Friday, April 27, 2012

Name: Richard 6A
Teacher: Miss. J
Class: Humanities
Date: 27/4/2012
Title: US industry to build Solar Orbiter Satellite
Source of Article: http://www.bbc.uk.com/news/science-environment-14743241
Author of Article: Johnathan Amos
Date of Article: 26/4/2012
Exact Location: USA, New York
New words: no new words
Definition: no definition

Johnathan Amos, the smartest scientific inventor has created a new invention of his own: The Solar Orbital Satelite or the SOS. This satelite is not that small or big. It will be launched into space after it is programmed and completed. Johnathan explained that the satelite has a power beam projector that gets the energy from the sun because people want to find out how much warmness does the sun give us. And has two blue wings. When the satelite absorbs too much energy from the sun, the wings begin to flip or spin to block the suns rays. Ones in 1999, some other scientists from a another country have build the same but different satelite but it failed because they forgot to put some specaial oil to it and the satelite got swallowed by the omega hot cylinder ( I mean the sun) Some scientists are nervus about their success and so are the people. Are they going to fail? We will soon find out.

My thoughts about this article was that I didnt really got interested in this because I have heard a tons of times about these satelites and even better ones. In the future, if someone putes a atomic bomb in a satelite, it will make the sun explode! And I am scared of the dark when we dont have the sun. But still, the satelite is very small and looks funny.

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Biodiversity loss: How accurate are the numbers?

Name: Richard 6A
Teacher: Miss. J
Class: humanities
Date: 4/26/2012
Title: Biodiversity loss: How accurate are the numbers?
Source of Article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-178268972
Author of Article: Richard Knight
Date of Article: 24/4/2012
Exact Location: Rio de janero
New words: Vary
Definition: Vary: to increase

One website claims: "We are indeed experiencing the greatest wave of extinction since the disappearance of the dinosaurs." But there are even bigger problems than that. All the spieces around the world are begining to dissapear! Every hour about 3 spieces are lost and after 24 hours, 150 spieces are lost. Even scientist are begining to say that when 3 spieces are lost every hour, then 72 spieces are lost a day. Nobody knows where, how and why are the spieces dissapearing. And nobody knows how many spieces are in the world. "Current estimates of the number of species can vary from, let's say, two million species to over 30 or even 100 million species," says Dr Braulio Dias. Some people are trying to save all the animals. They saved some dolphins and a south eastern China Tiger. The other animals? They were not very lucky.

My thoughts about this story was that I really became sad when I noticed that spieces are beginning to dissapear. I really like all the spieces in the world ( well, not all of them) but I even wish I knew the truth why the spieces are dissapearing. But I hope that there will be a day when the spieces will stop dissapearing.

Here is a picture of a South-Eastern China Tiger:
South China tiger