12/07/99 Tue/Wed
Welcome.... Art welcomes affiliate KXNT in Las Vegas.
Alabama.... Art is getting alot of reports of something streaking across the sky in Alabama.
Mars.... Art talks about the news and the Mars polar lander and again dead silence coming from Mars.
Cuban boy.... Art discusses the cuban boy in the news, whose mother died getting him here to America. There is a big fight going on whether he should go back to Cuba. Art says he should be able to stay here, he has family here.
Cheating.... Teachers in New York helped students cheat on their Standard tests by providing questions in advance. Art says this is horrendous. He tells a story of how he tried to cheat one time when he was in school by writing little notes on a shirt cuff. He said he was so nervous he couldn't read the answers anyway.
Weather.... Art talks about the weather and his new book coming out that he coauthored with Whitley and a report about 7 people dying last week in Denmark by gale storm winds blowing over 100 miles an hour.
Whitley.... Art reads a note from Whitley telling Art that the New Scientist has printed a story saying the climate changes occurring have to be related to the ocean currents. After the bottom of the hour break, Art reads a few paragraphs from the article titled Freezing Future. See
www.globalsuperstorm.com in the news sections for the story.
Open lines.... Open lines finishes out the first hour.
2nd hour.... Richard Hoagland joins Art to discuss the recent failure of the Mars Polar Lander. Richard does say that we have at least had more success than the Russians. Art says he is surprised CNN didn't call upon Richard for some insight on this mission. Richard says the correspondent for Irish television that was observing the mission asked the best question when he asked NASA if they are going to send everyone home cause they haven't heard anything in the last hour. Richard says the 'FIX IS IN". Later in the hour, Richard says there is new evidence about a rogue group whose objective is to close down NASA. Art asks Richard about the arctic ice melting etc. saying there may be dark days ahead for us. Richard talks about some internal thing going on in NASA where the right hand doesn't now what the left hand is doing.
3rd hour.... Richard talks about the time when NASA found the "rock" and how limited the discussion was on what it meant to discover microscopic life on Mars. Richard talks about his appearance on Good Morning America along with Dr. French years ago. Art and Richard talk Richard's appearance on Good Morning America with Dr. French, also about Stan McDaniels and his thoughts that NASA wasn't playing fair back with the Mars Observer in 1993. Richard and Art discuss Carl Sagan and when he started to modify his public statements about Cydonia.
4th hour.... Art and Richard talk about the anniversary of December 7th, Pearl Harbor and the signifigance of it with the beginning of space programs. Richard talks about the very aggressive Mars probe sent by the Japanese a while ago and it's failures and it is lost in space and will not get to Mars for another 3 years. Richard discusses Mary Anne Weaver and a paper she wrote in support of Enterprise Mission research mathematically. Later in the hour, Art reads an article about China entering the space exploration realm and then Richard reads a fax from a Canadian reporter who supports Richard's analysis.
5th hour.... Richard talks about when NASA was born in the late 50's. Richard says if someone is going after NASA, go for the money and lose spacecraft. Phone calls are taken this hour for Richard. A caller asks Richard if this is the 33rd attempt to get to Mars. Richard talks about a coincidence involving the polar lander landing date, Dec. 3, being 33 days after the flight 990 disaster, a plane carrying a NASA official. Richard says Flight 990 was deliberatelty killed.
