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LISA will create an upheaval in scientific knowledge "The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a proposed space mission concept designed to detect and accurately measure gravitational waves[3] - tiny ripples in the fabric of space-time - from astronomical sources. The LISA Project has now evolved into eLISA (Evolved Laser Interferometer Space Antenna). The project is currently a collaboration of the self-funded and independent eLISA consortium. [4] The LISA project was previously a joint effort between the United States space agency NASA and the European Space Agency ESA. However, on April 8, 2011, NASA announced that it would likely be unable to continue its LISA partnership with the European Space Agency,[5] due to funding limitations. [6] ESA has therefore revised the mission's concept to fit into a European-only cost envelope. Currently the project is undergoing the selection process for one of the next large ESA mission. [7]"

"The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a proposed space mission concept designed to detect and accurately measure gravitational waves" LISA is also called a Big Bang Observer. Those who believe in the Big Bang are hoping that LISA will be able to prove their theory.

"Google Glass is a wearable computer with an optical head-mounted display (OHMD) that is being developed by Google in the Project Glass research and development project,[8] with a mission of producing a mass-market ubiquitous computer.[1] Google Glass displays information in a smartphone-like hands-free format,[9] that can communicate with the Internet via natural language voice commands.[10][11]"

This summarizes the trends in the chapter of medicine. "Future of Medicine Near Future: Genomic Medicine, Medical Scanners, Stem Cells, Midcentury: Gene Therapy, Designer Children Far Future: Reversing Aging, Immortality, Bringing Back Dinosaurs & Neanderthals, Germ Warfare"

Review of the book giving insight into each chapter

Review of the book giving insight into each chapter

There was another place for life to flourish and the Voyager found it "The identical Voyager spacecraft are three-axis stabilized systems that use celestial or gyro referenced attitude control to maintain pointing of the high-gain antennas toward Earth."

"The Next Giant Leap For Mankind." This is the website for the 'Mars One' mission. The entire site describes what Mars One is, which makes a very good example of the commercialization of space. Mars One's goal is to not only create a permanent settlement on Mars, but create some kind of reality show on the red planet. Thousands of people have already signed up for this one way trip to another planet, even knowing that they will never come back. This site is reliable because it is run by the Mars One company.

This website offers various information on TPF, or the Terrestrial Planet Finder. This website is especially useful, for it tells you not only how the machine works but why it still is not currently in space. You will learn why this machine is so important and how it could truly help humanity in finding other life in space. This website is reliable, for it is an edited newspaper taken from various reliable sources. You can understand how the machine works and how it plans on finding other life by reading this website.

"No, scientists have found no clear indications of life, past or present, beyond the Earth. There have been several tantalizing suggestions - that the Viking mission might have detected evidence of microbial life on Mars or that there are fossil microbes in some Mars rocks or meteorites - but none of these claims has been verified." Although this link is simply the Frequently Asked Questions of the SETI Institute, I have found this extremely helpful because many questions that I had were answered (hence the "Frequently Asked Questions"). These questions are about life that we have found past the Earth, why people insist that "life is out there", and even how scientists at this institute are examining global warming to find the effects. As this article is on the website of the SETI Institute, which consists of some of the best scientists in the world, I think that it is safe to assume that this is a valid source. Citations: "SETI Institute." SETI Institute. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Mar. 2014.