Thursday, July 23, 2015

Exoplanet Kepler-452b

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Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Tackling the Energy & Environmental Challenges of the 21st Century

"It's About Global Ethics and Global Security"

THINK DIFFERENT 

In the interview below, Grubb argues that tackling the energy and environmental problems of the 21st century requires three different domains of decision-making to be recognised and connected. These domains are: saticficing, optimising and transforming. Each domain involves different theoretical foundations, draws on different areas of evidence and implies different policies. For example, the theoretical foundations for each domain include behavioural, neoclassical and evolutionary economics respectively. Each is equally important.

Structural Inefficiency 
A lot of credit going towards unproductive uses that create asset bubbles. How do you get capital to flow into low carbon investments?

 "You have alot of capital just sitting around earning very, very little interest. When you look at the economics of low carbon investments .. will generate return over decades in the form of generating very low marginal cost of power."



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Monday, July 20, 2015

Gods Among the Stars: Why Egyptian Names Grace Comet 67P

When the Western world began unearthing ancient Egyptian cities and decoding the remnants of those cultures, once-hidden histories were illuminated for a new group of people. Now, scientists are trying to excavate an object of even greater antiquity: a comet traveling around our sun.

Sunday, July 19, 2015

The Potential $100 Trillion Market For Space Mining

Who owns the asteroids in our solar system? It may seem strange, but Congress hopes to answer over the next few months with a new bill that is currently being reviewed by the Senate.

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Space Mining Updates...

Cyclone Space Mining pushing to remain a leader at NASA competition

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Saturday, July 18, 2015

Space Mining Updates...

A study released today by the International Academy of Astronautics found that space mineral resources (SMR) can benefit humanity and serve as an economic “game changer,” especially in developing countries.

 The study, the most comprehensive to date, examined the latest technologies, economics, law and policy related to SMR opportunities and included several recommendations to space agencies and analysis of options to advance this exploration.

 “This study is not about how to leverage space mineral resources, but rather how best to leverage them,” according to Art Dula, co-editor of the study and a faculty member of the Houston Law School where he teaches space law.


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Friday, July 10, 2015

SpaceX rocket failure cost NASA $110 million

SpaceX and Orbital ATK are part of NASA’s plan to use private contractors to carry cargo and astronauts to low-earth orbit while it focuses on longer distant space exploration, including eventually taking humans to Mars.
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Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Space Technology Export Controls and International Cooperation in Outer Space

Export controls definitively impact international cooperation in outer space.

Civil and commercial space actors that engage in international endeavors must comply with space technology export controls. In the general discourse, members of the civil and commercial space community have an understanding of their domestic export control regime.

 However, a careful reading of the literature on space technology export controls reveals that certain questions relevant to international engagements have not been identified or answered. What is the legal-political origin of space technology export controls?

How do they relate to the current international legal structure? What steps can be taken to evolve our current unilateral paradigm of space technology within the context of peaceful exploration and use of outer space?

In this book, these and other relevant questions on space technology export controls are identified and assessed through an insightful case-study of the U.S. commercial communication export control regime.

The findings of this case-study are used in an international legal-political analysis of international space law, public international law, and international cooperation.

Breaking new ground in international legal theory, a self-justified security dilemma that is manifest in international law is identified and explained as the origin for the current paradigm of space technology export controls.

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Tuesday, May 26, 2015

RUSSIA SPACE PROGRAM - Pres. Putin held a meeting on developing the space sector.



Future-oriented development programmes were the main focus of attention at the meeting. Other subjects of discussion included the situation with work at the Vostochny Space Launch Centre.
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Thursday, May 21, 2015

International Flag Of The Planet Earth May Be Used During Space Travel

Since Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, the iconic visual of the American flag they left behind marked NASA’s success in going where no man had gone before, marking their arrival for future visitors to see. 

Since then, all space suits worn by Americans have been adorned with the American flag. However, NASA has been supporting a design that may replace the American flag during space travel. 

The new flag, called the International Flag of the Planet Earth, is expected to represent Earth as a whole, rather than segment only the United States. Read More

Plan To Make Cheap Spacecraft


The CubeSat, a spacecraft that is just 10cm by 10cm, has been enthusiastically adopted by citizen scientists, students, and budget-strapped researchers over the past few years. Even a high-end CubeSat with a sophisticated suite of sensors and communications gear usually costs just a few thousand dollars, and they can fly with everything from cameras to biology experiments. Read More

Space Launch System gets funding from House Appropriations Committee


The House Appropriations Committee has passed a NASA budget for 2016 that tells the space agency Congress is serious about the big new rocket being developed in Alabama, wants it used more, and is ready to spend more money to build it. Read More

Asteroid 9340


77 Fighter Pilots Awarded Gold Medal by Congress

“We were destroying locomotives and freight cars that were supplying the Japanese army as it fought its way southward toward the bridge that crossed the Yellow River,” Arasmith said. “Capt. Field, who was leading our high cover, intoned in his unflappable voice, ‘Zeros, boys.’ ” Sure enough, there were four enemy planes. “The Japanese pilot ahead of me got out of his cockpit onto the wing of his plane to parachute,” Arasmith said. “My flight leader said, ‘Kill him.’ So I killed him.” He said it was the pilots’ job to destroy the enemy’s ability to make war. “This is my ‘life changing’ experience and I remember it again and again even after 71 years.” “You do what you have to do,” McPherson said. “You find out you have more determination and strength than you thought you had. I think all servicemen find that out.” And McPherson doesn’t want anyone thinking war is fun. “It was quite an experience, although I don’t think I’d want to do it again.”Read More 

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Andrew Jackson and the Constitution: The Rise and Fall of Generational Regimes





What happens when the political ideas and constitutional interpretations of one generation are replaced by those of another? This process has occurred throughout American history down to the present day as "we the people" change our minds about how we govern ourselves. 

Depicting a monumental clash of generations, Gerard Magliocca reminds us once again how our Constitution remains a living document. Magliocca reinterprets the legal landmarks of the Jacksonian era to demonstrate how the meaning of the Constitution evolves in a cyclical and predictable fashion. He highlights the ideological battles fought by Jacksonian Democrats against Federalists and Republicans over states' rights, presidential authority, the scope of federal power, and other issues. By doing so he shows how presidential politics, Supreme Court decisions, and congressional maneuverings interweave, creating a recurrent pattern of constitutional change. Magliocca builds on the view that major changes in American political and constitutional development occur generationally—in roughly thirty-year intervals—and move from dominant regime to the emergence of a counter-regime. 

Focusing on a period largely neglected in studies of such change, he offers a lucid introduction to the political and legal history of the antebellum era while tracing Jackson's remarkable consolidation of power in the executive branch. 

 The Jacksonian movement grew out of discontent over the growth of federal power and the protection given Native Americans at the expense of frontier whites, and Magliocca considers such issues to support his argument. 
 He examines Jackson's defeat of the Bank of the United States, shows how his clash with the Marshall Court over the Cherokee "problem" in Worcester v. Georgia sparked the revival of abolitionist culture and foreshadowed the Fourteenth Amendment, and also offers a new look at Dred Scott, M'Culloch v. Maryland, judicial review, and presidential vetoes. 

His analysis shows how the interaction of reformers and conservatives drives change and how rough-and-tumble politics shapes our Republic more than the creativity of judicial decisions.

 Offering intriguing parallels between Jackson and George W. Bush regarding the scope of executive power, Magliocca has produced a rich synthesis of history, political science, and law that revives our understanding of an entire era and its controversies, while providing a model of constitutional law applicable to any period.
The author includes a step-by-step description of how Bitcoin works, starting with public key cryptography. He goes on to explain how transactions are processed, exploring the blockchain and reviewing how the wallet and mining technologies are structured. This vital resource reviews Bitcoin from the broader perspective of digital currencies and explores historical attempts at cryptographic currencies, all the way through to innovative applications such as decentralized exchanges or autonomous agents.

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