until there is light; the darkness reveals the dark side of the moon‚ then the earth and the sun rising behind it. This new perspective ignites our imagination and curiosity. It offers us life and death‚ beginnings and endings. In the film‚ a space mission to Jupiter is led by Bowman (Keir Dullea) and Poole (Gary Lockwood)‚ in order to trace signals being transmitted there by a monolith discovered on Earth’s moon. Overseeing the voyage is a supercomputer known as HAL 9000 (voice of Douglas Rain)
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years later‚ the United States executive branch no longer cares about moon travel. I guess it is just old and cliché and has been done before. So now President Obama wants to hand over space travel to private companies who are just going to compete with NASA for contracts to send astronauts to the moon in their "space taxis". The rationale behind Obama cutting funding for the Constellation program‚ possibly the only good thing George Bush did in his reprehensible and embarrassing eight years as president
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Title: Economic situations for Tesco in the UK and China To: From: Date: 08/11/12 Procedure: to describe the influence of two economic environments on business activities within a selected organisation. Also to compare the challenges to selected business activities within a selected organisation in different economic sectors. This report will consist of information about the economy in the countries. China and UK. Also there will be information about Tesco in both of these countries and why is
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1. What are the functions performed by the marketing and distribution channels for cosmetics products? Which of these functions are most important? Why? Distribution Channels in the cosmetics industry consist of individuals and firms‚ involved in the process of making cosmetic products or services available to consumers. Marketing channels make possible the flow of goods from a producer‚ through intermediaries‚ to a buyer. Intermediaries perform 3 basic functions - Transaction‚ Logistical‚ Facilitating
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Electronics Society SPACE VECTOR MODULATION –An Introduction == Tutorial at IECON2001== Dorin O. Neacsu Correspondence Address: Satcon Corporation‚ 161 First Street‚ Cambridge‚ MA 02142‚ Email neacsu@earthlink.net I. INTRODUCTION Space Vector Modulation became a standard for the switching power converters and important research effort has been dedicated to this topic. Tens of papers‚ research reports and patents were developed in the last ten years and the theory of Space Vector Modulation is
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The Ideal Living Space There are many different styles of homes. The ideal living space is a place that reflects the individual. Before a person can come to find their chosen home‚ they must first look at some factors. For instance‚ the individual must decide where he or she wants to live. The individual must then decide what characteristics the house should have. The ideal living space includes many furnishings which are different for each home. Each person has his or her own idea of an ideal living
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A number of Star Visitor races evolved to intelligent life forms on their respective planets across the universe. Some of these civilizations are millions of years old. Other intelligent races "out there" developed not solely from evolution‚ but from other races’ "missionary" sowing of intelligent life on planets they discovered whose indigenous biota had evolved to the point where one or more animal species could provide a suitable anatomy and physique for engineering in high intelligence and
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Gummy Bears in Space Statement of Problem How‚ Popsicle sticks and rubber bands‚ can you build something to launch a gummy bear? Hypothesis If I tie three Popsicle sticks in a certain way‚ and tighten rubber bands around them‚ when you pull the rubber bands they will create enough potential energy to launch a gummy bear. Variables Independent: Rubber bands and‚ the Popsicle sticks Dependent: The distance the gummy bear travels Materials and Procedures Materials: • 3 rubber bands
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research on Reentry and Deorbit burn procedure and discussed how it is achieved. Now in this interim report we discussed on how the space shuttle maneuver does and positions itself in reentry. Furthermore we researched on how the shuttle is protected from extreme heat during reentry and extremely cold temperature in the space. The Space Shuttle Orbital Maneuvering System: OMS is a system that contains liquid propellant rocket engines that are installed in the aft section
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influence over others Prestige (RESPECT) Social Inequality is structured by: Race‚ Class‚ and Gender a. Individual experience and action (we think of social inequality as a personal experience) b. Built into society through social institutions‚ which permeate society Prejudice- is negative thoughts against others(non-whites the out-group) Discrimination- taking action on prejudice that harms others RACE-is not scientifically valid or useful way to think about human diversity (most ppl
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