“ If we want to make streets safe and create cities for people not traffic, we need to take a new approach. We need bold politicians who make real changes. We need to stop using signage to defend poor urban design and traffic engineering schemes. We need to better understand human behaviour, responding to individual circumstances, places and people and not just predicted traffic volumes. ”
Rachel Smith on creating safer streets (via thisbigcity)
And I can’t believe, that I’m your man,
And I get to kiss you baby just because I can.Whatever comes our way, ah we’ll see it through,
And you know that’s what our love can do…
We just performed the song at national event of industrial seminar this morning. That lyric literally is true could represent some of my thoughts on you, baby :-D
Eottokhae~
New Space Company May Solve World’s Economic Problems
This Tuesday, a group of billionaires and former NASA scientists will announce Planetary Resources Inc., the first asteroid mining company in history. They claim they will “add trillions of dollars to the global GDP” and “help ensure humanity’s prosperity.”
The group of investors and scientists on board this enterprise is impressive:
…including Google’s Larry Page & Eric Schmidt, Ph.D.; film maker & explorer James Cameron; Chairman of Intentional Software Corporation and Microsoft’s former Chief Software Architect Charles Simonyi, Ph.D.; Founder of Sherpalo and Google Board of Directors founding member K. Ram Shriram; and Chairman of Hillwood and The Perot Group Ross Perot, Jr.
Harnessing the resources of asteroids is not a crazy proposition and the return of investment could be amazing. So much that they are convinced they can “add trillions of dollars to the global GDP.” More importantly, this may solve many of our material needs as resources on Earth keep dwindling fast.
But is it doable? There are no details yet, but if they are going to invest millions of dollars on it, you can be sure it is doable and it will be profitable. They don’t have to travel to the asteroid belt to grab them. There are many passing near Earth that may be accessible. In fact, there are already plenty of plans on scientists and engineers’ drafting boards.
Needless to say, and despite the fact that it will probably take some years to achieve their goals, this is all extremely exciting. If they are successful, it will truly be a new dawn for humanity.
We will be covering the press conference live, which will feature Charles Simonyi, Planetary Resources, Investor; Eric Anderson, Co-Founder & Co-Chairman, Planetary Resources; Peter H. Diamandis, M.D., Co-Founder & Co-Chairman, Planetary Resources; Chris Lewicki, President & Chief Engineer, Planetary Resources; Tom Jones, Ph.D., Planetary Scientist, Veteran NASA Astronaut & Planetary Resources, Inc. Advisor.
It will be held in the Museum of Flight in Seattle on Tuesday, April 24 at 10:30am PDT.
Panorama speaks better than either portrait or landscape. Because it’s just like a landscape times 3 or portrait times 6. It holds many value than a simple snap. Believe it or not.
