Futurefarmers How to play the Midnight Man Game with Rules It is highly recommended that you do not play the midnight game, however here are some instructions for thrill seekers. Do at your own risk; 1. It must be exactly 12:00 AM when you begin the ritual, or else it will not work. You will need; Candles Paper and Pencils A wooden front door Salt A pin needle All the lights in the house off Step 1: Everyone who is playing the midnight game must write their names on a piece of paper, then use a pin needle to drop a single drop of their blood onto the paper Step 2: Place the paper in front of your front door. Step 3: Light a candle Step 4: Knock on your front door exactly 22 times. Step 5: Open your door, blow out the candle, and close it. Step 6: Your goal for the rest of the game is to survive the Midnight Man. Signs that the Midnight Man is nearby: * Your candle blows out * You suddenly get very cold * You hear a low whisper * You see a black humanoid figure within the darkness
The Ark: Floating Hotel January 12, 2012 at 8:00am | by Hernando Russia-based architectural firm Remistudio proposes this arch-shaped floating hotel as a refuge from even extreme floods. Called (quite appropriately) the Ark, the futuristic structure has the ability to exist autonomously on the surface of the water. Designed to be a bioclimatic building, the Ark incorporates several innovative green strategies and elements to ensure that its residents can survive aboard for months at a time. [via] Like 9 Wows for daily content like this!
Space Exploration Technology: Space Exploration and Nuclear Propulsion Space Exploration –> Technology Contents IntroductionSpace Mission AnalysisLimitations of Chemical Rocket EnginesThe Advantage of Nuclear Propulsion SystemsSample Calculations for a Mars MissionWhat Progress Has Been Made in Space Nuclear Power and Propulsion?ConclusionsReferencesTable 1: Types of Propulsion SystemsTable 2: Mars Mission Comparison - Round TripFigure 1: Mass Ratio Dependence on Mission Delta-V and Specific ImpulseFigure 2: Schematic Diagram7 of a Solid Nuclear Thermal Rocket (NTR) Engine Introduction For those who are interested in the exploration and development of space by humans, nuclear propulsion technology is a very attractive option. Why? Space Mission Analysis For any space mission, there are a few basic questions that must be answered: What is the destination? To convert the reactor heat into electricity, thermoelectric or thermionic devices could be used, but these have low efficiencies and low power to weight ratios. References Table 1: Types of Propulsion Systems
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Malthus, a Meal a Day. Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About the Food and Love the (Population) Bomb. — Conceptual Devices As designers we give ideas a form and we transform them into things. We can’t certainly solve the world’s challenges, but what we can do is to create a concrete storytelling about them. A narrative. Malthus is one of these tales. Malthus is an appliance for the kitchen of the future that grows food right next to where you cook it. Malthus is designed to optimize space and costs with indoor food production. [svg src=" width="400" height="565" style="display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right=auto;" type="embed" ] Malthus #01 was built thanks to the collaboration of Ola Nilsson and presented for the first time at the 10th edition of NESS – Nordic Environmental Social Sciences Conference – Stockholm 14th -16th June 2011 within the context of the exhibition “Power Landscapes” curated by Po Hangström. Malthus has a planned production limited to 100 numbered pieces.
the forgotten warp drive You’ve probably never heard of Burkhard Heim. Not many people have. After all, he was rather reclusive, all of his work was published in German and his brief moment in the spotlight was in 1957 when he proposed an odd propulsion system that could easily achieve relativistic speeds. A spacecraft powered by this hyperdrive would get us from Earth to Mars in just a few hours and make exploring our immediate stellar neighborhood possible within our lifetimes. Sound too good to be true? Originally, Heim was trying to reconcile quantum mechanics with general relativity and created a universe with six dimensions in the formulas he used. How much energy would it take? While Drcher’s designs might not work and Heim’s ideas might be off in some critical places, this work can give us some interesting new directions in which to push the physics of warp drives.
Science Nugget: Catching Solar Particles Infiltrating Earth's Atmosphere Science Nugget: Catching Solar Particles Infiltrating Earth's Atmosphere Science nuggets are a collection of early science results, new research techniques, and instrument updates that further our attempt to understand the sun and the dynamic space weather system that surrounds Earth. On May 17, 2012 an M-class flare exploded from the sun. The eruption also shot out a burst of solar particles traveling at nearly the speed of light that reached Earth about 20 minutes after the light from the flare. This graph shows the neutrons detected by a neutron detector at the University of Oulu in Finland from May 16 through May 18, 2012. GLEs are quite rare – fewer than 100 events have been observed in the last 70 years, since instruments were first able to detect them. This GLE has scientists excited for another reason, too. The path to this observation began on Saturday, May 5, when a large sunspot rotated into view on the left side of the sun. Bingo. Karen C.
inquiry When teaching the scientific method to students I say that all good science starts with a good observation....which in turn often leads to a good testable question. The problem is coming up with easy, inexpensive, testable questions/experiments for the classroom to prove the point. I am always on the look out for things I can turn into science experiments which I can then have the students design and/or execute. I like to do at least three hands on experiments within the first couple weeks of school. Here are some questions that I have that could be turned into experiments: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. So there you have 10 science experiment ideas that all started with some observations or another that lead to questions that could be tested in a classroom. I would LOVE LOVE LOVE it if visitors to this blog can share any other testable questions they have or have done in the classroom.