...noticed strange and unusual lights? Chances are that you’ve might have just seen a UFO. Aliens may be all around us but are being kept discreet from mankind. There may be supernatural operations occurring at Area 51, where aliens are being tested and advancing our technology we have today. Area 51, may be testing on aliens, but it hasn’t always been that way. Area 51 is a military base located 100 miles from Las Vegas. It was originally used to test aircrafts such as the U-2 and OXCART surveillance aircraft which dates back to the 1950’s. During the time period of World War 2, it was believed that Area 51 was used during World War 2 as a training ground for the US Army. It was also believed that aircraft flew out of the base to secretly photograph the Soviet Union and their military operations. But as of today, many people feel this has changed. Today it is believed that Area 51 is a testing ground for supernatural beings and their technology involved....
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...Area 51 is a secret military base out in the Nevada, Las Vegas. There is a lot of conspiracy theories on this topic but the majority of people believe that area 51 and Aliens are real. There are a few reasons to back up this theory. These reasons are based on research such as based on people's accounts or town/city accounts. Two main reasons back up this theory. First off, a claim for this theory is Area 51 is real because they have the locations for it. Evidence to show this is "Area 51, s Nev., c. 80miles" Its located within the U.S. Airforce's enormous Nevada test and training range. These pieces of evidence show they have the locations because its tells exactly where the "air force" base is. Is this the real locations of the base? Secondly,...
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...Outline for a speech Area 51of your speech Area 51 Week 8, of October Introduction Have you ever sat down and actually thought about on how our Government actually works? Well I have and that’s why I’m going to introduce you to the world’s most secretes Military base AREA 51. I will list three main points in this paper. First point is location. Second is how did Area 51 got its name and why its named. Last point is what is Area 51 actually hiding and why is it such a secret? B. Thesis statement: Area 51 is an popular military base in Nevada C. To explain my paper on Area 51 my focus will be on my three main points. Location of area 51 How did area 51 get its name and why What is area 51 hiding and why is it such a secret? * First Main Point: Where is the location of Area 51 Area 51 is the most popular military base. It’s located in Southern Nevada, about 83 miles northwest of Las Vegas. The most top-secret installation is so called located in the center of the U.S air forces. Listed on www.area51facts.com .Area 51 is a test and training Range Located on the Shore of Groom Lake. The official United States governmental states that the base actually doesn’t exists. Then how is it known as Area 51? Second Main Point: How did area 51 gets it’s name ? There are tons of ways Area 51 got its name but I’m going to use the most popular way and it’s the (NTS) that stands for Nevada test site. There is also the (AEC) that stands for Atomic Energy Commissions...
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...ENG. 111 Area 51: Alien testing facility? Area 51 is located near the town of Rachel, Nevada; Groom Lake surrounds the base (Strickland). To enter Area 51 you need a top secret clearance, a need to know, and an invitation by the upper most ranks of the CIA (Jacobsen xi-3). The majority of employees travel to Area 51 on unmarked aircraft from Las Vegas (Strickland). The U.S. government has never officially admitted to the existence of Area 51 (Jacobsen xi-3). This fuels the Alien controversies surrounding Area 51; theorists believe the government has aliens and alien aircraft on site (Strickland). Have aliens visited Earth? It is possible but unlikely that aliens are at Area 51. The majority of conspiracy theorists believe aliens crashed at Roswell, New Mexico, on July 2, 1947 (Soodin). The UFO wreckage and three aliens were retrieved by the US military and sent to Area 51 for research. Lieutenant Walter Haut, a public relations officer at Roswell Army Air Field, claims to have seen the UFO and the alien bodies (“Roswell Theory”). He describes the aliens as having enormous heads and being approximately three and half feet tall. General William Blanchard wrote an official statement saying the Army had recovered UFO remains on the 8th of July, 1947 (Strickland). According to Haut there was a second crash site where more wreckage was recovered. This is why the U.S Army gave the first statement to take the attention away from the more significant site (“Roswell Theory”). ...
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...MK 620 Yafei Liu 11/16/2014 A Lesson from American Apparel On July 3, 2014, American Apparel, an American clothing brand posted an image of the 1986 space shuttle Challenger’s explosion on its Tumblr account with tags of “smoke” and “clouds”. The photo was supposed to be a celebratory post of the Independence Day, but it became a social media crisis of American Apparel since the image of the explosion was mistaken for fireworks by the one who edited and posted the image (Kleinberg, 2014). Observers on Twitter and Tumblr immediately recognized the photo and blamed the insensitivity of the brand. Some people even speculated about whether the company intentionally stoked the controversy, which it has done before in order to make people talking about the brand (Torossian, 2014). Within an hour after the photo was posted, American Apparel removed it and issued an official apology on its Twitter account. According to its post, the photo was mistakenly reblogged by an international social media employee, who is too young to remember the Challenger’s explosion. The reactions from public were mixed with both positive and negative responses. However, most people didn’t think the apology was acceptable, especially the excuse of why the photo was showed on the account (Torossian, 2014). Many people argued that the photo’s origin should have been investigated before being posted, and claimed the age of the social media manager was not an excuse for unknowing the tragedy...
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...Mark Arcuri is a hard worker, energetic but lazy at times and a family man. He loves the outdoors and doesn’t worry about the things that he cannot control. An important part of Mark’s life was the Challenger spaceship explosion. This occured on January 28, 1986. This catastrophe resulted in all 7 of the crew members’ deaths. Many Americans were watching the TV, including Mark, just as the spaceship exploded and disintegrated into the air. When Mark heard about this he remembered he was in social studies class his sophomore year of high school. What made this event so memorable was the tragic loss of lives of the 7 courageous pilots and crew aboard. At the time, Mark felt very sad that those pilot had lost their lives after pursuing their dreams. They had done so much in-depth training to get to where they were and they died. Mark felt so mournful because those pilots had become great citizens, heroes, to this country and they died doing the thing that they loved. They died doing the thing that they had spent so much time training for. The explosion caused Mark to question the space program. Mark believes that unless you have a very important reason to go to space, you don’t have a legitimate reason to spend millions of dollars. Many countries spend billions on competing with other countries just to prove something to the other. Although it is honored and noble to have an accomplishment in space, peoples lives are in danger every time a spaceship is launched into space. On...
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...Q1 Incomplete mediation is another vulnerability that has existed for decade. This vulnerability occurs when the developers of a system use values in the definition of the program such that adversaries can change the values to wrong values, or users enter the values incorrectly leading to a massive failure of the entire system. NASA’s mars orbiter crashed into mars because the engineers failed to convert English to metric measurements during the exchange of vital data. The navigation team used meters and millimeters while astronautics responsible for the design of the spacecraft used inches, feets and pounds. This is a special example of an incomplete mediation. Q2 In the realization of the challenges and problems resulting from incomplete mediation, complete mediation is considerably essential to ensure availability of the system and avoid catastrophic errors. Complete mediation requires that every access to every object must be checked for correctness and authority. In the design of a database system, it is essential that all the inputs and parameters, that will require entry by users or outsiders, be identified, assessed and analyzed for both correctness, accuracy and authority before their use based on the expected accurate input in the database system. Q3 The most effective approach of checking for incomplete mediation is during the testing phase. Primarily, defensive testing will be significantly essential in this case. It is essential that the testing team identify all...
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...Jordan Jones Cady 1A ENGL 101 CC 8 March 2013 The Power in Words Speeches can be one of the most difficult things to write and present. Anyone can give a speech about anything, but not all of them are going to be amazing. Actually, speeches are one of those things that not everyone is going to feel the same about. One person could think that the speech was great and it changed their life, while another person could absolutely hate that same speech. Most speeches are given to persuade your audience to believe whatever it is that you believe. The speaker wants them to agree with what they are saying. The President of the United States has a huge job when it comes to public speaking. They are addressing a whole country that is looking to them for their opinion, advice, or guidance. Even though not every citizen in the country is going to agree with what the president is saying, it is usually over an important issue, so the president is completely aware that everyone will be listening. On January 28, 1986, while Ronald Reagan was serving as president, the country experienced a huge tragedy when the Challenger space shuttle exploded on live television. It wasn’t really an event that words could describe, but as the president, Reagan had to try. Through the use of ethos and pathos, President Reagan’s speech attempts to persuade America and the viewers of the Challenger explosion that despite the tragedy, the United States and its space program will continue to move forward...
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...Challenger Video - Lessons Learned As seen in the video there were a lot of issues with how the o-ring issue was handled. Roger clearly knew there was a possible issue with the o-ring, but was bad about handling this with regards to resolving the issue. He was very vocal about it, but this was to the point where it more aggressive than influential among his colleagues to help with resolving the issue at hand. This was not beneficial in building support behind his concerns with the o-rings so that the issues with them would be addressed before the Challenger’s launch. He had multiple opportunities to address this and failed to do so as a result of his brash attitude to those with whom he brought it to their attention including with one of the V.P.’s, Joe Kilminster, in his company. Joe was willing to listen and investigate Roger’s concern, but when Roger became abrasive with how the issue had been neglected by the company this eventually led to losing any type of support from Joe. Roger also had another opportunity to continue to push the o-ring issue to further attention of this issue meeting the evening before the launch, but failed to get his point across again and this lead to the discussion to proceed with the launch as scheduled. This example from the video showed how without proper support and guidance of employees within the workplace that some problems will eventually get ahead of some companies. Most management decisions don’t always take into consideration the information...
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...October 14, 2015 OSCM 3322 Midterm Challenger Disaster On the morning launch of the challenger on January 28th, 1986, at approximately 9:41am an unexpected event happened. The shuttle, within 75 seconds of taking off, exploded in the air. Citizens and NASA staff were shocked and confused as to what they had just seen, but there was a small group knew this type of problem could occur. They had little evidence but still chose to launch that day, now worrying about the events that will transpire thereon. Many questions as to why the shuttle had exploded arose such as, “What caused it to malfunction?” “Was there any known facts before the incident?” And if so, “why was there no action taken?” Unfortunately, some of these questions were addressed and brought to a few personnel in top management positions such as managers, vice presidents, supervisors, and engineers. One of the main issues was the failure to communicate the problem of the O-rings in a timely manner. The fact that they waited until the night before the launch to discuss the problems that the seals were causing, was an obvious point leading us to believe that the organization of communication within the chain of command was faulty. Another issue was that Larry Mulloy saw the data that Roger Boisjoly and Arnold Thompson provided, lacked details to support their theories. In all retrospect, they were the ones who had done the research and work that lead them to their conclusions. It was obvious that they knew...
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...Phase 5 Individual Project HIST125-1201B-05 American Culture in Transition March 28, 2012 CTU Online Professor David Markwell Introduction I must say that this assignment has come at a perfect time as I found myself surrounded in History as I toured Pearl Harbor this weekend. I have to admit watching video and listening to some of the survivors take on the events brought me to tears. I was fortunate enough to have my mom on this trip and she gave me some more great family history and explained that her sister was on the island when the attack happened and was able to get back to the mainland 10 days later. I could write 10 pages on what we spoke about the past few days. Our class has made me realize that we speak of history every day even in simple conversations about what we did a year ago or when we were children, the events we witness today is our children’s history and it is made every day. This class has opened my eyes to take a closer and awareness at the things that are happening around us today and in the past. Now that the class is about complete I am not sure how anyone may have negative views on history, no matter what had happened in our history it has been done and we must see it for the positive things we can take from our past. The debate on immigration can be seen and actually felt when traveling to different parts of our country and abroad. Listening to some of the fascinating tales on Hawaiian history it was not that long ago Americans and Europeans...
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...The best explanation for a Solid Rocket Motor Joint I could find came from The Online Ethics Center. It gives us a colorized diagram of all components. The “pink is the tang, which joins the clevis, colored orange. 177 huge steel pins (yellow) hold the joint in place. The O-rings shield the joint from 5800-degree gases inside the booster. On the left scenario, hot gases (red arrows) are shielded from the joint by the zinc-chromate putty. On the right, immense pressure creates a blowhole in the putty, allowing the O-rings to move into the positions needed to seal the joint as the gap between tang and clevis expands. Through the blowhole, gases penetrate and wear away the O-rings.” As seen in the diagram the Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) has two O-rings, working in series. This means that when the primary O-Ring fails the Secondary O-ring will protect the system from the outside, increasing the reliability of the system. Or at least that was the intent of the design; which worked during testing. The main problem was that all testing was conducted at warmer temperatures between 65 – 80°F and the launch day was about 50 degrees colder than the temperature during testing. In preparation to the Challenger mission testing on the SRB system was performed and it was noted during testing that the O-rings eroded to an extent. It was also noted that the erosion was not to the point of failure, therefore NASA decided the risk was minimal. The problem with this approach was that the...
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...On February 20, 1962, my mother shook me out of bed at 6AM -- “wake up darling, there is something very historic I want you to see” she said. I wiped the sleep from my eyes and wandered into the living room where the television screen showed news anchor Walter Cronkite conversing with an engineer who clutched a model replica of a Mercury spacecraft which astronaut John Glenn was about to depart earth in. As the menacing Atlas booster spewed liquid oxygen from it's release valves, I became concerned for the man's safety who was basically sitting atop a giant fuel tank. Though only 6, the danger was very apparent and when the count down reached T-minus ten seconds, my excitement reached fever pitch despite the rocket not even lifting off yet. When the engines ignited, my first reaction was “poor astronaut” as I assumed the spacecraft had blown up in a fire ball until I realized it was safely clearing the launch pad. Many professionals claim that when you are very young, dramatic events can influence the rest of your life. That magic moment transformed me into space junkie. Grocery trips with my father were pretty cool because we had less distraction from my mother and younger brother. We often discussed the space program during the bonding sessions and while searching the sirloin section at a Safeway market in 1967 dad explained the principal behind the Apollo Moon program and how it would land two men on the Lunar surface. Having watched every space launch since John Glenn...
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...Seventy three seconds into flight, the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart. Millions of people watched in horror as seven highly trained astronauts lost their lives in the destruction of the multimillion dollar space shuttle. This catastrophe was a result of the failure of simple O-ring seals manufactured by Morton Thiokol. Beginning in 1977, experimental tests had shown that the O-rings, at certain temperatures, failed. These findings were downplayed by the engineers at Morton Thiokol. As the launch of the shuttle neared the O-rings were still labeled as “Critically 1”, meaning a malfunction could result in the destruction of the Challenger and loss of life. During a teleconference the night before the launch, engineers discussed their concerns with managers. NASA ignored suggestions that the launch be postponed, they argued that if the first O-ring failed, a second O ring would work as a backup. They ignored safeguards that disallowed reliance on backups for parts marked “Criticality 1”. NASA chose to violate rules, ignore critical data and put lives and a the space shuttle in danger in in order to gratify their need to look good in the public eye. The triggers of this disaster could be explained by the psychology term “groupthink”. Groupthink refers to a group making irrational or potentially dangerous decisions to keep the harmony of the group and suppressing disagreeing viewpoints. Managers of both Thiokol and NASA were willing to take, what they saw as a small risk in...
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...Space Shuttle Challenger Case I have read and studied the Space Shutter Challenger Case thoroughly and I believe that the most important failure of the case study was due to many factors which include personality, communication and motivation among the members of the group. In terms of personality, I believe the part of the failure was due to the mix of strong and weak personalities among the group. The stronger personalities which included Mason and Wiggins used direct pressure to influence Lund in to agreeing with their decision. Mason told Lund to take off his engineering hat and to put on his management hat. I believe that Mason and Wiggins used their strong and domineering personalities to influence Lund. This is a contributing factor to the failure of the space shuttle launch. Another aspect of the failure of the case is due to the poor communication between the Thiokol engineers and management. The Thiokol engineers had expressed their concerns to management about the reliability of the O-Rings being used on the space shuttles but a review committee concluded that they were safe to use and if a problem did arise there were secondary O-rings in place. In the flights leading up to the challengers departure, there was evidence that there were serious problems with the O-rings. On the eve of the launch, the weather forecast was unusually cold for Florida weather, with temperatures in the low twenty’s. Thiokol expressed concern that the O-rings would not work properly...
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