Space exploration

Exponential Innovations: The Tensions of The Cold War The world was thrust into the Atomic era by Fat Boy and Little Man, the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of WWII (Nelson 212). These bombs served as a demonstration to the world of the immense power created by splitting the atom. This fostered the exigence for the prevailing global superpowers, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the United States (US), to develop larger, more destructive nuclear…

Card, is a novel about a six year old boy named Ender who lives in a time after alien “buggers” attacked Earth and were driven back by a great general called Mazer Rackham. Ender is an extremely bright child chosen to go to battle school, a school in space, to fight in the next bugger war. Ender flies through the ranks and becomes the greatest commander in the school. He graduates early and is brought to command school on a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt. He is tricked into destroying the…

Are heroes always the ones with super powers? Do they always have to have laser vision? Are they always the ones with flying powers? Are they always the ones on TV, newspapers, and magazines? Many people believe that heroes have powers, but what they do not know is that they are average people all around society. They do little things that people take advantage of and do not get any recognition for it. Heroes do special things for people and many things to make the world better. Though leading…

Wall-E Essay More than one-third of adults in the U.S are considered to be obese and technology and how much we humans depend on it plays a large role in that. The movie Wall-e directed By: Andrew stanton displays many social issues in the world but the main ones it showed were obesity due to technology and how it is destroying the world. The movie Wall-E follows a robot that is left on earth alone to clean up the mountains of trash the humans have left behind while we humans fled away on a…

The Birds: Anthropocene Warning or Comical Prank? Humanity was not always on Earth, despite the long debate of how humans came to be, humans have caused many changes to the Earth. Over the many years humans have been on Earth there have been many challenges humans have faced and overcome. They have tried to put together Earth’s record of a timeline through history, which is called Geological Time Scale. In this time scale the periods of time have been divided and called epoch(s). Each epoch has…

Survival is about mental fortitude In Space on one can hear you scream. This is true for the novel 172 Hours on the Moon by Johan Harstand tells a tale of science fiction horror about three teens that have won a contest to spend 172 hours on the moon, however this journey becomes a fight for survival. Each of the Teens have their own reason for going and each have their own feelings. The are tested in the expanse of space with all of the mental and physical trials that they face. The fight for…

The Silent Killer Kid Cudi released the song Pursuit of Happiness on January 25, 2010, which is a part of his album Man on the Moon: The End of the Day. The song made its first television debut on The Late Show with David Letterman on September 12, 2009. Cudi’s album also consists of other popular songs including “Day N Nite”, “Soundtrack 2 My Life”, and “Man on the Moon.” Pursuit of Happiness comes across as a bright, cheerful song that is about living life in happiness, however the much…

And It Will Serve Us Right, an article by Isaac Asimov is written to predict the future of modern day. And It Will Serve Us Right, persuades us that human beings will eventually create robots that will surpass mankind, but they will never have the same “connection”, or “emotion” as of its creator. Isaac Asimov is a science fiction writer that wrote the article And I Will Serve Us Right in 1964 to predict the technology of 2014. He first explains to us his father’s connection to him, and the…

because of the reddish appearance it has. Some people think that it may be a habitable planet to colonize and live on. Others believe that it is a bad idea. For example; going to mars is dangerous and not easy where one trip requires 6 to 7 months in space with lack pf gravity which may cause back pain and 2% bone loss each month (2). Thus people are not prepared to go to Mars. According to Alexandar Kumar, Mars is inhabitable for the following reasons such as the temperature, gravity and dust…

Although scientists have speculated about intelligent life on Mars, it comes as a complete surprise to England when Martians land, having been shot to Earth in flaming cylinders. At first the projectiles are mistaken for shooting stars or meteors. Then Ogilvy, the first to discover one of the cylinders that has landed, realizes that it is hollow; as it cools, he can hear something inside unscrewing the cylinder’s top. Ogilvy informs a local journalist, Henderson, and soon a crowd, including the…