The movie begins with an extraterrestrial humanoid species wandering through space in search of a new world. Encountering an unknown planet which turns out to be Earth, their leader (Cyrillus) sends two "manned" probes to the surface to determine if it is suitable for colonisation. The scouts in the probes think they have arrived at a great city, but in fact they have arrived at a new amusement park that is not yet open to the public. They proceed to explore four amusement rides: Arctic Adventure (a roller coaster ride in ...

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An organ in our inner ear, the labyrinth, is an important part of the vestibular system which is responsible for balancing the body. The labyrinth interacts with other systems in the body, such as the visual (eyes) and skeletal (bones and joints) systems, to maintain the body's position. These systems, along with the brain and the nervous system, can be the source of balance problems. Three structures of the labyrinth, the semicircular canals, let us know when we are in a rotary (circular) motion. The semicircular canals, the superior ...

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Histapenia (deficiency of histamine) and histadelia (abundance of histamine) can cause both neurological and physical disorders. Histapenia may be caused by excess copper levels, as this decreases blood histamine. Histamine - Sexual response. Research has shown that histamine is released as part of the human orgasm from mast cells in the genitals, and the histamine release has been connected to the sex flush among women. If this response is lacking while a woman also has trouble achieving org ...

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IMAX (15/70) spherical lenses 15 perforations per frame horizontal pulldown, from right to left (viewed from base side) 24 frames per second camera aperture: 70.41 mm (2.772″) by 52.63 mm (2.072″) projection aperture: at least 20.32 mm (0.80″) less than camera aperture on the vertical axis and at least 0.016″ less on the horizontal axis IMAX Dome/OMNIMAX Same as IMAX except: special fisheye lenses len ...

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In the late 1960s the San Diego Hall of Science (now known as the San Diego Space and Science Foundation) began searching North America for a large-format film system to project on the dome of their planned 76-foot tilted-dome planetarium. One of the front-running formats was a double-frame 35mm system, until they saw IMAX. The IMAX projector was unsuitable for use inside a dome because it had a 12-foot-tall lamphouse on top. However, IMAX Corporation were quick to cooperate and was willing to redesign their system. IMAX designed an elevator ...

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The intent of IMAX is to dramatically increase the resolution of the image by using much larger film stock at a resolution of 38720 x 24120. To do this, 70 mm film stock is run "sideways" through the cameras. While traditional 70 mm film has an image area that is 48.5 mm wide and 22.1 mm tall (for Todd-AO), in IMAX the image is 69.6 mm wide and 48.5 mm tall. In order to expose at standard film speed of 24 frames per second, three times as much film nee ...

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Half-Life 2 controversies and criticisms - Release problems. On November 16, 2004, Half-Life 2 was officially released. While the launch was mainly regarded as successful, later in the day a significant number of buyers (both through Steam and retail) found themselves unable to play the game, due in part to a bottleneck of Valve's Steam system. The European authentication servers went down for about 5 hours before being fixed, preventing those with accounts using them from decrypting or playing the g ...

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To create the illusion of 3 dimensions, the IMAX 3D process uses two camera lenses to represent the left and right eyes. The two lenses are separated by an interoccular distance of about 64 mm/2.5 in., the average distance between a human's eyes. By recording on two separate rolls of film for the left and right eyes and projecting them simultaneously, we can be tricked into seeing a 3D image on a 2D screen. The IMAX 3D camera is a very cumbersome camera, weighing over 113 kg/250 pounds. This makes it extremely difficult to film on-location d ...

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The Service began in 1928, originally as an experiment known as the Aerial Medical Service (AMS) which was to run for a single year. This experiment was based in Cloncurry, Queensland. It was formed by Reverend John Flynn, the first Superintendent of the Australian Inland Mission (AIM), a branch of the Presbyterian Church of Australia. Flynn's missionary work involved the establishment of hospitals in bush communities. This, however, did not help those who lived far from any major community. In his public speaking he would ofte ...

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Neil Armstrong - Teaching. Armstrong announced shortly after the Apollo 11 flight that he planned not to fly in space again. He was appointed to be the Deputy Associate Administrator for aeronautics for the Office of Advanced Research and Technology. He would serve in this position for only 13 months, resigning from it and NASA as a whole in August 1971. He had accepted a teaching position at ...

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After serving as the backup crew for Apollo 8, Neil Armstrong was offered the post of commander of Apollo 11 by Deke Slayton on December 23, 1968 as 8 orbited the Moon. In a meeting that was not made public until the publication of Armstrong biography in 2005, Slayton told him that although the planned crew was Armstrong as commander, lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin and command module pilot Michael Collins, he was offering the chance to replace Aldrin with Jim Lovell. After thinking it over for a day, Armstrong told Slayt ...

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His youth is the source of many apocryphal stories. One involved an amateur astronomer in Wapakoneta called Jacob Zint. In the lead up to the Apollo 11 flight, newspaper stories emerged that Armstrong had spent many hours with Zint looking at the moon. Armstrong says that he only looked through Zint's telescope once, during a trip there with Boy Scout Troop 14. Another story involved his high school science teacher, John Crites, who said that Neil had told him that he hoped to walk on the Moon some day, which Armstrong responds is fal ...

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Victorian Lieutenant Clifford Peel, had heard Flynn's public speeches, and on being shipped out to France for World War I in 1917, sent Flynn a letter explaining how he had seen a missionary doctor visiting isolated patients utilising a plane. Assisted by costing estimates by Peel, Flynn immediately took the idea of using aircraft to incept his idea, and published Peel's idea in the church's newsletter ...

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Within the first year of operations, the service flew approximately 20,000 miles in 50 flights, becoming the first comprehensive air ambulance service in the world. The service persisted through some very tough first few years, dealing with postwar Australia and the Great Depression of the 1930s. During its first few decades the service relied heavily on community fundraising, volunteer support and donations. This is still the mainstay of the services funding, but it benefits greatly from State and Federal Government subsidiaries that have s ...

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On January 27, 1967 Armstrong was in Washington, D.C. with Gordon Cooper, Dick Gordon, Jim Lovell and Scott Carpenter for the signing of the United Nations Outer Space Treaty. After talking the assembled dignitaries until 6:45 pm Carpenter went to the airport, while the rest they returned to the Georgetown Inn where they found they all had messages waiting for them, telling them to phone Houston, Texas, home of the Manned Spaceflight Center. It was then that they learned of the death of Gus Grisso ...

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Neil Armstrong - Gemini 5. Main article: Gemini 5 The first crew assignment for Neil Armstrong was as backup Command Pilot for Gemini 5, with Elliot See as the backup Pilot. This was an eight-day mission, longer than any spaceflight up till that time, with a prime crew of Gordon Cooper and Pete Conrad. The assignments were announced on February 8, 1965, and from then until the launch on August 21, 1965, Armstrong and See trained to fly the mission in case the prime crew co ...

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The first child of Stephen Koeing Armstrong and Viola Louise Engel, Neil Armstrong was born at 12:31 am on August 5, 1930 in the front room of the house of Viola's stepfather, near Wapakoneta, Ohio. The middle name Alden was chosen for its alliteration and the allusion to Alden from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem The Courtship of Miles Standish. Stephen Armstrong worked for the Ohio government, and the family moved around the state repeatedly for the next 14 years, calling sixteen different towns home. He had two siblings, June Louise (born July 6, ...

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Krusty has endorsed many products and places that are named after him. Here is a partial list. Krusty Brand Seal of Approval (on everything that meets the "high standards" of Krusty the Clown); "It's not just good, it's good enough!" Krusty the Clown Show Krusty Handguns Krusty-Brand Home Pregnancy Test ("May cause birth defects") Krusty-Brand Cereal (aka "Krusty-O's") (Notably, Krusty is seen buying his own cereal in the supermarket, upon which Mr Burns enquires as to the location of the " ...

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After graduating from high school, in 1946 he started at Purdue University. He was only the second person in his family to attend college. Also accepted to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the only engineer he knew (who had attended MIT) told Armstrong that it was not necessary to go all the way to Cambridge, Massachusetts for a good education.[3] His college tuition was paid for under the Holloway Plan, where the successful applicants committed ...

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The call-up from the navy arrived on January 26, 1949, requiring him to report to Naval Air Station Pensacola for flight training. This would last almost a year and a half, during which time he would be qualified for carrier landing aboard the USS Cabot and USS Wright. On August 12, 1950 he was informed by letter he was now a fully qualified Naval Aviator.^{See also:}

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Neil Armstrong had no defining moment in his decision to become an astronaut. Over four or five months after the announcement that applications were being sought for the second group, he became more and more excited about the prospect of Project Apollo and the prospect of investigating a new aeronautical environment. It was found out many years later that Armstrong's astronaut application had arrived about a week past the June 1, 1962 deadline. Dick Day who Armstrong had worked closely with at Edwards was now at the Manned Spacecraft Center ...

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It has been noted that Krusty was supposedly illiterate in "Krusty Gets Busted" (first released on April 29, 1990), where Sideshow Bob framed him for armed robbery. He has since been seen reading with varying ability (many fans have noted that in the episode "Lisa's First Word", he is shown reading a wire service article in 1983). Through his unnamed mother, Krusty is supposedly an older half-brother to actor Luke Perry. His only other known relatives are his father, his grandfather, and his illegitimate daughter Sophie, (voiced by actress Drew Barrymore), the result of an affair between Krus ...

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