Hey there friends, thanks for checking in today. We're looking at a new release rifle from Springfield Armory called the 2020 red line It's in 308 and another model is available in 6.5 Creedmoor I went with the 308 with the 16 inch barrel 20 inch barrels are also available in each The models 308 and 6.5 Creedmoor. It is very light six pounds without the Bipod or the optic and so if you're the type of hunter that's going to park and walk a distance to your blind or wherever It is you're going you're going to like the features that this offers and you're gonna like the weight savings that This offers now the optic that I have here is a Bushnell 4,500 elite It's a two and a half by ten Magnification with a 40 millimeter lens. I think this setup is Amazing and I already took it to the range put a lot around through it The optic rifle bipod combination was excellent Let's start at 125 yards that will move back from there Holes right on top of each other If I'm not mistaken those were holes right on top of each other. That was nice 125 yards, let's take a closer look at the 2020 red line 308 rifle As I mentioned this is available with a 16 inch or a 20 inch barrel This is a 16 inch barrel the idea here is to maximize the weight savings Making it easier to tow it around now the stock is called gray bow trekker You can see it's olive with some black wedding throughout and The buttstock is hollow all right once again saving weight the Recall pad is pretty squishy. You may notice there are two spacers there other spacers are available You could adjust the length of pull quite a bit with this The receiver is green like an olive drab green. I think it looks cool The 16 inch barrel is Threaded it has a SA radial brake which disperses the gases even though it's lightweight It doesn't jump around too much. I was able to control it quite well without having to decrease the intensity of my Magnification with the optic the barrel itself is free-floating and It has this carbon fiber roll wrapped sleeve throughout it makes no contact with the barrel at all So it that also keeps the weight down. This is so light I can hold it right up to my shoulder shoot into this berm and Charge it while on my shoulder It has three sling mounts Right there. They're studs this one here. I attached the Harris bipod I picked this up at Cabela's believe it or not on the way up here a Harris bipod I like it. I like Harris bipods. I went with this And so that attaches there then you could run a sling with that stud mount and The one in the rear of the stock the action is based off a Remington 700 So there is plenty of aftermarket support. You can see the bolt itself is Fluted it has dual locking lugs and the bolt handle rotates down to 90 degrees The knob can be removed. I don't know why anybody would want to do that, but They they could if they choose but it has a level right there So when you mount the optic you can make sure it squares up just the way you want it So there are no surprises at the ring action very smooth I like the way that operates a couple times at the range. I tried to bring it down a little too soon But you can see that It operates just as it should the magazine releases right there on the bottom of the trigger guard All you do is hit that the magazine comes out. It's the three-round magazine For 308. It's an MDT magazine And just throw it up there. You have three rounds available. It has a non-snag thumb safety right there So when the safety is forward it is fire and then Back here is safe eight inch hand side a little bit high Okay Ten inch With the exception of the optic and the bipod this rifle weighs six pounds out of the case That is that's extremely light especially for a heavy load like 308 Winchester The trigger mechanism is a trigger-tack trigger. We'll take a closer look there move the Safety forward this adjusts from two and a half to five pounds just like that Very light trigger out of the case very light The Bushnell Elite 4500 did exactly what I needed it to do I stretched out to 300 yards and I realized that the capacity with the 308 is much further than that However, it gives you that more Magnification when you want it even at the 300 to stretch out further than a three to nine Magnification this will get it done the MSRP on this is only 300 bucks and I I'm very happy with it I felt that I had complete control of the rifle and the optic choice was very nice where I'm at in Michigan Any hunting purposes will keep you closer to 50 to 100 yards and I felt I felt great with this Ready yeah Right at the top of the plate that time center windage That's good hit. I can't tell so that's the new 2020 red line by Springfield Armory Let me know if you like it see the way it looks with that composite stock It has a definitely different look to it a different feel to it You actually have to feel it to get a true sense of how light it actually is but it's also a shooter and That SA radio muzzle brake certainly helped cut down on the recoil even by holding it up to your shoulder It really isn't that bad. So I'm curious to know your thoughts. Would you go through eight six point five creed more? Would you go with the 16 inch barrel 20 inch barrel? Let me know as well as your thoughts on the 2020 red line if you like videos like this, please subscribe and share I always appreciate thumbs up button. Thanks for watching and you guys be safe


Ukrainian Marines destroyed Marine Brigade of the Pacific Fleet of Russia near Volodya. Soldiers of the 35th Marine Infantry Brigade, named after Rear Admiral Mikhail Ostroradski, has been destroying enemy equipment and manpower near Volodya for months. Commander-in-Chief Valery Zaluznyi has published a video about this on Facebook. In effective interaction with other armed forces' units, the Marines carry out both defensive and counter-offensive actions. A vivid example was the operation during which it was possible to take complete control of Verkhnyi Dachy on the approaches to Volodya and defeat the elite of the Russian army, the 155th Guards Marine Brigade. It is noted that the Ukrainian Marines are constantly training and improving in order to repel Russian invaders on every piece of their native land. Serhii, one of the commanders of the 35th Marine Brigade, says the following. There is a strong sense of pride that it was the Marines of the armed forces of Ukraine who showed the Pacific Fleet their strength, perseverance, resilience and courage. Moreover, we had more than 20 enemy Marines captured thanks to the effective cooperation of the 35th and 56th Brigades.


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I bought this because I think someone watched my video and saw a market that wasn't being capitalized on and actually started making switch lights, light switches. And I bought it and this is very boring. Okay, we have different reactions. If you were a massive mega nerd and really wanted to spice up your game room in the cringiest way possible, buy a switch, light, light switch. You'll impress any girl that comes over. It's BMO. You guys know BMO, right? Oh no, my face. From Rick and Morty. No! Okay, but the cool part is if you don't want to have this face in, you put your switch in and then it becomes the screen. How cute is that? Oh my God, look at it. That's so clever. This is my favorite one. It's your favorite one? It's really good. It's actually so good. I really like it. If you haven't seen the show, you need to watch it, it's a really good show. But BMO is this character in the show and they actually do play games on BMO. Like the screen will change to things. But it's so cute because it's like BMO sat back and it's just letting you play some games on it. Oh, my face. And then you get one of these. Yay, BMO. Hey Kim, what did I do last night? That's right. I streamed onto it. Oh, I'm sorry. Hey, if you want to watch me on Twitch, I'd appreciate it. I stream. You stream. I was going to say something else, but I figured that pretty much summed it up. Okay, I forgot I bought this. I ordered this a long time ago. This is a switch accessory, okay? It's all going to make sense in a second. Oh, I know exactly how this works. I'm not looking for instructions. So this part will be here and then this will be here and then that's the base. So it kind of matches the other side. Yeah. It's actually kind of a quality comeback around. Comeback around. You know, one of those classic quality comeback arounds. The first one of these we ever did, you bought me the really floppy flimsy wired one that kind of bounced up on my chest. This is like an actual good version of that if there was to be such a thing. It came with screws. So I actually have to build it and I guess it's going to stay by my bedside table now. It's solid and it's sanded. It's really smooth. It's really nice, really fancy. Smells fresh. Once we build it, we'll find out. Once we build it, we'll find out. But I'm assuming that right here, I tell you how much I love it. The last time I did something like this, I drove it into my hand. So I figured we should at least do it on camera. Not having a good day, huh, Phil? I broke it. By the way, I barely put any pressure on that. I can fix this. A few inches later. You look real cute. I look cute? Yeah. Good. Makes me feel a little better about what's happening here. Show the class what you've done. I managed to drill the head off of the screw thinking I could plier it out, right? So I figured what I would do is I would drill holes around the screw, kind of essentially cutting out the screw that I could wiggle it out. I may have broke the drill bit. The drill bit? Leave me alone. The good news is this little jagged part didn't go in my hand this time, so I'm learning. This current point in time, I can't completely recommend buying one of these. Maybe use the pliers so you don't cut your hand. Good as new. Now we have to go to work trying to hobble, cobble together this. If I bring my own screws into the equation, I have some out here. This may be a bad idea, but let's f***ing go. What'd you do, pal? I split it in half. Oh. Well, try one more time. Out. Those are the wrong screws. This took longer than filming the whole video. This better be worth it. I have a hole in my desk because of this thing. You're supposed to put this here and you put the pillow on top and then you get yourself in the bed. I'm assuming on your own because no one that has one of these things is sleeping with anybody else. Well, you are.  And then you game away. You know, I have to say, this is really comfortable. Can you see the screw? Yeah. Can you see what I'm playing? Zelda. All right, well, it's one of those things that like, yeah, it works. Yeah, I'm comfortable. Who wants this? Maybe I'm overthinking it. It's cool. It's cool. Oh, man. Let's keep going. Oh, you know how earlier I mentioned Twitch? Forget about that. I have a more organic plug that's about to happen. It's cute. Oh, wow. It's actually quality. This is really quality. This feels like it was actually made by someone who knows what they're doing. Beemo. It's not a USB-mo. Pog is... Maybe this is actually the... Oh, oh, it's too bright for the camera. The camera can't handle it. What about this one? Yeah, kind of like that. I'm not really sure how I can... Actually. How did that actually work? I'm like, Twitchman. What does Twitchman say? 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Yeah, man, grown now, bro. Exactly. Not only is he grown, he's probably like just a brother in terms of like my age range.  He has, well, I don't even think we have to pull anything up on him. As a matter of fact, I'm not gonna share the screen. Well, we don't have to really pull anything up on yachty because we already know what it is. So, Poland, right? Yeah. Poland's been having a moment. Hit. Hit, you want to call it a hit? I think so, underground hit. Underground hit. I don't know if it's gonna go out of way. I personally believe in it, but that's as a fan, not as a music person. Okay. That's the fan of me saying it could go out of way. You make a great point. See, so, and I think yachty alluded to this one time, or maybe I just made a video or something about it. But yachty was a part of this. When you have, I feel like Coach Kay actually mentioned this somewhere, when you have a brand and people like you. Yeah, they want you to win. They want you to win, right? So, you always have another at bat. Now, you might take some Ls and it's gonna be like, ah, we can't support it because it's just not it. And it's cool that your fans are honest with you, right? But we still want you to get another one. We're not gonna take that bad song or let that bad moment be what it ain't. But when you finally have something, we're gonna be happy for you and be just as excited to support you. All right, I think that's a really, really key thing where it's just that long-term value of connecting to the level of a true brand in a moment in time because it always buys you more visibility. How many of these people, it'll be like an old star that they now they can get on a reality TV show or something, right? Yeah. Because you have something. We're gonna watch it. Right? People are gonna watch it. You made that connection, man. Let me see what's up with Waka. What's Waka doing? You know what I mean? What's up with your boy? What is he doing? People just pop up because we've already made that connection to those brands. So whether it's into different arenas or in that same arena, whatever it is, there's always another day to live if you have a brand. Yeah, and it speaks to the personality thing. Like I said, it's like, if you are a cool enough person, then people just want to kind of see you win. They want to see you, not maybe go to the top, but as far as you can take it. Like I have a lot of artists that I don't particularly like their music, but they seem like cool people. So when they drop something, I go check it out. And if it's nice, I listen to it again. If it's not nice, I'm like, all right, well, I did my part. You know, best of luck to you. You know what I'm saying? Hopefully you don't get shels or whatever comes from this. And I feel like he's good at that, bro. Like Yachty has a, I mean, as a Yachty fan, his personality has changed in a pretty interesting way over the last couple of years. But I feel like overall, you said what I mean? Yeah. Are you a Yachty fan? Like were you following him pretty early? I followed him pretty early. I never thought of myself as a Yachty fan. But I never thought of myself again. I just don't think you're a fan, like period in my mind. There's like all my, the people I was a fan of, like I use the word fan with, I was probably like 10 year old or older under. After that, it's just people I really, really appreciate. I don't, I'm just weird like that, bro.  That's what I say.  That's what I said. I was at the underground show. I think it was like 2018, that like him, it was like him K-Supreme and somebody else did with K-Supreme broke the stage and like a shootout happening. I was there, bro. I was there early. Yeah.  Like after I saw Yachty, I was like, it's time to go home.  You okay? You still at the spot? No, what happened?  Oh no, I'm about five minutes from the crib, man. I'm good. Let me know. You know what I'm saying? I mean, I left right in time, but I've been watching him for a long time. So it's like really early, Yachty. Really, really, really early Yachty had this scam personality thing. If you were in underground Atlanta, he was, he was pretty. I would hear about that. Yeah. It's pretty well known for doing that. And then he got with QC.  Nah, bro, no way. But it was a good look for him. You know what I'm saying? So he wrote the whole, I want to call it a kiddie brand, but that's a, He put a name for it. Like, Bubblegum Pop? No, not that. Like he was like, I'm the king or I'm the savior. I think he put an album concept around it. Like the teen. Oh, I know what you're talking about. Come on, fan. Come on, fan. We are the same boat, bro. I know what you're talking about. He's like the voice of the teens It was something like that. Yeah, something like that. The voice of. I wasn't a teenager one day when he was saying this. That's all I'm saying. I ain't connected with that part. You know what I mean? You my little bro over there. I think Ice Cube, I saw some Ice Cube saying when Kobe died, he was like, I'm not a fan of that many people younger than me. And like Kobe was like, why don't we use a fan of? Yeah. I think that's all I'm saying.  But I rock what you have. Yeah. I want you to win. That's all I'm coming from. Nah, bro, I was a fan. I ain't going straight away from the title. You lost some credibility. Y'all let us know in the comments if you lost that credibility. Yeah. But it was, it's like, so he had the whole, the whole teen brand thing going, right? He wrote that. And then he dropped, ah, damn, it's another, another, another.  And I feel like that flipped something in his head. And he wanted to get away from the whole teenage thing. It's like the Disney kids effect, bro. Like, the Disney kids that come out there, these nice, sweet kids, teenagers, whatever.    Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You gotta go to the extreme just to break the mold. And now you got more space. Yeah. But it was like, I mean, I personally, I feel like rappers flipping to like the hood nigger brand. That's like the easy way out, you know what I'm saying? It's like so many other brands you could have said. That's like the easy obvious one. You know what I'm saying? It's 100 percent. It's way up. 100 percent. Very, very comfortable. Yeah. But I guess it worked for what he wanted.   You know what I'm saying? Don't get no more extreme. That was a complete polar opposite. That's actually true. What he is, like, what options would he have had? Like, I don't know. He could have been like an intellectual. That, that would have been another option. That would have been interesting. That's hard to maintain. I would love to get like some book recommendations from Gaudi. You know what I'm saying? Maybe he's here. His opinions on the political landscape of the world. You know what I'm saying? He would think that. That's hard to maintain. You got to stay smart in what you're saying. And then people don't take you seriously about how you came into the game. And he could have, he can't go super artsy. Because there's so many people that are artsy. It doesn't even like stick the same. Yeah. He's not weird enough to be super artsy. Yeah. He would have had to go extreme and buy that character. So I mean, I think he went to the door that was there for him. Yeah. I mean, we got some bangers out of it. I feel like Poland probably wouldn't have happened the same way if he didn't take that route. And then I understand. He was like, bro, you signed the QC. Like everybody on QC is that brand. But you like, I feel like you around that all the time. You know what I'm saying? Like I said, bro, you know his early background enough. It's like, it's not like he was completely removed from that world.  You know what I'm saying?  So it's not like he's all the way out of it. But I just felt like it was the easy, like too easy of a move to make. But it worked out. We got some bangers from it. Now he flipped it and then he got Poland moving. And like I said, as a fan, bro, I personally think, you know, Poland could, never mind, I was gonna say, I was gonna say beat out Taylor Swift, but never mind, bro. I'll take that back. But Poland could go, I believe that if they see what the internet sees, Poland could at least make it the top 20. It can go far. Yeah. 100% it can go far. Like Poland, I want to win big. Yeah, yeah, man, ain't nobody messing with Taylor. And another thing about the Poland moment is I wonder how he came up with it. Like, cause, so I, there's something that I kind of call like, it's like the in-the-moment creative strategic marketing. Yeah. So it's not super strategic. Like I'm in a room and I'm gonna make a banger for Poland specifically cause I want X, Y and Z to happen, right? Yeah.  Yeah. Because I'm talking about Poland, you know what I mean?  He might not be looking at the data on the charts, right? But he, as an artist, is maybe having that experience, right? And experiencing that, yo, it's really strong out here.  So of course you already know it's probably doing something really good in Poland for the people out there. 100%. But Poland is eating it up. Got to, right? Like the comments, like on the meme posts around it have been gold, bro. I don't know if you've been- No, I haven't seen those. Like that's just, just fans are making sense. Like I saw this one comment that was like, what did it say? It was like a little Yachty single-handedly came to Poland and fixed our country's government. Thank you Poland for, thank you Yachty for the say.  Did you ever see that one joke meme about like young thug helping out like a little girl and then she later grew up to be Rosa Parks. It's like all of the jokes have been like in that same vein. And it's been beautiful, bro. It's probably one of the best meme. I don't know if it was, I think it was a strategy. I think they did it on purpose, but it's been one of the best outcomes of a meme strategy, I think in a long time. But they joke this man back into super relevancy, bro. See, this is why we're trying to tell y'all the power of jokes, man. Yeah, but if you can type in and laugh at it, you're gonna be all right. That's the game, but that's part of the game. You just gotta sit there long enough for it to change, for the tide to change, you know what I mean? You see that wave and hop on it. That right there is, we might have to do a whole like talk around comedy and how that helps brands, but I want to go to this other clip that you sent me. Oh, yeah. I still gotta watch it like a hoe. I don't know if there was more to add, but man, yo. No, it should. Just a little bit I heard was hilarious. Funny and informative. So 50 Cent.


What's going on infinite and welcome back to another video if you guys are new to the channel make sure you guys hit that subscribe button Turn on your post notification bell leave a positive comment down below for a chance to get a what for a chance to Shout out in the next video. That is right guys. So as you guys can tell about title and thumbnail the video We're kind of be doing like a kind of like a part to Janice wanted to quiz me a couple of weeks ago on female products And today I'm putting her in the hot seat and I'm gonna be quizzing her on male products now You guys know I'm a car guy.  It's gonna be 90% I feel you're gonna get right okay, but without further ado Let's get it to it. Okay. All right guys, so I have seven pictures on my phone. I'm gonna just swipe through them You're gonna be telling me what they are I'm also gonna be putting them on the screen so you guys can see as well what I'm showing her you ready Yeah, so here we go first car part is this Come on babe, this is like the main thing I do Close this is the main thing I do to like all my cars all the BMWs. I've had Babe, you know what it is. Come on. I say it What it's what's the real word for it's not a straight pipe, it's part of the exhaust But what's the name of it? I'll give you a hint. It's Catalyst Cadillac converter Close but no last try. I don't know it's a Catalyst It's a downpipe babe. Oh, I thought that was the same thing. No, no, baby It's a Catalyst downpipe. That's like one of the main things I do when I get all my cars I put a Catalyst downpipe on it for power gains and just to be obnoxious. Oh, well, sorry See starting off bad. Yeah, I know now. Now I'm scared now. I'm scared. Here we go picture number two Come on Come on, babe. Don't let me down Sticks babe, look at look at the cone like the filter like what is that? I was gonna say that's definitely that's a filter Okay, what is it? Babe, I just say it already. No that you just said a filter, but come on. What is that?  It didn't mean that you really don't know. I don't Babe, I don't know no guesses. Um, does it go in the front? It goes under the hood. Yes It goes in the front Okay, um, I can't even speak like give it some guesses man. I'll give you three guesses. Go ahead. Give me a hint a Filter you see it. What else has a filter under the hood besides the oil filter? Is it what I bought for you for my Mustang? Yes, when I had a Mustang you bought this for me. What is it? Oh? My god, she doesn't even know what she bought.   I don't know to me. What do you mean cold guys all my fellas out there? I am so sorry. She's butchering this right now, babe. It's a cold air intake You bought it for me in the Mustang and I completely forgot about that See, but why do you have to add the cold into it? I could have said what it is intake But you're like cold air intake like that's the name of it. All right next one. Oh man third picture I'm not alive this one. I don't expect you to get but we're gonna throw it in there anyway Just cuz I did do it on my car previously. Let's see if you remember That's that it goes in the front of the car, but towards the bottom Is that oh, come on, baby, you got this you got it. Come on Isn't it's not a filter like to keep the air cool exactly you're close. What is that? Air cool in the car What is it called it starts with a I Come on come on you're there you're there You know what it does, babe. Come on. Don't let me down here. You know what it does I'ma give you half a point. It's an intercooler intercooler. Yeah, that one. It's an intercooler You know what you know what it did. All right, so I'm gonna give you half a point. All right here We go next one This one I really don't expect you to get bum throw it in there anyway because I did do it on my cars before No guesses at all. You completely throw the flag on this one. Yeah, this is a charge pipe That's a charge pipe. It gets connected to the turbo dude. They all look the same I know but they all have different functions and they fit differently. Yeah I really could tell the difference between all of these because I don't this is a charge pipe It gets connected to the turbo So when you're making too much power the plastic ones that come with the car the plastic ones tend to Explode and break because they can't handle the amount of power. Yeah, like the ones on the BMWs. Yeah, the ones that I Yeah, the ones that are no, they there's plastic in American cars, too Let's talk about my German So here we go now. We're moving on to tools. Okay, that is what is it? This is what you are sometimes Excuse me. If this is what you are sometimes When I tell you the answer you're gonna get so upset What is it starts with a R? Ratchet yes, yes, it's a ratchet. That's what you be sometimes You should know what this one is Yes, there you go You just need tutoring with the car Regular I told you I said I was gonna move from car parts. It's like regular. Thank God because this one I just had it on there. I thought it was funny. Okay. All right.  Allen keys. Yes, babe. Yes, you're oh you're making me.  You should know these names already However, I don't know like the names. I just know the functions of it because that's what you talk about You always explain what they do. I already said it, but what does it down pipe do down pipe? See I get the down pipe and the Like charge pipe confused. You shouldn't they're completely opposite. We got down pipes down pipes give it like a room Right down pipes. Yes, they make it louder. They give it. Yeah, okay So then what's the difference between down pipes and they're going Catalyst like I don't get it Catalyst versus cat it Catalyst makes more noise because there's no restriction And it's more free-flowing because there's no cat in there to restrict So you make more power and it's louder than a regular catted one, okay? And then what's the difference between that and the down pipe that is a down pipe. What do you mean? Okay, see that doesn't make sense down pipes can either be Catalyst or catted That's it whatever and then you got everything else right the intercooler keeps You know the air circulating through the engine and all that the oil that keeps it cool Cold air intake basically kind of does the same thing it keeps you know the intake temperature is cold The charge pipe I already explained it to you is so that you know the plastic ones, you know They tend to break when you add more power. So aluminum And yeah, that's it. You got everything else, right? You just need tutoring with the car parts But yeah, you show me more regular stuff because I know regular stuff If you want to see a part two to this with like different stuff and like different type of tools I guess let me know down below smash the thumbs up button right how you think she did I had my hopes really high I didn't think you were gonna butcher the car parts at all But I told you I don't know anything about this car stuff because don't get me wrong Yeah, you talked to me about cars all the time you talked to me What kind of cars you want and the stuff that you get you explain to me what they do But I never see them visit physically every time we get you get it You just go with Miguel Austin to work on the cars immediately. I don't see it like immediately So how do you expect me to know what these look like? I've never seen them and I guess I guess the only one That I should have known was the one that I got you for your Mustang, but it did not look like that picture It was a triangle because there's different cold air intakes But you should automatically see the filter and be like oh, that's an intake. Oh, yeah, okay I know I should know you should know yes now again right down below how you think she did I didn't think she was gonna butcher it like that But again if you guys want to see a part two of quizzing her on male products Also, let us know down below smash that thumbs up button. It is not time for today's post notification shout out today's post notification Shout out goes out to Aaron Ryder. Thank you so much for your love and support as in I love you If you want a post notification shout out all you guys got to do is like comment share and subscribe Hit that thumbs up button comment down below team Isaiah because that is for sure how you guys are gonna get a post notification Shout out with all that being said we will see you guys in the next video


What's up everybody, Jayce here with jasperjaysbricks.com. 2016 Pineda and Pram Cuts Baseball, five-bottom red picketing number 24 just sold out. So here you go. 14 team random number block here for all those teams and those customers in here. And here's everybody else in the break, good luck. Andro Rodin picketing 24. Alrighty guys, so I'm gonna rip open all the boxes. So I think I'm running like five minutes behind. I think I gave myself enough wiggle room through playbook to the OptiKit packs and select team all, so we should be good. And then after that I'm gonna take a quick little dinner break, about like 20 minutes or so. Then we'll do some NT and whatever else sells out after that. We're rocking and rolling today though guys. Yeah Jay, I don't know what the hell is going on with that but I think we can do it this weekend with me whether it's today or tomorrow. Yeah, can we please? We're like almost halfway there if not more. First one guys, one out of 15 for Chicago, Gabby Harnett. And it looks like it should be White Sox. So that is White Sox. Well, I guess it doesn't really matter. Both the White Sox and Cubs are in the random number block. One is going to Tallinn. Next one, Billy Martin for the Yankees to 99. We're gonna Marissa. We got Ozzie Smith to 49. That is Ozzie Smith, San Diego Poggers edition. We got a Luis Severino autograph to 49 for the Yankees. Poggers by Chad, Yankees. And we got a redemption of Young Hole Park, Crown Cuts rookie autographs too. Which thought it would be pirates but I'll get back to that at the end of the break. And we got Yankees and Cincinnati Reds, Joe Morgan and Thurman Munson. Six out of 49. This is Twins Jarrett. Yeah, you know what? I think it is Twins Jarrett. All right, so Yankees and Reds. Reds is part of the random number block. Yankees straight up. So that'll be another randomizer, depending on who gets that. We got to the 99, Adrian Beltry, Dodgers edition. Dodgers, Joanna Jason. Jose Bautista for Toronto. I'm gonna Daniel. We got a Triple Relic and Otto. Pedro Severino for Washington. Got a Michael. And we got a Prime Signatures of Jose Canseco, 67 out of 99. Oakland Athletics, that's going to Travis. Next one. Jean Seguro for Arizona to the 99. T-Bucks is part of the random number block. 96, going to Tracy. Andrew Sandman, Mariana Rivera Relic to 149. And we got Montreal Expos on both, Gary Carter and Andre Dawson. That'll be going to the Washington Nationals and Michael. We got Vida Blue for Oakland tonight now. And we've got a cut signature. And it's for the Milwaukee Braves, Warren Spahn. And again, Milwaukee Braves, will be going to the Atlanta Braves, which is BJ Jordan. And I'll show you guys as well on the checklist that it is Milwaukee Braves, just to confirm. 69 out of 99. Very nice. All right, two more to go, guys. Oops, sorry. Nick Cannon is kind of blocking it. Edgar Martinez, four out of five for Seattle. That's random number block four. Chad. George Bell Relic, Kansas City. Royals. It's about five. Or sorry, it's about six, 46. Six, going to Tracy. We got a little Nolan Ryan, California Angels Edition, seven out of 49. Angels went to Joshua. We got Double Patch and Otto to 49. And that is Elias Diaz. Pirates going to Jared. And we got a Chipper Jones. How about that? Two out of five prime signatures for the ATL Braves, going to BJ Jordan. Nice break for the Braves. That's a sweet prime signature right there. Chipper, two out of five, very nice. All right, on the last box, guys, good luck. We got Xander Bogarts, no markers here, Para for Boston. That's a random number block. And it's 57, seven going to Joe, sorry. Chris Bryant, 84 out of 149. Spot four going to Chad. We got to 25 for Pittsburgh. R.K. Vaughn. Pirates going to Jared. We got Double Relic and Otto Salvador Perez for Kansas City. That's a random number block. Nine going to Justin. And the last one is a Tyler Nake, nine out of 25, Cleveland Indians going to Tom. And there you go, guys. That was the break, so we have a random item to do. And I'll look these other two up in the checklist just to confirm to you guys.  So let me write this here as well, just to look at the Bianho Park. Minnesota Twins, so let's do it. Just confirm there. So Twins, that's Tony. All right, we got a randomizer here again. Yankees versus Cincinnati Twins. If Cincinnati, oh sorry, Cincinnati Reds. If Cincinnati wins, it'll go to random number block six, which will be Tracy. 11 times, five out of six. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Nine, 10, 11. Goes to the Reds, there you go. So that's going to be random number block and just to show you guys again, six. There you go guys, this was Prime Cuts, pick your team for 24 on Jasper's Case Breaks dot com. Coming up next is Playbook, appreciate it guys.


They have announced the location I can't believe it. Let's just say it's not London. All right I'm off to a quick 5k in the Terra Kiger fives three miles before zipping to the airport I'll get you the update on this sub two-hour marathon attempt by Elliot Kipchogi Where it's gonna be what the course is gonna be like all my with a date that's critical So basically this means I can start looking for plane tickets. Oh my goodness. Like I said, it's not London I cannot believe it. Oh, baby. All right. I will say one thing and I'll update you once I'm at the airport I just want to make sure confirm all these details that I just read on the Twitter. All right. Here we go. Oh my goodness Okay, it's in Europe. It's in Europe. I will say that much. It is in Europe. I would get the Terra Kiger fives on I'm sporting the singlet today because it's gonna be 94 in Denver today. It's finally summer. Oh, I just I love summer I love it and yes sporting the boot still just to make sure as we work through this Sensation this feeling whatever this phantom pain remember two days ago Great discussion from a lot of people in the comments two days ago about phantom pain with bone injuries and and non-bone injuries actually actually So anyway, just trying to be careful. All right. Let's get this you He does it. Oh, man. I one point I glanced down and I was at 740 pace I got a side of the stone it down a little bit. All right. There we go three miles in the books Time to go pack Camera equipment coming out my ears. Oh Macro lens 200 millimeter 400 the drone Audio lights and yes, frankly almost the most important sometimes you get to motel rooms And I mentioned this last week when the in the Leadville marathon recap video You always want to pack extra outlets basically so this is a just a power strip Hopefully you can see that there because in motels you're sometimes desperate to charge so many different things all at the same time So anyway I even pack extra power because that is the worst situation as a cinematographer when you don't have power or battery life All right onward and upward. Let's load it up and hit the road All right, we made it to the airport before I hop on the plane I want to give you the update for the sub to our Marathon location. That's right with Elliot Kipchogi the ineos 159 challenge. It's called just saw here on Twitter Absolutely crazy. Okay, so they chose this location because there's a 4.3 kilometer straight I guess paved road which creates a 9.6 kilometer circuit It's not the course is 90 percent straight in Vienna Austria Vienna. Oh man. Am I going to Vienna? I can't believe it. I thought they were going to do London. This is crazy Vienna Austria So anyone in Austria want to hang out in October? And yes, the date is October 12th All right, I gotta go catch a plane come on on the truckie truckie California salt takes Found some tacos and truckie. That's right. I just got into town and there's no life This is a very nice nice Mountain town. I was expecting a little bit more of like a way. I was looking for a Wendy's basically to eat at But I found a nice street taco vendor.  This is a bonus. All right This is a bonus. Okay, obviously not in the studio I don't have the fancy lights to light up the light up the area So instead I'm using the vending machine as the ambient light and yes made it to truckie, California Which is about just so you know It's about 30 minutes away from Squaw Valley Which is where the start of the race is tomorrow morning if you're watching this on Friday the start of the western states 100 is tomorrow morning 5 a.m. Pacific time. Okay, and here's the schedule Today if you're watching this on Friday, I'm gonna be in Squaw Valley Scoping out the starting area hiking up the hill a little bit just to see the surroundings once again As you probably already know I've never been here before so I need to kind of figure out how I'm gonna Film this start because it is insanity. It's like there's a there's about as far as I know Three to four hundred runners, which is a lot But actually it's the spectators that I'm gonna have to figure out the the right Positioning to get the shots that I want for all of you So that'll be happening if you're watching this on Friday happening today in Squaw Valley If you see the green hat shout out say hello. I yeah, I do YouTube videos So I was using this light to film. Okay Sure, I just closed it for the for the noise. Yeah, are you sure? Okay? I'll be done in just a minute. Oh Yeah, I will okay And I'm back, okay, that was the motel midnight manager She just wondering what the heck I was doing but she was cool with it Okay, so basically that is what I'm doing today in Squaw Valley and then waking up probably about 3 a.m. Probably even actually about 2 45 in order to get to the starting line in time You know find a parking spot get my position so that we can get these shots for you tomorrow morning Saturday It's gonna be amazing and I think that is all I wanted to mention I lost my train of thought hold on one second. All right, so instead of the normal one word for the keyword We're gonna put four together. That's right. See you in Squaw It's kind of how people communicate on Twitter on Facebook Use the hashtag see you in Squaw and then you'll see a bunch of people Discussing the race and the question of the day.  I don't even know how it's gonna happen, but it's gonna happen. All right I might have to find a Starbucks somewhere in order to upload at like two or three in the morning But we will get it done for all right


This paper proposes a new hardware algorithm for an integer-based discrete cosine transform, INT-DCT. It is designed to enable efficient VLSI implementation of the discrete cosine transform using the systolic array architectural paradigm. The proposed algorithm has several advantages over existing algorithms, including efficient hardware implementation and sufficient precision in approximating irrational transform coefficients for practical applications. Additionally, it can be restructured into five regular and modular computational structures of lengths of four and one of length two, known as pseudocycles. This allows for efficient VLSI implementation using systolic arrays. Furthermore, the proposed VLSI architecture includes a tag control mechanism that enables the integration of an obfuscation technique that significantly improves hardware security with minimal overheads. This article was authored by Daru Florenchipper and Arkady Kraken.


I can hear you. All right, this is the room. This is the room. Can everyone see the room? Yeah, right now we see the screen slides, the opening slide. Okay, Andrew, stop sharing for me. Can you guys see the room now? No, now we see the name cards of the panelists and participants. All right, that's what I'm calling up to. I'm going to start over. I've been talking. No one can hear me. Sorry about that. Hopefully you can hear me now. I am Karen Fox with NASA's Office of Communications and you are here for NASA Science Town Hall with Vicky Fox, the associate administrator for science at NASA headquarters in Washington and other members of the leadership team. We will be holding this town hall very similarly to the way we did the last one, which is instead of leading with a set of highlights, we are going to really try to leave as much time as possible for questions. And then we will really use this as a tool for understanding what the community wants to hear and needs to know about. As such, I will sometimes aggregate questions. I'm not necessarily going to read each one verbatim, but we are able to look and say, oh, everybody's asking about blank, and we will pull that together and then answer those questions in that way. I'm about to pass off to Nikki, but before that, let me just quickly tell you who we will have both online and in the room to answer questions and give some of those highlights at the very end. So in addition to Nikki Fox, we have Sandra Cotley, who is the deputy associate administrator for the science mission director. We have Wanda Peters next to her over there, deputy associate administrator for research. Julie Robinson is here, deputy director for earth science division. She'll be joining us virtually, not in the room. Lori Glades, director for the planetary science division. Peg Luce, acting director for the heliophysics division. We have Mark Clampett, director for the astrophysics division. Devon Griffin, acting deputy director for the biological and physical sciences. John Gugosian, the director of the joint agency satellite division. Jeff Grammling, the program manager from our sample return, and Brad Bailey, the assistant deputy associate administrator for exploration. That's a long list, but everybody is ready to answer your questions. With that, I'm going to Nikki Fox for a few opening remarks before we start taking questions. All right, thank you, Karen. So thank you to everybody for joining us today. Our town hall, as Karen said, right before we all lost audio, is gonna be very similar to the one that we held in July. So we're gonna focus on responding to your questions that are submitted instead of just walking through a ton of slides. So our goal is to answer as many questions as we can and save a few minutes at the end for our science division directors to share a few recent and upcoming highlights. The past few months have continued to be very exciting for NASA science, from a new decadal for biological and physical sciences to a jam-packed asteroid autumn to a celestial event that touched millions, we're as busy as ever. But I am not going to steal the division director's thunder. I'm gonna let them tell you all about those highlights at the end. One highlight I would like to personally share is the public release of SMD's idea annual report. This is the second year we formally documented our efforts striving towards NASA's core value of inclusion. And in it, you will find significant work accomplished across every organization within SMD. So we're very proud of this report. And my heartfelt thanks go to all of you for your commitment to creating an inclusive work environment and ensuring our missions, programs and research are conducted in alignment with our values. Fostering diversity is essential to producing excellent science and ensuring inclusion is paramount to our pursuit of exploration and discovery. As we look ahead, SMD remains committed to our idea values. We'll continue to strive to be an environment where all SMD team members are valued for their diversity of thought, unique backgrounds and whole selves. We'll also continue to ensure idea principles and practices are embedded across the whole of our portfolio. And as we know, this kind of change requires time but I'm extremely encouraged by the commitment across our organization and what is to come. The 2022 report is still available online and the 2023 report will soon be available online on NASA science. And I'm going to ask somebody to drop that link into the WebEx chat so everybody can see it rather than me reading it, reading it out. I just wanted to touch on the budget and of course the avoided shutdown as noted in July. We will be as open and transparent about our successes as well as our challenges. And we have navigated and continue to navigate some challenges. As you know, we're only part way through the annual FY24 appropriations process and we anticipate further budget uncertainty with recent events in Congress. This uncertainty makes it difficult to know where we'll land in many areas but nevertheless, our assumption is that SMD funding likely will be highly constrained in the next couple of years. And so we are continuing to carefully prioritize. The decadal surveys are critical to our critical guiding resource but at NASA we also must consider additional input from across the government that guides our priorities and decision-making. Impacts sometimes have included delaying announcements of opportunity to help prioritize missions that are already in development. We always strive to protect our RNA programs. We want to minimize disruptions to our international partnerships. And of course we want to try and continue to support our cross-cutting and enormously important activities in the early career space, our STEM engagement, our idea, and many other things. I do want to thank our headquarters and particularly our SMD team for their efforts to prepare SMD and our projects for the possible shutdown at the end of September. I can tell you we were very well prepared which certainly positions us to be ready for any future potential laps in funding. But despite this uncertainty, NASA science continues to deliver and it is still time to make your voices heard and to share your stories about why support for science is critical. Sciences interdisciplinary and cross-cutting and speaking with one voice about the critical importance of what you do can certainly help us build a compelling narrative. So for today's Q&A, even if we don't yet have all the answers and there are many questions for which it may be too early to provide an answer, we will attempt to share our progress so far and our thinking behind the actions that we're taking. And so with that, I will hand back to Karen so we can jump right into those questions and answers. Thanks, Karen. Great, fantastic. Before I go to the questions, I skipped one of our panelists. I'm so sorry. I want to point out that Michael New, the Deputy Associate Administrator of Research is also with us today to answer questions as needed. All right, going to the first question. What is the plan for standing of the Veritas mission and does activity directed toward a 2029 launch date? And I'll pass that to Lori Glaze. Thank you, Karen. This is a great question. I get it pretty regularly and so I'm always happy to answer it again. We are right now, of course, going through the current budget planning cycle for the fiscal year 2025 and beyond. And as we've been stating for the past year that that is the process that we're going through to try and identify the funding that would be needed to lay in the restart plans for Veritas for 25 and beyond. So we are requesting a budget profile for Veritas that targets a launch no earlier than 2031. That is still consistent with the decision that was made a year ago. And also still consistent again with the current situation that we're in now with the planning, the budget planning. And I'll just add that, as Nikki mentioned, right now, we are still working around some incredible amount of uncertainty around our 2024 budget. And so this answer still stands. Thank you. I think I'm still on there. Great, thank you so much. The next two questions are about Mars sample return and we're gonna lump a bunch of Mars sample return questions into one. The first question is, what actions will SMD take to guarantee that Mars sample return does not, I assume, negatively impact the rest of the portfolio and decadal priorities? And then there are a number of questions about the Independent Review Board. So we're combining that into what is NASA's response to the recent Independent Review Board report on Mars sample return. And there were a lot of specific questions pointing to concerns about, you know, discussing technology readiness, et cetera. So we are going to pass that first question over to Lori Glaze. The first one is the portfolio. Is the portfolio. And then Sandra Connelly is going to step in for us on the IRB. Got it, sounds good. So yeah, let's talk about Mars sample return in the context of actually the whole SMD portfolio but in your planetary in particular. From my perspective as the planetary director, you know, our job here is to make sure that the planetary budget does remain balanced and we all take that job very, very seriously. We want to make sure that our research budget is protected and that the NASA missions that are in development right now that we have costs and schedule commitments for that those have the best opportunity for success just as Nikki mentioned earlier as we look to prioritize budget in constrained times. I wanted to point out that, you know, the planetary decadal did lay out a plan to prioritize Mars sample return to get it completed as soon as possible. But I just want to remind folks that that's not the only reason we're doing Mars sample return. It's not just because the decadal said so. The decadal said so because of the incredible importance and the kind of paradigm shifting impact of bringing the samples back from Mars will have. We've been planning for the last at least 20, 30 years. All of the missions that we've been sending to Mars over that time period have laid the groundwork for preparing us to identify the correct, the best place to go to pick up samples and to identify the samples that can best provide the ground truth for interpretation of all of those data that have been collected over the last 30 years. So I think it's incredibly important priority. That's why the decadal put such a high emphasis on this mission. We've been leading towards this for a very long time and it is highly important. The decadal did provide us with some guidance that said, please don't let the budget in any given year, any given program year let it exceed 35% of the planetary budget. I've been saying for quite a while that I think that's actually very prudent guidance from the decadal survey and I appreciate that. I work very closely with Jeff Gramling who is managing the Mars sample return program to really take that to heart and understand how we can best implement Mars sample return within that kind of guidance. So right now in the wake of the recent Independent Review Board report, we are in the process of evaluating the best design and timeline from our sample return and I'm gonna let Sandra address the IRB responses to get a little bit more, a fuller answer on that part. Thanks. Great and Nicky wanted to weigh in on the IRB as well so I'm gonna toss her first and then we'll go to Sandra. Thanks Karen, yeah. I mean the IRB's findings and recommendations are really critical to us and we really do thank the IRB for the incredible work that they did. You can definitely see they're broader than just the Mars sample return program and so we have charted, SMD has charted a response team that we asked Sandra Connolly who's my deputy to lead because we really did want it to have that level of oversight. So this team and it does have some sub teams as well will develop the responses to the IRB's findings and the recommendations and establish the program that we will then propose to proceed forward. As part of that team, there's a technical team being led by the Mars sample return program offices, Chief Engineer Steve Thibault who would delight it has joined us to help with this and they're looking at the technical and the architectural findings and the recommendations to really look at what architecture should be pursued and this is of course in conjunction really working very, very closely with our ESA partners and I know Sandra is really pushing the team hard and they are hoping to get their work complete in March and we really do feel we wanna take that kind of time, the timeframe that we really need to do a thoughtful and an effective assessment and I am extremely confident that with this level of planning, it will lead to a realistic timeline and budget and of course it will also lay out plans for ways to test and establish confidences in all of the components of the mission. Sandra, please add on. Yes, thank you, Nikki and Lori and totally agree. We are doing this work and we're doing it within the context of a balance portfolio as well moving forward because that's equally important. This is a hugely important mission to us. There's been a tremendous amount of work. We wanna recognize that work that the team has done and so we're gonna build upon that and look at alternatives moving forward. We really appreciate. Listen, are you not hearing me? I had it on. All right, did you hear me? Could you hear me? You're good, Sandra. Okay, thank you. All right, so anyway, I do appreciate all the work that's been done by the team, thus far by the IRB and our SRBs as well. We had a kickoff meeting so I have established a team and we have a number of sub teams. As Nikki mentioned, Steve Tebow is leading the architecture aspect of that, the technical team, but we have a number of teams supporting us. They're staffed with very experienced people. We, most of the teams actually have independence from the existing program. The technical team obviously has a dependence because it's important to understand what's been done to date and how to move forward as is the program office, but there are other sub teams are comprised of members that are independent of the existing program. So we're very much looking forward to having these results in the March timeframe so that we can inform our budget and decision-making moving forward. So thank you. Great, thank you. One more planetary question has been voted up and then we will be able to give Lori Glaze a break. This is about New Horizons and there are a couple of questions that we're sort of lumping together here in general, which is quite simply, what is the future for New Horizons and the decisions being made currently about taking it forward? So passenger Lori Glaze to update us on the mission. Yeah, let's talk about New Horizons for a second and just to remind folks, we did do a senior review for New Horizons and the results of that senior review when that was completed was the SMD decision that Planetary would fund New Horizons for the FY23 and 24. And then because the senior review had indicated such strong science within heliophysics, the mission was invited to submit a proposal through the heliocenure review process. The project did not do that as the question noted, but we still know that the senior review indicated that the spacecraft was still capable providing really unique observations from that unique position in the solar system out in the Kuiper Belt. And so we wanted to make sure that we still had the way to be able to use the spacecraft to make those unique observations, particularly heliophysics and also to position the spacecraft so that if another Kuiper Belt object is identified that could be flown by, that we still had the spacecraft in an operating condition that we could do that. So that was the primary motivation behind trying to keep the mission going. The intent always was to try and keep the mission going in some form. So that is what we're trying to implement at this point. The funding that will go forward is coming from Planetary Science Division. We're gonna do everything we can to keep that as limited to the New Frontiers program as possible, but it's not necessarily true that it will all come out of New Frontiers because there is certainly a lot of budget pressures at the moment. So we will work to find the funding that has not previously been identified in the funding horizon going forward. I think that mostly answers that question. Thanks. Thank you so much, Laurie. Our next question is going to go to Michael New. The question is, could you speak to the inclusion plans required in our proposals? Do you have any reaction to the inclusion plans that you've reviewed thus far? Do you have any guidance or comments for those of us writing inclusion plans? Yes, thanks. It's a great question. As I hope everybody knows, inclusion plans, the use of inclusion plans in proposals rather is a pilot study. This is really only the first year we only have one year of data on it. It's a relatively small number of programs involved. What we've seen is what you might expect from the first or second time you do something. Some inclusion plans are phenomenal and some are not. And that's on us as much as on anybody else because we're new with this. Everybody's new with this. We do have a website up for help on this. I think it's on the Sauer website, S-A-R-A. I'll put the link in the chat in a minute. And we will be updating it, especially soon because we have some information. In terms of guidance or suggestions, the kinds of things we've seen that have not worked very well kind of fall into three big categories. The first is people using very, very flowery and generic abstract language as opposed to actually talking about actionable things they're gonna do. The second and not surprisingly is people reformatting broader impacts sections from NSF, related NSF proposals and the goals of the broader impacts assessment is very different from what we're trying to do. So I wouldn't recommend doing that. The third thing has been not picking really actionable and measurable outcomes. Saying we're gonna do X, Y, or Z is great, but if you can't measure X, Y, or Z, then it's not helpful. So those are the three big guides I can give you right now. Check the website, we will be updating it. There will be some town halls on this. I believe one is scheduled for the AGU meeting and one is scheduled for the AAAS meeting. So yeah, stay tuned. Thanks for the questions. Great, and Michael just keep on because two more questions have come in that are really, really for you. The two next questions. The first is many announcements of opportunity have moved their planned dates. When is an update expected to the planning list for our Science Mission Directorate solicitations? Yeah, I've been getting a lot of email directly to me about that too. Given the tremendous uncertainty in the FY24 and FY25 budgets, I can't really update the planning list right now. Things are very much in flux and I can keep putting out updates that are just guesses really at this point. So I'll update that list once we actually have some sense of where the budget's gonna be 24 to 25, sorry. And one more. Is SMD concerned about proposal calls with success rates dipping below 20%? Yeah, yeah, I saw that question. I'm not sure which program in particular you're talking about. 16% is pretty low by SMD standards. There's lots of reasons though why I could have a low success rate. The best reason is if we've got so many great proposals that no budget we have at all could possibly support them all. On the other hand, there are some situations that are concerning that would require us to look into it. One, for example, would be if there was more than enough money but not enough proposals deemed meritorious. There's lots and lots of reasons why that could be but that would be something we would look into. In the absence of knowing what program you're talking about specifically, I can't really tell you much more than that. Across the directorate, the success rate is about 28%, I believe, well, last year for roses 22, which is good, not phenomenal, not the 30 some odd percent it was when I started 21 years ago, but still pretty good. Thank you so much, Michael. Moving on to a few heliophysics questions we seem to be clumped together the way everyone's voting things up. So the first one, which I'm going to pass to Peg Luce, is are there actions, concerns to increase the heliophysics research budget? Sorry, I'm finding the, I got lost in this. So the premise of the question, I believe, was that the heliophysics research budget has not kept up with inflation. And I wanted to assure everyone that it has doubled in the last decade. So the Decadal Survey that was released in 2013 placed the highest emphasis on the RNA program, the research program for heliophysics. And we responded accordingly, our stakeholders responded accordingly. So it had been a pretty steady 65 million a year and the research elements in our program now are $130 million a year in FY 23. So this reflects the high priority that SMD places on research and our efforts to balance our investments in research with other parts of the portfolio, such as technology investments in new spaceflight missions which bring in new data for our researchers to use as well. All right, thank you very much. The next one has a helio element to it as well. So what is the status of the Lunar Gateway Mission and specifically the Hermes package of science instruments? Will there also be a launch opportunity for backup instruments, such as the Space Weather Pipeline program? So give it to you, Peg and then Brad Bailey if you wish to weigh in, you're welcome to as well. Okay, so from the heliophysics and Hermes perspective, all four science instruments and other payload flight hardware that the electronics box for Hermes will complete final testing and go into storage by the end of 2023. We expect the flight hardware for the robotic interface that will attach the Hermes payload to Gateway 2 be delivered no earlier than late 2024. So that's why we're going into a storage period. When received, Hermes will go through a final integration and test campaign to be ready to ship to the Cape for final preparations for launch. We're currently planning for Gateway launch right in the state of October of 25. So, and if that changes, we will adjust accordingly, but we will be in a storage period starting at the end of this calendar year. I don't know if Brad wants to add anything to that. Sure, just a quick few notes about the status of Gateway itself. Right now, the power propulsion element PPE as well as Halo, the habitation and logistics outpost is expected to launch in a Falcon heavy and that will be no earlier than 2025. I believe that they are going to take approximately one year to transit out to the near recto-lineo Halo orbit around the moon. And so we're really looking forward to having heliophysics instruments and we're working closely with other divisions within SMD, such as BPS and others who are, others across the agency in the human research project in order to make sure that we have science well represented from that platform. Great, thank you both. Next question back over to planetary. When is Uranus Orbiter and probe planned to enter phase A and is any consideration being given to SLS as a launch option? Great, thank you, Karen. Yeah, let's talk Uranus Orbiter and probe for a moment. The UOP Uranus Orbiter and probe mission was identified as the highest priority flagship mission after Mars sample return to be implemented by planetary science in our most recent decadal survey. I just want to make sure folks understand that there's actually many internal and external steps that need to be completed before a phase A can actually begin. Right now there is not a timetable for when those steps will be complete. We are in the interim supporting a sequence of workshops to discuss the science content of the potential Uranus flagship mission in the future and the output of those workshops will feed into the formulation studies for the mission. If folks look at the fiscal year 24 budget request that came from the president, you'll see that there was some funding there starting in FY 25. But our ability to begin the work on this project is contingent on an FY 25 appropriation from Congress and we're working through the project process right now. And as you've heard, we are expecting some pretty tight constraints on the budget over the next two years or so. And to be frank, one of the few knobs we have to adjust to that tightening budget is to delay new missions such as the new flagship like Uranus Orbiter and Probe. So right now in the anticipated type budgets, we are not anticipating initiating Uranus Orbiter Probe over the next couple of years. Regarding the question about launch vehicle, again, that decision is pretty far off into the future at this point. And at the time that we are ready to consider launch vehicle, NASA as always will consider all options that are appropriate for the mission. Once again, Laurie, is Dragonfly being considered for cancellation since it has grown to a three billion lifecycle cost? Thank you for the question. I'll just make a note that in the question that's posted in the IO tool, it mentions it does quote the $850 million cost cap that was in the announcement of opportunity. Everyone needs to remember that the $850 million was only for the development. It did not include phase E costs, none of the operational costs, nor did it include launch vehicle and some of the other additional things that we hold at headquarters, including extra reserves that would be required. In addition to that, I'll point out that because of some type budgets that we've had over the last couple of years, we've already shifted Dragonfly out to the right a couple of times. And so I don't blame the project for that. Every time you shift a mission to the right, there's gonna be cost growth associated with that and we have to take ownership of that cost growth. So just to kind of put the current estimate for costs for Dragonfly into context, yes, they have gone up since the proposal, but there is a lot of reason for that. And we are going through the process right now. The project has gone through their preliminary design review. They successfully passed that. The technical aspects of that preliminary design review are in a really good shape with a design that is feasible and executable. We're now in the process of going through the confirmation process, which is where NASA decides, yes or no, the project will go forward. And if it does go forward, we make a commitment, an official commitment to the cost and schedule for that mission. So right now we're in the middle of that process, so I don't have an answer of where we're gonna end up on the other side. Thank you so much. All right, next question. I'm gonna toss this one to Nicky. Why did the JPL director tell Science Magazine that the European Space Agency had scrapped its plan to build a fetch rover given the reality that JPL could not deliver the fetch rover to Mars? The Mars map became too big and heavy. Didn't want to read every one of those. Yeah, I'm glad you brought them up because I think there's a number of questions that we have in the tool right now that are pretty disrespectful. And we allow anonymous questions because we want people to feel they can ask anything, but you're better than that as a community, you're better than that. And I would like to us to think about keeping up professionalism and just being respectful with those questions. And I was a little disappointed, not gonna lie when I saw some of the questions that were in there. So I hope we'll see much more professional questions at the next town hall. But to this question in particular, I'm afraid you will have to address that question to Laurie Leshen. She is the one who made the quote and I'm sure that she will be happy to explain why she made that quote. So thanks, Karen. All right, the next one, most likely to you as well, Nikki, in the event of a prolonged continuing resolution, will all new solicitations be put on hold even for active programs? For example, with an ESTO. So I don't know if that is you or if Michael New wants to weigh in too, but I'll toss it to you first, Nikki. Yeah, I'm happy for Michael to jump in as well. I mean, obviously, if there's a shutdown, it's gonna have really devastating consequences for NASA, for families all across the country and really for America's kind of global competitiveness. So, you know, we're really concerned about that. We are deciding, of course, what actions are needed in the event of a government shutdown, including which events need to be accepted and activities as such as solicitations are likely not going to be accepted.  So in the event of a shutdown, yeah, we will be worried about many things moving forward. But Michael, if you'd like to add to that, please go ahead. Yeah, thanks, Nikki. So in the past, when we've had government furloughs, shutdowns, lapses in appropriations, we have generally slid the due dates of any program that was due during that period of time, slid it later by day for day. So if the government was without funding for five business days, then we would shift the due date five business days. If it was out for two weeks, which is 10 business days, we'd shift it 10 business days. We have also tried to not then move due dates into holiday periods. So if due date was going to fall on Thanksgiving, when you slid it, we would have jumped over Thanksgiving and then moved it beyond that. So generally, yeah, that's been our approach. And I don't see why we would be changing that. I can't speak to missions in process, obviously. Solicitations that were already proposed or received, of course, if the civil servants can't oversee the review panels, which they have to, then we'll put a pause there too. It's just how we'd have to roll. Yeah, now I'm gonna jump in because I'm afraid I misread the question. So I apologize, because it actually asks about a CR, not about the shutdown. So I do apologize for that. If in a CR, we will continue to release AOs, we will continue to make research selections, pending the amount of funding that we have available as is true all the time. But if we're in a continuing resolution, we would indeed continue to put out those AOs and make selections. So thanks, sorry about that, Karen. No problem. All right, our next question, they keep moving on us, is can we get any transparency on the decisions behind which research calls get cut because of R&D budget cuts? For example, the H-SR was moved from roses 22 to roses 23, but no more expected selections were listed in 23. So passing that one to Peg Lips. Yes, thank you. So first of all, when we do make adjustments in the roses schedules, we really are attempting to minimize impacts on the heliophysics community. So we do try, very hard to do that. The decision not to solicit proposals for H-SR or heliophysics supporting research in roses 22 was driven by a number of factors. First was actually giving proposers more time to adapt to the introduction of dual anonymous peer review for that program. Secondly, shifting the timeline of the selections from very late in the fiscal year to earlier in the following fiscal year was a consideration. And we were adjusting to a temporary fluctuation in funding. As a result, the H-SR 22 moved to 23, but the actual delay in the opportunity was less than six months. Great, thank you so much. We are gonna keep answering questions for another five or six minutes. I want to make sure we get to biological and physical sciences questions because there are a number of them in here and they're obviously important to people. So I'm gonna jump to that. The questions are basically, how are we responding to the decadal and how are we going to align with other aspects of NASA's work, et cetera. So I'm gonna pass to Devon Griffin and ask you to respond. Okay, thank you. Well, we received the decadal about a month ago back on September 12th and we're reviewing the recommendations. We're actually going to have drafts for our director to review starting tomorrow. And as part of that, we did see the recommendations that we worked closely with other parts of NASA, with other government agencies and internationally. And so we're going to work with those colleagues, particularly across NASA, the international partners and commercial space companies to identify the opportunities for collaboration so that we can increase the pace of our science and we can increase the return on our science as well. What we do plan on doing is we're gonna have a town hall to share an initial response in January 24 and I hope that you'll all be able to tune in then. Thank you so much. I'm also gonna pass back to Peg Lewis who was not finished answering the question that was asked before about the Space Weather Pipeline. That's sort of a two-parter. So on the Space Weather Pipeline, these are instruments that were selected at the same time as we selected the Hermes instruments, but they are instruments that are being developed up to a point in order to be available to fly on readily available opportunities when they come. I'm sure the people who asked the question know that we recently closed an RFI to assess commercial interest in an opportunities for in-space hosting of science instruments for space weather and other NASA disciplines. So we actually broadened that from just space weather to all of SMD. SMD has not yet completed the analysis of the responses to this RFI, but this analysis will inform potential solicitations for hosting opportunities of the current space weather pipeline instruments as well as potentially other SMD instruments. But that still has to play out and right now we don't have specific plans for hosting those yet. But the whole idea is to be ready when the right opportunity comes along. Thank you, Peg. Next question, what is the rationale for moving many science mission directorate science missions to infrastructure missions? The operation mode of scientists on mission instrument or slash instrument teams working on both data pipeline and calibration and related science subjects has been working for the past seven decades. In my opinion, forcibly separating science from instruments slash operation teams would be counterproductive. That's one's for Peg Lusso. This refers to a decision that was actually made in 2020 for heliophysics operating missions to identify an infrastructure category which was for missions that had been in operation for quite a long time, had where we wanted to continue receiving the data, calibrating it, doing all that was needed to archive the data from long-term missions, but we didn't want to require those missions to reinvent themselves every three years for another senior review. So we had a number of missions that fell into that category after this senior review. In other words, they would continue being funded. We did not cut funding associated with this, but the title infrastructure has offended some people and it indicates that we don't value these missions. We received that feedback and are looking for ways to incorporate that feedback and respond. Thank you. Another question. Should we expect more researchers to leave the field as we are graduating more people but not seeing a similar growth in the R&A budget? I'm gonna pass that one to Michael New. Thanks. We're losing people now for lots and lots of reasons, not just because we don't have, not just because our research program dollars have not been growing at the same rate as the community. And just because the community grows doesn't necessarily mean our research dollars have to grow as well. NASA is about doing relevant research to our other missions, our missions at large, not missions like in Solar Pro Plus or something, but our goals, our objectives. NSF's goal different is to support the science in general, the best science in general and build the next generation of scientists. So our objectives are different, which means our responses to proposal pressures also have to be different. We lose people like I said now for not just funding reasons, but for all kinds of things, reasons of bullying and harassment and work-life balance. We're trying to do the best we can on all these, but it is not NASA's only responsibility. Sorry, it's not only NASA's responsibility to deal with this, I'm done. Thank you so much. I am simply trying to figure out if we can fit in one more question before we are going to switch to our highlights. Again, I wanna go back to the BPS Decadal. That's obviously an important milestone that just happened for them and their division. So I will finish up with one question on that, which is that the Decadal survey did recommend 10 times increase to the division's budget and looking to figure out what we would expect to be to SMD if we really saw a giant growth there and how is NASA planning to implement a budget that requires such a large increase to meet the recommendations of the Decadal? So a nice easy one for us to end on it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, thank you. And we did note that budget increase recommendation in the Decadal and the reason they recommended it was because they said we really couldn't drive the questions to closure that they asked us to if we didn't have a budget increase. And the reason they said that, if you look historically at what we were funded with adjusting for inflation back before the Vision for Space Exploration, we had a community that was on the order of the size and funding on the order of the size of what the Decadal recommended. And so I don't think we have a problem in envisioning how we could get back to those levels and the science content, given both the history of people within our program and the recommendation of the Decadal. That having been said, we also have to live within budgetary realities and what the Congress appropriates is what we will work with and we will do the very best that we can to get the maximum return on that on the investment of the American people. I will say that one thing that we are keeping in mind is the fact that due to that long period of constrained funding, we made the decision to try and make high use of ISS. And that precluded some growth in the number and the amount of the research awards that we had because we needed to build hardware. We don't envision being in that straight in the future and we really do want to focus on making sure that our grants are competitive and that they really do support the community to the best extent possible. Great, thank you. And I lied, I'm gonna throw out a couple of last little questions here because we really didn't hit on astrophysics or earth science too much today with the way the questions are voted up. So Mark Clampin, throwing one to you. Hopefully a nice easy one. When is the next astrophysics SMECS call? So the next astrophysics SMECS call is scheduled for 2025 and I just advise people to continue to monitor our webpages for any updates. Thank you so much. And an earth question for Julie Robinson. Are there any actions to increase the earth science research budget which is not increased in inflation dollars for the last decade in spite of urgent need for understanding and predicting the impacts of climate change? Julie? Yeah, thanks for that question. You know, we do actually our overall budget does roughly track inflation and that only and we do try to grow our RNA budget consistent with that overall budget growth while maintaining the right split across the different kinds of research we have. Both our classic earth system science and our collaborative and cross cutting elements that are typically multidisciplinary and also our applied science or now we're calling them earth action elements. We also tie new opportunities to new missions. So even though our disciplinary research calls are relatively stable in funding, we have a lot of new opportunities that have come along for things like soil moisture, sickness, Jedi and eco stress. An Emit call will be coming out for the first time for that multispectral data. So that's the approach that we're using to increase the opportunity for research. Thank you so much. Nikki, do you want to tee off the final round of the specific question or should we just go into it? I just, I'm going to throw it to the division directors. So since we didn't hear much from Mark, he can go first with the astro highlight. I will just start as always these days by talking about the great science web is doing and I'll just highlight one result, the new spectrum of an exoplanet named K218B where we see both methane and carbon dioxide. But tantalizingly, we also see a very tentative detection of dimethyl sulfide, which on earth is produced by life. So we're now eagerly awaiting further observations by JWST later this year to either confirm that observation or provide more data on the observation. I'll also just give a highlight very quickly to two of our recent launches. We launched Chrism in September. This is a high resolution X-ray spectrometer with a NASA instrument. It's a partnership with JAXA. And we also launched Euclid in July, which is a wide field survey experiment. And we're just coming to the end of science commissioning there and expect to start doing science early in 2024. That's great. Thank you, Mark. Devon, BPS. He wasn't expecting that. No, you're right. So I think probably the biggest science highlight recently is one of our investigators just published a paper that looked at differences in gene transcription in something that seemingly pretty simple, which is a radish that was grown on earth as opposed to radish grown on the ground. But that's really, if you look at the decadal recommendations that we have coming out. So we did this in advance of the decadal. But if you look at the recommendations, they really want us to look at what genes are getting turned on and off as a function of being able to tweak that gravity variable because that can have implications beyond just what we need to do to enable exploration, just what we need to do to provide food. But really, we may be able to get insights into making life better here on earth. And so that really was pretty interesting. It looks like it was a responsive stress, but they're going to need to understand that a little bit better. But that was a significant recent finding that we had. And so I will thank you for the opportunity. Thanks, thanks, Devon. Laurie, you've had nothing going on in Planetary. Try not to use all the remaining time. So we talked a little bit during the time here about some of the challenges we have, but it's just so important to remember, we have some incredible things going on within SMD and within Planetary this fall. We're in the midst of asteroid autumn. It's just been spectacular success after success. We landed the OSIRIS-REx samples in Utah on September 24th, two days later on the 26th, we celebrated the one year anniversary of DART, our amazing Planetary Defense Mission, demonstrated the first time ever the kinetic impactor technique that gives us the tool to protect ourselves from dangerous asteroids in the future. We then just last week was really action packed where we started to talk a little bit about the first look of those samples that were returned by OSIRIS-REx with incredible, just the first analyses of the sample that we've looked at so far, showing almost 5% by massive carbon in those samples and minerals that took to be altered by hydrothermal processes. So just incredible results already just with the very small part of the sample that we've looked at so far. And then on Friday, of course, we launched Psyche, going to visit the metal asteroid Psyche. That mission already going very well there, of course, in their early checkout, but everything going very well. And then coming up, we're gonna wrap up asteroid autumn on November 1st with the Lucy mission, ultimately headed for the Trojan asteroids out leading and trailing Jupiter and its orbit around the sun. But on November 1st, gonna fly by a main belt asteroid called Dinkinesh that allow us to kind of work through the terminal tracking and other operational activities on the spacecraft. So really exciting time for asteroid science and planetary. And then the last thing I'm just gonna mention real quick, just on Europa Clipper, giving a quick shout out to the Message in a Bottle campaign where you can submit your name to be put on a chip to fly with Europa Clipper out to Europa. And I believe that program is gonna close in December. So you still have a little bit of time to get your name in. Just search Message in a Bottle. Thanks. All right, still time to get those Christmas presents, certificates of your names on Europa. Okay, Peg. Well, we are thrilled to have kicked off the Helio physics big year this past weekend with the 2023 annular eclipse, which crossed North, South and Central America on Saturday, October 14th. I was so fortunate to be in Albuquerque during the balloon fiesta to experience this NASA's live broadcast from Albuquerque, New Mexico and Curveill, Texas, which Curveill is actually gonna experience both that in addition to the annular, they will also experience the total solar eclipse in April. We had, or excuse me, 11 million views of that video by Monday morning. So it was really a way to reach people who don't think much about NASA science necessarily to share what we do in NASA. So that was really exciting. And we're excited to continue celebrating the Helio physics big year with the upcoming launch of the atmospheric wave experiment, or AWW, which will be launching to the space station currently scheduled for November 5th. So coming right up, it's a two year long mission that is designed to help us understand the combination of forces that drive space weather from upper atmosphere and how terrestrial weather also influences space weather. So we've entered the Helio physics big year. We're excited with the big things that will happen, including more mission launches, the total solar eclipse, Parker solar probes, closest approach to the sun, all happening while the sun is approaching solar maximum. So it is a great time to be a Helio physicist. Nicely done. Julie, finish yourself with a... There, I think I've got my pack working here. Well, in our science, we have so much going on where we're really having impact in helping people respond to the changes in the Earth system. And one of those is Tempo, which has been monitoring air pollutants hourly across North American continent. Our first light was August 24th, and seeing that hourly data, seeing the pollution building over cities and how those patterns are going on is amazing. We are working with new observations from both EMET and data from OCO-2 and OCO-3. And we're getting ready and close to releasing the US greenhouse gas center coming up at COP when the UNCCC gets together. And that's a partnership with the EPA and NIST and NOAA. And that's going to be very exciting as it continues to form. This last week, our fire sense team did an airborne campaign in Utah with the US Forest Service flying over a prescribed burn with three different aircraft to really look at how the crown fires work differently, how restoration can happen, both pre-fire, in-fire, and post-fire aspects of that burn to validate different methodologies and the new science that's coming with our fire sense project. And very exciting is we are getting very close within really days to weeks of shipping pace to its launch site in Florida. That will be our plankton aerosol cloud and ocean ecosystem mission, a hyperspectral mission to really help us understand the biology of the ocean, fisheries, and toxic algal blooms. That's anticipated for launch in very early 2024. All right, lots of exciting things going on at NASA Science as always.  Great, we're a little over time. We're gonna take just another minute or two of your time and we know Sandra Connolly had a comment she wanted to add and then we will wrap up. Oh, okay, so we just went through the highlights and that's what I love about this community at large. We're always doing amazing things. Science never sleeps and it's thanks to all the work all of you do. And it requires that we have a safe environment that we have treating each other with respect and professionalism that we're maintaining the proper decorum. So I just kind of wanna double down on what Nikki said earlier. Some of the questions as submitted seemed, okay, in my personal opinion, maybe a little snarky, maybe a little petty, certainly not always presented in a professional way. We welcome the tough questions. These conversations, these town halls are about having the conversation, providing the transparency. And so this is not about avoiding tough questions, but please do so in a respectful way. Thank you. Thank you so much for everyone who participated today and everybody who watched. We will have a recorded version of this up online at science.nasa.gov. There'll be one with really accurate captions going up over the course of the next week. In the meantime, we do have the YouTube video is should be linked there and you can go over this from that perspective as well. So I appreciate everyone for being here and we will talk to you next time.