Monday, April 29, 2013


March 6, 2013
                             height of sun
8:00 am 15ft 6 1/2in facing 287 degrees      = .21       28 degrees
10:45 am 4 ft facing 325 degrees                 = .82       
5:00 pm 10 ft 7in facing 89 degrees              = .31       17 degrees

3ft 3 1/2in object

tan = o/a = length of stick/length of shadow

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In Darwin’s Dilemma there are mysterious sudden appearance of dozens of major complex animal types in the fossil record without any trace of the gradual transitional steps Charles Darwin had predicted in his theory. Instead different species belonging to several of the main divisions of the animal kingdom suddenly appear in the lowest known fossiliferous rocks without any evidence of prior ancestral forms. It also makes other arguments for the supposed impossibility of getting new genetic information by Darwinian natural selection process.




Nearing completion, China's massive Three Gorges Dam is altering the landscape and the lives of people living along the Yangtze River. In the movie they said that a lot of ancient villages and historic sites would become submerged under water, and at least 2 million people or more would lose their homes. China has set out to harness the Yangtze with the world’s largest mega-dam. In the movie a family sends their 16 year-old daughter to work in the cruise ship industry that has sprung up to give tourists a last glimpse of the legendary river valley but she doesn’t want to go. however, this is the only way she can help her family because both of her parents are out of work. She has to leave her family behind and give up her dreams of continuing further in her education to work. As she works on the cruise ship the water slowly rises everyday and eventually her family has to gather all of their possessions because the water is rising and their home will be submerged underneath. At the end of the movie most of everything that used to be there is gone because it’s submerged underwater.
 


A long time ago scientist began to have theories about how the scablands were formed. The scablands are a huge region of the united states. It is just east of Seattle, Washington. The scablands have hundreds of gorges like a canyon that are hundreds of feet deep, there are huge boulders that are scattered across it, hills with ripples, and a water fall bigger than the Niagara but there is no water. In the mystery of the mega flood there was a scientist, geologist J. Harlen Bretz, who had a radical theory about how the scablands were created. He believed that they were formed by a catastrophic water flow and at the time most scientist believed that it was formed by a gradual erosion overtime. The main reason why most scientist didn’t believe his theory was because there was no source of water for what Bretz was talking about at the time. It had not yet been identified. His fellow scientists and colleagues thought that he was crazy in his theory. However, they all changed their minds later when evidence turned up to back up the scientist's theory. There were traces of an ancient ice dam alongside a Montana valley, which held in millions of gallons of water, until the dam itself melted  and it sent sending raging waters across the Pacific Northwest bull dozing everything in its path.


Tuesday, March 5, 2013



In the Flood of 1994 rivers and lakes across Georgia got bigger, breaking dams and levees, including the 30-foot-tall, mile-long levee running from the Otis Redding Bridge to the Industrial Park past Central City Park in Macon, GA. All the lower portion of East Macon was flooded. Below the city the Southern railway tracks were covered in water.  About 500,000 people in seven counties including Bibb, Lamar, Butts and Sumter counties had shortages of drinking water, some for as long as a week. Worries included industries not being able to run for months because freight rail lines were shut down by washed-out bridges and hazardous chemical sites flooded the area and had the potential to cause significant environmental problems. 

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

The Perfect Storm



A storm that absorbed hurricane grace. The Perfect Storm originated from a cold front that exited the east coast of the United States. The cyclone got bigger as a result of the difference of temperature between the cold air to the northwest and the warmth and humidity from Hurricane Grace. The perfect storm was the combination of Hurricane Grace and a non-tropical system that created such a massive storm. The two storms had come together just right so they were able to feed off of one another the way that they did. Grace had weakened just enough so that it could be pulled in by the non-tropical system, but still contained enough deep moisture for it to feed into the cold. When tropical moisture is added to cold air in such a way it creates enormous amounts of energy, which leads to increased rain and wind. Which in the movie created called the perfect storm the waves in the ocean that the boat was traveling in were massive causing the boat to be taken under water and turned over and the winds made it hard for the coast guard to go and rescue people; even in rescue boats also because the current from the wind and the storm were too strong.


Monday, February 4, 2013

Cruz Plaza


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infrastructure contributes to the economic output of a region, it is an important measure of productivity. However, developing efficient and cost-effective transport infrastructure is challenging. When deciding what to build, infrastructure planners and policy makers often need to balance complex political, economic, social, and environmental tradeoffs. In safety issues structural stability takes a look at the risks and prevents unintentional structural collapse  and the measures you need to take to prevent accidents in excavations. Next is electrical safety in construction where workers take precautions against the risk of death or injury from electricity. In fire safety they work to avoid fire hazards involving but not limited to storing combustible/flammable materials safely away from sources of ignition in buildings. T Erosion is a natural process that can be greatly accelerated by human activities, especially those that change or remove vegetation or that disturb the soil. Temporary sediment control practices include those practices that intercept and slow or detain the flow of storm water to allow sediment to settle and be trapped. These practices can consist of installing temporary linear sediment barriers (such as silt fences , fiber rolls, sandbag barriers, and straw bale barriers). There are some others but these are the most important ones.



Rocks Lab


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Basalt is a very common igneous rock. In fact it is the most common rock in the Earth's crust. Almost all oceanic crust is made of basalt and basalt is a common in many volcanic regions around the world. Basalt comes from extensive lava flows. Basaltic rock that cools slowly in a large thick layer will often form a distinctive hexagonal prismatic figure. Basalt is usually grey to black in color.


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Limestone rocks are sedimentary rocks that are made from the mineral calcite which comes from the beds of evaporated seas and lakes and from sea animal shells. This rock is commonly used in concrete and is an excellent building stone for humid or hot regions of the earth. Limestone ordinarily is white, but can appear in different colors and patterns due to impurities. Impurities of iron oxide give the rock brown, yellow or red color. Impurities of carbon can give it a blue, black or gray color. The texture of this stone can be coarse to fine. 


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Marble is a non-foliated metamorphic rock that is produced from the metamorphism of limestone. It is composed primarily of calcium carbonate. Marble is commonly used for sculptures and as a building material. Marble is a rock resulting from metamorphism of sedimentary carbonate rocks also.



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Granite rocks are igneous rocks which were formed by slowly cooling pockets of magma that were trapped beneath the earth's surface. This allows crystals of the four minerals to grow large enough to be easily seen by the naked eye. Granite is used for long lasting monuments and for trim and decoration on buildings. Granite is an igneous rock that is composed of four minerals. These minerals are quartz, feldspar, mica, and usually hornblende. Granites can be pink to gray in color, depending on their chemistry and what minerals it is made up of.

my money seed is finally starting to germinate...I thought that I killed it but it's starting to grow and show life. I don't know about the other seed though...it's still just dirt.

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

hey i don't know whether we were supposed to start talking about our plant before it has germinated or not, but my plant has not germinated yet unfortunately. Hopefully i didn't kill it when I went on the road for basketball. I was gone from friday morning until tuesday afternoon. I put my plant on my sink across from the window in direct sunlight with the windows open and it was pretty hot this weekend from what I gathered. I also don't have a roommate so I didn't have anyone to water my plants for me. So when I returned my plants soil was very dry and looked like they desperately needed water. So hopefully I didn't kill the seed and they will grow

Thursday, January 24, 2013


This is the Willet Science Center parking lot used to calculate how much rainfall would fall into this parking lot if there was a 0.5 in rainfall that day. The result was close to 17,000 gallons of water from that little rainfall.

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