The site, which is powered by TiVo's research tool, Stop||Watch ratings service and its self-reportedly 'second-by-second' measurement capabilities, was launched to "demonstrate that there is more accurate information available to the media industry to help them determine the efficacy of their TV ads beyond the limited data used as the industry currency today".
Peter Hayes, director of the Nautilus Institute, a San Francisco-based think tank, said the main motivation behind the launch was "to demonstrate the strength and vitality of Kim Jong Il's leadership to the military and the population, and for the scientific sector to declare its fealty to Kim Jong Il's leadership".
The paper describes the research to assess the integrity and stability of the projectile under gun launch conditions, to demonstrate acceptable dispersion and impact yaw at the target and to demonstrate a minimum impact velocity of 2.1 km s−1.
Disrupt SF will also feature our new startup competition, the Startup Battlefield, where approximately 25 new startups will participate in a tournament-style launch competition to demonstrate their technology, business and marketing disruptions.
Shortly after lift-off it'll jettison its launch abort system to demonstrate that ability, then lap once around the planet at 17,000 mph.
"I launched this project to demonstrate that currency exchange could be handled completely differently than anything done before," said Voorhees.
YES2 (launching 2007) aims to demonstrate a tether-assisted re-entry concept, whereby payload will be returned to Earth using momentum provided from a swinging tether.
Its predecessor, Vanguard 1, was launched on March 17 , 1958 and was designed to demonstrate the launch capabilities of a three-stage launch vehicle and to examine the environmental effects of space on satellite and instrument hardware.
1978 March Republican prisoners launch the 'dirty protest' to demonstrate against beatings by guards.
