tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22668708642838977102024-03-13T16:44:05.117-07:00Far Future Horizons Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16635359150114513605noreply@blogger.comBlogger1071125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266870864283897710.post-53133888913228020022018-02-13T00:05:00.000-08:002018-02-13T00:05:10.032-08:00The 21st Century Race for Space<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A
new age of space exploration, and exploitation, is dawning. But surprisingly,
some of the boldest efforts at putting humans into space are now those of
private companies started by a handful of maverick billionaire businessmen.
Brian Cox gains exclusive access behind the scenes at Virgin Galactic, Blue
Origin and Spaceport America, exploring what is really happening in privately
financed space flight right now. From space tourism to asteroid mining, and
even dreams of colonies on Mars, these new masters of the universe refuse to
limit their imaginations. But are private companies led by Jeff Bezos, Sir
Richard Branson and Elon Musk really going to be able to pull this off? How
will they overcome the technical challenges to achieve it? And is it really a good
idea, or just a fool's errand? Cox meets key players in the story - Bezos,
founder of Blue Origin as well as Amazon, and Sir Richard Branson, founder of
Virgin Galactic. He wants to find out how entrepreneurs - and engineers -
really plan to overcome the daunting challenges of human space travel. It
certainly hasn't been easy so far. Jeff Bezos has sold a further billion
dollars of Amazon stock this year to fund Blue Origin. Branson has been working
on Galactic for more than a decade. Lives have been lost. And some companies
have already all but given up. But real progress has been made too. The origins
of the new space boom, the X-prize in 2004, proved that reusable space craft
could be built by private enterprise. Now the challenge is to work out how to
run reliable, safe, affordable services that will show a return on the massive
financial investments. Sixteen years since Dennis Tito became the first
civilian in space, Cox explores the hardware and companies that are aiming to
make daily tourist flights to space. Beyond mass space travel, and even space
mining and manufacturing, the dream of Elon Musk and others is true space
exploration. His company, SpaceX, already delivers supplies to the
International Space Station, and their next step is delivering astronauts too.
But their true ambition is to ensure the survival of the human race by crossing
our solar system and colonizing Mars in the next decade. Could commercial
spaceflight companies eventually make us a space-faring civilization?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In
this film, Brian Cox gains exclusive access behind the scenes at Virgin
Galactic, Blue Origin and Spaceport America, exploring what is really happening
in privately financed space flight right now. From space tourism to asteroid
mining, and even dreams of colonies on Mars, these new masters of the universe
refuse to limit their imaginations. But are private companies led by Jeff
Bezos, Sir Richard Branson and Elon Musk really going to be able to pull this
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meets key players in the story – Jeff Bezos, founder of Blue Origin as well as
Amazon, and Sir Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Galactic. He wants to find
out how entrepreneurs - and engineers - really plan to overcome the daunting
challenges of human space travel. It certainly hasn't been easy so far. Jeff
Bezos has sold a further billion dollars of Amazon stock this year to fund Blue
Origin. Branson has been working on Galactic for more than a decade. Lives have
been lost. And some companies have already all but given up. </span></i></b><br />
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has been made too. The origins of the new space boom, the X-prize in 2004,
proved that reusable space craft could be built by private enterprise. Now the challenge
is to work out how to run reliable, safe, affordable services that will show a
return on the massive financial investments. Sixteen years since Dennis Tito
became the first civilian in space, Cox explores the hardware and companies
that are aiming to make daily tourist flights to space.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-GB">O star of
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<b><i><span lang="EN-GB">Star with royal
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<b><i><span lang="EN-GB">Westward leading,
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little town in palestine? Who were the wise men? Were there just three? Did
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Jerusalem? Was Jesus born 2005 years ago? Is December 25<sup>th</sup> his real
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a celestial object that could have led the wise men to the Christ child. A
planet was called a "wandering star." A meteor was a "shooting
star." And a comet was a "hairy star" because its tail looked
like a beard. These are all candidates in our search. See the new research of a
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mankind into space. In the 1930’s many thought their calculations and ideas to
travel to the moon were foolish but Clarke saw differently keeping books of
calculations of possible ways that space travel could occur.</span></i></b><br />
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Force, Clarke was stationed to man the top secret radar system, The Mark I.
This equipment allowed operators on the ground to talk to the pilots so that
they can land in the dark. Clarke realized this technology could someday connect
the human race. In an impromptu experiment, Clarke tried to bounce the radar
signal off the moon hoping it would come back but failed. The moon was too far.
It made him think: What if something man made could be sent out into space that
was closer to the moon to bounce the signals back? The concept of the
communication satellite was born. By 1965, the first communications satellite
was launched at a height of 22,000 miles above the equator and the orbit it
takes is now called the Clarke Belt.</span></i></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On October 4<sup>th</sup>, 1957 Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, was </span>launched <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">and humanity entered the Space Age. </span></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Battle for Malta is one of the most vicious and
violent episodes of the Second World War. The tiny Mediterranean island is
smaller than the Isle of Wight, yet between 1940 and 1942 more bombs fell on
Malta than fell on Britain during the entire Blitz. As Axis forces threw all
they had at the island, those on Malta were forced to endure a sustained attack
from the air and a rapidly deteriorating condition on the ground. Beyond any
form of austerity that we might understand, little Malta was close to starving.
The struggle of the Maltese people against oppression was recognised personally
by King George VI, who awarded the George Cross to the entire island. Yet the
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1942 Malta had become the most bombed place on Earth. Whilst the level of
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<b>Today marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Pedestal" target="_blank">Operation Pedestal</a>, a
British operation to get desperately needed supplies to the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">island</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Malta</st1:placename></st1:place>
in August 1942, during the Second World War. Malta was the base from which
surface ships, submarines and aircraft attacked Axis convoys carrying essential
supplies to the Italian and German armies in <st1:place w:st="on">North Africa</st1:place>.
In 1941–42, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Malta</st1:place></st1:country-region>
was effectively under siege, blockaded by Axis air and naval forces. To sustain
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Malta</st1:country-region>, the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United Kingdom</st1:place></st1:country-region>
had to get convoys through at all costs. Despite serious losses, just enough
supplies were delivered for <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Malta</st1:place></st1:country-region>
to survive, although it ceased to be an effective offensive base for much of
1942. The most crucial supply was fuel delivered by the SS Ohio, an
American-built tanker with a British crew. The operation started on August 9<sup>th</sup>,
1942, when the convoy sailed through the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Strait</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Gibraltar</st1:placename></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></b><br />
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<b>The convoy is also known as the "<st1:city w:st="on">Battle</st1:city>
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ships of the convoy on August 15<sup>th</sup> 1942 coincided with the Feast of
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<b>The attempt to run some fifty ships past bombers, E-boats,
minefields, and submarines has gone down in military history as one of the most
important British strategic victories of the Second World War. However, it was
at a cost of more than 400 lives, with only five of the original 14 merchant
ships reaching the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Grand</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Harbour</st1:placetype></st1:place>. These brave
men’s sacrifice did not occur in vain for a miracle occurred on August 15<sup>th</sup>,
1942 that saved the lives of an <a href="http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120826/life-features/The-convoy-that-saved-Malta-from-surrender.434460" target="_blank">entire nation</a>. <o:p></o:p></b><br />
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<b>Today on Far Future Horizons we are proud to present the documentary “Operation
Pedestal 1942. The Vitally Important Relief Convoy To <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Malta</st1:place></st1:country-region>”. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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was the vital hinge upon which turned the whole Allied strategy in the
Mediterranean Theatre of war. This film describes how a vital convoy was forced
through to relieve the valiant <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">island</st1:placetype>
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killer viruses that are engulfing the globe.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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problems into solutions, humanity may be coming to an end. Scientists are
unlocking the secrets of nature to tame the elements, harness energy, and even
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daring topics in the last season of Through the Wormhole.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Burke_%28science_historian%29">James Burke</a> first made his name as a reporter on the BBC science series Tomorrow's World. He was BBC television's science anchor and chief reporter on the Project Apollo missions, being the main presenter on the BBC's coverage of the first moon landings in 1969.</span></b><br />
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<strong style="background-color: white;">In “Apollo 11: Remastered” we can all vicariously embark on the epic voyage of Apollo 11 from launch to splashdown and relive this grand adventure. This film is a remake of TexFilms original Apollo 11 release featuring Orbiter Space Flight Simulator and AMSO Apollo addon.</strong></div>
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<b>Modern Marvels - Apollo 11 chronicles the trials and tribulations of the Apollo program and its ascent to glory as the Apollo 11 crew touched down on the Moon's surface. </b><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;">This is an essay I wrote eight years ago to mark the
fortieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing and </span></b><b>was originally posted on the National Space Society's blog site on <a href="http://blog.nss.org/from-olduvai-gorge-to-the-sea-of-tranquility/">August 10, 2009</a>.</b></div>
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two most remarkable photographs of the twentieth century are the ones shown
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humanity and its possible destiny.</span></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt;">In 1978, </span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>paleoanthropologist </b></span></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Mary Leaky and
her team discovered the earliest hominid footprints (dated to be three and a
half million years old) preserved in the volcanic ash at Laetoli, forty-five
kilometres south of Olduvai Gorge in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Tanzania</st1:place></st1:country-region>. They belong to one of our
proto-human ancestors - Australopithecus afarensis. The picture above shows one
of these fossil footprints next to the boot print left by Neil Armstrong in the
volcanic soil of Mare Tranquilitatis (the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Sea</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Tranquillity</st1:placename></st1:place>).</span></b><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt;">It is very symbolic of the giant
evolutionary leap forward we have taken as a species. From Olduvai Gorge to the
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Sea</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Tranquillity</st1:placename></st1:place>, we humans have travelled
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<b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 17.15pt;">Exploration has always been vital to
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt;">The descendants of Australopithecus
afarensis, Homo Erectus eventually migrated out of Africa some two million
years ago and were to disperse throughout the old World. This was the first of
four major waves of human migration from <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>
culminating in the last major migration some sixty thousand years ago of fully
modern humans (Homo sapiens, sapiens).<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Dr. Spencer Welles and the National Geographic Society’s Genographic Project we
have begun to map out the migratory story of the human Diaspora out of Africa
out onto a wider global stage. This evolutionary step and the migrations that
preceded it were vital to humanity’s long-term survival in the face of the
vicissitudes of a changing global climate.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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last major migration would spread out from the Old Worlds of Europe and Asia
into the New Worlds of the <st1:country-region w:st="on">Americas</st1:country-region>
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It was during this phase of the human story that we became a planetary species.
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt;">We are the pioneers of a whole new form
of evolution which is distinctly non-biological. This new realm of evolution is
Cultural Evolution. It is this new dominion of evolution that has made us the
most dominant life form on this planet and has set us on a trajectory that will
one day take us out amongst the stars.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt;">In this epoch of human history, we face
many dangers both old and new. The past has shown us that many species have
been wiped off the evolutionary stage because of catastrophic climatic shifts,
super-volcanism and asteroidal bombardment. Our species is no different. Some
seventy-five thousand years ago our species barely survived a long volcanic
winter triggered by the supereruption of <st1:placetype w:st="on">Lake</st1:placetype>
<st1:placename w:st="on">Toba</st1:placename> on the <st1:placetype w:st="on">island</st1:placetype>
of <st1:placename w:st="on">Sumatra</st1:placename> in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Indonesia</st1:place></st1:country-region>. And,
at least one ancient culture – the Clovis people of North America, may have met
their demise, as a result, of the celestial equivalent of a 9/11 event. Some
thirteen thousand years ago a comet exploded over <st1:place w:st="on">North
America</st1:place>, wiping out the megafauna of that continent, and the people
who hunted them, off the face of the Earth.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Today we still face the threats of
climate change (both natural and anthropogenic), resource depletion and the
products of our own technological folly: environmental degradation, resource
depletion, total nuclear warfare, and biological terrorism. Our intelligence
and the fact that we were dispersed globally helped ensure our survival as a
species.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Yet, our species is curious, brave and
shows much promise. We are graced with a towering intellect that stands poised
on its next evolutionary leap that may one day take us beyond the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Sea</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Tranquillity</st1:placename></st1:place>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Neil Armstrong’s one small step for [a]
man was the culmination of the greatest scientific, technological and cultural
advance in human history. It was indeed a giant leap for mankind. It proved,
beyond any question of doubt, that humankind had taken the first evolutionary
stride in becoming a multi-planetary species. The time has now come to venture
further out on this vast new ocean of space and to chart humanity’s Diaspora
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treasures of the Moon and the Near Earth Asteroids. We must eventually settle
the entire solar system from the planet Mars and out to the edge of the solar
system. One day our species will continue its migration out into the Milky Way
Galaxy. But, this is very far from being our assured manifest destiny. The
choice is entirely ours to make. Humans have labelled their species “Homo
sapiens, sapiens” - wise, wise man. The time has now come to use our double
measure of wisdom to climb out of planetary cradle and take our evolutionary
destiny into our own hands and transform ourselves from Homo sapiens, into Homo
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<span id="fullpost"><b>This riveting first-hand testimony is interwoven with visually stunning archival material which has been re-mastered from the original NASA film footage – much of it never used before. The result is an intimate epic that vividly communicates the daring, the danger, the pride, and the promise of this extraordinary era in history when the whole world literally looked up at America.</b></span></div>
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