Asteroid Mining Expedition?

Hello everyone!

    I have some really interesting news to share with you all today. A company in California, named "Deep Space Industries" has announced their plans of actually beginning a gold rush in outer space by mining asteroids! The company's chief executive David Gump says: "More than 900 new asteroids that pass near Earth are discovered every year. they can be like the Iron Range of Minnesota was for the Detroit car industry last century, a key resource located near where it was needed".

   "Deep Space Industries" plans to make a small group of spacecraft named "Fireflies" to go into outer space and get precious metals from the asteroids near Earth. They say the first trial run they will have will be in 2015, and if everything goes well during their trial run, they will go fully operational in 2016; estimated to be bringing back around 70 kg of gold, or any other precious metals.

   This is extremely interesting; I've only scratched the surface with information regarding this. I just briefly summarized one company's plans, there are other companies with plans of their own regarding asteroid mining. What do you all think about this, do you think this might be the next big thing in mining altogether?

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Life of Pi!

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    Just last weekend, I went to the cinema with my family and watched 'The Life of Pi'. It was a brilliant movie, right down to the actors, plot and the scenery. But I'm writing about it today because of the power of nature that is displayed in the film.

    This is a spoiler alert, but the movie is largely set in the Pacific Ocean, where the main character is set adrift because the boat that was supposed to take him to Canada went down in a storm. His family died with the sinking of that ship, so he is the only one left on a lifeboat with a tiger. It was interesting because the main character "Pi", had to live for days in the ocean with the tiger on the lifeboat. He eventually trained the tiger, and it eventually learned to respect "Pi" and not...kill him. 

    They come across many storms in the ocean, which just shows how humans are absolutely defenceless against nature. He comes across an island next, which is a natural haven during the day. But it becomes a huge digestive system over night. Basically the water on that island turns toxic during the night, so if he tried to drink or swim in that water, he would just dissolve. 

The tiger realized this during the day and ran back to the boat during the evening. Pi didn't realize why the tiger did this, but during the night he realized. So the next morning (Pi slept on a tree during the night) he set off back on the boat. It just shows how animals are so much smarter than humans in a way. They have a natural awareness over terrain which humans will never possess. 

    I'm not sure why I'm writing this, I just found the movie really interesting. I would highly recommend it to anyone who's looking to watch a movie!

Mind Blowing Global Warming Facts

Hello, My fellow Viewers!

        I was just browsing the web earlier today, and I came across some really startling information about global warming. I'll provide the link below this post, but for right now, here is what I found in a nutshell.

- Planet Earth could lose 50% of it's species by 2050 is we keep polluting the way we are currently.
- Around 27,000 species become extinct every single year. That is an alarming amount, and humans are the only ones to blame.
- We are losing about 40 million acres of forest areas every year because of deforestation, only 12% of our forests are in the state in which it originated from.
- In Greenland, 12% of the surface ice melted, which is a record amount! (in 2007)


There is a lot more great information on this website:
http://www.greenbizcheck.com/environmental-facts/

So check it out, it's definetely worth your time!

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Moon: An Alternative Energy Source?!

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I was just reading an very interesting article about energy we might be able to harness from the moon. 
Here is the link if anyone is interested: http://www.enn.com/

I'll break it down if anyone just wants to read a simple analysis. Basically, when Apollo astronauts return from the moon, they always bring back rocks from the moon's surface. Scientists have concluded that these rocks contain an element called 'Helium-3', which is a stable isotope of helium. The rocks are missing a neutron, which makes it possible for us to perform nuclear fusion. Using nuclear fusion, we can produce mass amounts of clean energy, which is what the earth needs. Sadly, our resources are in space and it takes billions of dollars just to get there.

Nuclear fusion at the moment uses fission reactors, splitting up uranium nuclei to release energy, and this produces heat. This very heat turns water into steam which spins a turbine to make electricity. But this system produces a lot of radioactive waste, which is why scientists need to find an alternative energy source.

I hope you found that post interesting, you can read the rest of the article on the website I provided you. Thank you for reading!

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Greenland Meltdown!

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   I'm sure all of you are aware of the Greenland situation already, but for those who aren't, this is the deal. Basically, during the course of this month, Greenland's ice sheets have been melting at an alarming rate. Even scientists have been taken by surprise. They are calling this situation 'unprecedented' which means unique and completely unexpected.



 July 8th                          July 12th
Photos from NASA

   As you can see, in just 4 days, Greenland has lost much of its ice sheets, even in Summit station, which is Greenland's highest and coldest point. Records do indicate that this event occurs every 150 years. (the last time this meltdown occurred was 1889)

   The meltdown area was from 40% to 97% in the matter of 4 days. Researches say that even though the ice melted extremely fast, the area appears to be freezing again, at a much slower rate. Scientists cannot determine yet if the meltdown is because of global warming, or if it's because of a natural rare event. But even if that cannot be concluded, we should keep global warming in mind. Events like these are huge, even if you don't realise it. We should do everything in our power to keep our planet clean and we should try our best not to pollute.

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3 Very Captivating Facts:

1) If 25% of American families used 10 less plastic bags than they usually would, we would save about 2.5 BILLION plastic bags a year. 


2) Every single day, about 50 animal species become extinct because of human consumption and urban development. 




3) The energy saved from one single aluminium can, can run a TV set for 3 hours.




This really goes to show how some small changes can have huge impacts on the world, and how we should try our best to preserve the environment as much as we can. Thank you for reading, share this blog around as much as you can, it helps me out a lot!

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Hello People of Earth!

I just wanted to share this awesome picture I found on Facebook. Someone actually took a picture of a rain cloud from the sky, while it was raining. It just goes to show how unique our world really is, and how we should take the utmost care of it. Doesn't it blow your mind?!

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