Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
James S.J. Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Space Exploration ◽  
Space Policy ◽  
Space Program ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Philosophical Discourse ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Interdisciplinary Nature ◽  
Fundamental Values

This chapter highlights pushes to commercialize space exploration as foils for raising questions about which fundamental values and goals spaceflight serves, emphasizing the interdisciplinary nature of these issues. It also provides a summary of the book. Intended to contribute to professional philosophical discourse, this book is also intended to be accessible, meaningful, and relevant to individuals from a wide range of disciplinary and vocational backgrounds—from planetary scientists to political scientists; from astrobiologists to anthropologists; from space program employees to lawyers and legal scholars. The reasons why we should reject most basic tenets of space advocacy, and the reasons the book offers in their place, should be persuasive to a wide audience, including philosophers as well as anyone with serious interests in space exploration and space policy.

scholarly journals Encouraging engineering undergraduates to voice their ideas worth sharing

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Arancha García-Pinar
Keyword(s):  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Multimodal Analysis ◽  
Technological Production ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Ted Talks ◽  
Engineering Undergraduates

<p class="Textoindependiente21">TED Talks have these days become a valuable tool for online information dissemination in a wide range of areas of expertise. The use of TED Talks in a course of Technical English offers numerous advantages. TED teaches how to communicate by linking different modes (i.e. the visual, gestural, verbal, written and spatial) to technological production. Students can construct communication when they attentively observe and make meaning from this ensemble of modes which go beyond the verbal. TED Talks might also give rise to different tasks that entail some type of critical multimodal analysis, by which students can study the aptness of modes. They can explore why the speaker says something visually and not verbally, or which mode is best for which purpose. Yet, TED and its zeal for sharing and transmitting ideas to a wide audience should not be regarded as a means incompatible with more traditional models of information. As Jewitt highlights (2005), rather than asking what is best, the book or the screen”, it seems more reasonable to ask “what is best for what purpose”.</p>

Bringing the Moon to Mankind

2019 ◽  
pp. 44-58
Author(s):  
David Miguel Molina ◽  
P. J. Blount
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Space Exploration ◽  
African American Community ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Space Program ◽  
The Moon ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Black Freedom ◽  
Long Civil Rights Movement

In chapter 3, Molina and Blount offer a contextualization of NASA’s interlocutory role throughout the long civil rights movement by mobilizing these three themes to analyze a series of archival and cultural artifacts. The authors first analyze the rhetoric deployed by the Poor People Campaign’s various mobilizations to show that the American space program was viewed with deep skepticism by the African American community and particularly within the context of ongoing struggles for black freedom. Second, they discuss the “distance” between the tropes of spatial disenfranchisement represented in the civil rights movement and the Moon missions to show how space exploration was portrayed as an acceleration of the marginalization of black spaces.

Consideration of a Grass-Roots Space Program

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-35
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Space Exploration ◽  
Space Program ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Economic State ◽  
New Space ◽  
Human Space Exploration

Human space exploration has historically provided a great many people with a positive vision of the future. At this time, society faces many 21st century problems (global warming, sea level rise, etc.) and could use some of that vision. The economic state of the nations that historically paid for this exploration does not currently allow for a large and expensive new space initiative, like Apollo to the Moon or a trip to Mars. Nevertheless, there have been great strides in computing and resulting social media. Could a very large number of dedicated people self-organize into a grassroots human space program? This story envisions such a movement and the lessons today's students could learn from the attempt.

scholarly journals Shuttle diplomacy

2011 ◽  
Vol 133 (07) ◽  
pp. 46-53
Author(s):  
Burton Dicht
Keyword(s):  
International Space Station ◽  
Space Shuttle ◽  
Space Exploration ◽  
Space Station ◽  
Operating Costs ◽  
Space Program ◽  
International Space ◽  
New Vision ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The U.S

This article analyzes the decisions and technological challenges that drove the Space Shuttle’s development. The goal of the Shuttle program was to create a reusable vehicle that could reduce the cost of delivering humans and large payloads into space. Although the Shuttle was a remarkable flying machine, it never lived up to the goals of an airline-style operation with low operating costs. In January 2004, a year after the Columbia accident, President George W. Bush unveiled the “Vision for U.S. Space Exploration” to guide the U.S. space effort for the next two decades. A major component of the new vision, driven by the recommendations of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, was to retire the Space Shuttle fleet as soon as the International Space Station assembly was completed. With cancellation of the Constellation program in 2010, the planned successor to the Shuttle, the U.S. space program is now in an era of uncertainty.

Cognitive Aspects on the Representation of Dynamic Environmental Phenomena Using Animations

2001 ◽  
pp. 13-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick J. Ogao ◽  
Connie A. Blok
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Data Availability ◽  
Data Exploration ◽  
Spatial Data Analysis ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Interdisciplinary Nature

Measurements from dynamic environmental phenomena have resulted in the acquisition and generation of an enormous amount of data. This upsurge in data availability can be attributed to the interdisciplinary nature of environmental problem solving and the wide range of acquisition technology involved. In essence, users are dealing with data that is complex in nature, multidimensional and probably of a temporal nature. Also, the frequency by which this data is acquired far exceeds the rate at which it is being explored, a factor that has accelerated the search for innovative approaches and tools in spatial data analysis. These attempts have seen both analytical and visual techniques being used as aids in presentation and scientific data exploration. Examples are seen in techniques as in: data mining, data exploration and visualization.

scholarly journals Philosophical walk: from antiquity to modern times

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 67-78
Author(s):  
Anastasia Gulevataya ◽  
◽  
Ekaterina Milyaeva ◽  
Regina Penner ◽  
Sofia Suleimanova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Large City ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Forest Environment ◽  
Philosophical Practice ◽  
Theoretical Terms ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Big City ◽  
The University

Introduction. In the history of philosophy we find a lot of philosophical practices that can be implemented in the university environment for students and outside the university for a wide audience. The Philosophical Walk is one of such practices. During a walk philosophy can become truly humane, turn to a person, his world, and everyday life. The purpose of the study is to comprehend the potential of a philosophical walk as a way of philosophical practice, a format of a modern person’s self-knowledge and the implementation of self-care, available to a wide range of people without special philosophical education.Methods The research is based on the comparative historical method, the method of interpreting the texts of philosophical primary sources and the systematic approach. The study presents and analyzes an experiment in the context of which residents of a large city go on a philosophical walk in order to take care of themselves. Scientific novelty of the research. In theoretical terms, philosophical walk is conceptualized. In practical terms, the analysis of the effectiveness of a philosophical walk as a way of a large city resident’s self-care is carried out. Results. A philosophical walk is a form of group philosophical practice, in the context of which the participants become guided (literally and figuratively,) by the facilitator. In the summer of 2020, the authors of the article organized a series of walks, each of which was attended by 8 to 12 people who had not have direct contact with philosophy in their everyday life, in the educational and professional spheres. In September 2020, the participants of the walks were offered a questionnaire consisting of closed and open questions. According to the respondents’ answers, a general picture of the effectiveness of a philosophical walk as a form of self-care for a modern metropolis resident was drawn. Conclusions. We understand the philosophical walk as a kind of “place”, a space of calm and harmony for a person of the XXI century. A resident of a big city lives in constant noise. The events of 2020 have increased the noise and accompanying stress. A philosophical walk, in turn, within the boundaries of the same city creates an atmosphere for a person to meet with himself. With the help of an external plan (forest environment, clean air, sounds of nature) and a philosophical plan (concentration over the text, dialogue with a philosopher and a group), the meeting participant can formulate the life-meaning questions that concern him and start looking for answers.

scholarly journals Global Trends In The Commercialization Of Space

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph A. Giacalone
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Space Policy ◽  
Space Program ◽  
Economic Data ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
Past Half

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">For the past half century, the commercial potential of space has been a major rationale for the space program in the United States and elsewhere. This paper will provide an overview of space-related industries, which accounted for global revenues in the range of $106 billion by 2006, and the drivers that impact their development. It incorporates the evolution of space policy, recent economic data, and the emergence of the private spaceflight industry.</span></span></p>

scholarly journals Implementation of integrated design space exploration of scheduling, allocation and binding in high level synthesis using multi structure genetic algorithm

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Gebremariam
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Design Space Exploration ◽  
Design Space ◽  
Space Exploration ◽  
Integrated Design ◽  
High Level Synthesis ◽  
C Language ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
High Level

The objective of this project is to develop a software tool which assists in comparison of a work known as "M-GenESys: Multi Structure Genetic Algorithm based Design Space Exploration System for Integrated Scheduling, Allocation and Binding in High Level Synthesis" with another well established GA approach known as "A Generic Algorithm for the Design Space Exploration of Data paths During High-Level Synthesis". Two sets of software are developed based on both approaches using Microsoft Visual 2005 C# language. The C# language is an object-oriented language that is aimed at enabling programmers to quickly develop a wide range of applications on the Microsoft .NET platform. The goal of C# and the .NET platform is to shorten development time by freeing the developer from worrying about several low level plumbing issues such as memory equipment, type safety issues, building low level libraries, array bound checking, etc., thus allowing developers to actually spend their time and energy working on the application and business logic.

Thinking Ethically About Mobile Devices

2020 ◽  
pp. 620-636
Author(s):  
Charles Ess
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Ethical Frameworks ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Ethical Approaches

The author introduces primary frameworks for analyzing and resolving common ethical issues evoked by mobile devices. These include prevailing ethical frameworks along with underlying assumptions about the nature of selfhood and identity—that is, as more individual or relational: the latter also help index important cultural differences in ethical approaches. The author shows how these apply in two exemplar cases: the Fairphone and “quantified relationship” (QR) apps. The two cases of the Fairphone and QR apps, as taking up broad issues of consumption and production as well as privacy, autonomy, and personal relationships, respectively, thus cover a relatively wide range of ethical issues relevant to a wide audience of “everyday” consumers and users. These analyses aim to also stand as examples and templates for further analyses of ethical challenges evoked by mobile devices.

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