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word of health insurance and homeowners insurance and even pet insurance

what about gap insurance no it's not coverage for your moderately priced

khakis and tasteful sweaters from the mall for your car more specifically for

the full value of your car you may be aware that the moment you drive your car

off the dealer a lot it loses roughly 10% of its value and on average your car

will continue to depreciate 15 to 25 percent each year after that according

to CARFAX but hey that's the cost of car ownership right if anything happens to

your car before you have your loan paid off your comprehensive or collision

insurance will replace your ride right not necessarily your car stolen and not

recovered or crashed and declared a total loss your auto insurance carrier

may not wholly make you whole instead they'll reimburse you for the actual

cash value of your car which remember has been losing value since it became

your car less your deductible because your car may depreciate faster than your

car payments reduce your loan balance and you still may owe thousands of

dollars more than that actual cash value your policy pays out gap insurance

covers this difference so you can catch a ride to the dealership roll home and

your brand-new replacement ride and all you'll be out is your deductible and the

time it takes you to reprogram your stereo settings assurance estimates you

can purchase gap insurance for a few extra bucks a month on your vehicles

policy or from the dealer for five hundred to a thousand dollars now if you

own your car outright gap insurance probably isn't a great

investment for you feeling lucky to take your chances and go without but if you

want to be on the safe side then as they say in London mind the gap

For more infomation >> Do I Need Gap Insurance? - Duration: 1:45.

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How the Oscar Statuettes were Saved By NASA's Gold | I Need More Space - Duration: 3:07.

Since 1929, The Oscar Statuette has become the most coveted award in the Hollywood Film

industry, but there was a big problem with it.

The Gold Itself.

The oscars are not solid gold, they are just gold plated.

Trophy manufacturer R.S. Owens held the contract for creating Oscars for over 3 decades, they

were cast in tin and plated using standard methods.

BUT - For years for Academy Award winners have had to bring their Oscars back to the

academy to have them re-plated due to the fact that they were losing their luster.

As you can imagine, this gets expensive after doing it for almost 90 years and handing out

around 24 awards a year.

That's a lot of gold.

The Academy realized that they needed a more durable gold plating process for their Oscars,

and this is where the NASA technology comes in.

NASA realized decades ago that gold reflected much or more UV radiation than its other metal

competitors while absorbing quite a bit of visible light.

And its heavy atomic weight lets it soak up more visible light before heating to any harmful

extent.

So it is an ideal material for protecting electronics and keeping temperatures stable

in extreme environments.

NASA has had the same problems with Gold that everyone else did, it is known for be soft

and fragile, and with time is looses its shine.

This is a huge problem with its efficiency over a long period of time as it will effect

the performance of satellites, and if it was ever to tear in space, it could render an

instrument useless.

Epner Technology Inc in the 80s and 90s was developing their proprietary LaserGold process

that promised making gold 3x stronger and will never lose its luster.

They were working with manufacturer Xerox to use their gold in their copy machines.

Somehow, NASA heard about this process they had developed, and in 1996 contracted Epner

to make a mirror for NASA's Mars Global Surveyor.

Essentially a camera satellite that mapped the surface of mars.

It was the start of a long relationship, as Epner's gold never flaked, lost its luster,

or strength, they began to garner more NASA contracts to plate components on telescopes

such as on the James Webb Space Telescope and the Keck Observatory.

Boasting a 99.4% reflectivity and a 24 karat gold finish to achieve the highest infrared

reflectivity.

Fast forward to 2016, and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences wanted in.

Epner guaranteed the gold would never come off, and offered to replate them for free

for the life of the award.

So – when you watch the Academy Awards this year, the award winners will be going home

with the same gold plating that has been sent into space for the last 20 plus years.

For more infomation >> How the Oscar Statuettes were Saved By NASA's Gold | I Need More Space - Duration: 3:07.

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