Space Race

Many people believe they have, while the majority of the world think that it is completely ludicrous. I fall in the minority who believes there has been contact and there are great reasons why I believe so. According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, it has been confirmed that elements found on Earth and in its atmosphere have been detected throughout the universe. Those same elements are what allow the human…

Would you be surprised if the entire human race would be moving to a whole other planet? Although it is shocking, an article published by The Week’s staff, “Billionaire Space Race” has said we are supposed to move within the decade. “ Musk vows to send an unmanned capsule within two years to begin conducting experiments on the Red Planet and lay the groundwork for landing humans there by 2025.” Another Article called “78.000 People Sign Up to Move to Mars FOR LIFE” explains how people are…

When it comes to the United States, space exploration has always been a strange and peculiar subject. It seems everybody has an opinion on whether or not the billions of dollars the government is spending on funding towards NASA has been beneficial towards the wellbeing of the country. President-elect, Donald Trump, just recently issued a statement saying that NASA will shift its focus towards space exploration and less towards climate change, stating that it is just a “political hoax”. Trump…

A Letter to Adam J. Banks Dr. Adam J. Banks: I write this letter in order to express to you the impact your article, "Race, Rhetoric, and Technology: Searching for Higher Ground," has had on me personally. As someone who identifies as White, it has opened my eyes to how different spaces of the Internet react to the expression of Black culture. This reaction reflects a racism that has gradually been institutionalized within our society for hundreds of years, and is one that Whites should be…

I was surprised by Joshua Lederberg’s actions after the Soviet Union launch Sputnik and the space race began. I can imagine that most people where concerned for the safety of their country during the Cold War with the fear of nuclear warfare. Yet, Lederberg was concerned with protecting the “indigenous life-forms across the solar system.” This was surprising because I believe, had I been in Lederberg’s position, that I would be more concerned with the impeding danger on Earth rather than the…

Burgess; “Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?” This emphasizes some of the main problems with space colonization, and how prevalent it has been in history. This concept can be seen in the novel Nemesis by Isaac Asimov, which explores the development of colonies in space, and how different individuals react towards colonization. Within the novel it is shown that humanity is a species that constantly destroys everything in its…

things just as salmon swim upstream.” NASA has been sending satellites, space shuttles, people, and many other things into space ever since they were first created, but sending all those things into space isn’t the only thing that NASA has done, they have also done as much as they can to help the people. Even though many people believe that NASA’s inventions are only beneficial to themselves and anything relating to outer space, their exploration and studies have also helped advance technology,…

the technology to get there and set up a base. We have done extensive research on this planet and strongly recommend that this mission is approved and carried out. One reason that this mission is essential to the development of NASA and the human race is the physical features of the land. Pluto is cold, but has 30% water ice and 70% rock material. The planet is perpetually dark, but we have the ability to bring lights and power to set up a way to ensure that the planet will have light,…

exemplify the innovations in street photography. They each control the image in order to put forth a critique on the urban space. In general, both artists explore the alienation and loneliness in the urban space. Specifically, diCorcia utilizes mise-en-scene in order to create a very dramatic, cinema-like image that comments on the disparities between groups like gender, class, and race. In a similar fashion, Renaldi uses collaboration (directing his subjects to touch) which reveal genuine…

Whenever tragedy strikes, no matter the significance, a reassuring voice is something that helps immensely to those who lost something irreplaceable. The head of the land of liberty has a responsibility to calm the nation, especially for an event an entire country lacked the ability to ignore. Nixon needed a speech that would assure the public that the two traveler’s trip to the moon was not for loss in the worst case scenario. The speech’s effectiveness mostly comes from the emphasis that…