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The best deals on amazon black Friday
By: Muhammad Saleh
Tags: Amazon, Promotion, Discount, Black Friday, Coupon

Black Friday refers to the day after the U.S thanksgiving holiday, traditionally which has been a holiday itself for many employees. It is a day full of deals, sales, and heavy discounts and is seen as the start of critical holiday shopping seasonally.

Black Friday provides excellent opportunities to buy and save on all your holiday gifts before the last-minute rush.

It’s nearly guaranteed that you’ll get a great discount on certain products during black Friday.

If you go in knowing what you’re looking for, you’re less likely to be ripped off by fancy-looking coupons or to spend money on products you don’t need.

During the event, prices will drop to all-time lows, often beating out prices we see over the course of the year.

What’s the Best Way to Find Amazon Black Friday Deals?

You might be wondering how to locate these savings because Amazon doesn’t offer all of its deals in a conventional Black Friday ad. You may search the Amazon website in addition to checking our website couponsvilla for the greatest deals. You may also receive early access to several of these Christmas deals if you’re a Prime Member.

Shein discount offer on amazon:

Shein is the world's best famous brand, which offers their free coupons on Couponsvilla. Shein also offers great deals on amazon this black Friday so keep ready and enjoy the fun of shopping with free coupons from Amazon.
The Perennial City Super Discount Hack
By: Timothy Kiefer
Tags: Home Composting, Perennial City, St Louis Composting, Discount, St Louis

The Perennial City Super Discount Hack

Perennial City is proud to offer the best value we’ve heard of in this budding compost concierge field. When members commit to a 6-month subscription, at $5 per week of pickup it is less than half the cost of home compost services around the country.

As things got topsy-turvy in the world since early 2020, and the price of everything shot through the roof, we got creative and our members stayed flexible, managing to not only keep rates low but even add more service. Over the past year, we built The Market, allowing our subscribers to order the best food and goods from dozens of local farms and artisans, conveniently dropped off with their visit for no additional delivery charge. This helped put wheels on our mission of growing the local food web!

Do you offer discounts?

Beyond new member promo codes floating around, we’ve previously needed to respond that the 6 month subscription is the best discount we’re able to offer.

And then, like most of “our” brilliant ideas, our members taught us a great little hack.

We offer special double bucket option to meet the needs of homes that compost a lot, for an extra $2.50 per bucket each week. Beyond big households that love to cook, we’ve discovered that folks have also been signing up for a second bucket so that their friend or family member outside of our service area could piggy back on their subscription.

The Buddy System Makes Life Better (and composting even more affordable)

So, if friends split a double bucket subscription, it comes out to $15 each per month — hot diggity!

How to pull this off

Find a friend who would also love to keep the good stuff out of the landfill and grow the local food web. (If you don’t have one, you’ll need to find one — and you get a friend by being a friend🥰) With an active subscription, sign in to your account, and click on the Subscriptions tab. Click the “Change” button and you’ll find the extra special double bucket option.

* Any balance on a current subscription will automatically be prorated and applied to your upgrade.

Important notes

You’ll have one single account, so there will be the business of reimbursing the pal making the payments (which is what Cash App is for!)

Your courier will be picking up and delivering to a single address.

You may find your new favorite friendly pastime to be shopping sprees together in The Market.

We hope this clever idea helps save you some money and strengthen bonds!
New Udemy Course Released ! Microservices Architecture and Implementation on .NET
By: Mehmet Özkaya
Tags: Udemy, Discount, Aspnetcore, Microservices, Dotnet

Today, I’m very proud to announce the long-awaited release date of our New Udemy Course: “Microservices Architecture and Implementation on .NET”. As of now, you’ll finally be able to enroll in the course — where you’ll learn to using .net core in microservices world, understand how can used Asp.Net Web API, Docker, RabbitMQ, Ocelot API Gateway, MongoDB, Redis, SqlServer, Entity Framework Core, CQRS and Clean Architecture implementation, and develop real-world applications that make a difference!

Through 141 lectures and 13.5 hours worth of HD-quality content, you’re going to journey through some of the deepest depths of the microservices — experiencing all the development steps of run-aspnetcore-microservices repository on github. By the end of this journey, you’ll be able to confidently apply microservices architecture on your .net projects to develop with a wide perspective of tools. The course explained step by step developing aspnetrun microservices github repository with extensive explanations and details. This is a practical course which develops one by one and explains codes.

As a token of my appreciation for your support, I will also be offering a LIMITED BEST PRICE OFF DISCOUNT at the launch. This offer EXPIRES IN 30 DAYS. The amount of support we’ve received during the course’s development means the world to me, and I want this course to benefit my followers the most. So, if you plan on enrolling, make sure you take advantage of this offer before it’s discontinued!

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OR APPY BELOW COUPON :

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Below some useful links;

Check the Code on Github -> https://github.com/aspnetrun/run-aspnetcore-microservices

Check Explanation of this Microservices Repository on Medium -> https://medium.com/aspnetrun/microservices-architecture-on-net-3b4865eea03f

Thanks,
Get Discount Code for Surfshark — Presented by Alex Meyers
By: Adam Olivson
Tags: Cybersecurity, Discount, Coupon, Privacy, VPN

Alex Meyers is a well-known guy around Youtube. On his channel, you will find hilarious reviews of famous movies and TV shows. Alex Meyers creates stunning cartoons and uses them to review movies to make his videos more exciting and fun.

Alex Meyers Youtube

There are a lot of things that Alex cares about, from a good movie plot, not so cheesy romance story to cybersecurity. The last one might sound a little bit out of place, but since we usually watch all the movies on our own devices online, we need to care about how secure the internet is and how to make it better. One solution that Alex uses and recommends its viewers — VPN. I bet you already have heard about VPNs and how they can secure your data online, stop others monitoring you online, bypass geographical restrictions, unblock more content on streaming platforms, etc. Well, it does all those things, and this is why Alex Meyers recently partnered up with Surfshark VPN and presented a coupon code for their viewers.

Threats Online

How to get a VPN coupon code?

If you want to buy a VPN, you can use the coupon code for Surfshark that Alex Meyer presented in its videos. Just follow these steps, and you will get an 82% off Surfshark two year plan:

You will need to go to Surfshark websites, follow this link and press a button that invites you to buy Surfshark; You will see three different price plans, do not mind them but find a window below to insert the coupon code; Insert the coupon code alexvpn; When you enter the coupon code, you will see a new plan with an 82% discount; Create an account with your email; Continue the purchase and set up the VPN on any device you need.

Why Alex Meyers recommends Surfshark

Surfshark is a trusted VPN in the market because it ensures absolute anonymity and privacy for its’ users. They follow a strict no-logs policy, which means they do not know what their users are doing online and do not keep such information. They also use industry-leading encryption, secure protocols, and offer a built-in kill-switch, which ensures no data leaks if your VPN accidentally drops. Surfshark offers fast servers worldwide and specialized P2P servers for those who want to use torrents anonymously. They support an unlimited number of devices and are easy to use and set up on any device, from mobile phones to gaming consoles. Surfshark also offers such features as a built-in ad-blocker, GPS spoofing, 24/7 customer support, 30-day money-back guarantee.

Also, for an extra price, you can get their tools HackLock and BlindSearch.

HackLock and BlindSearch

Take back privacy online and enjoy the internet with no borders with Surfshark. To get the 82% discount follow this link.
Be A Voucher & Discount Queen: How To Get Money Off Literally Everything
Tags: Saving Money, Discount, Discount Vouchers, Saving Tips, Money

By Jess Commons

PHOTOGRAPHED BY KIERAN BOSWELL.

Did you know we’ve got a Money Diaries Facebook group?

What we didn’t expect when we set this group up was for it to turn into a one-stop-shop for millennials’ financial problems. You guys are so smart when it comes to money. From which ISA to get, to how to deal with a mortgage, to which debit card to use, there’s no question too small or too silly for the group to take on. So it’s no surprise that a 2019 study revealed that millennials are the thriftiest generation.

We’ve collated the best money-saving tips from the MD group so you can get money off everything. And we all love a good bargain, don’t we?

Cashback

For shopping online, buy via Avios or TopCashback, or similar. Also check for retailer offers on your debit and credit cards to earn cashback there. –Rowan

Corporate Discount FTW

If you work for a large company check if you have access to a discount scheme. I buy gift cards often for friends and family as gifts through the work discount portal and I get up to 12% off cards and vouchers that I use on top of sales if for myself. –Amanda

Let at app do the work for you

I’ve got the Honey extension on Google Chrome which automatically applies discount codes at checkout! It’s not perfect but it does score me a pretty good discount every now and then! –Bhavi

Play the company

Sign up to HotUKDeals for daily emails on bargains. Always research purchases online to ensure you get the cheapest price.

When buying something online add it to your basket and then exit the website. Some sites will email you a money off coupon. MoneySavingExpert has a list of sites this works on. Also check if you get a discount for signing up to their newsletter or Google if there are any current discount codes. If buying in John Lewis go into the store and haggle. They always give discounts! –Erin

Get free food

I use the Vouchercloud app especially when eating out it, has some great discounts on chain restaurants. –Raji

Hack the system

Websites usually offer new customers 10–20% off their first purchase if you sign up to their newsletters. So visit the website using a private browser (Chrome incognito etc), sign up to the newsletter to get the code, buy the product then unsubscribe. –Emma
Get Anonymous Online With Stephanie Harlowe — Get VPN Discount
By: Delora Jones
Tags: Cybersecurity, Coupon, Discount, Deals And Discounts, VPN

Do you love crime, murder, mystery documentaries? A huge number of people find these stories exciting and don’t mind the scary chills that they give. Stephanie Harlowe Youtube channel is all about these types of stories. From murders to mysterious disappearance, she explains the most shocking stories and the history behind them on her channel.

Stephanie Harlowe

Besides talking all about mysteries, she also talks about security online and recently partnered up with Surfshark VPN. Not just partnered up but also presented a coupon code for their viewers, which gives an 82% discount for Surfshark two-years plan. Here you will find out how to get the discount.

Stephanie Harlowe VPN coupon code

To get the discount for Surfshark VPN you need to go to their homepage, you can follow this link. When you get there, find the pricing plans that Surfshark offers and find the window to insert the coupon code below them. When you do find them insert the coupon code harlowe. You can see the window for coupons in the screenshot below.

Surfshark VPN

Surfshark is known to be a secure and high-quality choice for a VPN. They follow a strict no-logs policy, which means they have no idea what their users are doing online and do not keep logs on them. They also are based in a privacy friendly location, and by that, I mean that they are based in a country that has no data collection laws. Talking further about security, Surfshark uses industry-leading encryption and most secure protocols as default ones. They also offer a built-in kill-switch, which ensures zero data leaks and security if your VPN connection drops suddenly.

Surfshark features

Moving from security features, Surfshark is also an excellent VPN for streaming and bypassing geographical restrictions online. They work and bypass restrictions on such streaming platforms like Netflix, BBC iPlayer, Disney+, Youtube TV, and many others. Surfshark offers fast servers worldwide, which will let you enjoy streaming in HD, and with no lags and a built, they also manage to bypass all sorts of firewalls (like the Great Firewall of China) and other censorship online.

This VPN offers such advanced features as GPS spoofing, Built-in ad-blocker, P2P servers for torrenting, split tunnelling, 24/7 customer support. And in case you change your mind, they offer a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Surfshark Whitelister

You can get Surfshark now with an 82% discount and forget about being tracked online, forget about restrictions, about ISP throttling you are the anxiety and fear of your data being stolen while you connect to public wi-fi.
Save up to 90% of all Academic software on OnTheHub
By: Nimesh Ekanayake
Tags: Education, Academia, Discount, Onthehub, Software

Edvicon International members are now eligible for discounts up to 90% of all academic software offered through OnTheHub. Some of them are completely FREE for educational purposes.

About OnTheHub

OnTheHub is dedicated to removing the barriers to education by providing students and faculty with free and discounted software from the world’s leading publishers. By offering products at greatly reduced prices, we’re helping to equip students with the tools they need to succeed.

We’ve partnered with major publishers including Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, Symantec, and many more to offer exclusive discounts for schools around the world. With OnTheHub, students and educators save up to 90% on academic software, and can even get products for free!

To see products available to you, search for your school or departmental WebStore through our school finder and start saving!

OnTheHub Benefits

Best Discounts

Providing the best discounts to students and faculty is our top priority. Our partnerships with leading software publishers ensure you get the lowest prices on academic software worldwide.

Guaranteed Security

You can count on us to keep your personal information and data secure. OnTheHub is compliant with all ISO standards, providing safe and legal software distribution.

Student Success

We care about the future of students. That’s why our software discounts, awesome contests, and helpful blog posts are all focused on providing the resources needed for student success.

How to Register?

Go to https://onthehub.com/search

In the College finding section, select the followings:

- Country: Sri Lanka

- School: Edvicon International College

- Country: Sri Lanka - School: Edvicon International College Click on the button enabled or link given as OnTheHub eStore .

Register with Edvicon International provided firstname.lastname@edviconedu.lk email address.

That’s all. You can now buy academic software up to 90% discount.

You don’t have the @edvicon.edu.lk email domain yet?

Do not worry, if you’re an Edvicon International member, you can still get an alias for your @edvicon.org domain. You have to send a request via Edvicon Workplace to assign you with a @edvicon.edu.lk email alias.

How to request?

Go to Subscription — OnTheHub Discounts Workplace group.

Create a post requesting an email alias as follow:

Hi Admin,

Edvicon email: firstname.lastname@edvicon.org

Please provide me @edvicon.edu.lk email alias for OnTheHub registration.

Thank you.

Once admins of the group create your email alias, you will be notified via the same post as a comment.

How to access new domain alias?

Nothing special!

You can still read incoming emails from your firstname.lastname@edvicon.org email account (Microsoft 365).

This means you can receive emails for firstname.lastname@edvicon.org OR firstname.lastname@edvicon.edu.lk and check them from the same email account.

But remember!

You have to use firstname.lastname@edvicon.edu.lk for OnTheHub registration.
Coupon Site Promo Code Accuracy Study By CouponBirds — Nov 11, 2020
Tags: Coupon, Discount, Code Study, Couponbirds

The fifth coupon site promo code accuracy study comes on time. CouponBirds experienced a little validation decline last week, we promise to make positive adjustments for a better result. Can CouponBirds go back to №1 on promo code accuracy? Let’s see what happened this week?

Top 5 Coupon Sites Promo Code Accuracy Study

This week, we removed Coupons.com due to its limited number code, which may give rise to unfair competition. Coupon sites promo code accuracy study conducted among CouponBirds, RetailMeNot, Honey, Slickdeals and Groupon.

Our team manually verified 4,924 promo codes from 100 popular online stores in random. We guarantee each popular store we choose offers promo codes and each promo code is manually checked according to the verification information from merchants.

Started on Nov 10, 2020, the verification work involved 10 CouponBirds specialists. We copied each promo code of the 100 popular stores, and then we added items to shopping carts and applied codes to see whether it is working based on the information provided by stores. Conclusion of this study accompanying data have been published here in this article below.

Promo Code Accuracy

Shopping season is going on, keeping a healthy validation rate seems especially crucial.

Coupon sites included in the study scores 58.13% on promo code accuracy. The average rate has gone down during the shopping season, and one of the reasons is the drop of CouponBirds.

Always plays the central role in validation rate, CouponBirds reduced a little last week. The whole team paid more attention to quality, but still have something wrong with 7 brands. A mass of codes are only used for selected products, but merchants didn’t give any notes or special tips. It’s even more unfortunate, CouponBirds has more coupon codes than other coupon sites, giving rise to the lower validation rate. CouponBirds team will try best to avoid this case, going back to №1 next week.

Recently, RetailMeNot has been playing very well this round. Not just last week, they also increased 2.19% this week, reaching a success rate of 46.44%.

Slickdeals is basically the same as last week with a validation rate of 62.02% accompanied by limited working promo codes.

Honey and Groupon reduced 2% to 4%.

Number Of Working Coupon Codes

We wiped off all coupon codes that were marked as expired. The duplicate codes were also removed at the same time. There are 5,339 coupon codes verified across 5 top coupon sites.

Same as last week, CouponBirds ranks №1 with 1,399 valid coupon codes, and also ranks №1 in total coupon codes of 2,203.

RetailMeNot ranks second with 899 valid coupon codes.

Honey and Slickdeals are much less in this round with the number of working coupon codes only 209 and 180.

Groupon offers valid codes for only 96.

Brand Coverage

We chose 100 stores in random from top 1,500 popular retail stores based on the traffic. We verify brand coverage by checking whether the top 5 coupon sites offer promo codes for 100 stores.
Top Black Friday & Cyber Monday Deals for Graphic Designers / 2020
By: The Go Branding
Tags: Graphic Design, Discount, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Designer Deals

Tech Products

→ to increase your productivity, or just to indulge yourself a little bit…

Wacom Intuos Pro Large Graphic Tablet is $100 OFF,

Wacom Intuos Pro Medium Graphic Tablet is $50 OFF on Amazon.

Apple revealed its holiday shopping event.

iPhone SE, 11 and XR come with a $50 Apple Gift Card.

Apple Watch Series 3 and AirPods Pro come with a $25 Apple Gift Card.

iPad Pro and iPad Mini come with $100, and eligible models of MacBook Pro and iMac come with $150 Apple Gift Card.

Find out more here and don’t forget to check out other sellers for other great deals. You can use Apple Insider’s great Price Guide to do that easily.

Walmart has an unreal deal for the 38mm Apple Watch Series 3. $119 for one of the best wearable tech products is a steal. (Sold Out)

Amazon is now selling the previous model of Apple Macbook Air (released in 2020) for only $799. It’s a whopping discount of $200!

Amazon also offers 12.9-inch Apple iPad Pro for 100$ OFF. It’s the 4th generation Wi-Fi model with 128gb storage.

Nikon provides great discounts on its amazing products such as 400$ OFF Z6 and $300 OFF on Z7.

Canon cameras and lenses are up to 34% cheaper on Amazon this year. EOD 6D Mark II Digital SLR Camera Body is now 28% OFF ($1,299 instead of its regular price, $1,799).

B&H’s Black Friday Deals are worth checking out, too! You can save big on cameras, hard drives and accessories.

Samsung 1TB 2.5 inch internal SSD hard drive is now 50% OFF on Amazon! ($99). Selected models of external SSD hard drives (1TB, 2TB) are 25% OFF.

Bose revealed huge discounts on its products. One of them is QuietComfort 35 Wireless Headphones II. It’s now $199.95 instead of the regular price of $349.95. Amazon also offers the same price.

Sonos Move wireless speaker is 25% OFF on Amazon. A good excuse to indulge yourself after a nightmarish year.
I like this format.
By: John Allen
Tags: Politics, Election 2020, Joe Biden, Capitalism, Space Exploration

I like this format. It seems like it would be especially handy on days where there’s lots of trash and a longish essay one each topic would be a waste of valuable Time.

I like your views on this crazy pipe-dream the rich oligarchs seem to possess about “reaching for the stars” to plant a flag, then colonizing/terraforming a planet. If we’ve fucked this one up here we don’t deserve a 2nd chance. Just going to Mars by a manned spaceship seems like such a waste of valuable resources as to be schizophrenic in its reasoning. We ought to get our shit together here first. Send more probes. Maybe send a crawler that can drill ground samples and fly them back here to analyze. That would be a worthy endeavor. My speculation is that Mars did indeed possess life when water was flowing. It still may exist in underground water pockets. I think Universe teems with life wherever water is flowing.

Lastly. I’m already sick of the convoluted bullshit I see flying around as trusty democrats find ways to like Mr Swiss, Biden. Hating Trump seems to be the number one reason to vote for Mr Space. Policy? ‘Sure, whatever, just no Trump’. Shoot someone or rape someone? ‘OK’. Gack. Spare me the tears when you lose, again. BYW, Mr Coherence?, needs to answer for his crimes against Ms Reed. Really. Corporate(MSM) press? Crickets, like the background Foley in the movies. Peace, The Ol’ Hippy
The 44 Closest Stars and How They Compare to Our Sun
By: Joy Churin
Tags: Astronomy, Science, Space, Space Exploration, Stars

Stars have captivated the awe and admiration of humanity since our origins. We know the closest star to our planet is the Sun, but what about the stellar bodies beyond our solar system? This infographic explores the 44 nearest stars, providing fascinating data on size, distance, luminosity, constellations, systems, and potential planets.

What is the closest star to the Earth after our Sun?

The closest star system to Earth after the Sun is Alpha Centauri, at a shocking distance of 4.3 light years away. Technically, Proxima Centauri is the closest star at 4.244 light years away. In 2016, scientists announced the discovery of a super-Earth exoplanet that is orbiting Proxima Centauri. The planet, known as Proxima Centauri b, is believed to a temperate and rocky world. The habitability of this planet has not yet been established, but scientists hypothesize that massive solar flares from Proxima Centauri may make it incompatible with life. However, these flares happen rarely, and the planet could host UV-resistant organisms.
Plasma: A Bright, Hot Party of Color
By: Engage Science
Tags: Science, Space, Space Exploration, Physics, Plasma

by: Nadiah Jenkins

When powering up an ion thruster, a type of next generation of interplanetary spacecraft, the first thing you notice is the bright exhaust, glowing like a small, white-blue sun behind fog. What makes the color blue, instead of pink or orange?

The answer is plasma — not the stuff you donate to the Red Cross, but the bright light of a neon sign. When you take a gas like neon, or hydrogen, or even air, and you heat it up until it starts to fall apart, you get a plasma. Also known as the fourth state of matter, plasma is the stuff of stars: the Sun is plasma. The powerful yellow light of the Sun comes from a super thick hydrogen plasma crushed by gravity.

How does plasma work? First, take an atom. Every atom is a delicate pairing of positively-charged protons with negatively-charged electrons. Together, they create a single, neutral atom. It’s a tenuous partnership.

Now, add energy to the atom. Microwave it. Electrocute it. Shine a laser on it. This knocks electrons outside of the influence of protons and leaves the atoms with more positive charge than negative charge. The imbalance grants the atom a new name: an ion. Collect a hot soup of enough ions and free electrons together, and you have a plasma.

Within this plasma, ions and free electrons sometimes merge back together. When they do, their reunion releases a little flash of light. When a plasma contains over a trillion ions and electrons, these flashes can add up to an astounding, near-blinding glow.

In ion thrusters, ion-electron hook-ups occur after the thruster has ejected ions out the back end to propel itself forward. There, a beam of electrons blankets the newly-ejected ions to neutralize them and return them to regular, plain atoms. Neutral atoms won’t be attracted to the thruster’s electrical systems; they won’t swing back like an errant tetherball. This neutralization also creates that characteristic glow, outlining every inch of the round exit nozzle.

But why is it blue? The color depends on the ion, where each one welcomes electrons back in its own style. Did you start with argon? Purple. Neon? Orange. Engineers prefer to use xenon, neon’s massive big brother, because of how much “oomph” the spacecraft can get from ejecting it. Xenon shines a bright, cool blue.
Tickets to Mars Could Cost as Low as $100,000 in the Future
Tags: Astronomy, Science, Space, Mars, Space Exploration

SpaceX’s CEO, Elon Musk has announced that tickets for a journey to the Red Planet could eventually cost as little as $100,000. If that’s true, then in the future, you could sell your house for a flight to Mars with a few bucks left over to splurge on a fancy spacesuit. Fortunately, the return trip is included, according to Musk.

SpaceX is aggressively going after the goal of sending humans to Mars. They have engineered the Starship rocket as the basis of these future missions to the Red Planet. SpaceX plans to ship out parts to Mars and then assemble them in some form of habitat by robots so they can be ready by the time the first human settlers arrive.

In 2018, Musk shared an artist’s sketch of what the SpaceX Mars Base Alpha would look like on Twitter (pictured above). Someone asked a question about when it might be built, and Musk tweeted a reply saying they were aiming to have the base established by 2028.

In the beginning, human civilization on Mars would be a fundamental existence. Musk revealed to a crowd at SXSW that pioneers would only have a base to create fuel, a power station, and blast domes for growing crops. Just the basics needed for survival.

The era of space tourism is set to begin this year. The first spaceplane to transport humans to space will be Virgin Galactic’ spacecraft. On December of the last year, the Virgin Galactic spacecraft SpaceShipTwo reached the border of space for the first time. Today Virgin is charging $250,000 for a spot on one of its flights.

For now, Virgin Galactic has only one competitor — Blue Origin space company, which plans to sell suborbital flights on its Shepard spacecraft. Blue Origin has had several successful flights, although it is unclear when they intend to start sending customers to space. Target test flights with the crew are planned for the 2019.
Celestial Humans
By: Ashwin Kumar Das
Tags: Cosmos, Human Mind, Human Psychology, Science, Space Exploration

A few years back I wrote something. I am a person fascinated with space and cosmos. I have written poetries and comparisons about the Universe. Here, I would like to share something where I draw comparison between Humans and space bodies.

Its been weeks since my last article, as I said earlier I will be proceeding with my own experience regarding mental health and how my thought process developed. However for now I have something I came up with during my initial days.

The stars and the space

Space, I believe is one of the most astounding detail of our world. Its an astonishing feature comprising the universe. No matter how much we talk about it, read about it or may it be some research regarding it. There’s still so much of it left out to be reached and explored. I often search up articles online but I never find much convincing answers, just opinions which people from different parts of the state developed with their knowledge and research, but not answers. Well, its a thing with complexity.

There is a vast amount of information and data available, flowing through the online verse with still equal amount of it left unexplored. We have seen and heard a lot about space, still understanding the small bits is another story which is yet to be written.

Human Cosmos

Sometimes I wonder, how humans and universe share odd similarities. Everything seems less when it comes to understand them. Things usually become slow and we go into a trance when we think about it. Well, for me it does. The melancholic sound of space which we seldom ignore keeps on ringing through our busy lives, although a moment can be spared to identify the fact that how we resemble the behaviour of something infinite and unknown in many ways. Only our imagination can compete with limits that the cosmos has set for us.

Are we alone or are we the same as something which resides beyond our reach. Maybe there are more, not different but more of us, maybe we are meant to be the same, and altogether same as the universe so that one day we can all reunite and then there won’t be any necessity of an alien word to explain the so called ‘Extra-Terrestrial’.

Celestial humans

If we look into a human mind, not literally but just the structure of how it appears, we can compare it to how a universe as a whole appears to be. Maybe the stars and the floating celestial bodies, they reside inside our brain itself to give us a glimpse of how space works. Wouldn’t that be something. I know its just for the sake of argument but the comparison can still be drawn. Just like the universe and living beings, it is difficult to understand a particular person. Every person who walks on earth is different, they have their own properties and the coming generation will be different as well. Taking the humans entirely and living things we can think how the cosmos, the planets and the black holes are different as well. The exterior might be the same but the insights are surely debatable.
Impossible is made possible; Humanoid Vyommithra to step into space before human space flight.
Tags: Space Exploration, Isro, India, NASA

Impossible is made possible; Humanoid Vyommithra to step into space before human space flight. Bharathikanna46 Mar 14, 2020·2 min read

In this 21st century, the growth of Science and Technology is still on an increase beyond infinity. This has turned up Vyommithra, a humanoid( a robot with human resemblance) to step into the space through unmanned Gaganyaan space craft scheduled for December 2021. This is ISRO’s first human space mission. It has been said that Gaganyaan will undertake two unmanned space flights before the manned mission.

The eminent features of the robotic human, Vyommithra is that it can monitor module parameters, and alert astronauts and performs life support operations. It has the capability to stimulate all the human functions out there in space. Added to it, the ISRO chief K. Sivan expressed that even Vyommithra can stimulate a human who is flying.

The advancement of Technology has made this Vyommithra possible. The contributions towards the unrevealed knots in science is still under research, the great organizations like ISRO and NASA, put a hand in to make miracles not only in Earth but in somewhere between the rings of Saturn and the unseen Universe.

parameters and alert astronauts and performs life support operations. It has the capability to stimulate all the human functions out there in space. Added to it, the ISRO chief K. Sivan expressed that even Vyommithra can stimulate a human who is flying. The advancement of Technology has made this Vyommithra possible. The contributions towards the unrevealed knots in science is still under research, the great organizations like ISRO and NASA, put a hand in to make miracles not only in Earth but in somewhere between the rings of Saturn and the unseen Universe.
The Beauty in Space Exploration
By: Yukino Agria
Tags: Space Exploration, Finance, Stock Market

Exploring the Universe has been a human ambition since the dawn of time. Human curiosity has fueled a desire to explore and discover new worlds, push the limits of what is understood, and learn more about science and technology. Space exploration and the progress it involves are critical factors for expanding space science and technology into new realms. They build new prospects for addressing global challenges by triggering new alliances and developing capabilities. Check my disclaimer on my profile and landing page. Moreover, I just came across with these other space companies, it was said that they are building new paths toward commercial space travel which could have a potential of approx. $16.2 billion thermal management market. (1) Would this be a start of new innovation for space exploration? Things are really getting interesting here.

While the exact nature of potential benefits from space exploration is difficult to predict, existing trends indicate that major benefits may be seen in areas such as new materials, health and medicine, transportation, and computer technology. As the benefits of space exploration and creativity become more widely recognized, more countries and non-governmental organizations are becoming involved in participating in these activities. Check this sponsored post that I’m going to share with you. Space travel could be the wave of the future. In addition, I found out that the global space tourism market could become a roughly $1.7 billion industry by year 2027 at a CAGR of approx. 15.2% (2) Space exploration still have a mile to go. We should start learning more as we go to its future.

Space exploration also motivates young people to pursue education and careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. It could satisfy our desire to explore and travel in the future, and it has the potential to provide new homes for our species in the years and decades. Space exploration is a way of life for the whole world! Explore on this if you want to learn more about and your might be the next space explorer!

Source 1: https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/topics/space-exploration-and-innovation.html
LightSail Soars, with Help from 23,331 Kickstarter Backers
Tags: Kickstarter, Spacex, Space, Projects We Love, Space Exploration

Way back in 1976, on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, space exploration advocate and cultural icon Carl Sagan shared an idea. Revealing a scale model no bigger than a kite, he explained how a spacecraft didn’t need an engine or fuel to travel across the solar system. It just needed a little nudge from the sun.

On Monday, June 24, some 43 years after Sagan’s Tonight Show appearance, I joined hundreds of people at Cape Canaveral in Florida to witness the launch of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying a Kickstarter-funded spacecraft called LightSail 2. At the edge of a balcony in the Kennedy Space Center, I gathered with a small group of Planetary Society members who had been handpicked to experience the launch with Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye (yes, the Science Guy) and his team.

Outside the center, supporters filled rows of bleachers and the excitement was as thick as the Florida night air. Among the crowd were scientists and engineers who’d worked on LightSail 2; Kickstarter backers who’d traveled from all over the world to attend the launch; and the creators of other space-focused Kickstarter projects like the Pioneer Plaque, Chop Shop, and ISS Above.

As we anxiously awaited blastoff, I wondered about the 23 other payloads that would accompany LightSail on SpaceX’s new multi-payload rocket. I’d discovered the night before that one of the small canisters was brought to Cape Canaveral by a group of people who were carrying out the final wish of a family member and friend who hoped to rest among the stars. This mission was years in the making 24 times over, igniting a unique sense of solidarity and community.

Bill Nye, the Science (and Planetary) Guy

A boost from the Kickstarter community brings LightSail to life

LightSail is a craft that moves through space thanks to the constant push of the sun’s photons against a large sheet of mylar. This thin, shiny sail looks like a piece of tinfoil stretched across the sky, as if someone was trying to wrap up a star and save it for later.

Imagining that this concept could spark the curiosity of a generation, Sagan and a team of passionate community leaders founded The Planetary Society in 1980 to encourage citizens around the globe to participate. Decades later, The Planetary Society invited the Kickstarter community to join the crew and help bring LightSail to life.

With the support of more than 23,000 backers and over $1.2 million in pledges, LightSail was finally on its way.
“Making Humans a Multi-Planetary Species” From Elon Musk. Summarized.
By: Joris Placette
Tags: Summary, Starship, Spacex, Space Exploration, Elon Musk

This is a one-page summary of the eponymous 17 pages article from Elon Musk (2017) Enjoy!

Why go anywhere?

The human being of the 21st century is facing a choice, either waiting for an eventual unfortunate massive life extinction on Earth, either becoming a multi-planetary species and spread life around the stars.

Elon Musk is arguing that colonizing other planets is the best choice to do.

Mars seems to be the most accessible planet for a long-term colony. It is very similar to Earth in many aspects, starting with its average distance from Earth which is quite low. Besides, it is one of the few telluric planets having an atmosphere, mostly composed of CO2 which means that we could easily grow plants on Mars’ surface. Finally, we are now sure about the presence of a huge amount of ice-water on the Martian soil which is critical to consider establishing a large-scale colony.

More than a one-man dream, this is SpaceX’s raison d’être. (Elon Musk is the founder, CEO and lead designer at SpaceX.) SpaceX is the very first space group to achieve launching, landing back and reuse of an orbital rocket booster, the company’s proclaimed purpose is to enable humans to become a space faring civilization and a multi-planet species by building a self-sustaining city on Mars.

How to go anywhere?

We think that going to Mars is possible with an Apollo style mission which would cost about 10 billion dollars per person. It’s not impossible, but establishing a 12 persons outpost is not the point here. SpaceX’s ambition is to send a million people to Mars in the next few decades. Hence, the technical challenge is to improve the cost of a trip from 10 billion to $200 000, which consists of an improvement of four and a half orders of magnitude.

This challenge sounds impossible, but SpaceX is on the way, the whole trick is full reusability of the boosters, and ships plus using tankers to fill up ships in space. Imagine the price of a $43 ticket from Los Angeles to Vegas, if planes were single use, it would cost about $500,000 per flight. The price improvement due to airplanes reusability is around four orders of magnitude.

Moreover, SpaceX will use propellant tankers to fill the tanks with the spaceship in orbit instead of launching the interplanetary spaceship with all the propellant required to reach and land on Mars.

The most striking point is that SpaceX’s interplanetary transport system (Starship spaceship + Super Heavy rocket) is already work in progress. SpaceX is currently (2019) done with the trickiest parts of the BFR such as the thruster or the carbon fiber tanks, and things are moving forward. The Raptor engine (designed for the BFR) is now in test phase!

“Why is there no Flat Mars Society!? — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 28 novembre 2017 — twitter “Hi Elon, thanks for the question. Unlike the Earth, Mars has been observed to be round. We hope you have a fantastic day! — Flat Earth Society (@FlatEarthOrg) 28 novembre 2017 — twitter

Annex:

Figure 2 : Mars transportation architecture
How Spacex Makes Money
By: Nirav Parmar
Tags: Elon, Spacex, Space, Space Exploration, Elon Musk

It recently raised around $1.16 billion via equity funding with the company now being valued at $74 billion. This is a 60% jump in its valuation from the valuation in August 2020.

Since SpaceX is not a publicly listed company. So, they are not obligate to share their financials with the public. But as many experts, these

2 Sources Majorly Generate Revenue For SpaceX -

Government Contracts

Its major revenue source is space delivery services. It has won many NASA contracts to send goods to the ISS or launch a satellite into orbit.

It also has done many projects with American Airforce. It also won a contract to provide 40% of all U.S. military launch requirements in 2020.

2. Starlink

It can be the next revolution in the global internet market. It is a network of satellites aiming to provide high-speed low-cost internet to remote locations.

As of now, they have launched more than 1700 satellites are currently in orbit. The most interesting point is that they are using their own reusable rockets to launch these satellites. It is an unbeatable cost advantage.

Elon Musk expected that it can capture 3% to 4% of the global internet access market soon. He expects that Starlink can bring revenue of over $30 billion per year by 2025.

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Space Marketing: How companies are turning towards the final frontier
By: Sonal Maheshwari
Tags: Space Exploration, Space Travel, Space Marketing, Space

In recent times, space sector has exploded into a trillion dollar industry as Spacex and ISRO shows us ways to reach the sky. They have managed to challenge the government monopolies and put satellites in space.

So why aren’t more companies into it? First foremost is the cost and the technology. It is not everyone’s cup of tea. As entry barriers have reduced there are many small companies which are entering in this area.

When Felix Baumgartner in 2012 made a free fall from the earth’s orbit it was not a government body that supported his stunt. It was Red Bull who sponsored him in the first place. He fell for 4 mins breaking the record of speed of sound at an estimated speed of 843.6 miles per hour (mph). They streamed the video live on YouTube and generated millions of views.

Millennials value experiences over materialistic things. Hence such things leave an impression in the minds of the target audiences. So just imagine to generate value where only a few have ventured — space.

Marketers have to realize that before laughing about space marketing one needs to have that acumen to think of the future.

Space travel is one such sector where companies are interested and trying to make it a reality in our lifetime.

Mars World is one such example in Las Vegas where people get to experience how it would be to live on Mars. Brands now have the chance to bend the minds and seed the idea of interplanetary travel, metaverse and tourism experiences.

When we think of ET we look at the stars but in the movie Pacific Rim, a new life form came from under the sea through a portal. There are many aquanauts just like astronauts which loom at the possibilities of exploring the water with an underwater International Space Station.

Brands can re-imagine their products like marketing space suits, Mac Donald’s burger and fries on moon, space industrialization and so much more. The possibilities are endless.

Let me know in the comments of what you think about it.
Something about racing suits you did not know before. Read more to find out what!
By: Sonal Maheshwari
Tags: Racing Car, Space, Space Exploration, Racing, Astronauts

Space technology and car racing advancements are nothing new. Here I am talking about space suit technology and how it helped the racers on earth.

NASA worked with Triangle Research and Development Cooperation to develop a material which can tolerate extreme temperature changes. In short, maintain a steady temperature. The answer was in the materials which had phase changing features.

The company successfully incorporated the phase changing material into synthetic fibre insulation. These were supposed to be used as glove inserts in the space suits. However, it never made it in outer space.

But the engineers saw a lot of potential for people on earth. For astronauts to be able to do a spacewalk have to maintain the body temperature and pressure the outer space provides.

Similarly, in the racing world, a small fraction of a second can make a difference between winning and losing the race. The temperatures can reach upto 50 degrees inside the car and the race cars do not have fans and AC while they race at such high speeds.

A company in Britain called Outlast is into undergarments business but racing undergarments are different. One feature which had to be made sure was it has to be fire resistant.

Once the product was ready, simulations were run where one set of drivers wore regular fire resistant material, whereas one set wore this new material.

Once the product was approved, it had to be tested in real life situation. Walero was not satisfied and wanted to run more tests.

During the race car temperatures cannot exceed more that 50 degrees Celsius. So, using a motion simulator the drivers were exposed to these temperatures while doing virtual laps. The result was consistent laps, which were faster with no engineering changes to the car.

Finally these suits came to market in 2015 and are used at all levels of racing. Apart from racers, hikers also showed interest in these products.