New Polls!!!!!!

Hey everybody!!! I just added a couple of new polls! check 'em out!!!!

solar billboards?!?!?!?!?

Think about it. Solar billboards. Sounds like something from the future, right??? Actually, Canada and Africa already have them, and the US just installed one on 1000 Brennon street in San Fransisco, the only current solar billboard in America. Roofing the billboard are 20 solar panels, which gathers energy from the sun. every morning, the panels start facing the east, and as the day goes on, moves west. Find the full article at:
http://www.livescience.com/environment/071204-solar-billboard.html If you were wondering, the billboard said " This is not a Billboard. THis is a Powerplant."

OMEGA MEME2.0

1 My favorite TV show is Mythbusters because it is hilarious, dangerous(which I like), and mechanical.

2 My favorite meal is pizza because it is greasy, gooey, and cheesey...

3 My favorite nonschool activity is going online and finding stuff to do.


4 Someone I look up to is my dad because he can help me with math and science homework; and he helps me improve my Ping-pong.



5 My goals for the future is to get straight A's as my final grade, and become a mechanical engineer.



6 In my first hour after school, I turn on the TV, and after watching something, I do my homework.

OMEGA MEME!!!!!!!!

I’ve tagged students for the Omega Meme!The rules are as follows:Each player answers the six questions posted on this blog. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning before those answers are listed.At the end of the post, the player then tags 8 people and posts their blog names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog. Then follow the instructions about adding a page element at omegascience.blogspot.com.
1. My favorite TV show is.......(explain why)
2. My favorite meal is...... (explain the meal in detail)
3. My favorite nonschool activity is...... (explain why but do not give specific names that can identify you)
4. Someone I look up to is....... (explain why)
5. My goal for the future is.....
6. In the first hour after school I usually do...... (explain why but do not give specific events or names that can identify you)
You may not tag someone who has already been tagged.

a rewelcome and a new entrance

first, i would want to welcome back Mrs. Rousseau and congratulate her with her new child!! Next, the OMEGA Superheroes are back! check it out at omegaheros.blogspot.com and comment!!! did I tell you that I may join the OMEGA Heros??? I might. read it on my blog!!!

welcome Back to School

Hello readers!!!! Welcome back to the 07-08 edition of Exoforcepilot4's blog!!!!! Ok. First post of the year. so don't mind. I sort of nearly forgot an important element of an account, which i recovered. this year, I will and have set up a few polls. I started out with three, open throughout the school year, but the others will be short term. hope to see u soon!!!!!!!!1

Earth Science!!!!

A few days ago in green science, the class started Earth science, which I learned last year in sixth grade. Today's video was so boring yet filled with information I learned last year. Besides, the narrator spoke so softly, I felt really tired but I managed to stay awake until the end of class. The video contained information about mountains, faults, volcanos and all that rocky goodness (bad joke). We also got the rubrics for the tic-tac-toe Newton's laws for the roller coasters/skate park.


Here is my web address for the Triple Threat website :http://www.geocities.com/harypotterultimate/triplethreat.html
Hope you enjoy it!

roller coasters part 1

Today in class, we started on the roller coaster/skate park project. Mrs. Rousseau went over the guidelines for the project and went over the prices. Some of our team mates didn't agree with the prices, arguing that the prices were rip-offs and such. What surprised me the most was that I either had to write something about the coaster, create a flyer/brochure/website about the coaster saying how Newtons laws apply to the coaster and the cost to ride the coaster and such. At http://www.sixflags.com/greatAdventure/rides/Kingdaka.aspx, the fastest tallest coaster, Kingda Ka is a great example of a coaster for this projects, except for the fact that the cart is launched at 128 mph via hydrolic lift. However, the best example that I can give you is The greatest wooden coaster EL TORRO. With more than four hills and second fastest coaster, you'll literally scream your head off at the beastly twister finale. These coasters will make the other coasters look like scale models made of cardboard. Who knows. your design might be made into a real roller coaster someday.

potentially habitable planet?

Today, there has been a major sighting. In Washington today, astronomers have sighted a potencially habitable planet in a galaxy about 120 trillion miles away (or for those who like scientific notation, 1.2*10 to the power of 13, sorry, can't find superscript button.) The planet can have the same temperature as Earth, and have water in it's liquid form! However, the star it orbits is what we call a "red dwarf", which is smaller and cooler than the Sun. More Information on this topic can be found at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070425/ap_on_sc/habitable_planet;_ylt=Ai8mgSIcdtgGR9jk_kzczJuHgsgF
In other news, Nasa's AIM cloud mission launches today!!!!!

Ask a songbird: how does it change tunes?

Songbirds may change tunes with ups and downs, and cresendos and decresendos to make a elegant sound to attract mates. But how do they do it? First off, the sound is produced from the syrinx, which act like human vocal cords. The sound is produced when air passes through the syrinx, folds of tissue resonates, making the beutiful sound you hear when you take a walk. Before, they thought that a bird's upper vocal tract was like a stiff tube; the sound depends on how wide the beak is opened. X-ray movies show how a northern cardinal change sound by rapidly changing the shape of the vocal tract from a drinking straw like shape to a flower pot like shape. The point of the vocal tract is to shape the monotone call from the syrinx and add some color to the call. So when you go out for a walk in the park, the songbird may have a vocal tract changing to make the song for you!

When Life gives you Pandas, Make paper?

In Beijing, two days ago, researchers at Southern China were looking for paper mills to run the high fiber panda dung into high quality paper. Liao Jun, a researcher at the giant Panda reserve in Southern China, says that the idea came to him on a trip to Thailand last year when he saw paper made of elephant excrement and thought that panda poo would make an even finer quality. Several paper mills are currently learning how to change panda dung into office paper and wrapping paper. The paper is eco-friendly and might have a production line going by next year. Those who are afraid to touch excrement, can't tell if the paper they're holding his made of panda droppings, elephant droppings, or made of wood. So watch out paper! Cause the Pandas are back and ready to poo!

colossal squid- run away! run away!

In New Zealand, a couple of days ago, fishermen caught the largest squid ever lived: the colossal squid. The colossal squid was at least 39' long and weighed and estimated half ton. The fishermen were catching Patagonian tooth fish, sold under the name of Chilean sea bass, when the squid appeared. The colossal squid was eating the tooth fish in the net when they [the fishermen] pulled it up. If estimated correctly, then then the Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni [the latin name for the colossus squid] would be 330 pounds heavier than the next largest creature, the name unbeknownst to me. The colossal squid is a different species than the giant squid and that they would grow up to 46 feet long, for now. These enormous creatures dive up to 6500 feet and are extremly aggressive hunters. The squid was frozen and was transported to the New Zealand national museum, Te Papa, in Wellington, for study. For more on this, go to http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/070222_ap_colossal_squid.html

gentics assessment!

The genetics assessment started a few days ago and the students of OMEGA had been placed into the following categories: Therapeutic cloning, the cloning of a healthy organ, genetically modified food, food that has been, well, genetically modified, and designer babies, the babies that design things (actually, the parents get to decide which genes go to the child so they could decide to make their child a literal designer baby). My topic for the genetics assessment is therapeutic cloning, and I have to describe what it is, when and why it was introduced. I have also been helping a new student, Man Ying, out by translating and asking her if she understands.

NASCAR and the "Car of Tomorrow"

On Sunday, February 18, 2007, the fourty ninth Daytona 500 took place, revealing slightly altered cars. Aerodynamics is important to stock car, jungle, and desert racing because it makes you faster, right? Probably not because the faster you go, the more air friction works against you. In racing, there are three D's: drag, downforce, and drafting. There are two types of drag: friction drag and pressure drag. Friction drag is due to the wind breaking over the cars surface. Pressure friction, however, is from the low pressure wake coming from the back of the car and sucks it backwards. Teams make tiny adjustments to make air flow smoothly, therefore reducing friction and pressure. NASCAR drivers say they need more downforce. Downforce is the " negative lift" that makes you go faster on hairpin turns. The physics for this is pretty much the same for an airplane wing, except backwards. Drafting, the third and final "D", the most common situation for drafting is when the lead car blocks much of the incoming wind, reducing the friction drag for a trailing car. This year, NASCAR will allow the " Car of tomorrow" in certain races, but which, are not known... yet. The design is primarily meant to improve the saftey, but it also alters the way air flows over the car. For more information on this, go to http://www.livescience.com/technology/070215_nascar_aero.html

classroom blog 1.0

Today in Green science, we studied chromosomes and how they develop into Sex cells. I learned that the chromosomes, first duplicate themselves, then move to the end of the cell and split into new cells. They duplicate themselves again to make four new cells. I also learned that , in the human body, there are 46 chromosomes in the body cell, and exactly half of that in a sex cell.
In a goldfish, there are at least 90 some chromosomes in the body cell; more than the chromosomes in the human body cell. I learned that the X chromosome is larger than the Y chromosome. According to CNN, the Y chromosome has at least 21 different genes unique to men, which control the operation of the body down to the cell. to read more about this article, then click here: http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/02/14/gender.brain/index.html
On a different site, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosomes, Chromosomes are a single large macromolecule in the DNA.

Amazing Comet!

The comet Mcnaught was rounding the sun over the past few days and can be seen with binoculars in Broad Daylight! until 11:00 AM eastern time, the SOHO spacecraft can take near-live images of comet Mcnaught. Every noon, the comet will have gone closer to the southern hemisphere and farther from the sun. On the astromoners' brightness scale, where the lower numbers are brighter and negative numbers are the brightest of them all, the comet Mcnaught is negative 5. Comparing with other space objects, Venus is a mere negative 4 (brighter than any star) and the moon is a bright 12.7. Mcnaught was the brightest since 1965, even though it was discovered last August. It is also far brighter than Comet Hale-Bopp, widely seen in 1995. The astronomers started seeing Mcnaught yesterday soon after the local sunset. For more information, click here: http://space.com/spacewatch/070114_comet_mcnaught.html

Current event blog:

British Climate scientists hypothesize that 2007 will be the hottest, because of high levels of persistant greenhouse gases, as well as El Nino, the cyclical warming trend that is, at the moment, occuring in the Pacific Ocean. El Nino happens irregularly; the last one was five years ago, in 2002, as well as in 1997 and 1998. El Nino, this year, added with the steady increase of global warming, due to human activity, may break Earth's temperatre levels. The good thing about El Nino is that it leads to a less chance that Northeastern US will be hit with a hurricane. to find this article and many other related articles, click here:http://www.livescience.com/environment/070104_ap_warmest_year.html

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