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New Fulham owner Shahid Khan will fly to Costa Rica on Saturday for talks with manager Martin Jol and there will be plenty on the agenda in Central America.
Khan completed his £150million takeover on Friday and will meet Jol for the first time on the club's pre-season tour. So what will be on the agenda?
Jol's future
The Dutchman, who is in his third season at Fulham, has one year remaining on his contract so will want assurances over his future.
Jol will be wary that Khan has shown a ruthless streak as owner of American football franchise the Jacksonville Jaguars. The Pakistan-born billionaire took over the Florida-based NFL team last year and sacked their general manager and head coach after a poor season.
It remains to be seen whether he will make similar sweeping changes at Fulham. "Everyone speaks very highly of him and his reputation proceeds him," said Khan of Jol. "He has accomplished a lot and I am very much looking forward to meeting him."
Transfer budget
Khan is expected to tell Jol there are funds to strengthen his squad. The Fulham boss has reportedly been frustrated at a lack of backing in the transfer market during the last two windows — he spent £6m on players last term compared with £16.85m the season before — but could now have the spending power to secure his top targets.
Khan will tell Jol and chief executive Alistair Mackintosh that they will have the final say on all transfer dealings but their spending will be scrutinised. "I want to give them all the resources they need and then hold them accountable," said Khan, who claims he will not try to follow the example of Roman Abramovich by spending big.
Transfer targets
Jol will outline a list of potential signings. Fulham have been linked with Tottenham midfielder Tom Huddlestone, Liverpool defender Sebastian Coates and Aston Villa forward Darren Bent and will want to press ahead with moves.
Jol, who has signed Fernando Amorebieta, Maarten Stekelenburg and Derek Boateng this summer, wants to overhaul his ageing squad. He had to make ends meet with free transfers and loans last season but will feel he can take Fulham to the next level with financial backing. A creative midfielder is high on his wish-list.
Khan spoke at length with Arsenal owner Stan Kroenke and the Glazer family, who own Manchester United, before completing his takeover but knows competing at the top of the Premier League with his fellow Americans is not realistic. Fulham finished 12th last season and he will want to see progression this season. Khan says he has learned from the mistakes made by clubs like Queens Park Rangers in doing too much, too soon.
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Dimitar Berbatov only has one year remaining on his contract and has been linked with a move this summer. Jol lost Mousa Dembele and Clint Dempsey to Spurs for a combined £21m last August but Khan has given assurances that he will not be forced to sell his best players this summer. Berbatov is crucial to the way Jol wants his team to play and keeping the forward is imperative.
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The Hydropolis Underwater Hotel and Resort is a proposed underwater hotel in Dubai. Hydropolis should be the first multi-room underwater hotel in the world. It was planned in the Persian Gulf off Dubai through the mediation of Hans Peter Pesenhofer following plans of Siemens IBC (Prof. Roland Dieterle) in cooperation with the German Designer Joachim Hauser and with the approval of the DDIA. The hotel's original plan was to be located 20 meters underwater off the coast of Jumeriah beach. The hotel's plan is to cover an area of 260 hectares, which is equivalent in area to Hyde Park in London.[1] The construction cost for Hydropolis is approximately € 600 million Euro, which will make Hydropolis one of the most expensive hotels ever created.[2] The hotel design was created by Joachim Hauser and Professor Roland Dieterle, and is planned to be composed of three segments: a land station, a connecting train, and the underwater hotel. Joachim Hauser's and Prof. Roland Dieterle's architecture idea is to represent the connection between humans and water. The initial planned opening year was 2006, but due to financial reasons and disagreements with the DDIA (Dubai Development & Investment Authority), the project was canceled by the DDIA already on October 2004. Hydropolis Holdings LLC Dubai was holding the original intellectual property rights of Hydropolis.[1]
The Hydropolis will be composed of three segments: a land station, a connecting train, and the underwater hotel.
The design of the land station is a wave-shaped 30,000 square meter building.[3] The purpose of the land station is to provide a place for guests to board the soundless train to descend into the hotel. Secondary purposes for the land station include greeting guests, and use of the land station's facilities.[4] The land station is planned to feature many facilities including a marine research laboratory, a plastic surgery clinic, conference facilities, a restaurant, and a theater. The theater will feature films about the evolution of life and about the history of underwater architecture.
The noiseless train will be located in a 515 meter long transparent, double-track tunnel, made of plexiglass reinforced with concrete and steel.[2][3] This train will be powered by an automated cable propulsion system.[5] This automated cable propulsion system consists of a stationary motor and cables with the train cars fixed to the cables. The stationary motor for the train system will be located in the land station, and will be connected to cables running down the length of the tunnel. The cars, fixed to these cables, will be moved up and down the tunnel solely from the power of the land motor. This system is advantageous because separating the motor from the train cars will decrease noise in the tunnel. This decreases noise because the motor is the main source of noise in this train system. With the motor separate from the train cars, noise in the cars and tunnel will be minimized. Another advantage of this system is that a separate motor results in less mechanical parts in the car, which also mean less repairs on the actual train cars.[2]
Rubber wheels were chosen over other types of wheel, such as steel, to minimize noise. Rubber wheels have a property of making little noise as they roll on surfaces such as plexiglass. The noiseless train will serve two purposes, transferring guests and supplying the underwater hotel. Supplies will be packed on land, and delivered efficiently to the hotel to minimize the space taken up by goods in the hotel. Cars transferring supplies will feature palettes, and cars transferring supplies will provide a view of the ocean. The guest transporting aspect of the train will have a maximum efficiency of 1000 people per hour.[2][5]
The underwater hotel will be a jellyfish like structure The underwater hotel will be located 20 meters underneath the surface of the ocean. To handle the underwater pressures, the hotel's main structure is a dome composed of plexiglass, reinforced with concrete and steel. The underwater hotel will be composed of 220 underwater suites with a cost of $5500 per night.[6] In addition to the underwater suites, Hydropolis is planned to have many other underwater accommodations including restaurants, a spa, a cinema, a ballroom, and bars.[1][7] The underwater hotel is planned to not only be a place for regular guests, but also a place for visitors to explore. In addition to regular guests, the underwater hotel expects 3,000 visitors per day.[1]
The inspiration for the architecture of Hydropolis came from Joachim Hauser's and Prof. Roland Dieterle's belief in humanity's inseparable connection with water. Their belief stems from the fact that 72% of the human body is composed of water.[2] The main structure of the Hydropolis is the Lemniscate, a symbol of wisdom.[2] The Lemniscate looks like a figure 8 on its side. To make the connection between Hydropolis and the human body, Hauser and Prof. Roland Dieterle made the different structures of the Hydropolis represent different parts of the human body. Some of the parts represented in Hydropolis are the nervous system, cardiovascular system, and the sinus node. Hauser and Prof. Roland Dieterle put a special emphasis on the sinus node by placing it in the center of Hydropolis.[2] Hauser and Prof. Roland Dieterle did this because the sinus node is the heart's pacemaker.[8]
Cost is a problem facing the Hydropolis. Funding for Hydropolis is being handled through the Dubai Development and Investment Authority (DDIA) mediated through Mr. Hans Peter Pesenhofer. However, as of February 13, 2013, only 20% of Hydropolis funding has been achieved.[3]


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Warren Bennett (musician)
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Warren Bennett | |
Warren Bennett, Brian Bennett and Mark Griffiths
Backstage before the concert Esbjerg/Stadionhal in Denmark 22 April 2005 |
Background information | |
Born | July 4, 1962 |
Origin | Hertfordshire |
Occupation(s) | musician and composer |
Instruments | Guitar Keyboard |
Years active | 1980s to present |
Associated acts | Glass Ties, The Vibratos, The Shadows |
Website | myspace.com/warrenbennett |
Notable instruments | |
Keyboards |
Warren Bennett (born 4 July 1962) is an English composer and performer. He was educated at Mill Hill School and is the son of Brian Bennett, the Shadows' drummer. He has played keyboards on tour with the Shadows from 2004 until the present day with and without one-time front man Cliff Richard.
Television soundtracks[edit]
His television soundtrack credits include New Tricks, The Ambassador, Wuthering Heights, Can't Buy Me Love, London's Burning, The Knock, Staying Alive, Dirty Work, Holby City, Birds of a Feather and Close to Home.
His film credits include Chaos and Cadavers and The American Way.[1]
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How many Reputations?
One of the main things that killed my playtime was the reputation systems.
Before I would merrily go about having as many as 6 alts each special to me since I have had them since Beta, some a little while after. Now its takes me 4 - 6 hours just to do the admin i.e doffing, marks, etc and by that time I'm exhausted. {There's a voice in my head most nights: ... can't play now sorry mate... have to do damn Azure Nebula again because some AFK ..." Sure I could take a break and do something else, but what >.<. I want to PvP. But I need rep or its no point. Development seems to be focused only on these hefty reputations systems where even the content now seems to be locked behind a grind. I stopped playing with the mission unlocks from Romulan and Tholian because of the knowledge that it would take forever. Personally I think that the business model is flawed. STO customers are like window shoppers. They love a great deal, but if they see something they like, and the sign says come back in December, chances are but that time they have found something down the way. Time is precious. And in terms of the reputation how many is enough, before the reputations start to become pointless, the one negating the other. I was startled when I tried to imagine STO's lifespan in terms of Reputations. How many has it got? The mere fact that we could end up with polarised-tetryonic-phased-holographic-antiproton-transphasic DHC makes me just want TOS all the more. When the Romulans hated everyone with a God-complex, and the Klingon women knew how to roar and bite off a Starfleet's eat all the while slapping their mother. Thats my thoughts really. Oh, and a K'Vort. Just a K'Vort. |
I have 16 characters. I have only ever done all the Rep on 1 of them, my main Fed. I plan to get my main Rom and main KDF also to max Rep, but I'm waiting for the Token in Season 8 to speed up the process. Other then that I couldn't care less if any of my other characters have all the Rep stuff. And I don't think I spent even then 30 minutes a day earning my Rom Rep. I'm sure I'll be through the next Rep system in a week or two too.
If you're spending 4-6 hours a day on Rep, I'm thinking it's because you want to, not because you need to. :) |
Actually I do like the reputations don't get me wrong. Imagine me as some orphan in a toystore for the first time told he can pick a toy. Only real complaint I have is that one is not able to spawn all pets on the ground at once. I would love to spawn my pet parrot "Zanadu" from the islands, my trusty robot spider "Cricket", my Epoph "Poppet", and my faithful first officer and do an reenactment of the hit musical "The Hill are alive with the sound of Music" on Romulus. Truly, it will be magnificent. However I always end up here. Help me Cryptic. Help me help you. |
The only response we got is that they revised the Reputation system for "weekday warriors", but ignoring us who have multiple characters. Seems they want us to spend more time in-game and grinding out reputations on every single character. Which they have no idea the negative ramifications this has on us, because if we spend our entire time online grinding and less time playing the game how we enjoy it, we eventually lose interest and leave the game. I've seen lots of people left because of the Nukara Reputation, so I have no idea why Cryptic is ignoring this issue. But instead, we get blind Pro-Cryptic supporters are telling us "hey grind later" or some other nonsense, but they have no idea what we have to go through. Lets see them turn grind constantly on characters for 6-8 hours per day and 3-4 months and see how happy they would be. Quote:
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1. I need to level all my toons through rep. 2. Rep grinding is so painfully boring and slow. 3. I don't want to rep grind them because of that. And thus toons get left behind, and the cycle starts again, but you have even less desire to do so because now those toons are behind and thus you have to grind even MORE. Not to mention that, once you move past the rep level grind, then you have an even worse part: Gear grind. Sure you only should grind what you need, but that is a HUGE grind if you are wanting specific things, like an STF set or whatever. Ironically enough, you can get around the dil limit of 8k a day by using ALTS. Even so, that still needs a lot of dil per set piece (or per item you buy outta the stores) and also a lot of marks for set pieces. It can be over 100k dil for a single full Mk XII set for ONE toon! A lot of people have also said that, 'Well, you chose to have so many alt toons, so it's your own fault.'. To which I say, not really. A large majority of us, when we made so many alts, was long before they added in rep. Heck, even the original Omega Task Force stuff wasn't bad, because back then you could gear a toon out in a week if you worked at it long enough. It also doesn't help how...bi-polar so many things feel. So much stuff used to be account based, and now there's TONS of character-based stuff. Like C-store ships are account, yet stuff like rep is character. Besides, I made alts because I wanted to enjoy the game through the other captain types, and also the other factions, including their styles of ships, not leave them behind because of the giant grind walls that've been put up over time. I want to ENJOY my characters, have different toons with different ships, foci, etc, because to me that is fun. If the content rarely changes, then I made other toons so I could try the content in other ways. I don't want everything handed to me on a platter (so many seem to think that's what we want), but it's getting less and less fun to want to play at all if all there is, is new grinds that I don't really want to do on all my toons. Also, Azurian, I've noticed you in a few posts mentioning how it seems to be tough on your KDF-side of your fleet. If you want to, feel free to PM me (or I can PM you) about maybe helping out with that some. |
Harvesting marks is boring...boring...boring...boring...boring...borin g... Did I mention that is boring?:D
For me the solution would be to make the marks account shared (using account bank) and be able to transfer from one character to another. I have and maintain 4 characters and it gives me a headache that I would have to harvest Voth marks. :mad: I would like to make 2 more characters and buy of course ships specific to their class but the harvesting of marks stops me. |
The increasing numbers of reputations are why I only have one Romulan and why two of my fed/kdf chars have been relegated to doing nothing but doff recruitment. The only reason they have max rom is because Epohhs made it so easy - the only reason ANY of my chars have max Nukara is Risian birdies, I could not be bothered doing Tholian events. The two doff grinders didn't even get to do that cause I could only be bothered to rush around on a jetpack so many times.
I have too many characters, but I take the rep systems one or two at a time on them. And I frequently stop at T2 or T4, depending on the rep and its passives. I feel no pressure to take Nukara past T2 on any new characters, for example.
If you let yourself get overwhelmed, or feel you need to always do everything, well, there's your problem. |
Just saw this on tribble notes:
"This feature allows players that have maxed out a reputation on one character to have double reputation experience for all of their alts in that same rep."" Hopefully they pass this dfeature to all the reputations! This would greatly improve the experience for alts. |
I had 3 kdf and 3 fed toons that I kept their gear up (would like rommies, but not starting over on them). Now because of account based zen purchases I stick to only fed because the purchases are faction specific in some cases. I avoid being overwhelmed by cutting back alts, but i am tired of only being fed. For now with only a few reps I could run a kdf presently and be competitive as long as I keep other aspects current especially gear. However, I see the writing on the wall about they will need to be shelved in the next year for sure so I am saving dilithium and play time accumulating fleet credits for them. Account base rep should not reduce player use of rep missions, I would probably run as many rep missions with account based as with character based rep. The thought being I would have 6 toons and possible 2-4 new rommies and I would still want to get gear on them which requires marks. That being said I don't believe the dev interviews stating account based rep would diminish community involvement. It is interesting that that comment indicates there is substantial alt use in the rep system. Since polls can't be run here it is hard to get information on what most people want, but polls in fleet and from others suggest people would want more toons to have rep gear. This has made the game less interesting because of diminished diversity in what I can play. I feel 2 changes need to be made in the next year or rep will really hurt the game. First rep sponsorship is a nice gesture, but it still needs to be made account bound, if anything, for the sake of new players that are logging in for the first time. I met such a guy who is new to the game just this week and I talked to him a bit. He has been in the fleet for two weeks, has a desire to be a kdf sci and fed eng, but after leveling the fed eng and initiating the rep system he is going to wait on the kdf. I think that a non-alt friendly policy is bad for business and hurts all players that want a growing game. Typically the more diversity of characters played, the more diversity in ships created. Will the rep system impact the next faction release (is it a coincidence that rep sponsorship was released after LOR) because people don't start new toons as much anymore? Second, and this needs to happen soon, rep traits need to be removed from pvp. There is no pvp equivalent for rep mark earning. Rep traits are going to become essential for pvp once there are 8-10 reps. Rep gear is fine for two reasons, there are alternative paths to decent gear through the fleet system, and the gear does not require constant completion of rep, just focused completion of a rep that interests a player. The sponsorship feature is not substantial to deal with this issue because half the grind is still too much pve time in a 2 mission rotation of the same thing over and again, but more importantly the timegate is obscene. You have to wait till prime is max then you can start the alts, whose rep xp missions are timegated. At the least this will take 2-3 months of just waiting on timers. Why not let us build up resources on alts and have instant xp missions once we activate sponsorship? In wrap up: 1. alts make more money for STO and leads to more content and investment in STO 2. new players are pigeonholed into a very daunting rep grind 3. pvp impact of rep is overly significant and improperly implemented by the pve nature of earning rep 4. account bound rep shouldn't reduce utilization of rep missions because of gear needs 5. The sponsorship system rep projects for xp should have an instant timer till account based rep is implemented. This is not an entitlement, I have cut back zen purchases in game because of rep (no need for an Avenger for one), I have cut back playing time because of rep. I guess for those that think entitlement to desire to play pvp in a competitive manner and want to enjoy that aspect of A GAME, then I have no argument that can cut through that. |
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January 27, 2015
Solar Powered 3D Printers on Mars? Researchers Successfully Test Feasibility of Printing Surgical Tools on Red Planet
Space exploration has always been fascinating to me. When I stop and think of just how vast our universe is, it makes me realize how small I actually am. Earth is a tiny little particle floating in a vast vacuum called space, much in the same manner as individual atoms are currently floating in Earth's atmosphere. No matter how you look at it, in the whole scheme of things, we are extremely tiny, and perhaps even insignificant. Technology is advancing at rapid rates, thanks to increasing capabilities of computers, the ability to share knowledge via the internet, and the growing adoption rate of robotic driven technologies such as 3D printing. The culmination of these advancements has led to exploration outside of the Earth's atmosphere, and the idea that one day we may colonize other planets has suddenly become a realistic possibility.
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January 23, 2015
Helicopter Could be 'Scout' for Mars Rovers
Getting around on Mars is tricky business. Each NASA rover has delivered a wealth of information about the history and composition of the Red Planet, but a rover's vision is limited by the view of onboard cameras, and images from spacecraft orbiting Mars are the only other clues to where to drive it. To have a better sense of where to go and what's worth studying on Mars, it could be useful to have a low-flying scout. Enter the Mars Helicopter, a proposed add-on to Mars rovers of the future that could potentially triple the distance these vehicles currently drive in a Martian day, and deliver a new level of visual information for choosing which sites to explore. The helicopter would fly ahead of the rover almost every day, checking out various possible points of interest and helping engineers back on Earth plan the best driving route.
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January 21, 2015
NASA, Microsoft Collaboration Will Allow Scientists to 'Work on Mars'
NASA and Microsoft have teamed up to develop software called OnSight, a new technology that will enable scientists to work virtually on Mars using wearable technology called Microsoft HoloLens. Developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, OnSight will give scientists a means to plan and, along with the Mars Curiosity rover, conduct science operations on the Red Planet. "OnSight gives our rover scientists the ability to walk around and explore Mars right from their offices," said Dave Lavery, program executive for the Mars Science Laboratory mission at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "It fundamentally changes our perception of Mars, and how we understand the Mars environment surrounding the rover."
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January 20, 2015
Elon Musk Explores Internet for Mars Colonies
Marsnet is coming… We take the Internet and constant connectivity for granted on Earth, but once you take a step into space, things start to get a lot less broadband, and a lot more dial-up. So as we look into our future, when we have human settlements on Mars, will there be a Mars Internet or "Marsnet"? These questions have been asked by SpaceX founder Elon Musk and he has announced plans to boost connectivity in space, potentially partnering with Google. But this isn't just about ensuring future Mars colonists can access their Netflix accounts; like most space endeavors, an off-world Internet infrastructure would have huge benefits to our daily lives on Earth. "Our focus is on creating a global communications system that would be larger than anything that has been talked about to date," Musk said in an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek before his announcement on Friday about establishing a SpaceX office in Seattle, Washington.
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January 13, 2015
Elon Musk plans Seattle office for Mars colonization
Billionaire Elon Musk wants humans to settle on Mars, and he's looking to hire a passel of engineers in Seattle to help him get there. Musk has publicly said he wants to colonize Mars. As the CEO of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), he's got a company to do it. In an interview published Tuesday, Musk told Bloomberg News that SpaceX's efforts to build a commercial satellite business will give the company the know-how and the infrastructure to make eventual Mars shots and a colony possible.
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January 12, 2015
NASA and Nissan Team Up to Build Self-Driving Vehicles for Earth and Mars
It's turning out to be a stellar year for the future of autonomous driving as NASA's Ames Research Center and Nissan North America announced they're teaming up to develop their own self-driving vehicles that can navigate streets on earth and the surface of Mars. The five-year R&D partnership was announced on Thursday, and engineers from the space agency and the auto company will work together to create technology that could be used in terrestrial vehicles and space rovers. Nissan has set 2020 as the estimated year of introduction of the autonomous vehicles, which will have the ability to navigate in "nearly all situations."
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December 5, 2014
Successful Launch of Orion Heralds First Step on Journey to Mars
NASA marked a critical step on the journey to Mars with its Orion spacecraft during a roaring liftoff into the dawn sky over eastern Florida on Friday, Dec. 5, 2014, aboard a Delta IV Heavy rocket. Once on its way, the Orion spacecraft accomplished a series of milestones as it jettisoned a set of fairing panels around the service module before the launch abort system tower pulled itself away from the spacecraft as planned. The spacecraft and second stage of the Delta IV rocket settled into an initial orbit about 17 minutes after liftoff. Flight controllers put Orion into a slow roll to keep its temperature controlled while the spacecraft flew through a 97-minute coast phase. The cone-shaped spacecraft did not carry anyone inside its cabin but is designed to take astronauts farther into space than ever before in the future.
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December 3, 2014
NASA to test Orion spaceship that could take humans to Mars
The U.S. is preparing to launch the first craft developed to fly humans to Mars, presaging a second space age -- this one fueled by billionaires like Elon Musk rather than a Cold War contest with the Soviet Union. An unmanned version of the Orion spaceship built by Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT) is scheduled for liftoff tomorrow to an altitude of 3,600 miles (5,800 kilometers), the farthest from Earth by a vehicle designed for people since the Apollo program was scrapped in 1972. "These are really exciting times for space exploration and for our nation as we begin to return to the ability to fly humans to space," said Jim Crocker, vice president and general manager of civil space at Lockheed Martin Space Systems. "What Orion is about is going further into space than humans have ever gone before."
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November 21, 2014
How NASA Plans to Land Humans on Mars
The Planetary Society
On the surface, NASA's humans to Mars plans seem vague and disjointed. For instance, it's difficult to see how visiting a captured asteroid in lunar orbit fits into a bigger picture. But if you combine Gerst's speech with two days of symposium panels and a day of interviews at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, the full breadth of what the agency is trying to do begins to makes sense. There is indeed a plan to put humans on Mars. Vague? Yes. Hard to see? Absolutely. But that's because Gerst and NASA are playing the long game. And right now, it may be the only game they can play. There are three big reasons NASA can't lay out a comprehensive Mars plan: flat budgets, a perilous political landscape, and the sheer scale of a 20-plus-years program. Thus far, NASA's most audacious human exploration program kicked off in 1961, when John F. Kennedy declared Americans would walk on the moon by the end of the decade. The nine-year program was a success, but it was bolstered by a strong political mandate and more than double the funding NASA receives today. The agency's budget peaked in 1966 at $43.5 billion (in 2014 dollars). Today, NASA gets about $18 billion. There's not much political will to go to Mars, and no indication that NASA's budget will change significantly. In fact, NASA doesn't even have a fiscal year 2015 budget yet, as it operates under a stopgap continuing resolution.
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November 17, 2014
Zero-G 3D Printer, Unpacked And Installed on the International Space Station
Made In Space
Made In Space, Inc. and NASA have completed the next milestone in the 3D Printing in Zero-Gravity Experiment. This morning, astronaut Barry "Butch" Wilmore unpacked the 3D printer from its launch packaging and installed it inside the Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG) aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The 3D printer, designed and built by Made In Space for NASA, was launched on September 21st, 2014 on the SpaceX 4 resupply mission to the ISS. Earlier this morning, astronaut Wilmore proceeded to retrieve the 3D printer experiment from its storage location and installed it inside the MSG. With the aid of the Made In Space and NASA ground support teams, Wilmore was able to power on and complete critical system checks to ensure that the hardware and software was in operating condition.
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November 5, 2014
Aerospace Gurus Show Off a Fancy Space Suit Made for Mars
This talk is from WIRED by Design, a two-day live magazine event that celebrated all forms of creative problem solving. The space suits astronauts wear today are marvels of engineering, but they're far from perfect. For one thing, they're unwieldy. At a weight of nearly 300 pounds, astronauts have to expend a huge amount of energy just to move them around. "It was great for 45 years ago, but we can do better," says Dava Newman.
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October 21, 2014
What It Could Be Like to Live on Mars
I'd always wanted to visit Mars. Instead I got Hawaii. There, about 8,200 feet above sea level on Mauna Loa, sits a geodesically domed habitat for testing crew psychology and technologies for boldly going. I did a four-month tour at the NASA-funded HI-SEAS—that's Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation—in 2013, and a new 8-month mission is scheduled to start in October. It's a long time to be cooped up, "so the psychological impacts are extremely important," habitat designer Vincent Paul Ponthieux says. The key to keeping everybody sane? A sense of airiness. Yep—even on Mars, you're going to need more space.
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October 15, 2014
UW fusion reactor concept could be cheaper than coal
University of Washington
The UW's reactor, called the dynomak, started as a class project taught by Thomas Jarboe two years ago. After the class ended, Jarboe and doctoral student Derek Sutherland – who previously worked on a reactor design at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – continued to develop and refine the concept. The design builds on existing technology and creates a magnetic field within a closed space to hold plasma in place long enough for fusion to occur, allowing the hot plasma to react and burn. The reactor itself would be largely self-sustaining, meaning it would continuously heat the plasma to maintain thermonuclear conditions. Heat generated from the reactor would heat up a coolant that is used to spin a turbine and generate electricity, similar to how a typical power reactor works. "This is a much more elegant solution because the medium in which you generate fusion is the medium in which you're also driving all the current required to confine it," Sutherland said.
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Lockheed Martin Pursuing Compact Nuclear Fusion Reactor Concept
Lockheed Martin
The Lockheed Martin (LMT) Skunk Works® team is working on a new compact fusion reactor (CFR) that can be developed and deployed in as little as ten years. Currently, there are several patents pending that cover their approach. While fusion itself is not new, the Skunk Works has built on more than 60 years of fusion research and investment to develop an approach that offers a significant reduction in size compared to mainstream efforts. "Our compact fusion concept combines several alternative magnetic confinement approaches, taking the best parts of each, and offers a 90 percent size reduction over previous concepts," said Tom McGuire, compact fusion lead for the Skunk Works' Revolutionary Technology Programs. "The smaller size will allow us to design, build and test the CFR in less than a year."
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September 18, 2014
Bezos' Blue Origin plans 21st century rocket engine
The Seattle Times
Capping back-to-back news that emphatically heralded the United States' return to space exploration, Jeff Bezos on Wednesday unveiled plans for "a 21st century" rocket engine developed by his private aerospace company that could help reduce Russia's role in U.S. orbital flights. At a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Bezos showed off a model of the BE-4, a liquid-propellant engine that will be used to power new version of the Atlas rockets now used to launch telecommunications and spy satellites and other payloads into space. The BE-4 will be jointly funded by Bezos' Kent-based Blue Origin and United Launch Alliance, a 50-50 venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin. Work on the liquid oxygen, liquefied natural-gas engine has been under way for three years in Kent and in West Texas, and four more years of development are expected before first flight.
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