Class Respones 2 (Trimester 2)

What we learned most recently was the topic of Earthquakes. Earthquakes are the result of a sudden release of stored energy in the Earth's crust that create seismic energy. At the Earth's surface earthquakes show themselves or appear by shaking or displacing the ground and sometimes, depending on the scale of the earthquake, can create a tsunami which leads to loss of property and life. Earthquakes are caused by tectonic plates getting stuck and almost like rubbing together putting a strain on the ground. Earthquakes can occur naturally or because of human causes, like mine blasting or nuclear testing. The word earthquake is usually used to describe all events with seismic activity, whether natural or caused by humans. Since earthquakes could be caused by either a natural phenomenon or human activity so it might be hard to tell if we or the earth caused it, so the info we have learned about earthquakes always points to danger so under all circumstances we should be more conscious about what we do in the earth, be safe really.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/earthq1/how.html

Class Response 1 (Trimester 3)

The most recent topic that came to mind when reminded of a class response due on
May 11th were Newtons laws,his laws changed our concept of the universe.
Law 1 "Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it", this can also be called the law of Inertia.
Law 2 "The relationship between an object's mass m, its acceleration a, and the applied force F is F = ma. Acceleration and force are vectors (as indicated by their symbols being displayed in slant bold font); in this law the direction of the force vector is the same as the direction of the acceleration vector.", this states how mass and velocity are directly related, an object will change velocity if pushed or pulled upon.
Law 3 "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction." For example on a boat if you want to get off it u have to push backwards to go forwards.
Without these laws, the understanding of the universe wouldn't be so clear to us now, these laws help define our everyday motions and without it we would be pretty much clueless of the world of motion and physics.

http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/newton3laws.html
http://selland.boisestate.edu/jbrennan/physics/notes/Force/newtons_laws.htm

Solar Sunspots expected in the next 5 years

Who- Sunspot Cycle in the near future
What- The climax of the next sunspot series is to be expected in 2011-2012, the 12 member panel which is incharge of forecasting the solar cycle is split and uncertain to how many suspots and when they are going to occur. 6 predict 140 sunspots in October 2011 while the other 6 expect 90 sunspots in August 2012. These solar storms are potentially hazardous to humans and our technology. These solar eruptions shoothigly charged matter at Earth. The average solar cycle occurs for about 11 years.
Where- In Space and near the sun.
When- A time period between October 2011-August 2012
Why- Solar Cycles always happen, this is one of those eventually it'll happen type of occurance
Opinion- That must suck for the airline industry, astronauts, GPS systems,and electrical companies, I just have to say stay indoors.

Human Error on the Global Surveyor

Who-Mars Global Surveyor
What-Human error caused a surge of events which caused the battery on the Surveyor to ultimatley fail and shut down.
Where-Mars' atmosphere
When-Last year(It was only just posted recently)
Why-The problems actually began in 2005 when routine tech. updates caused inconsistencies in the computers memory.Engineers also tried to fix the problem 6 months before it shut down by updating it, but installed the wrong hardware and disabled its solar panels.And several attemepts to try and locate the surveyor were unsuccessful and the surveyor was deemed lost and doomed.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/04/13/mars.surveyor.ap/index.html

This space probe was built and launched at a price tag of $154 million , and it took only a team of careless engineers to bring that money to a waste, I really believe this was a stupid ordeal and could have been avoided by more careful inspections, what a waste of money.

Astonaut Stuck in Space

Who- Astronaut Sunita Williams.
What- Due to the postponing of the flight of the shuttle Atlantis (As mentioned in another article posted on this blog)is stuck in her space shuttle due to the damage to her shuttle home, but now also must wait for about 7 more weeks for the replacement shuttle Endeavour to arrive. Even her replacement ship might have some trouble getting of the ground and might not be ready for its original June 28th launch. But in other news she is expected to break the U.S record for most days spent in space, the current record to be set on April 20th by her crew member Michael Lopez-Alegria of 214 days. The world record is 437 days set by Russian astronaut Valeri Polyakov.
When- March 28-Late Summer.
Where-The Space Shuttle orbiting earth.
Why-Damage to Atlantis’ fuel tank has temporarily disrupted the NASA’s flight schedule
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/03/08/stuck.in.space.ap/index.html
Opinion-I honestly feel bad for this astronaut, after all her ticket home was damaged and the renewed way out might not even be there on time. Personally I’d hate to be in space for 7 extra weeks when you’re locked up in a small space, I’d be homesick the next day too.

I AM DONE !!!! (AWESOME x2)

The title pretty much says it all, it's self-explanitory.

Class Response 2 ( The end of the Science blog...)

During the past week and the week before, the Omega science classes have been to the library constantly to research 1 of 8 topics assigned to us, but one that in my opinion has most appeal is the Genetically Modified fish which I would like to further collaborate on. These fish are under controversy, because of some of the new unpredicted risks. These fish are solely created for the market or pets but never to be released into the wild. For if they may be released these fish will spread on the “Trojan gene”. Some scientists say that if just one were released into the wild, it could eliminate an entire species of natural fish. These fish grow at exponential rate making them perfect for the market, and since these fish are easier to maintain and easier to grow the regular prices of all fish are expected to lower to keep up with consumer demand. These fish would also make for great novelties because of there special characteristics. In my opinion I am pro-choice for Genetically Modified fish and I believe this will open up many doors for upcoming generations in the research of genetics.

http://www.nature.com/embor/journal/v5/n7/full/7400197.html
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?arid=1299107

Class Repsonse 1

The topic-We learned from Mrs.Nanni when we were working on our citations what sites might be most useful in our search for information on our given topic(such as .com, .net, .edu and .gov.)
The ending of the address bar at the top of the screen tells you who specifically created or owns this particulal website.

• .Com is a commercial website, run by a company, such as http://www.google.com this is a search engine created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
• .Gov is a governament website, run by the government or the government offices such as www.usa.gov which is the governments official website for all services, information or transactions.
• .Org is a non-profit orginization, run by certain orginizations such as http://www.en.wikipedia.org that hands out information about various topics and issues.

Through this science class Mrs.Nanni explained on which certain websties to visit varying on what we needed to know, for me this information was useful so I personally wouldn't end up gathereing false information from innacurate websites.

The Control of the Pigeons via the Chinese (AWESOME)

Eastern Chinese scientists believe they have suceeded by controlling the path of flight taken by pigeons due to micro-electrode implants in their brains via remote control. The implants which are placed in certain areas of the brain, can send signals to the brain which then are converted into instructions of flight, such as left right up or down. This is the first sucessful implant of pigeons, though this experiment has been performed sucessfully on mice this opens up a new variety of uses of literal mind control and could be used in practical technology in the future. This break- through was discovered early this week and posted today by the A.P and other internet sites. In my opinion this breakthrough has opened many doors in the advancement of 21st century technology and Ipersonally believe as in the title, that this is awesome.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/02/07/china.pigeon.reut/index.html

Astroid Threat of the 21st Century

Just 2 months into the new year of 2007 presented some dangerous issues to the world. This time an astroid which astronomers have named Apophis has been spotted on course heading straight towards the earth and for some have been coming in a bit too close for comfort. Apophis which measures to 436 feet long has a 1 in 45,000 chance of striking the earth and has the power and velocity to eliminate an entire city or reigon off the map. This asteroid if unattended is expected to strike on April 13, 2036. The U.N. is strongley adviced to begin a space program to thwart the threart and one of the proposals that is put under consideration is to gently tug the asteroid for 12 days and steer it away from the earth. This mission and other space missions to deflect the astroid are at a minimum estimate of 300 million dollars.In my opinion as like others this asteroid is coming too close for comfort and I strongley advise to speed up the planning of the asteroid deflection.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/02/09/asteroid.deflector.reut/index.html

Postponing the flight of Atlantis

On Monday, the 26th 2007 the launch of the space shuttle Atlanits has been postponed due to inclimate weather (hail the size of golf-balls) and the damage to the exterior fuel tank and maybe even the orbiter itself. The launch has been optimistically postponed to April 21st to May 22nd but if the damage of the shuttle may be too sever the shuttle launch may be pushed into late summer. This ship was to be a ferry for the new crew of the orbiting outpost but now must stand down to the Russian Soyuz. In my opinion this is a disapointing and unfortunate setback and could further prevent the U.S. from any space-technology breakthroughs or discoveries.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/02/07/space.shuttle/index.html

The Count

Being CountChocula is pretty kool.