Dirt (The Movie)

 

Last week in class we watched a very fun and educational documentary called Dirt. This movie opens up your mind and more care for things you thought was useless. It shows that dirt is one of the bases of life. Most people take dirt for granted. Without it we would have nothing for trees to grow in so we would have no oxygen. Without dirt we would have no plants or meat because plants need soil to grow and animals need plants to live. Its not just that, soil can do a lot more amazing things, for example, having the wall in your home made from soil will keep your house warm in the winter and cold in the summer. Unlike the concrete which is the opposite, and much more expensive too. One part of this documentary also talked about pesticides and how when farmers spray pesticides on their crops the plants take only a little part, the rest also goes through the soil (killing everything in its way) and goes through into the rivers and  into the oceans killing hundreds of fish that get washed up the next day, but it wont kill jellyfish. We can help dirt by and the environment by making soil from dried leaves, grass, and even paper. Some scientist even made clean and fertile soil from fish insides in only six months. This documentary thought me that soil is not just there because it wants to be, it is there because it needs to be, and it needs to help us, but in order for it to help us, we need to help soil too. 

If you want to watch the movie click here.

Could Aladdin's 'Flying' Carpet Become A Reality?

By Meera Dolasia on 10/05/2011 
Dogo News
http://www.dogonews.com/2011/10/5/could-aladdins-flying-carpet-become-a-reality

A student from Princeton invented a model of the same carpet that Aladdin flew that could someday be a real-life flying carpet. His floating model is a small 4-inch sheet of transparent plastic fixed with strinds that can conduct electricity. As the energy flows through the 'carpet', it forms tiny air pockets underneath, which lift it up horizontally and also help propel it forward. But, in order to 'fly' the air pockets under the transparent plastic have to be trapped between the sheet and the ground, which means that the sheet has to be quite close to the ground. Also, it can only go one centimeter per second, and going forward is limited. Maybe soon we will all be flying around like Aladdin and Jasmine.

This is so incredibly amazing. I would have never been able to think of that being possible, and especially making the carpet fly. It’s great that they are working on it and not giving up. I am sure that in the near future we will all be flying. This shoes that anything is possible, even things that happen in fairy tales, people just need to work hard to get it and believe it is possible. 

The Search For Aliens Is About To Get More Intense

 By Meera Dolasia on 10/09/2011 
Dogo News 
http://www.dogonews.com/2011/10/9/the-search-for-aliens-is-about-to-get-more-intense

An "uber sophisticated telescope, innovatively dubbed - European Extremely Large Telescope or E-ELT" will help us see if there is any form of life on the other planets. It was made by "European Southern Observatory," a association of 15 European countries and Brazil, the telescope costs over $1.5 billion USD and should be ready by 2020. Construction will not begin for at least a couple of years. The telescope will have a 40-meter (131 ft.) mirror put together from over 1,000 individual hexagonal parts. The "'World's Biggest Eye On The Sky'" will be 3,060 meter tall (10,000 ft.) It has enough power to find any very old galaxies. 

I think that this is very amazing what they are doing and i think they will definitely find something there, might not be aliens, but it sure will be something. And about that telescope, on this picture, well it does look big, but I wonder how big it is really when you come in front of it. I believe that it is big enough for hundreds of people to go inside it at the same time. Eve if I don't believe in aliens, I am still exited for them finding out more about our universe. It is fun to know about other living creatures just like us, we are also creatures, on other planets.

Mystery Of Missing Satellite Debris Finally SolvedMystery Of Missing Satellite Debris Finally Solved

By Meera Dolasia on 09/28/2011
Dogo Nwes


Continuation of the last current event

Last week, "NASA's 6.5 ton Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) was falling down to earth and the Space Agency did not know when or where it would land." It fell 12.00am EST on Saturday, September 24th and no one was injured. Then scientists started searching for the missing parts since it was unknown where the satellite crashed. After four days, they found it. It fell in part of the Southern Pacific Ocean, a region that has no population of humans. In October or early November when a German astronomy satellite falls back to Earth. It is 2.5 tons, it is smaller than UARS However more than 30 pieces of the broken-up satellite are expected to fall on Earth.

 

If you want to know when and where this one falls, stay tuned. 

I am very shocked that the satellite actually fell, because I did not know anything about that. I thought that it wont even fall, but I was wrong. This really shows that you can predict something of happening, because sometimes during the procedure of happening something is different. I hope that the same happens with the second German satellite. 

http://www.dogonews.com/2011/10/21/more-satellite-debris-freefalling-to-earth-this-weekend