It's not just rising sea levels. Mashable's Mark Kaufman breaks down how climate change is literally causing the Earth's gravitational center to shift — with potentially devastating consequences.
Climate change is literally shifting Earth's axis
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Jeff Bezos will spend just 3 minutes in space, with no pilot or spacesuit. His flight will be unlike any before it.
The New Shepard spacecraft carrying Jeff Bezos won't reach Earth's orbit, and there won't be anybody flying it.
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False warnings about solar storms have gone viral. Here’s what the flares actually do to Earth.
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Ancient meteorite could reveal origins of life on Earth
The rare rock is 4.6 billion years old
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More than a third of Earth’s population faces malnutrition due to Covid-19
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Ocean microbes team up brilliantly to gather food when it's scarce
Woods Hole MA (SPX) Jul 20, 2021What's a hungry marine microbe to do when the pickings are slim? It must capture nutrients - nitrogen, phosphorus, or iron - to survive, yet in vast expanses of the ocean, nutrients are extremely scarce. And the stakes are high: Marine microbial communities drive many of the elemental cycles that sustain all life on Earth. One ingenious solution to this challenge is reported this week in P
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New sunspot catalogue to improve space weather predictions
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Jul 20, 2021Scientists from the University of Graz, Kanzelhohe Observatory, Skoltech, and the World Data Center SILSO at the Royal Observatory of Belgium, have presented the Catalogue of Hemispheric Sunspot Numbers. It will enable more accurate predictions of the solar cycle and space weather, which can affect human-made infrastructure both on Earth and in orbit. The study came out in the Astronomy and Astr
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Jeff Bezos wants flight to expand 'new frontiers' in space
Washington DC (UPI) Jul 19, 2021
Jeff Bezos, the man who made e-commerce the "economy's new frontier," plans to fly into space Tuesday in an effort to make tourism far above the Earth the new frontier. Time magazine recognized Bezos as "Person of the Year" in 1999 for his founding of the Amazon retail website, saying, "Some people must be genetically predisposed to explore the frontiers." Bezos has grown into on
Jeff Bezos, the man who made e-commerce the "economy's new frontier," plans to fly into space Tuesday in an effort to make tourism far above the Earth the new frontier. Time magazine recognized Bezos as "Person of the Year" in 1999 for his founding of the Amazon retail website, saying, "Some people must be genetically predisposed to explore the frontiers." Bezos has grown into on
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Global satellite data shows clouds will amplify global heating
London, UK (SPX) Jul 20, 2021A new approach to analyse satellite measurements of Earth's cloud cover reveals that clouds are very likely to enhance global heating. The research, by scientists at Imperial College London and the University of East Anglia, is the strongest evidence yet that clouds will amplify global heating over the long term, further exacerbating climate change. The results, published in Proceedi
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Air Force tasks Rhea Space Activity to build rapid-response Lunar comsats
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 20, 2021As U.S. operations in space steadily move further away from Earth orbit, the rapidly growing 'New Space' company Rhea Space Activity (RSA) is pleased to announce that it has been selected by the United States Air Force (USAF) for a Phase I, Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) 2021 Space Force Pitch Day award to investigate a bi-modal, solar-thermal propulsion system that would provide rapi
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Jeff Bezos Explains How Blue Origin’s Future Commercial Flights Will Save Earth
Billionaires, they never like to be called that. Jeff Bezos, former Amazon CEO and the world’s richest person, is about to become the second billionaire to shoot himself into space, or close to it. But he would rather not talk about that. Blue Origin, Bezos’ space company, is launching the New Shepard rocket to the edge of space today, Tuesday, July 20. It will carry Bezos and his brother, Mark Bezos, but also the <... (continue reading...)
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DNA Explainer: What is Karman Line? How does it define space travel?
With Jeff Bezos set to follow Richard Branson to the edge of space, here's what it means and how the boundary between Earth and space is defined.
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Twitter suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene again, this time over misleading vaccine tweets
Congress' loudest Facebook aunt, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, has landed herself her second Twitter suspension of the year for tweeting false or misleading information about COVID-19 vaccinations.
Greene posted two quote tweets on July 18 and 19, adding her own claims that vaccines that protect against serious illness and death from COVID-19 are "controversial" and "NON-FDA approved", calling them "human experimentation" and asserting that COVID-19 is "not dangerous for non-obese people and those under 65."
Vaccines available in the U.S. have been authorized for emergency use by the Food and Drug Authority, and are safe and effective. COVID-19 has caused serious short- and long-term illness and death in people of all ages around the world, including over 110,000 Americans under the age of 65 who have died to date.
Both Greene's tweets remain available on her account, but have had Twitter's anti-misinformation fact checking labels applied to them, marking them as "misleading" and linking to more reliable information on vaccine safety.
Twitter put Greene's account into "read-only mode" for a period of 12 hours for violating the platform's policy on misleading COVID-19 information. This is a form of enforcement action where the account is limited to seeing tweets on their timeline and sending direct messages to people who follow them, and cannot tweet, retweet, or like tweets.
Misleading information on COVID-19, a Twitter spokesperson noted in an email to Mashable, includes "research findings (such as misrepresentations of or unsubstantiated conclusions about statistical data) used to advance a specific narrative that diminishes the significance of the disease."
Greene was previously suspended for 12 hours in January of this year for sharing false or misleading information about the 2020 U.S. election, aka "multiple violations of [Twitter's] civic integrity policy". Under Twitter's strike-based system, suspensions of this length are the standard enforcement action for second and third strikes — meaning that next time Greene crosses the line, she's facing a 7-day account lock, and a permanent suspension for any strikes after that.
Greene has made a habit of making false, misleading, and incendiary claims in her six months in the House. In addition to her continued support for the "Big Lie" that President Joe Biden's win over Donald Trump in the November election was illegitimate, she has also compared mask requirements on Capitol Hill to the Holocaust and suggested that California's increasingly intense wildfires are ignited by laser beams from solar generators orbiting Earth.
Greene's home state of Georgia, like all 50 U.S. states, is currently facing a new wave of rising case numbers thanks to the highly transmissible Delta variant, with the Peach State clocking a 291 percent increase in new cases in the two weeks to July 19. Less than half of the state's adults are fully vaccinated.
Greene posted two quote tweets on July 18 and 19, adding her own claims that vaccines that protect against serious illness and death from COVID-19 are "controversial" and "NON-FDA approved", calling them "human experimentation" and asserting that COVID-19 is "not dangerous for non-obese people and those under 65."
Vaccines available in the U.S. have been authorized for emergency use by the Food and Drug Authority, and are safe and effective. COVID-19 has caused serious short- and long-term illness and death in people of all ages around the world, including over 110,000 Americans under the age of 65 who have died to date.
Both Greene's tweets remain available on her account, but have had Twitter's anti-misinformation fact checking labels applied to them, marking them as "misleading" and linking to more reliable information on vaccine safety.
Twitter put Greene's account into "read-only mode" for a period of 12 hours for violating the platform's policy on misleading COVID-19 information. This is a form of enforcement action where the account is limited to seeing tweets on their timeline and sending direct messages to people who follow them, and cannot tweet, retweet, or like tweets.
Misleading information on COVID-19, a Twitter spokesperson noted in an email to Mashable, includes "research findings (such as misrepresentations of or unsubstantiated conclusions about statistical data) used to advance a specific narrative that diminishes the significance of the disease."
Greene was previously suspended for 12 hours in January of this year for sharing false or misleading information about the 2020 U.S. election, aka "multiple violations of [Twitter's] civic integrity policy". Under Twitter's strike-based system, suspensions of this length are the standard enforcement action for second and third strikes — meaning that next time Greene crosses the line, she's facing a 7-day account lock, and a permanent suspension for any strikes after that.
Greene has made a habit of making false, misleading, and incendiary claims in her six months in the House. In addition to her continued support for the "Big Lie" that President Joe Biden's win over Donald Trump in the November election was illegitimate, she has also compared mask requirements on Capitol Hill to the Holocaust and suggested that California's increasingly intense wildfires are ignited by laser beams from solar generators orbiting Earth.
Greene's home state of Georgia, like all 50 U.S. states, is currently facing a new wave of rising case numbers thanks to the highly transmissible Delta variant, with the Peach State clocking a 291 percent increase in new cases in the two weeks to July 19. Less than half of the state's adults are fully vaccinated.
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Jeff Bezos Will Briefly Leave Earth Aboard Historic Blue Origin Flight
Billionaire Jeff Bezos and three crewmates are set to travel in the New Shepard spacecraft to the edge of space for what will be the inaugural flight of the Amazon founder's company Blue Origin.
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Demolition of Indian village stepped up despite UN protest
Faridabad, India (AFP) July 17, 2021Indian authorities on Saturday pursued the demolition of thousands of homes in a village near New Delhi despite protests by rights activists and UN experts. Bulldozers and earth movers began the operation this week at Khori, a settlement of tens of thousands of people near the Delhi border that the Supreme Court has ruled is protected forest land and must be cleared. Activists say the mi
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Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos to fly into space on Blue Origin rocket today
Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is set to be carried into space later today in the first passenger flight of his Blue Origin rocket company. Blue Origin's reusable New Shepard space rocket will carry humans on board for the first time when it blasts off at 8am CDT (2pm BST). Interested followers will be able to follow Blue Origin's livestream video of the launch from 6.30am CDT. As revealed in recent weeks, billionaire Bezos will be accompanied by his younger brother Mark and two other debutant astronauts, 82-year-old Wally Funk and 18-year-old Oliver Daemen. Funk trained as one of the Mercury 13 astronauts in the 1960s but never got a chance to fly into space. Physics student Daemen will be the space tourism business's first paying customer, with his ticket paid for by his dad, who is the founder and CEO of Dutch private equity firm Somerset Capital Partners (not to be confused with Jacob Rees-Mogg's Somerset Capital Management). Funk and Daemen will be the oldest and youngest astronauts ever to travel to space. Our astronauts have completed training and are a go for launch. #NSFirstHumanFlight pic.twitter.com/rzkQgqVaB6 — Blue Origin (@blueorigin) July 19, 2021 After lift-off the rocket will, as Blue Origin has been at pains to point out, blast to an altitude of around 62 miles (100km) above the Earth, a level known as the Kármán line. Bezos's billionaire space-race rival Sir Richard Branson's spaceflight on his Virgin Galactic spaceship earlier this month reached a height of 53 miles, which is outside the Earth's atmosphere and is accepted by NASA as being where outer space begins. But Blue Origin has pointed out that not only is the Kármán line the stated boundary between the Earth's atmosphere and outer space as set by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, and where “96 percent of the world's population” recognises as being the borderline, while also boasting that its rocket has bigger windows than its rival. After four minutes of weightless fun for the passengers, New Shepard, on what is its 16th flight, will return to Earth with its descent slowed by parachutes and aiming for a touchdown in the West Texas desert.
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19 GB RAM for Realme GT Master Explorer Edition? Read between the lines
With the pandemic-induced cost-cutting, phone manufacturers are not doing those out-of-the-earth features they once you used to. Pop-up cameras, multiple chips, curved glass bodies, and unlimited RAM capacities are a thing of the past. Realme, however, caught attention with a recent announcement on Weibo regarding the upcoming Realme GT Master Explorer Edition. This phone is […]
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More than 185,000 people have signed petitions to stop Jeff Bezos from returning to Earth
Bezos and three others are set to fly to the edge of space on a Blue Origin rocket. Thousands of people don't want him to come back.
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Komo Plant-Based Foods Appoints Plant-Based Veteran Sherrie Bobojevic to Advisory Board
*VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / July 20, 2021 / Komo Plant Based Foods Inc. *(*CSE:YUM*)(*OTC PINK:KOMOF*)(*FSE:9HB*) ("*Komo*"), plant-based food company, is pleased to announce it appointed Sherrie Bobojevic as a member of its advisory board on July 19, 2021.Sherrie currently holds the role of Director of Sales at Love Good Fats, and was previously Director, National Retail Sales Canada for Daiya Foods Inc. She has had a successful career in the plant-based foods industry for 10 years and has over 20 years experience in business development, distribution, retail sales, sales brokering and brand management in the natural food industry. Sherrie has helped establish thousands of points of distribution for various brands, including Sol Cuisine, Earth Balance, Daiya foods, Wholly Veggie, Pacific Foods, Gardein, Coconut Bliss and White Wave Foods.
Sherrie will focus on advising the Komo team on strategies to build its wholesale and food service partnerships and points of distribution in the Canadian market.
"I value the people behind Komo Comfort Foods and the beliefs which create the foundation of this brand. The Komo team has placed a strong brand voice behind the company, and I love the way they are thinking about the present and the future of plant-based foods. They are focused on creating the items that consumers have been asking for and bringing them to life, for the whole family to enjoy," says Sherrie Bobojevic.
The Komo brand was launched by three lifelong foodies who also happen to be the best at what they do. A plant-based chef, an inspired food scientist/product inventor and an operations/food safety leader, working together to craft real food that follows three rules. It has to be seamless to include in everyday life. It has to be made with strictly wholesome ingredients. And it has to be plant-based. Komo creates plant-based, feel good food worth sharing.
*About Komo*
Komo Plant Based Foods Inc. is a premium plant-based food company that develops, manufactures, markets and sells a variety of plant-based frozen meals that are always hearty, satisfying, and made with wholesome ingredients. At Komo, our mission is to help make plant-based meals a staple on every dinner table by sharing our love for feel-good food that connects the people to the planet. We believe plant-based eating is the future and - Change can start with a single bite^TM. Our experienced plant-based innovation and development team recreates vegan versions of traditionally cheesy and meaty classics, with 100% plants. Komo's products are sold direct-to-consumer through our eCommerce website and a distribution network of online and brick and mortar grocery, convenience and natural retailer channels. Our operating subsidiary Komo Comfort Foods launched in 2021 with our flagship products: plant-based Lasagna, Shepherd's Pie and Chick'n Pot Pie and has recently launched a new line - Komo Plant-Based Meal Helpers^TM - versatile meal starters to allow the creation of many dishes at home.
Learn more at: www.komocomfortfoods.com and follow on Instagram: @komocomfortfoods
For further information, please contact:
William White, President & CEO
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The Canadian Securities Exchange has not reviewed, approved or disapproved the contents of this news release.
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Certain statements contained in this press release constitute forward-looking information. These statements relate to future events or Komo's future performance. The use of any of the words "could", "expect", "believe", "will", "projected","estimated" and similar expressions and statements relating to matters that are not historical facts are intended to identify forward-looking information and are based on Komo's current belief or assumptions as to the outcome and timing of such future events. Actual future results may differ materially. In particular, Komo's product development plans, its ability to retain key personnel, and its expectation as to the acceptance of its products by consumers constitute forward-looking information. Actual results and developments may differ materially from those contemplated by forward-looking information. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking information. The statements made in this press release are made as of the date hereof. Komo disclaims any intention or obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be expressly required by applicable securities laws.
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Businessinsider.co.za | More than 185,000 people have signed petitions to stop Jeff Bezos from returning to Earth
Bezos and three others are set to fly to the edge of space on a Blue Origin rocket. Thousands of people don't want him to come back.
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Safe landing for Jeff Bezos and crew as billionaire achieves childhood dream of becoming astronaut
Jeff Bezos, the world's wealthiest man and founder of Amazon, has landed safely back on Earth with his crew following a successful launch by his private spaceflight company Blue Origin.
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American Resources Corporation Expands Rare Earth Team with Appointment of Seasoned Executive
*Jeff Peterson joins the Company to bolster commercialization development of its rare earth element processing and broaden its sustainable feedstock sources**FISHERS, IN / ACCESSWIRE / July 20, 2021 / *American Resources Corporation (NASDAQ:AREC) ("American Resources" or the "Company"), a next generation and socially responsible supplier of raw materials to the new infrastructure marketplace, today announced it has added Jeff Peterson as a senior member to bolster the Company's American Rare Earth division. Mr. Peterson will focus on deployment and commercialization of the Rare Earth division's processing, isolation and purification technology suite, as well as broadening the supply of certain critical and rare earth element feedstocks.
Mark Jensen, CEO of American Resources Corporation commented, "As we continue to execute on our American Rare Earth business plan, we are encouraged by the opportunities that we are seeing to create and foster a sustainable supply chain of rare earth and critical minerals. We strongly believe that blending such a supply chain with our innovative, process-chain technologies will create the most environmentally safe sources of these important materials ever developed. As the electrification movement continues to accelerate, we feel it is exceedingly important to complement that movement with an efficient and environmentally safe circular lifecycle of raw materials. The addition of Jeff to our team, with his experiences and proven track record, will assist us in achieving these goals more effectively."
Mr. Peterson brings nearly 20 years of experience including operations, engineering, sales, and product development to American Resources. He began his career as a Commissioned Officer in the United States Navy serving onboard nuclear-powered submarines. After resigning his Commission, Jeff joined Westinghouse Electric Company where he served as part of the engineering and licensing team in the design and U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved licensing of a first-of-its-kind Generation III+ pressurized water reactor for commercial electricity generation. Mr. Peterson then joined Cyient where he was rapidly promoted to sales, strategy, and product development leadership roles. He most recently worked with Hitachi Vantara as part of the North American sales team, selling digital transformation initiatives into key industrial markets.
Mr. Peterson added, "It's very exciting to be joining the American Resources team at this point in the Company's evolution. They have shown their ability to innovate their business lines to meet the demand of the rapidly changing infrastructure markets and to solve problems that have been facing the carbon industry while also addressing those facing the critical and rare earth domestic supply chain and marketplace. We have a tremendous opportunity to not only fill the demand for those raw materials but to also bring them to the market in the most sustainable and environmentally conscious of ways."
American Resources continues to focus on running efficient streamlined operations in being a new-aged supplier of raw materials to the infrastructure and electrification marketplace in the most sustainable of ways. By operating with low or no legacy costs and having one of the largest and most innovative growth pipelines in the industry, American Resources Corporation works to maximize value for its investors by positioning its large asset base to best fit a new-aged economy, while being able to scale its operations to meet the growth of the markets it serves.
About American Resources Corporation
American Resources Corporation is a next-generation, environmentally and socially responsible supplier of high-quality raw materials to the new infrastructure market. The Company is focused on the extraction and processing of metallurgical carbon, an essential ingredient used in steelmaking, critical and rare earth minerals for the electrification market, and reprocessed metal to be recycled. American Resources has a growing portfolio of operations located in the Central Appalachian basin of eastern Kentucky and southern West Virginia where premium quality metallurgical carbon and rare earth mineral deposits are concentrated.
American Resources has established a nimble, low-cost business model centered on growth, which provides a significant opportunity to scale its portfolio of assets to meet the growing global infrastructure and electrification markets while also continuing to acquire operations and significantly reduce their legacy industry risks. Its streamlined and efficient operations are able to maximize margins while reducing costs. For more information visit americanresourcescorp.com or connect with the Company on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other important factors that could cause the Company's actual results, performance, or achievements or industry results to differ materially from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond American Resources Corporation's control. The words "believes", "may", "will", "should", "would", "could", "continue", "seeks", "anticipates", "plans", "expects", "intends", "estimates", or similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain such identifying words. Any forward-looking statements included in this press release are made only as of the date of this release. The Company does not undertake any obligation to update or supplement any forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances. The Company cannot assure you that the projected results or events will be achieved.
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Vice President of Corporate Finance and Communications
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SFLMaven Announces New Sales Channel Launch on 1st Dibs, a Leading Luxury Goods Online Marketplace
*1^st Dibs Marks Launch of First New Sales Channel, Further Diversifying Revenue Base**FORT LAUDERDALE, FL / ACCESSWIRE / July 20, 2021 /* SFLMaven Corp. (OTC PINK:SFLM), ("SFLMaven" or the "Company"), a leading provider of high-end luxury goods, today announced the launch of a new sales channel on 1stDibs.com, a one-of-a-kind online marketplace for luxury goods, marking the Company's first steps towards diversifying the revenue base.
1stDibs is a leading online marketplace for extraordinary design. Since 2000, the website has captured the magic of the Paris flea market, connecting those seeking the most beautiful things on earth with highly coveted sellers and makers in vintage, antique and contemporary furniture, home décor, art, fine jewelry, watches and fashion. SFLMaven's 1stDibs store can be viewed by clicking here.
Admission to 1^st Dibs requires a comprehensive application and vetting process, and only admits trusted sellers who are respected professionals in their fields. All sellers undergo a strict evaluation by in-house experts to vet the integrity of their listings and the quality of their service.
"We are privileged to be admitted onto such a premier luxury goods platform, serving an affluent international audience, which we believe will be receptive to the unique nature of our listings," said Joseph Ladin, Chief Executive Officer of SFLMaven. "We look forward to working closely with the dedicated team at 1^st Dibs to source the hardest-to-find items their customers are searching for.
"Our partnership with 1st Dibs is the first step towards our efforts to diversify our revenue base, which today is 100% from eBay listings. In the future, we hope to further broaden our online presence across multiple platforms, delivering one-of-a-kind items at exceptional values to our customers," concluded Ladin.
*About SFLMaven*
SFLMaven Corp. (OTC PINK:SFLM), is a premium provider of high-end luxury goods to discerning clientele globally. SFLMaven has driven over $130 million in sales and 98,000 positive reviews since inception, famous for its Thursday Night Auction events on its top-rated eBay store. For more information, please visit the Company's website at www.sflmaven.com or follow the Company on Twitter at @sflmaven.
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This press release may contain forward-looking statements, including information about management's view of SFLMaven Corp.'s future expectations, plans and prospects. In particular, when used in the preceding discussion, the words 'believes,' 'expects,' 'intends,' 'plans,' 'anticipates,' or 'may,' and similar conditional expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Any statements made in this news release other than those of historical fact, about an action, event or development, are forward-looking statements. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may cause the results of SFLMaven, its subsidiaries and concepts to be materially different than those expressed or implied in such statements. Unknown or unpredictable factors also could have material adverse effects on SFLMaven's future results. The forward-looking statements included in this press release are made only as of the date hereof. SFLMaven cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements. Accordingly, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Finally, SFLMaven undertakes no obligation to update these statements after the date of this release, except as required by law, and also takes no obligation to update or correct information prepared by third parties that are not paid for by SFLMaven.
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2 Decades Later, Dennis Tito Reflects On Historic Spaceflight
Watch Video“It was the most euphoric period of my life. I enjoyed every minute of it.” American businessman Dennis Tito became the world’s first space tourist on April 28, 2001, when he launched to the International Space Station on a Russian rocket.
It was a lifelong dream come true for the space enthusiast, who had once worked as an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Tito: “I made a life goal that I would go to space as soon as it was commercially available. And I waited and waited and waited for 40 years and nothing was happening as far as availability of commercial opportunities.”
NASA wasn’t willing to send private citizens into space after the Challenger explosion in 1986, so Tito turned to Russia, which was in need of money after the Cold War.
Tito: “It wasn’t just a matter of having the financial resources to make it happen. It was a matter that I was willing to train hard and work hard.”
Russia ultimately agreed — to the tune of $20 million. And Tito spent eight months training outside Moscow for his historic flight.
Tito: "We had a lot of classroom training, language training, which I zeroed out on, totally flunked that. But that was not fun at all. But there was physical training and various spinning chairs and weightlessness flights."
In total, Tito spent eight days on the ISS -- orbiting Earth 128 times.
Tito: “I had my favorite porthole that I would look at and it looked down at the Earth, so I took a lot of pictures of the Earth. … One of the Russian cosmonauts really liked to sing – really good singer, liked to sing Beatles songs. So we were just dancing in space.”
Six other space tourists have since flown into orbit. And now companies like Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic and SpaceX are banking on commercial spaceflights being the next big thing.
But Tito doesn’t like to focus on the fact that he pioneered space tourism as we know it today.
“The only reason I was the first is probably because I felt I was running out of time at age 60. And I better make it happen, not because, well, I want to be the first. ... My goal was to really experience being in space and ... it was the greatest eight days of my life.”
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Jeff Bezos left planet Earth and returned victorious, completing Blue Origin's first passenger spaceflight
Bezos skimmed the edge of space for just three minutes, but the New Shepard launch is a major step toward his dream of taking civilization off-planet.
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Blue Origin carries Jeff Bezos into space in first human passenger flight
Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has travelled into space and back in the first human flight of his space tourism company Blue Origin. Blue Origin's reusable New Shepard space rocket carried the billionaire, his younger brother Mark and two others 351,000 feet (66.5 miles or 107 km) above the surface of the Earth. The richest person in the world has briefly left the planet. — Eric Berger (@SciGuySpace) July 20, 2021 Just before reaching its apogee, the capsule disconnected from the rocket booster and the Bezos brothers and fellow passengers 82-year-old Wally Funk and 18-year-old Oliver Daemen experienced around four minutes of weightlessness, or zero-gravity, before following the booster safely back down to Earth. “Who wants a Skittle?" someone asked in the capsule as they floated in space, offering sweets around. It was not clear if this was a paid-for product placement. In the course of the spaceflight Funk became the oldest ever astronaut, while Daemen, whose own billionaire father paid for the ticket, became the youngest. Wally's reaction says it all. ???? #FlyWallyFly "You've got to get up there, sweetheart!"#BlueOrigin #NewShepard #WomenInSTEM #WomenInAviation pic.twitter.com/QPldobgJ59 — Dr. Tanya Harrison (@tanyaofmars) July 20, 2021 Here's the entire Blue Origin first human spaceflight launch in gif format (sped up 8x): pic.twitter.com/vWJyOkfzk1 — Darrell Etherington (@etherington) July 20, 2021
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Jeff Bezos, World's Richest Man, Completes Inaugural Space Voyage
Jeff Bezos, the world's richest man, and three crewmates soared high above the Texas desert aboard his space venture Blue Origin's New Shepard launch vehicle on Tuesday and returned to Earth, a historic suborbital flight that helps to inaugurate a new era of private...
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'Historic moment': Jeff Bezos reaches space, returns to Earth in Blue Origin capsule
Billionaire Jeff Bezos and his New Shepard rocket crew returned safely to Earth after blasting off Tuesday from the West Texas desert.
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos successfully lands on Earth after spaceflight - All you need to know
Named after America's first astronaut, Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket soared on the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
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Eagle-eyed viewers might have noticed a small white rectangle on the window of the Blue Origin spacecraft. See the postcard 82-year-old astronaut Wally Funk took to space.
"That is what is going to be on the window when I go up," Wally Funk said. "I'm going to take a picture with it with the earth behind me."
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Jeff Bezos flies to space in historic Blue Origin flight
Former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made it to space on Tuesday. And back.
Bezos and a small group of fellow travelers, including his brother Mark, 82-year-old aviator Wally Funk, and 18-year-old Oliver Daemen, completed Blue Origin's first crewed flight to space. Funk became the oldest person to travel to space, and Daemen became the youngest.
A New Shepard rocket from Bezos' Blue Origin lifted off from the desert in Van Horn, Texas, at 8:11 a.m. CT, blazing up more than 62 miles through clear blue skies. Toward the peak of the flight, the dome-like cabin carrying the crew detached from the rocket booster as planned, hovering above the Earth.
The scene inside the cabin was not shown during the livestream, but viewers could hear the audio inside as the astronauts cheered, marveled at the views, and shared some Skittles in zero gravity.
The reusable rocket booster made it back to the ground with a controlled, soft landing while the cabin floated down to the ground with a trio of huge parachutes. In all, the trip took just over 10 minutes.
The New Shepard capsule carrying the Blue Origin crew approaches the ground with the aid of parachutes, seen shortly before landing on the sandy desert ground. Credit: blue origin
"That was incredible!" exclaimed Jeff Bezos from the cabin after landing.
With a mild morning in West Texas, only a short delay, and no noted mechanical issues, the launch went about as perfectly as it could have.
Blue Origin and Bezos's spaceflight came a little over a week after Virgin Galactic's first fully crewed SpaceShipTwo flight, which similarly featured its billionaire founder, Richard Branson.
Originally, the Blue Origin flight was supposed to include the buyer of a $28 million ticket sold at auction. The wealthy buyer was replaced by Daemen, Blue Origin announced on Thursday, citing "scheduling conflicts"— despite the fact that the July 20 launch date had been set for months. The mysterious auction winner still has not been revealed, and will fly on a future trip.
For Funk, the trip to space came 60 years after she passed the rigorous physical and mental tests designed for NASA astronauts held through the unofficial Women in Space Program. Women were not admitted into NASA's astronauts program until the late '70s, but Funk was still not permitted because she didn't have an engineering degree or test pilot experience. Funk is still a legendary aviator, logging 19,600 flying hours over her career. Now she can start tallying up how much time she's spent in space.
Blue Origin stated that there will be two more flights in 2021. The company has not revealed any specifics like dates or crew lists, nor has it revealed the regular ticket price for its New Shepard trips.
Bezos and a small group of fellow travelers, including his brother Mark, 82-year-old aviator Wally Funk, and 18-year-old Oliver Daemen, completed Blue Origin's first crewed flight to space. Funk became the oldest person to travel to space, and Daemen became the youngest.
A New Shepard rocket from Bezos' Blue Origin lifted off from the desert in Van Horn, Texas, at 8:11 a.m. CT, blazing up more than 62 miles through clear blue skies. Toward the peak of the flight, the dome-like cabin carrying the crew detached from the rocket booster as planned, hovering above the Earth.
The scene inside the cabin was not shown during the livestream, but viewers could hear the audio inside as the astronauts cheered, marveled at the views, and shared some Skittles in zero gravity.
The reusable rocket booster made it back to the ground with a controlled, soft landing while the cabin floated down to the ground with a trio of huge parachutes. In all, the trip took just over 10 minutes.
The New Shepard capsule carrying the Blue Origin crew approaches the ground with the aid of parachutes, seen shortly before landing on the sandy desert ground. Credit: blue origin
"That was incredible!" exclaimed Jeff Bezos from the cabin after landing.
With a mild morning in West Texas, only a short delay, and no noted mechanical issues, the launch went about as perfectly as it could have.
Blue Origin and Bezos's spaceflight came a little over a week after Virgin Galactic's first fully crewed SpaceShipTwo flight, which similarly featured its billionaire founder, Richard Branson.
Originally, the Blue Origin flight was supposed to include the buyer of a $28 million ticket sold at auction. The wealthy buyer was replaced by Daemen, Blue Origin announced on Thursday, citing "scheduling conflicts"— despite the fact that the July 20 launch date had been set for months. The mysterious auction winner still has not been revealed, and will fly on a future trip.
For Funk, the trip to space came 60 years after she passed the rigorous physical and mental tests designed for NASA astronauts held through the unofficial Women in Space Program. Women were not admitted into NASA's astronauts program until the late '70s, but Funk was still not permitted because she didn't have an engineering degree or test pilot experience. Funk is still a legendary aviator, logging 19,600 flying hours over her career. Now she can start tallying up how much time she's spent in space.
Blue Origin stated that there will be two more flights in 2021. The company has not revealed any specifics like dates or crew lists, nor has it revealed the regular ticket price for its New Shepard trips.
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Amazon's Bezos returns to Earth after first space flight
Jeff Bezos' trip to space came just nine days after rival Richard Branson made Virgin Galactic's first journey. The crew includes female aviation pioneer Wally Funk, who has become the oldest person to enter space.
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Jeff Bezos successfully lands back on Earth after being blasted into space
The Amazon founder was launched into space alongside his brother Mark, astronaut Wally Funk and teen Oliver Daemon on the Blue Origin ship.
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Jeff Bezos says 'you have a very happy crew up here' as he returns to Earth after a successful flight to the edge of space
The Amazon and Blue Origin founder flew on the space exploration company's first human spaceflight on Tuesday.
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American Resources Corporation bolsters Rare Earth team with strategic appointment
American Resources Corporation (NASDAQ:AREC) said it has appointed ‘seasoned executive’ Jeff Peterson as a senior member to the company's American Rare Earth division. In his role, Peterson will focus on the deployment and commercialization of American Resources’ Rare Earth division's processing, isolation and purification technology suite, as well as broadening the supply of certain critical and rare earth element feedstocks. With nearly 20 years of experience in operations, engineering, sales, and product development, Peterson began his career as a Commissioned Officer in the United States Navy serving onboard nuclear-powered submarines. READ: American Resources grows supply chain for waste permanent magnets and lithium-ion batteries to be recycled for rare earth minerals After leaving the Navy, Peterson went on to join Westinghouse Electric Company where he served as part of the engineering and licensing team in the design of a first-of-its-kind Generation III+ pressurized water reactor for commercial electricity generation. From there, he joined Cyient where he was rapidly promoted to sales, strategy, and product development leadership roles. "As we continue to execute on our American Rare Earth business plan, we are encouraged by the opportunities that we are seeing to create and foster a sustainable supply chain of rare earth and critical minerals. We strongly believe that blending such a supply chain with our innovative, process-chain technologies will create the most environmentally safe sources of these important materials ever developed,” Mark Jensen, CEO of American Resources Corporation said in a statement. “As the electrification movement continues to accelerate, we feel it is exceedingly important to complement that movement with an efficient and environmentally safe circular lifecycle of raw materials. The addition of Jeff to our team, with his experiences and proven track record, will assist us in achieving these goals more effectively." American Resources is focused on running efficient streamlined operations while also being a new-aged supplier of raw materials to the infrastructure and electrification marketplace. "It's very exciting to be joining the American Resources team at this point in the company's evolution,” Peterson commented. He continued: “They have shown their ability to innovate their business lines to meet the demand of the rapidly changing infrastructure markets and to solve problems that have been facing the carbon industry while also addressing those facing the critical and rare earth domestic supply chain and marketplace. We have a tremendous opportunity to not only fill the demand for those raw materials but to also bring them to the market in the most sustainable and environmentally conscious ways." Contact the writer at georgia@proactiveinvestors.com Follow her on Twitter @MissInformd
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Researchers Capture Image Of Heart Of Closest Radio Galaxy
An international astronomy team that the University of Valencia is part of, has just published in Nature Astronomy the image of the heart of the Centaurus A galaxy in the finest detail ever. The work specifies the exact point where the supermassive black hole of this galaxy is located and allows us to observe how a gigantic jet of matter escaping from the black hole at speeds very close to that of light is originated. The image challenges current models of the origin of jets in black holes.The matter jet image published now in a study led by Michael Janssen (Max-Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn, Germany), challenges current models that try to explain the origin of relativistic jets in black holes.
The Centaur Galaxy (Centaurus A) is one of the most intense radio sources in the sky and its emission has been studied extensively across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves to the most energetic gamma radiation. At the heart of Centaurus A there is a black hole with a mass equivalent to 55 million suns, halfway between the black hole of the M87 galaxy (of which the EHT obtained the famous image, with a mass of more than six billion suns) and the black hole in the centre of our galaxy (with only four million solar masses).
In this work, EHT observations –taken during the year 2017 – have been used to obtain an image of the Centaurus A black hole with an unprecedented level of detail.
Two male astronomers and a female astronomer from the University of Valencia are part of this international research team based on the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration, known for having obtained the first image of a black hole. They are Rebecca Azulay, who performed support astronomer tasks at Pico Veleta – the only European radio telescope that participated in the observations –; Iván Martí-Vidal –CIDEGENT researcher at the University of Valencia, who designed and applied the calibration algorithms for the most sensitive part of the EHT–; and Alejandro Mus –researcher in training, whose work focuses on the development of algorithms that will help reconstruct dynamic images of our Galactic Centre.
“These results allow us to see, for the first time, how matter is structured around this supermassive black hole with a level of detail of just over 20 light-hours. This allows us to contemplate the processes that give rise to the birth of the mysterious relativistic jets, which are found in many of the most massive black holes in the Universe”, says astronomer Michael Janssen, lead author of the work.
“We have obtained an image of Centaurus A with a resolution more than 15 times higher than the highest ever obtained in observations of this source. This formidable image is allowing us to study the structure of the black hole jet, from the smallest scales – the apparent size of a golf ball on the Moon, as seen from Earth – to the largest scales – an apparent size similar to the size of the Moon itself. The amount of information that we now have is overwhelming”, highlights Iván Martí-Vidal.
**Understanding relativistic jets**
Supermassive black holes, like the one that resides in the heart of Centaurus A, feed on the gas and dust around them, drawing it into their deep gravitational well. This process, called ‘accretion’, releases huge amounts of energy, much of which is emitted into outer space, resulting in what we know as ‘active galaxies’. While most of the accreted matter is engulfed by the black hole, a small fraction of that matter can escape and form so-called ‘relativistic jets’, one of the most mysterious phenomena in modern astrophysics.
Today, science has different models to explain the acceleration and propagation of matter in relativistic jets. However, very little is still known about the origin of these jets and how they can spread to cover distances much greater than the size of their entire host galaxy. “These EHT observations will help us find the answer to some of these fundamental questions”, says Alejandro Mus. “The new EHT image shows that Centaurus A’s jet is brighter at its outermost part, compared to the brilliance of its spine, that is how its central part is called. This is the first time that we have seen this phenomenon so pronounced in a relativistic jet”, adds Mus. “The results allow us to rule out several theoretical models of jet formation, which are unable to reproduce the enormous contrast observed between the ends and the spine of the jet”, says Matthias Kadler, from the University of Würzburg and co-author of the work.
**Future projects**
Thanks to these observations of Centaurus A, it has been possible to locate the supermassive black hole with great precision, identifying it with the point where the relativistic jet is born. Based on these results, the team of astronomers plans future observations at even higher radio frequencies, which will make it possible to obtain images that are even sharper than those published now. The team also does not rule out that, in the future, in the longer term, images of the shadow of this black hole may be obtained, incorporating orbiting telescopes into the EHT network.
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Researchers invented a new touchscreen material so we never run out
Have you ever imagined your smartphone or tablet without a touchscreen? This could soon be the case if we run out of indium, one of the rarest minerals on Earth. Indium is used in many high-tech devices such as touch screens, smartphones, solar panels, and smart windows, in the form of indium tin oxide. This compound is optically transparent and electrically conductive — the two crucial features required for touch screens to work. But there’s a problem: we have no guaranteed long-term supply of indium. It is naturally found only in tiny traces and is therefore impractical to mine directly.…This story continues at The Next Web
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Virgin Galactic drops 8% after rival Blue Origin launches Jeff Bezos into space at higher altitude
The Tuesday launch came a few days after Virgin Galactic launched its founder Richard Branson 53 miles above earth.
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Over 165,000 People Sign ‘Do Not Allow Jeff Bezos To Return To Earth’ Petition Following Space Launch
'Billionaires should not exist ... on earth, or in space, but should they decide the latter, they should stay there'
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Tulsi Gabbard tweets that Bezos should 'stay up there' in space
Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos safely returned to Earth after a brief launch into space, much to the chagrin of former congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard.
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Amazon Went From 'Carbon Sink' to Carbon Polluter
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Richest human being in the universe leaving Earth today
Jeff Bezos is about to soar on his space travel company's first flight with people on board.
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UK issues first extreme heat warning, ever
The UK Met Office has issued an amber level extreme heat warning, the first time this type of advisory has been issued in 167 years operating. CNN Meteorologist Karen Maginnis has the forecast.
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Bitcoin and Crypto Stocks, Ardelyx, Bezos in Space – On Tuesday
Corey Goldman covers off what TheStreet is watching from here on earth on Tuesday, July 20, 2021.
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Jeff Bezos back on Earth after space trip
Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos has come back down to Earth after his 11-minute rocket trip into space.
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Jeff Bezos back on Earth after space trip
Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos has come back down to Earth after his 11-minute rocket trip into space.
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This Day in History: Armstrong Walks on Moon
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, 3 others complete space trip
Jeff Bezos, his brother, and two others safely landed on Earth after they were launched into space while aboard a Blue Origin rocket.
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Watch: Jeff Bezos and Crew Return From Space
Blue Origin's New Shepard took flight on Tuesday, July 20 with its first passengers. Jeff Bezos, Mark Bezos, Oliver Daemen, and Wally Funk went 66 miles outside of the Earth in their first visit to..
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'Best day ever' -billionaire Bezos flies to space
Jeff Bezos, the world's richest man, soared about 66.5 miles (107 km) above the Texas desert aboard his company Blue Origin's New Shepard launch vehicle on Tuesday and returned safely to Earth. This..
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