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hello lovely people we made it to the
weekend and you already know Friday's
Rock I'm Coy this is CNN 10 and I am
pumped to be with you to finish this
week's strong lots to get to so let's
get to it one big question on many
people's minds is whether or not we're
headed for a recession or if we're
already in one right now President Biden
said this week he doesn't think the
United States will enter a recession
because of the strength of the job
market but some economists disagree
Biden recently passed legislation such
as the American Rescue plan and the
inflation reduction act citing those
measures as reasons why we might avoid a
recession but experts are sounding the
alarm and pointing to the surge in
inflation which is now at a nearly four
decade high at eight and a half percent
as one indication that we are indeed
headed toward a recession on top of that
some experts argue we're already in one
let's take 10 to break it all down a
recession is categorized as two
consecutive quarters of economic decline
during which trade an industrial
activity are reduced on the positive
side the current job market in the
United States is particularly strong in
September the economy added 263 000 jobs
but High inflation could be indicative
of an impending recession as businesses
react to higher costs by reducing
production and increasing prices
a new gauge of how Americans are being
pinched in the wallet a government
report on the inflation that businesses
are feeling says those prices are still
Rising really fast even if they Rose not
as fast in September as in August
some of that cost growth will get passed
along to consumers in the form of higher
prices for food higher prices for energy
higher prices for the services that they
purchase as well it comes as President
Biden tells CNN he doesn't share the
gloomy Outlook of some top economists I
don't think there will be a recession if
it is it'll be a very slight recession
that is we'll move down slightly what
might a slight recession look like in
America people are going to lose jobs
unemployment is going to rise we're not
going back to 10 that we had during the
pandemic but the labor market is hot and
interest rates are designed to cool it
down and that therefore means there will
be an increase in unemployment it won't
be huge but it will be there the cost of
a home that is going up dramatically I
think that it's going to be harder to
ask for a wage hike two of America's
most respected economic voices disagree
with President Biden's prediction that
there won't be a significant recession
economists telling Americans don't panic
and be patient high prices at the store
may take longer than you expect to level
off and even though it may not last long
gas prices are on the uptick again
10 second trivia which of these layers
of Earth's atmosphere is the highest
troposphere thermosphere Stratosphere or
mesosphere
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extending from 53 miles to 372 miles the
thermosphere is the highest of these
particular layers and the temperature
here gets hotter the higher you go
next up we're headed to Brunswick Maine
where we're getting exclusive access
with a company hoping to launch rockets
into space using a fuel they say is so
Earth friendly we could eat it now this
could be significant because with the
establishment of the United States space
force in 2019 and individuals like Elon
Musk and Jeff Bezos pushing the limits
of recreational space travel the number
of space launches is skyrocketing more
now from CNN correspondent Rachel Crane
who visits with blue shift founder Sasha
Dairy
that structure is what we've
affectionately call Rocket hinge and
what you're seeing here is the engine
test site it's a horizontal engine test
site that's Sasha Dairy the founder of a
company called blueshift Sasha and his
team are getting ready to test fire an
engine that they hope will one day
launch rockets into space
we're in Maine far from NASA's more
commonly used launch pads in Cape
Canaveral the company's Rocket Fuel
isn't typical either it's a fuel that
can be made not only in farms Across
America but across the world it's a
solid substance it's benign it's not
toxic you can literally eat it it's not
calorically beneficial to humans but it
won't do any harm to you if blue shift
can get carbon neutral bioderived
non-toxic fuel to work it could be a far
more Earth friendly way of getting to
space But first they have a long series
of engine tests ahead of them one of
which we're here to hopefully see this
is just one of dozens of Tesla we'll
have but if all goes well this burn will
last for about 12 seconds and shut down
and if we're really lucky nothing will
catch on fire
can you walk us through how you make
your biofuel and what this process is
like to produce the fuel we have to
liquefy it and it's basically poured
into a mold it's actually put into sort
of a centrifuge of sorts but it's edible
so is it made of food it is not
something that you would normally have
in food you know I can't say
it's the most delicious thing in the
world to eat I'm gonna sit here and make
sure you swallow that
blue shift wouldn't say exactly what's
in the fuel but told us that the core of
the fuel is derived from common
agricultural processes on farms around
the world I really wish they would take
a much smaller bite
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the environmental impact the space
industry makes is small compared to
other Industries but Rockets can be
particularly harmful to the environment
they can emit large amounts of CO2 and
black carbon or soot among other
pollutants and with the number of rocket
launches expected to increase
dramatically in the coming years science
experts say it's important we find a
solution involving carbon neutral
sustainable fuel
of course blue shift has to get to space
first from Maine
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yes Here Comes the Sun
all right all right it was for sure
so something clearly happened I don't
know if it was a system automatic
shutdown or one of the guys shut it down
because they saw some anomaly happening
all right guys was that a manual
shutdown or an automatic
what we just saw happen was a successful
ignition we saw the oxidizer ramp up we
saw some initial instabilities and then
the system shut down automatically
however in that very short period of
time we saw it looks like about 50
kilonewtons of thrust not bad not bad in
fact it's the most powerful engine test
we've had yet
the old third time's a charm didn't hold
up this time but two months after CNN's
visit to the company's test facility
blue shifts team figured it out and had
their third successful engine test
there'll be plenty more to come if they
were to get to space after all it is
rocket science
there's a lot of talk about
getting off this planet and changing
other ones if anything let's work on
fixing this planet treat it right before
we can worry about dressing up other
planets
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for today's 10 out of 10 we're heading
to a meeting of British politicians why
you might ask because the speaker was
the world's first ultra realistic
humanoid robot artist technology can be
both a threat and an opportunity for
artists creating art I do not have
subjective experiences
despite being able to talk about them
I've bought to admit that's pretty
impressive this robot called Ada spoke
to UK politicians about the effects of
Technology on the creative industry not
only can the bot give speeches it can
write poems and sketch drawings too at
one point the robot's computer went to
sleep though and needed to be reset by
its inventor nobot is perfect none of
you ever fall asleep in the middle of
class right right okay wake up now it is
time to get rolling but before I go I
want to give a special shout out to
San Miguel Middle School in Providence
Rhode Island from me and my team have a
wonderful weekend everyone I'm koi this
is CNN 10. it's been a blessing to share
this week with you
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