Cryogenics

we humans travel to a new planet which it takes roughly five years and ten months during this times humans are entered into a Cryogenic sleep. Although the space travel is more advanced in Avatar than in District 9, it can not be said it has evolved the science fiction genera as Star wars has even more advanced space travel with the hipper jump, and the idea of Cryogenic sleep used in Avatar can be see in the 1986 movie 2001: a space…

Ice and how its seen Ice, frozen water that is very brittle. That is the definition of ice. While it may have one definition it can be interpreted in many different ways around the world. Depending on who you're speaking to they might interpret ice as cold and unforgiving. However, another person might say that ice is the breath of god. The symbolic meaning of ice can be seen in literature with Game of Thrones, Film with Futurama and Batman, art with ice sculptures, religion with…

Thermal energy strorage Thermal Energy Storage is the temporary storage of high or low temperature energy for later use, bridging the gap between requirement and energy use. The storage cycle might be daily, weekly or seasonal depending on the system design requirements, and whilst the output will always be thermal, the input may be thermal or electrical. Principle 1) Sensible Heat Storage Heating a liquid or solid, without changing the phase: This method is called sensible heat storage.…

DESCRIPTION OF FAILURE The Shuttle Launch system consists of three components: The Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs), the External Fuel Tank (ET) and the Orbiter. Several different types of insulating foams cover a large part of the ET, which contains the cryogenic liquid hydrogen and oxygen that fuel the three Space Shuttle Main Engines, to keep the propellants cool and to prevent the formation of ice outside the tank. Approximately 82 seconds into the launch, Columbia was struck by a large piece…

Contemporary competitive sport is a rivalry on the border of the bodies endurance. Along with the improvement of training methods, these boundaries are shifted and it is difficult to determine the real limit of human potential to beat consecutive records. The commercialization and the popularity of big athletic events on television, along with the enormous sums of money paid to athletes for their performance, intensify the competition. All this creates new medical problems; new quality disease…

The advent of tissue culturing in the early 1900s has shaped modern science tremendously. Fields such as cell biology, molecular biology, biochemistry and many others are heavily dependent on cell culturing to carry out experiments. Cell culturing initially began when pioneering scientists sought a way to study cells outside their tissue origin. They began with tissues and then later on, techniques were developed that enabled the study of individual cells in vitro that would give rise to…

Chapter 5 - Co-opetition and Coevolution 5.1 Introduction Much at times traditional cooperation fail because stakeholders think their success comes at others’ expense. Thus the solution is co-opetition, in which parties in act with partial congruence of interests. Instead of traditional cooperation, where parties come together and pretend to not compete, co-opetition uses the competitor’s strength in order to prosper together. Co-evolution occurs as a means to adapt to the environments when two…

An Impossible Mission Only the third intended mission to the moon and it wouldn’t quite make it. On April 13, 1970 two days after flight Apollo 13 lifted off something went wrong. The three men, Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise trained as any other astronaut would, but what happened was unpredictable. The three men had just finished a broadcast to the citizens back home without many people joined watching. It was 56 hours into the mission where a cryo-stir had occurred this caused…

. you bastard." She forces the words out of her mouth causing her to cough violently. "Critical failure in cryogenic array. All vault residents must vacate immediately," the Vault-Tech computer announces. "What? Fuck," Athena cusses under her shaky breath. She punches the glass rather weakly. Suddenly, the door begins to open. Athena attempts to carefully step out of the cryogenic pod but she loses her footing and falls onto the frozen floor. Her whole body feels like it's cramping.…

Nick Gadbaw ESS 102 14 October 2014 Professor Harnett The Negative Effects of Long Term Space Travel and How to Address Them My science fiction story will take place on Mars. The Russians have successfully landed a ship on the surface of Mars and the Americans are not far behind. The mission is to establish an oxygen rich environment on the surface of mars in small scale to test the possibilities of large-scale migration to Mars. The Russians lose contact with their craft after one day on the…