Friday, April 30, 2010

Blog #3

1. 1. Radial Velocity
2. Astrometry
3. Transit Method
4. Optical Detection

2. I mostly understand Astrometry the most because it is a method to learn about planets further out in space. Like, when you measure a star distance from another star and put it in measurement formulas, you will discover it's masses, gravitational pull, and if it is closer or further away.

3. Goldilock Zone is a area where life is said to be substainable for human life. If it is not too hot or too cold then its theorized that water might be on these planets.

4. A. I think their life forms might be more advance than our lifes but then again our life forms might be more advanced than their. It looks more greener than our planet.
B. They might tend to be more aggeresive towards us because we are new life forms and to them, we are unknown in a known territory.
C. They might be smarter than us or we might be smarter than they are. but because we are going to their planet, they will be smarter than us because they know their planets better than we do. Same with us about our planet if they were coming to earth.

5. I do believe their are other life forms just like us but they are not aliens. Becuase if we call them aliens, then through their eyes, we are the aliens. There are multiple galaxies outside of our own, and if we have a livable planet in this galaxy, than theirs possibly another livable planet in other galaxies. We shouldn't feel like we are the most supier specie because out their we don't know nothing out their and for them they might not know nothing about us or this solar system.

Monday, April 26, 2010

Blog #2



1. Hydrogen & Helium

2. Carbon Dioxide & Nitrogen

3. If their was a planet that I could live on, it would be Saturn. Only because of the high hydrogen levels which means their is a possible chance for water. The ground is like a slushy sand and beneath the sand, is a thin icy sheet. Plus because of the icy sheet, I could possibly grow plants that way I can eat. Plus I can get a lot of exercise climbing up and down the mountains and digging for water on Saturn.

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Blog #1











































Red Giants

A sun last about 10 billion years until its hydrogen fuel runs out and then it gets hotter inside the sun. When it gets to hot, it's expands to a tremendous size called Red Giant. As its growth excels it begins to swallow stars, planets, asteroids, or anything in it's path. Suddenly, the Red Giant makes a giant explosion called a Supernova and leaves behind a small matter called a White Dwarf, which is nothing but a small white ball or star. Finally from their, the White Dwarf
either creates a Nebular structure or a Black Hole.


Supernovas

Supernovas are a giant explosions that happen when a sun creates too much iron and collapses into itself. When the sun becomes 10x or more bigger than a average sun, it is the start of a Supernova reaction. After a Supernova occurs, the particle molecules condense together to from a white dwarf, which then can become a Neutron star or a black hole. Neutron stars are like the start of a new born sun star, which is made up of protons, neutrons, and electrons. Black holes are when too much condense particles and intense gravity come together, thus creating a rift in space.


Dark Matter


Dark matter is one of the most dangerous elements in the entire solar system. It's invisible to the naked eye because it is missing gas. Using visible light to try to see it, it would appear as a dark tinted purple, which is how it got it's name. Its a collection of dark energy and dense masses which piles together into a storm cloud of some sort. It holds all the planet in place and distributes the directions of light and its speed. And its is also part of the cloaking process that makes Black holes invisible.


Black Hole


Black holes are like the cave in of a sun, which to me is pretty awesome. They say that black holes can suck anything and everything and send it to another dimension. Then another theory is that, when your sucked into a black hole, you will die. Because the gravity is so strong within the hole that all the color pigments cant reach the end which makes it invisible to human eyes. That's why I chose Black holes.


Titan

Titan is Saturn's largest moon and the second largest moon in the entire solar system. NASA has been trying to find life on Titan or get a simple visual of what the landscape of Titan is like. The insides of Titan is like a slushy mixture of sand and gravel along with ice below the gravel. NASA's theory is that Titan moon never heated up to a certain temperature to have the ice and the rocks fully divide, and not in layers.

Monday, April 19, 2010

Blog #6


1 . A: Blog #4,

B: Because I worked really hard on it and I tried to get all the information that I could on that topic. The new things that I learned on that topic was that plasma and Bose-Einstein Condensation were stage matters.


2. A: The topic that I enjoyed the most was El nino.

B: Because all it takes is for the trade winds to reverse and the sea of destruction is brought to south America, Central America, and some parts of southern california.


3. I think that I should get about a 95% because I could have worked a lot harder on my other blogs and I could have gotten more information on my work. Some of my work was affected by time and some was done very quickly but I still worked hard on what I did.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Blog #5

This is my word group.


Wordle: dimas word group

Friday, April 9, 2010

Blog post #4


1. Tree's are affecting us but it is mainly the oak tree that is affecting us more than other tree's.

2. Tom Mather said that the flower season is kind of compressed this year, and couple that with dry, windy weather and that creates the perfect storm of pollen.

3. A. Convolvulaceae Pollen because it has spikes and craters with points in the middle.
B. This pollen is found in China.
C. This pollen doesn't really affect Americans unless someone has a plant that produces this type of pollen. Most flowers in China can produces this pollen in 20 general regions and 129 species of flowers can make it. These pollens have spiky points that are equal separated and craters are located near and between the spikes.

Friday, April 2, 2010

blog #3

1. 1. Solid
2. Liquid
3. Gas
4. Plasmas
5. Bose-Einstein Condensation

2. To change gas into plasmas, you need to add electricity to it to keep the energy going. It also need a special environment for plasmas to last longer.

3. 1. F= -459.67
2. C= -273.15
3. K= 0.

4. K= 3

5. A: I think the smell of Plasmas, if taken in enough, it could kill you. The feel of Plasmas probably might not be able to happen because it was converted from gas, which we also can't feel. Tasting Plasmas might be little to much, becuase there it also plasmas in your blood(one of the 3 components to heal wounds), and tasting it might taste something like your own blood. If plasmas is also in neon lights then seeing plasmas is very possible to do. We can see some gas's and since plasmas is made from gas, we can see, under certain conditions.

b: Smelling BE Condensation is just the same as smelling the air near the poles of the earth. B.E.C is made of super cold air so feeling it would really be possible. The best way to taste B.E.C is to eat the ice created by it coldness effect. Seeing B.E.C is the most hardest thing to do because it is the air's condition and we can never see the air we breath.