Friday, April 26, 2013
The History of Flight
We human beings have always been fascinated by the concept of the possibility of lifting things up into the air. The first record of a flying object was in 200 BCE in China. The Chinese used kite to judge the distance they had to tunnel towards enemy bases. After them we skip forward about a millennium and a half, and on our journey there, we eat a slice o' π and we jump out of reality into the purely theoretical. Welcome to Venice, in the 15th century CE. We are in Leonardo Da Vinci's workshop looking over his shoulder a his many designs of his "flying machines" which, quite contrary to what Mary Pope Osborn believes, were never constructed (On the topic of Mary Pope Osborn; 1) Morgan Le Fay is an EVIL Sorceress, not a nice magical librarian. 2) Merlin is an Evil wizard who is the son of the devil, not a jolly wizard with a long beard. 3) There are at least 2 factual mistakes in each book) After that we get back to reaility in the 18th century. We are currently in a hot air balloon looking over the battle of St. Petersburg. Now we move onto Gilders, then basic airplanes then we have propeller planes, than cargo planes, then fighter planes, and then stealth bombers.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Vote Alex for President
Check out this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ja0UYPOCOI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ja0UYPOCOI
I
have a dream that one day this nation will understand the true
meaning of the creed that was said by our 3rd
president in a righteous document 21 score and 17 years ago "We
hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created
equal." Our nation has turned to the easy solution the solution
for a short term. We say all are equal, but do we truly believe it?
We try our best to close our eyes to the injustice of the real world,
to shut it out and pretend as though we were the children we are so
unjustly harming. We have tried for a better community and we have
come further down that path than any other nation ever has. But we,
who have gone so far down the road to true justice, have not gone yet
a fraction of the way and, again like those children we all are, we
have become distracted so easily with the lust for power that we have
become confused and we have turned around.
These
self-evident truths have been so distorted, that if any of our great
leaders would have the ill-luck to come back to this world, they
would be dismayed at the extent of which this country has been
damaged. I look back to earlier days and I hear from my elders about
and I sigh, I sigh because I know when I leave this world, it is
most likely that it will not be a better place.
Every
day we hear on the news that some politician is squabbling with
another, or that they are taking a vacation. I am not saying that
this is a crime, but it is indirectly harmful to the poorest of us
all . Every cent spent on vacation, every minute of time wasted,
could be used for a much better purpose. Why do we chase after the
future, when the present is crashing about our ears?
It
is time for a change. Not a change to the way our system works, no..
much much deeper than that. A change to the way that WE work. We
need new, less greedy Administration
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
How to build a THERMOMETER
LIST OF MATERIALS:
1. Test tube or similar container.
2.Isopropyl Alcohol
3. Food coloring
(4.Parafilm[not necessary])
5. Drinking Straw
6. Permanent Marker
7. 3 gloves
8. 1 rubber band
9. Hot Glue
10. Tape
11. Pre-functioning Thermometer.
PART I:
THE BUILDATION
1. Put your gloves on.
2.Take a test tube
3.Fill it with Isopropyl Alchohol
4. Cover it with Parafilm (If you don't have any, skip this step)
5. Cut two fingers off of the third glove and stretch them both over the parafilm.
6. Secure them with a rubber band.
7. Stab a hole through the fingers
8. Insert a straw and completely smother the top of the test tube with hot glue down to the rubber band.
9. Fill 1/3 of the straw with Isopropyl Alcohol. (This will be the level of room temperature)
10. Seal the end of the straw with tape.
PART II:
THE CALIBRATION
1. Heat up a glass of water to 100°F
2. Insert thermometer and wait 5 mins.
3.Mark the level of the alcohol with a permanent marker.
4. Repeat steps 1-3 for: 80°, 70° , 60°... (you may need to use a freezer)
You have now built a thermometer!
Monday, April 1, 2013
ERROR 404! NOT FOUND! APRIL FOOLS!
Today is a bad day. A dark and stormy day so to speak. Youtube has been shut down. Minecraft has ruined itself. You now cannot read this. It is invisible. Today is also a great day. First of all, It is illegal now to celebrate April Fools Day! Yay! That means that you don't have to bear having me prank you. Again YAY! The only problem is that it seems that all of these big companies seem to be so high up on the ladder of commercial greatness that they don't hear the law being administered to them! In fact, you might be considered unlawful because you are reading this message which is clearly not an april fools joke, but I still have the chief of police knocking at my door. HMMM, Maybe it's the fact that I stole a diamond worth a million dollars yesterday?? No, thats not it. Ahh! It must be because I blew the moon into two parts. That must be it.
APRIL IS FOOLISH
APRIL FOOLS
APRIL IS FOOLISH
APRIL FOOLS
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