https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq Made with a creative frenzy en-us 2016-11-15 17:56:12 UTC 2017-06-09 15:34:10 UTC hello@padlet.com jamison_moriarty https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/137837415 The Martian is a great book and even better movie. The scientific accuracy that they have in the movie is unreal since they also have to add a bit of a Hollywood spin to it as well. How they have the accuracy of the Mars atmosphere and the power that Martian storms can generate to a pinpoint estimate is unbelievable. In Space Exploration, we learned about how planets revolve around the sun and also rotate. On earth this can be described as days, but on Mars they are called sols]]> 2016-11-15 17:57:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/137837415 jamison_moriarty https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/144584079 Interstellar takes place in the 2070's in rural United States where earth is becoming food deprived and run down. Joseph Cooper, a former NASA pilot is a farmer who finds out about a NASA mission to explore other planets through a wormhole in order to save humanity on a dying earth. I think that Cooper will find suitable life on other planets, but it will be costly to others and lives will be lost on the way.]]> 2016-12-21 14:12:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/144584079 jamison_moriarty https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/146254113 Watching Fragile Planet in class was very interesting. Knowing what it takes for life to be possible, I realized how special life really is. So many things need to be perfect in order for life to be possible such as water, oxygen, and biochemical substances. We were supposedly created when an asteroid hit earth that contained some of this biochemical substance. It's possible that life exists in other planets as well. Scientist are finding more and more planets that have characteristics that are suitable to sustain life.]]> 2017-01-10 14:28:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/146254113 jamison_moriarty https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/146266970 In class yesterday we watched a video on quark stars. Similar to neutron stars but these quark stars are composed of quarkmatter, where extremely high temperature and pressure forces nuclear particles to dissolve into a continuous phase consisting of free quarks. These types of stars are extremely rare, and supposedly can spin a thousand times a second.]]> 2017-01-10 15:01:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/146266970 jamison_moriarty https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/150135087 The movie we are watching in class is very interesting. Any movie about Space that has Mathew McConaughey in it is bound to be good. So far the girl is somewhere in Latin America working at a giant Satellite trying to find extra-terrestrial life somewhere in the universe. This movie is relavent to what we are learning in class because of the fact of the unknown. We don't know everything about the Universe like if there is life somewhere else or how the Universe was created. We do have a good idea however but we can never be certain.]]> 2017-01-30 02:05:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/150135087 jamison_moriarty https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/150135411 So far in the movie, we got to the point where the scientist were receiving transmissions from Vega in outer space. The transmissions were first coming in increments of prime numbers, then a transmission was sent that was a video of Adolf Hitler during the Olympics. This was a breakthrough because that was the first ever transmission to be sent into outer space, so what ever life had gotten that transmission had sent it back to earth. The movie relates to our space exploration class because we have learned about waves in space and how they work. Without waves, we couldn't relay signals to our satellites and other machines in space.]]> 2017-01-30 02:12:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/150135411 jamison_moriarty https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/156916071 I found the video on pre Big Bang to be extremely fascinating. Nobody knows for sure what happened before the Big Bang because nobody was around for when it happened, which was billions of years ago. It's also cool to think that since the Big Bang created all material, we are technically made of stardust.]]> 2017-03-01 03:07:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/156916071 jamison_moriarty https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/156917629 In the 30 minutes of Arrival that I was able to watch in class today, I was really into the movie. Not only was the movie about "aliens" making contact on earth, but the tactical strategy used by the United States armed forces to keep its citizens safe while trying to communicate with the "aliens". The US armed forces brought in a translator known for translating even the toughest languages, and a physicist to help understand how they got to earth and figure out their superior technology. This movie relates to class because we are learning about whats outside our solar system, and this movie has aliens that come from outside the solar system]]> 2017-03-01 03:20:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/156917629 jamison_moriarty https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/161501273 I was a big fan of the Conspiracy theory that we learned about and watch in class. I believe that United States men did go to the moon. NASA did not fake the whole moon landing. It would've been impossible for NASA to pull it off. People are just trying to make excuses and get famous for stating their beliefs on why the NASA moon landing was a fraud and never happened. Astronauts would've come out and said if them moon landing was fake already. Nobody important to NASA or an insider has ever said that the moon landing is a fake.]]> 2017-03-21 13:59:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/161501273 jamison_moriarty https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/161988088 The natural selection segment of The Cosmos with Neil Degrasse Tyson was one of my favorite The Cosmos: A Spacetime Odysse episodes. I found it cool how every human is a distant relative from the earliest organisms to roam the earth. Wolves that were once dangerous to humans thousands of years ago have been selected by humans based on their personalities and instincts and evolved since. in thousands of years, wolves have become dogs that we love and cherish today.]]> 2017-03-22 23:06:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/161988088 jamison_moriarty https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/163154681 The documentary that we watched in class about the first men in space was really fascinating. I was a big fan of John Glenn who went up on the Atlas 6 and STS-95. I loved all the information we learned about space missions and how we were competing with the Soviet Union in what is known as the Space Race. I found it interesting yet scary that the chances of survival for the men on the Apollo 11 mission was 50/50. I couldn't risk my life like those who went up into space did. ]]> 2017-03-28 14:56:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/163154681 jamison_moriarty https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/163157614 This is one of my favorite movies that we have watched in class so far this year. Yeager is a fearless man that just wants to be the fastest when it comes to flying planes. Breaking world records as he goes. At first the US government didn't want test pilots to go up in rockets because they had a reputation of not being well disciplined. We had to stop at the part where pilots were being treated by doctors to see if they are fit to partake in these missions.]]> 2017-03-28 15:04:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/163157614 jamison_moriarty https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/165204497 Last week we finished the movie 'The Right Stuff". I really liked the movie even though it was a bit dated. Yeager, even though he wasn't a part of the first astronats that went to space, he tried to get to the highest altitude man could get in a high altitude jet. Unfortunately the jet couldn't go higher, so started to spiral out of control as Yeager blacked out. Luckily he regained consciousness and got out of the plane before it crashed onto the ground. That was my favorite part of the movie because I didn't know if Yeager was going to live or die]]> 2017-04-06 16:53:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/165204497 jamison_moriarty https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/165207175 On Tuesday, we watched an old movie in class about 4 astronats who went to the moon. It was really cheesy and they missed a lot of key details about space and gravity which showed throughout the movie. They also tried to use gravity boots in the movie which couldn't work in real life. There were also no girls as key characters in the movie as you stated before we watched the movie. I wasn't a big fan of the movie, but it was a movie so I can't complain.]]> 2017-04-06 17:02:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/165207175 jamison_moriarty https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/167804157 On friday before break, we finished up the movie Wall-E, which is one of my favorite pixar movies that Disney has created. The movie is about a little trash cleaning robot who found a plant on earth which was so overly poluted that it could not sustain life. The plant indicated that life one day could be sustained on the recovering earth. Since life at the time could not be sustained on earth, a giant spaceship in outer space hosted all humans until it was time to go back home.]]> 2017-04-24 12:41:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/167804157 jamison_moriarty https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/169324360 Tom Hanks is one of my favorite actors, so naturally I would be a huge fan of this movie. Although Ive seen it many times before, I am absorbing new information from the movie that I wouldn't have though twice of if I wasn't taking Space Exploration. Like the G force they would endure when landing the lunar module in simulations, and they ways they prepped in order to walk on the moon (only if). ]]> 2017-05-02 02:55:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/169324360 jamison_moriarty https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/169324999 In our second day of watching Apollo 13, we watched the crew launch into space and makes its way over to the moon. They were on track and everything was looking "nominal" until a couple oxygen tanks burst sending oxygen into space, taking it away from their reserves. The crew had to think fast on what they should do in order to stop the oxygen leak and save their lives. I find it quite ironic that all this bad luck happened on Apollo 13. Since 13 is such an unlucky number that Jim Lowells wife reminded him of before he went on the mission.]]> 2017-05-02 03:04:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/169324999 jamison_moriarty https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/169842208 The other day in class, we just finished up the movie. Even though I saw the movie before, it was still intense waiting to see if the guys made it through the 4 minutes of reentering the earths atmosphere. There were some worries as to if they would survive the reentry. nobody new if the parachutes were frozen over and would not deploy, or if the heat shields were already cracked and would explode during the reentry. Luckily all 3 made it out safely against all odds. When the astronats got out of the ship they could not walk because they were so weak. Thats what being in space for 7 days will do to you.]]> 2017-05-04 04:34:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/169842208 jamison_moriarty https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/170846094 I liked the movie Gravity even though there were some parts that were scientifically unaccurate. Sandra Bullock and George Clooney were really good together in the movie which made the plot a whole lot better. Some mistakes scientifically that they made in the movie were that they had George Clooney pulling Sandra Bullock with him even though that can't happen in space. He should have bounced back and continue to orbit her way instead of using his momentum to carry her with him. They used a lot of Hollywood drama in the movie, and I guarentee if the events that happened in the movie happened in real life, no astronaut would make it back alive. I did enjoy the movie though.]]> 2017-05-09 18:06:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/170846094 jamison_moriarty https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/172865524 On Thursday we watched an episode of The Cosmos. In the episode it showed a bunch of well known scientist and the accomplishments that they acheived. In the episode it explained what the Oort cloud was and how it got its name from Van Oort who was the first to discover this. We also go to see who Hallie was and how he mapped the stars in the southern hemisphere and also was the one who discovered that a comet came around every 76 years. This comet was named after him. Its name is Hallies Comet.]]> 2017-05-19 18:03:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/172865524 jamison_moriarty https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/172866359 On the next episode of The Cosmos that we watched on Friday, we were learning about how light travels through the universe and the concepts of light time. The unit of measurement that we use to measure the distance in space is light years which is how far light can travel in a single year. We discovered how light can bend due to gravity, and how light we see from some stars is millions of years old and that when that light was first created not even humans were walking on earth yet. It was really fascinating.]]> 2017-05-19 18:08:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jamison_moriarty/6g2goebe5mdq/wish/172866359