Project Loon began with a pilot test in June 2013, when thirty balloons were launched from New Zealand’s South Island and beamed Internet to a small group of pilot testers. The pilot test has since expanded to include a greater number of people over a wider area. Looking ahead, Project Loon will continue to expand the pilot, with the goal of establishing a ring of uninterrupted connectivity at latitudes in the Southern Hemisphere, so that pilot testers in these latitudes can receive continuous service via balloon-powered Internet.
The solar cells Alan Freeman uses to power his car and his boat are essentially similar to those used to power space satellites. They are the result of the same kind of semiconductor technology that has given us the transistor, the pocket calculator and the digital watch.
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They are made of the crystalline material silicon, which is one of the chemical elements ( its most common compounds are sand and quartz-silicon dioxide ). Silicon when pure does not conduct electricity but it does slightly when doped, or adulterated, by carefully controlled amounts of arsenic. A solar cell is made up of silicon that has been doped in such a way that part ( the n-part ) can emit electrons and ( the p-part ) can receive them. The junction between them is called the p-n junction. When light falls on the cell, elections flow across the p-n junction, thus constituting an electric current.
Pascal spent the final years of his life putting together the beginnings of an apologia for Christianity. Although it was never fully completed, the extant material was pieced together and published. It is in this work that one finds Pascal's famous wager.
The argument is as follows: either God exists or he does not. We have to choose one way or the other on this issue; it is an unavoidable existential dilemma. If God does not exist , then we lose very little by believing that he does exist. If he does exist, then we stand to gain an awful lot by believing that he does , and to lose an awful lot by thinking that he doesn't.
The wager is not an argument for the existence of God; Pascal was aware that he could not convince unbelievers of God's existence by rational argument.
It is seen as an early example of decision-theory. Pascal's reach was broad , and in the modern era his scientific and mathematical work is perhaps more impressive than his religious apologetics.
During the aftermath of World War 2 a Japanese individual Chiyoji Nakagawa, former Mayor of Uwajima in Shikoku, presented a token of peace to the United Nations. It took the form of a large bell, fashioned from a bell typically seen in larger temples throughout Japan.
There, the story might have ended. But in 1982 a World Peace Bell Association was formed with co-operation from ambassadors representing 128 nations. The Association was charged with promoting a world free from the evils of nuclear war, and presenting replica World Peace Bells to the nations of the world.. As was the case with the original, replicas are made from the donated coins of United Nations member countries.
At present there are 21 World Peace Bells in 17 countries. Four are in Japan. Coins to manufacture the bells have been donated by 103 United Nations member countries, including New Zealand.
The Christchurch World Peace Bell is now housed in a pavillion located in the Botanic Gardens. Plans are being developed for it to become the focal point of a specially developed Peace Walk.
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Not sure we can get world peace soon
If you want to ring the World Peace Bell , then you will have to do what I did and take a hammer, and hope no one is looking.
Do you want world peace ? Have you seen this man in your dreams ? What is making that bright light ? Who is he ?
Watch these videos and learn more about New Zealand from someone who lives there. ( That would be me )
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New Zealand is just like where you live, only different.
New Zealand has no Nuclear power or Nuclear weapons.
New Zealand has a small population relative to a large land mass.
New Zealand is far far away from everywhere.
New Zealand was the last major land mass to be settled by Europeons.
New Zealand ranks 8th in the Centre For Global Development 's 2012 Index, which ranks the world's most developed countries on their dedication to policies that benefit poorer nations. New Zealand is considered the fourth most peaceful country in the world according to the 2014 Global Peace Index.
The forests were dominated by birds, and the lack of mammalian predators led to some like the kiwi , kakapo and takahe evolving flightlessness . The arrival of humans, associated changes to habitat, and the introduction of rats, ferrets and other mammals led to the extinction of many bird species.
New Zealand was the first country in the world to give women the vote.
Big mistake
The climate is varied in New Zealand. Warm/ cold/ warm/ cold and so on. It has something to do with the earths rotation and movement around the sun.
Where are you going Forest ?
I want to go home.
Not sure about getting too close to a sheep...
Do you want to know more about New Zealand ? Have you seen this man in your dreams ?
Slender Man (a.k.a Slenderman) is a mythical creature often depicted as a tall, thin figure wearing a black suit and a blank face. According to the legend, he can stretch or shorten his arms at will and has tentacle-like appendages protruding from his back. Depending on the interpretations of the myth, the creature may cause memory loss, insomnia, paranoia, coughing fits (nicknamed “slendersickness”)
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When adding the spoken words to this recording above I accidentily lost the harmonics , but no one cares . Below is the instrumental WITH harmonics.
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Black Suit
The Slender symbol
I didn't see his face...
Der Großmann (pronounced “gross-man”) is German for “The Great Man” and is often translated into The Tall Man. It is rumored to be a German folklore concerning a tall boogeyman existing since the 16th century.
“We didn’t want to go, we didn’t want to kill them, but its persistent silence and outstretched arms horrified and comforted us at the same time…” – 1983, photographer unknown, presumed dead.
One of two recovered photographs from the Stirling City Library blaze. Notable for being taken the day which fourteen children vanished and for what is referred to as “The Slender Man”. Deformities cited as film defects by officials. Fire at library occurred one week later. Actual photograph confiscated as evidence. – 1986, photographer: Mary Thomas, missing since June 13th, 1986.
There is some Slenderman content on the internet that isn't much fun to read . It is very sad
During an early 2015 epidemic of suicide attempts by young people ages 12 to 24 on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Slender Man was cited as an influence; theOglala Sioux tribe president noted that many Native Americans traditionally believe in a "suicide spirit" similar to the Slender Man.