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Space tourism is the recent phenomenon of tourists paying for flights into space.
As of 2009, orbital space tourism opportunities are limited and expensive. A short while ago we only had the Russian Space Agency providing transport via their Russian Soyuz TMA-16 Spacecraft. But we’ve learned that an American based company called Virgin Galactic isn’t far behind with their SS1 and SS2 Spacecraft. And it looks like the pricetag on the Virgin Galactic flights is going to be FAR more reasonable than their Russian counterparts.
Guy Laliberte the Canadian acrobat and founder of Cirque du Soleil is set to become the seventh private space explorer when he lifts off Sept. 30 aboard the Russian Soyuz TMA-16 Spacecraft.
Laliberte booked his trip with the Russian Federal Space Agency through the U.S. firm Space Adventures, which usually charges about $30 million for the excursions. Laliberte is set to visit the International Space Station for about 12 days.
The last space tourist to fly was Charles Simonyi, a Hungarian software executive who made his second paid trip to the space station in March, also through Space Adventures. Laliberte will be making the eighth space tourist flight.
It is said that Laliberte could be the last private citizen to travel to space for a while. If NASA retires its space shuttle fleet in 2010 as planned, the Russian vehicles will be the only way to transport people to the International Space Station. In that case, available Soyuz seats could become scarce for space tourists.
But we found out that since this statement was made there has been a new company rising out of the shadows that could possibly revolutionize the space tourist industry AND the way we explore space.
The company is called Virgin Galactic Tours.
Virgin Galactic’s sub-orbital space trips promise to be the most intense and wonderful experiences that passengers have ever had. Astronauts of the past 45 years have all returned to earth struggling to convey the enormity of what they have discovered and with their perceptions clearly changed. To be able to extend that privilege to people from all walks of life has been a long held ambition at Virgin. To date more than 200 tickets have already been sold!
Get this! The cost of the flights are only $200,000 as compared to Russia’s $30 million! And I’m sure the price will go down the more popular this gets as does with just about everything.
Here’s how it will work:
The Virgin Galactic SS2 (Space Ship 2) will be carried by a revolutionary mothership called WhiteKnightTwo. She will climb to a height of around 50,000 feet (approximate cruising altitude of Concorde) where SS2 will be released before firing her rockets and accelerating in a vertical climb reaching a speed of 3.3 mach. Shortly afterward SS2 will slow to allow you to enjoy zero g and continue to climb to a total altitude of 110km or 360,888 feet – that’s 10 kilometers or 33,000 feet into space! After enjoying some of the most spectacular views and sensations ever experienced by humankind, the wings of the spacecraft will feather to allow a safe re-entry at around 6 g’s. After re-entry the wings will re-configure to allow a gentle glide back to the spaceport. On your return to terra firma you will be given your Virgin Galactic astronaut wings! To visit Virgin Galactics Video Gallery to see first hand what awaits Virgin Galactic Astronauts…Click Here.
History Channel full length documentary discusses Chemtrails and H.A.R.P. and how they may be used in conjunction with one another. So if you’ve ever wondered what chemtrails are and what they are for you need to see this video.
This technology presents a serious challenge to those who support Al Gore’s version of Global Warming and the remedy of a CAP and TRADE tax.
The documentary is a frank admission that chemtrails and Weather Warfare technology is causing or contributing to Global Warming: “The temperature of the sky is raised to over 100 deg. F. preventing the accumulation of water vapour that would otherwise form clouds and produce rainfall.”
This stunning conclusion is not new, however Al Gore says the discussion is closed. All the while, Gore and the IPCC have consistently avoided discussion of Chemtrails, aerosols or any other alternate man-made causes of Global Warming, preferring to blame CO2 as the culprit by which to impose an involuntary, global tax.
The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) plans to have fully humanoid robots that think, act, react, learn, make decisions all on their own, and live amongst us all, by the year 2025 or even sooner. We are talking only 16 years or less. Robotics is alot more important to the New World Order Agenda than a lot of people may think. The NWO knows that almost none of the police or military are actually going to turn on the citizens of their own country and enforce martial law and a police state. This is why (IMO) that robots are a crucial factor to the success of the NWO. intelligent humanoid robots are exactly what the NWO needs in order to police and enslave everyone.
If you like testing pre-release software this is your chance to try out the latest windows operating system, Windows 7, for free.
Here the latest buzz on Windows 7:
“All in all, Windows 7 is shaping up well. It’s a far more modest release than Vista was, but it’s no worse for that. The new OS introduces a compelling combination of welcome innovations and much-needed polish, and that’s exactly what Microsoft needs right now. Vista’s foundation was solid, and Windows 7 just makes it better.”Peter Bright, ArsTechnica
This beta release automatically sends the microsoft programmers any crash errors and information they need to edit and refine the release. You just download it, install it and use it like you would normally.
People are trying various sources to produce alternative energy. We have often witnessed children flying kites. But very few of us have given a thought to generate energy from kites. Scientists from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands produced energy from the wind by flying a 10-sq metre kite that is attached to a generator. It generated 10 kilowatts of power. This energy was enough to meet the power needs of 10 family houses. Scientists are now aiming for a 50kW version of their invention. They have named it Laddermill. Their ultimate aim is to go for a version of multiple kites. They will be able to produce 100 megawatts of power that could meet up the energy requirements of 100,000 homes. In order to generate power the kite pulls a string attached to the generators on the ground. Upon reaching their maximum height, they are reeled back down to repeat the process.
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Wubbo Ockels, who is the professor of sustainable engineering and also a former astronaut, is leading the Laddermill project. “We need to use all the energy supplies that are offered to us by nature, we need diversity and kites are … intriguing and fascinating.” He explained that kites are a cheap way to reap the vast amount of energy available in the wind at a kilometer or more above the ground. It should be noted that winds carry hundreds of times more energy beyond one km or more above the ground than on the ground.
Google.org, which is the philanthropic wing of the California-based web-search company, agrees with Wubbo Ockels. Google.org spent $10m (about £5m) last year on a US kite company called Makani. Google.org has committed itself to invest and encourage the organization’s Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal program.
Both of the above organizations are aspiring to avail the high-altitude wind. Tapping wind at considerable height is beneficial in many ways. First, it is the energy source that is more abundant than ground level wind. Wind at high altitude is dependable too. Speed of the wind at considerable height is more assured than ground-level wind which normal turbines depend on. Ken Caldeira, who is a climate scientist at Stanford University’s Carnegie Institution, has projected that the total energy contained in wind is 100 times the amount needed by everyone on the planet and most of it is available a higher altitude.
As we know, the blades of average windmills are situated about 80 meters from the ground. At that height normally the wind speed is five meters per second. But if we go higher say at 800 meters, wind speed is seven meters per second. More speed means more energy. Till now we don’t have a technique to place wind turbines at the height of 800 meters to generate more energy. But we can easily use kites at that height.
European countries such as UK, the Netherlands, Ireland and Denmark have another advantage too. They fall in the high stream jet area that is ideal for flying kites. Allister Furey of the University of Sussex is involved in developing computer control mechanisms that suggest ways to maximize the power generated from kites. Allister Furey said about the advantages of the kite energy, “Pretty much anywhere in the UK you could run a kite plant economically, but you couldn’t run a wind turbine economically.”
Furey’s computer models have established that flying kites in a figure 8 pattern means the air flowing over them travels even faster than the surrounding wind velocity. When a kite is reeled in, it falls out of the sky like a glider, without the need for much power. This way the kites can generate maximum power. He is considering applying the same prototype on multiple kites that behave like a yo-yo; when one kites comes down, another goes up. Ockels estimates that kites could generate power at less than 4p per kilowatt-hour, which is comparable to coal power and less than half the cost of electricity from wind turbines.
Furey explained further, “The first systems will be community scale that could power a large farm and sell some electricity back to the grid. Once the technical issues have been sorted out, you can scale them up to the level of a coal-fired plant. All you have to do is multiply the number of kites and you can have a farm as big as you want.”
Kitegen, an Italian company, has quite ambitious plan come regarding energy generated from flying kites. They are developing a theoretical paradigm for a system that could produce a gigawatt of energy. A normal coal-fired power plant produces that amount of energy. They think that flying 12 sets of lines with four 500-sq metre kites on each will be sufficient to achieve the target.
Nick Rau, an energy campaigner at Friends of the Earth, shared his views, “We could easily supply our electricity demand from offshore, even with other demands on sea such as shipping, fishing and defense radar. These new [kite] technologies allow us to go further offshore and avoid other problems. We have an abundance of renewable energy and there are a lot of visionary technologies coming along so that, in future, the sky’s the limit.”
It’s about time people started realizing the sun, the water and the wind are here for us to use as our power sources and the blood of the earth should be left alone.
According to a news article from The Associated Press a giant solar energy plant is to be built the New Mexico desert and is believed to be the largest such project in the nation. Awesome!
The new Solar Thermal plant will sport a whopping 92 megawatts and could produce enough electricity to power 74,000 homes.
Click here for the rest of the story at firstcoastnews.com.
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Rovio is a remote robot / camera for your home (or whatever else you wanna monitor) that you can control from almost any device anywhere in the world. Your cellphone, your WiFi connection at the hotel on vacation. From work. Anywhere.
You can even communicate with people at home. Say goodnight to you kids etc. The video says you can use it to attend conferences (which seems kinda weird to me). You just have to watch the video to understand.
This thing is amazing. It would be great as an addition to your security system.
You can set it on remote before you leave and it will roam around your home scanning and recording everything that happens. You just set the waypoints and it will patrol relentlessly. You can even view the live feed right from your phone or any web enabled device.
As you guys probably already know I’m a big big fan of Mark Tilden the inventor and creator of the BEAM philosophy of building biomorphic robots that can sustain themselves and maneuver around in our world without computers.
Mr. Tilden has worked at NASA, Los Alamos National Labs and he has been working for Wowwee toys for some time now. He is the inventor/creator of the very popular Robosapien and RoboRaptor line of biomorphic toy robots that have been so popular at Christmas time for the past few years.
One of his latest creations the RoboQuad is one of the coolest toy robots I’ve ever seen. It has the ability to actually be practical in home security and monitoring.
I posted a video about the roboquad being controlled by Skype with a mobile phone awhile back that touched on the potential practicality of this “toy” robot.
But Wowwee Toys seems to be expanding their product line to include some pretty cool electronic gadgets as well. Like the Cinemin™ Swivel portable multimedia pico projector. Powered by TI’s DLP Technology for ultra clear picture quality and designed to work with handheld devices like Apple’s popular iPod and iPhone, Cinemin takes projection out of boardrooms and movie theaters and into the palm of your hand.
Check out this video of the Cinemin pico projector doing it’s thing at CES 2009
Rovio is a remote robot / camera for your home (or whatever else you wanna monitor) that you can control from almost any device anywhere in the world. Your cellphone, your WiFi connection at the hotel on vacation. From work. Anywhere.
