Team SpaceIL is a private non-profit venture competing in the Google Lunar X Prize (an unmanned private r...ace to the moon). We believe that a victorious participation in this competition is a national mission that will promote scientific awareness amongst Israeli youth, as well as develop the Israeli space industry -- a key element in Israel’s economy and national security. The American space program sparked the imagination of an entire generation in the U.S. We hope that our project will inspire Israeli children in a similar way. Our goal is to win the competition in order to direct the...
The universe's size and versatility suggest that the probability of life out there is 1. So where is everyone? The presentation will suggest that advanced ET civilizations are aware that their introduction would, as
Winston Churchill himself put it, (in an official released document of the UK Government), cause the "collapse of the religious structure." Yet they are here, now, in this specific point in humanity's evolution (the first
steps of the acquisition of technology), to gradually present themselves. The brilliance of their introduction is that they do it very slowly, in a measured...
The Cassini mission to Titan has unveiled a world that experiences surface temperatures about 200 degrees colder than Earth’s, receives 100 times less sunlight, where hydrocarbon molecules rain from the sky and water ice is as hard as rock. But for all of its strange thermosphysical and chemical state, Titan exhibits landforms remarkably familiar to our own: extensive dunes in the dry regions, braided channel networks draining from mountains to large basins, and perhaps most astonishingly, large seas and lakes in the high latitudes filled with liquid methane and ethane. This presentation will...
