How much of the universe have we seen(using technology or telescopes)? Astronomers have seen 13 billion light years away from earth containing billions upon billions of galaxies. We are in one of the galaxies known as the Milky Way. The Milky Way is approximately 100,000 light years in diameter and 1,000 light years thick. Let me put this in to the metric system. A light year is exactly equal to 10,000,000,000,000 kilometers!! That number right there is 10 trillion kilometers. Now multiply that by 13,000,000,000. Just you basic multiplication.
What is 10,000,000,000,000 x 13,000,000,000 = 130,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 km! I don't even know what
number that it is or how accurate it is. This number is just what we have seen so far! Imagine how much more to the
universe there is. This is why I choose to believe there are other intelligent life forms in the entire universe.
Life forms can only live on planets. Assuming that each galaxy has the same amount of inhabitable planets
as the Milky Way I can make a guess that in each of those billions upon billions of galaxies there are about 54
inhabitable planets. In at least one of those planets there has to be at least one other intelligent life form. Also those
54 inhabitable planets need to have a perfect solar system like ours to live. That cuts the amount of inhabitable
planets to about 36 maybe but still there are billions upon billions of solar systems.
Another reason there could be other intelligent life forms is that every life form need some source of food.
Whether they get it by hunting or they make their own food they need some source of food. This brings me to my next topic, food chains/webs. Food chains/webs just show how each living organism gets its food. If there is one animal on a planet how would it get its food (other than cannibalism)? With every species on a planet there has to be at least 2 other species. One above on the food chain and one below (until the species on the top or bottom can't be eaten/makes its own food). This means that on each of the 36 planet there could be at least 3 new species.
This proves my point that there has to be at least one other intelligent life forms in the universe.
Thursday, 21 November 2013
Tuesday, 12 November 2013
Social Media
Is social media helpful to our society?
Social media has its helpful at times but when people dedicate most of their time to social media, that's when things get out of hand. Social media has it's pros and cons. They are not completely balanced but are fairly even.
Pros: To start off I will say that I am a firm supporter of social media. It has saved me a few times if I have forgotten something at school I can ask one of my friends through social media to get the information I need.
I don't do this every often but if I ever forget I can rely on social media. This doesn't mean that I constantly ask my friends for things but I know that I have "insurance". Another time I used social media was to do school projects (like science labs). I would ask my partner(s) to get Skype so that we could work together on the project. I never get social media like Facebook because I think that Facebook is only for sharing what you would do on a daily basis. If I ever get Facebook it would only be because everyone that is in my group for a project has it and they don`t have Skype.
Cons: I didn't mention this in the pros section but the main reason I don't have Facebook is because of the creepy stalker people. ANYONE on earth can search up your name and find out stuff about you. I remember we had presentations on Facebook and how there were settings that could keep yourself hidden but I also remember reading on the news that they took theses settings out. I am not sure if they implemented this yet but I am not taking the chance. Also I think that social media is the main cause of hackers. I have never been hacked because I am mostly careful of who I talk to and what I say to them. Lots of people have been hacked due to their inappropriate language or attitude toward something. Also social media causes problems like cyber-bullying. This is another reason I don't have Facebook but have Skype. On Skype you talk to each other so that I can at least get some kind of idea as to who I was talking to me. I am not hating of Facebook I am using Facebook as an example.
Conclusion: Like I said, I am a firm supporter in social media. It has saved me many times if I forgot things at school but I try not to forget because if I get lazy and always ask my friends for things, in the future they won't give me the information that I need.
Social media has its helpful at times but when people dedicate most of their time to social media, that's when things get out of hand. Social media has it's pros and cons. They are not completely balanced but are fairly even.
Pros: To start off I will say that I am a firm supporter of social media. It has saved me a few times if I have forgotten something at school I can ask one of my friends through social media to get the information I need.
I don't do this every often but if I ever forget I can rely on social media. This doesn't mean that I constantly ask my friends for things but I know that I have "insurance". Another time I used social media was to do school projects (like science labs). I would ask my partner(s) to get Skype so that we could work together on the project. I never get social media like Facebook because I think that Facebook is only for sharing what you would do on a daily basis. If I ever get Facebook it would only be because everyone that is in my group for a project has it and they don`t have Skype.
Cons: I didn't mention this in the pros section but the main reason I don't have Facebook is because of the creepy stalker people. ANYONE on earth can search up your name and find out stuff about you. I remember we had presentations on Facebook and how there were settings that could keep yourself hidden but I also remember reading on the news that they took theses settings out. I am not sure if they implemented this yet but I am not taking the chance. Also I think that social media is the main cause of hackers. I have never been hacked because I am mostly careful of who I talk to and what I say to them. Lots of people have been hacked due to their inappropriate language or attitude toward something. Also social media causes problems like cyber-bullying. This is another reason I don't have Facebook but have Skype. On Skype you talk to each other so that I can at least get some kind of idea as to who I was talking to me. I am not hating of Facebook I am using Facebook as an example.
Conclusion: Like I said, I am a firm supporter in social media. It has saved me many times if I forgot things at school but I try not to forget because if I get lazy and always ask my friends for things, in the future they won't give me the information that I need.
Monday, 4 November 2013
If I could meet anyone in history
If I could meet anyone in history I would meet Sir. John A MacDonald. I would choose him because he is an important Canadian figure, he was one of the 13 fathers of confederation (the joining of all provinces to form The Dominion of Canada), what did do during with their spare time in the 1800's and I would like to learn about what people did for entertainment.
Background details/accomplishments.
Sir John A MacDonald was born on January 11, 1815 in Glasgow, Scotland. He was a politician back in the mid 1800`s. Like any other politician he had a rival. George Brown. They both disagreed with each other... but when it came to confederation they both agreed to work together and form the Dominion of Canada. He was one of the 13 fathers of confederation. He was also the first prime minister of Canada and served 19 years of being prime minister after that.
Sir John A MacDonald is an amazing person. He accomplished what most people couldn't. He went beyond everyone's expectations. He (along with the other 12 fathers of confederation) were convinced that joining together would make a difference in people's daily lives. He is an important Canadian authority figure because many people look up to him without a doubt that hopefully one day another person like him will be brought upon us to lead our country. He saw equality in the French and the English. He once said "Let us be English or let us be French . . . and above all let us be Canadians." -John A MacDonald. Because of all of his actions he has been rewarded with the gift of being on the $10 Canadian bill. This is why I chose Sir John A MacDonald.
John A MacDonald probably was thinking of more than one thing at a time. If I had the chance to meet him I would talk to him about some of those things. So if he thought ahead or made stuff up as he went to meetings, conferences, ... etc. What was going on in his mind during a conference or a public election. How he felt to be Canada's first prime minister. I would also want to know what people did for entertainment. Like what was the "cool" thing to do back then? This ties in with what did people spend their spare time on? The last thing I would ask him is if there were any sports back then (competitively).
If I had the chance to meet Sir John A MacDonald I would make the most of it by asking him all sorts of questions but to top it off... the million dollar question. I would ask him why was George Brown your "rival"? To me it doesn't make sense because together they created the blueprints of Canada and alone they didn't "cover much ground".
These are the things I would ask Sir John A MacDonald if I had the chance to meet him.
Background details/accomplishments.
Sir John A MacDonald was born on January 11, 1815 in Glasgow, Scotland. He was a politician back in the mid 1800`s. Like any other politician he had a rival. George Brown. They both disagreed with each other... but when it came to confederation they both agreed to work together and form the Dominion of Canada. He was one of the 13 fathers of confederation. He was also the first prime minister of Canada and served 19 years of being prime minister after that.
Sir John A MacDonald is an amazing person. He accomplished what most people couldn't. He went beyond everyone's expectations. He (along with the other 12 fathers of confederation) were convinced that joining together would make a difference in people's daily lives. He is an important Canadian authority figure because many people look up to him without a doubt that hopefully one day another person like him will be brought upon us to lead our country. He saw equality in the French and the English. He once said "Let us be English or let us be French . . . and above all let us be Canadians." -John A MacDonald. Because of all of his actions he has been rewarded with the gift of being on the $10 Canadian bill. This is why I chose Sir John A MacDonald.
John A MacDonald probably was thinking of more than one thing at a time. If I had the chance to meet him I would talk to him about some of those things. So if he thought ahead or made stuff up as he went to meetings, conferences, ... etc. What was going on in his mind during a conference or a public election. How he felt to be Canada's first prime minister. I would also want to know what people did for entertainment. Like what was the "cool" thing to do back then? This ties in with what did people spend their spare time on? The last thing I would ask him is if there were any sports back then (competitively).
If I had the chance to meet Sir John A MacDonald I would make the most of it by asking him all sorts of questions but to top it off... the million dollar question. I would ask him why was George Brown your "rival"? To me it doesn't make sense because together they created the blueprints of Canada and alone they didn't "cover much ground".
These are the things I would ask Sir John A MacDonald if I had the chance to meet him.
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