Cosmos 1/13

These are three things I found interesting about the first episode of the show Cosmos.  The first thing that I found interesting was that Jupiter has a hurricane that is three times the size of Earth and has been raging for centuries ( that one hurricane may be older than my country). Second thing is that Saturn's ring are involved in a moon sized snowball fight ( the rings are made up of ice that orbits the planet like a moon). The last thing I found interesting ( for this episode at least) is  that are are planets address is Earth Solar System Milky Way Galaxy Local Group Virgo Supercluster Observable Universe. Bonus:  there is some much more of space that are so far away that in the thirteen billion years that the universe has been here their light has not reached us.

Pale Blue Dot

First off I would like to say "Thanks Obama". So the sun is gone , the planets frozen over, and I have been saved to rebuild Earth in another solar system, this is going to be fun ( hem hem sarcasm). So the first thing that is needed is that the planet must be in the habitual zone, which  is a area around a star to where conditions are right to make a planet habitual. Next is water, because without accessible water life isn't going anywhere on this planet. Next is Oxygen or another breathable gas unless you just what this whole thing to fail, then that might be important. Now the moon will be important for tides. Another thing that would be nice to have would be biotic factors likes planets, and animals for human uses and consumption. Next would be humans male and female to um.. well all tell you later. And now the masses need to be right for example ( this is not at all the actual masses of these objects) So let's say that the sun mass is 200,000 kilograms, so the earth would have to be 1,000 kilograms and the moon would have to be 1 kilogram. So now let's begin to start project New Terra.      

Where in the World ( is Carmen Sandiego)?

So you have been left in some undisclosed location, the only thing you have at your disposal is a Satellite phone. How could you figure out your location so that the authorities can find you? This blog post will help you figure that out. Now my first though would be to take it old school and try tell the anchorites what stars I am seeing or at least the constellations they make. You could also use things like the climate or what lives there ( like plants or animals) to be able to tell how far from the equator you are. The last thing you could do in this situation would be find landmarks, or something that might stick out to you. So here is what you do. First call 911, next tell them you name and that you are stranded, then check around you and see what is there let's say there are plains and some buffalo, now tell them the constellations you see if you can, and finally tell them any landmarks that might help narrow down the region you are in. So now you can successfully escape from ( insert land mass here) by only having a satellite phone.


Sources
Mr Shou
http://celestialnavigation.net/
Basic knowledge on this topic
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/latitude
http://www.diffen.com/difference/Abiotic_vs_Biotic        

What's At Stake?

This is evidence from the video Six Degrees could change the world, on why climate change is an important issue. First I must say this climate change is inevitable and could never be stopped. Climate change has been happening since the Earth has been in volcanic diapers. Now Global warming has been increased by humans doing what humans do best finding new and unique ways to destroy the planet. Now we can lessen climate chance back down to the normal level. But we are on a ten year time limit to reverse are planetary screw up. Also if we don't act quickly Kangaroos, Didgeridoos, and Hugh Jackman might go extinct ( Australia would become a wasteland). And finally the glaciers are melting, unless you have your link approved blue tunic on, you won't be loving an all water world. So for the sake of all things let's just try to due are absolute best to clean up are mess.        

Earthquakes

OK, look where I live the is almost now way that an earthquake would have it's epicenter in my area. Now most earthquakes ( as far as the US is considered) take place on the west cost.Now that is because most of the west coast is on the fault line between the Pacific and North American plates. Now if an earthquake would take on the east coast the most likely candidate would be Florida, because it is close to the fault line between the North and South American plates. Now there have been some recent earthquakes that have had there epicenter in Virginia, but fault lines just increase the likely hood of one.

Now as stated previously there are no hot spots for earthquakes in this area. In fact the closes place to an earthquake hot spot from where I live is on the other side of the country. Now let's  say that an earthquake would have it's epicenter in Virginia, then you would feel it down here ( depending on the size). Actually funny story about that, I was having my mattress replaced and was sleeping on an air mattress and I wake up one morning to discover that the ground it self had decided to give me a wake up call. It turns out that later I found out it was an earthquake up in Virginia that had sent tremors all the way down here. And now a picture of the  fault lines from http://d1h8qm6whtl6z3.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Week-3-All.png

The Martian

This is analyses of the challenges that Mark Watney ( played by Matt Damon) faced in the movie The Martian. And of course SPOILERS!!!  


So the first challenge Mark faced is water. So the earth provides a lot of this, but mars dose not provided as much as the earth dose so he has to make it. What he dose is gets some leftover fuel and heats it up to get the CO2 and burned it with H2  and in a scientific equation that would make C and H2O. Of course NASA has everything there fire proof and to do that he needs to burn it so he find on of his crew mate's wooden cross and get's shaving from it to burn. After almost killing himself up, he eventually makes water chemistry FTW. Now how could we more sustainable do this, because he was a bit tight on manpower and resources, so let's say there all marooned on Mars with no help for x years, what could they do? Well I found this thing that NASA has that can convert urine to drinkable water, which we all pee so this would be helpful to install.

Another challenge that he faced was food. So we have scene the dawn of man been able to get food by hunting and gathering. But then someone decided let's start farming theses plants instead of just eating and going on. Mark loves that person because he need that to survive. So after dividing the rations he decides he needs to grow something, so he takes a page out of Ireland's book and grew potatoes. So I am going to cut the whole science of Mars soil with Nitrogen ( If you what all that and more watch this Film Theory: Is The Martian's POOP SCIENCE Full of CRAP?) but what he dose is gets his poop and his crew mates poop and uses it to fertilize the soil. So truly the answer to surviving on Mars is Botany and Chemistry and like twenty other things. So how could we on Mars do this, Other than bring more food he has it done perfectly. The only thing I could think of it s lamp that could cover the green house an emulate the  sun light to help the spuds grow faster.

And his last challenge today is Oxygen. Earth has trees that produces O for us, so as long as we have trees we will breath. So how dose he solve this problem? Well he just dose what he did to make water and but instead of addition it subtraction he takes out the C in CO2 and tada he breaths. He could have also used the water to make O you say, well that is just a waste of good water. Now what we could do to make this a more widespread thing we could do what we do for submarines which is a CO2 scrubber that doses Marks job in a breeze. So that was the science of the Martian  my favorite 2nd favorite space movie of last year go cheek it out if you haven't, it a good time I promise.                                
 

Racing Extinction

This is a paragraph on my thoughts on the documentary film Racing Extinction. The whole thing is about these people how busted a high end restaurant called Hump that was selling whale meat. The whole thing goes on about shark fins that are cut off while the shark is still alive and then sent back to the wild to suffer for the rest of their lives. Then there are "pharmacies" in China that buy Manta Ray gills and sell them as a cure for cancer ( because of course it's a cure for cancer, if bad medicine has to me one thing it's that everything either causes or cures cancer). But then near half way in do they finally talk about what will end up killing us all climate change. But if climate change raises the earth temperature by even 6 degrees it will be apocalyptic to all life on the planet ( see climate change series coming soon).

Now the movie points out the obvious, that these animals like Manta rays and Sharks are being hunted for profit. So I decided to give you somewhat of a look into this how this whole thing works by giving an example, the Sumatran Tiger. So even thought it is illegal in Indonesia to hunt them, put there is money to be made so what do we need from it. Well while I am sure the fur and meat on a Tiger is valuable, we will be talking about the their bones. So apparently you can make wine out of tiger bones and it's a big hit in China, because of course it was China the all ways seem to get caught up in this stuff. Another usage in for the bones is medicine ( it is always medicine) for any kind of pain, it basically treated like Tiger Ibuprofen. And it's eyes, whiskers, and teeth are use to cure malaria, insomnia, meningitis and a whole smorgasbord of whatever else ales yea. So now to help the world and not murder the economy, lets try to see if we can come up with a replacement. for the bone wine just make other kinds of non animal murderous wines, as for the medicine you could either sell sugar pills as them and it will probably have the same effect or you could sell Ibuprofen. So that is just so of many ways that you could replace the medication, the wine and whatever else you cam use a Tiger for.

Support the Sumatran Tiger here : https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/sumatran-tiger