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Today's announcement, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC backs up recent rumours that Alan Stern, a former administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, had founded a company called Golden Spike in Colorado to run commercial moon trips.

Swindles even has a spot that might make for a good location to host a golden spike in the geologic timescale: Malham Tarn, the highest glacial lake in England situated in the Yorkshire Dales.

Biology, magnetism and the chemistry of isotopes are the markers geologists typically use to tell the tale of changeovers in deep time, whether the Ordovician period or the Anthropocene epoch (the latter just a small slice of the Quaternary period that began more than 2.5 million years ago and has its own golden spike in Sicily).

Leland Stanford drove the ceremonial Golden Spike in and the first Transcontinental Railroad was completed.

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You can't park a car indoors or order a cup of coffee in the Golden State without seeing a warning about the various ways your cancer risk might spike.

Now, according to the company mission, «Golden Spike will exploit these advances, and others in the late stages of development, for commercial use, to offer human expeditions to the Moon at prices comparable to robotic flagship missions.»

Although the golden spike of the transcontinental railroad uniting the western United States with the East was driven at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory, in 1869, the state still is not in touch with all the trends back East, teases Reid Steenblik, president of family owned Restaurant & Store Equipment Co..

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Tender asparagus, new potatoes, and red bell peppers are simmered in turmeric - spiked Thai coconut curry sauce to make this spring veggie golden curry.

being selected All SEC and College WS most outstanding player in 2014, then being a finalist for the golden spikes award in 2015 isn't much of an accomplishment.

As a senior at Wichita State in 1993, playing in his hometown, at the school where his father, John, was and still is a professor of history, Darren went 11 - 1 with a 2.48 ERA and, as the Shockers» DH, batted.327 with 22 homers and 66 RBIs; his accomplishments won him the Golden Spikes Award as baseball's top amateur player.

In the 48 hours following her Golden Globes speech, Oprah's 2020 odds have spiked at multiple sportsbooks.

Hurdler sets personal best to join likes of Allyson Felix and Bohdan Bondarenko in claiming victory at Golden Spike meeting

Next, the researchers need to find a «golden spike,» a unique boundary point in the rock strata that signifies the epoch's beginning.

There is a golden spike hiding in a rock face outside the village of Moffat in Scotland that marks the end of the Ordovician, denoted by the appearance of these graptolite survivors — Akidograptus ascensus and Parakidograptus acuminatus, to give them their scientific names.

Gerry Griffin, chair of the Golden Spike board and former director of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, concurred.

That's why Zalasiewicz, among others, thinks the Anthropocene should date from this «golden spike» — a clear record in the rock that can be found everywhere in the world.

If the plan comes to fruition, the first astronauts to step out of a Golden Spike lander could be the first human beings to set foot on the moon since the final Apollo mission in 1972.

The Golden Spike announcement came just a day after a National Research Council report concluded that NASA lacked direction and in fact had a mission statement so «generic» it could apply to any government research agency.

In addition to Stern and Griffin, Golden Spike counts among its advisers politician Newt Gingrich, former House Science Committee Chair Bob Walker, former Space Shuttle Program Chief Wayne Hale, a Star Trek set designer, and Nancy Conrad, founder of the Conrad Foundation and widow of Apollo 12 astronaut Pete Conrad.

In a statement responding to Golden Spike's announcement, a NASA spokesperson said: «This type of private sector effort is further evidence of the timeliness and wisdom of the Obama administration's overall space policy — to create an environment where commercial space companies can build upon NASA's past successes, allowing the agency to focus on the new challenges of sending humans to an asteroid and eventually Mars.»

The team's long - standing collaboration with HLRS has resulted in winning 2016 and 2017 Golden Spike awards, which are given to outstanding user projects during HLRS» annual Results and Review Workshop.

The Golden Spike Company, based in Colorado, announced on 6 December that it will start sending people to the moon for scientific purposes, to mine for resources or for bragging rights by 2020.

No corporate sponsors have stepped up yet, but preliminary talks are under way to sell seats to space agencies in Asia and Europe, says Golden Spike CEO and former NASA science chief Alan Stern.

Golden Spike plans to send a two - seat lander to the moon, staging material in Earth orbit using commercial rockets.

Professor Colin Waters, who led the study, said: «Of the 65 «golden spikes» of the Geological Time Scale currently ratified, all but one are located in strata that accumulated on the sea floor, the one exception being the ice core used to define the base of the Holocene Epoch.

Continuous annually layered strata provide the best kind of geological archive in which to search for a «golden spike» — these form on the floors of oxygen - starved seas and lakes, in glacial ice, and in corals and trees with seasonal growth rings

The study considered a range of arguments in support of and against hosting a «golden spike» in a range of potentially suitable environments across the globe.

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It's spiked with kaolinite clay to draw out impurities, help prevent acne, and keep skin clean, and comes in an impressive 22 different hues for skin with golden, neutral, or cool undertones.

Spike Lee's provocative film about racial tensions in Brooklyn won the outspoken director a number of accolades, including Golden Globe nods for best picture, best director, best screenplay, and best supporting actor for Danny Aiello.

Scarlett Johansson Can't Get a Golden Globe Nomination for «Her:» Even though Scarlett Johansson is never seen in Spike Jonez's «Her,» her work in the film is making a significant impact because many are dubbing her voice - only performance award worthy.

During the Golden Week kids are out of school in Japan, so there is normally a spike in hardware sales and software dedicated to younger audiences, so much so that even Animal Crossing: New Leaf — Welcome amiibo is back in the charts after a while.

Yes, it was a ridiculously long wait, and Honda missed a golden opportunity to market the hybrid to Americans in the summer of 2008, when an historic gas - price spike saw regular unleaded soar to $ 4 per gallon.

The vividly imagined present - tense narrative follows young Will, whose quiet life changes as he travels westward and takes part in the golden - spike ceremony completing the Canadian Pacific Railway, in 1885.

The popularity spike of the golden retriever has been matched by an increase in such hereditary disorders as hip dysplasia, heart defects and epilepsy.

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An immortal warrior grown apathetic towards life, Raven serves as one of That Man's servants, only finding pleasure through inflicting and receiving pain; this is best noted by the giant spike driven through his head, and the golden coin embedded in one of his eyes.

Recent group exhibitions in the UK and the United States have included Bloomberg New Contemporaries at Spike Island and the ICA, Chimera Q.T.E at Cell Project Space, Heterotopias at New End Art Foundation, Abstract Cabinet at David Roberts Art Foundation, Febreze at Kinman Gallery, Ruby at Gallery Vela, and Interplanetary Revolution at Golden Thread Gallery.

Laramée's upcoming exhibitions include: The Brain: Science, Art, Convergence at The Daejeon Art Museum and the National Museum of Science in Daejeon, Korea; Arc Across the Vortex at Art 101 in Brooklyn; Tracking the Cosmos at The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Art Gallery, SUNY Stonybrook University in Stonybrook, New York.; Timing Place: Siting The Golden Spike at the Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Art Collision at the Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

But there's still a high hurdle to cross just in convincing the broader geology community to give a thumbs up to the basic idea of «human geology,» as they put it, no matter where the stratigraphers propose putting the Anthropocene «golden spike.»

Big transitions in the planet's geological history get a «golden spike,» a bronze marker placed on a particular exposed rock layer that serves as a reference for a substantial global shift in conditions.

Fig. 12 compares the IPCC forecast with the Akasofu (31) forecast (red harmonic) and with the simple and most reasonable working hypothesis of this paper (green line) that the «Golden Spike» temperature peak at about 2003 is the most recent peak in the millennial cycle.

Golden Week is a national holiday in Japan which begins on April 29th and runs though to May 5th, schools and businesses close down for the week and we see a sales spike in consoles and software.