Bøger af Michael Moreau

What would an alien invasion of Earth seem like from the perspective of the aliens, especially if the plan was never to actually kill any humans at all? Written as a first-person recounting of their unplanned landing on Earth, Call me Ogi is the story of an alien being who wanted none of the responsibility of leading his own people let alone presiding over the attempt at unifying two very different species in order to create a peaceful world that endures for all time.

Pathism: Finding God in the Cosmos posits that we should no longer feel content to sacrifice our spirituality because it clashes with our intellect or morality. Spirituality should never ask such things of a person. For if there truly is a divine force at work in the cosmos then surely it would never wish us to compromise our principles to align with man-made dogma. This book looks at the formation and evolution of religion and spirituality throughout human history. We examine how religion has been historically wielded as a weapon to attack those who dare to think differently, or as shackles which those in power use to control the hearts and minds of the masses. This does not have to be the case any longer. In an age when more and more people are becoming religions "nones" (those who identify with no religion) we have to ask whether or not simply giving up on spirituality is the answer. Do we let the establishment win simply because we can't be bothered? Do we lead an existence devoid of spirituality just because so many others have perverted it to their own ends? Pathism seeks to take back what was lost. To give us "nones" a community to call our own again. To reclaim spirituality in the name of those who profess that love, tolerance, intelligence, and compassion mean far more to the world than ancient texts or rituals.

The last thing the crew remembers they were in deep space, running for their lives from an enemy warship that had them clearly outmatched. Suddenly they find themselves spiralling in towards an unknown planet. Their pilot tries her best but cannot prevent the ship from crashing. Now the crew of the R.S. Honshu finds themselves stranded on a strange world with no idea how they got there. The moon hanging above them in the sky is eerily familiar and when they pop the hatch something dreadful, and by all logic impossible, is waiting to greet them. Tempers flare as Captain Tarsik and his crew must deal with ferocious predators, severe and unpredictable weather and a hostile alien species they never even knew existed. All of this and more in the thrilling second chapter of the Full Circle serial.

Rocket Riders of the 27th Century is a science fiction book series that follows the adventures of Captain Harridor Tarsik and the crew of the rocketship Honshu as they make their way in a turbulent and highly competitive universe.The series was crafted to be reminiscent of early science fiction serials, but with modern sensibilities, humor, and dialogue. This omnibus contains the first three books of Rocket Riders of the 27th Century compiled into one volume along with a collection of short stories that expand the universe, as well as reference materials and additional artwork.Book 1: No Time Like the FutureThe Honshu visits a secure installation inside a mysterious spatial phenomenon that renders FTL travel useless and encounters an old enemy with a grudge to settle.Book 2: Where the Stars FallCatapulted through both space and time the crew find themselves shipwrecked on an impossible world. They will race against time to save themselves from savage wildlife and a cataclysmic historical event.Book 3: The Yesterday DilemmaWith their lives in disarray and reality shattering around them the crew must track down the one responsible for it all while being hunted themselves by a phantom warship. It will take a renewed sense of teamwork, as well as the help of old friends and foes alike, to save the inhabitants of an entire world and to put time and space right again.

This viewgraph presentation reviews the fundamentals of satellite navigation, and specifically how GPS works. It presents an overview and status of Global Positioning System, for both the current GPS, and plans to modernize it in the future. There is also a overview and status of other Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), specifically GLONASS, Galileo, and QZSS. There is also a review of Satellite based time transfer techniques. The topic is of interest to the Time and Frequency Community, because the Global Positioning system has become the primary system for distributing Time and frequency globally, and because it allows users to synchronize clocks and calibrate and control oscillators in any location that has a GPS antenna.

Understanding chemical reactivity has been the permanent concern of chemists from time immemorial. If we were able to understand it and express it quantitatively there would practically remain no unsolved mystery, and reactions would be fully predictable, with their products and rates and even side reactions. The beautiful developments of thermodynamics through the 19th century supplied us with the knowledge of the way a reactions progresses, and the statistical view initiated by Gibbs has progressively led to an unders­ tanding closer to the microscopic phenomena. But is was always evident to all that these advances still left our understanding of chemical reactivity far behind our empirical knowledge of the chemical reaction in its practically infinite variety. The advances of recent years in quantum chemistry and statistical mechanics, enhanced by the present availability of powerful and fast compu­ ters, are very fast changing this picture, and bringing us really close to a microscopic understanding of chemical equilibria, reaction rates, etc.... This is the reason why our Society encouraged a few years ago the initiative of Professor Savo Bratos who, with a group of French colleagues, prepared an impressive study on "Reactivite chimique en phase liquide", a prospective report which was jointly published by the Societe Fran

The advances of recent years in quantum chemistry and statistical mechanics, enhanced by the present availability of powerful and fast compu ters, are very fast changing this picture, and bringing us really close to a microscopic understanding of chemical equilibria, reaction rates, etc....