Dwarf planet

The texts to be discussed are as follow: ‘District 9’, ‘The Sentinel’ and ‘Victory Unintentional’. These texts are of the theme Humans vs Aliens. The self/other binary concept is conformed and challenged in these texts. For instance, in ‘District 9’ the self/other binary is followed and it is suddenly challenged as Wikus undergoes a transition. Another example is in ‘The Sentinel’ where the self/other binary is inverted as humans are seen as the ‘other’ and the aliens as the ‘self’ due to…

The Gift of Interstellar Travel For centuries humans have lived on earth and growing expanding and claiming this giant space rock a home, but as time goes on planet earth is becoming not enough to sustain mankind’s way of living. Now with the technological advantages of the 21st centuries there is an answer to this problem and it is interstellar travel. With this one form of research mankind can thrive and exist beyond the stars. The earth simply cannot shelter the ever-growing human race,…

Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems P1) Over a twenty four hour period, the sun and planets can be seen moving from the east direction to the west direction. P2) The earth could not be moved by two motions like other planets, because there is no variance in the rising and setting of the heavens. P3) If the Earth moved, a dropped object would travel in the direction that the earth itself is moving and would be slowed down by said motion. Scientific experiments have exhibited that…

Are we alone in the universe? Are we, human beings, the only living beings in the universe? Are there others out there? There are many questions that can be asked regarding life beyond our planet. Whether or not we are alone in this life has been a question the human race has been asking since the very beginning. We constantly question our own existence, as well as the possible existence of other intelligent species. Among the questions asked are, have we been visited by them? do they live among…

soon enough he realized that he had discovered the 7th planet at the time. At first, he wanted to name it Georgium Sidus which translates to “George’s star” after his king George the III. A fellow astronomer named Johann Bode helped Herschel crush the idea and instead the name “Uranus” (father of Saturn) was put in place to carry on the tradition of using names from ancient mythology. The discovery of Uranus was the reason that the next planet, Neptune, was discovered. As astronomers kept…

PREHISTORIC TO MIDDLE AGE ASTRONOMY Over the course of countless millennia, astronomy has served as a widespread source of curiosity amongst mankind. The stars, planets and various other objects that engulf our skies have captured the interests of this world’s inhabitants, from the simplest of tribesmen to city dwelling scholars and philosophers alike. As early as 32,000 years ago, humans are believed to have been tracking cosmic cycles like our Moon’s phases (Burnham, Dyer & Kanpipe 22).…

Space exploration has the opportunity to critically make a change in life here on earth. It has the potential to change how we live and how it can benefit even the most poor people on the planet. Improvements in medicine and energy production can result in the exploration of space and the colonization of other planets. “The Gemini and Apollo programs were child’s play in comparison to the threat of human life posed by long duration, deep space missions to such places as Mars” (Launius 124).…

1 Camila Rejalaga Sept 24,2017 Earth 101 Volcano Project 2. What we learned from Mount Saint Helens: Surprises and New Science from the Eruption (Brochure) Welcome to Mt. Saint Helens Park Visitor Center! To better understand Mt. Saint Helens we must first go back to 1980. Although some of you might not have been born yet it was in that year that the US experienced its most destructive volcanic eruption in its history. Most of you might have already guessed it but it happened right here…

mass of more than forty little stars” (65). His observations show how there are thousands of stars that cannot be seen with the naked eye. Galilei’s third discovery concludes that Jupiter has four moons because the four masses that orbit around the planet do not twinkle and have nearly equal magnitudes. He describes how the moons are “wandering around Jupiter like the moon around the Earth while all together with Jupiter traverse a great circle around the sun in the space of 12 years” (86-87).…

Within The Character of Physical Law, Dr. Feynman details the characteristics of nature. He describes nature as being incredibly complex, pointing to examples such as the orbits of the planets around the sun and tidal movement. Yet, he is able to describe nature as being simple. For a potential reader this can be confusing, as something cannot simultaneously be simple and complex. It is through the understanding and the application of logic that Feynman connects simple ideas to larger and more…