The Path to Mars

Boeing is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft and satellites. Actually, this company is working in a project to send people to Mars by 2030 approximately.

Michael Raftery shows us, how will be the first trip to Mars. He explains that two of the six pieces needed for Mars travel are in production now.

Boeing is the prime contractor for the design, development, test and production of the SLS rocket, which is one of this two pieces that are in production now.

The other piece is Orion capsule that is currently under development by NASA.

The next piece that will be needed is a system to get into a deep space. It will be a great spaceship that will transport Orion and the rest to Mars. This space transportation system will be driven by huge solar panels

The last two parts needed for the travel are a lander module and a heat shield that prevents the entry capsule from burning up in the atmosphere of Mars.

There is no doubt that landing on Mars is essential to ensure the survival of our species. According to Nasa Administrator Charles Bolden "Getting to Mars is important because it is the only planet in the solar system [other than Earth] that we believe might have born life in some form at some time" but it is true that to get this achievement a lot of investment is needed, so we should invest as much as needed to reach the travel to Mars.

Turkey in Transition: The Path to High Income

We still have to learn a lot from other countries. Spain should start to develop.

The World Bank

The World Bank Group has set two goals for the world to achieve by 2030:

• End extreme poverty by decreasing the percentage of people living on less than $1.25 a day to no more than 3%
• Promote shared prosperity by fostering the income growth of the bottom 40% for every country

The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. We are not a bank in the ordinary sense but a unique partnership to reduce poverty and support development. The World Bank Group comprises five institutions managed by their member countries.

Reconstruction remains an important part of our work. However, at today's World Bank, poverty reduction through an inclusive and sustainable globalization remains the overarching goal of our work.

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Wanderers a short film by Erik Wernquist

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What is Bitcoin?

Bitcoin is a new kind of money. It's the first decentralized electronic currency not controlled by a single organization or government. It's an open source project, and it is used by more than 100,000 people. All over the world people are trading hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bitcoin every day with no middle man and no credit card companies. It's a startup currency which has never happened before.

Bitcoin is the first digital currency that is completely distributed. The network is made up of users like yourself so no bank or payment processor is required between you and whoever you're trading with. This decentralization is the basis for Bitcoin's security and freedom.

Email let us send letters for free, anywhere in the world. Skype lets us make phone and video calls for free, anywhere in the world. Now there's bitcoin. Bitcoin lets you send money to anyone online, anywhere in the world for less than a cent per transaction! Bitcoin is a community run system not controlled by any bank or government. There's no wallstreet banker getting rich by standing between you and the people you want to send and receive money from.

Bitcoin is more efficient than all competing currencies. This will drive its adoption in the same way computers were adopted, in that computers made people more efficient in competing in the marketplace. A currency has value by it being widely used. Bitcoin is a startup currency with a deflationary bootstrapping economy. Its use spreads by providing the speculator incentive.

Bitcoin is going to be the biggest opportunity for innovation that the world has seen since the industrial revolution. An idea whose time has come.

The World Trade Organization

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. At its heart are the WTO agreements, negotiated and signed by the bulk of the world’s trading nations and ratified in their parliaments. The goal is to help producers of goods and services, exporters, and importers conduct their business.