My Tech Trek Experience
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Warp time?
In Star Trek, there is a thing they use called warp time that, makes the ship and every one and everything on it, to go faster than the speed of light. This is impossible. It is physically impossible. it is however theoretically possible to go very close to the speed of light, but not exactly that fast. I mean, that is 299,792,458 meters per second. That is super fast. It takes light 8 minuets to travel from the sun to the earth so, fun fact, if the sun stopped producing light, we wouldn't know for 8 minuets, or longer... It takes thousands of years for light to get to the surface of the sun, because it originates from the center. So the light that wakes you up in the morning, in thousands of years old... plus 8 minuets and, we would not know for thousands of years if the sun stopped producing light. If the sun stopped producing light, right now... It would never effect us, plus at least 5 generations. Any way... when you move at almost the speed of light, everything slows down around you, internal clocks, man made, atomic, any clock, so a couple minuets to you, is really decades. In Star Trek they travel at warp speed, which is faster then the speed of light... A LOT. This means that, in theory, the characters in Star Trek are REALLY old. They can never go back home to their families, because they will have been LONG GONE. If they use warp time, to get some where faster, to kill an army, or something, it would really be unhelpful, because they would only get there years after they intended to... After I learned this, that was the first thing I thought of.
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
The most accurate thing made... EVER!!!
What is the definition of a second? The International Bureau of Weights and Measurements definition of a second is "The second is the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium 133 atom." When you count them, it will be exactly a second. That is how atomic clocks work. They count the 9,129,631,770 periods of radiation and ever thing that comes along with it, making the atomic clock the most accurate thing made by humans... ever. So if you ever need to have the EXACT time... get an atomic clock. It will do the trick. I give all credit to vsause for the information. His youtube channel is grate!!! Also check out asapscience, there videos are equally awesome.
Monday, July 21, 2014
My mind has been BLOWN!!!
I watched a video by AsapScience, that talked about things that will BLOW YOUR MIND!!! One of them, was that in a population of Clown Fish, when the female dies, the most dominant male becomes female!!! WHAT!!! I watched this with my cousin, and she said the only thing that popped into her mind was Finding Nemo. Nemo's mom died before he was born, so wouldn't Marlin have turned into a female? Wouldn't Marlin have been a female by the time the movie was set? What do you think?
Here is the link to the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ni5HOdGtzM
Here is the link to the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ni5HOdGtzM
Sunday, July 20, 2014
IT'S ALL OVER!!!
I cant believe that camp ended yesterday!!! I made soooo many new friends, I wish we could have camp for two more weeks!!! Grace made me laugh so many times, my room, and suit mates were awesome, and all of the instructors were, nice, helpful, and super awesome!!! I miss you all, and thought all the presentations yesterday were really good. Keep in touch girls!!! Love ya! <3
Friday, July 18, 2014
My favorite memories from camp.
Camp was awesome, and I can't believe that there is less than one day left of camp. I am going to miss all the friends that I made from all over the state. I loved hanging out with my new friends from breakfast to lights out. One of the most fun parts was dissecting frogs with Grace and watching her skin it. No matter where we were, Grace could not fail to make us laugh our hearts out. My over all favorite memory was running back and forth through our bathroom, which was really slippery and wet, with my room mate, and one of our suit mates looking out our window trying to find out Why there were four people in my dorm monitors room. The other suit mate was sleeping so we had to be quiet while we were running. Love you guys!!! <3
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
5 Positive Things...
Five positive things about myself are...
- I am kind,
- I love my family,
- I am SUPER smart,
- I have fun in school,
- I am a positive person.
Tuesday, July 15
Today, my Core Class was engineering. We made rockets out of film canisters, water, and the white tablets that fizz when you put them in your water. It was really fun, and they shot out of the room, and into the hall. We also made tops and tested putting weight on different areas to see if one effected its time spinning.
My first workshop was making slime and building penny bridges. My slime was a green teal color, and me and my partner made a bridge that supported 30 pennies in the middle without falling down till I accidentally pushed it over. After we finished, our teacher asked us if it was possible to put a whole in a paper that she could fit through, without using anything but scissors. I showed the class how to do it, because I had read it in a book. One girl made one that almost all of us fit in before it broke.
Workshop number two was Lego NXT Robotics. Me and my partner made a care with a motor that you would crank to make the car go... If that makes any sense. We also made one to go in a square, and we almost had our right angle perfect, just a couple more tries and we would have had it. Thank you Jen for teaching us how to program the brain. The workshop was super fun.<3 :D
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