Cancellation of most of the space systems associated with the Reagan-era program led the Air Force to lose interest.

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There are a variety of problems associated with masking IPv4 address space behind network address translation technologies, especially Large Scale NAT (LSN) or Carrier Grade NAT (CGN).

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The UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe, Venice (Italy), is associated with the Open Discovery Space (ODS) project, funded by the European Commission under the CIP ICT-PSP call 5, and kicked off in Athens in April 2012, resulting of the collaboration between 51 organizations from 23 countries, with the aim to create a socially-powered, multilingual open learning infrastructure to boost the adaptation of eLearning Resources in Europe.

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After all, the United States reached an agreement with Russia last month that explicitly authorizes the sale of "space launch vehicles" and associated "facilities" to anyone it wishes.

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At real scale, though, this will give information on the movement of millions of products worldwide, and shopping behavior associated with people, time, and space in whole new ways.

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And then there is, surprisingly, a substantial risk still associated with being in orbit, where you might be smacked by space debris, for example.

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Space constraints will not permit a full rendering of the costs associated with these serial mistakes.

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The theory also suggests that space has fewer dimensions at very high energies of the kind associated with the early, post-big bang universe.

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Interestingly, the disparity in favor of a space-based defense could be even more dramatic but for cost-growth associated with schedule delays — delays driven by congressionally imposed budget cuts intended to hamstring the Brilliant Pebbles development program.

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Interestingly, the disparity in favor of a space-based defense could be even more dramatic but for cost-growth associated with schedule delays -- delays driven by congressionally imposed budget cuts intended to hamstring the Brilliant Pebbles development program.

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Big increases in government spending associated with the Great Society programs, the war on poverty, the Vietnam War, and the Space Race, resulted in large deficits (by 1971 standards of course).

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