Top 9 Best Tourist Attractions in Mountain View - California
Top 9. Best Tourist Attractions in Mountain View - California: Computer History Museum, City Hall, Google Android Lawn Statues, Mountain View Farmers Market, Shoreline Amphitheatre, Moffett Field Historical Society Museum, NASA Ames Visitor Center, Historic Adobe Building, Stevens Creek Trail
Moffett Field History Museum 2005 (Part 2 of 3)
Moffett Field History Museum 2005
About the Museum
The Moffett Field Historical Society was founded in May of 1993. One year after the founding of the Historical Society, the Moffett Field Museum, a non-profit institution, was created. The Museum, managed and staffed by volunteers, was initially located inside Hangar One, which was built to house the dirigible USS Macon in 1934. .
Moffett Field is located in the Sunnyvale-Mountain View area of the southern San Francisco bay, adjacent to Highway 101, approximately 10 miles north of San Jose.
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Moffett Federal Airfield
Moffett Federal Airfield (IATA: NUQ, ICAO: KNUQ, FAA LID: NUQ), also known as Moffett Field, is a joint civil-military airport located between southern Mountain View and northern Sunnyvale, California, USA.
The airport is near the south end of San Francisco Bay, northwest of San Jose. Formerly a United States Navy facility, the former naval air station is now owned and operated by the NASA Ames Research Center. Tenant military activities include the 129th Rescue Wing of the California Air National Guard, operating the MC-130P Combat Shadow and HH-60G Pave Hawk aircraft, as well as the adjacent Headquarters for the 7th Psychological Operations Group of the U.S. Army Reserve. Until 28 July 2010, the U.S. Air Force's 21st Space Operations Squadron was also a tenant command at Moffett Field, occupying the former Onizuka Air Force Station. In addition to these military activities, NASA also operates several of its own aircraft from Moffett. On November 10, 2014, NASA announced that it would lease the airfield to Google for 60 years. The technology company plans to use the facility for research and development purposes, along with public outreach programs.
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California’s original constitution goes on display at Sacramento museum
California’s original constitution is now on display at the California Museum in Sacramento. The English and Spanish versions of the 1849 state constitution will be available for the public to see. The California Museum will be offering free admission to view the state constitution and all other exhibits. Get the full story in the video above.
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Vigilance and Vacuum Tubes: The Sage System, 1956-1963
Recorded: Tuesday, May 19, 1998
Posted: Aug 27, 2013
Location: The Computer Museum History Center, Building 126, Moffett Field, Mountain View, CA
In 1963, the last of 22 SAGE command centers was completed by contractors IBM, Western Electric, The RAND Corporation, and Burroughs. At a cost of $8 billion (1964 dollars), this vastly complex technological system, an outgrowth of MIT Lincoln Labs' Whirlwind II computer, represented the state of the art in strategic doctrine and computer systems design. Each one of the 22 SAGE command centers used over 49,000 vacuum tubes, weighed 250 tons, and consumed 3,000,000 watts of power.
The SAGE system linked these command centers into a technopolitical shield against Soviet strategic bomber attack. From a stark social context of high Cold War tensions emerged impressive technical advances in hardware and software systems design, real-time control, and air traffic monitoring.
Advances such as the light gun, modems, duplex CPUs, multiprocessing, A/D and D/A conversion techniques, as well as networking arose as ancillary technologies of SAGE development. But did SAGE really work as advertised? Should we care? This lecture reflects on these questions, SAGE's context, and its technical spinoffs.
The lecture takes place in front of 400 square feet of actual SAGE hardware, including Weapons Director and Intercept Technician consoles! This equipment is from the last functioning SAGE center in North Bay, Ontario (Canada), decommissioned in 1982. The USAF SAGE Film In Your Defense will also be shown. I like Ike buttons optional.
The Speakers:
This lecture's speakers represent a variety of perspectives, from the history of technology, to hardware and software systems engineering:
Les Earnest: Senior Research Scientist Emeritus, Stanford University, Project Engineer and System Designer, SAGE system hardware. Founding President, Imagen Corporation; former Associate Chairman, Stanford University Computer Science Department; Executive Officer, Stanford AI Lab; Department Head, Information Systems Dept, MITRE Corporation; Member, Technical Staff, MIT Lincoln Laboratory... and inventor of the original (DEC-10/20) FINGER program!
James Wong: Computer Systems Engineer, Burroughs Corporation; Unisys Corporation; Project Engineer on SAGE system software for The RAND Corporation 1955-1963; Team Leader, System Development Corporation (SDC), Lincoln Laboratory, SAGE and Project 465-L. Mathematician and programmer for the IBM CPC, 701, and RAND Johnniac. Wong is retired and currently volunteers as an instructor in Mathematics with the Learning Disabled Program at Foothill College.
Paul Edwards: Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer, Program in Science, Technology & Society, Stanford University; author of The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America. Edwards has also authored dozens of articles on the history of computing and has held visiting professorships at Stanford, Cornell, the University of Michigan and UC - Santa Cruz. His next book is entitled: The World in a Machine: Computer Models, Data Networks, and Global Atmospheric Politics. Edwards will be making a 30-minute presentation.
This talk was sponsored by The Computer Museum History Center and Sun Microsystems.
Sunnyvale: Brilliant Past, Bright Future
History of the City of Sunnyvale, California. Recorded for and presented first at the Sunnyvale State of the City event on July 4, 1999.
NASA Plays Zeppelin!!
The Airship Ventures' Zeppelin ended its dramatic cross-country trek and landed at its new base location at Moffett Field on Oct. 25, 2008, at approximately 2 p.m. PDT. This airship is the first to fly over the U.S. for more than 70 years. NASA and Airship Ventures entered into an agreement to use the airship to assist with disaster response agencies, for scientific research and educational training with local science centers and museums.
Airship Ventures Inc. is a private company offering sight-seeing rides (which the company calls flightseeing) in a 12-passenger Zeppelin NT out of a World War II United States Navy hanger at Moffett Federal Airfield near Mountain View, California.
Their airship, built by Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik GmbH, is as of 2008 one of only three zeppelins in the world. Dedicated and christened Eureka at the 75th anniversary celebration for Moffett Field on November 21, 2008, at 246 feet long it is the largest airship in the world. Its flight en-route from Beaumont, Texas, where it was shipped, to the Bay Area was the first zeppelin flight in the United States in 71 years.
The company is owned by a husband-wife team, Alexandra and Brian Hall of Los Gatos, California. Alexandra Hall previously ran the Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland, California. Katherine Kate Board is the only female airship pilot in the world.
Korea: The Forgotten War 2: Major General Gary Medvigy
Petaluma Museum Association
Major General Gary Medvigy
Produced, Videotaped and Edited by: John Merrill
Major General Gary A. Medvigy assumed his current position as the Deputy Commanding General, Eighth Army, Yongsan, Korea, May 7th, 2012.
Born Feb. 18, 1956, in Rahway, N.J., Medvigy earned his commission as a second lieutenant and B.A. in psychology in 1978 from the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vt.
General Medvigy's previous assignments include Commanding General, 351st Civil Affairs Command, Mountain View, California, Deputy Commanding General, United State's Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command (Airborne), Ft Bragg, North Carolina, Commander, 7th Psychological Operations Group , Moffett Field, California; Chief of Plans, Programs and Policy, 351st Civil Affairs Command, Mountain View, Calif.; Director, Judicial Sector, Security Sector Reform for the Office of Military Cooperation in Afghanistan; Assistant J5, Coalition Forces Special Operations Command, U.S. Central Command (Airborne) with duty throughout the area of operations, and Commander, 14th Psychological Operations Battalion, Moffett Field, California. His additional assignments included Command Judge Advocate for both the 351st CACOM and 7th POG in addition to being a Judge Advocate with 3rd Armored Division, 21st Support Command and Presidio of San Francisco, Forces Command.
General Medvigy's also education includes a Juris Doctorate in 1978 from Vermont Law School, South Royalton, Vt., International law summer program, University of Exeter, England, and a Master of Security Studies from the Army War College, Carlisle, Pa., in 2004. He is a graduate of Capstone, the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, both Judge Advocate Basic and Advanced Courses, Psychological Operations Officer Course, Civil Affairs Officer Advance Course and the Army War College.
General Medvigy's awards and decorations include two Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, four Meritorious Service Medals, two Joint Service Army Commendation Medals, two Army Commendation Medals, three Army Reserve Components Achievement Medals, two National Defense Service Medals, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, Armed Forces Service Medal, Armed Forces Reserve Medal with M device and numeral X, Army Service Ribbon, Overseas Service Ribbon, two Army Reserve Components Overseas Training Ribbons, Korean Defense Service Medal and the NATO Medal. He is recently off jump status and has earned the Basic Parachutist Badge and foreign parachute badges from; Australia, Canada, Chile, Germany, Ireland, and Ukraine.
In his civilian career, General Medvigy is a Superior Court Judge for the State of California in Santa Rosa, California and a private pilot.
Silicon Valley | Wikipedia audio article
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Silicon Valley
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Silicon Valley (sometimes abbreviated as SV) is a region in the southern San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California which serves as a global center for high technology, innovation and social media. It corresponds roughly to the geographical Santa Clara Valley. San Jose is the Valley's largest city, the third largest in California, and the tenth largest in the United States. Other major Silicon Valley cities include Palo Alto, Santa Clara, Mountain View, and Sunnyvale. The San Jose Metropolitan Area has the third highest GDP per capita in the world (after Zurich, Switzerland and Oslo, Norway), according to the Brookings Institution.The word silicon originally referred to the large number of silicon chip innovators and manufacturers in the region, but the area is now the home to many of the world's largest high-tech corporations, including the headquarters of 39 businesses in the Fortune 1000, and thousands of startup companies. Silicon Valley also accounts for one-third of all of the venture capital investment in the United States, which has helped it to become a leading hub and startup ecosystem for high-tech innovation and scientific development. It was in the Valley that the silicon-based integrated circuit, the microprocessor, and the microcomputer, among other key technologies, were developed. As of 2013, the region employed about a quarter of a million information technology workers.As more high-tech companies were established across San Jose and the Santa Clara Valley, and then north towards the Bay Area's two other major cities, San Francisco and Oakland, the Silicon Valley has come to have two definitions: a geographic one, referring to Santa Clara County, and a metonymical one, referring to all high-tech businesses in the Bay Area. The term is now generally used as a synecdoche for the American high-technology economic sector. The name also became a global synonym for leading high-tech research and enterprises, and thus inspired similar named locations, as well as research parks and technology centers with a comparable structure all around the world.
The Secret History of Silicon Valley
Google Tech Talks
December 18, 2007
How Stanford & the CIA/NSA Built the Valley We Know Today, presented by Steve Blank.
How much does an average Googler know about the history of the place he/she works in - Silicon Valley? Come and test your knowledge. I have seen this talk and I assure you - even seasoned Silicon Valley veterans will find this story interesting. Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steve Blank will talk about how World War II set the stage for the creation and explosive growth of Silicon Valley, and the role of Frederick Terman and Stanford in working with government agencies (including the CIA and the National Security Agency) to set up companies in this area that sparked the creation of hundreds of other enterprises.
Steve Blank spent nearly 30 years as founder and executive of high tech companies in Silicon Valley, most recently the enterprise software firm E.piphany. He has been involved in or co-founded eight Silicon Valley startups, ranging from semiconductors to video games, and personal computers to supercomputers. He teaches entrepreneurship at U.C. Berkeley's Haas School of Business, Columbia University and Stanford's Graduate School of Engineering.
This talk was hosted by Boris Debic
NASA Ames Research Center | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:01:57 1 Missions
00:07:04 2 Air traffic control automation research
00:08:57 3 Information technology
00:12:04 4 Image processing
00:12:33 5 Wind tunnels
00:12:56 5.1 ARC Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel
00:13:45 5.2 National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex (NFAC)
00:17:11 6 Arc Jet Complex
00:20:35 7 Range complex
00:20:44 7.1 Ames Vertical Gun Range
00:22:54 7.2 Hypervelocity Free-Flight Range
00:25:58 7.3 Electric Arc Shock Tube
00:27:08 8 United States Geological Survey (USGS)
00:28:04 9 Education
00:28:13 9.1 NASA Ames Exploration Center
00:29:02 9.2 Robotics Alliance Project
00:30:38 10 Recent events
00:32:44 11 Public-private partnerships
00:33:56 11.1 Google
00:36:15 12 Living and working at Ames
00:36:48 13 See also
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
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Speaking Rate: 0.8697320232067406
Voice name: en-US-Wavenet-D
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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The Ames Research Center (ARC), also known as NASA Ames, is a major NASA research center at Moffett Federal Airfield in California's Silicon Valley. It was founded in 1939 as the second National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) laboratory. That agency was dissolved and its assets and personnel transferred to the newly created National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on October 1, 1958. NASA Ames is named in honor of Joseph Sweetman Ames, a physicist and one of the founding members of NACA. At last estimate NASA Ames has over US$3 billion in capital equipment, 2,300 research personnel and a US$860 million annual budget.
Ames was founded to conduct wind-tunnel research on the aerodynamics of propeller-driven aircraft; however, its role has expanded to encompass spaceflight and information technology. Ames plays a role in many NASA missions. It provides leadership in astrobiology; small satellites; robotic lunar exploration; the search for habitable planets; supercomputing; intelligent/adaptive systems; advanced thermal protection; and airborne astronomy. Ames also develops tools for a safer, more efficient national airspace. The center's current director is Eugene Tu.The site is mission center for several key current missions (Kepler, the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission, Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph) and a major contributor to the new exploration focus as a participant in the Orion crew exploration vehicle.
Why Germany developed and cancelled the F-104 ZELL program
In the mid-1960s West Germany developed the Zero Length Launch (ZELL) system which allowed its F-104Gs Starfighters to take off without a runway. Germany partnered with Lockheed for this program and despite being successful in launching its aircraft the program was cancelled in 1966. In this video let’s take a look on why Germany developed this system, how it worked and why the program was eventually cancelled.
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Silicon Valley | Wikipedia audio article
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Silicon Valley
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- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
=======
Silicon Valley (sometimes abbreviated as SV) is a region in the southern San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California which serves as a global center for high technology, innovation and social media. It corresponds roughly to the geographical Santa Clara Valley. San Jose is the Valley's largest city, the third largest in California, and the tenth largest in the United States. Other major Silicon Valley cities include Palo Alto, Santa Clara, Mountain View, and Sunnyvale. The San Jose Metropolitan Area has the third highest GDP per capita in the world (after Zurich, Switzerland and Oslo, Norway), according to the Brookings Institution.The word silicon originally referred to the large number of silicon chip innovators and manufacturers in the region, but the area is now the home to many of the world's largest high-tech corporations, including the headquarters of 39 businesses in the Fortune 1000, and thousands of startup companies. Silicon Valley also accounts for one-third of all of the venture capital investment in the United States, which has helped it to become a leading hub and startup ecosystem for high-tech innovation and scientific development. It was in the Valley that the silicon-based integrated circuit, the microprocessor, and the microcomputer, among other key technologies, were developed. As of 2013, the region employed about a quarter of a million information technology workers.As more high-tech companies were established across San Jose and the Santa Clara Valley, and then north towards the Bay Area's two other major cities, San Francisco and Oakland, the Silicon Valley has come to have two definitions: a geographic one, referring to Santa Clara County, and a metonymical one, referring to all high-tech businesses in the Bay Area. The term is now generally used as a synecdoche for the American high-technology economic sector. The name also became a global synonym for leading high-tech research and enterprises, and thus inspired similar named locations, as well as research parks and technology centers with a comparable structure all around the world.
Brian Lewis - Skimming the Lunar Surface for Science: The LADEE Mission
NASA Ames Research Center Director's Colloquium, July 15, 2014, Moffett Field, California. NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft impacted the Moon on April 17, 2014, capping a successful operational mission. LADEE not only skimmed the surface of the moon for science, but also successfully demonstrated two-way laser communications from lunar orbit. NASA Ames was responsible for spacecraft design, development, testing and mission operations, in addition to managing the overall mission.
Brian Lewis is a systems engineer at the NASA Ames Research Center. He is currently the lead system engineer for the BioSentinel project and previously acted as the spacecraft systems engineer and then spacecraft manager on the LADEE project.
The NASA Ames Director's Colloquium Summer Series was presented by the Office of the Chief Scientist as part of the Center's 75th anniversary celebration.
Ames Aeronautical Laboratory | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:02:01 1 Missions
00:07:21 2 Air traffic control automation research
00:09:19 3 Information technology
00:12:33 4 Image processing
00:13:03 5 Wind tunnels
00:13:26 5.1 ARC Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel
00:14:17 5.2 National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex (NFAC)
00:17:51 6 Arc Jet Complex
00:21:24 7 Range complex
00:21:34 7.1 Ames Vertical Gun Range
00:23:48 7.2 Hypervelocity Free-Flight Range
00:27:00 7.3 Electric Arc Shock Tube
00:28:12 8 United States Geological Survey (USGS)
00:29:11 9 Education
00:29:20 9.1 NASA Ames Exploration Center
00:30:11 9.2 Robotics Alliance Project
00:31:51 10 Recent events
00:34:03 11 Public-private partnerships
00:35:18 11.1 Google
00:37:43 12 Living and working at Ames
00:38:17 13 See also
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
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Speaking Rate: 0.8490472259618278
Voice name: en-US-Wavenet-A
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
=======
The Ames Research Center (ARC), also known as NASA Ames, is a major NASA research center at Moffett Federal Airfield in California's Silicon Valley. It was founded in 1939 as the second National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) laboratory. That agency was dissolved and its assets and personnel transferred to the newly created National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on October 1, 1958. NASA Ames is named in honor of Joseph Sweetman Ames, a physicist and one of the founding members of NACA. At last estimate NASA Ames has over US$3 billion in capital equipment, 2,300 research personnel and a US$860 million annual budget.
Ames was founded to conduct wind-tunnel research on the aerodynamics of propeller-driven aircraft; however, its role has expanded to encompass spaceflight and information technology. Ames plays a role in many NASA missions. It provides leadership in astrobiology; small satellites; robotic lunar exploration; the search for habitable planets; supercomputing; intelligent/adaptive systems; advanced thermal protection; and airborne astronomy. Ames also develops tools for a safer, more efficient national airspace. The center's current director is Eugene Tu.The site is mission center for several key current missions (Kepler, the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission, Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph) and a major contributor to the new exploration focus as a participant in the Orion crew exploration vehicle.
A National Farewell to Neil Armstrong on This Week @ NASA
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden joined other agency officials and dignitaries at the Washington National Cathedral to honor the life and career of astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, who died Aug. 25. The memorial was broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed on nasa.gov and the National Cathedral's website.
Brian Lewis - Skimming the Lunar Surface for Science: The LADEE Mission | NASA Lecture
NASA Ames Research Center Director's Colloquium, July 15, 2014, Moffett Field, California. NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft impacted the Moon on April 17, 2014, capping a successful operational mission. LADEE not only skimmed the surface of the moon for science, but also successfully demonstrated two-way laser communications from lunar orbit. NASA Ames was responsible for spacecraft design, development, testing and mission operations, in addition to managing the overall mission.
Brian Lewis is a systems engineer at the NASA Ames Research Center. He is currently the lead system engineer for the BioSentinel project and previously acted as the spacecraft systems engineer and then spacecraft manager on the LADEE project.
The NASA Ames Director's Colloquium Summer Series was presented by the Office of the Chief Scientist as part of the Center's 75th anniversary celebration.
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Ames Research Center | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:01:57 1 Missions
00:07:07 2 Air traffic control automation research
00:09:00 3 Information technology
00:12:07 4 Image processing
00:12:36 5 Wind tunnels
00:12:59 5.1 ARC Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel
00:13:50 5.2 National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex (NFAC)
00:17:16 6 Arc Jet Complex
00:20:42 7 Range complex
00:20:52 7.1 Ames Vertical Gun Range
00:23:02 7.2 Hypervelocity Free-Flight Range
00:26:09 7.3 Electric Arc Shock Tube
00:27:19 8 United States Geological Survey (USGS)
00:28:16 9 Education
00:28:26 9.1 NASA Ames Exploration Center
00:29:16 9.2 Robotics Alliance Project
00:30:55 10 Recent events
00:33:03 11 Public-private partnerships
00:34:15 11.1 Google
00:36:37 12 Living and working at Ames
00:37:10 13 See also
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio:
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Speaking Rate: 0.9087873371011658
Voice name: en-US-Wavenet-B
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
=======
The Ames Research Center (ARC), also known as NASA Ames, is a major NASA research center at Moffett Federal Airfield in California's Silicon Valley. It was founded in 1939 as the second National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) laboratory. That agency was dissolved and its assets and personnel transferred to the newly created National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on October 1, 1958. NASA Ames is named in honor of Joseph Sweetman Ames, a physicist and one of the founding members of NACA. At last estimate NASA Ames has over US$3 billion in capital equipment, 2,300 research personnel and a US$860 million annual budget.
Ames was founded to conduct wind-tunnel research on the aerodynamics of propeller-driven aircraft; however, its role has expanded to encompass spaceflight and information technology. Ames plays a role in many NASA missions. It provides leadership in astrobiology; small satellites; robotic lunar exploration; the search for habitable planets; supercomputing; intelligent/adaptive systems; advanced thermal protection; and airborne astronomy. Ames also develops tools for a safer, more efficient national airspace. The center's current director is Eugene Tu.The site is mission center for several key current missions (Kepler, the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission, Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph) and a major contributor to the new exploration focus as a participant in the Orion crew exploration vehicle.
Twitter | Wikipedia audio article
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Twitter
00:01:44 1 History
00:01:53 1.1 Creation and initial reaction
00:06:26 1.2 Growth
00:09:37 1.2.1 2011–2014
00:13:39 1.2.2 2015 and slow growth
00:14:41 1.2.3 Initial public offering (IPO)
00:17:23 2 Leadership
00:20:10 3 Appearance and features
00:20:20 3.1 Logo
00:21:50 3.2 Font
00:22:09 3.3 Tweets
00:24:20 3.3.1 Content
00:25:39 3.3.2 Format
00:28:19 3.3.3 Trending topics
00:29:46 3.4 Adding and following content
00:30:19 3.5 Verified accounts
00:32:08 3.6 Mobile
00:32:46 3.7 Third-party applications
00:33:20 3.8 Related headlines feature
00:33:50 3.9 Polls
00:34:09 3.10 Streaming video
00:36:09 4 Usage
00:37:29 4.1 Demographics
00:40:28 5 Finances
00:41:01 5.1 Funding
00:43:12 5.2 Revenue sources
00:46:00 6 Technology
00:46:09 6.1 Implementation
00:48:36 6.2 Interface
00:49:30 6.3 Outages
00:50:12 6.4 Privacy, security, and harassment
00:59:30 6.5 Open source
01:00:26 6.6 Innovators patent agreement
01:00:50 6.7 URL shortener
01:01:53 6.8 Integrated photo-sharing service
01:02:30 6.9 Twitterbots
01:03:12 7 Developers
01:06:11 8 Society
01:06:20 8.1 Issues and controversies
01:11:57 8.2 Censorship
01:12:51 8.2.1 Trending topics
01:13:28 8.2.2 Trust & Safety Council
01:13:50 8.3 Impact
01:13:58 8.3.1 Instant, short, and frequent communication
01:14:43 8.3.2 Emergency use
01:15:27 8.3.3 Education
01:17:48 8.3.4 Public figures
01:20:56 8.3.5 World leaders
01:24:10 8.3.6 Religion
01:25:00 8.3.7 Twitterbot effect
01:27:52 8.4 GCHQ
01:28:21 9 Television
01:32:48 10 Statistics
01:32:57 10.1 User accounts with large follower base
01:33:13 10.2 Oldest accounts
01:33:37 10.3 Record tweets
01:36:20 11 See also
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
You can find other Wikipedia audio articles too at:
You can upload your own Wikipedia articles through:
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Twitter, Inc. () is an American online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as tweets. Tweets were originally restricted to 140 characters, but on November 7, 2017, this limit was doubled for all languages except Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Registered users can post, like, and retweet tweets, but unregistered users can only read them. Users access Twitter through its website interface, through Short Message Service (SMS) or its mobile-device application software (app). Twitter, Inc. is based in San Francisco, California, and has more than 25 offices around the world.Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams and launched in July of that year. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity. In 2012, more than 100 million users posted 340 million tweets a day, and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion search queries per day. In 2013, it was one of the ten most-visited websites and has been described as the SMS of the Internet. As of 2016, Twitter had more than 319 million monthly active users. Since 2015, and continuing into 2016 and future years, Twitter has also been the home of debates, and news covering Politics of the United States, especially during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court Nomination, and 2018 United States Midterms, with Twitter proved to be the largest source of breaking news on the day of the 2016 election, with 40 million election-related tweets sent by 10:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) that day.