Thursday, April 30, 2009

My Passion


My passions in life are football golf family and friends, but not necessarily in that order. Even though during football season it seems like that is all im focused on, but really my family is always number one. NO matter what i have planned, no matter what my football coach says, I would drop anything at the drop of a dime if my family needed me.

Now to me Golf is probably last on my list becasue it is more of a hobby than anything else. But im not goiung to lie, I have been getting pretty good these last couple of years. I have golfed in a few tournaments with older guys and ive done fairly well. I usually dont win mush more than the entry fee but thats ok Im there to have fun.

HR Diagram for Stellar Evolution


All stars start as a protostar, just like all humans start as a fetus. As gravity pulls on the atoms, there is a collision between the hydrogen atoms. This collision creates another essential force, pressure. Soon the blob gets bigger and bigger creating the photostar. The protostar will then turn into a star. The star must keep a balance between gravity and gas pressure. This star will keep contracting to get back the heat and energy it has lost and to stay alive. As this star grows older it gets bigger. The hotter the star the bigger it is. This star will soon become ill when it loses its balance between gravity and gas pressure. When the star died it was at Red Giant stage. In human terms it is a middle aged adult. When it’s a red star it means fusion is happening so fast that the gas are being pulled off the core and makes a red color. The star is large, but it has lost some of its atoms making it less as big.

So we all know the star died from a severe illness and we are ok with that. But lets say it didn’t die. The star would have had one more stage and would have been a white dwarf. In human terms it would have been very old and soon to be dead. White dwarfs are tiny stars with big densities. A spoon full of white dwarf could weigh tons.

Friday, April 24, 2009

Ray Davis and John Bahcall


for 40 years people said that Ray Davis' experiments were unnecessary and ridiculous. But Davis never quit. He kept his experiments going and collected more and more data, just to show the world how determined he was. That is the kind of person you would have to be in order to keep going even though everybody was calling you a crackpot or a lunatic. But it goes to show you that if you believe in something, no matter what anyone else says, you need to keep following it and sooner or later ( in Davis' case later) it will be come to fruition. And people need to be little crazy in order to make advancements in the world of scientific research

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

The power of 10

111,109,101 B.C. - Dinosaurs roomed the world
11,109,101 B.C. - first forms of grass appear
1,109,101 B.C. - Earths magnetic field reverses
109,101 B.C. - mitochondrial eve
9101 B.C. - Beginning of neolithic
899 A.D. - Leif Erickson discovers america
1899 A.D. - Butch Cassidy robs Train
1999 A.D. - The columbine school shooting
2008 A.D. - war in Iaq reached its 6th year
2009 A.D - Barack Obama is elected president

Friday, April 3, 2009

Jupiter


Facts:

1) It is two and a half times as massive as all of the other planets in our Solar System combined

2) fifth and larget planet from the sun

3) the planet is primarily composed of hydrogen with a little helium mixed in

4) Jupiter's shape is that of an oblate spheroid, it possesses a slight but noticeable bulge around the equator

5) Jupiter has 63 named satelittes, the four largest are called galilean moons

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Childrens books


1) "Just a school project"... full moon...late night... possible
2) "Goodnight Moon"... Waxing crescent... late night picture.... possible
3) "shhhh everybody is sleeping" ..... Waxing gibbious..... Late night... possible
4) "Christmas tree" ..... wanning crescent... late night... not possible
5) "The Scar"... New moon... day... possible
6) "Crown of swords"... wanning half... late night... possible
7) "where the wild things are"... wanning gibbious... late night... yes
8) "where the wild things are"... Waxing gibbious...late night...yes

Questions
A) full moon because then the burglars will be able to see you better
B)to an extent because it depends on what type of incline the person is driving on.
C) lots of people are out at night not just the crazy people
D) new moon and waxing/wanning crescent
E) Some people do but not all of them

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Pope Gregory XIII


2) 1502 - 1585
3) heliocentric
4) Gregory XIII is best known for his reformation of the calendar, producing the Gregorian calender
5) http:// en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Pope_Gregory_XIII #The_Gregorian_Calendar