Geosynchronous orbit

We’ve been listening for alien signals for several decades, though the silence has led as many to wonder if we are listening for the right things as those wondering if there are any aliens at all. What many fail to understand is how many signals a civilization like ours produces that are lost to the background noise before anyone outside our system would hear it, much less what they might learn if they were able to pick up our signals? What signals would an alien civilization detect? And what…

space elevator has existed since before the era of the Jetsons, and technology is finally catching up. The concept of a space elevator is fairly simple a ribbon or tether made of carbon nanotubes is suspended from a satellite that orbits with the Earth in geosynchronous orbit, then robots powered by energy beamed from earth climb into space and then slingshot off the tether out to the rest of the universe riding the gravitational pull of planets. According to Dr. Bryant it costs roughly $23,000…

There is a six century gap between my oldest words, ‘monument’, to my youngest word ‘synchronization’. When this time span is put into perspective this gap does not come as a shock. Monuments have been built since the beginning of time. Their purpose is to commemorate and immortalize important people and significant events that have happened in history. For instance the Great Pyramid of Giza was built to serve as a final resting pace of a pharaoh. The Parthenon in Athens, Greece was once a…

The very first data communication the was done electrolytically was in 1836 by Samuel Morse. He demonstrated the ability to Transmit information over wires. This information was sent using a series of electrical signals. In 1844 Morse demonstrated to the US congress the practicality of his invention by sending a message from washington to baltimore, it read “What Hath God wrought”. With this invention made the world seem smaller than ever before making it easier to access information. It would…

Though, when Jose Cordeiro asked Clarke what he thought about religion in general, Clarke replied “Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses. I am afraid to be struck by lightning one day while saying this” (Cordeiro). The slight skepticism in this quote is manifested in Clarke’s short story The Nine Billion Names of God. In this story, the Dalai Lama calls a man to create a machine that will print out all of the names that describe God in a specific language that the monks had devised…

We are all aware of what lengths some nations will go to with their propaganda to persuade their nation to believe what they want them to believe. Communism in the Soviet Union was based extremely upon the Marxism- Leninism theory. Marxism- Leninism is an ideology which combines Marxism and Leninism. Marxism is concepts theorized by Karl Marx. Leninism is theoretical expansions of Marxism by Vladimir Lenin. During the time in which communism started in Soviet Russia, what used to be…

Introduction (Group) Data mining is discovering the methods and patterns in large databases to guide decisions about future activities and the use of automated data analysis techniques to uncover previously undetected relationships among data items (Witten & Frank, 2005). Many suggest that the intentional acquisition of the data is an invasion of privacy. Data mining and collection, like many technologies, is a constantly evolving practice, as are the laws and regulations that govern it.…