Spirituality and free thinking ( Part 3 - Co existence)
I started looking at different religions to see what they thought of God and life, and was surprised at what i found. GO TO PART 4!!! http://www.youtube.com DOWNLOAD MY FREE BOOK THINGS TO PONDER!! thingstoponder2012.tumblr.com
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This is about the wrong path religion can lead down and how to change your life #39;s perspective GO TO PART 5!!! http://www.youtube.com DOWNLOAD MY BOOK FOR FREE!!! http://www.youtube.com
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Spirituality and free thinking ( Part 5 - Who is God? Afterlife, Your always going to be ok
Talking about the bad stigma "god" has gotten from religion, what may happen when we die, and that life is just a playground and you #39;ll always be ok, just love yourself 🙂 DOWNLOAD MY FREE BOOK THINGS TO PONDER HERE!! thingstoponder2012.tumblr.com
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Spirituality, which is a nebulous concept that is open to personal interpretation, commonly refers to that which affects the human spirit or soul, as opposed to physical things that are often linked to god. It is generally acquired rather than chosen.
The youth today live in a far more complex environment than earlier generations, where the forums of spirituality and the influencing factors have also increased manifold. So they have developed an independent perspective of spirituality. They have a higher level of acceptance and receptivity to various religions, but this is often misread as indifference.
Spirituality is shaped by the society we live in, in our immediate communities, as well as by individual conscience and experience of The Force. For young people today, spirituality includes elements of multiculturalism and consumerism, with an emphasis on personal experience rather than a belief in what is true, self-awareness, and the need to derive personal meaning in a pluralist context.
Numerous factors influence the choices of youth. Currently, it is music that is the dominant influence. Many have turned atheists on the advocacy of black/death metal. On the other hand many agnostics have been drawn to spirituality through the intriguing influence of Sufi music. For youth, spirituality is more glamorous than mere idol worship. The traditional rudraaksh (prayer beads) and kadaa (a steel bracelet, representing the totality of god) have become trendy accessories. Festivals are celebrated with zest, with a special attention to the environment so, the eco-friendly Ganeshas and Diwali minus crackers while making the best of the opportunity to pamper oneself with clothes, food and more.
College programmes and functions, and most of all examinations, still begin with an invocation to the Almighty. However, personal prayer is no longer about reciting the 1,000 names of god or the shlokas, but a direct no-nonsense conversation about the consideration. Its seedhi baat, no bakwaas. The youth frequent traditional places of worship like the Siddhivinayak temple, Mount Marys Church or the Haji Ali dargah, but for the love of god and not out of fear. Yet many have been taken up by new interactive forms like the Art of Living, Chinmaya Youth Kendras and Om Shanti camps.
No, youth are not discarding traditional beliefs. Its just that spirituality is not confined to the puja room at home. They carry the Geeta, the Quran, the Bibleadapted for mobile applications in their phones, or will cheer a filmstar lip-syncing the Hanuman Chalisa and even download this devotional song about Lord Hanuman (the model devotee) for their use.
Some label this modern-day spirituality as a spiritual renaissance. Otherscriticise it as adulteration. It is, in fact, a re-mix of beliefs, deep-rooted traditions and values, combined with a practicality and humanist sensibility that acknowledges the existence of The Force without getting mixed up in names.
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KSP - Episode 6 - Kerbal Space Station
Kerbal Space Program or KSP is a game that allows you to construct rockets and probes and explore celestial bodies. Its up to you how the future of the kerbal #39;s space program is achieved by either success or Jebidiah #39;s wife beating you to death. In this Episode I show you my space station and talk about the process of getting it all together. I also Talk about moving all of them to the moon or at least bill, jeb and bob. Version of KSP 0.18.2
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VVVVVV Demo - First Level: Space Station (Camstudio Test)
I finally understand how to record sound with Camstudio!! Perfect for upcoming videos like Need For Madness. Anyway, enjoy my video of me playing the demo of "VVVVVV". ----------------------------------- Follow me on Twitter even If I don #39;t updated that much: twitter.com
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Now that i have a space shuttle i guess it needs a destination. How about a huge toroid ring space station then!?! I designed it so that i leave no space junk behind. We wouldn #39;t want to worry our brave Kerbonauts.
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NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver is given a tour of the Bigelow Aerospace facilities in 2011 by the companys President Robert Bigelow. Photo: NASA/Bill Ingalls
The next addition to the International Space Station will likely be an inflatable module from Bigelow Aerospace. NASA announced today they have awarded a $17.8 million contract to Bigelow to provide a new module for the ISS. The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module will demonstrate the benefits of this space habitat technology for future exploration and commercial space endeavors, NASA said in a press release. This would be the first privately built module to be added to the space station.
The International Space Station is a unique laboratory that enables important discoveries that benefit humanity and vastly increase understanding of how humans can live and work in space for long periods, NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver said. This partnership agreement for the use of expandable habitats represents a step forward in cutting-edge technology that can allow humans to thrive in space safely and affordably, and heralds important progress in U.S. commercial space innovation.
NASA will release more information about the agreement and the module next week, but previous reports have indicated the inflatable module would be used for adding additional storage and workspace, and the module would be certified to remain on-orbit for two years. NASA has been in discussions with Bigelow for several years about using their inflatable technology.
In 2006 Bigelow launched their Genesis I inflatable test module into orbit and according to their website, it is still functioning and continuing to produce invaluable images, videos and data for Bigelow Aerospace. It is now demonstrating the long-term viability of expandable habitat technology in an actual orbital environment.
A second Genesis module was launched in 2007 and it, too, is still functioning in orbit. Bigelow has said that even though the outer shell of their module is soft, as opposed to the rigid outer shell of current modules at the ISS, Bigelows inflatable modules are more resistant to micrometeoroid or orbital debris strikes. Bigelow uses multiple layers of Vectran, a material which is twice as strong as Kevlar. In ground tests, according to NASASpacefight.com, objects that would penetrate ISS modules only penetrated half-way through the skin of Bigelows modules.
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After controlling small satellites in the International Space Station this morning (Jan. 11), two teams of high school students took home top prizes for their programming skills.
The teams were part of theZero Robotics SPHERES Challenge, an annual competition that asks students to program bowling ball-size satellites to perform maneuvers related to current space-exploration problems. This year's competitors had to mimic cleaning up broken satellites and other unwanted debris humans have put into orbit around the Earth, but haven't brought back down again. Such "space junk" increases every year, which is a problem for new satellites that people want to put into space.
The student-written programs run in real testing satellites, calledSynchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient Experimental Satellitesor SPHERES, that zip around the cabin of the International Space Station.
Every year, winners are announced among U.S. and European Union teams. In the United States, the winning team included students from Montclair High School in New Jersey and the Evergreen School District in Washington State. In the EU, the top prize went to a team of students from the Enrico Fermi School in Italy and Herder-Gymnasium in Germany.
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With a price tag of $100 billion, the International Space Station may be the ultimate "crib," and now an Internet video production company has given the orbiting lab the MTV treatment.
The station tour, assembled by company Now This News from video footage recorded of NASA astronaut Sunita Williams,leads viewers on an "MTV Cribs" style visit throughInternational Space Station, which is the largest manmade structure in space. The station, which today is home to six astronauts from Russia, the United States and Canada, is as long as a football field and has about 29,600 cubic feet (838 cubic meters) of living spacethe equivalent of a five-bedroom home.
The 2.5-minute Now This News video is actually edited together from a series of videos (totaling nearly 30 minutes of footage) recorded by Williams in November when she was commanding the space station's Expedition 33 mission.The Cribs-like homage comes complete with slow motion and sped up shots set to pulsing background music and an in-depth explanation of the space station's bathroom facilities.
"We have some nice tissues," Williams said, "and then if things get really out of control we have disinfectant wipes."
Williams leads the video team through the gym, kitchen and sleeping quarters, ultimately ending the tour in the cupola a small glass outcropping on the bottom of the space station.
"It's like a glass bottom boat," Williams said. "It's one of those places you find yourself hanging out in all the time because all you want to do is look back at our planet."[Inside the Space Station (Infographic)]
Williams' full tour includes an explanation of what it's like to sleep and brush your teeth in microgravity.
NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texasthe same people responsible for the Gangnam Style parody,"NASA Johnson Style"put out their own "Cribs" knock off with astronaut Mike Fincke's tour of the Space Station Mock-Up and Training Facility. Check out the video here.
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Would you trust a 16-year-old in space? NASA evidently does. Just after the sun rose on the East Coast today (Jan. 11), astronauts aboard the International Space Station ran computer instructions, written by high school students, in bowling ball-size satellites floating inside the ISS cabin. The students' code told the satellites exactly where to go to complete challenges such as spitting out dust clouds and avoiding obstacles.
Ceding control of small satellites to students is part of an annual competition called theZero Robotics SPHERES Challenge, which is hosted by NASA, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Today's run is the Zero Robotics finals. Those interested canwatch a live broadcastof the event. Fifteen teams from the United States and Europe are competing to get their satellites to perform tasks related to cleaning up space junk.
"SPHERES" stands forSynchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites. MIT, NASA and DARPA researchers use SPHERES to test spacecraft maneuvers, such as docking and flying in formation.
This year the students had to program their SPHERES to deploy dust clouds that couldremove space junkfrom orbit, dock with another satellite to harvest its parts, and maneuver through an unknown field full of debris. The SPHERES had to perform all of those tasks autonomously, just as spacecraft would, once an ISS astronaut activated their code.
In the U.S., participating students watched their code at work over a direct transmission from the International Space Station, shown at the MIT campus. The European students watched from the European Space Research and Technology Center in the Netherlands.
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Reflecting on a recent photo he snapped from outer space of war-torn Syria, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield appealed for peace from his perch in the sky, saying Thursday: "We're all in this together."
"The perspective that we are subject to, that we are privileged enough to see directly with our eyes, is one I think would benefit everyone, to go around the world in just slightly over 90 minutes... you see it as one place," Hadfield told a news conference streamed from the International Space Station.
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"And so when we do look down on a place that is currently in great turmoil or strife, it's hard to reconcile the inherent patience and beauty of the world with the terrible things that we can do to each other as people and can do to the Earth itself," he said.
On Jan. 2, Hadfield had posted a picture of Latakia, Syria, on his Twitter account with the message: "Deceptively calm and beautiful, strife-torn on the shore on the sea. Peaceful from such a distance."
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Syria has been steeped in conflict for the past 21 months, with the violence claiming the lives of more than 60,000 people, according to the United Nations.
Hadfield rocketed into space in December to become the first Canadian to command the International Space Station, which orbits the Earth from a distance of 350 kilometers (217 miles), circling the planet every 90 minutes at a speed of 28,000 kilometers per hour.
"If people, I think, could see the perspective more clearly... (they would glean) that understanding of the fact that we're all in this together," he said Thursday. "Yes, there's important territorial issues and important personal issues but at the same time with increased communication and with increased understanding comes a more global perspective," he added.
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Mission to Mars: Orion nuclear propulsion (remastered) - Orbiter Space Flight Simulator 2010
-- Original uploaded on September 2, 2009 -- en.wikipedia.org Project Orion was the first serious attempt to design a nuclear pulse rocket. The design effort was carried out at General Atomics in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The idea of Orion was to react small directional nuclear explosives against a large steel pusher plate attached to the spacecraft with shock absorbers. Efficient directional explosives maximized the momentum transfer, leading to specific impulses in the range of 6000 seconds. With refinements a theoretical maximum of 100000 seconds (1 MNs/kg) might be possible. Thrusts were in the millions of short tonnes, allowing spacecraft larger than 8106 short tonnes to be built with 1958 materials. The reference design was to be constructed of steel using submarine-style construction with a crew of more than 200 and a vehicle takeoff weight of several thousand tonnes. This low-tech single-stage reference design would reach Mars and back in four weeks from the Earth #39;s surface (compare to 12 months for NASA #39;s current chemically-powered reference mission). The same craft could visit Saturn #39;s moons in a seven-month mission (compare to chemically-powered missions of about nine years). A number of engineering problems were found and solved over the course of the project, notably related to crew shielding and pusher-plate lifetime. The system appeared to be entirely workable when the project was shut down in 1965, the main reason being given that the Partial Test ...
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This is my second Orbiter video. I do take off from the moon and do some orbital maneuvers and then land again. Warning: I #39;m not very good. Recorded on Linux with Orbiter 2010, dx9client, ffmpeg. Guide to Orbiter on Linux: devio.us
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- News conferences, events and operating hours for the news center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida are set for the launch of Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-K, or TDRS-K, aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket Jan. 29. The 40-minute launch window extends from 8:52 to 9:32 p.m. EST. Liftoff will occur from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Launch commentary coverage, as well as prelaunch media briefings, will be carried live on NASA Television and the agency's website.
TDRS-K is the first of three next-generation satellites designed to ensure vital operational continuity for NASA. Each of the new satellites has a higher performance solar panel design for more spacecraft power to meet the growing S-band communications requirements. The TDRS system provides critical support from several locations in geostationary orbit for an array of science and human exploration missions orbiting Earth. These include the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station.
Prelaunch News Conference
A prelaunch news conference on NASA TV will be held at NASA Kennedy Space Center's Press Site at 1 p.m. Monday, Jan. 28.
Briefing participants are:
-- Badri Younes, deputy associate administrator, Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) NASA Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, Washington
-- Tim Dunn, NASA launch director Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
-- Vernon Thorp, program manager, NASA Missions United Launch Alliance, Denver, Colo.
-- Jeffrey Gramling, NASA TDRS-K project manager Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
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NASA is preparing to launch the eighth observation satellite in the Landsat remote sensing program that has chronicled changes in the Earths land cover for four decades.
Landsat 8, set for a Feb. 11 launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, will be equipped with instruments capable of more sensitive data collection than its predecessors. This will be the best Landsat satellite ever in terms of quality and quantity, said NASA project scientist Jim Irons.
The satellite will circle the Earth about 14 times a day, 438 miles above the planet, recording observations in different wavelengths along a 115-mile-wide swath and orbiting over the same point every 16 days. Information from the sensors, which will generate about 400 images a day, are used to map vegetation, soil moisture and heat emitted from the Earths surface.
Started in 1972 with the launch of its first satellite, Landsat is jointly managed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey. The program has amassed a vivid record of global land changes such as tropical deforestation, the explosive growth of Las Vegas and the recovery of the landscape surrounding Mt. St. Helens after the Washington volcano erupted in 1980.
Landsat 5, launched in 1984, was retired last month. Landsat 7, launched in 1999, remains in operation although with gaps in its data collection.
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Image Caption: This artist's concept shows a scene from the upcoming refueling demo aboard the International Space Station. The Robotic Refueling Mission, or RRM, Multifunction Tool (right) removes a cap from the RRM module (left). Credit: NASA
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In mid-January, NASA will take the next step in advancing robotic satellite-servicing technologies as it tests the Robotic Refueling Mission, or RRM aboard the International Space Station. The investigation may one day substantially impact the many satellites that deliver products Americans rely upon daily, such as weather reports, cell phones and television news.
During five days of operations, controllers from NASA and the Canadian Space Agency will use the space stations remotely operated Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator, or Dextre, robot to simulate robotic refueling in space. Operating a space-based robotic arm from the ground is a feat on its own, but NASA will do more than just robotics work as controllers remotely snip wires, unscrew caps and transfer simulated fuel. The team also will demonstrate tools, technologies and techniques that could one day make satellites in space greener, more robust and more capable of delivering essential services to people on Earth.
Why Fix or Refuel a Satellite?
Every satellite has a lifespan and eventual retirement date, determined by the reliability of its components and how much fuel it can carry, explains Benjamin Reed, deputy project manager of NASAs Satellite Servicing Capabilities Office, or SSCO.
Repairing and refueling satellites already in place, Reed asserts, can be far less expensive than building and launching entirely new spacecraft, potentially saving millions, even billions of dollars and many years of work.
The RRM demonstration specifically tests what it would take to repair and refuel satellites traveling the busy space highway of geosynchronous Earth orbit, or GEO. Located about 22,000 miles above Earth, this orbital path is home to more than 400 satellites, many of which beam communications, television and weather data to customers worldwide.
By developing robotic capabilities to repair and refuel GEO satellites, NASA hopes to add precious years of functional life to satellites and expand options for operators who face unexpected emergencies, tougher economic demands and aging fleets. NASA also hopes that these new technologies will help boost the commercial satellite-servicing industry that is rapidly gaining momentum.
Besides aiding the GEO satellite community, a capability to fix and relocate ailing satellites also could help manage the growing orbital debris problem that threatens continued space operations, ultimately making space greener and more sustainable.
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LONG BEACH, Calif. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope the notoriously over-budget new space observatory slated to launch in 2018 is on time and still within its new budget, the project's chief said Wednesday (Jan. 9).
Our budget still stands and the schedule remains the same, Eric Smith, the space telescope's program director, told astronomers here at a town hall meeting during the221st meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
Smith also outlined the future of theJames Webb Space Telescopeprogramin 2013 and discussed its turbulent year in 2012.
With an$8.8 billion dollar price tag, JWST is destined to be one of the largest and most expensive projects in NASA history. Set to replace the venerableHubble Space Telescopeonce it is launched, JWST will take infrared images of distant galaxies, probing the cosmos for hints and signals left behind fromthe Big Bang.
Of the four science instruments responsible for investigating those mysteries aboard the spacecraft, two were delivered to NASA in 2012. The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) the instrument responsible for taking Hubble-like images of distant galaxies, comets and other heavenly bodies was sent last year by the European consortium that built it. [Photos: The James Webb Space Telescope]
The Canadian Space Agency has also delivered its instrument: the Fine Guidance Sensor/Near InfraRed Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (FGS/NIRISS) that will also take high-quality images of other bodies in space.
NASA is still awaiting two more contributions: the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) from Lockheed Martin and the University of Arizona, and the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) from the European Space Agency, which is still in its early testing phases. Both instruments measure light on the infrared spectrum. All of the science instruments are set to be integrated by the end of 2013, officials say.
The telescope's tennis court-size sunshield is in the early stages of testing as well. The sunshield itself is too large to launch in an unfurled state, creating a unique problem for JWST scientists to solve. Instead of launching the telescope with the sunshield in place, NASA is planning to unroll the shield once the craft is in orbit. At one-third of the way complete, NASA scientists are now starting to practice rolling and unrolling the shield to see how it might unfurl in space after launch.
Once all four instruments are finished, researchers will combine them to test JWST as one cohesive unit. While final testing on the ground should begin in 2015, simulation testing using Optimal Trajectories by Implicit Simulation a space telescope tester that mimics the temperature and environment of a space telescope in Earths orbit wont start until 2017, a year before launch.
JWST is also going to investigate a few objects a little closer to home.
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NASA's Next Flagship Space Telescope Back on Track ... and on Budget