Orbital

The Hubble telescope is a telescope named after famous astronomer Edwin Hubble. It orbits in space 380 miles above Earth’s surface, traveling 5 miles per second, finishing an orbit around Earth in 97 minutes. Hubble takes sharp images of space without looking at Earth’s atmosphere, which blurs pictures due to the atmosphere being constantly in motion. The telescope is 2.4 meters in length and has mirrors 94 inches in diameter. Some celestial objects that Hubble takes images of are stars and…

Arrigo (2001, n.p.) defined psychopaths as “an elusive and perplexing psychological construct”, which across history has experienced several degrees of social condemnation. Similarly, the public’s perception of a psychopath, such as Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer, is someone who has committed such horrific violent crimes as a serial and mass murder. As explained previously, a psychopath does not need to express violent tendencies to have developed a lack of emotional attachment, which many have…

Should the government be funding space exploration? What has come out of the United States space program and was it worth the investment? Does space exploration have to be government run, or are there alternative ways to explore the universe? It is questions like these that must be answered when determining the future of space exploration. Despite the dream of space exploration being a peaceful one, the U.S. space program only came about as a result of the cold war. The program improved the…

Over five hundred years ago, cleric Diego de Landa approached an abandoned society lost in the jungles of Central America. His findings led him to make assumptions of these people he marked as savages. De Landa denounced these people as “idolatry, divorce, sacrificial, and slave traders” (qtd. in Gibson 13). Nearly three centuries after de Landa’s account, the U.S explorer John Lloyd Stephens noted his discovery of an altar among the ruins of a Central American city called Copán, with the…

Video Games are secretly good for you The news and media likes to push blame onto the video game industry for most of the recent tragedies that occur in high schools and society today. Several news stations have claimed that video games are too violent and desensitizing to the younger audiences and should be banned or severely restricted in what kind of content they should have. The problem with most of these groups’ point of views is that they are only focusing on the negative impact games have…

Monstrosity, defined as a grossly malformed animal, plant, or person would show the exact wording of the phrase. Understanding the exact term helps us identify Monster. Monsters, usually recognized as an imaginary creature described as typically large, ugly, and frightening, but they differ in classifications such as reanimated monsters, ecological monsters, human monsters, and technological monsters. The truth is, monsters come in different shapes and sizes. In this case we will identify and…

United States had been under the pressure of the Cold War and they needed to gain an edge on the Soviet Union. The countries were at war to show scientific superiority and military strength. On October 4th, 1957 the Soviet Union launched their first orbital satellite, Sputnik. Sputnik was a huge win for the Soviet Union, it meant that they were able to successfully launch a spacecraft and keep it from malfunctioning before it completed its mission. “The Soviet Union had announced it had won the…

The Mystery of Black Holes with Scientific Understanding If the sun were to suddenly becoming a black hole, what would happen to us here on Earth? To many people’s surprise the factor that would kill our life forms on earth would be the loss of heat and light and not from getting sucked into the black hole. There is not complete evidence to support that black holes exist but there are many signs and scientific theories that support there existence. Black holes can be a mysterious subject but…

would function. He then does the same for a psychopathic killer’s brain. His results showed that there is a specific difference in brains of serial killer and normal human beings. All of the serial killers’ brains he observed had severe damage to the orbital cortex, the visual processing, as well as the interior part of the temporal lobe, involved in primary auditory perception. (Fallon, 2009). Through this, Fallon goes more into detail and states, “It all has to do with too much brain serotonin…

The main components of a flat-plate collector, as shown in Figure 3, are the following [5]: • Cover. Glass or other radiation-transmitting material. • Heat removal fluid passageways. Tubes, fins, or passages which containing fluid from the inlet to the outlet. • Absorber plate. Flat, corrugated, or grooved plates are attached to tubes, fins, or passages. A special attachment is the embedded fixing shown in the detail of Figure 3.2. The plate is usually coated with a high-absorbent, low-emittance…