This is Dave Vellante, and this is Silicon Angles live production of the VTUG Winter Warmer. We're here at Gillette Stadium, home of the New England Patriots. Ken Wee is here, along with Cody Bunch. These gentlemen are with Rackspace. They can geek out deeply if you like. You can tweet me questions if you want. We can talk about industry trends, but gentlemen, welcome to theCUBE. Thanks Dave. So you guys were doing a keynote this morning. I was bopping in and out. They call them keynotes, but they're really not keynotes. They start the day and they separate you out.  I got my morning workout in, but Ken, why don't we start with you? Maybe you can summarize what you guys talked about in the keynote and what the reaction was from the audience. Sure, I think the focus of our keynote is basically to talk with current VMware administrators who are curious about what OpenStack is. They've heard a lot about it. They've heard things about it potentially being an alternative to VMware or a partner to VMware, but they're not sure what it is. So our keynote was really to say, here's what OpenStack is. And if you're a VMware admin, here's what you need to know about OpenStack to make that transition. To either using OpenStack instead or using OpenStack alongside of VMware. So we'll get into some of that, but I mean, there's a perception out there. Certainly there was initially a perception within the community that, oh, here's VMware. They're going to come in and maybe throw a wrench in it and fork OpenStack. And VMware said, no, no, no, no. Here's the NYSERA code and software defined networking, which is kind of a no-brainer for them to do that, to try to get adoption up. Some of the core code, obviously, they're not going to give to OpenStack. So this is sort of an interesting dynamic. In your view, a question is in your view, are practitioners even aware of all the dynamics that are going on there? Is that just like inside baseball and politics that is just noise? Or is that a real concern in the community, the purity of OpenStack? Yeah, so Cody, you talked to our community a lot so you can probably share some of that. You want to take that one? Yeah. I don't want to touch that with a 10-foot pole. It's a mixed answer. Being that my work at Rackspace, I've touched on our partner program and there is a need for enterprise vendors or the non-pure kind of stuff into OpenStack to give it the more robust, the more enterprise grade type features. The flip side of that is, yes, there's some contention that comes in anytime you have a VMware or an EMC or some of the quote-unquote old guard sniffing around an open source project. Well, okay, but do you feel, well, let me ask you, Ken, is OpenStack ready for prime time?  What's the state of OpenStack? I'm sure you get that question a lot. Yeah, a lot. I would say OpenStack is ready for prime time. I would caveat that by saying, if you want something that runs out of the box completely and you don't have to do anything around it, OpenStack's probably not quite there yet. I would argue VMware's not quite there either. Who is there? So one of the things I often talk about with customers is differentiating between what we call OpenStack the project and then the products that are built using the OpenStack project code. So the project itself, it can be a bit raw doesn't necessarily have all the pieces today that you would want in a full deployment. But a lot of vendors like RackSpace we work for but also like Red Hat and even some extent VMware are starting to package things, take that raw project open source code and they are productizing it and wrapping other tools around it to make it more production ready. So that last point, one of the points you made about you'd argue maybe VMware's not ready for out of the box either and I don't want to make this about OpenStack versus VMware. We can maybe talk about that maybe not but my point is we're talking here about building so-called clouds and we can sort of all agree that the paradigm put forth by Amazon web services of cloud and self-service and pay as you go and granular services and automation, all that stuff that we generally think about as cloud is really the objective. I would totally agree that you can't just go buy off the shelf VMware and have that up and running. You can't even do that with Amazon. I mean I know from experience we run our crowd chat platform on Amazon and it took a couple months at least of a lapse time to get ready to go. So okay, so that's cool but there are differences, right? I mean in terms of maturity. I mean VMware's been around a long time. So the idea if I understand it is the community's going to bring those capabilities in. You've got people doing block storage, you've got people doing networking and so forth and so is that pace of contribution picking up? Are you getting that a virtuous cycle effect? Is that in place now or is there a lot longer to go? I don't know what you think of that. I see it, I see more and more contribution coming all the time. If you look through the keynote slides from the last several summits and the number of contributors from various areas and so on and the amount of contributions in terms of lines of code and quality, they've gone up for every OpenStack release so far. And then I look for IceHouse to be rather outstanding in that regard. Okay, so can you give us a little more detail on IceHouse, like what to expect? I mean at a high level. I wish I could. I don't have a great answer for you there, I'm sorry. I think one to keep an eye on. So if you look at where OpenStack was, it was very, and it still isn't just logic-scent developer-driven. Yeah, sure. A lot of momentum in the developer community, right? While also in terms of who is involved in contributing to OpenStack, we're a lot of times individual developers. What you're seeing more and more are kind of established companies who know about operationalizing a data center, like folks like Red Hat, IBM, Rackspace, who are now contributing more and more code. And I think what you're going to see as a result is people saying, hey, for the past 20 years, this is what we learned about how to operationalize in this infrastructure. Let's take that and put that into code and build that into OpenStack. So one of the things you want to look for in IceHouse is a project called TripleO, which is called OpenStack on OpenStack. That's where the TripleO comes from. And it's basically a set of features that allow you to more easily deploy and to manage the platform itself. So those types of contributions, you're seeing more and more from these established vendors who know about operations. Now, Cody, you wrote the cookbook right on OpenStack, the OpenStack Cloud cookbook. I was one of two authors. I sort of forced Kevin into the update, so. So what are the ingredients? Maybe we start there and... So a lot of patience, a little Linux's admin knowledge, and then build from there. Ingredients in what context, though? Like ingredients to make the book, ingredients to make an OpenStack. Yeah, the ingredients to make an OpenStack in the cloud. So OpenStack is a set of loosely coupled projects. And so you pick and choose what you want to deploy in your cloud or so. Or if you're deploying from an established, where Ken draws the line, OpenStack the project versus OpenStack the product. So certain vendors have an opinionated way of deploying OpenStack. You may take Keystone and deploy it in a certain way. You may take Nova and deploy it with a certain hypervisor underneath. VMware's VOVA is actually VMware's opinionated take on OpenStack, which uses ESXi and vSphere under the hood. Whereas the rack space approach uses either Ubuntu or CentOS and KVM under the hood. So I think the key there for me, and having read the book is a great book, by the way, if you want to learn OpenStack. It's the key to me there, it's the focus on automation, the idea. And this is applicable to not just kind of the operators, but the directors and managers. What we're trying to get across with OpenStack and cloud computing is that it's the only way to scale out IT these days is to automate the process. And I think his Cody's book kind of, that's the large part I focused. Let's automate deploying OpenStack and then bring automation into OpenStack itself in the way to deploy applications. So I want to talk about that, but so just a plug for the book. So it's the OpenStack cloud cookbook. Cloud computing cookbook, right? OpenStack cloud computing cookbook. And it's Cody Bunch at all. It's Cody Bunch and Kevin Jackson. Okay, now you talk about automation, Ken. I was in one of the sessions I was in this morning. The question from the practitioner was the vendor community is in here pushing automation, but I'm not sure I want to go there. I was somewhat surprised to hear that in this world of cloud and AWS and OpenStack, hyper scale where these organizations are highly automated, it seems like you can't scale your business without being automated. My question is, are the practitioners ready? Yeah, so my personal take on this, I think sometimes we don't do a good job in the vendor community of selling what automation is about, right? I think sometimes I talk to people and they think automation means you basically want to take away my job, right? And that's not what automation is. The way I think about automation is you're taking a repeated process and simplifying it and making it basically error free. And the reason for that is not because you want to replace jobs because every business says, you know what, I want to bet the farm on X number of projects, right? In the old days before it was automation because I needed, every step had to be done manually. I could only do 10 projects a year. And if four of them generated revenue, I had a great year. If I could automate that process to make it simple and faster, now I can do 50 projects in the same amount of time, using the same amount of resources. And the risk for each one of these little bets is much less. Right. Now if 10 of those projects succeed in making revenue, my percentage of success is lower but my total revenue intake is much greater for the same amount of expenditure. So that message is going to resonate great with certainly with a business audience. And I would think, you know, any CIO forward thinking or not, I would think the CFO would love that message. But it's surprising to me in my sense is it hasn't trickled down to the practitioner level. And maybe we're not doing a good enough job in the cube. Maybe the vendor community, as you said. But there still seems to be that resistance. But I feel like we're almost at this tipping point where it's inevitable because you're not going to be able to scale your business without that level of automation. Is that a fair assertion? That sounds about right. So we were at re-invent. I want to bring Amazon web services into the discussion because they're sort of the mental model now for the cloud that everybody's sort of chasing. And so, and they've been very forceful now in the last year or so with their marketing. We were at re-invent and Jerry Chen had just come back from Hong Kong. And we said, Jerry, give us the summarization of Hong Kong, how would you compare it to AWS? And I thought he had a great line. I wonder if you guys would come and he said, OpenStack, I feel like, is everything to everybody. All things to all people. Whereas Amazon, he said, is trying to be one thing to all people. Do you think that's a fair assertion? And what does that mean to you? That's a good job. I mean, that's the first time I'm hearing that. I'm going to need a second or two to process. Yeah, I mean, it was the first time I had heard it too. And I said, okay, well, all things to all people. That means, well, it's got a big community. Everybody's participating. That's a good thing. That means it's going to be applied, it means a huge TAM, it's going to be applied in a lot of places, it's going to solve a lot of problems, but it also means it's going to take longer to bake this cake. Whereas Amazon is like, okay, here's the nail, boom. So again, AWS is the hammer. I would caution you to say, I don't know of comparing AWS to the OpenStack project. It's the best comparison. Yeah, because it's apples and oranges. I think it's more appable to compare, let's say, AWS to the, for example, the Rackspace public cloud, because that is OpenStack, but it's the productization of the OpenStack project. So as a project, yes, we can be all things to all people, but when you productize, as Cody mentioned, that's a vendor's very opinionated view of what pieces or what elements of that project should be in the product itself. Then, in that sense, we are becoming one thing to all people. That, and I think that's very helpful, because my analysis was somewhat superficial. So now, thinking about the outcomes of the OpenStack products that are being developed, I think the vision is that these will be interoperable. Is that correct? If you follow some kind of cookbook, is that correct? These clouds will actually interoperate. There are several projects underway within the community to establish what that baseline is, to establish what running an OpenStack core is and what core represents. And then to, in order to say that you are running a public OpenStack, you have to meet certain compatibility requirements. So, and that is, because it is a community-driven set of projects, all of that is still being defined as we speak. Right, and I think one thing to keep in mind, too, is even as all these various OpenStack-based products come out, the code itself doesn't change. That's one of the agreements we have within the, all the member foundation is, I'm taking the OpenStack code, I'm not changing that code, unless I'm contributing it back, right? What's different is, a vendor may say, I'm going to use this deployment tool, right? Chef versus puppet. Or they may say, I'm going to use this monitoring tool or this billing tool to enhance what the core project can bring to the table. But at the end of the day, since the underlying code itself is the same, if I'm running a compute on one OpenStack cloud, that same compute resource should be able to run on another OpenStack cloud because the code for that is the same. So portions of the products and the clouds will be interoperable and potentially if the companies adhere very strictly to the definition, it'll be interoperable. Do you feel like that's critical for adoption and uptake and market penetration? That interoperable vision is met or is that not so important? I think it's hugely important. It's, especially when you talk about, like OpenStack as a project and as separate individual products, we need better words for that because it's a little tongue-twisty. And fighting a, not fighting, but living in the same world as an AWS who's already gigantic and has become the de facto standard, interoperability even between the two. So OpenStack has an AWS set of compatibility things. It's going to be essential for survival of either or, right? Because I would agree. Because, I mean, certainly that was VMware strategy for a while when they were trying to push the sort of homogeneity of VMware across private and public into the hybrids. But I think we can agree that strategy didn't work and part of that was it wasn't going to work anyway, but then OpenStack comes along and says, oh, that's a better approach. OpenSource is a much, much better approach. And then you have Amazon, which is, as you say, they're already, I don't know, three, four billion dollars in AWS revenue this year so they become the de facto standard and they move very fast. So, but the enterprise is looking for an alternative. Every market, even Ketchup has alternatives, right? So you need multiple choices. Choices without choice, there's no innovation. So it seems like that interoperability pieces is critical and expands the TAM. I want to ask you guys about the Randy Bias question. He came out and said, OpenStack community should adopt the AWS API. A lot of people said, yeah, that's good. He's off clap. Others said, well, wait a minute. Then it's basically Amazon driving the direction. I presume you guys fall into the latter camp. Is that fair or do you say, hey, let the community decide? There's, well, so being that OpenStack is a community driven project, if the community has enough interest in it, then it will come to be, right? There will be the code contributions to back that up. That's right. There's always going to be value in some level of compatibility between the two. If you don't have a basic set of provisioning APIs that are compatible or so across the two, you won't have the ability to experiment with workloads in the public cloud and migrate them in or vice versa, right? Or it makes the development of tooling that is multi-cloud aware much more complex. Yeah, so that's good. I would suspect then ultimately it's going to happen. My last question is leadership. My partner, John Furrier, said, OpenStack needs leadership.  Is that fair, does there need to emerge a singular leader of OpenStack or are there enough big hefty cooks in the kitchen? Yeah, I don't know, I think we're early, so some of the things that OpenStack Foundation's doing in terms of how they run the project, it's fairly new even for the open source world. So I think with learning, one of the things I always talk about comparing OpenStack with Linux is, you know, one of the differences, Linux was basically running without any vendor involvement for 10 years, right? And then when it started gaining traction, that's when the vendors came in. Obviously, OpenStack's different as the vendors are in almost from the beginning. So we're kind of in some new territory in that sense. I think, I don't necessarily think we need a single leader. I think what we need are leaders who are good at managing collaboration or bringing about collaboration. I think what we need are leaders, on the vendor side we need people who can say, yeah, I'm in it, not only because I want to push my interests in my company, certainly they're free to do that and they should, but that we also want to help drive the adoption of OpenStack, the project. And I think we can do that and we can kind of get around some of these. Well, certainly you guys, you know, basically handing control to the back to the community was a huge move in the early stages. You got some tailwinds, right? I mean, IBM has a great track record in open source. HP, you know, a very open company in general. So there's a lot of real juice behind OpenStacks. We're huge fans, obviously, we were at the OpenStack Summit in Portland. We plan to be at Atlanta if we can get the invite. So if you've got any influence in the community, we'd appreciate that. But gentlemen, thanks very much, Cody and Ken, for coming on theCUBE and good luck with the project and we'll be watching. Okay, thank you very much. Thank you. Right there, everybody, we'll be right back. This is theCUBE. We're at the VTUG Winter Warmer Live from Gillette Stadium, we'll be right back.


Hi and welcome to the session. Let's work out the following question. The question says solve for x a square b square x square plus b Square x minus a square x minus 1 equals to 0 Let's see the solution to this question We have a square b square x square plus b square x minus a square x minus 1 equals to 0 This can be written as b square x into a square x plus 1 minus 1 into a square x plus 1 this we get by the factorization This further implies that b square x minus 1 Into a square x plus 1 is equal to 0 This implies either b square x minus 1 equals to 0 or a square x plus 1 equals to 0 This implies b square x equals to 1 or a square x equals to minus 1 This implies that x is equal to 1 upon b square or x is equal to minus 1 upon a square So our answer to this question is x is equal to minus 1 upon a square or x equals to 1 upon b square This is our answer to this question. I hope that you understood the solution and enjoyed the session. Have a good day


Dear students, in this module we will continue to explore the 7 steps in homology modeling. As you already know that these 7 steps need to be performed one after the other in order for you to perform homology modeling. Just to give you a little bit of background again, homology modeling involves predicting the structure of a protein by looking at the protein structures that are already known. So given that some of the structures are known, you look at the amino acid sequences of these known structures and then use them to predict the structure of a protein whose structure is unknown. So the 7 steps in order are the template recognition and initial alignment. This is followed by alignment correction and then the generation of the backbone followed by the loop modeling and rotamer association. This is also called the side chain modeling. Next is the model optimization and then once all of these steps are done you want to validate the model, the structure that you have computed. So let's take a look at alignment correction in this module. So you have performed multiple sequence alignment between all the proteins and arrived at the proteins which are similar to the sequence that your protein has whose structure you want to determine. Okay so let's start. If you have an alignment with you from blast already then you would want to fine-tune this alignment. What does fine-tuning mean? Fine-tuning means that residues such as alanine which are replaceable by glutamine but such a replacement cannot occur if the alanine amino acid is there in the hydrophobic core. So let's take a look at this cartoon here. So this is the external membrane of the protein. So the surface amino acids are located here and inside is the hydrophobic core as shown here in red. So this hydrophobic core for instance if it has alanine here then it is not possible to be replaced by glutamine. However if this amino acid was not in the core but rather at the surface then such a substitution might have been possible. So such fine-tuning of alignment is necessary for you to evaluate the substitution of amino acid such that they are feasible. So you can use multiple sequence alignment tools such as Clustol W to find residues and properties that need to be conserved. So by looking at the conserved properties you can make sure that amino acids that are giving rise to those properties are conserved and therefore not substituted. And lastly you examine the template structure to check which residues are in the core hence less likely to change than the residues on the surface. Please remember that the protein is a three-dimensional structure and the surface of the protein has those amino acids which evolve and therefore are substituted more frequently as compared to those amino acids which are there in the core of the protein. Next insertions and deletions that is insertion of an amino acid within a sequence so for instance if you have an amino acid sequence like that so you need to have an insertion here in order to bridge this gap or if you have an amino acid that is extra then you can have a deletion here as well. So by deleting it you are connecting the backbone back again. So these two things can only be done in regions of the protein which are highly variable. This is very important to note that insertions and deletions can only be done where variability in the protein sequence and structure is welcomed. So multiple sequence alignment can help you to find these regions. Next step is to shift the gaps such that the gaps are as small as possible. So here if you have a gap as you can see there is a gap here. So these amino acids need to be removed so you cut the protein here and here and therefore you have removed certain amino acids and then you join these two together to give rise to a new protein that is slightly shorter in length. So once you have removed the amino acids that were there that were extra you can see that there is a gap that is here now. So you need to cater for these gaps as well after you have deleted the extra amino acids. So for that you need to optimize how this gap will be placed in the structure. So as I just mentioned that the gap needs to be as small as possible. So here if you look very carefully in this example so the first situation is that the red line here describes the protein structure in such a way that the distance between this residue and this residue is very large. So this distance is large. Now we want to manipulate the structure such that this large distance starting from here till here it becomes small. So how can it become small you simply shift these two residues here and here. So you have just taken two residues from this portion this segment of the structure and shifted them to the other side of the structure. So essentially there is no change in the sequence just that two residues from the right fragment have been shifted to the left structural fragment. So what does it lead to let's see. So now the blue structure is the new one. So as you can see we cut the protein from here the structure and now the distance between the two amino acids is small as compared to the distance that existed before. So this was large and now it is small. So this is how you reduce the distance between the amino acids in the structure and therefore reducing the distance in the gap. So in conclusion the structural prediction now stands at a place where gaps have been minimized and therefore you are ready to move to the next step that is to assemble the backbone.


This paper reviews the current state of research into the neurophysiological determinants of occupational stress and burnout. It discusses the use of EEG analysis, diagnostic pet imaging, cortisol, prolactin, adrenal corticotropic hormone, ACTH, corticotropin-releasing hormone, CRH, and thyroid hormones, as well as plasma BDNF levels, to identify markers for these conditions. Additionally, it explores the potential of artificial intelligence, AI, based big data analysis to provide more accurate diagnoses. The authors conclude that the combination of traditional kinometric tests, neurophysiological tests and AI-based big data analysis can provide new classifiers with high accuracy and new diagnostic methods. This article was authored by Darius Mikolayevsky, Gelantem Asiak, and Emilia Mikolajewska.


Hey guys, it's mini figure Monday. So today we're gonna be taking a look at the Creo transformers micro changers So stay tuned Hey guys, welcome back to coming in TV. We're all geek culture collides if you're new to the channel Don't forget to hit that subscribe button so you don't miss out on future videos Today, we're taking a look at the Creo transformers micro changers build Creon figure or vehicle from Hasbro ages six through twelve Product does not convert fantasy scene All right. So on the back here. We've got no succone thrust nemesis prime ramjet Huffer and kickback and then you got long-haul fuel line shark tick-on Cheetor Beachcomber and C-wing and That's what they all transform into so Let's go ahead and open this guy up and see which one so we got in here as I said earlier It is Mini figure Monday. We are gonna be doing mini figure reviews on Mondays since since we started off with that Lego dimensions Cyborg figure a few weeks back and we got Long-haul so let's go ahead and put this guy together. Shall we I used to be a really big fan of Transformers back in the day when I was a kid As I grew older and they got more and more expensive I kind of got out of it I'd really like to get back into it though But as I said that transformers are just way too expensive for my liking so This guy long-haul I'm gonna assume That he was one of the combiners One of the construct icons. Is that accurate? Let me know in the comments below. I always like the combiner Transformers I Used to have center twin from the G1 line He was one of the Terracons and he was probably my favorite now I had one that is red and white kind of looked like a jet. I can't remember his name though I think they came together Perhaps not 100% sure, but I think the combiners is why I liked Power Rangers and VR troopers and Betelborgs and All those different Voltron Actually, I think I liked Voltron first and then the others kind of came into being All right, so It looks like we don't use all the pieces Whenever making his warrior Style mode still got some pieces there left over, but there he is Long-haul now. Let's go ahead and transform him into his Vehicle mode already this looking a little weird guys got to take this piece off Hold tight. I'm gonna flip the my phone over So the game runs on the other side. I usually film that way So I'm naturally drifting over this way. So hold tight a minute. All right, and we're back There who's your guys's favorite transformer? Let me know in the comments below As a kid, I always liked Optimus Prime. I never had an Optimus Prime figure At least not until I bought my son An Optimus Prime from the movie Transformers and he played with Optimus for a while He still does every now and then But he lost Optimus's head So we got to try and find that head at some point. I would like to do a review on Optimus but On that Optimus, but I don't want to do it while he's missing his head. That looks like That's his vehicle mode. It's okay. It's all right. I Do however perform in his Combat mode kind of wish though that they would have used all the pieces for both modes but You know, it is what it is Which version of Optimus Prime? Design-wise, do you guys like better? Do you like the The red square cab Semi or do you like the moot the movie version where it's a regular style semi? That's blue with red flames on it. I Actually prefer the The modern blue with red flames. I Don't know just something about it. It looks better to me. There we go. And there you have it guys this was the Creo Transformers micro changers Long haul a 2200 Built two-in-one robot or vehicle from Hasbro. Hope you enjoyed this installment of mini figure Monday I'm Shannon for coming in TV.


The second period of your week will take place in the US in September, so are you or your society going to participate in it and what can we look forward to during that week? Sure, so this is the second, it's a global week, a period of your week, and the second one will be 19th to 25th of September as you say. ISMT is one of the funding organisations and as part of that we've got a role in promoting the week and we'll be doing that through different sorts of outreach on the website and through social media largely. So period of your week is perhaps not exclusively but largely a social media driven event in the way that it's promoted but all the organisations will have things like blog posts on their websites, there'll be articles online, there'll be lots of social media buzz around it.


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We're in John chapter 20. I'm gonna begin reading at verse 11. I'll read to verse 18 and we'll get into our study. John chapter 20, beginning at verse 11, reading to verse 18, and we are looking at today's Easter Sunday message. Beginning at verse 11, John writes, Mary stood outside by the tomb, weeping, and as she wept, she stooped down and looked into the tomb and she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head and the other at the feet where the body of Jesus had lain. Then they said to her, woman, why are you weeping? She said to them, because they have taken away my Lord and I do not know where they have laid him. Now, when she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there and did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking? She's opposing him to be the gardener, said to him, sir, if you've carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away. Jesus said to her, Mary, she turned and said to him, Roboni, which is to say, teacher, Jesus said to her, do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to my father, but go to my brethren and say to them, I am ascending to my father and to your father and to my God and your God. Mary Madeleine came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord and that he had spoken these things to her. I wanna begin by remembering the last week, what has been called the Passion Week, the last week of Jesus' ministry, because as we consider it, that last week was filled with intense activity. We know that on Palm Sunday, Jesus had entered into the city of Jerusalem to the applause, the roar of the crowd. And we call that Palm Sunday as he came riding in with people who cried out, Hosanna, Hosanna, save now, Hosanna to the highest. And so he had entered in and was being declared as Messiah. When you look at the calendar, you see that on Monday, he went back to Jerusalem and there on that day he cleansed the temple. Then on Tuesday, he returned to the temple and he debated with religious leaders. Matthew 23 records how he responded to their arguments and even how he pronounced judgment on them. When you look at Matthew 24 and 25, this happening on Tuesday, he went to the Mount of Olives and there he taught his men about the end times. Wednesday has nothing recorded concerning his ministry and in church history, it's simply referred to as Silent Wednesday. But Thursday, Thursday came and Jesus went to an upper room and there he celebrated the Passover. When you read the gospel of John, chapters 13 through 17 gives to us information concerning that and in those chapters, he gave a long final message to his disciples and at the end of the chapter, chapter 17, he closed with prayer and at that time, Judas, the betrayer, went out to betray him and it's recorded how that Jesus went to a garden to pray and there he awaited his arrest. Friday, Jesus went through the mockery of a religious and then a secular trial and on Friday, he was abandoned by his men. He was falsely accused. He was beaten, spit upon and scourged. It was on Friday that he carried his cross to Golgotha and he was finally crucified. While he was on that cross, Jesus gave what has been referred to as seven last words. They were five, seven final statements. His first word that he gave began with a prayer. Father, forgive them for they do not know what they do. And so what we have here in his first word is his mercy being exposed, his mercy towards sinners and his desire for their salvation and that's revealed as he prayed even as in the Old Testament book of Ezekiel 33 verse 11, God tells us as I live, sayeth the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked turn from his way and live. So he began with a prayer, Father forgive them and then he gave a second word, a word of promise, a word of promise to a thief, a thief that was dying next to him as is recorded in Luke's gospel chapter 23. He said, truly I say to you today, you will be with me in paradise. And even when he was dying, Jesus invited a sinner to enter into heaven. Why? Well, because in his father's house are many mansions and he was simply saying, there's room for you. Even as some of you who are watching right now and listening right now and Jesus would say the same thing to you, there's room for you in heaven.  A third word that he gave was to his mother. He saw his mother there. She was at the foot of the cross standing with the apostle John and he saw his mother and he said, woman, behold your son. And he said to John, behold your mother. Well, this word reveals his care for his mother. It's a reminder for us to love and to honor and care for our parents. Then he gave a fourth word. He said, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? And that reveals to us that he understands loneliness. He understands rejection. As a sin offering, though he was sinless, he experienced the pain of separation and he understands what we're going through even right now. The fifth word is recorded that he cried out, I thirst. In this word, Jesus revealed the physical but also spiritual dryness of man because only God and God's presence can satisfy our thirst. And then he said, it is finished. He had completed the work there on the cross and the power of sin had ended. The power of the grave is as good as overcome and the power of death had been broken. That's what caused Paul in 1 Corinthians 15 verses 55 through 57 to write, oh death, where is your sting? Oh Hades, where is your victory? The sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the law but thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.  That has been called a word of trust because he completely committed himself to his father. These words that he spoke are from Psalm 31 verse five which simply says into your hand, I commit my spirit. The word commit speaks of entrusting. It could be translated into your hand, I entrust my spirit, I commit my spirit.  We're part of the evening prayers of Jews for centuries and may very well have been part of Jesus' own evening prayers. But his touching is the fact that Jesus prayed this prayer as he laid his head on the cross. As he was accustomed to pray every night, he prayed now for the last time. This was a prayer that you said at bedtime. It was a prayer of trust, it was a prayer of dependence. And that's the core of every true prayer, a prayer of trust and a prayer of confidence in the father. And so Jesus died with God's word on his lips as he gently and he peacefully and he willingly died. It's been said that the cross became his pillow. He laid his head down. Father, into thy hands, I commit my spirit. And he died. When he died, the earth shook, rocks split. Great fear came upon man. Matthew tells us how the centurion at the cross said, truly this was the son of God. Mary and John were there at that cross. Their hearts must have been broken. For Mary to see her beloved son dying in such a brutal way, that must have torn her soul. You see, when Jesus was presented to the Lord as an infant, there was an old man by the name of Simeon who was there when he was being presented. Luke tells us in chapter two, verses 34 and 35, Luke records how Simeon blessed them, Mary and Joseph. Simeon blessed them and said to Mary, his mother, behold, this child is destined for the fallen rising of many in Israel and for a sign which will be spoken against. Yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul also, that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed. It pierced her heart. But it must also pierce the heart of John. He was the one whom Jesus loved. And no doubt, John loved Jesus in return. And as he was there, watching Jesus die, he must have considered that I am the cause of this one's death.  He died for the sins of the world. And Jesus made it clear. He had said that I came to give my life as a ransom for many. And John knew the Lamb of God died for the sin of the world. He also knew that his sin had been the reason that Jesus embraced that cross. And that would have made John love Jesus all the more. The knowledge that Jesus loved him and gave himself for him. There's an old hymn called Beneath the Cross of Jesus and the writer writes these words. Upon that cross of Jesus my eye at times can see the very dying form of one who suffered there for me. And from my smitten heart with tears two wonders I confess. The wonders of redeeming love and my unworthiness. And that's what is intended when we contemplate the cross. It's the awareness that God loved us so much that he gave us only begotten Son. But it also causes us to realize that we are unworthy. That he didn't have to die, but he chose to do that. And that's the savior that we have, guys. That's the one that we're celebrating today on Easter Sunday. It's the awareness that God loved us so much that he gave us only begotten Son. And he says that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. John told us in John 3.17. God loved us and God gave his Son. And John was there watching Jesus. As Jesus said, Father into thy hands I commit my spirit and breathed his last, dismissing it to his father. It must have touched his heart even as it would have touched Jesus's precious mom. When you think about it, he died for me. But there was somebody else there, a woman by the name of Mary Magdalene. She was there at the cross.  She watched as they took his lifeless body down from that cross. Perhaps she saw Mary, Jesus's mother, as she cradled her son in her arms. And she felt her own heartbreak. She and other women followed Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus as they took Jesus to the tomb. And she saw Jesus placed in that tomb and how his body had been gently laid in it. As she was watching, she watched that 4,000 pound stone wheel as it rolled down the incline, lodging and sealing the tomb. And the stone settling and sealing made a dull sound. And with that sound came a sense of finality. He's dead. He's really dead. Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus gave Jesus a hasty burial according to John 19, 39 and 40. They put 100 pounds of aromatic spices, a very costly gift around him. He was very costly. It was enough to perfume 200 dead bodies. But even so, Mary and her friends believed that he deserved more than he had received. And they wanted to add their gifts to this in order to give him greater honor. So at dawn, Mary and some of the other women came to the tomb to complete his burial. Luke 24, verse one says, on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they insert another woman with them came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared, but they found the stone rolled away from the tomb. In chapter 20 here of John's gospel, verse one, it tells us there that Mary saw the tomb had been taken away, rather the stone had been taken away from the tomb. So what we have with her coming to the tomb is a demonstration of tremendous love for Jesus Christ. It shows courage, it shows zeal. It was dangerous for her to do that. And we commend her for it, but it also reveals something else. It reveals a lack of faith because Jesus had said he was going to rise from the dead. And so verse two of chapter 20 tells us that Mary ran to tell the apostles and two of them, Peter and John, got up and came to the tomb. Verse three tells us that Peter went out the other disciple and they went to the tomb. And it's this typical, it's interesting to note this and I'll say it quickly, when it says Peter therefore went out and the other disciple, it's typical, the apostle John left himself unnamed because when you read his account in the gospel of John, he never mentions his own name. You can see that in throughout the various times that he's mentioned or mentioning himself. You see it in chapter 13, chapter 19, chapter 20, 21, twice it's mentioned, the one whom Jesus loved. And that causes me to think just for a moment that it's not the amount of love that I have for Jesus, but it's the amount of love that he has for us because John recognized how much God loved him. You know, here's something for you to take home. Here's something to think about. How much do you think God loves you? Do you know how much he loves you? Have you ever really contemplated that? Have you ever really taken a moment to be healed by that? Because that's how I was healed from my brokenness is when I came to realize the depth that God has love for me. Paul prayed with the Ephesians and he said, oh, that we might comprehend it, that we might be able to fully understand it and we can't. But the closer you get to the Lord, the more you see of yourself, the more you see of yourself, you realize how evil you have been. When you realize how evil you have been, it amplifies the grace of God.  And when you understand that, it transforms the way that you live because God has so loved me. And look what he did, he gave his son, Jesus Christ. And Peter on the other hand, Peter was the one who bragged about how much he loved Jesus. So everybody else forsake you, he said, I never will. I'd even die for you. But the end result is we see the apostle Peter denying Christ three times, hiding for fear of the Jewish authorities, where John, who knew he was loved by God, John was at the foot of the cross with the one who loved him, where the apostle Peter was being taught that it wasn't the amount of love that the apostle Peter had for Christ. It was the amount of love that Christ had for Peter. And that's what heals him ultimately when Jesus reconciles him to himself. But we have these two men here. We have John and we have the apostle Peter. And we know that Peter claimed to love Jesus, but John knew that he was loved by Jesus. They both came to this tomb, by the way. They saw that it was empty. They had completely different reactions because were we to read the account, Peter only saw an empty tomb, but John understood why it was empty. Luke 24, verse 12 tells us that Peter departed marveling to himself at what had happened. You see, Peter was still dealing with the guilt of denying Christ. His eyes were still clouded and his grace and his love. We know that later on Jesus will restore his beloved apostle. But as this is taking place and we'll pick up at verse 11, Mary stood outside by the tomb, weeping. And as she wept, she stooped down and looked into the tomb. And it says she stood outside by the tomb, weeping in the original language. The word weeping there speaks of strong crying. It speaks of mourning with intense pain and grief. Mary loved Jesus and she was crying like her little heart was going to break. She was unwilling to leave the place where her precious Lord had been buried. She feared that his body had been stolen and that people taking his body would abuse it.   When you read her story, she had an incredible salvation experience and she was extremely thankful to Jesus Christ. She was delivered from demonic possession and she became his follower. And Jesus had healed her. He had healed her broken, sin-filled heart and when he healed it, he won her love. And she was a very sinful woman but she'd been cleansed by a loving savior. She was like that woman that is recorded in Luke 747 where Jesus speaks of this other woman in this way where he said, her sins which are many are forgiven. She loved much but to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little. One of the greatest problems I think that Christians have today is we become so holy in our own mind that we forget where we came from. And when we become so holy in our own mind and we begin to say things like, I can't understand why they do this and why do they do that? How could they, then we have forgotten what we have been. Never forget what you've been. Never forget where you came from. Never forget what you were like. Don't go back to it.   Don't be that person but never forget. I wake up every day remembering what I've been. Every day I've been doing so for almost 50 years now. I wake up and I remember what I've been and I then remember who I now am. I haven't ever forgotten where I came from. I never wanna be that guy who gets so self-righteous and so holy in outer appearance that I become a Pharisee without even knowing it. I don't wanna be that guy. I wanna remember that I have been forgiven much because when you remember you've been forgiven much, you love much, you love much. Simon the Pharisee and the story I quoted out of Luke 7, he was a self-righteous Pharisee. But the woman who came and wept at the feet of Jesus, she knew she was a sinner and she knew she'd been forgiven all of these terrible sins. Well, Mary was the same way. She had been delivered and forgiven and her love for Jesus Christ was intense. Jesus knew that she had been filled with sin but she had repented and he forgave her.  Every sin that you have committed in Jesus Christ when you said, God forgive me a sinner has been forgiven. And when you came to faith in Jesus, he forgave you completely. And that's something that you need to not only receive, except, but that's something that you need to understand in order to be set free. You see, those who refuse God's offer of forgiveness remain in bondage to sin. And when you're in bondage to sin, you only have sorrow. And that's one reason why it's so important to repent and seek God's forgiveness. In Proverbs 28, verse 13, we read, he who covers his sins will not prosper but whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy. And so in verses 12 and 13, it says, she looked into the tomb, she saw two angels in white sitting one at the head, the other at the feet where the body of Jesus had lain. Then they said to her, woman, why are you weeping? She said to them, because they have taken away my Lord and I do not know where they have laid him. In other words, woman, why are you weeping? Your tears are unnecessary. You should be rejoicing. Jesus Christ is alive, but you're weeping here as if he hasn't been raised. She says in verse 13, they've taken away my Lord. I don't know where they've laid him. I don't know where he is. Somebody's removed his body from the tomb and I don't know where it is. Where did they take it? Now, this is interesting because she's very much like many believers are today. Jesus is alive, but we order our lives as if he were dead. Many Christians live like Jesus didn't rise and fail to realize what we have in him. We've been blessed in Jesus Christ abundantly. He rose, he conquered death. And that's what the apostle Paul wanted believers everywhere to know. He said in Ephesians one verse three, he said, blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ. We lack nothing. We are complete in him. We need to understand that. I'm telling you, I encountered so many who profess to know Jesus who haven't come to understand this. Everything you need has been provided for you in him. Listen what the Lord has to say we have in him. Second Corinthians chapter five verse 17 says we are new creations in Christ Jesus. Old things have passed away.  Colossians one 13 says we are redeemed from the kingdom of darkness. Revelation 12 verse 11, we are overcomers through the blood and the word of our testimony. Romans eight 37, we are more than conquerors through Christ who loved us. Romans eight 17, we are heirs of God. Joint heirs with Christ. And because he's alive, we have been made alive because he who has the son has life. According to first John five 12. We have light, the light of life in John eight 12. We have liberty because where the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty. Second Corinthians three 17. We have love because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts. According to Romans five verse five. We have joy because Jesus said your joy no man takes from you in John 16 22. We have forgiveness because the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin. According to first John one verse seven. We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. According to Romans chapter five verse one. We have power because you shall receive power after that the Holy Spirit has come upon you. According to Acts one eight. We have provision because Philippians 419 promises my God shall supply all your need. In first Corinthians 15 57 and we have victory and we have heaven in my father's house. Jesus said our many mansions.   I wonder how many believers meditate on those promises. There's so many. We live as if we don't even believe them. We think that well that's true maybe for somebody else but it's not true for me now it's true for you too. But you need to do what I need to do is just receive those things and live as if I believe that God is gonna provide. You see Mary is learning something every believer by now should know Jesus is alive. Now in verse 14 and 15 it says when she had said this he turned around and saw Jesus standing there and did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her woman why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking? She's opposing him to be the gardener said to him sir if you've carried him away tell me where you have laid him and I will take him away. She didn't recognize him. She didn't recognize him several reasons for that. She was early. She was distressed, blinded by tears. She was also in a state of unbelief. She didn't expect to see him alive and for these reasons she's confused. So when the question is asked why are you weeping and whom are you seeking? Mary under stress and grief has forgotten. Jesus said he would rise from the dead. She was aware of his teaching but it was something she had not yet truly grasped. Notice in verse 15 how it says she's opposing him to be the gardener. And so she's making a mistake. She doesn't say he is the gardener. She's supposed that he was the gardener and that's when Jesus spoke to her and notice in verse 16 how she said he said to her Mary. Those of us who can remember back to when we were raised if you had a home, if you had a mom, a dad, all of that. There were times when my mom would call my name. My mom could call my name out of a crowd. And even if there were a lot of people there, I would recognize my mom's voice. I could do that. Cause a child can recognize the voice of a parent. And there may be a number of people but I could pick up my mom's voice, especially when she called me. And my mom could call me by a word of endearment. She used to call me her baby or she had other words in Spanish I can't repeat that she would call me. She'd call me some kinds of interesting names, I'll tell you that. I was almost gonna tell you a story, might as well. I don't think I've told you this before. I was in South America and I was watching something. It was a Spanish language program with English subtitles and I was there doing ministry and I was watching this show during the afternoon and they spoke in Spanish and I recognized the word that my mom had called me for a long time when I was a child before she was saved. Then I looked at the English translation and I didn't know she had been cussing at me for years. She had been saying, it was a bad word and so I went home knowing what she was actually saying. But anyway, getting back to it, when I call my children, my children recognize my voice. When I come home, right now we have my son Joseph and Karina, his wife and my granddaughter Olivia living at the house at the moment. When I come walking in the door and my voice, I say, I'm home, Olivia hears my voice and she starts to jump, she'll be jumping around cause she's heard Papa's here, Papa's here and she gets very excited and cause they recognize the voice. Somebody else could walk in and say, I'm here but if it's a voice they don't recognize, it has to be a voice, in this case, a voice that had an endearment. There was a tone to it. So the minute that he said to her, Mary cause he had spoken a moment, who are you looking for? He had spoken her but she was so blinded at the moment she didn't know what was going on. But when he called it by name, when he said, Mary that was the voice she recognized. And Jesus said that he's the shepherd, the good shepherd. He said and the sheep will follow the shepherd's voice. And he spoke to her and he said, Mary, she recognized and when she recognized his voice, she responded. She said, Rabboni, Rabboni is not just to say teacher. It's a word in verse 16. It's a word that speaks of my dear teacher. It has a warmth and a love to it. And she grabs him and Jesus says, verse seven and don't cling to me. I have not yet ascended to my father but go to my brother and say to them, I'm ascending to my father, your father to my God and your God. And then Mary came, Mary Madeleine came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord. He had spoken these things to her. Don't cling to me. There's a new work that is occurring. I am no longer gonna be present physically with you. You need to release me to continue and complete. For Jesus has yet to ascend to heaven.  He had work to continue. He is not to remain. So he said, don't cling to me. Don't hold me here. Don't try and keep me here. I have things I wanna continue doing. So go and do something else. And he says, go and tell my brethren. And that's what she did in verse 18. She told the disciples and she testified what Jesus had told her. She testified. She went out and said, he's alive. And this is what he's told me to tell you. And guess what? We still do to this day. He's alive and we still tell people what he said. The gospel has continued to go out throughout the world for 2,000 years.  That Jesus Christ is alive. Jesus wasn't just a good teacher. He wasn't simply a prophet. He wasn't only a good man. He was all of those things but he was greater than those things. Those are part of what he is but he was greater than those things. He's God in the flesh. He took upon himself the sin of the world. He's the Lamb of God who yielded his life for us. He poured out his life's blood. He died on a cross. He said it is finished. It was completed. And now we as believers go out and give the same message and we can tell people as lonely as you are, as broken as you are, as hurt as you are, as lost as you are, as in bondage as you are, Jesus Christ can set you free. Jesus can break those yolks of bondage. Jesus can make you brand new to the degree that you are unrecognizable to those who know you best. Jesus washes and cleanses. He loves so much that he gave up his life for us voluntarily. He said, no man takes my life for me. I, of my own accord, I lay it down. That's what he did. But I lay it down, he said, to take it up again. Easter is more than Easter bunnies, baskets and eggs. It's more than going to mom and dad's house and having a nice Sunday afternoon meal with the family. It's much deeper than that. Easter is a celebration of the resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, who took upon himself my sin, who borrowed upon himself and paid a price that I couldn't pay. It's a celebration of life and a triumph of life over death. And it's what gives me hope. It's what gives me purpose in my life is the awareness that I have things to do for him while I'm here. But one day I'll see him face to face. And one day I will also cling to him. And one day I will see him with his eye, these eyes, I will behold his face. And I'm not gonna complain about how hard I had it sometimes or the pain that sometimes I suffered. I'm not gonna complain. And the scripture says he will wipe away every tear. And he's gonna say one day, well done, my good, my faithful servant. One day I want to hear the words enter into the joy of your Lord that has been prepared for you from the foundation of the world. Come in. So Easter is more than bunny rabbits and ham and all the other things that somehow have disguised its true meaning. Easter is a celebration of the fact that one day every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God, the Father. And I can't help but remember as I close my son Joseph who was a little boy at the time, maybe eight years old, nine, who in school had been given the assignment to draw a picture depicting something about Easter. And what my Joseph drew was the empty tomb. And he'd been to Israel and he had seen what it would look like. And he drew the empty tomb, but kneeling at that tomb was the Easter bunny. And I've never forgotten that. Every knee, he said, that every knee shall bow to Jesus Christ, including the Easter bunny. And so perhaps you need to bow your heart before the Lord today. And if there are any people right now and there are who need to get right with God, this is your moment, this is your opportunity to give your heart to Jesus Christ, to admit that you're a sinner, you're not perfect.   If you've seen somebody you're not married to or desired somebody sexually and you're not married to them, you're an adulterer.  That's why we need a savior. That's why you need a savior. That's why you need Jesus Christ. He died on the cross to set you free. Whatever your sin may be, maybe you're planning on no longer watching when this is over, go out and drink a little bit and party a little bit. Your life is empty and you know it. You need hope. Maybe you're concerned about this coronavirus and the other things going on right now. There are worse things. There are worse things. You may not believe so at the moment. The worst thing than the coronavirus is dying without Jesus. That's worse. And so you need the Lord. You need to give your heart to Christ today and you need to admit that. You need to honestly say, God, I am a sinner. God, forgive me. I need you. And if you can do that and desire to, the Holy Spirit is provoking you to, let's bow our hearts together right now. I'm gonna ask you to pray with me. Let's pray. If you need to get right with the Lord right now, you can say this, Father, forgive me. I'm a sinner. Jesus died on the cross to save sinners. Jesus died to save me. Forgive me of my sins. Cleanse me. Give me a new life. I will follow you. Every day from this day forward in Jesus' name, amen. And if you prayed that with me, please contact us and let us know that you got right with God. Because the whole reason for us to continue celebrating the way that we do is to celebrate the reality that Jesus died on the cross to save sinners.  And so church, let's stand and close with a word of prayer. Our Father, we ask that you would take this message and may it be repeated throughout the world. And may many come to faith in Jesus Christ. May we see ourselves in the light of this passage. May we see ourselves in need of Jesus. So I pray that you would just be glorified and we yield this to you now and we give you praise in Jesus' name, amen. God bless you. We love you.


Raise your hand! Wow, that's a lot! Luckily there's some opportunities coming up. There's Mars 1 where you can go to Mars but without a return ticket. And who applied for this one? Do we have any applicants for Mars 1 in the hall? Whoa, more than we expected! Three, four... So just a few, but brave. But recently also SpaceX announced their detailed technical plans on how to get to Mars and their technical plans for the vehicle. Who is seeing the announcement? Raise your hands, yes! Okay, quite some people are informed. Since we already know there's three or four people who would go to Mars without coming back. Who would trust his life to Mars and get out there with him? If you get feedback, write us under the hashtag, hashtag C3T and have fun listening. Okay, by the way, what's the difference between the Berlin airport and Mars? Humans will learn on Mars in the foreseeable future. The next talk is not only about Mars. It's about the 3,518 known exoplanets. And what makes the right one for a civilization attempt? And we also know how to get there and what technology needs for the research. Because as you know, it's not about the talk, it's about the journey. Listen to what Peter was saying, who have both prioritized with food for thought on prior C3 events are now here for us on this stage. They have many things in common. They are both instrument builders for astrophysics. They both work at the Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial physics. And they are both working in the same infrared group. And on top of that, they both develop some of the most sensitive instruments in the world. Please take us this year on a journey through space. Listen, Peter, it's great to be here. I think this is my first and biggest audience that either of us is ever talking about the biggest one, the biggest one. Thanks for coming out. So today, we want to tell you about interplanetary civilization. Interplanetary civilization and stellar colonization, which is much harder. So let's start on with the question, why do we want to go? First is a pretty great place, right? So Earth is actually class. That is our planet. It is about 70% surface area covered in water. 70% of the surface area is covered in water. There is a one-G gravity atmosphere, 20% oxygen. And it is of course the only planet with Wi-Fi. So Earth is really great. Why do we want to go? We can start with analyzing the past history of Earth. Mainly that it hasn't always been so great. So Earth was not always as good as it is today. This is the fraction of species that was extinguished in the last 55 million years. And there are a lot of spikes on this fly. And the five big ones are the five big spikes where the species disappeared. The last one here is where the dinosaurs died. So something else you might not know about that. We are in the middle of the sixth big extinction phase, where the species actually dies a thousand times faster. We can ask ourselves, what is the oxygen for it? There are different types of oxygen for it. The first oxygen is that it was too much oxygen or too little. Volcanoes, when the water level increases or decreases, global warming or global cooling and human activity. Okay, so you can say, you know, we are actually advanced than the dinosaurs. We have technology and in principle we should be able to survive even if the planet changes here. But actually in the very long term, in the very long future, we will have a bigger problem. And that is our sun. So eventually our sun will have all its energy consumed and it will become a red giant. So all of the water will boil on earth and it won't be pleasant for anyone.  So given that the CCC, you can think of it as, you know, making an off-site backup from the mankind before the sun was burned. And also in the cloud and beyond. So we actually have a pretty strong idea here to get rid of our planet and get rid of the planet in the near future. So the second question is, where are we going? So we'll leave the plants and we have speakers and we also want to know how to learn about our new home. So this is what it looks like from space. And this is a good target for us. It's relatively close to us, what the distance is. If you want to know how the distance is in space, in the world is actually, then wait for the next talk. It will take about two years round trip there. It will take about two years to Mars and back. Mars also has an atmosphere, but it's very thin. Most of the time it's CO2. It doesn't have a magnetic field. So it gets all the rays of cosmic radiation and cosmic wind. So this essentially sterilizes the surface of the Earth. So the humans would have to live underground. So it's very cold there. So Mars is close and technically it's in the sun. It's too cold and it could be hard on the planet. It's not very pleasant to live there. Another target that people talk about is the moon. So this is one of the moons of Jupiter. It's the moon of Jupiter. And this is the very interesting target because it's actually an ocean world. It's a water world. It's surrounded by water and with a thick ice layer around it. And fortunately it also has an atmosphere of almost pure oxygen. So you can wait. It's got a lot of oxygen in it. But what you might think is wonderful, what you could still miss is the temperature on the surface. It's so cold that it's all frozen. You have to dive about 15 kilometers deep and then you get into the ocean. So it radiates and then this is so cold that it would die in less than that. And so it's not so pleasant. And also people don't listen to us not to land there. And it's really interesting where it's really interesting is that they're so close to the planet. And we know a lot about it. And the question is, where do we actually know about it? So in our solar system we can send salads and suns and sometimes crash. But sometimes they land there and give us some information. So this is a picture of a mountain. It's a picture of Mount Sharpe on the mountain. And it's sitting there on the planet right now picking data. So this is a selfie. And one of the really cool things about Curiosity is it's got a giant laser on it.  And this is the first spectrum to come out of the first prize winner. What you can see here is a series of peaks in the spectrum, some very good chemist back home can be a match to different elements. And you can see the iron in it, magnesium, calcium, aluminum. All things that would be very useful to the people who could have these products or in general to know about what kind of life could live on Mars. And that's the big thing we are safe in growing potatoes now. We could say we are a bit safe to build potatoes there, for example. Okay. So again, this brings us back to our previous problem, that the sun is going to burn off the Earth. So we're going to go a bit further than Mars. And that brings us to exoplanets. So this is a graph of the Expedition Exoplanet Detection over the years. And you can see that we didn't even know if there were other planets in the Earth over the last 10 years. And in the last several years, we've learned a lot about the instance of growth of exoplanets. And they're detected in many different ways. And today I want to tell you about two possibilities since most of our exoplanets are detected. Okay.  So, rather, if it is a star, but the orbit, the comet's going to have a star. And this is a star, a little thing. The planet is sort of going to go back to the Earth, and the star as it moves back to Earth, the light starts to get slightly double-edged, and red-shifted light on the other side. You can see the green and red-shifted light on the left and the right side. And if you look at it for a long time, you can see a periodic signal. And if you look at it for a long time, you can calculate how far the star is, how far the star is, how big the mass of the planet is, and how long it takes to round the sun. That was done in many different ways over the years, in many different ways in the course of time. The first thing you know was not so good. I think these are combs. Stick around for the next talk if you want to learn about lasers. The next talk, I'll tell you what it is. How we can still discover exoplanets is the transient method. You just stare at a whole bunch of stars for a few years. And when you go in front of the star, I think the star is very, very close to the star, and I think the star is very, very close to the star. So ranger on the planet is over the time. A little bit taken to a pretentious transit takes 13 to 14 hours, I mean in a year and these transients define an orbit and you have to observe it for several years until you know what it looks like. So what you get from this, in contrast to the previous method where you get it now, compared to the previous method, you get the radius of the plant and how dense it is, you don't but you know how big it is. What you can find here is, if you know what's over the star, you know where the habitable zone is, and you can take the orbit and size and you can get a bit closer and then the planet system looks like and whether the planet is in the habitable zone. Kepler 186 was the first planet with a habitable zone that we found in the solar system and if you compare it to a solar system, then it's roughly on the orbit. It depends on what star is there, but that's just the next question. It's the habitable zone, but does it have a breathable atmosphere? The question is, does the planet have a breathable atmosphere? Is there too much greenhouse, or is there too much CO2 or metal gas? The problem with planets around other stars is that they're super-faithful. And if I hadn't put a cool theory, you probably wouldn't be able to tell where it is. And this is the planet sitting super-far over the star way past the orbit of even a habitable zone. And if you wanted to observe a super-faithful orbit, it would be way higher. So digging out the signal from behind the star is extremely hard. And all about how it goes, is that the bigger they are, the smaller this diffraction pattern is, and the bigger it comes, the more you can create the star light, the better you can see the sun. So this here is the Kepler satellite that is what had actually detected most of our exoplanets and others. So far. And soon NASA will be launching JWST in the lift chicken. So straight. And actually the Europeans are planning something called Extremely Large Telescope, so they call it. Not a joke, that's actually the name. So we have a 39-meter dish and we'll have to wreck this study of exoplanet atmospheres and determine whether the atmosphere of exoplanets to other stars would be conducive to humans colonizing. And then we can look at the planets to see if they are colonisable. So I'll turn to my section with my object here. And this is all of the exoplanets from the Kepler Orary. These are all planets from the Kepler mission, so the size of the small star, so the small ones are bigger. And if you want to learn more about the worlds that we already know, then go to the NASA website. There's the new world Atlas. You can learn about each of these new worlds. So with that, I'm going to hand it over to Peter. I'll give it to Peter and he'll talk about how we actually get there. Yeah, okay. How do we get there? That's very far from easy. First rule of space club? You know the first rule of space club? No, it's space doesn't. No, that's not what you're talking about. Space doesn't cooperate with you. That's what we learned from Margaret. That means that you don't really know what you're doing. And if you really know what you're doing, as a rule of thumb, you should be treating vacuum as a poisonous gas. And then you can start building things. So there's a second rule of space club? Don't talk about space club? No, be prepared. No. Be prepared. To quote Rodney again. Exactly.  And some of the topics you want to maybe think about is not for us to think about the world. And if how should we go or not, do we need planetary bases? Do we need planetary bases? Do we need planetary bases? Do we need planetary bases? Are we on those space crafts from around the years you've been on the planet? I don't think you can get on a spaceship with me. I don't think you can get on a spaceship with me. So you have to plan your trip. This is nothing you do. This is something you do.  People have done this before us. To the planet we have been on, Of course we have already sent samples to other planets before, and the first concepts are already older than the 21st century. This is an example of how you get from the Earth to Mars. Without much effort, this is the human transfer orbit. You start where the blue circle is. At the same time, the mass is at the same time the open circle is. But by the time you have traversed on your home and transfer orbit, the mass will be in the right position where you can actually just land on the full circle. If you have more time on your hands, if you want to use even less energy, if you've just seen previous talk about Rosetta, Rosetta had various swingbys and gravitation support flybys in the other planets in the solar system. If you use these to accelerate, to go somewhere else without using energy, without using a device. And for the last few years there has been another method, which I recommend everyone to learn about, if they are interested. And that's the interplanetary superhighway, that's what it's called. It's a system from Lagrange points to other Lagrange points in the solar system. Without using any kind of fuel. And you can google that about open and closed many folds. And then you can just coast along these things through our solar system. But before you should go... Well, sort of. So SpaceX is fine for Mars? Yes, of course. These are chemical rockets. You can still tweak them a bit. You can still tune them a bit. But if you really want to go far away, or maybe even interstellar, then you need other methods of forward movement. Let's look at these very crazy spacecraft for interplanetary missions. You will see these designs a lot if you look at the literature. And almost always they look like this. So right in the front is the payload. It could be some crew compartment, crew compartment, if you send people with it, or a normal load. If you want to send something to the moon of Saturn. The big thing behind it is that we don't need wings. But we need to get rid of a lot of excess energy. We need to get rid of the energy which will be generated by the reactor at the end of the launch object. So here are radiators. They are essentially black and very cold. The world is black and cold at 2.4 Kelvin. We can officially irradiate it with the radiators. And as he said, there is a nuclear reactor behind it. It looks like a fusion fragment reactor. What you see here in the reactor is a nuclear part in the middle. In this case it is a plutonium carbon dust. In this case it is actually a heat shield. And in this case the dust is actually the particle. Outside there is also a super-lighting. To get the particles at the end of the launch object. Of course there is gamma radiation. We also have to get rid of the shield so that the crew gets gamma radiation. These split fragments are pretty fast. They fly at about 2% light speed. And we get a lot of energy out of it to get thermo-electric generators to generate electricity. If you want to fly interstellar, then that's not enough. We need a high specific impulse and a scoop. And that's why we're talking about Orion. That's a completely different Orion than what NASA is talking about. That's the old Orion project. It shouldn't be changed to the Pluto project. And after about 10 clicks, I'm not sure where I'm talking about, it will disappear into a sum of conspiracy theories. Okay, that's the Orion project. It was the idea of nuclear bombs to the stars. We have a magazine with a magazine and a shock absorber. And what we do is we take news that we have inside, let it fly out, let it explode. And that's why we're moving our ship forward. I want to point out that it would be one of the most useful ways to use nuclear bombs. Yes, it would be the most effective way to use it. But we don't want that on our planet, if we don't want that on our rocket, if we want to start from our planet or our moon base. We should do that somewhere in the outer world where nobody else is. Or that nobody is behind it. Watch out. Are there other options? Yes, there are other options. There are these ion engines that are being flown on spacecrafts, like all that you do have to accelerate ions. It's only a target of thrust that's very, very efficient if you have a rocket for example. If you have a stop-motion mission, then it can work. Because the engine can drive your spacecraft for years by sending a lot of ions. And you get faster at the end than conventional rockets. The next talk is about laser transport. We don't talk about all these other things here. We don't talk about the M-Drives. The fairy dust would actually be some of the torch ships. The torch ships are constant acceleration ships that bring a pretty fast speed. But we have no idea how much technology you could use to make that happen. So if you move fast, then you have to pull up the shields. So believe me, if you fly at 20% speed or something like that plus or minus, then you have to make sure that the space looks like the space is not empty. That's how the space looks like. There's a lot of stuff between the stars. The interstellar mediums are neutral and loaded with atoms, molecules, dust. And a short calculation shows you, if you fly at 20% speed, then you will erode about 1 cm of aluminium per year. Just carry it away, rub it away. Only from the interstellar dust. You have to be careful about that. There are other things that fly around, such as micro-materials, for example. They are not so common in the interstellar space. Of course, there is also something that we used to do in the interstellar space missions between Earth and Moon, for example. Or if you have things in Earth orbit, that's what it looks like. That's the Whipple Shield on the left, on the left side. It's a metal plate that absorbs the first burst and then there's a spray or something like metal foil or something. Or you can make metal shimmers. That's research that is currently being done. But of course we want to have really good things for us. That would be to say, B-Y-O-M bring your own, your own shot shield. For example, in a magnetic field around your ship, you create plasma. And then you have a nice magnetosphere around your ship to put that shot part.  And that's actually why this thing has this wet thing. It's not because the artist thought it was blue eyes. No, because it is a deadly radiation. It's a radius for the deadly radiation. And that's about the shield. Because you have accelerated for 20 years in the one direction and then you turn to the other direction because you want to turn to the other direction.   So you need to point your chips really off the planet you want to land on. Yeah, maybe. So still, with all of this, the only option for me really far are so-called torcheships, torch ships, which bring us to Oxima Centauri in about, okay, seven to eight years, ship time, because relative effects will then come into play. Relative effects will then come into play. But it will take so long for you to sleep in the middle of the night. It sounds a bit like science fiction, but it's really being done. I know medical researches at the NASA and at private companies. This is the artist's impression that this could be the artist's impression that this could be the artist's impression that this could be the artist's impression that this could be the artist's impression we only routinely use for people ahead of the serious accidents. You just cool the people down, and actually if you try to cool down your body temperature from 30 degrees, it's reaching 20 degrees Celsius you're reducing your metabolic risk for 70%. And with that you bring a lot of water or a vacuum and all of the oxygen, oxygen, stuff you put together. Last thing, no, this is not space, sorry. This is no option at all in space. There are so many things we have to work on. So long, actually, for some of those have no idea how to accomplish it. We're talking about trip plans for around 100 years. So I have not seen a computer that has one computer for 100 years. So if you have such a ship, you have to have all the spare parts, all the spare parts, all the spare parts, or you have to do this on board to do it. For example, asteroid mining to get the material out of it. This is not just to scare you away. This is not just to scare you away. These are the tasks you have to overcome. The humanity has done other things. We have already brought humans to the moon. Soon we will be at Mars. Please keep your heads up. There is a very famous quote by the father of the space. This is T.C. Olkovsky. The earth is the origin of the people. But no one can stay in the origin there. The question is when, but there is a lot of stuff to do. The people's way. But no one can stay in the way forever. Okay, we will get to the questions. Now we have some questions. We have a little bit more time left. There is one question on the internet. If we assume that E.M. drives work and we have a sufficient drive, could we shorten the time to other planets without going to Parabol? Good question, next question. If there is magic, then it's just yes. One question always interested me when I came for a far away planet that right now is basically an utter wasteland in the hostile wasteland. And instead of flying in and taking our head together as a species, surviving on the planet that we were literally living in, we could go to nature. And should we survive like utter wasteland if we can't do it here? No, it should work on a desert if it doesn't work here. Well, there was the problem where the sun eventually goes against the Earth. The sun eventually goes against the Earth. Yeah, but that's still pretty long ahead. Yeah, yeah, okay. We should definitely get here. But really. But in the long term, it's just a curiosity that we fly out there and we always have to keep our eyes open. Okay, one last question. Microphone 4, please. Can you imagine that the... Well, it's a nice mathematical concept. So... I think it's a mathematical concept, but the question is if it can really be built. It's not really clear if it's physical reality. If we have a warp drive, yeah, then it would be easy. Sorry. It's not going to happen within our lifetime. So if you have a warp drive by the end of Congress, we take Zal 2. The first thing that we planned for the space track speakers to congregate shortly after midnight at the speakers sofa outside of Sol G. All of the space tracks are on the sofa, shortly after midnight, that's the way. And you can ask more questions and re-enter them. Okay, that was it from us here in the office.