In 1963 the United States Air Force announced that it would begin work on a project called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory or MOL, as it was commonly known. The idea of the project was initially to determine the efficacy of putting American military personnel into space. The cold war was near its peak and the …
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February 28, 2008: Pretty Much No Sleep
I wasn’t very tired when we turned in for bed so I finished listening to “The Titanic Disaster Hearings” by Tom Kuntz. I still wasn’t tired so I started listening to “Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions” by Dan Ariely which only just went to print last week. Oreo got me up …
February 27, 2008: Done with Project Management (Class)
I discovered today that a friend of mine from high school at York Central School is a big time opera singer here in Manhattan with rave reviews! I had no idea. I knew in school that she wanted to be an opera singer but she was several years younger than me and I did not …
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Project Management of the RMS Titanic and the Olympic Ships
The idea to build the R.M.S. Titanic and her sisters, the R.M.S. Olympic and the H.M.H.S. Britanic, first began to take shape in 1907. These three ships together were White Star Line’s Olympic Class ocean liners. (I will use the Olympic(s) in reference to the class of vessels throughout this text for the sake of …
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February 26, 2008: Finishing My First Grad Term Paper
I still haven’t caught up no my sleep and feel pretty run down this morning. I am very relived that my term paper is to be done today. One way or another I can’t keep working on it after today. My early morning was pretty slow. The weather was pretty nice today and my walk …
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