The Mars Society is a space-advocacy non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the human exploration and settlement of the planet Mars. Inspired by "The Case for Mars" conferences which were hosted by The Mars Underground at the University of Colorado Boulder and established by Dr. Robert Zubrin and many others in 1998, the organization works to educate the public, the media and government on the benefits of Mars exploration and the importance of planning for a Earth-to-Mars mission in the coming dec..
ASCII ( ), abbreviated from American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character-encoding scheme (the IANA prefers the name US-ASCII). ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that use text. Most modern character-encoding schemes are based on ASCII, though they support many additional characters. ASCII was the most common character encoding on the World Wide Web until December 2007, when it was surpassed by UTF-8, which includes ASCII as a subset..
The slash ( /), also known as a stroke and by the technical term solidus, is a sign used as a punctuation mark and for various other purposes. It is often called a forward slash, a retronym used to distinguish it from the backslash ( \). It has many other names.
A shopping mall is a modern, chiefly North American, term for a form of shopping precinct or shopping center, in which one or more buildings form a complex of Retailing representing merchandisers with interconnecting that enable customers to walk from unit to unit. A shopping arcade is a specific form serving the same purpose.
In shipping, break bulk cargo or general cargo are goods that must be loaded individually, and not in intermodal containers nor in bulk cargo as with oil or grain. Ships that carry this sort of cargo are often called general cargo ships. The term break bulk derives from the phrase breaking bulk—the extraction of a portion of the cargo of a ship or the beginning of the unloading process from the ship's holds. These goods may not be in . Break bulk cargo is transported in , , , , or . of items secur..
Arthur Casagrande (August 28, 1902 – September 6, 1981) was an Austrian-born American civil engineer who made important contributions to the fields of engineering geology and geotechnical engineering during its infancy. Renowned for his ingenious designs of soil testing apparatus and fundamental research on and soil liquefaction, he is also credited for developing the soil mechanics teaching programme at Harvard University during the early 1930s that has since been modelled in many universities around th..
Engineer Isaac Clarke returns for another blood-curdling adventure in the sequel to the critically acclaimed Dead Space™. After waking from a coma on a massive space city known as The Sprawl the lone survivor of a horrific alien infestation find..
Almost every day scientists find new planets and look further into the deepest reaches of space breaking new ground in understanding the cosmos. Using stunning HD graphics Season 4 of The Universe transports viewers to places we didn’t know exi..
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The Mad Catz Remote and Gripz bundle for the Nintendo Wii brings your gaming experience to the next level with state-of-the-art motion-sensing technology and responsive, high-quality action buttons. Reacting to your aim and range of motion, the Remote-whic..
The Devil Wears Prada are by no means a newcomer. In over 8 years as a band they have sold over 750,000 albums (5 releases have sold over 100,000 copies), and have toured the world over and over, playing to sold out crowds every night. They have been able ..
Do you have difficulty hearing the TV, sounds or listening to music? Over time, human hearing naturally evolves. Although this is normal, the changes can alter the quality of the sounds you experience, for example when watching TV or listening to music. Th..
But with the Challenger catastrophe in 1986, the whole Space Shuttle program came into question, as did NASA itself, so long an institution that was seemingly above reproach. Wheels Stop tells the stirring story of how, after the Challenger disaster, the S..
Immerse yourself in more spectacular space exploration with SEASON THREE of this epic series from HISTORY™. A virtual collision of astronomy and history each enlightening episode utilises strikingly realistic computer recreations and animations ..
Immerse yourself in more spectacular space exploration with SEASON THREE of this epic series from HISTORY™. A virtual collision of astronomy and history each enlightening episode utilises strikingly realistic computer recreations and animations ..
'Okay Venus?' 'Okay Steve.' 'Right. Let's Go!' The year is 2062 and World Space Patrol ship Fireball XL5 is assigned to Sector 25 where intrepid pilot Steve Zodiac ably assisted by Doctor Venus and Professor Matthew Matic faces such dangers as plane..
Ean is queen of the Willow, a small ship with a Traditional crew who live in space and trade between the stars. Suddenly Tre, the laid back crew enforcer, is demanding that they dash to one system to pick up cabin boys and then divert to another to recruit..
Space is a dimension that includes familial, community, institutional, and cultural spaces within which children live. The third dimension, discipline, names the specific and distinct areas of scholarship and research that define the ontology, epistemology..
The text describes theoretical principles as well as engineering applications; discusses key criteria in the design of practical space-time codes; and covers single-carrier and multi-carrier transmission for both single- and multi-user communications.
This monitor supports resolutions up to 2560 x 1440 with a 16:9 aspect ratio and 6 ms response time . This monitor can be easily pluged into a variety of devices with a variety of inputs including DisplayPort, Mini DisplayPort, HDMI, and DVI-D Dual-Link in..
Amateur astronomer John Putnam (Richard Carlson) and his fiancee Ellen Fields (Barbara Rush) are stargazing in the desert when a spaceship bursts from the sky and crashes to the ground. Just before a landslide buries the ship a mysterious creature emerge..
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This system includes a wearable wireless microphone and base station / charger with a USB output connection. The base station's USB port integrates with any windows PC or Mac and allows for podcasting, VoIP, SKYPE, web conferencing, distance education, spe..
In shipping, break bulk cargo or general cargo are goods that must be loaded individually, and not in intermodal containers nor in bulk cargo as with oil or grain. Ships that carry this sort of cargo are often called general cargo ships. The term break
Arthur Casagrande (August 28, 1902 – September 6, 1981) was an Austrian-born American civil engineer who made important contributions to the fields of engineering geology and geotechnical engineering during its infancy. Renowned for his ingenious designs
A shopping mall is a modern, chiefly North American, term for a form of shopping precinct or shopping center, in which one or more buildings form a complex of Retailing representing merchandisers with interconnecting that enable customers to walk from
