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Gattaca Film Essay Have you ever felt like you were not good enough to do something you deeply wanted to do? Well, in the Film Gattaca, our lead character Vincent has been born by what is called a “gods birth” which is a rare anomaly when a baby is born naturally. Vincent has his head in the stars and he rarely thinks of anything else, but a common heart condition has branded him invalid which means the only way he can get into the Gattaca SpaceProgram, is if he is cleaning the floors.…

Astronomical Cycles BY LEE YORKE Earth has many cycles that are apart of our everyday lives such as rotation. For example, Every approximately 23 hours 56 minutes and 4.1 seconds Earth makes a full rotation on our planet on its axis, Earths axis is a line we say goes through the middle of the north and south pole. During the day, half of Earth will see daylight and the other side will receive darkness, this is because one side of the planet is facing the sun receiving all the energetic heat and…

UFOs, alien sightings, and abductions seem to come from science fiction novels since there is a lack of “actual” evidence. The beliefs of society are that aliens bring humans to their spaceships, do surgeries and bring them back to the ground miles away from the place of abduction. Are aliens real? If so then what do they want with us? Aliens are a mystery that only time and evidence can solve. Let me describe my experience when I recall getting abducted. As I got home from work, I saw a star or…

Neptune is also known as the is a dark, cold, and windy planet that’s been discovered in 1846 by John Couch Adams, Johann Gottfried Galle, and Urbain Le Verrier. The reason for Neptune being -10 degrees is because it’s eight planets away from the sun. A way to describe Neptunes physical features is “Neptune has an incredibly thick atmosphere comprised of 74% hydrogen, 25% helium and approximately 1% methane. Its atmosphere also contains icy clouds and the fastest winds recorded in the solar…

In the old days, many believe that we are the only living things on our galaxy or even in the whole universe. No one even bothers to look beyond our planet and explore the space for that matter. Though in Ancient Egypt, Babylonians use to study the Sun, Moon and stars just to generate a calendar for farming and religious rites but it never extended that far. Then in early 1900's people started to explore space and study matters beyond our planet. Edwin Hubble was the first person who introduced…

Is the coastal eroding? Yes, along with the power of the waves and wind the coast is eroding. The coast is not only eroding because of the water and wind, it’s also eroding because of human activity. The one activity that we do causing erosion is dredging; it’s when we get shipped to us. The ships cause waves to hit the coast. Is there any other planet that is habitable? NASA’s space telescope has found planets that could be the second “earth”. They found an earth sized planet orbiting the…

In the book “The life of super earth”, Dimitar Sasselov, one of the expert astronomer discusses some of the major findings on investigations of the universe. Much of the research relates to investigations in the laboratory relating to synthetic biology and how it can lead to better understanding of alien life in other planets outside the solar system. The most interesting idea is Sasselov’s claim that super-earths have better chances of harboring life than earth-sized planets. Personally, I have…

Nasa has just discovered a planet like Earth known as Kepler-186f, named after the telescope that found it, the Kepler. This discovery raises the possibility that a large number of planets like earth are waiting to be found, maybe much closer to Earth. One astronomer says that this is a tip of the iceberg discovery! Another says that it is a historic discovery of an Earth-like planet in a perfect spot around its star. Nasa says that future missions will study whether which planets are life…

The above diagram illustrates the volcanic activity on Venus, it indicates how activity this planet has been and still is. There is no evidence of plate tectonics on Venus along with no long linear volcano chains. There are also no clear subduction zones. Rifts are very common on Venus and they look much like the mid-ocean ridges on Earth. Volcanoes on Venus are much more regional and less organized then here on Earth. Volcanoes on Venus seem to have simple and fewer eruptive styles than the…

NASA Update News: NASA Science Chief Announces His Retirement; Leaves A Legacy Of Success John Grunsfeld, head of NASA’s Earth and Space science activities, former astronaut and chief scientists will retire on April 30. He has been in the service for four decades and would leave a remarkable legacy in the history of science and exploration. Space reports that Grunsfeld led the NASA’s Science Mission Directorate since 2012. He managed over 100 missions. These include the New Horizon’s…