Question: A geostationary orbit, geostationary Earth orbit or geosynchronous equatorial orbit (GEO) is a circular orbit above the Earth's equator and following the direction of the Earth's rotation. An object in such an orbit has an orbital period equal to the Earth's rotational period (one sidereal day) and thus appears motionless, at a fixed position in the sky, to ground observers. Communications satellites and weather satellites are often placed in geostationary orbits, so that the satellite antennas (located on Earth) that communicate with them do not have to rotate to track them, but can be pointed permanently at the position in the sky where the satellites are located. Using this characteristic, ocean color satellites with visible and near-infrared light sensors (e.g. the Geostationary Ocean Color Imager (GOCI)) can also be operated in geostationary orbit in order to monitor sensitive changes of ocean environments. 

A geostationary orbit is a particular type of geosynchronous orbit, the distinction being that while an object in geosynchronous orbit returns to the same point in the sky at the same time each day, an object in geostationary orbit never leaves that position. 

The notion of a geostationary space station equipped with radio communication was published in 1928 by Herman Potočnik. The first appearance of a geostationary orbit in popular literature was in the first Venus Equilateral story by George O. Smith, but Smith did not go into details. British science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke disseminated the idea widely, with more details on how it would work, in a 1945 paper entitled "Extra-Terrestrial Relays — Can Rocket Stations Give Worldwide Radio Coverage?", published in "Wireless World" magazine. Clarke acknowledged the connection in his introduction to "The Complete Venus Equilateral". The orbit, which Clarke first described as useful for broadcast and relay communications satellites, is sometimes called the Clarke Orbit. Similarly, the Clarke Belt is the part of space about above sea level, in the plane of the equator, where near-geostationary orbits may be implemented. The Clarke Orbit is about in circumference. 1. What is a GEO
2. Where is it above?
3. How long is its rotational period
4. Does it appear to be moving
5. What type of orbit is a GEO
6. Who first talked about such an object?
7. In what story?
8. When did Herman Potocnik mention it
9. What was Arthur C. Clarke's paper called?
10. Where was it published?
11. When was it published? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. A geostationary orbit
2. Earth's equator
3. one sidereal day
4. No
5. a particular type
6. George O. Smith
7. Venus Equilateral story
8. 1928
9. Extra-Terrestrial Relays — Can Rocket Stations Give Worldwide Radio Coverage?
10. Wireless World
11. 1945


Question: (CNN) -- The Connecticut Senate on Thursday voted to repeal the death penalty, setting the stage for Connecticut to join several states that have recently abolished capital punishment. 

In the last five years, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York and Illinois have repealed the death penalty. California voters will decide the issue in November. 

The bill now goes to the House of Representatives, where it is also expected to pass. Gov. Dannel Malloy, a Democrat, has vowed to sign the measure into law should it reach his desk, his office said. 

"For everyone, it's a vote of conscience," said Senate President Donald Williams Jr., a Democrat who says he's long supported a repeal. "We have a majority of legislators in Connecticut in favor of this so that the energies of our criminal justice system can be focused in a more appropriate manner." 

In 2009, state lawmakers in both houses tried to pass a similar bill, but were ultimately blocked by then-Gov. Jodi Rell, a Republican. 

Capital punishment has existed in Connecticut since its colonial days. But the state was forced to review its death penalty laws beginning in 1972 when a Supreme Court decision required greater consistency in its application. A moratorium was then imposed until a 1976 court decision upheld the constitutionality of capital punishment. 

Since then, Connecticut juries have handed down 15 death sentences. Of those, only one person has actually been executed, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonpartisan group that studies death penalty laws. 

Michael Ross, a convicted serial killer, was put to death by lethal injection in 2005 after giving up his appeals.  1. Can you tell me some states which have recently repealed the death penalty?
2. How long has Connecticut had the death penalty?
3. Was the practice ever placed on a moratorium? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. New Jersey, New Mexico, New York and Illinois
2. Since 1976
3. Yes


Question: CHAPTER XIV 

DICK AND SAM IN CHICAGO 

"Get some water, Songbird, quick!" 

"Oh, Sam, shall I get some smelling salts!" cried Grace. 

"I guess the water will do, Grace. Here, stand on this side, so those other girls can't see Nellie," went on the boy. "No use of letting them know everything." 

Grace understood and she and Sam shielded Nellie and carried her to a campus bench. Then Songbird arrived with a cup of water from a well. Just as he handed it over, Nellie opened her eyes. 

"Oh! I--I--what happened?" she murmured. "Oh, I remember now!" And a look of pain crossed her face. 

"Take a drink of water, dear," said her sister, and held the cup. Nellie took a sip and then Grace bathed her forehead with some water poured on a handkerchief that Sam passed over. Soon the girl sat up straight. 

"I--I'm all right now," she faltered. "It--it was such a--a shock. Oh, Sam, do you really think Tom is bound for Alaska?" 

"It looks like it, Nellie," he answered. "I'll tell you all about it, if you'll walk down the road, away from those other students." And then, as they walked away slowly, Sam and Songbird told their story, the two girls hanging on their every word. 

"It's awful, terrible!" murmured Grace. "Poor Tom, he must be clear out of his mind!" 

"That's the only explanation," answered Sam. "He'd never do such a thing if he was in his right senses." 

"Oh, but he may lose his mind entirely," gasped Nellie. "I've read of such cases in the newspapers. A person wanders off and forgets who he is, or where he came from, and all that! Supposing Tom went to Alaska and that happened to him! Why, we might never be able to find him!" And the tears began to course down Nellie's cheeks.  1. Who fainted?
2. How were Grace and Nellie related?
3. Who ordered songbird to get water?
4. Who suggested smelling salts?
5. Did him and Grace hide Nellie?
6. Why so?
7. Where did they carry her to?
8. Who was going to Alaska?
9. Was it the reason that Nellie was upset?
10. Did songbird get the water? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. Nellie
2. sisters
3. Sam
4. Grace
5. yes
6. so the girls couldn't see her
7. a campus bench
8. Tom
9. yes
10. yes