of real events and fake rumors. “Pizzagate” was a conspiracy theory that Comet Ping Pong, a pizzeria in D.C., was the site of child sex-abuse and trafficking led by the Clintons and Democrats. It all started with the theory spreading within social media such as Reddit and Twitter, and the Washington Post pointed out that most of the “avid retweeters” were in fact “bots”. As the news spread, James Alefante, the owner of Comet Ping Pong, started receiving questionable calls from all over the world asking
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Social Psychology Application paper 2 11/11/12 In the late 1970’s a music teacher, Marshall Applewhite, and a nurse, Bonny Nettles, set out to find their purpose on earth. Together they had created Heavens Gate. Applewhite, or also known as ‘BO’, believed that the earth was going to be recycled and that it was also a garden to grow souls. Once the souls were developed it was time to exit. To most people the “exit” was suicide, but for members of the cult it was moving on to a more developed
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Uitwerking Case 8-1 Allied Office Products Door: Joey de Klerk (481002) en Roel van Berkel (468870) Introductie Allied Office Products is a large corporation that builds its reputation on its annual sales of $900 million in business forms and specialty in paper products. Its paper products vary from envelopes to greeting cards and writing papers. Allied has incorporated a new program called Total Forms Controls (TFC) for its clients enabling Allied to separate this business forms division
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Introduction Faced with a downturn in the commercial aircraft business and reduced military spending, The Boeing Company was forced to downsize approximately 55,000 people over a five-year period. The company's management, organized labor, the local community, multiple levels of government, and community colleges collectively worked together to develop Reemployment Centers to assist in the transition of their specialized workforce into alternative forms of employment. The following is a description
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the experience of the play, especially at the end when one recuperates from the tragic ending and connects the actions of the comet to a narrative of the human experience. I am choosing this game because I am astounded by the user’s emotions as the outcome of such a game that has no overt narrative or goal, but simply through the totality of actions and music of two comets can create a gaming experience that stretches to an artistic, meaningful, and humanistic level.
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Astronomers predict that comets were created by the leftover gases that produced our solar system 4.6 billion years ago. Comets are made up of ice, rock, dust and gases, but also can be about the size of a small city or town. However, they cannot be planets like Earth, but from NASA’s research, “They may have brought water and other organic compounds through collisions with Earth and other bodies in our solar system.” Comets are located in the Kuiper belt and Oort cloud and according to information
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experiment on the mediation of the player over the purposely, undefined rules. The sudden emergence of the orange comet colliding into the player’s purple comet unwarranted suggests the onset of an enemy. The orange comet is a non-playable, unidentified, questionable player. The initial bash or thump brings forth the game-like concern with maintaining health and lives. However, if the purple comet pursues the orange and manages to collide into it, nothing is gained on
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for scientific research because it taught scientists more about how to adapt with space and taught scientist that comets can reveal history about Earth and our solar system. First the Philae space mission was important for scientific research because it taught scientists more about how to adapt to space. Space has no gravity and many probes have landed on different planets or comets but, many have bounced and delayed missions. According to the article A Success in Space it says “ Scientist have
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two other autonomy experiments, small transponder, Ka-band solid state power amplifier, and experiments in low power electronics, power switching, and multifunctional structures. Deep Space 1 also encountered Comet Borrelly and returned the best images and other science data ever from a comet. The Deep Space 1 was the first of a series of technology demonstration probes developed by NASA’s New Millennium Program. Its primary mission was to prove innovative new technologies for future spacecraft. The
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Discovering Uranus William Herschel was an amateur astronomer. In March 1781, Herschel discovered what he thought was a comet. Because of the limits of his telescope, he had a difficult time seeing what his discovery actually was. He did not believe this discovery was due to chance. “He saw it as an inevitable consequence of a series of thorough surveys of the heavens which marked a new kind of astronomical practice.” 1 Herschel began surveying the stars in 1779 using a 7’ reflecting telescope
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