Participants with personal and without personal experiences with the Earth as a sphere estimated large-scale distances between six cities located on different continents. Cognitive distances were submitted to a specific multidimensional scaling algorithm in the 3D Euclidean space with the constraint that all cities had to lie on the same sphere. A simulation was run that calculated respective 3...

we consider   bivariate  mean-value interpolationproblem, where the integrals over circles are interpolation data. in this case the problem  is described  over   circles of the same radius and with  centers are on astraight line and it is shown that in this case the interpolation is not correct.

In this paper, optimum trajectories in Earth Transfer Orbit (ETO) for a lunar transportation system are proposed. This paper aims at improving the payload ratio of the reusable orbital transfer vehicle (OTV), which transports the payload from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to Lunar Low Orbit (LLO) and returns to LEO. In ETO, we discuss ballistic flight using chemical propulsion, multi-impulse flight usi...

“Epur si muove” said Galileo Galilei when claiming that the Earth is rotating. Due to rotation, the equatorial radius of the Earth is about 21.4 km longer than its polar radius, so that the Mississippi from its source to the Gulf of Mexico is “raising” away from the Earth center. Of course, in terms of the equipotentials it is “descending” to the sea. The same can also be said about the stars, ...

We consider   bivariate  mean-value interpolationproblem, where the integrals over circles are interpolation data. In this case the problem  is described  over   circles of the same radius and with  centers are on astraight line and it is shown that in this case the interpolation is not correct.

Atmospheric flows exhibit fractal fluctuations and inverse power law form for power spectra indicating an eddy continuum structure for the selfsimilar fluctuations. A general systems theory for fractal fluctuations developed by the author is based on the simple visualisation that large eddies form by space-time integration of enclosed turbulent eddies, a concept analogous to Kinetic Theory of G...