Satellite comes from the Latin word satelles, which means attendant. It is used to describe an object that moves in orbit around a planet; for example, a moon would be a satellite, a natural satellite.
An artificial satellite is a humanly manufactured object that is sent out into space to orbit a celestial body, for example, the many satellites we have sent out into orbit either to transmit data to and from our computer systems around the surface of the Earth to or to collect information as they orbit other planets. It almost seems like artificial satellites have taken over the sky. The count I found suggested that there are at least 3000 various artificial satellites that are in orbit around the earth and they have many uses. They are used for telecommunication, weather observation, and navigation, and particularly for military intelligence and support.
Russia launched the world’s first artificial satellite into orbit in 1957 and thus began the scramble between superpower nations for domination of space. At the time there was what was called a Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union, marked by an extreme difference in ideals between the two empires. Communism was pegged against capitalism and free enterprise, atheism came against a belief in God. The Cold War was not a literal war, it was a cold-hearted relationship of mistrust and suspicion that made the two superpowers arch enemies based upon politics and religion. It was a conflict that was seen played out, not only in the race for space, but in some major world events.
There was the Berlin Blockade, where Soviets blocked streets and railroads in order to gain military control of the City of Berlin. The USA sent in airlifts to keep the Germans free of Soviet control.
Then there was the Korean War. When North Korea launched an invasion of the South the Soviet Union and the United States intervened. The Soviets backed the North and the US backed the South, superpowers fighting for ideals on foreign soil.
There was also the Cuban Missile Crisis, a major confrontation between Communist Russia and Free America, one that threatened the world with all out nuclear war, something that never happened.
The opposing ideas of Communism and Capitalism, police state control and personal freedom, censorship of the press and freedom of speech, polarized the two entities who found themselves in conflict and feeling the need to technologically advance faster than the other, fearing that the success of the other technologically could be their own demise. So, it was not small thing that of Russia launched their first satellite, Sputnik, into orbit. Almost immediately, President Dwight D. Eisenhower passed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, (1958) creating an organization called NASA, (the North American Space Association,) and set their sites on space.
Both the Soviet program, now called the Rossiyskoe Kosmicheskoye Agentsvo, meaning Russian Space Agency (RKA) and NASA had acquired the ability to build and launch satellites into orbit, and both superpowers wondered what step of superiority would be next on the other's agenda. Both countries believed that some sort of war weapon, offense or defense would be necessary to protect their ideology and power from being lost. Both countries had spies trying to outsmart the smarts of the other, and both countries expected missiles of mass destruction to be aimed at them perspectively, from the birds eye advantage of satellites in space. Over time, the US and Russia supposedly laid down their arms against one another and began working cooperatively towards common ends.
On US soil, Strategic Air Command, dissolved; in Soviet Russia, a political coupe created a more democratic government. The Cold War has ended, and satellite systems and international cooperation has paved the way for new endeavors. Planning to avoid all future wars, Russia, the United States, Japan Canada and Europe, the whole world has created a long-term agreement of partnership in space through the Space Station Intergovernmental Agreement, (IGA) and the Internationals Space Station, (ISS.)
Not long ago, one could look into the night sky and see nothing but stars, but since the launching of manmade satellites, there are over 3000 satellites which pass through the night time sky. These satellites, providing communication, weather information and military observation to the world have changed the way we see things, life on earth, even the way we see the stars.
It is to our benifit or to our ultimate demise that our own man made creation is what we see when we look to the heavens and we marvel at ourselves and our technological advances? Satellites have certainly changed the natural world around us but they have changed the way we see not only the the nighttime sky, the world, the stars at night, but also the way we "see"everything, especially, the way we see ourselves.
TASERS
Tasers, or stun guns, are thought of as electric rifles. They are weapons that give out an electric shock. The TASER, more precisely called, Thomas A. Swift’s Electric Rifle, was developed in 1969 and named after a 1911 science fiction hero, Thomas A. Swift. It is used at the close range of 15-20 ft. to subdue attackers or criminals and it has been in use by police forces in America officially, since 1993
People all over the world in various capacities have found TASER technology to be appealing because the TASER is not used with the intention of killing a person, just to deter them or stop them in their tracks. But while some people consider them to be harmless, advertisers claim they have “more stopping power than a 357 magnum.” TASERS work by producing a high voltage electric shock and discharging it on the target.
The gun actually shoots probes, propelled by nitrogen, and when the probes hit a target, the gun fires an electric pulse that travels through the attached wires to the target. When a person is the target and they are hit, they loose voluntary control of the main skeletal muscles causing them immobility and possible collapse.
The TASER is supposed to be carefully designed not to stop the heart or cause significant burns or other injuries typically associated with electrical shock, but they do actually do send forth a lot of electricity and they do cause a lot of pain to the recipient that is hit. Additionally, injuries like broken bones and concussions do occur when the subject hit with the electric shock is falling down. Controversy arises over the use of a taser because they are intended not to "kill" the individua but the reality is that police who use TASERS encounter all sorts of people, in all sorts of situations, in their line of work. They may shoot someone who has a medical condition, like heart conditions or epilepsy, someone who is taking prescription medications for which an incapacitating electric shock of this nature can affect adversely, even kill. It is quite possible that police officers can shoot someone with a TASER, something that is not supposed to kill them, and yet they die.
You have to know too that it's not just the police who are interested in the use of a device like the TASER. Criminals are interested too. They can commit a crime and not actually kill a victim, get a lesser sentence because they are not charged with murder if they get caught. The average person on the street is interested in it too as a means of personal protection against would be muggers or or vicious dogs. Even government border patrols are considering the use of TASER-like mines to help deter illegal immigration.
How interesting that this idea of a non-lethal implement of using force is appealing to our senses. It appears as a kind and gentler way to deter crime, and promises that it can be used confidently to control human conflict neatly, without anything horrifying like death or bloodshed.
People all over the world in various capacities have found TASER technology to be appealing because the TASER is not used with the intention of killing a person, just to deter them or stop them in their tracks. But while some people consider them to be harmless, advertisers claim they have “more stopping power than a 357 magnum.” TASERS work by producing a high voltage electric shock and discharging it on the target.
The gun actually shoots probes, propelled by nitrogen, and when the probes hit a target, the gun fires an electric pulse that travels through the attached wires to the target. When a person is the target and they are hit, they loose voluntary control of the main skeletal muscles causing them immobility and possible collapse.
The TASER is supposed to be carefully designed not to stop the heart or cause significant burns or other injuries typically associated with electrical shock, but they do actually do send forth a lot of electricity and they do cause a lot of pain to the recipient that is hit. Additionally, injuries like broken bones and concussions do occur when the subject hit with the electric shock is falling down. Controversy arises over the use of a taser because they are intended not to "kill" the individua but the reality is that police who use TASERS encounter all sorts of people, in all sorts of situations, in their line of work. They may shoot someone who has a medical condition, like heart conditions or epilepsy, someone who is taking prescription medications for which an incapacitating electric shock of this nature can affect adversely, even kill. It is quite possible that police officers can shoot someone with a TASER, something that is not supposed to kill them, and yet they die.
You have to know too that it's not just the police who are interested in the use of a device like the TASER. Criminals are interested too. They can commit a crime and not actually kill a victim, get a lesser sentence because they are not charged with murder if they get caught. The average person on the street is interested in it too as a means of personal protection against would be muggers or or vicious dogs. Even government border patrols are considering the use of TASER-like mines to help deter illegal immigration.
How interesting that this idea of a non-lethal implement of using force is appealing to our senses. It appears as a kind and gentler way to deter crime, and promises that it can be used confidently to control human conflict neatly, without anything horrifying like death or bloodshed.
Gross Out
“Gross out” is a slang term of the 20th century, meaning to fill with disgust or to nauseate.
Urn
An urn is a type of container commonly used to house the remains of a cremated body. Though most religions of the world do practice cremation, it is interesting to note that Orthodox Jewish, Islamic, and Christian faiths, the three main monotheistic religions, have traditionally not done so. They bury their dead while most other religious beliefs involve cremation where a dead body is exposed to the high temperatures of heat and flame until nothing is left of it but ashes.
Because Christians bury their dead, there were times in history when cremation was used politically against them, for the purpose of discouraging Christians, refuting the belief in the resurrection of the dead, seemingly nullifying the possibility of such a thing by the use of cremation to leave nothing to resurrect. Somewhere along the way, perhaps in retaliation, the Roman Catholic Church made official prohibitions against cremation and attached the penalty of excommunication from the churches grace to anyone involved in it.
However, in 1969, they changed their long held position, and since that time, the Catechism of the Catholic Church states that "cremation is permitted so long as it is not chosen as a denial of faith in the resurrection of the body.” Despite what is proclaimed allowed of not allowed, the Christian should take heart, for the scripture says, nothing can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus. This obviously would include fire, and would also include those falsely made out to be "heretics" and subsequently burned by fire "at the stake.”
A Christian knows that his soul belongs to and is safe because of God’s character and the words for a hope and a future that he has given to us, his promises. No matter what happens, even to his or her body upon death, God who formed Adam from the dust of the earth, who not only made man out of the dust of the earth, but cause all things to be by his very word, also raised Jesus Christ from death to life, and He will raise us once again by his power, because we have believed on the one whom he sent. We will be raised, this time, to everlasting life.
Because Christians bury their dead, there were times in history when cremation was used politically against them, for the purpose of discouraging Christians, refuting the belief in the resurrection of the dead, seemingly nullifying the possibility of such a thing by the use of cremation to leave nothing to resurrect. Somewhere along the way, perhaps in retaliation, the Roman Catholic Church made official prohibitions against cremation and attached the penalty of excommunication from the churches grace to anyone involved in it.
However, in 1969, they changed their long held position, and since that time, the Catechism of the Catholic Church states that "cremation is permitted so long as it is not chosen as a denial of faith in the resurrection of the body.” Despite what is proclaimed allowed of not allowed, the Christian should take heart, for the scripture says, nothing can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus. This obviously would include fire, and would also include those falsely made out to be "heretics" and subsequently burned by fire "at the stake.”
A Christian knows that his soul belongs to and is safe because of God’s character and the words for a hope and a future that he has given to us, his promises. No matter what happens, even to his or her body upon death, God who formed Adam from the dust of the earth, who not only made man out of the dust of the earth, but cause all things to be by his very word, also raised Jesus Christ from death to life, and He will raise us once again by his power, because we have believed on the one whom he sent. We will be raised, this time, to everlasting life.
One Solitary Life.
“One solitary life… is a poem written originally as an sermon by Dr. James Allan Francis, (1864–1928) that turned essay. It was published in a book called, The Real Jesus and Other Sermons; 1926 by Judson Press of Philadelphia. It is about the influence of one man over the whole course of human history, Jesus of Nazareth. It speaks about how no other person has so impacted the world as His One Solitary Life.
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