Space Tourist

LARGEST AIRLINE COMPANY

Mett — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:28:57 +0000

Now it is official the biggest airline company in the world was born.United Airlines will be the name of the new

company resulting from the merger of UNITED AIRLINES and CONTINENTAL AIRLINES.The Antitrust finally approved the 1.3 billion deal between the two companies.

The deal is supposed to give the new company the necessary strength to compete with the low cost rivals across the US

and beyond.

The new company will be run by the United CEO Jeffrey A.Smisek and the headquarter will continue to be in Chicago.

The whole value of this mega-financial and mega-economical operation is believed to be arund the 3.17 billion dollars.

We have to make some considerations although,will this merger have any effect on the prices and if yes will it be

positive and or negative?The directing board declared that it’s not their intetion to raise the fares,though this seems quite improbable to thepeople briefed on the matter.This new giant of the skies will be monopolizing the market,by not competing anymore on a lot of routes,will offer to the passengers less options to choose and of course higher prices.

Combined,the two companies will have 21 % of the domestic capacity,followed by Delta Airlines.

Summarising this is a good deal for the CEO of the companies and their stock holder but not so good for the greaterpublic resulting in less options to choose and less competion for them.But hey,who said this is for the people?

UNIVERSE EXPANDIND INFINITELY

Mett — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:04:12 +0000

The recent mesaurements made by the scientists and engineers of the CNES (Centre National d’Études Spatiales) in collaboration with the JET PROPULSION LABORATORY OF NASA,show that the universe is flat and it will continue expandind at an increasing speed.

The main cause of this expansion is believed to be the infamous dark energy,a hypothetical form of energy that permeates all of space and tends to increase the rate of expansion of the universe and currently accounts for 74% of the total mass-energy of the universe.

Scientist were able to examine the effects of dark energy,by studing Abel 1689 the most massive galaxy clusters.The gravity of its trillion stars, plus dark matter, acts like a 2-million-light-year-wide “lens” in space. The gravitational lens bends and magnifies the light of galaxies far behind it,and by observing such images,the astronomists are able do determine the speed and acceleration of our universe.

The implications of such results are as infinte as the expansion of the universe itself,in fact these mesaurements break down the sustainers of the “shrink theory” aka the ones who thought that the universe would stop expandind at a certain point and shrink back to where everything started from,the big bang.

The future of our universe is not very bright either,in a few billion years it will become a cold place and all of the stars like our son will finish their nuclear fuel and put out like candles on a birthday cake.

CONQUER SPACE OR SURRENDER TO CERTAIN DEATH

Mett — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:07:02 +0000

The notorius paralyzed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking ,who proved the first of many singularity theorems,one of the co-founders of the laws of the black hole mechanics,is warning the human kind : ”I see great dangers for the human race. There have been a number of times in the past when its survival has been a question of touch and go. The Cuban missile crisis in 1963 was one of these “

and he continues :

“Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth, are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill. But our genetic code still carries the selfish and aggressive instincts that were of survival advantage in the past. It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand or million.”

There is a clear analogy between the situation of the world today and the Maya extinction more than 1000 years ago.Despise these irrefutable facts the great scientist is still optimistic,but we have to go beyond the selfish and aggressive instincts that were a survival advantage in the past and focus all as one in the exploration and the conquering of space :

“I believe that the long term future of the human race must be in space. It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster on planet Earth in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand, or million. The human race shouldn’t have all its eggs in one basket, or on one planet. Let’s hope we can avoid dropping the basket until we have spread the load.”

A BRIEF HISTORY OF AVIATION

Mett — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:22:17 +0000

“Come fly with me, let’s fly, let’s fly away”,if there is a final fantasy,a boy’s dream,an ultimate challenge,an unwritten love poem that is flying.

When we are in love,when our head is between the clouds,when we see our loved ones and feel our stomach crawling and we bearly touch the ground…we are flying.

I am pretty sure this is what made Leonardo Da Vinci wish to fly,being that his love wasn’t corresponded.

SPACE TOURISM INTRO

Mett — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 14:27:50 +0000

I don’t really need to explain to you what space tourism is,the name says it all.Though it seems a super millionaire activity most likely for people like Bill Gates,Abrahamovic or Berlusconi,don’t forget that 50 years ago having a car was only a privilege of the rich.

May be not immediately but in the next 20 years space tourism will be available to the great public.

Despite the fear or anxiety it may generate initially,space tourism may be the most exciting,incredible and fantastic experience a man can ever make in his life.

A perfect example is the millionaire Gregory Olsen,the third private tourist in space tourism history…who declared “I am very excited about the future of space travel,especially if it means i may have another chance to fly”

Mr Olsen’s first flight was in october 2005 aboard the russian Soyuz spacecraft.Whoever has 20 million $ to spend can contact the Space Adventures agency which will broker u a ticket with the Russian Federal Space Agency.

The adventurous business man shares with us his trip in Space in the memoir “By any means necessay”…no need for further comments.

HELICOPTERS (helik-o-pter)

Mett — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 17:20:16 +0000

“If Icarus hadn’t flown so close to the sun we would all have a second home in Mars by now””

The story of Icarus is a symbol of the human desire to fly,to explore,to escape…and when we think of flying,the airplane comes first to our mind,but helicopter flight was the first kind of flight captured by human imagination.

In the suburbs of a chinese city about 500 years ago kids playing with hand-spun bamboo made toys discovered what may be the first rotary wing in history.Eventhough we have to wait for Leonardo Da Vinci to get the first schemes of “rotary aircrafts”

In the midst of the pioneers of aviation we can’t not mention Sir George Cayley,Alphonse Penaud who developed the coaxial rotor model and Gustave de Ponton d’Amécourt who coined the word “helicopter”,deriving for ancient greek

“”helik”= “spiral” ” and “pter” = “wing”

But we have to wait for two brothers called Jacques and Louis Berget,to see a rotary wing aircraft which they called Gyroplane No1 lift vertically from the Ground

A helicopter is a rotary wing aircraft.

SPACE TRAVEL

Mett — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:17:40 +0000

Space always seems so far,but we are much closer to space travel than what the majority of people think.

“A small step for a man a giant leap for mankind”