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| alpha centauri strategy: Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Chris McCubbin, David Ladyman, 1999 This strategy game comes through with brand new decisions to make, new technologies, and new elements that subtly enhance the basic premise of the Civilization genre. The new features include custom military units, terraforming, a new government model, and the alien landscape itself. |
| alpha centauri strategy: Centauri Dawn Michael Ely, 2000 After a ship malfunction leads to the death of the captain, members of the starship Unity break into factions, hindering plans for building peaceful human civilization on their new planet. |
| alpha centauri strategy: Sid Meier's Memoir! Sid Meier, 2021-09-07 The life and career of the legendary developer celebrated as the “godfather of computer gaming,” and creator of Civilization. Over his four-decade career, Sid Meier has produced some of the world’s most popular video games, including Sid Meier’s Civilization, which has sold more than 51 million units worldwide and accumulated more than one billion hours of play. Sid Meier’s Memoir! is the story of an obsessive young computer enthusiast who helped launch a multibillion-dollar industry. Writing with warmth and ironic humor, Meier describes the genesis of his influential studio, MicroProse, founded in 1982 after a trip to a Las Vegas arcade, and recounts the development of landmark games, from vintage classics like Pirates! and Railroad Tycoon, to Civilization and beyond. Articulating his philosophy that a video game should be “a series of interesting decisions,” Meier also shares his perspective on the history of the industry, the psychology of gamers, and fascinating insights into the creative process, including his rules of good game design. |
| alpha centauri strategy: Albion's Seed David Hackett Fischer, 1991-03-14 This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are Albion's Seed, no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations. |
| alpha centauri strategy: Fire With Fire 3rd Edition Charles E. Gannon, 2024-02-06 THIRD EDITION, WITH NEW MATERIAL. COMPTON CROOK AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL. NEBULA AWARD FINALIST. National Bestseller in trade paperback. An agent for a spy organization uncovers an alien alliance in nearby interstellar space—an alliance that will soon involve humanity in politics and war on a galactic scale.2105, September: Intelligence Analyst Caine Riordan uncovers a conspiracy on Earth’s Moon—a history-changing clandestine project—and ends up involuntarily cryocelled for his troubles. Twelve years later, Riordan awakens to a changed world. Humanity has achieved faster-than-light travel and is pioneering nearby star systems. And now, Riordan is compelled to become an inadvertent agent of conspiracy himself. Riordan’s mission: travel to a newly settled world and investigate whether a primitive local species was once sentient—enough so to have built a lost civilization. However, arriving on site in the Delta Pavonis system, Caine discovers that the job he’s been given is anything but secret or safe. With assassins and saboteurs dogging his every step, it's clear that someone doesn't want his mission to succeed. In the end, it takes the broad-based insights of an intelligence analyst and a matching instinct for intrigue to ferret out the truth: that humanity is neither alone in the cosmos nor safe. Earth is revealed to be the lynchpin planet in an impending struggle for interstellar dominance, a struggle into which it is being irresistibly dragged. Discovering new dangers at every turn, Riordan must now convince the powers-that-be that the only way for humanity to survive as a free species is to face the perils directly—and to fight fire with fire. WINNER OF THE COMPTON CROOK AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL |
| alpha centauri strategy: Octopath Traveler: The Complete Guide Square Enix, 2020-12-01 Master Square Enix's critically acclaimed RPG Octopath Traveler with this comprehensive guide! Explore every corner of Orsterra with the help of this complete guide which includes insight and explanation of the main narrative as well as boss strategies for each of the games' eight protagonists! Dive deeper with detailed environment maps, subquest information, and beautiful illustrations that fully realize Octopath Traveler's HD-2D graphics with exclusive explanations and commentary from the development team. Dark Horse Books and Square Enix present a faithful localization of the original Japanese volume, offered in English for the first time! Whether you're a first-time player or looking to take your game to one hundred percent completion, this guide book is not to be missed! |
| alpha centauri strategy: The Precipice Toby Ord, 2020-03-24 In this urgent and “thrillingly written” book, there is a case and solution for humanity’s last shot at survival (Sunday Times). Humanity’s future is at risk. We face existential catastrophes, climate change, nuclear war, and more. If we do not act fast to reach a place of safety, it will soon be too late. Drawing on over a decade of research, The Precipice explores the cutting-edge science behind the risks we face. And it points the way forward, to the actions and strategies that can safeguard humanity. An Oxford philosopher, Toby Ord has advised the US National Intelligence Council, the UK Prime Minister's Office, and the World Bank on the biggest questions facing humanity. In The Precipice, he offers a startling reassessment of human history, the future we are failing to protect, and the steps we must take to ensure that our generation is not the last. A book that seems made for the present moment. —New Yorker |
| alpha centauri strategy: The Cult of Smart Fredrik deBoer, 2020-08-04 Named one of Vulture’s Top 10 Best Books of 2020! Leftist firebrand Fredrik deBoer exposes the lie at the heart of our educational system and demands top-to-bottom reform. Everyone agrees that education is the key to creating a more just and equal world, and that our schools are broken and failing. Proposed reforms variously target incompetent teachers, corrupt union practices, or outdated curricula, but no one acknowledges a scientifically-proven fact that we all understand intuitively: Academic potential varies between individuals, and cannot be dramatically improved. In The Cult of Smart, educator and outspoken leftist Fredrik deBoer exposes this omission as the central flaw of our entire society, which has created and perpetuated an unjust class structure based on intellectual ability. Since cognitive talent varies from person to person, our education system can never create equal opportunity for all. Instead, it teaches our children that hierarchy and competition are natural, and that human value should be based on intelligence. These ideas are counter to everything that the left believes, but until they acknowledge the existence of individual cognitive differences, progressives remain complicit in keeping the status quo in place. This passionate, voice-driven manifesto demands that we embrace a new goal for education: equality of outcomes. We must create a world that has a place for everyone, not just the academically talented. But we’ll never achieve this dream until the Cult of Smart is destroyed. |
| alpha centauri strategy: Exoplanet Science Strategy National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Board on Physics and Astronomy, Space Studies Board, Committee on Exoplanet Science Strategy, 2018-12-17 The past decade has delivered remarkable discoveries in the study of exoplanets. Hand-in-hand with these advances, a theoretical understanding of the myriad of processes that dictate the formation and evolution of planets has matured, spurred on by the avalanche of unexpected discoveries. Appreciation of the factors that make a planet hospitable to life has grown in sophistication, as has understanding of the context for biosignatures, the remotely detectable aspects of a planet's atmosphere or surface that reveal the presence of life. Exoplanet Science Strategy highlights strategic priorities for large, coordinated efforts that will support the scientific goals of the broad exoplanet science community. This report outlines a strategic plan that will answer lingering questions through a combination of large, ambitious community-supported efforts and support for diverse, creative, community-driven investigator research. |
| alpha centauri strategy: Hypothetical Spacecraft and Interstellar Travel Ezekiel Nygren, 2015-02-28 Hypothetical Spacecraft and Interstellar Travel collects information about the latest and greatest hypothetical spacecraft. |
| alpha centauri strategy: Game Design Richard Rouse III, 2004-08-30 “Both burgeoning game designers and devoted gamers should consider [Game Design: Theory & Practice] an essential read.” — Computer Gaming World “Ultimately, in both theory and practice, Rouse’s Game Design bible gets the job done. Let us pray.” - Next Generation magazine In the second edition to the acclaimed Game Design: Theory & Practice, designer Richard Rouse III balances a discussion of the essential concepts behind game design with an explanation of how you can implement them in your current project. Detailed analysis of successful games is interwoven with concrete examples from Rouse’s own experience. This second edition thoroughly updates the popular original with new chapters and fully revised text. |
| alpha centauri strategy: Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them Antonio Padilla, 2022-07-26 A fun, dazzling exploration of the strange numbers that illuminate the ultimate nature of reality. For particularly brilliant theoretical physicists like James Clerk Maxwell, Paul Dirac, or Albert Einstein, the search for mathematical truths led to strange new understandings of the ultimate nature of reality. But what are these truths? What are the mysterious numbers that explain the universe? In Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them, the leading theoretical physicist and YouTube star Antonio Padilla takes us on an irreverent cosmic tour of nine of the most extraordinary numbers in physics, offering a startling picture of how the universe works. These strange numbers include Graham’s number, which is so large that if you thought about it in the wrong way, your head would collapse into a singularity; TREE(3), whose finite nature can never be definitively proved, because to do so would take so much time that the universe would experience a Poincaré Recurrence—resetting to precisely the state it currently holds, down to the arrangement of individual atoms; and 10^{-120}, measuring the desperately unlikely balance of energy needed to allow the universe to exist for more than just a moment, to extend beyond the size of a single atom—in other words, the mystery of our unexpected universe. Leading us down the rabbit hole to a deeper understanding of reality, Padilla explains how these unusual numbers are the key to understanding such mind-boggling phenomena as black holes, relativity, and the problem of the cosmological constant—that the two best and most rigorously tested ways of understanding the universe contradict one another. Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them is a combination of popular and cutting-edge science—and a lively, entertaining, and even funny exploration of the most fundamental truths about the universe. |
| alpha centauri strategy: The Shiva Option David Weber, Steve White, 2002-02-01 DEFEAT WAS NOT AN OPTION The war wasn't going well. The mind-numbingly alien Arachnids were an enemy whose like no civilized race had ever confronted. Like some carnivorous cancer, the Bugs had overrun planet after planet . . . and they regarded any competing sentient species as only one more protein source. They couldn't be reasoned with, or even talked to, because no one had the least idea of how to communicate with a telepathic species with no recognizable language . . . and whose response to any communication attempt was a missile salvo. No one knew how large their civilization¾if it could be called a civilization¾actually was, or how it was organized, but the huge fleets they threw against their opponents suggested that it was enormous. The Grand Alliance of Humans, Orions, Ophiuchi, and Gorm, united in desperate self-defense, have been driven to the wall. Billions of their civilians have been slaughtered. Their most powerful offensive operation has ended in shattering defeat and the deaths of their most experienced and revered military commanders. The edge in technology with which they began the war is eroding out from under them and whatever they do, the Bugs just keep coming. But the warriors of the Grand Alliance know what stands behind them and they will surrender no more civilians to the oncoming juggernaut. They will die first . . . and they will also reactivate General Directive 18, however horrible it may be. Because when the only possible outcomes are victory or racial extermination, only one option is acceptable. The Shiva Option At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). |
| alpha centauri strategy: How It Began: A Time-Traveler's Guide to the Universe Chris Impey, 2012-03-26 “Impey combines the vision of a practicing scientist with the voice of a gifted storyteller.”—Dava Sobel In this vibrant, eye-opening tour of milestones in the history of our universe, Chris Impey guides us through space and time, leading us from the familiar sights of the night sky to the dazzlingly strange aftermath of the Big Bang. What if we could look into space and see not only our place in the universe but also how we came to be here? As it happens, we can. Because it takes time for light to travel, we see more and more distant regions of the universe as they were in the successively greater past. Impey uses this concept—look-back time—to take us on an intergalactic tour that is simultaneously out in space and back in time. Performing a type of cosmic archaeology, Impey brilliantly describes the astronomical clues that scientists have used to solve fascinating mysteries about the origins and development of our universe. The milestones on this journey range from the nearby to the remote: we travel from the Moon, Jupiter, and the black hole at the heart of our galaxy all the way to the first star, the first ray of light, and even the strange, roiling conditions of the infant universe, an intense and volatile environment in which matter was created from pure energy. Impey gives us breathtaking visual descriptions and also explains what each landmark can reveal about the universe and its history. His lucid, wonderfully engaging scientific discussions bring us to the brink of modern cosmology and physics, illuminating such mind-bending concepts as invisible dimensions, timelessness, and multiple universes. A dynamic and unforgettable portrait of the cosmos, How It Began will reward its readers with a deeper understanding of the universe we inhabit as well as a renewed sense of wonder at its beauty and mystery. |
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| alpha centauri strategy: The Starship and the Canoe Kenneth Brower, 2020-02-18 “The Starship and the Canoe is neither a wilderness survival manual nor a book of blueprints. It is another of those rare books impossible to define: the kind that seeks you in time. And you will know it, live it, and consult it thereafter simply by name.” --Chicago Sun-Times “Brower’s superbly written book clutches at one’s imagination.” --Publishers Weekly “In the tradition of Carl Sagan and John McPhee, a bracing cerebral voyage past intergalactic hoopla and backwoods retreats.” --Kirkus Reviews Originally published in 1978, The Starship and the Canoe is the remarkable story of a father and son: Freeman Dyson is a world-renowned astrophysicist who dreams of exploring the heavens and has designed a spaceship to take him there. His son George, a brilliant high school dropout, lives in a treehouse and is designing a giant kayak to explore the icy coastal wilderness of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Author Kenneth Brower describes with stunning impact their lives and their visions of the world. It is a timeless tale framed by modern science, adventure, family, and the natural world. |
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| alpha centauri strategy: Alien Oceans Kevin Hand, 2020-04-07 Inside the epic quest to find life on the water-rich moons at the outer reaches of the solar system Where is the best place to find life beyond Earth? We often look to Mars as the most promising site in our solar system, but recent scientific missions have revealed that some of the most habitable real estate may actually lie farther away. Beneath the frozen crusts of several of the small, ice-covered moons of Jupiter and Saturn lurk vast oceans that may have existed for as long as Earth, and together may contain more than fifty times its total volume of liquid water. Could there be organisms living in their depths? Alien Oceans reveals the science behind the thrilling quest to find out. Kevin Peter Hand is one of today's leading NASA scientists, and his pioneering research has taken him on expeditions around the world. In this captivating account of scientific discovery, he brings together insights from planetary science, biology, and the adventures of scientists like himself to explain how we know that oceans exist within moons of the outer solar system, like Europa, Titan, and Enceladus. He shows how the exploration of Earth's oceans is informing our understanding of the potential habitability of these icy moons, and draws lessons from what we have learned about the origins of life on our own planet to consider how life could arise on these distant worlds. Alien Oceans describes what lies ahead in our search for life in our solar system and beyond, setting the stage for the transformative discoveries that may await us. |
| alpha centauri strategy: Game Design Workshop Tracy Fullerton, 2014-03-05 Create the Digital Games You Love to Play Discover an exercise-driven, non-technical approach to game design without the need for programming or artistic expertise using Game Design Workshop, Third Edition. Author Tracy Fullerton demystifies the creative process with a clear and accessible analysis of the formal and dramatic systems of game design. Examples of popular games, illustrations of design techniques, and refined exercises strengthen your understanding of how game systems function and give you the skills and tools necessary to create a compelling and engaging game. The book puts you to work prototyping, playtesting, and revising your own games with time-tested methods and tools. It provides you with the foundation to advance your career in any facet of the game industry, including design, producing, programming, and visual design. |
| alpha centauri strategy: Outer Worlds Tactical Decision-Making Strategy Guide Sebastian Hale, Outer Worlds Tactical Decision-Making Strategy Guide walks you through Halcyon’s corporate dystopia with flexibility and wit. Learn dialogue skill checks, weapon modifications, and companion perks. This guide includes quest outcomes, faction diplomacy, and stealth vs. combat tactics. With branching narratives and multiple endings, it's your key to navigating space-fueled satire. |
| alpha centauri strategy: Star Trek, the Worlds of the Federation , 1989 Based on the Star Trek adventures (including Star Trek: The Next Generation) this book uses hundreds of star charts, line drawings and color illustrations to outline the history of the worlds visited by the Starship Enterprise. |
| alpha centauri strategy: Popular Science , 1999-03 Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better. |
| alpha centauri strategy: The 2030 Spike Colin Mason, 2003 The clock is relentlessly ticking Our world teeters on a knife-edge between a peaceful and prosperous future for all, and a dark winter of death and destruction that threatens to smother the light of civilization. Within 30 years, in the 2030 decade, six powerful 'drivers' will converge with unprecedented force in a statistical spike that could tear humanity apart and plunge the world into a new Dark Age. Depleted fuel supplies, massive population growth, poverty, global climate change, famine, growing water shortages and international lawlessness are on a crash course with potentially catastrophic consequences. In the face of both doomsaying and denial over the state of our world, Colin Mason cuts through the rhetoric and reams of conflicting data to muster the evidence to illustrate a broad picture of the world as it is, and our possible futures. Ultimately his message is clear; we must act decisively, collectively and immediately to alter the trajectory of humanity away from catastrophe. Offering over 100 priorities for immediate action, The 2030 Spike serves as a guidebook for humanity through the treacherous minefields and wastelands ahead to a bright, peaceful and prosperous future in which all humans have the opportunity to thrive and build a better civilization. This book is powerful and essential reading for all people concerned with the future of humanity and planet earth. |
| alpha centauri strategy: ETs on Earth, Volume 1 Robert Shapiro, 2012-05-29 Greetings. This is Zoosh. In the beginning of the Explorer Race adventure--that means you, all humans on Earth--way back, ETs on Earth were a normal thing. In fact, you were ETs who came from many different planets those thousands of years ago, and you felt that Earth was a wonderful place where you could thrive. I want you to keep that in mind when you read about these ETs that happen to be still visiting the Earth. In this book, as well as in other books that have material like this, if you can keep that in mind, it will not be too surprising or shocking. In fact, for most of you, you will be ETs again in another life and your youngsters just might be ETs from Earth visiting other planets in the future. This should be a fun read and a gentle reminder that ETs are just friends from some place--you might say from another neighborhood. Good life. Chapters include: ET Beings Use Green Light to Support Earth Beings Humans Are Going through Rapid Changes on Earth Update on ETs and UFOs Blue Spiral Light over Norway A Glimpse Beyond the Explorer Race Will There Be a Phony ET Invasion on Earth? Orbs Are Lightbeings Visiting Benevolent Spaces You Traverse to Your Home Planet in Deep Sleep The Little People Are Humans from Alpha Centauri Beware of a Staged ET Invasion Crop Circles: Origins, Purposes, and Mysteries |
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| alpha centauri strategy: Four Future Seasons Craig Wing, 2025-03-01 In an increasingly unpredictable world, traditional methods of planning no longer suffice. Four Future Seasons offers a groundbreaking approach to navigating uncertainty, empowering readers to adapt to the future and actively shape it. Drawing from international experiences, doctoral research and diverse perspectives as a global expert in futures strategy, Craig Wing’s Four Future Seasons combines deep insights with practical strategies to anticipate disruptions and thrive in times of change. This innovative model draws from diverse and fascinating concepts such as Rumsfeld’s ‘unknown unknowns’, the Johari Window and the timeless wisdom of the Japanese four-season garden to offer a dynamic framework for identifying early signals of change and respond with agility. More than a guide for business leaders, this book is for anyone who wants to create a better future for themselves, whether navigating personal growth, leadership challenges or unforeseen life changes. With personal stories of resilience and innovation woven throughout, Four Future Seasons equips readers with the tools, foresight and confidence to thrive through all seasons of life. |
| alpha centauri strategy: The Great Divide Peter Watson, 2012-06-26 This “ingenious work about the course of human history” examines why civilizations evolved so differently in the Americas and Eurasia (Kirkus, starred review). By 15,000 BC, humans had migrated from northeastern Asia across the frozen Bering land bridge to the Americas. When the last Ice Age came to an end, the Bering Strait refilled with water, dividing America from Eurasia. This division continued until Christopher Columbus voyaged to the New World in the fifteenth century. The Great Divide compares the development of humankind in the Old World and the New between 15,000 BC and AD 1,500. Combining the most up-to-date knowledge in archaeology, anthropology, geology, meteorology, cosmology, and mythology, Peter Watson’s masterful study offers uniquely revealing insight into what it means to be human. |
| alpha centauri strategy: Space Elevators: A History David Raitt, 2017-03-07 Under the editorship of David Raitt, this timely book brings together for the first time the record of people, places, developments and activities, in fiction and in fact, of the space elevator - a 100,000 km long, meter wide, ribbon reaching up from the Earth and into space along which robotic climbers that will travel to bring payloads into orbit at a fraction of the price of rocket launches. The chapters in the book cover the early pioneers who dreamt up the concept initially some 120 years ago; the work of modern day scientists and engineers who have developed the concept into doable plans; how the concept has been portrayed in novels, films and art; the conferences at which interested people could present and discuss their work and ideas; the global community that has grown up around space elevators and the competition challenges that have been held; and what the future may hold. |
| alpha centauri strategy: Final Fantasy and Philosophy Jason P. Blahuta, Michel S. Beaulieu, 2009-09-22 An unauthorized look behind one of the greatest video game franchises of all time, Final Fantasy The Final Fantasy universe is packed with compelling characters and incredible storylines. In this book, you'll take a fascinating look at the deeper issues that Final Fantasy forces players to think about while trying to battle their way to the next level, such as: Does Cloud really exist (or should we really care)? Is Kefka really insane? Are Moogles part of a socialist conspiracy? Does the end of the game justify the means? As Mages, Moogles, fiends, and Kefka are mashed together with the likes of Machiavelli, Marx, Foucault, and Kafka, you'll delve into crucial topics such as madness, nihilism, environmental ethics, Shintoism, the purpose of life, and much more. Examines the philosophical issues behind one of the world's oldest and most popular video-game series Offers new perspectives on Final Fantasy characters and themes Gives you a psychological advantage--or at least a philosophical one--against your Final Fantasy enemies Allows you to apply the wisdom of centuries of philosophy to any game in the series, including Final Fantasy XIII Guaranteed to add a new dimension to your understanding of the Final Fantasy universe, this book is the ultimate companion to the ultimate video-game series. |
| alpha centauri strategy: The Arcturus Probe Jose Arguelles, 1996-12-12 Arcturus is the name given to the star system some thirty-seven light-years from our own. It includes at least a half dozen planetary bodies and is many times larger and much older than our own star and its system. Arcturian involvement with our system began over three million years ago when a space colony--a galactic space station--was established on Velatropa 24.4, otherwise known as Mars. With its 40,000-year warm cycles, Mars provided the perfect experimental way station. If anything went wrong, at least those on the Arcturus system would not be affected--or so it was thought. Some of those in command of the Martian project had not considered carefully enough the inexorable efficacy of karma, the law of cause and effect. By the time strange events began to transpire on Mars, little did anyone on Mars or Arcturus reckon the strange consequences of forgetting about each other's mutual existence. Thus unfolds the tale of the Arcturian experimental way station, V.24.4, otherwise known as Mars. |
| alpha centauri strategy: Procedural Storytelling in Game Design Tanya X. Short, Tarn Adams, 2019-03-14 This edited collection of chapters concerns the evolving discipline of procedural storytelling in video games. Games are an interactive medium, and this interplay between author, player and machine provides new and exciting ways to create and tell stories. In each essay, practitioners of this artform demonstrate how traditional storytelling tools such as characterization, world-building, theme, momentum and atmosphere can be adapted to full effect, using specific examples from their games. The reader will learn to construct narrative systems, write procedural dialog, and generate compelling characters with unique personalities and backstories. Key Features Introduces the differences between static/traditional game design and procedural game design Demonstrates how to solve or avoid common problems with procedural game design in a variety of concrete ways World’s finest guide for how to begin thinking about procedural design |
| alpha centauri strategy: Universal Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw, 2017-03-28 An awe-inspiring, unforgettable journey of scientific exploration from Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw, the international bestselling authors of Why Does E=MC2? and The Quantum Universe, with 55 black-&-white and 45 full-color pages featuring photographs, diagrams, maps, tables, and graphs. We dare to imagine a time before the Big Bang, when the entire universe was compressed into a space smaller than an atom. And now, as Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw show, we can do more than imagine: we can understand. Universal takes us on an epic journey of scientific exploration. It reveals how we can all come to grips with some of the most fundamental questions about our Earth, Sun, and solar system--and the star-filled galaxies beyond. How big is our solar system? How quickly is space expanding? How big is the universe? What is it made of? Some of these questions can be answered on the basis of observations you can make in your own backyard. Other answers draw on the astonishing information now being gathered by teams of astronomers operating at the frontiers of the known universe. At the heart of all this lies the scientific method. Science reveals a deeper beauty and connects us to each other, to our world, and to our universe. Science reaches out into the unknown. As Universal demonstrates, if we dare to imagine, we can do the same. |
| alpha centauri strategy: Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Rafael Kayanan, Steve Darnall, 1999 Based on the best-selling computer game, this is a,story-rich, fascinating world filled with the,tension of geo-political forces in confrontation.,For thsoe who play the game, here is the chanve to,get on Planet and witness it on a flesh and bone,level. Earth has self destructed. Only one ship,escapes with a selection of people from around the,world to colonize a new planet. Upon their,arrival, the captain is mysteriously murdered and,the colonizers disperse, forming factions, each,with distinct philosophies on how to prosper in,their new home. |
| alpha centauri strategy: Princeton Review ACT Science Prep The Princeton Review, 2023-01-10 Boost your ACT Science score with this brand new all-in-one guide, filled with complete content review of the Science section, targeted advice from experts, and 4 full-length practice tests for ACT Science. Techniques That Actually Work • Tried-and-true strategies to help you avoid traps and beat the ACT® Science Test • Essential tactics to help you work smarter, not harder • Tips for pacing yourself and guessing logically Everything You Need for a High Score • Expert guidance on how to analyze ACT Science passages and effectively answer the accompanying questions • Step-by-step walk-throughs of key ACT Science problems • A focused discussion of “conflicting viewpoints” strategy Practice Your Way to Excellence • 4 ACT Science practice tests with detailed answer explanations • End-of-chapter drills to help cement your knowledge Also available: ACT English Prep, ACT Reading Prep, and ACT Math Prep |
| alpha centauri strategy: Instant CORBA Robert Orfali, Dan Harkey, Jeri Edwards, 1997-03-28 Distributed CORBA Objects have found their killer app. It's the Object Web-or the marriage of distributed objects and the Internet. The major computing companies-including Sun, JavaSoft, IBM, Netscape, Apple, Oracle, BEA, and HP-have chosen CORBA IIOP as their common way to connect distributed objects across the Internet and intranets. Consequently, CORBA is about to become as ubiquitous as TCP/IP. Instant CORBA is your quick guide to understanding this revolutionary new technology. If you're in a real hurry, this book even provides a condensed tour that will make you CORBA literate in four hours or less. Written in a friendly and witty style, this comprehensive book covers: * The Object Web-or how CORBA/IIOP, Java, and the Internet are coming together * Everything you need to know about a CORBA 2.0 ORB * The 15 CORBA Object Services-including Transactions, Trader, Security, Naming, Events, Time, and Collections. These services provide the next step in the evolution of distributed objects. * CORBA's Dynamic Object Facilities such as Callbacks, Dynamic Invocations, Object Introspection, and the Interface Repository * Next-generation ORB technology-including CORBA 3.0's. Messaging, Pass-by-Value, and Server-Side Frameworks * The marriage of CORBA with MOM and TP Monitors * Forthcoming CORBA attractions such as mobile agents, shippable places, and the business object framework * Products such as Iona's OrbixWeb, Netscape/Visigenic's VisiBroker, and Sun's NEO/JOE. The authors have written many best-selling books, including The Essential Distributed Objects Survival Guide and The Essential Client/Server Survival Guide, Second Edition, which won Software Development's Jolt Award for the best book of 1994, in its first edition. Their most recent book is Client/Server Programming with Java and CORBA. |
| alpha centauri strategy: Maximum PC , 1999-05 Maximum PC is the magazine that every computer fanatic, PC gamer or content creator must read. Each and every issue is packed with punishing product reviews, insightful and innovative how-to stories and the illuminating technical articles that enthusiasts crave. |
| alpha centauri strategy: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) Dennis Taylor, 2016-09-20 Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street. Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling AI in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets. The stakes are high: no less than the first claim to entire worlds. If he declines the honor, he'll be switched off, and they'll try again with someone else. If he accepts, he becomes a prime target. There are at least three other countries trying to get their own probes launched first, and they play dirty. The safest place for Bob is in space, heading away from Earth at top speed. Or so he thinks. Because the universe is full of nasties, and trespassers make them mad - very mad. |
| alpha centauri strategy: Civilization Strategies and Secrets Jason R. Rich, 1994 Civilization is the most highly rated and bestselling simulation game ever made. This book takes readers behind the scenes as they learn about this game through an interview with its creators and obtain insight into the best strategies to use. The book helps the computer user install the software, discusses secrets, cheat keys, and programs and unlocks hidden strategies. |
| alpha centauri strategy: Andrew Rollings and Ernest Adams on Game Design Andrew Rollings, Ernest Adams, 2003 How often have you heard anyone can design a game? While it seems like an easy job, game ideas are cheap and plentiful. Advancing those ideas into games that people want to play is one of the hardest, and most under-appreciated, tasks in the game development cycle. Andrew Rollings and Ernest Adams on Game Design introduces both students and experienced developers to the craft of designing computer and video games for the retail market. The first half of the book is a detailed analysis of the key game design elements: examining game concepts and worlds, storytelling, character and user interface design, core mechanics and balance. The second half discusses each of the major game genres (action, adventure, role-playing, strategy, puzzle, and so on) and identifies the design patterns and unique creative challenges that characterize them. Filled with examples and worksheets, this book takes an accessible, practical approach to creating fun, innovative, and highly playable games. |
| alpha centauri strategy: The Age of Em Robin Hanson, 2016-05-19 Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like? Many think the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations or ems. Scan a human brain, then run a model with the same connections on a fast computer, and you have a robot brain, but recognizably human. Train an em to do some job and copy it a million times: an army of workers is at your disposal. When they can be made cheaply, within perhaps a century, ems will displace humans in most jobs. In this new economic era, the world economy may double in size every few weeks. Some say we can't know the future, especially following such a disruptive new technology, but Professor Robin Hanson sets out to prove them wrong. Applying decades of expertise in physics, computer science, and economics, he uses standard theories to paint a detailed picture of a world dominated by ems. While human lives don't change greatly in the em era, em lives are as different from ours as our lives are from those of our farmer and forager ancestors. Ems make us question common assumptions of moral progress, because they reject many of the values we hold dear. Read about em mind speeds, body sizes, job training and career paths, energy use and cooling infrastructure, virtual reality, aging and retirement, death and immortality, security, wealth inequality, religion, teleportation, identity, cities, politics, law, war, status, friendship and love. This book shows you just how strange your descendants may be, though ems are no stranger than we would appear to our ancestors. To most ems, it seems good to be an em. |
想了解omega，beta，alpha，ABO是什么意思，别人说的时候我都 …
alpha和omega数量稀缺。alpha通常体质、头脑都很好，是社会中的精英；omega则十分娇弱，但具有很强的生育能力，她们就类似古代的女人，一般不会被允许劳作，而作为珍贵的生育工具 …
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分别为置信上限和置信下限。为什么是 \geqslant1-{\alpha} 当等于 1-{\alpha} 时，主要针对总体分布为连续型分析时，当大于 1-{\alpha} 针对总体分布为离散型分布时，一般来讲参数 \theta 的 …
有没有大神可以把力矩的物理意义讲清楚？ - 知乎
对于平动，有 F=ma ，其中 F 为合外力， m 为惯性质量（即质量）， a 为加速度；而对于转动，有 M=J\alpha ，其中 M 为合外力矩， J 为转动惯量， \alpha 为角加速度。 （对于转动也 …
统计学假设检验中 p 值的含义具体是什么？ - 知乎
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想了解omega，beta，alpha，ABO是什么意思，别人说的时候我都 …
alpha和omega数量稀缺。alpha通常体质、头脑都很好，是社会中的精英；omega则十分娇弱，但具有很强的生育能力，她们就类似古代的女人，一般不会被允许劳作，而作为珍贵的生育工具 …
为什么用 ‘Alpha’ 代表透明度？ - 知乎
Aug 3, 2013 · 为什么取名为 Alpha 通道，我觉得是因为这是除RGB以外「第一个通道」的意思，没有别的更深刻的含义。 「Alpha 通道」是图片内在的一个属性，用 css 或者其他外部方法 …
什么是指令集？CPU的指令集是怎么运作的？X86、ARM、MIPS …
5、DEC Alpha Alpha是DEC公司推出的RISC指令集系统，基于Alpha指令集的CPU也称为Alpha AXP架构，是64位的 RISC微处理器，最初由DEC公司制造，并被用于DEC自己的工作站和服 …
ɑ与a的区别是什么？是不是a是英文印刷体，而ɑ是汉语拼音字母？ …
Feb 23, 2025 · 第二，从编码角度来说，你输入的「a」这个字符是 U+0061，在绝大部分字体中被视作正常的拉丁字母小写 a；「ɑ」这个字符是 U+0251，叫 Latin alpha。在 Unicode 眼中， …
什么是西格玛男人？ - 知乎
与Alpha男性具备同等购买力的财富和外表，是过度自负的表现；而赋予自身“在系统之外不被理解”的孤独感，是自卑的外化。 “西格玛男性与incel有很多共同之处，他们普遍认为自己太聪明 …
统计学中的P值如何计算？ - 知乎
分别为置信上限和置信下限。为什么是 \geqslant1-{\alpha} 当等于 1-{\alpha} 时，主要针对总体分布为连续型分析时，当大于 1-{\alpha} 针对总体分布为离散型分布时，一般来讲参数 \theta 的 …
有没有大神可以把力矩的物理意义讲清楚？ - 知乎
对于平动，有 F=ma ，其中 F 为合外力， m 为惯性质量（即质量）， a 为加速度；而对于转动，有 M=J\alpha ，其中 M 为合外力矩， J 为转动惯量， \alpha 为角加速度。 （对于转动也 …
统计学假设检验中 p 值的含义具体是什么？ - 知乎
若设定 \alpha=0.05 ，我们只有观测到“女士答对7次或者7次以上”时，才会拒绝原假设；若设定 \alpha=0.01 ，则只有当观测到“女士答对8次”时才会拒绝原假设。 可见，如果我们希望犯第I类 …
有没有前辈知道alphasights 这个公司怎么样？适合刚毕业的美本入 …
有没有前辈知道alphasights 这个公司怎么样？适合刚毕业的美本入行吗？ - 知乎
2025年智能锁推荐，智能门锁怎么选？看这一篇就够了！
Jun 1, 2025 · 2、明确安装条件. 年货节选购智能门锁除了要看产品的参数，还要在买前了解自家门体的情况，确认是否符合安装智能锁的条件，否则有可能出现安装人员拆掉门锁后才发现无法 …
