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What the heck is beer anyway? from Scienceline on Vimeo.

Date: October 7, 2011

In this video, it talked about how to make beer. This is what it said: It starts with barley, the seeds from the plant are filed with starch, witch isn't good. So, to brake it down, they put the seeds in hot water, so that they start to sprout. Then, they dry the seeds to stop them from growing. Now, the baby plants have started to eat the starch, that's good! Then the seeds are smashed up into something called mash. Mash can be two things, Malt extract or wart. Malt extract, goes into things like whoppers(type of beer), while the wart, actually makes your beer. Then they add yest to the wart and extract all of the sugar, and poop out CO2 and Ethanol. Depending on what type of beer you want, you can add the Humulus Lupulus that's is bitter, or the one that is more aromatic(you have to add this before you add the starch!). That's it! And there you have beer!

Rabbit Population Growth Graph + Chart

Conclusion:

At the top of the post, the picture is a graph, that shows the population of rabbits increasing each year, + it has for year 15 and for year 20. It also has the Powers of 2 for each year, for the population increasing, and to the far left of the graph, it has each year. The second picture shows a chart. The chart shows how the population of rabbits increases each year, up to ten years. What i can conclude from this mini project is that this graph doesn't go for any animal, some animals have the oposit. Some animals start out with a large number, and depleat very rapidly.

7 Billion, National Geographic Magazine

7 Billion, National Geographic Magazine

Author: National Geographic

Source: Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc4HxPxNrZ0

Date Video Made: December 27, 2010

In this video it talked about how we are going to be one of 7 billion people on earth now in 2011. They say, that in 2045, the population could be 9 billion. It would take over 200 years just to count to 7 billion out loud and that 7 billion steps would take you around the world 133 times. About every second, 5 people are born and 2 people die. Nearly everywhere, we are starting to live longer. In 2010, the average person lived up to 96 years old. but in the 1960's, the average person lived up to 23 years old. In 2008, for the firs time ever, more of us lived in cities than in rural areas, for example, country side. In megacity's the population is around 10,000,000. In 1975, there were 3 megacities, Mexico city, Tokyo and New York. Right now, there are 21 megacities. By 2050, 70% of us in the world, will live in urban areas. But we don't take up as much space as you think we would. Standing shoulder to shoulder, all 7,000,000,000 of us, would will fill the city of Los Angeles. So basically, we don't need space, we need balance between us and the planet. Only 5% of us, consme 23% of the world's energy, 13% of us don;t have clean drinking water, 38% of us lack in Adequate Sanitation.

Population of Seals in Maine!

In Maine, one of the most common problems fishermen have, is seals. The reason seals are disliked so much in Maine, is because, the lobstermens traps, are like their jackpots for food. Because they can get into the traps and eat all of the bate and Lobsters. They are keeping the seal population down by counting the seals in one area, and tagging them, going to another place, and then tagging them to, so that they can closely monitor their population!

Cooling 6-Pack Myth Busters

Author: Myth Busters

Date: July 17, 2011

Site: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N354fChhjV0&feature=related

(Just Part 1)

In this episode of Myth Busters, Jamie and Adam test out the theory of, if you put a 6-pack of bear underground, put ground over in, and then light the ground on fire. This is supposed cool down the 6-pack of bear. The story behind the myth: When the vietnams were at war, they burred a 6-pack into the ground covered it up and then poured a Quart of gas on in and then set it on fire. That was supposed to cool their drink. For the first test they tried it out, they figured out that the beer actual warmed up 2 degrees. When they tried cooling the beer with a fire extinguisher. It worked. The temperature cooled down a full almost 10 degrees.When they tested what cools faster, they found out that ice water cools bear faster that just plain ice water in just 5 minutes.

Conclusion:

I chose this article because it thought it would be interesting to learn about howthey made the robots move like real boxers. What grabbed my attention was the picture of the 2 robots in the boxing ring. I thought to myself, how could that be possible? Well, I was so interested in it that I decided to watch the video find out. I found it while looking at the Discovery site and was just skimming through the videos when I came to this one that seamed interesting and was screaming, READ ME, READ ME, READ ME!!!!!!!!!

Tech: Real Steel: Are Robots the future of boxing?

BY: Discovery Chanel

Source: Video

Date: September 30, 2011

In this video it talked about the movie called "Real Steel". If you have watched the video in my blog post, you will know how they made the robots move. If you haven't, then I will guyed you through it. First of all, what they had to do was that they had to get some professional boxers to mimic the moves that the robots will be making. Then when they have the footage of the boxers, then they can make their movie MAGIC, which is technically making the animations of the Robots replace the boxers making it look like the robots are actually fighting. The “trainers” make the robot move by using their body parts, or using a futuristic gaming controller.

Reflection:

I chose this article because it thought it would be interesting to learn about howthey made the robots move like real boxers. What grabbed my attention was the picture of the 2 robots in the boxing ring. I thought to myself, how could that be possible? Well, I was so interested in it that I decided to watch the video find out. I found it while looking at the Discovery site and was just skimming through the videos when I came to this one that seamed interesting and was screaming, READ ME, READ ME, READ ME!!!!!!!!!