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Test Gods: Tragedy and Triumph in the New Space Race
Brought to you by Penguin. Meet the astronauts leading the way to a new world of space travel. 'An instant classic.' SCOTT KELLY, astronaut and author of Endurance 'Adventure in its purest form - rich with risk, courage and friendships.' BEAR GRYLLS 'So exciting. A new generation with The Right Stuff.' DAN SNOW When Richard Branson founded Virgin Galactic in 2004, his goal was simple: to offer paying customers a trip to space by the end of the decade. Seventeen years, countless delays, and one catastrophic crash later, his space tourism dream may finally be on the verge of becoming a reality. New Yorker journalist Nicholas Schmidle knows that story intimately. He spent nearly four years embedded with Virgin Galactic at its California hangar, meeting the individuals working to make commercial space travel possible. Now, Schmidle offers the definitive account of life inside the new space race. Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews with Virgin's lead test pilot, Mark Stucky, Test Gods describes the making of a modern astronaut. Schmidle recounts Stucky's life - from starry-eyed youth to NASA, the Air Force, and Virgin Galactic; and through dozens of gruelling test flights to his first successful trip beyond the earth's atmosphere. Along the way, we meet the colourful cast of engineers, executives and mechanics battling to take Virgin to space. There's Branson, who emerges as an excitable if overoptimistic evangelist for commercial space travel. There's Mike Moses, Virgin Galactic's grounded, unflappable president. And there's Mike Alsbury, the pilot whose momentary miscalculation sends his aircraft crashing into the Mojave Desert - making him one of the first casualties of the new space race. The result is a compelling examination of the inner lives of a new generation of astronauts. Theirs is a world where the line between lunacy and genius is blurred, and where no sacrifice is too great in pursuit of the dream of space travel. 'If you want to know what being a test pilot truly looks and feels and even smells like, read this riveting book. Schmidle has done something remarkable, capturing all the visceral grit we experience inside the cockpit, in addition to all the tragedies and triumphs that we encounter along the way. This is the book about the new space race you've been waiting to read.' SCOTT KELLY, astronaut and author of Endurance 'A hurtling narrative about the test pilots of the Virgin Galactic space program, Test Gods is a hugely ambitious feat of reporting and storytelling and a fitting twenty-first-century sequel to The Right Stuff. Schmidle captures not just the technical wizardry of the spaceships and the envelope-pushing prowess of the pilots, but also the very real costs, for the pilots and their families, of reaching for something beyond this world.' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, author of Say Nothing © Nicholas Schmidle 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Nicholas Schmidle (Author), Nicholas Schmidle (Narrator)
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Tesla oder: Wie Elon Musk die Elektromobilität revolutioniert
Was macht eigentlich Tesla? So richtig weiß das niemand. Manche vermuten eine riesige Luftnummer hinter Elon Musks Unternehmen und andere trauen dem Autohersteller eine Revolution zu. Und nicht nur eine: Elektromobilität, Batteriefertigung, Autonomes Fahren und Erneuerbare Energie. Denn Tesla ist mehr als ein Autohersteller. Elon Musk hat das Ziel mit dem Unternehmen die ganze Welt zu revolutionieren. Er will so viele Solarzellen, Batterien und Elektroautos herstellen, damit die Erde ganz ohne fossile Brennstoffe auskommt. Wie er das plant und warum Tesla-Fahrzeuge so besonders sind, wird in diesem Hörbuch mit verblüffenden Fakten belegt.
Christoph Krachten (Author), Christoph Krachten (Narrator)
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TESLA CYBERTRUCK HUGE UPDATES AND INSANE FEATURES: Welcome to our top stories of the day and everyth
ELON MUSK DAILY NEWS TESLA CYBERTRUCK HUGE UPDATES AND INSANE FEATURES Welcome to our top stories of the day and everything that involves 'Elon Musk'', brought to you by Elon Musk daily news. Subjects include Tesla motors, SpaceX, Starlink, the Boring Company, Solar City, Tesla Power Wall Tech, Neuralink, DeepMind, Hyperloop, X.com, Cryptocurrency, and much more.
Maurice Rosete (Author), Maurice Rosete (Narrator)
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Teoría de vuelo por instrumentos
Llevar a cabo un exitoso vuelo por instrumentos no sólo requiere las habilidades técnicas y operativas para maniobrar una aeronave en condiciones de visibilidad reducida o meteorología adversa, sino que requiere un conjunto de conocimientos teóricos y técnicas de vuelo que ayudan a minimizar el margen de error e intentan garantizar el éxito de un vuelo instrumental. En esta nueva entrega de la biblioteca aeronáutica más exitosa de América intentaremos abarcar todos los contenidos teóricos y técnicas operativas para dotar a cada lector de las herramientas necesarias con las que pueda desarrollar un vuelo instrumental seguro y eficiente. Fisiología de vuelo, conceptos teóricos básicos y operativos de vuelos instrumentales, conceptos básicos reglamentarios y toda una serie de técnicas recomendadas para llevar adelante esta clase de vuelos sin perder de vista el objetivo principal, operar el avión de forma segura. Teoría de vuelo por instrumentos es una de las principales asignaturas de la carrera de piloto comercial ya que forma uno de los pilares más sólidos que debe tener un piloto en formación.
Facundo Conforti (Author), Amelia (Narrator)
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Tensor Technology Guide: Tensor Ring Benefits and Uses
I wrote this simple book for explaining the Tensor effects on the Human DNA for educational purposes. This book is formatted for you to learn easily and implement these instructions for your own daily rejuvenation thru the tensor technology. With my own experience I have been able to increase my DNA Conductivity thru ought my body and thus awakening my senses to a much higher level. I want you to embrace this healing technology as I did and increase your daily functions.
Teal Kimball (Author), Teal Kimball (Narrator)
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Ten Survival Skills for a World in Flux
‘Original and thought provoking’ Gordon Brown ‘Challenging and hopeful: a groundbreaking guide to the future’ Valerie Amos To thrive in the twenty-first century, we all need to understand the challenges coming our way. And start adapting, now. We all know there are major, overlapping, global crises ahead of humanity: climate change, mass migration, new warfare, big tech, further pandemics, authoritarian capitalism. Rather than be daunted, this book charts a way that we can respond. With expertise from his work at the highest levels of international politics, education, activism and business, Tom Fletcher offers a practical manifesto that can help us transform the way we learn, live, and work together. Amongst its key survival skills, this book offers ideas on how we renew education, restore society and reimagine the future. It helps us chart a course to take back control, to find purpose, and to become better ancestors. It helps us to learn the language of technology – without thinking like computers. It offers 39 steps that each of us can start to take today to boost our survivability. Vital, practical and accessible, this is a book about how we can anticipate the threats and opportunities of tomorrow and be ready for them – individually and collectively.
Tom Fletcher (Author), Tom Fletcher (Narrator)
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Ten Hours Until Dawn: The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do
During the blizzard of 1978, a tanker floundered on the shoals off the Massachusetts coast. The Coast Guard dispatched a patrol boat that was soon in trouble, too. A pilot-boat captain, Frank Quirk, heard of the Coast Guard's plight on his radio. He gathered his crew of four, readied his forty-nine-foot steel boat, the Can Do, and entered the maelstrom of the blizzard soon to be known as the Storm of the Century. Encountering one of the most monstrous seas ever recorded, Quirk struggled through the night to keep his boat from sinking, maintaining contact through his hand-held battery-powered radio. The Can Do stayed afloat past three a.m. Then there was silence. Through dozens of interviews and radio communications-actual recordings included here-the author provides a devastating, true account of bravery and death at sea. "[A] thundering good sea story, chockfull of drama and real-life nautical details."-Kliatt
Michael J. Tougias (Author), Joe Barrett (Narrator)
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Ten Hours until Dawn: The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy aboard the Can Do
During the height of the blizzard of 1978, a tanker foundered on the shoals off the Massachusetts coast. The Coast Guard dispatched a patrol boat that was soon in trouble, too. A pilot-boat captain, Frank Quirk, heard of the Coast Guard’s plight on his radio. He gathered his crew of four, readied his forty-nine-foot steel boat, the Can Do, and entered the maelstrom of the blizzard soon to be known as the Storm of the Century. Encountering one of the most monstrous seas ever recorded, Quirk struggled through the night to keep his boat from sinking, maintaining contact through his hand-held battery-powered radio. The Can Do stayed afloat past three a.m. Then there was silence. Through dozens of interviews as well as recordings of the radio communications exchanged between Quirk and the Coast Guard—actual recordings included here in this audiobook—Michael J. Tougias provides us a devastating, true account of bravery and death at sea.
Michael J. Tougias (Author), Joe Barrett (Narrator)
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Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World
The computer age is over. After a global run of thirty years, it has given birth to the age of the telecosm'the world enabled and defined by new communications technology. To seek the key to great wealth and to understand the bewildering ways that high tech is restructuring our lives, look not to chip speed but to bandwidth. Bandwidth is exploding, and its abundance is the most important social and economic fact of our time. George Gilder is one of the great technological visionaries, famous for understanding and predicting complex technologies as well as for putting it all together in a soaring view of why things change and what it means for our daily lives. He foresaw the power of fiber optics and wireless networks, the decline of the telephone regime, and the explosion of handheld computers; now, he brings you the bible of the new age of communications. 'This is indispensable listening for people touched in any way by the communications revolution. Jeff Riggenbach's reading is both intense and understated'.''AudioFile
George Gilder (Author), Jeff Riggenbach (Narrator)
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Tecnologias habilitadoras da Indústria 4.0 aplicadas para melhoria da segurança do trabalho na const
O trabalho tem por objetivo identificar como as tecnologias habilitadoras da Indústria 4.0 podem ser aplicadas para melhoria da segurança do trabalho na construção civil, uma vez que as empresas desse setor estão buscando aprimorar e desenvolver os trabalhos para diminuir os riscos e acidentes. A metodologia foi desenvolvida com embasamento na revisão da literatura referente ao tema e em pesquisa de campo, sendo que a coleta de dados se deu por meio de entrevista de especialistas com 8 profissionais do setor da construção civil, por meio da aplicação de um questionário em escala Likert de 5 pontos, para identificação da possibilidade de melhoria da segurança do trabalho na construção civil, através das tecnologias da Indústria 4.0. Os resultados desta pesquisa apontaram que as principais tecnologias elencadas para tal melhoria foram: (1º) impressora 3D e o drone, (2º) realidade aumentada e sensores vestíveis, (3º) colete de segurança, (4º) realidade virtual, (5º) exoesqueleto biônico, (6º) BIM, RFID, capacete com sensores e capacetes inteligentes, (7º) Internet das coisas e, por fim, (8º) caminhão betoneira. A contribuição deste trabalho se dá pela apresentação de tecnologias da Indústria 4.0 que podem maximizar a segurança na indústria da construção civil, mitigando os acidentes de trabalho, colaborando assim para a gestão da tecnologia e inovação.
Gilberto Gomes Soares Júnior (Author), Voz Sintética (Narrator)
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Tecnologia versus Humanidade: O confronto futuro entre a Máquina e o Homem
De que lado está? - Novo manifesto provocador de Gerd Leonhard - Futurista Leonhard volta a abrir novos caminhos ao juntar o desejo da humanidade atualizar e automatizar tudo – até à própria biologia humana – com a nossa busca intemporal de liberdade e felicidade. Antes que seja demasiado tarde, temos de parar e fazer as perguntas importantes: Como adotamos a tecnologia sem nos tornarmos nela? Quando acontecer – gradual e, depois, subitamente – a era das máquinas vai criar o maior ponto de viragem na vida humana na Terra. Tecnologias vs. Humanidade é apenas um dos mais recentes mapas morais que encontramos enquanto a humanidade entra no Parque Jurássico da Grande Tecnologia. Inteligência artificial. Informática cognitiva. A Singularidade. Obesidade digital. Comida impressa. A Internet das Coisas. A morte da privacidade. O fim do trabalho-como-o-conhecemos e longevidade radical: o confronto iminente entre tecnologia e humanidade já se está a apressar na nossa direção. Que valores morais está preparado para defender – antes de o sentido de 'ser humano' mudar para sempre? Você pode verificar a edição original em inglês e os comentários em sua loja Amazon, bem como outras versões em diferentes idiomas.
Gerd Leonhard (Author), Luis Matias (Narrator)
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Technology Touchpoints: Parenting in the Digital Dystopia
This is a story about a family coming of age at the same time as smartphones and social media; a multiracial family coming into its own as windows into social injustice opened up before our very screens; and a multi-parent multi-professional family with children living differently depending on which house and which combination of family members happen to be home. While it is a story about a family, it is really the story of technological and global changes unfolding on our doorsteps. While many revile the ascendance of smartphones and social media and the way they suck us into the vortex of cyberspace, there are cultural touchpoints that reflect deeper human and technology development patterns, patterns which we would all do well to understand, no matter whether or how we choose to engage in the ever-innovating digital frontiers. Informed by research and interviews with leaders in policy, human development, ethics, and technology, Loretta Brady helps listeners understand the complex systemic challenges and findings related to technology and human development. We do not have to hate or fear technology. It is neither friend nor foe. But understanding its impact on our daily lives is paramount to cultivating a healthier relationship both with our digital lives and our real, lived ones.
Loretta L. C. Brady Phd Mac, Phd Mac Loretta L. C. Brady (Author), Allyson Johnson (Narrator)
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