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Development of Izdeliye 100 The Sukhoi T-4 is the Soviet response to the US. Trisonic American XB-70 bomber Valkyrie, born in late 1950. The main function of the unit was to be the destruction of aircraft carriers and other major units of the United States Navy and strategic missile silos based on land. It also had to be adapted to reconnaissance missions. The specifications were provided by GosNIIAS. The attacker would be able to transport two air-to-ground missiles with a range of 500 km. Its maximum speed was to reach Mach 3.0, its Mach 2.8 cruising speed, and it had to be able to cover 6000 km without refueling. Three builders responded to the tender in the spring of 1962: Tupolev with the Tu-135, Yakovlev with the Yak-33 and Sukhoi with the T-4. The Yak-33, too small and not complying with the specifications, was discarded quickly. The Tu-135, built in aluminum, was designed for a maximum speed of Mach 2.35. That alone left the T-4 that, with its structure in steel and titanium alloy, was cut for trisicas speeds.

Work on the T-4, known by Sukhoi as Izdeliye 100, began in September 1961, even before the tender. For the record, the number 100 comes from the weight of the device, and is at the origin of its nickname Sotka. Sukhoi I-2, designed by Oleg Samoylovich, served as the starting point for the development of the T-4. 
When the T-4 was retained in April 1963, Tupolev was furious at being removed from the project, his OKB was an authority in the field of bombers. But, oddly enough, there were strong tensions within the OKB Sukhoi, with several department heads fearing that the development of the attacker would cast doubt on other programs. His opposition frustrated a plan to recover OKB Lavochkin to support the development of the T-4. Eventually, KB-82 Bourevestnik and Touchino's TMZ plant became branches of Sukhoi and helped develop the T-4. 
The draft of the T-4 was studied by a special commission of members of the VVS and GKAT between May 21 and June 3, 1963. In the end, Sukhoi was able to build a scale model of wood. of the T-4, which was manufactured by the "Koulon" factory. At the end of 1963, a decree of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the Council of Ministers of the USSR authorized the large-scale development of the T-4, which provides a hypothetical first flight for 1968.

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hello greetings. I send you my design for lunar currency and the solar currency. for the design take into account the legendary Nordic mythology, the goddess Sól, who rode every day through the skies in his car; the mane of their horses emitted the light, and their own the heat of the day. the lunar coin with a modern and avant-garde design with a silver color of the silver color of the moon, and the Sköll symbol representing the moon in Nordic mythology, Máni, the moon god, is in the background image on the lunar coin. and of the second fund lines with the symbols mentioned above that represent the network since it will be a cryptocurrency. The points on the sides of the circumference of the whole coin represent the watchful stars and guides of outer space as well as the satellites that revolve around the planet Earth.

the coin the solar. It has the symbol of the sun in the mythology Nordic, as well as the wolf Hati, who chased the moon at night. In the background of the relief, as the third third plane is the union of the solar symbol and the wolf hati chasing the moon.Also on the circumferential edge of the coin the dots represent the stars and the satellites that accompany the planet earth.

Sköll and Sól, Hati and Máni. The wolves that chase the sun and the moon.

I hope of heart is taken into account in the contest and thus contribute to the design of the lunar and solar cryptocurrency. I spent a lot of effort and love in the design, I even had to study certain design techniques that I did not know and research a lot about the Nordic mythology, however it was worth it!

They say that evil always follows the steps of good with the intention of destroying it, so the ancient inhabitants of the Northern regions imagined that both Sol (the Sun) and Mani (the Moon) were persecuted incessantly by the fierce wolves called Sköll (repulsion) and Hati (hate). Sons / brothers of Fenrir that was the giant wolf, the beast of Ragnarök (the day of the End of the World, The Twilight of the Gods) and brothers of Mánagarm, the dog of the Moon that devours the flesh of the dead.

But envy shook them and their only objective was to reach and devour the brilliant and beautiful objects they were pursuing, Sköll chasing Sól and Hati to Mani, so that the world would be again enveloped in its initial darkness. But a curse made by Odin hung from them: only when the Ragnarök arrived would they be able to reach them and destroy the heavenly chariots. 
It was said that sometimes, the wolves reached and tried to devour their prey, consequently producing an eclipse of the brilliant orbs. Then, the terrified people caused a roar so deafening, that the wolves, frightened by the noise, released them from their jaws. Once free again, Sól and Mani resumed their way, pursued swiftly by the hungry monsters through their wake, anxiously waiting for the moment when their efforts would be rewarded with the end of the world. The nations of the North believed that their Gods had emerged from an alliance between the divine element (Börr) and the mortal (Bestla, the giantess), so they were finite and condemned to perish with the world they had created.

Mani was also accompanied by Hiuki, the crescent moon, and Bil, the waning moon, two children he had snatched from Earth, where a cruel father had forced them to carry water all night long. Our ancestors thought they saw these children, with their cubes shading slightly over the Moon. The gods not only named the Sun, the Moon, the Day and the Night to mark the course of the day, they also assigned to the Evening, Midnight, Morning, Dawn, Noon and Evening to share their tasks, naming Summer and Winter as the governors of the seasons, as leaders of the passage of time, until the decline of the gods. Summer, descend directly from Svasud (the soft and charming). He inherited the gentle character of his lord and was loved by all except Winter, his mortal enemy and son of Vindsual, who was himself the son of the unpleasant god Vasud, personification of the icy winds. The cold winds blew continuously from the North, cooling the whole Earth and the Norse believed they were set in motion by the great giant Hresvelgr (the corpse devourer), who, dressed in eagle feathers, sat on the edge of the northern end from the skies and when he raised his arms or wings, cold gusts were created and blew mercilessly on the face of the Earth, destroying everything with his icy breath.

Scientists at Russia's Sun X-ray Astronomy Laboratory have warned the inhabitants of our planet of a series of geomagnetic disturbances that will be recorded on Earth in April 2018. These disturbances will occur between April 11 and 19. Russian astronomers even warn that a full-blown geomagnetic storm may occur on April 12.

The passage of the Earth through the solar wind flows is not an extraordinary phenomenon. These flows are often recorded at times of minimum activity of the star. It turns out that during such periods, the Sun's magnetic field weakens considerably and loses its ability to retain solar plasma near the surface. 
As a result, the speed and density of plasma flows increase, forming the so-called solar wind. 
A series of prolonged geomagnetic disturbances caused by the Sun was detected on Earth in 2017 and 2018.

There is a growing gap in the defenses of the Earth, and this time it is about its magnetic field. 
This field is not only responsible for the fact that our planet has a North and South Pole and that our compasses work, but it also represents a vital shield that protects us from the harmful radiation that constantly bombards us from the Sun or space deep.

According to new research, this disruption is part of a pattern that has lasted more than 1,000 years. The last time it happened was about 780,000 years ago, although it came back closer some 40,000 years ago. The region that most concerns scientists at this time is called the South Atlantic Anomaly. It is a large extension of electromagnetic field that covers an area from Chile to Zimbabwe, and it is Uruguay that has its most weakened field. Some have come to call it the 'Bermuda Triangle' space. Within the anomaly, the field is so weak that it is dangerous for the Earth's satellites to enter, since the additional radiation could disrupt their electronic devices.

It is thought that the current weakening in Earth's magnetic field - which has been occurring more actively in the last 160 years - is caused by a vast deposit of dense rock called African Large Low Shear Velocity Province, which is found about 2,900 kilometers below the African continent. The magnetic field is generated by the swirl of liquid iron in the outer core of the Earth. However, it is too early to say with certainty whether this behavior will lead to a complete reversal of poles, which is currently a probability.

Yuri Gagarin traveled to Cuba in July 1961, months after stepping into space and becoming the world's first cosmonaut. However, traveling to the cosmos did not seem sufficient and 100 days after this feat Gagarin arrived in Havana to continue fulfilling dreams. The entire island was prepared for its arrival: portraits of the cosmonaut with flags of the then Soviet Union (USSR) adorned the main avenues of the Cuban capital. Gagarin had been invited to the multitudinous act that every July 26 the Cuban Government celebrates every year in the Plaza de la Revolución.

A persistent downpour greeted the Soviet hero at the José Martí airport, where Castro was waiting for him in person, accompanied by then-president of Cuba Osvaldo Dorticós and other members of the government, according to a publication by the Cuban Council of State. A military guard performed the welcome honors and Gagarin descended the Aeroflot ladder dressed in impeccable white and smiling. Hundreds of capitals greeted the visitor gathered along Rancho Boyeros Avenue that connects the airport with the city center.

His arrival made the Cubans feel part of that April 12, 1961 when Gagarin in the small Vostok 1, made reality the conquest of space, one of the dreams most desired by the powers of those times.

The fact was recognized worldwide as an extraordinary achievement of Soviet technique and science, 16 years after the USSR defeated fascism. The Soviet press reflected Gagarin's interest in Cuba after his return to 'mainland' as if the cosmos were a minor ambition.

In Cuba, the Soviet hero met with students from the University of Havana and visited the wounded of the invasion of Playa Girón, a military operation organized by Cuban exiles and the United States Government to invade the island, days after Gagarin will conquer space. On July 26 he attended the commemorative ceremony of the 8th anniversary of the assault on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks, in the Plaza de la Revolución. There, President Dorticós honored Gagarin with the highest distinction existing in Cuba until that moment: the National Order Playa Girón.

"In carrying out the historic feat that consecrates him as the first cosmonaut in the world, he has contributed with exemplary heroism to the progress of humanity and peace," said the Cuban president. According to the publication, Yuri took the microphones to express his gratitude and in the presence of Castro spoke of another wish: "I am sure that the time is not far away when the Cuban cosmonauts will fly to the cosmos, (...) for this branch to contribute to the progress of humanity. "

However, Gagarin died on March 27, 1968 during a training flight, without seeing his wish fulfilled. The news so moved Castro that in September of 1980, when the first representative of Cuba and America in the cosmos, Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez returned from space, he was ordered not to handle a military plane again.

Since then Tamayo can only take commercial flights as a passenger, however, the smile of this cosmonaut when he talks about his trip to space is the closest thing to Gagarin that Cubans have.

The Kalashnikov consortium will buy 60% of the shares of the NPO Molniya spacecraft design office - known for having created the first and only Soviet space shuttle Buran - from the Russian public corporation Rostec, reports Kommersant. Russia's deputy prime minister, Dmitri Rogozin, gave secret instructions about the resumption of the works of creation and development of an analogue of the Soviet ferry Buran on a new technological base, assures the Russian newspaper, which cites industrial sources.

Kalashnikov's acquisition of the Design Office created by Buran will have a positive effect on the development of reusable launch space systems, the general director of the Kalashnikov consortium, Alexei Krivoruchko, told Kommersant. "The integration of NPO Molniya into the Kalashnikov consortium will give a boost to the development of reusable launch space systems and the production of multi-purpose missiles," he said. The value of the transaction has not been revealed at the moment. The representatives of the consortium confirmed the acquisition of the shareholding package of the NPO Molniya Design Office and added that they comply with the instructions of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who had ordered the bankruptcy of the company.

The Buran program was launched in full space race between the US and the USSR, in parallel and in response to the US space shuttle project. The launching system was made up of the Buran ferry itself and the 'Energia' transport rocket, designed specifically for this flight. The only flight of the Buran and its subsequent descent to Earth in fully automatic mode took place on November 15, 1988.

A fast-paced video created by the American John Boswell summarizes 13,800 million years from the Big Bang to the appearance of the human being.

The video creator and youtuber John Boswell has created a video entitled 'Timelapse of the Entire Universe' ('Timelapse of the whole universe'), which shows the whole age of the universe in 10 minutes. The video, published on YouTube at the beginning of March, shows in 10 minutes the 13,800 million years from the Big Bang to the appearance of the human being. For this the author compressed 22 million years in every second. The video starts with impressive images of the Big Bang, the formation of galaxies and their evolution. At minute 1.49 the author reflects the spectacular intertwining of galaxies by gravitation. Later it presents the Milky Way, the monstrous stellar black holes, as well as the devastating effect of its gravitational attraction.

In the 6.40 minute we can see the birth of the Sun and the formation of the planets of our system, with the appearance of the Earth and the Moon. Then the video shows how life was born on Earth, showing the first microorganisms that inhabited our planet. 
After the ice age, which appears at minute 9.45, multicellular organisms begin to emerge. The video culminates with the appearance of the human being, which appears fleetingly and in the end, only for a second, highlighting that, compared to the whole age of the universe, humanity is very young.

This Saturday afternoon the sensitive human loss of Maestro José Antonio Abreu, the founder of the National Youth Orchestra System of Venezuela and the National System of Youth, Children and Pre-Children's Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela. The information was known through a press release. Abreu was known as a social fighter who always had in mind a mission, which he fulfilled throughout his life: democratize music.

Economist, politician, cultural manager, but above all a firm believer in the transforming power of music, to which he devoted himself from composition, piano, harpsichord or organ, direction and teaching, Abreu he conceived the great creation of his life - known today as the System - as "a social project because it aspires to apply music to the development of man, and national because it aspires to the whole country to participate in it".

El sueño aún no tenía una sede como en Centro de Acción Social por la Música. Pero no importaba, Abreu estaba consciente de que el comienzo no sería fácil en un país que secularmente le prestaba poca atención a la cultura.

Él y sus pupilos en aquella Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional Juvenil no desmayaron, y si había que tocar en el jardín de la casa de algún conocido, pues se hacía.

Cuatro décadas se dicen fácil, pero sin la persistencia del músico trujillano, hoy el Sistema de Orquestas, que atiende a alrededor de 500 mil jóvenes venezolanos, no sería lo que es: un modelo de educación musical que ha sido replicado en ciudades como Boston, Los Ángeles, Nueva York, Londres, Milán, Roma, Oslo, Toulousse y Ámsterdam.

Neither the dollar, nor the yuan, nor the euro. Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is confident that bitcoin will become the only currency on the Internet in a decade, the Times newspaper publishes in an interview with the founder of Square.

He acknowledged, though, that for now the currency does not have the capacity to become a viable currency or to be part of the financial markets, because it is volatile and expensive, and said that people should use it en masse to reach it To be. "As people use bitcoins more, those barriers will disappear." The co-founder of the social network has been betting for cryptocurrency for some time. In January, the Square application went on to accept mobile payments in bitcoins in the United States, and Dorsey himself financed Lightning Labs, a startup that works so that transactions made with bitcoins end up being viable. The volatility of the virtual currency par excellence remains a source of news in the media since in December of 2017 it reached a value of close to 20,000 dollars and later plummeted. Reports of its impending ban in those countries where it has the most presence, such as South Korea, China or Japan, have not helped the currency to consolidate.

The representatives of the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, and the Royal Bahraini Air Force, analyzed the training of astronauts of the kingdom in Russia, so they can make their first flight to the International Space Station (ISS). According to a statement from Roscosmos, to which Sputnik has had access, the two delegations held negotiations on March 21 at the Baikonur space base in Kazakhstan.

"Preparatory programs for the future astronauts of the Kingdom of Bahrain at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center were examined for flights piloted to the International Space Station," the note said.

The text indicates that negotiations with representatives of the United Arab Emirates and Kazakhstan also took place on the space base. All the delegations foresee to observe the takeoff of the Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft, scheduled for 17.44 this March 21, which will take the Roscosmos astronaut Oleg Artémiev to the ISS and two NASA cosmonauts Andrew Feustel and Richard Arnold.

my most sincere congratulations to President Vladimir Putin for his great victory, desiaria be celebrating his great victory from the Plaza Manézhnaya but someday so sera.viva russia.viva a multipolar world.go together maintaining peace and balance mundial.desde my heart congratulations Russia, congratulations Vladimir Putin.

by: MSc JAIME RAMONI, candidate for the government of ASGARDIA for the Spanish district,

Valencia, Venezuela, March 18, 2018.

The physicist Stephen Hawkings died at age 76, the Guardian newspaper reported Thursday. Defying all odds, Hawking, born on January 8, 1942 in the English city of Oxford, managed to survive a destructive disease whose victims usually have a life expectancy of two to five years.

In 1963, at age 21, he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a degenerative disease that has left him in a wheelchair and forced him to communicate using a computer that handled facial muscles. Doctor by the University of Cambridge, where between 1979 and 2009 he occupied the same chair of mathematics that was of Isaac Newton, was recognized by his groundbreaking theories, in particular the one of the "radiation Hawking", relative to the black holes.

Although it could not demonstrate empirically, the world of science is mostly convinced that black holes effectively emit that radiation, which slowly causes its evaporation.

His theory about the formation of the universe, and the consequent beginning of time, with the Big Bang 15 billion years ago from a "singular" event that broke the laws of physics, also earned him a multitude of followers, but not thus the Nobel prize, that eluded to him by the lack of conclusive tests.

En todo caso, el científico inglés, que rompió récords de ventas con su libro de 1988 "A Brief History of Time", acumula multitud de condecoraciones y galardones, entre ellos el Premio Príncipe de Asturias (1998) y el Premio Fundación BBVA Fronteras del Conocimiento (2015).

from asgardia and my own my sense weigh your family and friends.the world of science lost a great man.

Businessman Jeff Bezos has not specified how much of his fortune he is willing to sacrifice for space, but, according to a friend, it could be "everything, except what he will leave to support his mother."

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos intends to spend billions of dollars on space exploration, reports Bloomberg, citing a statement made by the businessman last Saturday night at the Buzz Aldrin awards ceremony. (one of the astronauts who traveled to Luna) in New York. The billionaire described his fortune as "a victory in the lottery" and promised to make travel through space accessible to humanity.

Previously, Bezos had stated that he was financing a company for the development of space rockets Blue Origin, in which he would have invested around 1,000 million dollars. Comments made during this Saturday's event indicate that this may only be the beginning.

So far, the businessman has not specified how much of his money he is willing to sacrifice for the sake of space, but, according to his friend billionaire Fredrik Poulsen, it could be "everything, except what he will leave to support his mother."

The total fortune of Jeff Bezos has been estimated at 131,000 million dollars, of which 125,000 million are the shares of Amazon, which makes it the richest man in the world. In just one day - February 21 - Bezos won more than 1,400 million dollars. This was due to the fact that the value of Amazon shares exceeded the $ 1,500 per unit margin for the first time in history.

hello esteemed asgardianos I present my designs for the solar and lunar asgardian cryptocurrencies

hello greetings. I send you my design for lunar currency and the solar currency. for the design take into account the legendary Nordic mythology, the goddess Sól, who rode every day through the skies in his car; the mane of their horses emitted the light, and their own the heat of the day. the lunar coin with a modern and avant-garde design with a silver color of the silver color of the moon, and the Sköll symbol representing the moon in Nordic mythology, Máni, the moon god, is in the background image on the lunar coin. and of the second fund lines with the symbols mentioned above that represent the network since it will be a cryptocurrency. The points on the sides of the circumference of the whole coin represent the watchful stars and guides of outer space as well as the satellites that revolve around the planet Earth.

the coin the solar. It has the symbol of the sun in the mythology Nordic, as well as the wolf Hati, who chased the moon at night. In the background of the relief, as the third third plane is the union of the solar symbol and the wolf hati chasing the moon.Also on the circumferential edge of the coin the dots represent the stars and the satellites that accompany the planet earth.

Sköll and Sól, Hati and Máni. The wolves that chase the sun and the moon.

I hope of heart is taken into account in the contest and thus contribute to the design of the lunar and solar cryptocurrency. I spent a lot of effort and love in the design, I even had to study certain design techniques that I did not know and research a lot about the Nordic mythology, however it was worth it!