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"Blue Voyage"

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:18:41 GMT

"Blue Voyage"

is the most authentic mode of travel of Turkey.
It's the search of mankind for the traces of his existence in a sunset, struggle of a fish to escape from the hook, ruins of a church or a tower, bees drinking seawater. It's an exploration towards nature and naturalness in space dimensions, towards history and background of human being in time dimension.

The gullet tourism, other than bareboat concept, is a travel and vacation type that is derived from Blue Voyage tradition and peculiar to Turkey, which can be considered fully Turkish style. This is a type of yacht tourism made with the vessels having permanent crew or multi-property yachts, which became famous at the classical, ultra-luxury or international races and then adapted from classical, ultra-luxury or international races and then adapted to tourism or, in some exceptional cases, with yachts adapted from classical design basically.

Tags: travel, sailing, yatching, turkey, blue cruise

The space race in Asia

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:03:43 GMT

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Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

BANGALORE, India (AFP) - India will launch its first lunar mission on October 22 from southern India, a top official from the country's space agency said Monday.

India will join Japan and China in moon exploration with the planned mission. The spacecraft will conduct a lunar orbit at a distance of 385,000 kilometres (240,000 miles) from Earth.

Last year, China's Chang'e I lunar satellite took off on October 24 after Japan launched its Kaguya lunar orbiter on September 14.

Last month, millions in China watched as astronaut Zhai Zhigang, 41, embarked on a 15-minute space walk, during which he waved a Chinese flag in the weightlessness of low orbit some 340 kilometres (210 miles) above the Earth.

India's first robotic mission, budgeted at 90 million dollars, will be followed by another in 2012, ISRO has said. A timetable for a manned mission will be announced this year.

Spacefaring nations are accelerating their quest to reach the moon more than three decades after the last human landing

'Space elevator' would take humans into orbit

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:13:04 GMT

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Clip Source: www.cnn.com

'Space elevator' would take humans into orbit

LONDON, England (CNN) -- A new space race is officially underway, and this one should have the sci-fi geeks salivating.

The project is a "space elevator," and some experts now believe the concept is well within the bounds of possibility -- maybe even within our lifetimes.

A conference discussing developments in space elevator concepts is being held in Japan in November, and hundreds of engineers and scientists from Asia, Europe and the Americas are working to design the only lift that will take you directly to the one hundred-thousandth floor.

Despite these developments, you could be excused for thinking it all sounds a little far-fetched.

Indeed, if successfully built, the space elevator would be an unprecedented feat of human engineering.

Tags: space elevator, space, space exploration, sci-fi, orbit

50 YEARS OF NASA

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:03:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: NASA celebrating 50 years of space exploration

Clip Source: www.nasa.gov

NASA: 50 Years

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NASA's Roadmap to 2058

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:16:19 GMT

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Clip Source: www.space.com

50 Years in Space: NASA's Roadmap to 2058

Some Predictions

Now for the uncertainty. Try this out for size, in 2058:

NASA is still around and narrowly focused on exploration and the goal of extending human presence throughout the solar system. The first humans have long since landed on Mars and there is a thriving science colony near the moon's south pole.

Construction has begun on a radio telescope on the moon's far side and the lunar base has been established for years as one of the nation's centers for excellence in fusion and alternative energy research.

While proof of life - ancient and bacteria-sized - exists throughout the solar system, there is still no sign of intelligent life in the universe, not that NASA is looking.

In the meantime, the commercial space world by 2058 has become a major component of the space program, bigger and busier and more productive than NASA and the military combined.

Suborbital hops as thrill rides

Tags: nasa's roadmap to 2058, nasa, space, future, technology

China's Space Mission a Success.... at who's expense?

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:16:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: How much milk did they taint for this? How much did they scrimp on quality for exportation to other countries in order to afford their space rendezvous?

I bet.... if we were to ban certain imports from China, it will be a long time before they are seen in space again.

grrrrr

Clip Source: www.efluxmedia.com

China’s Space Mission Is A Success, Shenzhou VII Lands Safely

By Diane Smith
12:37, September 28th 2008

Although Zhai's maneuvers represented the 298th spacewalk of all time, it was a milestone for China. The space walk was a key experiment in China’s endeavor to prove its might not only on Earth, but also in space. China celebrated the space walk as a prelude to further exploration of areas which only Russia and the United States managed to reach.

The country’s last manned mission took place in 2005, two years after its first manned launch. The efforts for improving the Chinese space program have intensified in the past few years and there are many plans for the future.

The mission is giving China much confidence as its developing endeavor for the stars grows into maturity. "Many standards have already been set and there has been strong support from society as a whole,"

Privately-funded Rocket Reaches Space

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:39:14 GMT

clipped by: Andy Greenberg
clipper's remarks: Just a few days after the Chinese government performed its first spacewalk, SpaceX has achieved the first successful rocket launch funded by a private company. Finally, space exploration as a for-profit venture might be starting to make sense. And that may mean a new sort of race to the moon is beginning--this time between China's government and American private industry.

Clip Source: blog.wired.com

SpaceX Did It -- Falcon 1 Made it to Space

SpaceX has made history. Its privately developed rocket has made it into space.

After three failed launches, the company founded by Elon Musk worked all of the bugs out of their Falcon 1 launch vehicles.

The entire spectacle was broadcast live from Kwajalein Atoll in the South Pacific. Cameras mounted on the spacecraft showed our planet shrinking in the distance and the empty first stage engine falling back to Earth.

"I don't know what to say... because my mind is just blown," said Musk, during a brief address to his staff after the successful launch. "This is just the first step of many."

The feat is a giant leap forward for privately-funded space ventures, and follows the spectacular 2004 suborbital flight of SpaceShipOne.

Musk seemed almost overcome with emotion. In the coming years, his company will try to make space transportation ten times cheaper and more reliable.

Tags: spacex, nasa, china, elon musk

SpaceX launches 1st commercial rocket into orbit

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:25:48 GMT

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Clip Source: ap.google.com

SpaceX launches 1st commercial rocket into orbit

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An Internet entrepreneur's latest effort to make space launch more affordable paid off Sunday when his commercial rocket, carrying a dummy payload, was lofted into orbit from the South Pacific.

It was the fourth attempt by Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, to launch its two-stage Falcon 1 rocket into orbit.

"Fourth time's a charm," said Elon Musk, the multimillionaire who started up SpaceX after making his fortune as the co-founder of PayPal Inc., the electronic payment system.

The rocket carried a 364-pound dummy payload designed and built by SpaceX for the launch.

"This really means a lot," Musk told a crowd of whooping employees. "There's only a handful of countries on Earth that have done this. It's usually a country thing, not a company thing. We did it."

Musk pledged to continue getting rockets into orbit, saying the company has resolved design issues that plagued previous attempts.

Tags: space

Electromagnetic relativity drive being built

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:05:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: They also said the article should never have been published. "It is well known that Roger Shawyer's 'electromagnetic relativity drive' violates the law of conservation of momentum, making it simply the latest in a long line of 'perpetuum mobiles' that have been proposed and disproved for centuries," wrote John Costella, an Australian physicist. "His analysis is rubbish and his 'drive' impossible." Shawyer stands by his theoretical work. His company, Satellite Propulsion Research (SPR), has constructed demonstration engines, which he says produce thrust using a tapering resonant cavity filled with microwaves. He is adamant that this is not a perpetual motion machine, and does not violate the law of conservation of momentum because different reference frames apply to the drive and the waves within it.

Shawyer's big challenge, he says, has been getting people who will actually look into his claims rather than simply dismissing them. Such extravagant claims are usually associated with s

Clip Source: mysterytopia.com

Chinese building 'impossible' space drive

Chinese researchers claim they've confirmed the theory behind an "impossible" space drive, and are proceeding to build a demonstration version.

f they're right, this might transform the economics of satellites, open up new possibilities for space exploration - and give the Chinese a decisive military advantage in space. To say that the "Emdrive" (short for "electromagnetic drive") concept is controversial would be an understatement. According to Roger Shawyer, the British scientist who developed the concept, the drive converts electrical energy into thrust via microwaves, without violating any laws of physics. Many researchers believe otherwise. An article about the Emdrive in New Scientist magazine drew a massive volley of criticism. Scientists not only argued that Shawyer's work was blatantly impossible, and that his reasoning was flawed.

NASA Chief: Space Key To Long-Term Survival

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:13:46 GMT

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Clip Source: www.breitbart.com

Space exploration key to mankind's survival: NASA chief

However, in the long run, Griffin believes "human populations must diversify if it wishes to survive."

"I can think of no lesser purpose sufficient to justify the difficulty of the enterprise, and no greater purpose is possible."

Tags: nasa

Chinese Say They're Building 'Impossible' Space Drive

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:33:48 GMT

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Clip Source: blog.wired.com

Chinese Say They're Building 'Impossible' Space Drive

September 24, 2008 | 10:29:00 AM

By David Hambling

Chinese researchers claim they've confirmed the theory behind an "impossible" space drive, and are proceeding to build a demonstration version. If they're right, this might transform the economics of satellites, open up new possibilities for space exploration –- and give the Chinese a decisive military advantage in space.

"Emdrive" (short for "electromagnetic drive") concept is controversial

Roger Shawyer, the British scientist who developed the concept, the drive converts electrical energy into thrust via microwaves, without violating any laws of physics

Scientists not only argued that Shawyer's work was blatantly impossible, and that his reasoning was flawed

the article should never have been published

Roger Shawyer's 'electromagnetic relativity drive' violates the law of conservation of momentum

Shawyer stands by his theoretical work

Satellite Propulsion Research (SPR)

Tags: space drive, emdrive, electromagnetic relativity drive

What's McCain's Plan On The Gang of 20 Energy Legislation?

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:39:19 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: Republicans in the gang appear to have seriously underestimated their party’s strength on this issue. Two-thirds of the public supports opening the Outer Continental Shelf to new drilling. The gang is undermining Republicans in a fight they are winning politically and policy-wise.

McCain opposes wasteful spending and supports offshore drilling. The Gang of 20's bill contains a lot of the former and very little of the latter, and it raises taxes on domestic energy production. Americans for Tax Reform has announced that a vote for the gang's bill would constitute a violation of its taxpayer protection pledge, which McCain has signed.

Obama will probably end up supporting the gang's bill. Why wouldn't he? Its drilling provisions are a sham, but it lets him claim he supports drilling. McCain needs to strongly oppose this bill. By doing so, he would be holding out for a better policy (the expiration of the drilling ban) and denying Obama valuable political cover.

Clip Source: corner.nationalreview.com

I'm hearing disconcerting rumors that McCain is planning to endorse the so-called Gang of 10 16 20 energy legislation. That would be a huge mistake. In terms of its effect on the conservative base, supporting the Gang of 20's energy bill would be like McCain pouring a big bucket of cold water on the fire he started with the Palin pick.

Here's what the editors had to say about the gang last week:

Tags: outer continental shelf, gang of 20, mccain, the expiration of the drilling ban, 2/3 public support

Congress and energy

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:04:14 GMT

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Clip Source: article.nationalreview.com

Liquid Pork

The bill would open up a tiny little smidgen of space on the Outer Continental Shelf for oil and gas exploration — just enough that Democrats who vote for it can claim to be pro-drilling, neutralizing one of the Republicans’ most energizing issues going into the November elections. But the benefits of the bill’s meager drilling provisions would be negated (and then some) by $30 billion in tax hikes on U.S. oil companies, placing our own domestic producers at an additional disadvantage compared to their overseas competitors. In exchange for very little new supply, these companies would pay higher taxes related to the crucial activities of exploration and refinery-capacity expansion. To nobody’s great surprise, the industry is not eager to accept this trade.

WHY IS NASA LOOKING TO NAMBLA !

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:40:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Is that what their calling it the days "extraterrestrial life" So what's a matter Micheal Jackson won't return a call . for those who might not know, I read that Carl Sagan was a lover of young boys !

Clip Source: www.reuters.com

NASA seeks next Carl Sagan - and extraterrestrial life

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, famous for its manned missions to the moon, announced the creation of the Carl Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowships in Exoplanet Exploration on Wednesday.

The fellowship is named after the late astronomer who popularized science through his books and television appearances.

The fellows will search for life on planets outside our solar system, the so-called exoplanets, more than 300 of which have been discovered since 1994.

Super-Space Cube "to Link All Known Technologies"

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:14:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It's not just the connections that are built for extraterrestrial operation: the unit is highly impact resistant, of course compact, and draws a minuscule five watts to operate. The trade off for these tiny requirements is less than impressive specs: a 300 MHz processor and only 16 MB of RAM.

Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

A super-sophisticated space cube of technology - and this one isn't bent on our assimilation. That's probably because it's only five centimeters to a side, and Borg that you can hold in your hand aren't intimidating no matter how much they insist that "size is irrelevant".

The cute little computer is some literally space-age technology, built by the Shimafuji corporation for operation off the planet. Rather ominously like it's Borg brethren, the cube is designed to link up to all known space technologies - those of NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Japan Aerospace exploration Agency (JAXA, and it's always nice to see an organization prepared to mangle capitalisation for a good acronym).