Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Rings of Saturn will disappear today.

The ring of Saturn is almost completely water and ice with some dust or chemicals. The ring is 170,000 miles wide. The ring holds 35 trillion-trillion tons of dust rocks and ice. The reason that the ring is visible and shiny is because it reflects the sun, but every 15 years the ring turn reflecting no sun. Saturn’s ring is bit of a mystery because scientists don’t know how it formed. Saturn has an orbit of 29.7 years but we have 365 days. The famous predictor Galileo Galilei was the first man to discover the change of Saturn’s ring in 17th century, through one of his telescopes made by himself. He didn’t know what they were sand he couldn’t see closely enough so he thought that Saturn had two big ears. Then after studying it for 2 years he says it disappear and dint know what to say. There are still some thing for us to still learn about Saturn’s ring.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

This lizard runs on water-really!!!

There is one lizard that can run on water. It lives in tropical forests in south and North America. It name is the Jesus Christ lizard. It can weight from 200-600 grams and they grow up to 3 feet. They are able to perform an impossible task running on water, thanks to its large feet and toes which have flaps that allow them to run on water, if they run at a rapid pace. Young lizards can run from 10 to 20 meters before they sink, but adults can only run a few meters. When the lizard sinks if starts to swim at a rapid pace allowing them to get away from the predators, but also trying to not go deep because of the water predator looking for a snack. They are also masters at camouflage and they are omnivore which means that they will almost eat anything.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Volcanoes are dangerous sources of energy

Scientist use volcanoes to try to extract energy. One of their experiments was to drill into a volcano and make a well. Then after the well is made they inject cold water before the well is properly heated. The final goal is to produce high pressure superheated dry steam.
The first well that was created was called RN-17. It is located at Reykjanes area. It was first drilled to 3082 m then they drilled another 800 m. They tried to drill to 4500 m but they realized that it would take 115 days longer so they didn’t do it. When they started putting down the drillstring it came upon a molten rock 2104 m. Fortunately they pulled out the drillstring on time so everything was under control. Same problems occurred also at Krafla and Hawaii. The good thing about these studies is that researchers have the opportunity to learn more about injecting cold water into magma.

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Spray on fashion

Spray on fashion
Spray on fashion is created from the company of Fabricana. It was created by a Manel Torres a Spanish designer and a professor of a partial technology Paul Lukham. It is just a spray that you spray on you and it turns into clothes, it is washable. They think that it won’t irritate a wound if you spray it on it. There are some problems that are the clothes may be to snuggle and the smell of the solvent, which is very strong and lingers around the clothing. Although researchers say that it will be solved soon. I think that this is very good but I wonder what they use to make it and if it can cause harm to earth or people. When will it come out to buy and will it be expensive and how long will it take to make a good looking shirt.

Thursday, September 9, 2010

The states of matter


GAS
Defined mass
Indefinite shape
Indefinite
Volume

On heating It expands real large.
Easily  compressibility
LIQUED
Definite mass
Indefinite shape
Definite volume
On heating it expands  slightly  
Low compressibility
SOLID
definite mass
Definite shape
Definite volume
On heating it expands really low
Almost none compressibility

Monday, August 30, 2010