So talk about new discoveries popping up left and right that are definitely mind boggling for everyone interested, me, in new species being found. Scientists were studying sheets of rock and found this eight legged creature that looked more like a plant or ‘modern party favor’, had prospered way before dinosaurs were even around. So this would bring together a large chunk of time, Ediacaran Period, which was blank of any life forms up till now.
So talk about where the heck did these things come from? What is even a greater inconvenience is where the fossils of this organism were found. They were from two totally different environments on Earth. One was from a black shale rock in South China and the other was from a quartz sample found in South Australia. According to ‘paleogeographic’ reconstructions though studies of the past show, meaning land movement (plate tectonics), that these two areas were once near each other and known as a land called Gondwana.
How they came across the figure happening to be in different places was that a scientist, Maoyan Zhu, from China, met with an Aussie, names James Gehling, at a Beijing convention and Zhu showed the guy this fossil picture and he quickly pulled out a picture that resembled what he was being shown. And what would you guess; they were very similar through picture use only. They immediately gathered as many fossils as possible and met up in near the sites in Australia that these were also discovered. While leading more than thirty people on an excavation they found many more of this eight-legged phenomenon. No question was drawn at the fact that this creature had many limbs not all connected but thin enough to act as their own arm or leg for the specimen.
After studying both fossils from both excavation sites, they came to a conclusion that this organism was a “soft bodied, dome shaped organism”. Also that it fed by absorbing nutrients from the close by environment. What is sad in my opinion that they died out for obscene reasons. This left that giant gap in the life timeline, and left the rest of the crevices of life to evolve into more complex organism that we have studied for information on the out past. Magazines have been published about this finding but most of the information is found in the one know as Geology. This tells a lot more about the specimen and how it managed to live in more than one type of living condition hopefully. If I can find this copy, maybe I will touch more on the subject but not for now….
Seriously, this just totally blows my mind as well as it should of everyone else since it makes history for adding more to the life time line that students get to learn over the years. I don’t know what it is about biological information that interests me but for some reason it definitely attracts the minds of most…
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
What Is up with the Movies Nowadays?
So talk about the movie theater business was be prospering right now but what exactly is up with the type of movies that are coming out at this time of the year, or better yet this decade. For some reason there are new forms of movies coming out that have been proven to be quite exciting and maybe new graphics that show enough action that let us view not the much of a movie but feel like we have.
Some of these new techniques I mean are stuff like first person camera shooting or sometimes the all graphics, 3D animation, movies that shock and awe the people around with the world with what technology has come about in the present time. Comparing this to the media, even old fashion ways of shooting stuff has become popular again. Like musicals were a blast in the past and then for some reason people decided that they were really dumb to watch and now we have at least one or two movies in the past two to three years that have been musicals of some sort. Technology has become such a major part of the ordinary lives nowadays, especially for creating movies that attract and control the audiences.
Me personally, I love how these new types of movies are attracting giant groups of people into the new age of action packed thrillers and how musicals have for some reason come back into fashion. Just from watching the old musicals though and comparing them to the new, also the thrillers, there is still one major difference you just cannot get over. This is the camera angles and how they are used for the movies. If you have ever noticed, the angle changes like every two to three seconds, yet older movies the camera change I is like ten to twelve seconds and can lengthen up to a minute or so.
Only reason I notice this though is because I took a filming class. So there is only one giant downfall when comparing the new actor and actresses to the older ones. That is that the talent of the newer ones has been decreased greatly because it sounds like they are too lazy to memorize their lines and to keep the camera rolling. It seems like they just shoot them looking away at something, and then switch the view so that they have time to break. This is probably the reason why people still like the older movies compared to the action packed, mind boggling films shot in this new millennia, because talent really does show in movies.
So these new ways to keep the audience attentive may work but to some it is really the knowledge and experience of the actors and actresses that keep people watching the old compared to the news. I wish this would be brought to the media but for some reason ideas from the singular public are looked down upon. If only this was understood, maybe we can create a new source of theater, like stage play, that brings action and experience both into play and make both sides of the spectrum as equal as possible…
Some of these new techniques I mean are stuff like first person camera shooting or sometimes the all graphics, 3D animation, movies that shock and awe the people around with the world with what technology has come about in the present time. Comparing this to the media, even old fashion ways of shooting stuff has become popular again. Like musicals were a blast in the past and then for some reason people decided that they were really dumb to watch and now we have at least one or two movies in the past two to three years that have been musicals of some sort. Technology has become such a major part of the ordinary lives nowadays, especially for creating movies that attract and control the audiences.
Me personally, I love how these new types of movies are attracting giant groups of people into the new age of action packed thrillers and how musicals have for some reason come back into fashion. Just from watching the old musicals though and comparing them to the new, also the thrillers, there is still one major difference you just cannot get over. This is the camera angles and how they are used for the movies. If you have ever noticed, the angle changes like every two to three seconds, yet older movies the camera change I is like ten to twelve seconds and can lengthen up to a minute or so.
Only reason I notice this though is because I took a filming class. So there is only one giant downfall when comparing the new actor and actresses to the older ones. That is that the talent of the newer ones has been decreased greatly because it sounds like they are too lazy to memorize their lines and to keep the camera rolling. It seems like they just shoot them looking away at something, and then switch the view so that they have time to break. This is probably the reason why people still like the older movies compared to the action packed, mind boggling films shot in this new millennia, because talent really does show in movies.
So these new ways to keep the audience attentive may work but to some it is really the knowledge and experience of the actors and actresses that keep people watching the old compared to the news. I wish this would be brought to the media but for some reason ideas from the singular public are looked down upon. If only this was understood, maybe we can create a new source of theater, like stage play, that brings action and experience both into play and make both sides of the spectrum as equal as possible…
A New Way to Show if Climate Changes is Occurring and How it Affects
Latest finding have showed that scientists have found a new way to discover if the global climate change will happen sooner or later. And it definitely sounds reasonable considering most of the facts they present with the case. So I was reading the article and it was saying that plants near the equator are more affected by the climate change than most places around the world because of the annual heat near the mid line of the planet.
So this event was studied by an Aussie named Angela Moles and she lived near the equator. Also for this she will receive the ‘Australian Institute of Policy and Science Tall Poppy award’ for her research on the subject. So I was like, are you joking? Seed size and plants around the world are actually constantly affected by the climate even through the changing seasons. This was so fascinating but then it can kind of be assumed about the study after you realize what the actual research was based on.
Something else that this lady brought up that proves a good point would be that further research would help us ‘pinpoint’ the traits that would either help the plant species or destroy them in future cases. With over 11,000 plants being studied for this experimental research type thing, they concluded that the plants that had the biggest seeds over all were located in the general areas of land near the equator; concluding that these plants are tropical.
Yeah, so surprisingly the seeds were over 300 the times the size of seeds that were over 60 degrees latitude away form the equators climate. So imagine looking at the seed we do every day like those of dandelions or poppies and then magnify that to where it takes up over fifty percent of your vision… THAT’S HUGE RIGHT? I know it’s outrageous! So just reading a little farther she further looks into the biggest and smallest seeds ever recorded. Supposedly the biggest is from the ‘double-coconut plant’, which can way up to about sixty pounds or so, and the smallest is of the ‘orchid’, which looks pretty much like dust in the wind and weighs like a millionth of a gram. So there is definitely is giant range of how big seeds can get for plants around the world, but the largest ones are in some way habitant to the climate of the equator.
I guess to go farther with the presented research; she decided to go backpacking around the world. Going from Asia to as far south as her thin budget would let her. So since she didn’t have all the much to go off of, mostly money-wise, she almost depended on the locals of the area and trained them as much as she could and knew, and marked as many plants as necessary to expand the experimental value of the project. Luckily though she has been given grants to significant amounts of money in grants to keep on furthering he findings. So good for her and hopefully this will help the society as a whole in the long run especially since plants provide the human species with a good chunk of our food and diet
So this event was studied by an Aussie named Angela Moles and she lived near the equator. Also for this she will receive the ‘Australian Institute of Policy and Science Tall Poppy award’ for her research on the subject. So I was like, are you joking? Seed size and plants around the world are actually constantly affected by the climate even through the changing seasons. This was so fascinating but then it can kind of be assumed about the study after you realize what the actual research was based on.
Something else that this lady brought up that proves a good point would be that further research would help us ‘pinpoint’ the traits that would either help the plant species or destroy them in future cases. With over 11,000 plants being studied for this experimental research type thing, they concluded that the plants that had the biggest seeds over all were located in the general areas of land near the equator; concluding that these plants are tropical.
Yeah, so surprisingly the seeds were over 300 the times the size of seeds that were over 60 degrees latitude away form the equators climate. So imagine looking at the seed we do every day like those of dandelions or poppies and then magnify that to where it takes up over fifty percent of your vision… THAT’S HUGE RIGHT? I know it’s outrageous! So just reading a little farther she further looks into the biggest and smallest seeds ever recorded. Supposedly the biggest is from the ‘double-coconut plant’, which can way up to about sixty pounds or so, and the smallest is of the ‘orchid’, which looks pretty much like dust in the wind and weighs like a millionth of a gram. So there is definitely is giant range of how big seeds can get for plants around the world, but the largest ones are in some way habitant to the climate of the equator.
I guess to go farther with the presented research; she decided to go backpacking around the world. Going from Asia to as far south as her thin budget would let her. So since she didn’t have all the much to go off of, mostly money-wise, she almost depended on the locals of the area and trained them as much as she could and knew, and marked as many plants as necessary to expand the experimental value of the project. Luckily though she has been given grants to significant amounts of money in grants to keep on furthering he findings. So good for her and hopefully this will help the society as a whole in the long run especially since plants provide the human species with a good chunk of our food and diet
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Sept. 30, 2008... HOW CAN THIS BE! Snow falling on Mars?!?!
DUDE that is totally cool! Just thinking about the headlines brought my full attention to this. Snow actually falling on Mars is such a phenomenon, especially if you compare it to it snowing on the ground somewhere like where we live. Something you would probably get in a dozen blue moons or so. So this science probe sent to see if life was able to live on this planet happened to be strolling by the northern ice cap and decided to take a sky shot, shoot a light beam, and when the images were sent to NASA, they noticed that there were white flakes floating towards the ground.
So talk about how this further leads to what people think about life existing on other planets. Actually though, they were assessing whether the caps had acceptable living conditions. Another thing that was researched and proven to be noticed was the clay found. They say that where this is found that water ice was represented on Earth and hopefully that this also follows those rules. If so another fact can prove that life can inhabit this land. So water is definitely what scientists believe is the source of all life.
So Phoenix, the probe, when taking the pictures of this weather change calculated that this event was taking place over two miles above the surface of which the snow was actually falling. What was sad though, I thought, was that all of the snow had dissipated way before even getting close to the surface of the planet. From this though comes even sadder news for the science world and the probe that provided dire information for further studies. That is that the sun around that time sunk towards the horizon and that left our solar powered robot on not very much energy to perform any type of task. So scientists will probably hold on to this information for a decent amount of time before giving up on if life did exist or not, because the probe probably will not be able to collect any samples it can for scientists back home to analyze.
Even now, life existence is slowly mounting with how much evidence is being found for life on Mars. One of these would be that the cold, dry deserts were once water abundant and warm. Weeks before this article was released, scientists spoke out about how deformation bands found around the equatorial region, show that there was stress beneath the bed rock surface of the planet One of the scientists on this program, Chris Okubo, stated that: “water flows through these fractures and that they help us understand how the underground plumbing system of may have worked”. So to help prove his point he showed how these deposits layered in a forty three mile crater are similar to those found in the state of Utah.
So most of these evidential facts have been brought due to the fact that snow was found falling on a deserted planet that was hopefully once inhabited, as hypothesized, for a great period of time.
So talk about how this further leads to what people think about life existing on other planets. Actually though, they were assessing whether the caps had acceptable living conditions. Another thing that was researched and proven to be noticed was the clay found. They say that where this is found that water ice was represented on Earth and hopefully that this also follows those rules. If so another fact can prove that life can inhabit this land. So water is definitely what scientists believe is the source of all life.
So Phoenix, the probe, when taking the pictures of this weather change calculated that this event was taking place over two miles above the surface of which the snow was actually falling. What was sad though, I thought, was that all of the snow had dissipated way before even getting close to the surface of the planet. From this though comes even sadder news for the science world and the probe that provided dire information for further studies. That is that the sun around that time sunk towards the horizon and that left our solar powered robot on not very much energy to perform any type of task. So scientists will probably hold on to this information for a decent amount of time before giving up on if life did exist or not, because the probe probably will not be able to collect any samples it can for scientists back home to analyze.
Even now, life existence is slowly mounting with how much evidence is being found for life on Mars. One of these would be that the cold, dry deserts were once water abundant and warm. Weeks before this article was released, scientists spoke out about how deformation bands found around the equatorial region, show that there was stress beneath the bed rock surface of the planet One of the scientists on this program, Chris Okubo, stated that: “water flows through these fractures and that they help us understand how the underground plumbing system of may have worked”. So to help prove his point he showed how these deposits layered in a forty three mile crater are similar to those found in the state of Utah.
So most of these evidential facts have been brought due to the fact that snow was found falling on a deserted planet that was hopefully once inhabited, as hypothesized, for a great period of time.
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