Little Red Dot Singapore has done the impossible by beating the capital city (Moscow) of the world's largest nation, Russia, to host the inaugural* Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in August 2010.
This decision was announced by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lausanne, Switzerland on 21 Feb 2008, Thursday, @ 7.15pm (Singapore Time).
As part of our YOG bid, Singapore proposed the Asian Youth Games. This first Asian Youth Games has been scheduled for 2009 and will be used as a test in preparation for the YOG.
Let's hope the YOG in Singapore will be a great success and put us, the little red dot, on the world map! =D
What's your thoughts and feelings? Post your well-wishes in the comment columns now! =D
Singapore 2010 - Host City for the Youth Olympic Games
http://www.singapore2010.sg/day/index.htm
P.S.
"inaugural" means first, initial
35 comments:
Achieving this opportunity is just one thing. Another is to strive hard,work hard and do our best in the youth Olympics.It doesn't matter whether we win or lose in any events but most importantly is to try our best. I wish Singapore all the best that we will work hard, do our best and succeed. JIA YOU Singapore!^^
Sorry.. I deleted my comment..
Anyway, I am Shernise.
I wish Singapore all the best!!!
加油！！！
I feel very proud that Singapore achieved this opportunity. Now we just have to work for our goal and do the best that we can do. Winning is not important. All we get is an empty cup or a useless medal. But other than that we still win experience even if we would lose. I wish Singapore all the best. =)
JIA YOU SINGAPORE!!!
All the best to you Singpore
Come on... Do your very best
YEAH!!!
I AM PROUD OF SINGAPORE!!!! ALL THE BEST SINGAPORE!!! KEEP ON !!!
I am proud that Singapore can host the youth Olympic games and i would wish Singapore the best that we can do and also say hi to everyone.:)
GO SINGAPORE!!!WOO HOO
YEAH!!! SINGAPORE IS GONNA HOST THE YOUTH OLMPICS IN 2010!!!I AM SO HAPPY!!! HERES WISHING SINGAPORE ALL THE BEST FOR 2010!!! JIA YOU!!!
I am so so so proud of Singapore. Do you believe it? A little red dot could aactually win a big nation.Since Singpaore could do it,surely it will be a great success in hosting it.
I wish Singapore all the best!!!
Singapore you can do it!!!
Jia You
all the best to you singapore.........
go singapore
Singapore won Moscow because we all supported it. We play a very important role in hosting the 2010 Youth Olympics. If we did not support Singapore, it would not have won the chance to host the (YOG). Wishing Singapore all the best in hosting the (YOG)
GOOD LUCK SINGAPORE!!!
All the best to Singapore!! Hope you plan properly and this event will be a great success! Go Team Singapore!!:D
for singapore to achieve this much is all to much for me to take. i could not believe that singapore was actually holding the youth olympic games. i wish singapore all the best in holding the yout olympics.
When I heard that SIngapore will be hosting the 2010 Youth Olypics I was overjoyed even if I am not a Singaporean. I believe that Singapore will make a good host.
I wish Singapore luck in hosting the Youth Olypics.
All the best to Singapore!! Hope you plan properly and this event will be a great success! Go Team Singapore!!:D
I wish Singapore all the best for hosting the Youth Olympics 2010
ALL THE WAY SINGAPORE!!!!
wishing singapore a smooth sailing event .
er....and all the best!!
(i am song yang)
Wow singapore really got the chance to host the youth olympic games!Wish Singapore all the best!
by the way im Benz :)
wishing singapore a smooth sailing event .
er....and all the best!!
(i am song yang)
I wish all the best to singapore for the Youth Olympic Games 2010!
All the best for singapore!!!
I WISH SINGAPORE CAN HAVE A SMOOTH GOING
All the best to singapore in 2010. Jia yous.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20080227/sc_space/nasatakesaimatmoonwithdoublesledgehammer
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Scientists are priming two spacecraft to slam into the moon's South Pole to see if the lunar double whammy reveals hidden water ice.
The Earth-on-moon violence may raise eyebrows, but NASA's history shows that such missions can yield extremely useful scientific observations.
"I think that people are apprehensive about it because it seems violent or crude, but it's very economical," said Tony Colaprete, the principal investigator for the mission at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif.
NASA's previous Lunar Prospector mission detected large amounts of hydrogen at the moon's poles before crashing itself into a crater at the lunar South Pole. Now the much larger Lunar Crater and Observation Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission, set for a February 2009 moon crash, will take aim and discover whether some of that hydrogen is locked away in the form of frozen water.
LCROSS will piggyback on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission for an Oct. 28 launch atop an Atlas 5 rocket equipped with a Centaur upper stage. While the launch will ferry LRO to the moon in about four days, LCROSS is in for a three-month journey to reach its proper moon smashing position. Once within range, the Centaur upper stage doubles as the main 4,400 pound (2,000 kg) impactor spacecraft for LCROSS.
The smaller Shepherding Spacecraft will guide Centaur towards its target crater, before dropping back to watch - and later fly through - the plume of moon dust and debris kicked up by Centaur's impact. The shepherding vehicle is packed with a light photometer, a visible light camera and four infrared cameras to study the Centaur's lunar plume before it turns itself into a second impactor and strikes a different crater about four minutes later.
"This payload delivery represents a new way of doing business for the center and the agency in general," said Daniel Andrews, LCROSS project manager at Ames, in a statement. "LCROSS primarily is using commercial-off-the-shelf instruments on this mission to meet the mission's accelerated development schedule and cost restraints."
Figuring out the final destinations for the $79 million LCROSS mission is "like trying to drive to San Francisco and not knowing where it is on the map," Colaprete said. He and other mission scientists hope to use observations from LRO and the Japanese Kaguya (Selene) lunar orbiter to map crater locations before LCROSS dives in.
"Nobody has ever been to the poles of the moon, and there are very unique craters - similar to Mercury - where sunlight doesn't reach the bottom," Colaprete said. Earth-based radar has also helped illuminate some permanently shadowed craters. By the time LCROSS arrives, it can zero in on its 19 mile (30 km) wide targets within 328 feet (100 meters).
Scientists want the impactor spacecraft to hit smooth, flat areas away from large rocks, which would ideally allow the impact plume to rise up out of the crater shadows into sunlight. That in turn lets LRO and Earth-based telescopes see the results.
"By understanding what's in these craters, we're examining a fossil record of the early solar system and would occurred at Earth 3 billion years ago," Colaprete said. LCROSS is currently aiming at target craters Faustini and Shoemaker, which Colaprete likened to "fantastic time capsules" at 3 billion and 3.5 billion years old.
LCROSS researchers anticipate a more than a 90 percent chance that the impactors will find some form of hydrogen at the poles. The off-chance exists that the impactors will hit a newer crater that lacks water - yet scientists can learn about the distribution of hydrogen either way.
"We take [what we learn] to the next step, whether it's rovers or more impactors," Colaprete said.
This comes as the latest mission to apply brute force to science.
The Deep Impact mission made history in 2005 by sending a probe crashing into comet Tempel 1. Besides Lunar Prospector's grazing strike on the moon in 1999, the European Space Agency's Smart-1 satellite dove more recently into the lunar surface in 2006.
LCROSS will take a much more head-on approach than either Lunar Prospector or Smart-1, slamming into the moon's craters at a steep angle while traveling with greater mass at 1.6 miles per second (2.5 km/s). The overall energy of the impact will equal 100 times that of Lunar Prospector and kick up 1,102 tons of debris and dust.
"It's a cost-effective, relatively low-risk way of doing initial exploration," Colaprete said, comparing the mission's approach to mountain prospectors who used crude sticks of dynamite to blow up gully walls and sift for gold. Scientists are discussing similar missions for exploring asteroids and planets such as Mars.
Nevertheless, Colaprete said they "may want to touch the moon a bit more softly" after LCROSS has its day.
On 20.02.08 a lunar eclipse happened.I forgotten to tell you guys.Neone saw teh lunarr eclipse?
Hurray for Singapore. It's a good thing that Singapore achieved this opportnity to hold the Youth Olympics. We should work harder and prove to the other countries that we can strive better. Huarray for Singapore!
加油 Singapore!
I am Shu Xuan..... I wish singapore all the best... 加油 加油... I know you can do it.....
Well....I really could not believe it.I am almost wordless...Singapore atcually won.It is like Oh My God.Anyway.Rock On Singapore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I really hope that Singapore would be able to host this major event successfully. I also believe that this will help Singaopre to be on the world map now. I also hope that this would lead to much more advantages for Singaporeans.:) Dx
gratz?(i dunnoe whatta say -.-)
I feel proud of singapore!i wish singapore all the Best!
I felt proud that Singapore won!!! Wish Singapore all the best!!!
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