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NASA Wants Your Innovative Ideas
NASA is seeking proposals for creating and managing innovative activities, events, products, services and other education methods for increasing America's science and technological literacy.
One objective of this request for entrepreneurial offers is to distribute information nationally about the agency's programs and projects. NASA's intent is to enter into partnerships that will result in the establishment of one or more non-reimbursable Space Act Agreements with organizations.
In exchange for a collaborator's investment to creatively distribute NASA information, the agency will consider negotiating brand placement, limited exclusivity and other opportunities as part of a strategic collaboration.
NASA continues to strengthen the nation's education programs and support the country's educators, who inspire, prepare and encourage young minds. The agency plans to establish long-term relationships with stakeholders to increase the nation's science and technology literacy.
For information about the response for entrepreneurial offers, visit:
http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/synopsis.cgi?acqid=120084
For information about NASA's education programs, visit:
Submitted by BJS on Fri, 2006-05-19 19:02.
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RAPID BRAIN MATHEMATICAL COMPUTATION
Hi,
My name is Chibuzor Okpeh, over the years I have been studying the psychology of the brian in doing mathematical computation without assistance of writing the solution to such mathematical related questions down or being assisted by using calculating devices.
Further more, I conceived a discovery on how one can do multiplication of larger digits of numbers with the brain more rapidly. Take for instance if you were asked $14 multplied by 5, can you give an answer response without being assisted by calculating devices or writing it down in solving the question, in 5seconds? That I have discovered how to do such calculation with the brain.
I want people to share my discovery with me, I am a science student.
power of science
i think a person can be at two different place at the same time if he travel by the speed of light.bcs by doing so he becomes ahead than time..
Gravitation ! No straight Motion !
There is no straight motion in the universe. only circular motion. There is no doubt for that, even the light, everything.I am sure that.Even the gravitaion is its effect. think about it.
wanted to work for NASA - inovative team
Hi,
I don't know whom I am expressing my inner feelings. I am an engineer "Metallurgy and Material Science" and wanted to explore some of my ideas. I had a very strong reason to do this; which i wanted to give this world in my small period of life. Hope you can understand my thoughts and give me one chance to prove my self. so many things which i have been noted down "mind" which is in very creative way.
Regards,
Prabhat
black holes
Anti Piracy software
pollution
its great that NASA is doing a great job in space research but u know day by day pollution level is going up and these space shuttles contribute a lot to it.Its important to do something to improve the ozone condition.find a process to reduce air pollution.we need take a immmediate action to control it otherwise we will be in lot of trouble..
Extra Terrestrial Life
I agree with Mr. Bittick in the fact that we need to start researching better ways of getting to the stars first. However, with all the hoopla about being visited by aliens it dawns on me that they may not wish to communicate with us untill we get our own planet straight.
I mean think about it, You're an advanced civilization watching what looks like a planet full of monkeys run around killing themselves. What we see as everyday life they can see as an ifectious species.
I have no doubt that they will call upon us in the future but it won't be untill we get our s**t straightened out. So let's put our funding and research to good uses and get us up to the stars. In the mean time I think we need to try and get along quite a bit better before thinking about communicating with an advanced civilization.
Better use of funding
In a recent discussion forum, we were talking about possibilities of life on other planets. The subject of Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence or S.E.T.I. (for short) came up.
The discussion was fairly split. Some loyal to the cause of SETI and believe firmly in what they are doing, and those that thought it was a total waste of time.
Someone mentioned:
The universe is somewhere around 13 billion years old.
Earth may be somewhere around 5 billion years old.
In 5 billion years we developed life, and intelligent life at that! (Arguably) Wink
that leaves 8 billion years before that.
It is plausible that somewhere life evolved and given the possible head start
they could have had on us, could be billions of years ahead of us.
Much back and forth about the worthiness of the program, so I then responded:
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First of all; all electromagnetic radiation (which includes radio waves, microwaves, visible light, ultra-violet, x-rays, and gamma rays) will spread out with distance and will, at some point, become too dim to be observable, so we may not even receive anything understandable anyway. OR we may have already received something (if it was in the radio spectrum) and we filtered it out, because it was merely background static, mixed in with that of nebulae.
Even if there is intelligent life out there, (which I believe there may be) by the time we receive a message, the civilization may be extinct, or just so evolved beyond our own level (technologically or biologically) that we couldn't communicate with them anyway.
If there was a species out there that sent messages out into space, they would have had to do it around the same (or similar) timeframe of development that we are in. Now keep in mind, that this would be a time frame of only about 100 years out of possible thousands, or even millions of years of scientific development.
That could have been billions of years ago. Even if they are still sending messages out... to unknown recipients(or each other), if they are even a bit more advanced than us, do you really think that they would still be using the radio spectrum to send those messages/signals? If a species did become intelligent, and it's civilization lasted long enough to get to our level, or beyond; if they were 50 years more advanced than us(much less a thousand? Or a billion or two?) They would not be using radio spectrum. Many researchers believe that in less than 50 years we will be hardly using that spectrum ourselves, if at all.
I think they (Extra Terrestrial Life) would have a means of communicating that is so far beyond us now, the comparison would be worse than cro-magnum man trying to figure out encrypted messages sent via satellite, with no computer. We don't have the capability to receive such messages, language used, programming language used, or even an understanding of the means of which the message is being transmitted.
If there is life out there, I don't believe that we can understand there messages, or even HOW they are sending it. If we do want to reach out to the stars, we may be better off putting that money towards other research like new power sources( Zero Point Energy, antimatter, Solar Power, fusion, or a more efficient fission), or Propulsion research (Ion thrusters, Solar Sail, magnetic field engine) These would be more useful uses of that money.
Get us out there. Advance the technology for advanced navigation, optical computers, more efficient manufacturing processes, Cryo-Technology. Once some of these are done, And with a more advanced knowledge of physics, we may reach the stars.
In the meantime, we continue to explore our own solar system through telescopes, rovers, and manned missions. So that we can grasp a more solid understanding of the universe one step at a time, before we actually get there.
How about some art?
How About This!
A free news ticker thing for people's cell phones thats free for them to get sent to them, through some kind of text message or something you can check periodically....also, for phones that can handle it, perhaps you could get random pictures from space sent to them!
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