Hawking backs interstellar travel project (BBC news) >>> Watch it on CBS news
14 April 1961: Yuri Gagarin comes back down to earth (The Guardian)
However, if we ever take this decision to send a spaceship into space, scientists will have to bear this in mind:
Space debris collisions expected to rise (BBC news)
1957: Sputnik satellite blasts into space (BBC news)
So we will have to start 'cleaning up the space' (listening exercise, 6 Minute English, BBC)
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First, I'm going to talk about Stephen Hawking. Hawking is an English theoretical physicist cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theorethical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge. He has a rare early-onset, slow-progressing form of amytrophic lateral sclerosis. Actaylly, he can only move his eyes and he talks through a computer.
ResponderEliminarStephen Hawking is backing a project by Yuri Milner, who is a billonaire, supported by Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg. The project is to send tiny spacecraft to another star system within a generation.
But why do they want to do this?
Astronmers believe that there is a reasonable chance of a planet like the Earth orbiting one of the stars in the Alpha Centauri System.
The organisation 'Mr Milner's Break through Foundation' has brouht together a group of scientists to ask them if it might be possible to develop spaceships capable of travellibg to another star. They say that the nearest star system is 40 trillion km far away, so using current technology it would take about 30,000 years to get there, but they also say that with a little more research and development it might be possible to get there in only 30 years.
First, I'm going to talk about Stephen Hawking. Hawking is an English theoretical physicist cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theorethical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge. He has a rare early-onset, slow-progressing form of amytrophic lateral sclerosis. Nowadays, he can only move his eyes and he talks through a computer.
ResponderEliminarStephen Hawking is backing a project by Yuri Milner, who is a billonaire, supported by Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg. The project is to send tiny spacecraft to another star system within a generation.
But why do they want to do this?
Astronomers believe that there is a reasonable chance of a planet like the Earth orbiting one of the stars in the Alpha Centauri System.
The organisation 'Mr Milner's Break through Foundation' has brought together a group of scientists to ask them if it might be possible to develop spaceships capable of travelling to another star. They say that the nearest star system is 40 trillion km far away, so using current technology it would take about 30,000 years to get there, but they also say that with a little more research and development it might be possible to get there in only 30 years.
Stephen Hawking is a British theoretical physicist who was born in Oxford in 1942. He suffers a degenerative disease that imposes physical disabilities and progressive limitations, however, he is one of the most famous physicist in the world.
ResponderEliminarStephen Hawking wants to support a project which consist to send small spaceships to other solar systems and to realize interstellar trips, to make it possible, it is necessary to build spaceships that will travel trillions of kilometres.
This project was launched by Yuri Milner, because scientists say that it might be another planet very similar to the Earth near one star of the Alpha Centaury system.
Who is Yuri Gagarin? Yuri Gagarin is a Soviet cosmonaut who was the first person in the world that reached the outer space, it happened the 14th, April, 1961. This day, he was thrown on board of the spaceship Vostok I, which took him to distances between the 180 and 327 km from the terrestrial surface.
ResponderEliminarStephen William Hawking was a British theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, cosmologist, and scientific popularizer. His most important works consisted of providing, together with Roger Penrose, theorems regarding spatio-temporal singularities within the framework of general relativity and the theoretical prediction that black holes would emit radiation, what is known today as Hawking radiation . One of the main characteristics of his personality was his contribution to the scientific debate, sometimes betting publicly with other scientists, the best known case is his participation in the discussion about the conservation of information in black holes.
He was a member of the Royal Society of London, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and the United States National Academy of Sciences. He was holder of the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge from 1979 until his retirement in 2009.
Among the numerous distinctions that were awarded to him, he received twelve honorary doctorates and was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1982, the Prince of Asturias Award for Concord in 1989, the Copley Medal in 2006, the Medal of Freedom in 2009 And the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in 2015.
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