Mission Control: NASA’s Quest to Establish a Lunar Time Standard at the White House’s Request
The White House Initiative for Coordinated Lunar Time
The White House has directed NASA to establish a unified standard of time for the moon and other celestial bodies, aiming to set international norms in space amidst a growing lunar race among nations and private companies.
The head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has instructed NASA to collaborate with other U.S. government entities to develop a plan by the end of 2026 for implementing a Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC).
Due to varying gravitational forces and other factors, time unfolds differently on the moon and other celestial bodies compared to Earth. The LTC would serve as a time-keeping benchmark for lunar spacecraft and satellites that require precise timing for
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Mission Control: NASA’s Quest to Establish a Lunar Time Standard at the White House’s Request
Brandan Fraser, best actor and ‘The Daniels’ won the Oscar for Direction
“Naatu Naatu”, Oscar for Best Song.
Brendan Fraser won the Oscar for best actor tonight for his role as a morbidly obese English teacher in Darren Aronofsky’s film “The Whale.”
For their part, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, known as “The Daniels”, won their first Oscar in the best direction category for their work on “Everything Everywere All at Once”, an award for which Steven Spielberg was also a favorite. .
Meanwhile, “Naatu Naatu”, the famous song from the movie “RRR” that has gone viral on social networks, won the Oscar for best song tonight, becoming the first Indian composition to do so.
The composer MM Keeravaani and the author of the lyrics of
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Brandan Fraser, best actor and ‘The Daniels’ won the Oscar for Direction
Artist Levi van Veluw is renovating Singer Laren: ‘We cover the chic hardwood floor with 15,000 kilos of marbled clay’
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Sunday March 17
There is no art without context
Around 7 a.m. I drive into the deserted storage area. Here are hundreds of bulkheads, glass plates, painted balls, bags of coal and more than 1,500 replicas of my own head. Today everything is transported in four large trucks.
There is a washing machine workshop in the front part of the storage. Two men work continuously on repairing washing machines. When I walk by I think back to my childhood and to our garden full of dishwashers, refrigerators and freezers. The place where we played endless hide-and-seek among the stacked white goods.
While my father isolated himself in his workshop for days and dealt with repairs and collecting invoices, we set our own rules. I realize that the urge for a liberal profession was probably formed at this young age.
A visit to the storage facility is always accompanied by mixed feelings. On the one hand it brings back memories of my youth and on the other hand it brings art back to absolute zero. Because what is actually left of art when you strip it of its context? In this dreary barn I need all my imagination.
Monday March 18
The reunion
Today felt like a twelve hour episode of The reunion. Everyone was there. All nice people I have worked with over the past fifteen years, bam, all at once in Laren.
It is uncomfortable for a moment, but soon the stories start about France, where we filled a centuries-old period room in a chateau with 5,000 liters of black water. How everyone lay awake at night thinking that a single mistake could destr
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Tennis: seven match points saved, the heroic victory of Pierre-Hugues Herbert in Naples
Pierre-Hugues Herbert treated himself to a nice thrill this Monday on the clay court of Naples. In the first round of the Challenger, the Alsatian saved seven match points in his duel against the Italian Raul Brancaccio before finally turning the tide in three sets and a bubble in the las
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Tennis: seven match points saved, the heroic victory of Pierre-Hugues Herbert in Naples
Pohlreich was completely burned out. First he solves a big problem, Nova celebrates
Always betting on one card may not be profitable. Currently Prima TV, which is facing a series of failures, is bitterly convinced of this and hopes that the renewed collaboration with the famous chef Zdenek Pohlreich will win back some of its viewers.
Pohlreich’s biggest flop
Nothing could be further from the truth, and another saying out of two doing the same thing isn’t always the same thing. This time Prima bet on an apparent certainty, or rather several times as much. His new program Grilled Czech Republic is more or less inspired by the format of the very popular Masterchef, but also focuses on barbecues, which are so popular in the Czech Republic. Furthermore, he is protected by Zdeněk Pohlreich, much loved by the Czech public.
On paper it seems like a project destined to attract an audience of millions of people. Anything less than that should be considered a failure, especially when you put a show like that in the most profitable time slot, eight o’clock on a Saturday night.
And how did it end? The world is surprised, but it is an absolute flop, which the history of television barely remembers. Already the first episode of the program Czech Republic on the Grill, which Prima strongly attracted in the advertising campaign and in which viewers were supposed to familiarize themselves with the new format, showed that something was wrong here. Only 333,000 viewers over the age of 15 watched it.
First he failed again
If anyone was hoping that this issue would lead the show to a better tomorrow, they were disappointed this weekend. It obviously didn’t impress audiences and only 196,000 watched the second episode. Now the show can be expecte
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Pohlreich was completely burned out. First he solves a big problem, Nova celebrates
Balachandra Menon’s Note: The Answer is Blessing!
Kochi: ‘Most of you are right. Balachandran Menon says the answer is Blessing. Late actor and director Balachandra Menon shared a note on Facebook that got a lot of attention. Menon’s note was shared when he was the chief guest at an inter-collegiate drama competition years ago, presenting a trophy to the winner of the competition. Balachandra Menon also said that the student who took the gift from his hand is a well-known artist today. Balachandra Menon thanked everyone who responded enthusiastically to
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Ayvens, the new global brand of sustainable mobility, arrives in Italy
ROME – Ayvens, a global sustainable mobility brand, was born from the acquisition of LeasePlan by Ald Automotive, with the aim of redesigning and improving future mobility towards zero emissions and also establishing the digital transformation of the sector. The new brand aims to strengthen the competitiveness and positioning of the two companies, present on the market for over forty years, ensuring sustainable growth thanks to a leadership position.
Within the Group, Ayvens represents a strategic milestone in development and will be
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Ayvens, the new global brand of sustainable mobility, arrives in Italy
The poet refused the presidential scholarship
– 2024-04-04 15:57:25
Alasgar Ahmed
I refuse the presidential scholarship.
Pathetic.
Recently, I was awarded a presidential scholarship by the Azerbaijan Writers Union. At first, you were thinking of accepting, because the financial situation of an Azerbaijani poet is not very good, not at all. However, my style of writing does not allow this. My wallet may run to 200 manats, but my
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Taobuk, also the American writer Glenn Cooper this year in Taormina
The American writer Glenn Cooperthe star of La Scala Nicoletta Manni and the director and creator of Momix, Moses Pendleton they join the over 200 international guests – writers, artists, scientists, intellectuals, politicians and economists – who will enliven the program of the 14th edition of Taobuk, the international literary festival directed by Antonella Ferrara which will be held in Taormina from 20 to 24 June and dedicated this year to the theme of identity. Registration opens today on the official website of the event to attend the evening of Saturday 22nd June, Taobuk Gala, at the Teatro Antico in Taormina, an evening which will then be broadcast on Rai 1 on Monday 8th July. Entrance is free while places last.
Glenn Cooper, author of world bestsellers, almost 4 million copies sold in our country alone, therefore chooses Taobuk to return to Italy after 6 years of absence and kick off the tour for the launch of his new and highly anticipated novel The last conclave out June 1
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Taobuk, also the American writer Glenn Cooper this year in Taormina
Athens and Epidaurus Festival: 93 productions are coming
2024-04-04 02:23:35
“Our performances this year have a political orientation, in the sense that they focus on the challenges of coexistence in modern societies: the demand for Democracy, justice and inclusion, as well as the imperative need for civic participation.
This thread runs through our programming from “Piraeus 260” to Herodeion and the ancient theaters of Epidaurus.
In the program of “Piraeus 260” we have selected performances that, through different stage languages, answer the double question “How to live our lives?” How can we endure our lives?’
The program of the Athens-Epidavros Festival was announced yesterday, which this year, in 85 days, presents 93 productions with the participation of 2,500 performers from every corner of the Earth, as is typically reported.
Featuring Dionysis Savvopoulos, Tania Tsanaklidou, Leonidas Kavakos, Yo-Yo Ma, Charles Lloyd, as well as Simon Stone, Christoph Warlikowski, Timofey Kouliabin, Comedie Française and Thiago Rodriguez, this year’s performances organizers “touch on issues of identity, investigate the impact of technology on our daily lives with the development of Artificial Intelligence, talk about the feeling of isolation in a world where the citizen feels inhospitable, but also about moments of bliss that coexistence gives”, as he emphasizes the artistic director, Katerina Evagelatou, in her note. Information and ticket presale: aefestival.gr.
CONCERTS, DANCE AND OPERA AT THE HERODEIUM
13/6: Anohni and the Johnsons with her latest album ‘My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross’.
15/6: Emanouel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos, Yo-Yo Ma in works by Beethoven.
17/6: A Century of Mimis Plessas with Giorgos Hatzinassios, Stefanos Korkolis, the ERT Contemporary Music Orchestra under the musical direction of Giorgos Aravidis et al.
18/6: The Philarmonia Orchestra of London in works by Glinka, Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky.
21/6: World Music Day with the National Symphony Orchestra of ERT under the direction of Michalis Oikonomou.
25/6: Choreographer Anne-Teresa de Keersmacher with her team Rosas presents “Exit Above”.
26/6: Lorina McKennitt on 30 years of her album “The mask and the mirror”.
28/6: The State Orchestra of Athens presents Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony conducted by Neeme Järvi.
5/7: Sting sings his hits with Giordana Angi.
8-9/7: Dionysis Savvopoulos celebrates the 50th anniversary of the restoration of the Republic with “Our Transformation” and distinguished guests such as Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Dimitra Galani, Christos Thivaios, Manolis Mitsias, Panos Mouzourakis, Gior
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