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6 years ago
CryptoCal - Ultimate Crypto Currency App - Apps on Google Play
CryptoCal is the all in one portfolio management and market tracker app that provides valuable market and qualitative information about cryptocurrencies that help in intelligent investing and trading of cryptocurrencies across various exchanges across the globe. Significant Features of CryptoCal are: -- Get notified whenever a new transaction takes place in your wallet address on a real time basis.¬ Profit / Loss for each currency: CryptoCal tracks the market price of cryptocurrencies on a real-time basis and calculates the profit/loss for each currency.¬ Indian Exchanges: Keep track of your portfolio in INR from various local Indian Crypto Currency Exchanges. ¬ Portfolio Management: Keep track of your portfolio by continuously updated portfolio value. ¬ Price Alerts: CryptoCal notifies the user about the price volatility on a real-time basis from Overseas and Indian exchanges and as per the specified currency.¬ Personal Portfolio: The portfolio details of the user are saved on the users’ handset without any interaction of sensitive data with any servers.¬ Instant Recovery: The data is saved on the users’ handset and reinstall of the application will recover the data automatically.¬ Live Charts and Trades: Real time price and chart for various cryptocurrencies against various trading pairs across various exchanges.¬ Market Arbitrages: Track the price for cryptocurrencies across various exchanges and leverage opportunities for arbitrage.¬ Events: Never miss an upcoming event for any cryptocurrency,¬ Twitter and NEWS: Twitter and NEWS of any specific and overall market at the same place. ¬ Google Trend: Track Google Trends of any specific cryptocurrency on CryptoCal.For any queries and support, contact crypto.valuations@gmail.com

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9 years ago
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6 years ago

Let’s hope it’s a good one, without any fear…’ Thirty years ago today, on @thelatelateshow playing John & Yoko’s ‘Happy Xmas (War Is Over)’ #U2 #JohnLennon #latelate

9 years ago
Where These Vertical Take-off And Landing Jets Are Going, They Don’t Need Roads.

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4 years ago

I have a few early access passes to share of NBA Top Shot, digital collectibles.

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7 years ago
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7 years ago

Reinventing the Wheel

Planning a trip to the Moon? Mars? You’re going to need good tires…

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Exploration requires mobility. And whether you’re on Earth or as far away as the Moon or Mars, you need good tires to get your vehicle from one place to another. Our decades-long work developing tires for space exploration has led to new game-changing designs and materials. Yes, we’re reinventing the wheel—here’s why.

Wheels on the Moon

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Early tire designs were focused on moving hardware and astronauts across the lunar surface. The last NASA vehicle to visit the Moon was the Lunar Roving Vehicle during our Apollo missions. The vehicle used four large flexible wire mesh wheels with stiff inner frames. We used these Apollo era tires as the inspiration for new designs using newer materials and technology to better function on a lunar surface.

Up springs a new idea

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During the mid-2000s, we worked with industry partner Goodyear to develop the Spring Tire, an airless compliant tire that consists of several hundred coiled steel wires woven into a flexible mesh, giving the tires the ability to support high loads while also conforming to the terrain. The Spring Tire has been proven to generate very good traction and durability in soft sand and on rocks.

Spring Tires for Mars

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A little over a year after the Mars Curiosity Rover landed on Mars, engineers began to notice significant wheel damage in 2013 due to the unexpectedly harsh terrain. That’s when engineers began developing new Spring Tire prototypes to determine if they would be a new and better solution for exploration rovers on Mars.

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In order for Spring Tires to go the distance on Martian terrain, new materials were required. Enter nickel titanium, a shape memory alloy with amazing capabilities that allow the tire to deform down to the axle and return to its original shape.

These tires can take a lickin’

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After building the shape memory alloy tire, Glenn engineers sent it to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Mars Life Test Facility. It performed impressively on the punishing track.

Why reinvent the wheel? It’s worth it.

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New, high performing tires would allow lunar and Mars rovers to explore greater regions of the surface than currently possible. They conform to the terrain and do not sink as much as rigid wheels, allowing them to carry heavier payloads for the same given mass and volume. Also, because they absorb energy from impacts at moderate to high speeds, there is potential for use on crewed exploration vehicles which are expected to move at speeds significantly higher than the current Mars rovers.

Airless tires on Earth

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Maybe. Recently, engineers and materials scientists have been testing a spinoff tire version that would work on cars and trucks on Earth. Stay tuned as we continue to push the boundaries on traditional concepts for exploring our world and beyond.  

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7 years ago
Are Swedish House Mafia Back?

Are Swedish House Mafia back?

9 years ago
SWITZERLAND! Muse Are Please To Announce Three New Summer Festivals:

SWITZERLAND! Muse are please to announce three new Summer festivals:

2 July | Montreux Jazz Festival | Get Tickets 25.2 at 10a CET 14 July | Gurten Festival | Get Tickets Now 19 July | Paleo Festival | Get Tickets 20.4 at noon CET View all tour dates here.

6 years ago

Dracula and the Gang Are Back in “Hotel Transylvania 2”

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