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caused a loss of revenue as people found alternative places to spend money. On the other side, certain people in groups were able to profit such as the native americans in the grand canyon, private museums, the visitor center in alexandria virginia, SpaceX a private space firm. However, if we are to be called humanitarians, can we ignore the damage, which may not have been taken into consideration in the view of an economist, but happened…

Q2:What Contingency Theory (pages 337-341) of leadership allies to this Leader? Examine and apply the two theories of Charismatic and Transformational Leadership to this Leader. Determine the level of authenticity, ethical and trustworthy behavior of this Leader (pages 349-355). (Chapter 12) There are four contingency theories of leadership: Least Preferred Co-Worker where the Fiedler Model is utilized. This model, created by Fred Fiedler, “proposes that effective group performance depends on…

Depending on the person's size and weight, one could only live for approximately three weeks before dying of starvation. So obviously the colonies will need food in order to survive. There have many ideas, put forth by NASA and SpaceX; that involve sending pre supply probes that contain food and other necessities, a couple years in advance. This would be similar to how the Ares missions worked in The Martian, by Andy Weir. In the book, NASA would send these packages of food, and other materials,…

manufactured from aluminum. Not only did Tesla realize that aluminum was a fraction of the weight of steel, it was also a lot stronger. How did Tesla know this? By cross-fertilizing its assets from two different industries, Tesla’s engineers visited Musk’s SpaceX venture and were then able to adapt the aluminum body from its Space X falcon rocket for its cars. (Gibson, 2016) Musk is additionally an advocate of prioritizing knowledge over experience. He understands the un-met and unarticulated…

Q1. I will address this question by examining some relevant forces from the PESTEL model and Porters 5 Forces analyses (as shown in Appendix 1 and 2.). From a political standpoint, new CO2 rules are being put in place in Europe and the US to tax vehicles that don’t reach strict target efficiencies (1) (EV companies are exempt). California is also providing EV companies with ‘zero emission credits’. In contrast however, the recent drop in the global fuel price is making fossil fuel vehicles more…

Colonizing Mars: Must or Bust? For the better part of the last century, the thought of landing man outside our planet has been an inviting target for international space agencies, distinction seeking engineers, grandeur adventurists, and dreamers of all ages. Carrying on the momentum from the Space Race and mankind's giant leap towards the moon, the next great phase in our mission to colonize outer space has been the Red Planet, Mars. The fact of the matter, however, is that the amount of…

What began as a disorganized group of organizations vying for space turned into a unified NASA. Now, space exploration is a multi-billion dollar industry. Private companies such as SpaceX (Elon Musk, Tesla) and Blue Origin (Jeff Bezos, Amazon) are both conducting research and building rockets. Both companies spend a portion of their funding on exploring ways to have mankind travel outside of our atmosphere. This is known as space…

company that was establish in July 1, 2003, in which they design electrical cars and all components related to it. The name is inspire by Nikola Tesla, an inventor in 1888. Elon Reeve Musk is the CEO of Tesla Motor, but he is also known as the CEO of SpaceX and the inventor or PayPal. Tesla produces its vehicle in a factory in Fremont, California but has other factories in specialized production. As of November 17, 2015, at 2:54 P.M. EST, NASDAQ has listed the price of their stocks is at…

Dylan Jeffery ESS 102 4/19/18 Cut off from the Stars : Space Debris & Space Travel As time passes, humanity seems to inch closer and closer to the tipping point of becoming a truly space faring species. However, that momentous step in our evolution could potentially be cut off from us forever if we are not careful with how we handle the already growing space debris problem today. Space debris, in this context, is all of the bits of destroyed man-made technology left in space, some of which…

What is space? Is it an endless void of aimless wander, a gold mine of opportunity, or our only way that we can save ourselves from the potential decline and destruction of humanity? For the previous fifty years this planet has seen more disgusting mistreatment of nature and the natural way of things than in all of Earth’s history. The planet is in decline and if we do nothing to set things right, we will soon see the collapse of modern society. A combination of pollution, global warming, and…