On March 26‚ 1997‚ in what has become known as one of the most noteworthy mass suicides in history‚ thirty-nine men and women affiliated with the Heavens Gate cult took their own lives by ingesting a combination of Phenobarbitals mixed with applesauce and alcohol. Each was dressed all in black‚ their faces covered by a purple shroud. Those who wore glasses had them neatly folded next to their body‚ and all had identification papers for the authorities to find. The house was immaculate‚ tidier
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Englewood‚ NJ to call the Mayor in Alameda‚ CA (A T &T Labs). The telephone had made huge strides in 74 years‚ but technology was not done. Technology took the telephone out of the kitchen and the family room and put in on submarines‚ aircraft and spaceships. The telephone continued to grow‚ before the first direct distance dialed call‚ American Telephone and Telegraph labs develop the car phone in the 1940 and continued to seek improvements (AT & T Labs). The first car phones were basic; the user pick
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author‚ Garrett Hardin‚ points out our nations problem of trying to help others due to our humanitarian wants that cause our environment to dwindle and depletes our resources. Hardin shows two different ways people view the world; the first‚ as a spaceship where there is one over all power‚ and the second‚ a life boat where only so many can be helped and the rest are left at sea to fend for themselves. Throughout Hardin’s’ article it shows clearly that he leans heavily towards the lifeboat method meaning
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The novel Omon Ra‚ written by Victor Pelevin‚ Illustrates the absurdity of the Soviet Union and how important heroism‚ science‚ the military and space exploration was to the Union at the time. One of the main themes of this novel is the coming of age. Omon yearns to become a cosmonaut and a hero‚ or just to accomplish something important during his lifetime. But with aid from a series of events‚ he later realizes that heroism is nothing but a glorified illusion and something he does not wish to be
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Earth” is the third book in sci-fi trilogy “Across the Universe”‚ written by American author Beth Revis. The story amazes you with the futuristic setting when the protagonist of the story‚ a seventeen years old teenager named Amy‚ is aboard the spaceship Godspeed along with her parents and hundreds of other travelers. The ships course is set to a distant earth like planet and is travelling around 250 years in the future. Amy and her parents are frozen into a cryogenic sleep along with the hundreds
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“Suspicion can destroy” and “a thoughtless‚ frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout of its own.” Both of these themes are very good explanations of the story. The first theme “suspicion can destroy” has many examples that support it. When the spaceship flies over the sky and there is a loud noise with a flash of light everybody becomes suspicious of what is going on. Soon people on Maple St. realize that the power is out and nothing is working. A woman tries to call on the telephone and she can’t
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realize that you have land in space your land taxes are like a million dollars and its going to take you a long time for you to pay all your land taxes. What if you float away in space? It can happen you could forget to hook the thing up to the spaceship and walk outside and you can float away and nobody can help you unless you they are fast enough. You wont be able to see because there will be no lights because there are no electricity in space you can’t sleep comfortable because without gravity
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The alternative forms of tourism combine tourist products or separate tourist services different from the mass tourism by means of supply‚ organization and the human resource involved. These are rural‚ ecotourism‚ adventure (biking‚ horseback riding‚ snowshoeing‚ ski mountaineering‚ rafting‚ diving‚ caving‚ climbing)‚ thematic tourism – connected with the cultural and historical heritage‚ the esoteric‚ religion‚ wine‚ traditional cuisine‚ ethnography and traditional music and handicrafts. Sustainable
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nationality 7) I know he’ll do something. You’ll do something 8) …the impossible happened. It was the moment that made everything else possible 9) I bet I could be an astronaut if I wanted 10) The only way you’ll see the inside of a spaceship is if you were cleaning it 11) It’s right that someone like you is taking us to Titan 12) What makes you think you can be me? 13) You couldn’t see‚ could you? You crossed anyway 14) No one exceeds potential- if he did it would
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extrapolations of where we are in the present‚ and where our current position might lead us in the coming years.” He then summarizes Elysium. Elysium is about a world in which society is divided into two classes‚ the “ultrarich” live above earth in a spaceship called the Elysium and the rest live in Earth’s ruins. The main character‚ Max‚ embarks on a mission that could bring equality to the population but Secretary Delacourt‚ the Secretary of Defense on the Elysium works against Max to preserve the lifestyle
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