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... . Some of these ideas may one day make warp drive a genuine contender for breaking the interstellar distance barrier - the biggest obstacle towards the potential interaction of interstellar civilizations. This paper will review the current status of the warp drive since the seminal paper and discuss the tremendous theoretical ...

... the earliest, one that continues to modern times. In addressing the mystery of the origins of human life, the ancients recognized the importance of childbearing and saw that the rhythm of life was tied to the cycles of women's menstruation and the ... - 1265 BCE), the Colossal Stone Heads of the Olmec on the Gulf Coast of Mexico (1200 - 600 BCE), the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, Greece (one of the seven ancient wonders of the world, c. 430 CE), the Colossal Buddha of Bamiyan in ...

... in amazement. The rocket, this toy of the midsummer night's festivals that has been despised so far, as - motor? As a vehicle drive of such surprising power? In fact, the hellish ride of the powder car was something like an increase in rank for the rocket: it became before the eyes, ears of The rocket car on the racetrack and - nose of the ...

... some of the greatest talents of early rocketry. Contributors to RocketScience included Professor Hermann Oberth (one of the fathers of rocketry), Krafft Ehricke (designer of the Centaur liquid hydrogen stage), Eugen Sanger (father of the rocket plane), Heinz Koelle (Director of ... since the 1950s, his latest book "Rocket Science" released in 2004 is named after the phrase he coined in 1947 for the enclosed journal. The Journal of the Detroit Rocket Society is an obscure rarity of rocket ...

... as the German Me163 and America's D-558-2, X1A, X1B, X2, X3, X4, X5, and XF92, which takes up over a third of the text. The account then moves into the developmental history of the X15 from conception to flight testing, giving intimate details of the airplane, its rocket engines, airframe and engine ...

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... )''' - '''JBIS Volume ''' - Contents of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society for Volume 52 52 '''Page ''' - 267-270 '''Year''' - 1999 '''Keywords''' - '''JBIS Reference Code ''' - 1999.52.267 '''Number of Pages''' - 4 Abstract The following is a brief paper presented at the ...

... Abstract The unsupported circumnavigation of the lunar surface, either around the equator or over both poles is the longest distance expedition that can be implemented on the lunar surface. This mini-review describes some of the attributes of this expedition and reviews some of the dangers that the team will face. By travelling at just under 16 km/hr along the western terminator around the equator the 29 day, 11 ...

... Author - S. Ashworth '''Co-Author(s)''' - '''JBIS Volume ''' - Contents of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society for Volume 65 65 '''Page ''' - 140-154 '''Year''' - 2012 '''Keywords''' - Starship, worldship, ... =2012.65.140 here ''' ---- Journal of the British Interplanetary Society JBIS is © 1934-2013 http://www.bis-space.com British Interplanetary Society - Image:BIS_logo.jpg 100px Category:Journal of The British Interplanetary Society

The surface temperature of the Sun is about 5800° Kelvin (K) or over 10,000° F. As one gets into the corona of the Sun, the temperatures can reach many millions of degrees K The Kelvin temperature scale was created by William Thompson Kelvin in 1848 because he was very interested in creating an absolute temperature scale. His scale allowed the ultimate ...

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