, and they've got redundant systems
Speaker 1: that are state of the art. They're constantly being updated
Speaker 1: to allow us to have an increased level of safety.
Speaker 1: The problem is a lot of the computer support systems
Speaker 1: of technology that air traffic control uses for the air
Speaker 1: traffic control system network is nowhere near state of the art.
Speaker 1: We've been talking about for decades how we tracked airplanes
Speaker 1: in this country using ground based radar. You can track
Speaker 1: a drug dealer on the corner of Fifth and Maine
Speaker 1: using his cell phone and satellites, but we're tracking aircraft
Speaker 1: across the country and we did this for decades using
Speaker 1: ground based radar. You know, when the Malaysian Airline flight
Speaker 1: went missing all those years ago, the world was shocked
Speaker 1: that there were parts of the world that we couldn't
Speaker 1: track these airplanes. Well, we weren't using satellite based systems.
Speaker 1: We were using line of sight, ground based radar to
Speaker 1: track aircraft. And given the curvature of the Earth, there
Speaker 1: were times that airplanes were flying outside of our ability
Speaker 1: to track them. That should never be the case, and
Speaker 1: we need to do everything that we can because to me,
Speaker 1: the aviation industry is an integral part to our nation's economy.
Speaker 1: We know that in the next ten to fifteen years
Speaker 1: the industry is going to double. We know that we
Speaker 1: do not have the technology and infrastructure now to meet today's demands,
Speaker 1: to say nothing of what's coming. So simply from an
Speaker 1: economic standpoint, we need to invest everything that we can
Speaker 1: in aviation right now so that we can take advantage
Speaker 1: of what's coming from an economic standpoint, and again I'm
Speaker 1: pleased that we seem to be headed in that direction.
Speaker 2: As the United States goes, so goes the rest of
Speaker 2: the world, especially when it comes to aviation technology aviation safety.
Speaker 2: If we begin this process and update those flight tracking systems,
Speaker 2: the air traffic control systems, everyone else has to follow suit,
Speaker 2: don't they.
Speaker 1: Yes, And it will make aviation safer around the world.
Speaker 1: And really that's what we need because up until the
Speaker 1: crash that we had there in DC, remember sixteen years
Speaker 1: of no major accidents here in the United States, the
Speaker 1: safest are era of commercial jet travel. And when you
Speaker 1: figure that, we've got nine million plus flights commercially speaking
Speaker 1: a year, and we went decades in half where we
Speaker 1: went all those times with all those flights, I mean,
Speaker 1: we've never seen that type of string before, and it
Speaker 1: was great to see. Now we have had three crashes
Speaker 1: where we've had the Alaska crash where ten lives were claimed.
Speaker 1: We don't know what happened there. We had the situation
Speaker 1: in DC where we had the helicopter crash to the
Speaker 1: regional jet, and then we have this situation with this
Speaker 1: third crash and fortunately no loss of life. But when
Speaker 1: you have that much happening in a short period of time,
Speaker 1: now people start paying attention to the general aviation crashes,
Speaker 1: and those happen sadly every week. We will tend to
Speaker 1: lose about ten people a week from general aviation accidents,
Speaker 1: as much as maybe four hundred and fifty to five
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty people a year that die in in
Speaker 1: the general aviation accidents. So when you have this focus
Speaker 1: where people all of a sudden are paying attention, they
Speaker 1: start noticing a lot of these general aviation accidents and
Speaker 1: they're thinking, oh my gosh, you know, what's happened to
Speaker 1: the aviation safety. Should I be concerned about flying? And
Speaker 1: my response to that is absolutely not. We still have
Speaker 1: the safest air traffic control network as far as from
Speaker 1: a safety standpoint, pilots, technology, mechanics, everything across the board
Speaker 1: than any of the place in the world. So I
Speaker 1: don't hesitate one bit to go to the airport and
Speaker 1: jump on an airplane knowing that these three different accidents
Speaker 1: probably had much different causes, and as a result, we'll
Speaker 1: find out what happened and we will honor the lives
Speaker 1: of those that were lost by making the necessary changes
Speaker 1: so that we can, as much as humanly possible, prevent
Speaker 1: those types of situations from happening.
Speaker 2: Again, excellent, all right, Jay, thank you for your time.
Speaker 2: Always my pleasure, Jay Rattlift there again. iHeartRadio's aviation analyst.
Speaker 2: Been analyzing airplanes aviation industry for thirty plus years. It's
Speaker 2: time for some strange science.
Speaker 3: Strange, it's like weird science, but strange. A couple of
Speaker 3: good ones.
Speaker 2: Today there was a beast, a newly identified basteton bastatodon,
Speaker 2: thought to have been a leopard sized dog, basically at
Speaker 2: the top of its food chain the same time that
Speaker 2: our ancestors were evolving from the monkiness. These findings, published
Speaker 2: in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Fascinating Classified ads by
Speaker 2: the way, said that the creature would have likely preyed
Speaker 2: on primates, very early elephants and hippos and high raxes.
Speaker 2: What is a high rax in the forest of Egypt
Speaker 2: which is now a desert of course. The paleontologist and
Speaker 2: the lead author of this from Mansoura University and the
Speaker 2: American University in Cairo, said they meticulously excavated layers of
Speaker 2: rock dating a back of around thirty million years, and
Speaker 2: they say, just as they were about to wrap it
Speaker 2: up for the day, a team member spotted something remarkable,
Speaker 2: a very large set of teeth sticking out of the ground.
Speaker 2: His excited shout brought the team together marked the beginning
Speaker 2: of an extraordinary discovery, a nearly complete skull of an
Speaker 2: ancient apex carnivore, A dream for any vertebrate paleontologist, if
Speaker 2: you say so. The skull was unearthed during their team's
Speaker 2: expedition to the Faiyu Depression, which is in the Egyptian
Speaker 2: desert to the west of the Nile River, fame for
Speaker 2: its fossils for its ancient Egyptian artifacts and digs there
Speaker 2: have revealed a window of about fifteen million years, they say,
Speaker 2: of evolutionary history of mammals in Africa, Bastetadon Bastetidon, belonging
Speaker 2: to an ancient group of carnivorous and mammals known as
Speaker 2: I'm not even gonna try it. The predators had hyena
Speaker 2: like teeth, and they said they evolved but long before
Speaker 2: the modern day carnivores like cats and dogs, and they
Speaker 2: hunted in the African ecosystems after the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Speaker 3: If you are looking for.
Speaker 2: A way to fuel your vehicle, there are new vast reserves,
Speaker 2: they say, of white hydrogen that may exist within mountain ranges.
Speaker 2: White hydrogen has gained the attention recently because it has
Speaker 2: a potential to replace fossil fuels. It was only a
Speaker 2: couple decades ago that some scientists started saying that the
Speaker 2: fuel even existed within the Earth's crust. In now, what
Speaker 2: they're saying are pretty large amounts they natural or geologic hydrogen,
Speaker 2: and they've talked about how it forms, about where it
Speaker 2: might be located, and the main problems has been working
Speaker 2: out where to find volumes of it that are large
Speaker 2: enough that would be useful considering how much energy we
Speaker 2: use every single day around the Earth. So to find answers,
Speaker 2: they put together some computer models to simulate the movement
Speaker 2: of the tectonic plates and then pinpoint areas where the
Speaker 2: right conditions would exist for generating again white hydrogen geologic hydrogen,
Speaker 2: and they found that mountain ranges like the Pyrenees and
Speaker 2: the European Alps are potential hotspots. The hydrogen, of course,
Speaker 2: is produced when water produces only water, I should say
Speaker 2: when burned, has long been eyed as a safe green fuel,
Speaker 2: especially for aviation for steel making, but a lot of
Speaker 2: commercial hydrogen is aid using fossil fuels, so it completely
Speaker 2: cancels out whatever sort of climate saving power you have,
Speaker 2: which is why when the Earth makes it itself, that's
Speaker 2: going to be a much more tantalizing prospect.
Speaker 3: You could talk about it.
Speaker 2: White hydrogen really started being talked about in the late eighties.
Speaker 2: In Mali, a water well exploded a worker was leaning
Speaker 2: over the edge with a cigarette and the well was covered,
Speaker 2: but was unplugged in twenty eleven and has since been
Speaker 2: producing oxygen that helps power the local village. This is
Speaker 2: one of those places where it just naturally occurs and
Speaker 2: they were able to harvest it. You can find it
Speaker 2: in the United States, it's been found in Australia, it's
Speaker 2: been found in France. The problem is it's not a lot,
Speaker 2: and they're hoping that they're going to be able to
Speaker 2: find a place that has a lot of this white
Speaker 2: hydrogen and then somehow get it out and use it
Speaker 2: to power all of our vehicles and phones and AI
Speaker 2: computers and things like that, and then finally sign at
Speaker 2: the University of Bristol have used a powerful supercomputer to
Speaker 2: create a picture of Earth's distant future and to predict
Speaker 2: when we're all going to die. And I think they're
Speaker 2: getting it wrong because it doesn't say anything about the asteroid.
Speaker 2: In twenty twenty thirty two, they said temperatures would predicted
Speaker 2: will be exceeding one hundred and four degrees in some areas,
Speaker 2: some reaching over one hundred and twenty two. Combine that
Speaker 2: with dense humidity, it will push conditions beyond the limits
Speaker 2: for most mammals, including the mammals that look a lot
Speaker 2: like you and I.
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