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The Rise and Fall of COMSAT

Technology, Business, and Government in Satellite Communications

by D. Whalen
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014

After pioneering this technology and growing the market, COMSAT fell prey to changes in government policy and to its own lack of entrepreneurial talent. The author explores the factors which contributed to this rise and fall of COMSAT.
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How to Love the Universe

A Scientist's Odes to the Hidden Beauty Behind the Visible World

by Stefan Klein
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018

An eye-opening celebration of the marvels of space, time, the cosmos, and more How to Love the Universe is a new kind of science writing by an author truly enamored of the world around him. In ten short chapters of lyrical prose—each one an ode to a breathtaking realm of discovery—Stefan...
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by Charles A. Whitney
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012

This is a book about the mystery and the passion, the imagination, religion, and poetry, the philosophy, the intellectual flights—and, above all, the people—that have created the science of astronomy, from Thales of Miletus predicting eclipses in the sixth century B.C. to today’s scientists...
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by Banesh Hoffmann
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012

In this fascinating, accessible introduction to one of the most revolutionary developments in modern physics, Einstein scholar Banesh Hoffmann recounts the successive insights that led to both the special and general theories of relativity.Using simple examples from everyday life, the author presents...
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Faint Echoes, Distant Stars

The Science and Politics of Finding Life Beyond Earth

by Ben Bova
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009

Our neighboring planets may have the answer to this question. Scientists have already identified ice caps on Mars and what appear to be enormous oceans underneath the ice of Jupiter's moons. The atmosphere on Venus appeared harsh and insupportable of life, composed of a toxic atmosphere and oceans...
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by Secret Agent X-9
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012

Advanced alien civilizations are now present in our galaxy. That's the message that the author sends out to readers in this interesting little book. The reasons why there has to be life elsewhere in the universe are explained, in fairly non technical words, so that most any reader can understand....
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Exoplanets

Diamond Worlds, Super Earths, Pulsar Planets, and the New Search for Life beyond Our Solar System

by Michael E. Summers, James Trefil
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017

The past few years have seen an incredible explosion in our knowledge of the universe. Since its 2009 launch, the Kepler satellite has discovered more than two thousand exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. More exoplanets are being discovered all the time, and even more remarkable than...
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Conjuring the Universe

The Origins of the Laws of Nature

by Peter Atkins
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018

The marvellous complexity of the Universe emerges from several deep laws and a handful of fundamental constants that fix its shape, scale, and destiny. There is a deep structure to the world which at the same time is simple, elegant, and beautiful. Where did these laws and these constants come from?...
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by Nathan Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012

This is not a book on mysticism, or religious thought. The more one studies modern science the more one realises that the same themes run through Bereshis (Genesis). The order of creation from modern Science can be mirrored very closely to the order of creation in the Torah. As one studies Science...
Cover of SPIRITUAL MAN: AN INTRODUCTION TO NEGATIVE DIMENSIONS
by Kevill Davies
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014

The 'SPIRITUAL MAN' is written as an introduction to the idea that NEGATIVE DIMENSIONS exist in our universe and affect the lives of humans on both a micro and macro level. It serves to illustrate the DAVIES HYPOTHESIS which states: The universe, its creation and evolution are ordered in the way they...
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by David Williams
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013

Everything that can exist, probably does exist. Everything. That means our entire universe is only a tiny fragment of reality, just one space-time among an infinite number of others. Welcome to the “multiverse.” Thus suggests the Many Worlds theory, an interpretation of quantum...
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by S. G. Whetherholt
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014

When did Time begin?  When did the universe begin?  What separates time and eternity?  What is the boundary of the universe?  What is the future of the universe? This book will reveal that the the Sea of Glass is the boundary of the universe and that the scientific details of what the Sea of Glass is...
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by Roman Andie
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017

1- Smaller number of tRNAs is however enough since the code has almost symmetry also with respect to A and C exchange not yet utilized. The trick is to replace in some cases the first basis of anticodon with Inosine I, which pairs with 2-  mRNA basis. This replacement is possible only for...
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by Casper Rigsby
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019

This book aims to give logically consistent reasoning for the dismissal of the idea of intelligent design through philosophical discourse based on given evidence of how our universe works. In these minutes, I will address the logical fallacies I see in any intelligent design model that poses the notion...
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