If you’re wondering how to become an amateur pilot, you might be surprised to find that you only need to be 16 years of age, in good health, and meet specific training requirements. This is the most basic type of…
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There are several steps to earning a private pilot’s certificate in the United States. Pilots must pass an Aviation Medical exam, participate in a ground school, pass the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) Private Pilot knowledge exam, complete at least 40…
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There are a vast majority of colleges and universities out in the education field. While some cater to a wide variety of fields, some specialize in certain individual fields. One example of a specific field would be mathematics. Even in…
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In a movie, an stock broker tells Thomas Edison he would have paid one hundred thousand dollars for Edison’s ticker tape machine. The inventor, who had just pocketed fifty thousand said, “I would have taken two.” A scientist will probably…
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Jimmy Wales, Internet Entrepreneur “Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That’s what we’re doing.” -Jimmy Wales, 2004, Slapdot Jimmy Wales had a vision. A…
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Why is it so hard to believe that we are not alone in this universe? Are we such a competent and near perfect race that we may claim to be the only ones flourishing on a small planet in a…
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Stalling an aircraft is similar to stalling a car only to the degree that forward motion has stopped or is reduced to a dangerous level. When a car stalls, you coast over to the side of the road and park….
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The original intent of the metric system is to have one name for each characteristic to be measured. For example, the only unit of distance is the meter. That characteristic could then be magnified or diminished with an appropriate prefix….
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Since the human brain is electrochemical in nature it only makes sense that powerful, directed magnetic fields can affect it. That’s exactly what a team of Estonian scientists claim to have found. Remarkably, they also discovered that the human trait…
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The Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics states: If body A is in thermal equilibrium with body C and if body B is in thermal equilibrium with body C, then body A and body B are in thermal equilibrium. One can begin…
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