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Exploitation and Apocalypse: Imagined Futures of Space Colonization
Caliban: French Journal of English StudiesAs private ventures into near-Earth orbit increase in frequency and take a more active role in facilitating scientific research, eyes turn to the Moon and Mars as possible destinations for humanity to establish a permanent presence.
Matt Harvey
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The Social Structure of Islamicate Science
Journal of World Philosophies, 2017 The view that Islamicate science went into decline while European science was getting started is still commonly held among historians of science and almost universal in general history and popular presentations.
Peter Barker
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The State of Astronomy Education in the U.S.
, 1996 I would like to set the scene for the discussion that will follow in this book and bring up a few disturbing points which I believe any discussion about astronomy education will ultimately have to address.
Fraknoi, Andrew
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Accelerating software radio astronomy FX correlation with GPU and FPGA co-processors [PDF]
, 2010 Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (leaves [117]-121).This thesis attempts to accelerate compute intensive sections of a frequency domain radio astronomy correlator using dedicated co-processors.
Woods, Andrew
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Planets and the Possibility of Life beyond EarthÂ
ZygonThe question of whether life exists beyond Earth has intrigued humans throughout history. Millennia of speculation have fueled both philosophy and theology, with contemplations of the spiritual state of alien beings shedding new light on that state of ...
Jennifer J. Wiseman
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Why should we do astronomy? (The Real Astronomy)
, 2009 Professional Astronomers talk about why astronomy is important for society. This is the ninth and last podcast in the "Real Astronomy" series which highlights how modern astronomy is ...
Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
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Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2019 Hybrid virtual reality environments allow analysts to choose how much of the screen real estate they want to use for Virtual Reality (VR) immersion, and how much they want to use for displaying different types of 2D data.
Peter Hanula +3 more
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Immanuel Kant’s Theory of Objects and Its Inherent Link to Natural Science
Open Philosophy, 2018 In the theoretical philosophy of Immanuel Kant, the term object has an extensive and far-reaching significance, and it can therefore be understood as a theory of objects.
Meer Rudolf
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A critical evaluation of the new Hall of Astronomy of the University of Mexico Science Museum
, 2008 On December 2004, the newly designed astronomy hall at Universum, the science museum of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, was opened to the public.
Doddoli, Consuelo +1 more
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