Call of Duty: Ghosts Gameplay – HARDCORE Team Deathmatch on Stormfront – W/Commentary – Video

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Need A Vacation? Space Will Soon Be Affordable

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KUALA LUMPUR, March 28 (Bernama) -- Sub-orbital flights can cost as cheap as RM15,000 in future which would help develop the space tourism industry, said Prof Dr Patrick Collins, a professor of economics at Azabu University, Japan.

"Currently space flight costs range from US$100,000 to US$200,000 (RM327,170 to RM654,340), but by doing it on a larger scale, engineers believe it can be as low as RM15,000 in 2020," said Collin in his talk titled 'From Microgravity to Orbital Flight' at Planeterium Negara here today.

A sub-orbital space flight is a spaceflight in which the spacecraft reaches 100 kilometres above the sea level. It could boost space tourism besides cutting cost for microgravity research.

Sub-orbital flights helps researchers to carry out microgravity research without going to outer space, hence saving time and cost.

Collins also said that space tourism could be commercialised like air travel and such efforts and research were being carrying out by few countries like the United States of America (USA), Japan besides a few European nations.

"In 2000, only 1 billion passengers flew on aircraft, but in 2010, 2.5 billion passengers used aircraft services. So in future, we can expect more people to travel to space. USA, Japan and Europeans are working on the possibilities," he said.

Collins is also a collaborating researcher with the Institute for Space and Astronautical Science. He is also an adviser to a number of companies and his research focus for the past 25 years has been on how to stimulate growth on commercial space activities, mainly for tourism and energy supply.

Meanwhile, National Space Agency (ANGKASA) Director General Dr Noordin Ahmad said it its effort to become a developed nation by the year 2020, Malaysia was not sidelined on the matter and expected the new technology to reduce costs.

"We are expecting the concept of sub-orbital flight to be used in expediting microgravity experiments with the least possible cost compared to using the older method of sending microgravity experiments to the ISS (International Space Station) which is very costly," Noordin told Bernama.

Malaysia has been involved in microgravity research since sending its first astronaut Datuk Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor into space in 2007. The research was on five themes namely microbes in space, cells in space, protein in space, food in space and students suggested experiments.

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WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Milky Way Panorama

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Touring the Milky Way now is as easy as clicking a button with NASA's new zoomable, 360-degree mosaic presented Thursday at the TED 2014 Conference in Vancouver, Canada. The star-studded panorama of our galaxy is constructed from more than 2 million infrared snapshots taken over the past 10 years by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

"If we actually printed this out, we'd need a billboard as big as the Rose Bowl Stadium to display it," said Robert Hurt, an imaging specialist at NASA's Spitzer Space Science Center in Pasadena, Calif. "Instead, we've created a digital viewer that anyone, even astronomers, can use."

The 20-gigapixel mosaic uses Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope visualization platform. It captures about three percent of our sky, but because it focuses on a band around Earth where the plane of the Milky Way lies, it shows more than half of all the galaxy's stars.

The image, derived primarily from the Galactic Legacy Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire project, or GLIMPSE, is online at: http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/glimpse360

Spitzer, launched into space in 2003 and has spent more than 10 years studying everything from asteroids in our solar system to the most remote galaxies at the edge of the observable universe. In this time, it has spent a total of 4,142 hours (172 days) taking pictures of the disk, or plane, of our Milky Way galaxy in infrared light. This is the first time those images have been stitched together into a single, expansive view.

Our galaxy is a flat spiral disk; our solar system sits in the outer one-third of the Milky Way, in one of its spiral arms. When we look toward the center of our galaxy, we see a crowded, dusty region jam-packed with stars. Visible-light telescopes cannot look as far into this region because the amount of dust increases with distance, blocking visible starlight. Infrared light, however, travels through the dust and allows Spitzer to view past the galaxy's center.

"Spitzer is helping us determine where the edge of the galaxy lies," said Ed Churchwell, co-leader of the GLIMPSE team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "We are mapping the placement of the spiral arms and tracing the shape of the galaxy." Using GLIMPSE data, astronomers have created the most accurate map of the large central bar of stars that marks the center of the galaxy, revealing the Milky Way to be slightly larger than previously thought. GLIMPSE images have also shown a galaxy riddled with bubbles. These bubble structures are cavities around massive stars, which blast wind and radiation into their surroundings.

All together, the data allow scientists to build a more global model of stars, and star formation in the galaxy -- what some call the "pulse" of the Milky Way. Spitzer can see faint stars in the "backcountry" of our galaxy -- the outer, darker regions that went largely unexplored before. "There are a whole lot more lower-mass stars seen now with Spitzer on a large scale, allowing for a grand study," said Barbara Whitney of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, co-leader of the GLIMPSE team. "Spitzer is sensitive enough to pick these up and light up the entire 'countryside' with star formation."

The Spitzer team previously released an image compilation showing 130 degrees of our galaxy, focused on its hub. The new 360-degree view will guide NASA's upcoming James Webb Space Telescope to the most interesting sites of star-formation, where it will make even more detailed infrared observations. Some sections of the GLIMPSE mosaic include longer-wavelength data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, which scanned the whole sky in infrared light. The GLIMPSE data are also part of a citizen science project, where users can help catalog bubbles and other objects in our Milky Way galaxy. To participate, visit: http://www.milkywayproject.org The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., manages the Spitzer and WISE missions for NASA. The Spitzer Science Center is at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.

Caption: Spitzer Space Telescope Team

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