communication was sure to be an enormous hit with society. In the late 1990’s, Iridium wanted a piece of the action. Iridium was a “mobile communication network that allowed any kind of phone transmission (voice, data, fax, and paging) via a system of satellites” (Crawford and Di Benedetto 404-405). This system, composed of 66 satellites and many ground stations, claimed to reach any destination in the world. The Iridium phone also boasted to be able to not be obstructed by tall building or mountains
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are proposing a comet because that conclusion hits a ‘sweet spot.’ With comets having lower levels of iridium and osmium than asteroids, yet with a high-velocity comet would have sufficient energy to create a 177-km-wide crater. Asteroids move much slower than comets, so comets have more energy on impact, which in combination with their partially ice make up means they don’t contribute more iridium and osmium.” (Science Teacher, 2013). “In synthesizing the data generated by two very disparate fields
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Review the theories put forward in the literature that attempt to explain why there was a mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period. You should aim to outline the main theories, the claims they make, briefly explain any supporting evidence, and compare and contrast the rival theories. Reasons for the Cretaceous mass extinction have been hotly debated for more than 200 years, since the founding days of geology. Cretaceous mass extinction is referred to the mass extinction that happened
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market validation is crucial to a successful venture. To illustrate this he presented two case studies. The first one was about Motorola’s project called Iridium while the second case study’s subject was Apple’s iPod. Even though the technology that Iridium offered was far more sophisticated and ahead of its time than iPod; nevertheless, Iridium failed because of poor marketing strategy and false assumptions about their tentative customers. iPod, on the other hand, was not a technological breakthrough
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Paleogene. The line between these layers is the KTB. All over the world, at this boundary, there is an unusual spike in amounts of Iridium in the soil. Iridium is a rare element that is commonly found in meteors. This would suggest that there was a large meteor impact that is the source of the Iridium found in the KTB (Moses, 1989, p. 813). A number of years after the Iridium was discovered, a crater that seemed to fit the data was found in southern Mexico. It was named Chicxulub Crater. Sometime after
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HOMEWORK #1 – SAMPLE SOLUTION SAMPLE #1 DENVER AIRPORT: AUTOMATIC BAGGAGE - HANDLING SYSTEM System Overview Early in the planning stage, United Airlines insisted on an automated high speed baggage system. Denver officials had sound reasoning in choosing to install an automated baggage handling system. The Airport was approved in 1989 and planned to be operational by end of 1993. They designed a large scale baggage handling system that cost $193 million. The system requires no manual labor
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• English/US • Answers • Store • Outreach • Media • Kids • Education • Donate • Answers in Genesis • Answers • Animals • Dinosaurs • Dinosaur Extinction • The Extinction of the Dinosaurs The Extinction of the Dinosaurs by Michael J. Oard on August 1, 1997 Share: • • • • Originally published in Journal of Creation 11, no 2 (August 1997): 137-154. Shop Now First published: TJ (now Journal of Creation) 11(2):137–154 August 1997 by Michael J. Oard Dinosaur
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Dinosaur extinction is still a major mystery of earth history. In this review article, extinctions in the geological record will be briefly mentioned. Many of the imaginative theories for the extinction of the dinosaurs will also be presented. Within the uniformitarian paradigm, the meteorite impact theory, once considered ‘outrageous’, now is the dominant theory. However, the volcanic theory is still believed by a majority of paleontologists. Both theories have their strengths and weaknesses. The
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A massive explosion with more energy than the atomic bombs dropped in World War II ripped through the sky as a huge chunk of rock traveling close to fifty-thousand miles per hour was overpowered by the sheer force of aerodynamics and exploded into oblivion (Tagliaferri, 1998). This explosion was an asteroid from space that was on a collision course with the earth; in February of 1994 the asteroid struck. “The asteroid actually broke into several pieces, with one large piece detonating about 34 km
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