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Planned Obsolescence is Bad For The Environment And Your Wallet Too!

Lead Image: Background of damaged mobile phones. Karen Poghosyan/iStock Ever noticed how products today don’t seem to last as long as they used to? Does your cellphone’s battery seem to give up the ghost after only a few years? Or is your computer’s hardware just not cutting it anymore for the latest games? You may be the victim of something called planned obsolescence. Unfamiliar with the term? Let us introduce you to the concept and offer some solutions. What Exactly is Planned Obsolescence? There are three main types of obsolescence. Absolute obsolescence is the term for when a product no longer functions for objective…

The Art of Becoming a Multi-Planetary Species: Could Humans Live on Saturn’s Moons?

Today, we look at Saturn’s largest moons, which many consider to be the most likely place to find extraterrestrial life and a prime location for human settlement. We know about this system from many decades of robotic explorers, the most recent of which was the Cassini-Huygens mission. Between 2004 and 2017, this mission studied Saturn, its ring system, and its moons extensively. What was especially interesting was what the mission revealed about two of Saturn’s moons – Titan and Enceladus. Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is the only body in the Solar System beyond Earth with a dense nitrogen-rich atmosphere. Its…

SpaceX Launches 2,500th Starlink Satellite in Third Back-to-Back Mission

Lead Image: At 5:42 a.m. EDT Friday, June 29, 2018, SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft lifts off on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Dragon is carrying more than 5,900 pounds of research, equipment, cargo and supplies that will support dozens of scientific investigations aboard the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Ricky Arnold and Drew Feustel will use the space station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm to capture Dragon when it arrives at the station on Monday, July 2. Image Credit: SpaceX SpaceX launched its third back-to-back Starlink mission in barely a fortnight…

Rikhter R-23: The cannon the Soviet Union sent into space

Lead Image: The world’s first manned space rocket at an exhibition in Moscow city, Russia. Image Credit: Armastas/iStock In the mid-1970s, the Soviet Union became the first, and to date, only nation, to have actually fired a cannon in space. Mounted on a space station, the actual details of the endeavor have remained secret for over forty years until now. Let’s take a look at this historic event. Did the Soviets really install a working cannon on a space station? In short, yes they did. Called the R-23M, the cannon was installed and tested on the Almaz space station in the 1970s.…

The Use of Digital Marketing in the Gaming Industry

In this day and age, it’s hard to find an industry that hasn’t been affected by digital marketing. The gaming industry is no exception, with marketing efforts becoming more and more sophisticated as the years go on. Whether you’re a gamer yourself or just someone interested in the industry, it’s worth looking at how digital marketing is used in the gaming world. This blog post will explore some of the most common techniques used in gaming marketing and discuss how they’ve evolved over time. We’ll also look at some of the challenges that marketers face when targeting gamers. By understanding…