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I was under the impression that no probe or anything we have sent out into space has left our galaxy in order to take a picture of the galaxy itself from a distant outside perspective.
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Data from public opinion polls indicate that nearly fifty million people would like to visit space. In fact as many as two million people each year would take the journey beyond the outer limits of Earth’s gravity. The public’s fascination with space travel means the potential development of a space travel tourism industry with revenues that could amount to $10 billion or more every year.

Therefore, it really is not hard to understand the interest in commercial space travel by private business. In fact, more than six companies are working to making commercial space travel a reality. However, the company that is closest to becoming the industry pioneer is Virgin Galactic. The company is a well funded joint venture of Richard Branson, Burt Rutan, and Paul Allen.

Eager future space travelers should consider that the development of Virgin Galactic’s Space Ship Two is nearly completed and could be performing test flights by the end of the year into space. The spacecrafts successful predecessor, Spaceship One, last reached space on October 4, 2004, winning the $10m Ansari X Prize. The larger and more powerful, Space Ship Two, is being built to accommodate two pilots and six passengers. Indeed, there will be enough room on board to experience the freedom of movement in the zero gravity of space. Initially, Virgin Galactic has ordered five spaceships to begin the business of commercial space travel and tourism.

The Spaceships will launch from the Virgin Galactic’s spaceport which is currently under construction in the state of New Mexico. The spaceport will be the first commercial space launch and control facility in the United States. The $200m spaceport project is designed to cover 27 square miles. It will feature a mission control station, runways, and the Virgin Galactic headquarters. Much of the facility will be built underground.

Customers that want to experience commercial space travel have been lining up for tickets. 75 people have already paid the entire $200,000 fee. William Shatner, Sigourney Weaver, and Paris Hilton are reported to be among the early space tourists while hundreds of others have put down more than thirty million dollars in deposits to reserve their seat for a flight on Virgin’s Spaceships. However, the initial experience of commercial space flight will be brief and it will not exactly represent a bargain ride. Passengers will spend just under 10 minutes in space at an altitude of only 65 miles, high enough to experience free fall and to see the curvature of the earth.

Of course, the creation of the new space travel tourism industry comes with government regulations. Already the United States Federal Aviation Administration has published its guidelines for commercial space travel, one hundred and twenty three pages of regulations that require disclosure and passenger training. Requirements include a disclosure on the number of trips the spacecraft has made into orbit and a history of its problems as well as a notice that the spacecraft has not been government certified. Also required is pre flight training for passengers in order to be properly prepared to handle emergencies such as a fire or loss of cabin pressure. Passengers will also be subject to the no-fly list currently operating in the US which is designed to stop terrorists boarding regular passenger flights.

It is expected that once people experience future commercial space travel, that they will want to make space their ultimate vacation destination. Therefore, the next innovative commercial space business venture may be the orbiting space hotel. Robert Bigelow, who made his fortune with hotel chain Budget Suites Of America, is already working on a prototype orbiting hotel. Bigelow has invested $75 million into the project, with a estimate of $425 million more a necessary commitment for the future.

His orbiting hotel venture is being developed under the corporate name of Bigelow Aerospace. The firm has successfully completed the first phase of the project by launching a small pod that inflates aloft called Genesis I. It is the first in a series of launches scheduled every six months for the next two and a half years. Genesis I has marked the beginning of what could be the first privately funded space station. The project is a prototype for cheap, livable, interconnecting rooms for commercial use in space similar in design to the International Space Station. In fact, Genesis I was an early concept for the ISS that was researched through funding by NASA. Robert Bigelow has since purchased the rights to the patent of the technology for his Genesis prototype.

Spaceports, flights to space, and orbiting hotels in space, indicate that a new era of commercial space travel and tourism is on the horizon. It will surely represent another small step for the creativity of man and a potentially giant leap to profitable opportunity for business and commercial enterprise of every kind.
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Scientists have so accurately known the universe that they can predict the movement of planets and stars for many thousand years. It is possible to predict eclipse accurately in seconds, for many thousands years in advance. It is possible to know the movement of a tiny electron. It is possible to even to send a rocket in another planet.

Yet it is impossible to predict the behaviour of man. Not even for the one who is your best friend or your closest relative. All knowledge of the science seems useless to predict the behaviour of a common man.

Scientists attempted to understand man in the same way as matter and called this science “psychology” which is defined as “The science that deals with mental processes and behavior”.

Yet even after hundreds of years of knowledge produced by the physiologists, hardly any one uses these researches for understanding people. These researches are so contradictory to each other that one can easily find supporting research for any decision he wishes to take or not to take.

Knowing Man Is The Easiest Art

Interestingly, nothing can be easier and simpler than understanding people. Even an illiterate person can understand people easily without reading any book. Even animals like dogs understand man quite accurately and can easily distinguish their friends and enemies. All animals have inborn capability to understand all other species of the world. You don’t have to teach a mother to understand her child nor her child to understand her mother.

The attempt to understand man in scientific way has actually made the matter only complicated and complex without yielding any result. In reality, there is nothing as easy not only to understand man but also know man as one knows oneself. It is foolish to understand man through books which are complex and confusing. Einstein rightly said,

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.”

In the matter of man, every man is a genius as he can understand man easily, naturally and simply.

If understanding man is so easy that even an illiterate man an automatically develop an understanding of human being, why most men make so many mistakes in judging people?

What can be more important than understanding man?

Understanding men can really make a man successful professionally and personally.

Why then we know so little about other men?

The answer is hidden in the question itself.

Most of us want to know man not to love them but to use them for our advantage often at the cost of the other person. We simply want to manipulate the man by knowing him. We have done it successfully to other species of this world and made them our servants. However, how can he same trick work against another man who is as intelligent and capable as we are.

Thus every person gradually learns in his life to be secretive and not to reveal his true self to others for the fear of being cheated.

So most people learn the man not by their direct experience, but from the books which are written with a purpose and a goal. They mostly comes to wrong conclusions as Einstein warned,

“Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking”

However, mere thinking only produces more confusion rather than giving any real understanding of man.

What Prevents Understanding of Man

The biggest hurdle in knowing the man truly is the education of a man. While all children think similarly and have no difficulty in making friends or understanding each other, every expert or educated person have bias against everyone else.

Man gets his education at such an early age that the educated knowledge gets imprinted in the mind of the man very deep. Unless he acquires further knowledge by direct experience, such impressions become permanent in his mind like a line on a stone.

Most people become biased due to education as they develop wrong notions about every person based on their race, religion or caste etc. Later in life , it become extremely difficult to remove these biases as people try to educate themselves more to overcome these biases. The more you read and educate yourselves about people , the more bias one develops.

The only method to know people is by intuition and self learning. The true learning comes only by experience and by self analysis. As a person starts relying on the knowledge acquired by the self, he starts trusting himself more than the books and experts. This gradually leads to unlearning of the knowledge that was the result of education as such knowledge are less and less used and gets faded from the memory of the person.

Developing Intuition

“The only real valuable thing is intuition.” said Einstein. However, it is not easy to develop intuition if one has developed reason and logic which can be used to prove anything.

Intuition that comes from soul is much deeper than reason and logic. It is beyond logic yet not illogical. It is the sixth sense who source is unknown to logical mind. Yet we all are gifted with intuition without which it is impossible to lead a normal life. One can never perform even his day to day work unless he uses intuition in taking decision which is not purely based on logic.

People often confuse their imagination with intuition. While imagination is a wishful thinking, intuition is the representation of truth that comes from the soul. The necessary condition to have the right intuition is by removing the element of self-interest in our imagination which seems to always color even the best intuition. Once man becomes free from the self-interest, his intuition become closest to the reality and the truth.

Knowing A Man as Self

It is easy to now a person once a person has start trusting himself and hence his judgments. It is because every person is connected through each other by a common thread which is often called God, or Spirit or Paramatma. Thus the person knows the other person just like he knows himself due to the connections of the souls with each other. This process is s simple that it requires no learning. It is so easy that everyone can do it provided you have learned all about man from books and scriptures. You have to just put aside all books and learn the man by yourself. Knowing a man is after all not a rocket science that can be written in a book and understood by reading.

In the words of Albert Einstein
“The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking…the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.”
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Sometimes pricing your products seems like an adventure into a strange new world. The process can seem too complicated for anyone but a rocket scientist to comprehend. Our goal is to bring this process back to Earth for you by explaining some pricing basics.

How do you price your product now? Answers from businesses can vary from “less than our competition” to “the highest price my customer will pay.” Either tactic has a negative side that can cost your company customers and profits. Because most of you are too busy to be rocket scientists in the pricing galaxy, we developed this series of steps to help you understand pricing – no space ship required.

1. DO YOUR HOMEWORK

Know Costs: There is no substitute for thoroughly understanding your product costs and the variability of those costs – that means the resources used to create, produce and market your product. Unless you know all your costs by product and by customer you could be losing, rather than making, money with each sale.

Understand Market Value: Realistically compare your company’s product to your customer’s expectations and perceptions. You must also understand your competition and trends in your target industry.

Set Objectives: Once you have a thorough understanding of your costs it’s time to explore two of the ways your company can set pricing objectives. Generally, pricing philosophy is based on company goals such as:

Sales Growth – For a variety of reasons, such as immediate expansion needs, a company may set sales growth as an objective. When selecting this as an objective, it is critical to remember that higher sales do not automatically produce higher profits. In fact, sometimes the cost of expanding sales volume, such as increased costs of production, distribution or customer service, becomes so great that profits actually decrease.

Profit Growth – Frequently, corporate goals such as a targeted return on investment or a profit maximization philosophy necessitate a “pricing for profit” objective. Be sure you take both short and long-term profit goals into account when implementing this objective. Also, study the implications of each pricing change on the health of your business.

2. SELECT YOUR STRATEGY

It’s now time to select your pricing strategy based on your costs, company objectives and the perceived market value of your product. Although strategies can become quite complicated and detailed, the following list discusses basic options most companies find useful. Your choice depends on an internal assessment of your company’s objectives and an objective analysis of the market in which you compete.

Cost-Based Pricing:

Definition: Price is based on a product’s total fixed and variable costs.
Example: Typical pricing in commodity markets. For example, a commodity-type raw product such as steel is priced using a standard formula based on cost.

Caution: If you use this exclusively, you must be able to stay in business with a very low profit margin. In non-commodity businesses, this option should be only one aspect of the total product pricing strategy.

Demand-Based Pricing:

Definition: Price depends upon your customers’ perception of your products’ value and the level of demand for your item. Your product must provide a unique benefit to your target market.
Example: Your product has prestige appeal so it can be priced in a range well above the cost of production. For example, luxury cars and gourmet food have prestige appeal.

Caution: Success depends on your knowledge of your customers and your market. You must have an uncanny skill for accurately estimating customer demand to avoid disappointing sales results.

Competition-Based Pricing:

Definition: Price is set in relationship to your competition’s prices. In some cases this may be below cost and is usually indicative of a product that has no competitive edge.

Example: You are caught in an industry “price war” where all products must compete on the basis of price or risk losing their market share.
Caution: Your company’s long-term goals may be sacrificed in the interest of competitive pricing. Also, you are at the mercy of the larger companies in your industry that can afford short-term losses in order to play this expensive game of war.

Value Pricing:

Definition: Gives your customer more quality for less than they expected to pay.

Example: Used when you want to gain market share, position your product with customers, or obtain market acceptance of a new product.
Caution: Product quality must be consistent and your company must operate efficiently for this to be an effective strategy. Using this strategy means that you understand your customers and competitors very well. In addition, you may find it difficult to raise prices to more profitable levels once your initial distribution goal is achieved.

3. TEST YOUR PRICING THEORY

Pricing your products is almost as complex as rocket science but not quite as predictable. At best, your product pricing is based on information that can change daily or even hourly. For that reason, it is critical that you test the validity of your pricing strategies with a small customer sample or market segment and evaluate your pricing periodically to adapt to changing market conditions.
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I just noticed they are selling some of the retired ones for 42 million plus shipping and handling :-/

BUT if you won one or something- How would you paint it or decorate it or furnish it etc…

Sorry I am gonna do the Christmas tree thing already lol
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Building a rocket is one of the best science fair project ideas – especially for students interested in physics and flight. If this is one of the science fair project ideas that interests you, read on to learn exactly how to complete this project.

Remember: in order to complete the science fair rocket project, you will need to have safety equipment on hand, such as goggles. This is also one of those science fair project ideas that might be best performed with adult supervision. Safety first

Objective
The objective of the rocket is to determine what rocket design changes actually change the speed and projection of the rocket itself.

Introduction
Many children have played with model rockets. After all, they are loud, fast, and provide an excellent way to learn about physics. This particular science experiment will help you build your own rocket that will travel up to hundreds of feet in the air. Many real rockets can travel for thousands of feet into the air. From this experiment, you’ll also learn about aerodynamics and safety when working with rockets.

Terms and Concepts You’ll Need to Know
When you work on this model rocket, you’ll need to know about the four forces that impact flight. They are weight, thrust, drag, and lift. You’ll also need to know the equation for drag. This experiment will also help you to learn about how to stabilize a rocket by using center of gravity and center of pressure.

Materials You Will Need
You will need to buy a model rocket and related components for the rocket. You should be able to find a model rocket between $50 and $100 online or through a local toy store. Make sure the rocket you purchase is reusable!

Procedure Tips
In order to perform this procedure, you’ll be testing the rocket based on variables that you choose, such as flight duration, distance, and more. You can choose your own variables. This is one of the cool science fair project ideas because you are able to customize the project for your own needs and interest. For example, if you are interested in what will happen to the launch of your rocket if you remove a propeller or modify the tip of the rocket, you can experiment.

Here are some specific tips for you, no matter what variations you use.

Plan several launches for each variable. In order to complete this experiment, you’ll need to perform the rocket launch several times. Each rocket launch will measure a different variable. For all rocket launches, you should use the same engine (or an identical engine) to ensure that the launch is the same as the others. It may also be best to take an average of three flights per each different variable that you measure in order to ensure that your reading is as accurate as possible. Use trackers to measure altitude. Unless you are able to get on top of a very high building or latter, it can be difficult to measure the altitude of your rocket. However, by using trackers on taller items, such as trees, you may be able to get a close estimate. Look for rockets that have radio attachments on them (as long as they are within your budget). Consider wind and thermal lift conditions when measuring flight duration. If you are measuring flight duration as one of your variables, be sure that you consider environmental conditions as well as conditions directly related to your experiment. Only change one variable per flight. By changing only one variable, it will be easier to measure how those variables actually impacted the flight of your rocket.

Remember: this is one of the science fair project ideas that I like the most because it is fun to build and execute. Safety should always come first. It might also be good to have a back-up rocket in case your rocket gets lost or damaged during the experiment. Most of all – have fun!

If you’re ready to get going with your own rocket project, your next step is to download a free copy of “Easy Steps to Award-Winning Science Fair Projects” from the link below right now.”
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If the govt is funding a study, don’t you think the study won’t be biased and the scientists will give whatever results the govt is looking for so they can continue to receive funds for further studies? Afterall, it IS a racket.
Do you really think any research being funded by the govt is truly unbiased?
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Then as a scientist do you believe the statement, drawn from research by NASA that Global Warming is man-made due to Greenhouse Gas Emissons (as opposed to the Natural Cycle theory of many other scientists who are not being paid to come up with an answer)
Bob, I showed your answer to a scientist and here is his response to your statement:
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What a hoot!. As a scientist who has worked for big brother…this answer is so far from reality. Hard to know where to begin to answer. He either knows nothing and won’t make it or is one of the bad guys…
Wait till he gets his grants refused on politics, nepotism, influence… He’ll wake up and probably go to the bad if he’s not already there. His disillusionment is going to really really smart when it comes.

From the extreme naive and inaccurate answer one has to suspect it makes him a student or post doc or one of the bad guys he talks about…Definitely not telling it like it really is…

Govt and academic (govt especially)

1) They are under extreme pressure to produce quantity not quality. So there’s a ton of them that will publish or write anything..outside their area of expertise, write silly position papers (say on global warming), reviews..can
give you true examples if you want..

Each year, me and all my employees got rated by publications per head..NOT QUALITY
OR ACCURACY and as the leader the AMOUNT of MONEY I brought in.

I had lots of employees and so just on numbers was extremely prolific but my boss pressured me continuously to make things up and increase the publication number..I wouldn’t.

2) Research funding is down so there’s lots of scientists trying to to save their jobs (see my get laid or eat comments). The disciplines of science are over populated for the resources..they are getting down to eating their young out of desperation (racketeering too to use the naive critters comments).

They will say or do anything. Need for food will override anything same for a tenure academic. Worst time I have ever seen in hype (not just in environment stuff). NASA in particular cause lots of fellow Americans who don’t see the relevance of the money spent on what they mean American’s lives and think NASA funding would be better spent on say health care.

So they are trying to look relevant..say saving the planet from evil global warming
They got another agenda…its cash and save our jobs (whatever it takes)..

As the Cold War ended,lots of govt. scientists funding got zeroed. Americans not scared of nuclear war anymore who needs a atmospheric turbulence lab if the bombs aren’t going to turbulence it??? If the bomb isn’t going to trash stuff with an EMF pulse, who needs the EMF scientist at the govt. lab? Who indeed?

So lots of them thought up new scares, ooooh scary cell phones and scary EMF causing cancer, ooooh scary global warming..etc. etc.
) Hugely Silly Stupid comment..”can’t be fired in govt. or loose tenure for disagreeing with a position that the administration or just your boss wants..been there done that..

I got fired for pointing out my boss was forging results and refusing to fake data myself (by the way I had the govt. equivalent of tenure, lol). I had the hard evidence on him too.

Here’s how it went. A group leader was being pressured into sex with her boss (mine too different divisions) and her refusal was going to get her fired (he took away her funding, not his money…her funding). Her husband, a scientist too asked me to help. He knew I had the hard evidence on the boss. I was leaving and didn’t want to get into the fight.
The husband’s boss, a big scientist, called me in for a chat got me into the fight with the quote by Edmund Burke, “Evil can only prevail while good men stand by and do nothing”. I swore at him for 15 minutes straight. Thought up some good original obscenities too. I knew he had me with this argument.

I initially got fired in that fight. But the good guys eventually won. The right thing eventually came about..not the way the naive critter that made the post would think.

My boss was bringing in lots of money from Washington so didn’t matter if he was making up stuff to get the money or sexually harassing his female employees etc.
They fired him when the cash flow went down. lol. They weighed his cash flow verses the trouble if the two managers went public with the environmental data forgery, sexual harassment (and a host of other things like misappropriation of funds, doing things directly ordered not to by Congress etc.). I was there as this debate was taking place. He was still bringing in huge dollars but less.. for a moment I thought we were going to loose. I was leaving so wouldn’t have hurt me but I feared for the wife of the other scientist..she would have to “give it up” or be fired if we lost.

They don’t want the truth..just $$$$ honey..When in doubt about anything..follow the cash girl (NASA, global warming etc. etc.).

Oh, by the way he was forging environmental risk studies..get the trend whats going on right now…lol..
4) They have been after Hansen for years for hyping the meaning of his results..they right, he right nobody knows. When Hansen’s cash level drops..they will take him..

The guy that started all the electromagnetic fields cause breast cancer, cell phone hooey was a govt. scientist. Didn’t dare touch him while the press really had its teeth in this scare. The data eventually proved him wrong. They went in and he was shown to have forged his data he used to trying to scare you..Really quietly fired him for this…You didn’t hear that did you! Probably still think your cell phone and toaster causing cancer. not your fault, his and govt. agency his boss.

5). Academic tenure is similarly reliable. HAHAHAHAHAHA..Its all about money, what you bring in the university and salary for yourself..Data hyping, forgery, fraud at all time high from these sources..Not just a few as this naive critter says. The competition for grant funding is incredible. You get fired if you don’t bring in cash.
Publish or perish…

Plus, you can publish some hooey and nobody really checks..less you wade into global warming. You use your buddies to peer review your paper.rub my back I get a grant and I rub yours and you get a grant..everybody eats. Peer review system got a terrible problem…

6). Preferred outcome..happens all the time..see my example on risk of coal fired plants verses nuclear plants.

7). Academic types are soooo busy trying to get company money..I get hit up by them continuously. Its not the private company scientists you have to worry about. Its the govt or academic types, Lots and lots of them for sale. lol..

8). Company types got their problems too but their products have to work every time on time. The ultimate test of truth..not to mention they have the govt. regulator scientists watching everything they do, not to mention observation by the hypocrite academic types..They are under a much bigger microscope than the govt. or academic types.
Public companies have a zillion shareholders…they make something that doesn’t work cause bad science, environmental damage and loose shareholders money…they are toast…Quite the opposite on the tenure comment, they don’t have tenure to hide under…

Private scientist got their provocations to lie too. But more scrutiny on them.

9) Lying or backing a wrong theory bad for your career…hohohohoho.. I can tell you some stories about some of the most notable data forgers and where they are still working (including my former boss, lol).. You guessed it full professors at universities…

Makes me sad and want to puke that the “racket” of scare tactics, corruption, fraud, politics, influence peddling has become so persuasive in my chosen career…
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What is Rocket Spanish?

Rocket Spanish is the amazing “learn Spanish on line” course created by Mauricio Evlampieff. The whole idea behind the Rocket Spanish course is to teach people Spanish in 3 months through games and audio programs. Although the price of this program is cheap, you will still get all of the quality of a more expensive spanish speaking program. Here is how Rocket Spanish compares to other Spanish teaching programs on the market.

Competitor #1
Rosetta Stone is the biggest competitor for Rocket Spanish. Rosetta Stone is not necessarily bad, I’m just saying that you would spend 4 times the price of Rocket Spanish, for a lower quality of education. You see, Rosetta Stone assumes that you already know a little bit of Spanish. With Rocket Spanish, you will start with Spanish one, and work your way up until you can speak Spanish fluently and easily.

Competitor #2
The next competitor in line is the Pimsleur course. With Pimsleaur, you will have 100 audio courses, consisting of about 20 minutes each.. This is 2,000 minutes of learning. Their are two disadvantages to this program. The first disadvantage is the price. At over 9 times the price of Rocket Spanish, it will quickly burn a hole in your pocket. The next disadvantage of the Pimsleur course is that it is all audio. Personally, I am a visual learner, and I couldn’t concentrate through TWO THOUSAND minutes of audio learning.

Overall you can see that Rocket Spanish has defeated the competitors in every aspect of learning to speak the Spanish language. With a small fraction of the price, and the capability to learn Spanish from day 1, Rocket Spanish is clearly the best option if you want to learn Spanish on line.
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