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Previous UpdatesAd Astra Special Report - Space-Based Solar PowerAd Astra ("to the stars"), the award winning magazine of the National Space Society (NSS), has recently published a special report covering space-based solar power (SBSP). This richly illustrated special report explains the technologies behind SBSP in an easy to understand way. Included is a fascinating conversation with Dr. Pete Glaser, now 84 and considered the father of the space-based solar power concept. A large portion of the special report details the efforts of the Space-Based Solar Power Study Group who, in conjunction with the National Space Security Office (NSSO), published Space-Based Solar Power As an Opportunity for Strategic Security - Phase 0 Architecture Feasibility Study in October of 2007.
This special report includes the following five articles which discuss the potential for space-based solar power, with looks at its history, its current strategic importance and ways forward to make it a reality.
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Posted April 27, 2008 Dr. Randy Pausch - Husband, Father, Professor ... and One Brave GuyDr. Randy Pausch, 47, is a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In September 2006, he was diagnosed with metastatic pancreatic cancer. He has pursued very aggressive treatment but in August of 2007 he was told that the cancer had metastasized to his liver and spleen. The doctors gave him three to six months to live. In September, Pausch said goodbye to his students and the Pittsburgh college with one last lecture called "How to Live Your Childhood Dreams," on his life's journey and the lessons he's learned along the way. Now referred to as his "Last Lecture", Pausch has attracted the attention of the world with his amazingly positive outlook in the face of a nearly certain death sentence. The only part of his ordeal that he will characterize as "unfair" is that his wife and three young children will have to go on without him. Listen to Dr. Randy Pausch in the video below (and watch him do some one-handed pushups). Learn more about this courageous and inspirational man at the links below the video.
Randy Pausch's Web Site at Carnegie Mellon University Randy Pausch - from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This phenomenal lecture has now been expanded and published in book form. Randy Pausch is a Professor of Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, and Design at Carnegie Mellon, where he was the co-founder of Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center (ETC). He was a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator and a Lilly Foundation Teaching Fellow. He has done Sabbaticals at Walt Disney Imagineering and Electronic Arts (EA), and consulted with Google on user interface design. Dr. Pausch received his bachelors in Computer Science from Brown University and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author or co-author of five books and over 70 articles, is the director of the Alice (www.alice.org) software project, and has been in zero-gravity. Posted April 11, 2008 Sir Arthur C. Clarke : 90 Orbits Around the SunI shed a tear as I read the obituary of Sir Arthur C. Clarke yesterday. He regaled us with science fiction stories based on fantastic ideas of our future, both on and off the planet. He provided scientific commentary to us during the exciting days of Apollo moon missions, alongside Walter Cronkite. And he has given us many scientific ideas which have become realities like communication satellites, geosynchronous orbits and the space station. Sir Arthur also recently lent his support to the Google Lunar X-Prize competition. When personal computers would barely fit in your living room let alone on your desk and the Internet was known only to a handful of DARPA researchers as ARPANET, I read a passage in 2001:A Space Odyssey that has stuck with me for over 30 years. It wasn't even part of the story. It was a short note at the end of the book that said "The entire manuscript for this book was sent from Sri Lanka to my publisher in New York City on a single 5-1/4 inch floppy disk." At that moment, I realized that if I one day become a writer, I could live and work from anywhere in the world. Little did I know what was to come ... but I'll bet Sir Arthur did. Sir Arthur C. Clarke left us with three wishes:
He ends his 90th Birthday Reflections video with this quote from Rudyard Kipling: The Appeal If I have given you delight And for that little, little span Rudyard Kipling, 1939 Schmap City Maps Widget Check out this cool widget from Schmap!! online travel guides. You can switch to many different destinations and from the map view to the photo view. They licenses photos from Flickr members and Marietta Wood Works may have a photo included in the next release of their San Francisco guide! Support Our Men and Women in Uniform Let's Say Thanks by Xerox - send a thank you card Give2theTroops - donate or send much needed items to the troops Soldier's Angels - may no soldier go unloved United Service Organizations (USO) - support for the troops To Our Soldiers - post a message to our soldiers The Gratitude Campaign - Learn American Sign Language for "Thank You" The Moon 2.0: Join the Revolution with the Google Lunar X-Prize. Arthur C. Clark's Words of Support Citizens for Space Based Solar Power (c-sbsp.org) is up and running. Please visit this site to learn more about Space-Based Solar Power (SBSP) and to get involved and help get the word out. SBSP has the potential to be an unlimited source of clean, affordable and environmentally friendly energy. Your help is needed to convince leaders in government, the private sector and the media to get the effort organized and seriously under way. America, Why I Love Her 
After September 11, the John Wayne Estate reissued this spoken-word recording on CD. You can hear samples from all of the tracks in this great, patriotic collection on Amazon.com. The Medical Science Liaison: An A to Z Guide Long time friend and associate, Cathleen Sass, has co-authored a book based upon her experiences in healthcare and as a Medical Science Liaison (MSL). The MSL role was recently reported as one of the best jobs over six figures for healthcare professionals, yet is relatively unknown, even to the medical community. Cathleen Sass, ASRT, MBA, PharmD has over 30 years experience in healthcare including more than 10 years as a MSL. She has worked for several pharmaceutical companies, both large and small, in numerous therapeutic areas. Click here for more details on this must-have guide to the MSL role and the opportunity to purchase copies from AuthorHouse™. Space-Based Solar Power The idea of space-based solar power (SBSP), the generation of unlimited electricity from solar power with orbiting collectors and beaming the energy back to earth for distribution and use, has been around since 1968. Due to low fossil fuel costs and high per-payload-pound launch costs at the time, the idea was not financially feasible. The world has changed significantly since then. more... |
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