Asteroid

my personal favorite story is the story of Star Wars, but not just the movie, the story of how a ragtag team of film makers made an amazing classic still alive today. The story of star wars begins in the California home of George Lucas where he began to capture the romance and adventure that he saw in old movies that he watched as a young boy as well as the heroics of the great Flash Gordon TV series. so george began to write the script for a screenplay that would one day be known as "Star…

Imagine a horrific world where the average temperature is -81oF, the atmosphere is 96% carbon dioxide, and one year lasts approximately 687 days (“Mars Facts”). This seemingly inhospitable world is Mars, and recent debates have surfaced over whether humans should explore and settle it. Many believe that we as a species must venture onto planets beyond our own. The arguments in favor of colonization, however, often lack real support and make rushed and misguided assumptions. Analyzing available…

In “On Emblematic Megaflora” Farmer explains how he notes that people use trees as sources of meaning. The trees represent a connection between natural and urban world, but they also can gain a certain familiarity with the people. He writes that “Old ones can be imagined as guardians or grandparents. It requires little effort to individuate and anthropomorphize single-trunk plants” (535). With regards to anthropomorphism, Lawrence Buell defines it as “the attribution of human feelings or traits…

“The cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us. There is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, or falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries” (“Proclamation”). The complexity of space is something that leaves many in awe: such an intriguing and perplexing mystery deserves the utmost thought and consideration when making decisions about its future.…

Joseph P. Valentine Prof. Paden Eng. 111 (4243) 11/3/16 Earth 2.0 We’ve spent a lot of time here on Earth; rather, all of it. We’ve grown so much: learning to walk, talk, make friends, build cities, start wars, and make bombs that can cleanse entire planets of life. This is our home. Sadly, we can’t live here forever. The concept of expanding our domain isn’t just about exotic Martian vacations or low-gravity sports. Earth may not be habitable forever. The ever-impending “consequences” of…

1. I would place Neil deGrasse Tyson closer to the scientism side of the scientism-creationism spectrum, but still near the middle of the spectrum. DeGrasse Tyson reveals his agnostic perspective when he says he does not believe in an afterlife because there is no evidence. However, he agrees with Larry King when he calls many believers “sincere and wonderful people”, and does not call them delusional. This respect for others’ beliefs even when he does not agree with them can help the…

It helps people understand that the Universe is still expanding, and it helps people realize just how big space is. It helps people see when comets are going to come back. It shows people how to avoid collisions with asteroids and other things that are floating around in space. It can show us how far away certain things are that might be dangerous to us such as black holes. Which can destroy our planet and everything around it. The Hubble Telescope helps us understand…

In today’s society, capitalism satisfies our desire to constantly consume goods and services. This structure of economy allows anyone to make her own living and pursue her American Dream while empowering great minds to find answers to the world’s biggest problems. However, it also paves the way for companies to rapidly extract natural resources from the earth, and in turn put many of those harvested resources to waste. Consider the mass amounts of energy wasted every day from leaving the lights…

orders, except Havoc Squad. They still needed to know who was going where. It made more sense for Jorgan to stay back. After all, he was second in command, but Jorgan felt he had a score to settle with Rakton too. Not only had that stunt on the asteroid prison nearly killed them all, it had almost torn him and Fynta apart, which was something the Cathar took personally. "Alright. A two man team can take out those traps,” Fynta began as the rest of the squad circled around. “Yuun, I want you…

No one would have believed, in the last years of the 19th century, that physics was heading for a crisis. It seemed like all the large questions had been answered. The behaviour of bodies, from asteroids to galaxies, was predicted by Sir Isaac Newton 's laws of gravity and motion. Magnetism, electricity and light were linked by James Clerk Maxwell’s Equations. The understanding of the atom had reached the plum pudding stage, where an atom was a globe of 'stuff ' with the positive and negative…