Beware! This is strictly off limits to sane people.
Random corner: I can post up randomness here, without anything happening to me!! Yes!! Lets do some random stuff right now!!
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32 May 2010
Uh...I got the date wrong...and now you can think me as utterly insane. I am.
Tuesday, 1 June 2010
R.E. Concerning the fish
Guys...STOP FEEDING MY FISH!!!! They're going to die!!
Fish: POP!
Me: See! It exploded!!! You killed it!
Fish: *dies*
Me: What?! How dare you say that!! I didn't feed my fish too much! YOU DID!!
..............yes guys, this is still the same person who posted the comments earlier. I haven't gone mad. Just bored. I'll delete this after.
I'M NOT ABANDONING YOU PICTURES!!!
I think I'll just die now. 'Cause I've gone mad.
Fish: POP!
Me: See! It exploded!!! You killed it!
Fish: *dies*
Me: What?! How dare you say that!! I didn't feed my fish too much! YOU DID!!
..............yes guys, this is still the same person who posted the comments earlier. I haven't gone mad. Just bored. I'll delete this after.
I'M NOT ABANDONING YOU PICTURES!!!
I think I'll just die now. 'Cause I've gone mad.
*dies*
STOP RIGHT THERE!!!
We need pictures, guys. Loads of pictures!!!! AArrrgh....
Okay..let's get some pictures up. See ya later everyone.
We need pictures, guys. Loads of pictures!!!! AArrrgh....
Okay..let's get some pictures up. See ya later everyone.
Sun and Moon
The Sun and Moon
Although many people think the Sun is a massive star, it’s actually quite small compared to the other stars in our Solar System. The Sun is at a perfect distance because if it was any closer, Earth would have boiled and if it was any further away, our planet would be a dead, dark and desolate place. The reason why we can’t see any other stars that are bigger than the Sun is because they’re to far away! The Sun is the closest star to us.
Again, many people think that the Moon is the Sun’s counterpart for the night-time. Well, once again, they’re wrong. The Sun, and only the Sun emits light.(Well, apart from the other stars in the Solar System.) The Earth, the Moon and all the other planets do not make light. So how does that explain the Moon looking bright at night? Well, the Moon actually has a reflective surface, so imagine the Sun is a giant torch.
If you switch that torch off, everything becomes dark and all you see is the other stars because they produce their own light. The Moon and all the other planets are plunged into darkness. Now imagine the torch being turned on. You can now see the Moon and the rest of the planets, because the light is shining on them. The torch is the Sun and exactly the same thing happens with it, except it doesn’t switch off. It’s just because the Earth rotates and you can’t see it, but it’s still there, facing the Earth and creating light that is reflecting off the Moon’s surface.
The phases of the Moon are caused by the Moon’s shadow. At any given time, half of the moon is facing the Sun, while the other half is looking away from it, and looks dark.
The cycle starts with a new moon and ends with a new moon, all within the space of a lunar month(or 28 days)-the time it takes or the Moon to rotate once around the Earth.
It looks like there is a different Moon every night.
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Umph...pictures...too much text...
Although many people think the Sun is a massive star, it’s actually quite small compared to the other stars in our Solar System. The Sun is at a perfect distance because if it was any closer, Earth would have boiled and if it was any further away, our planet would be a dead, dark and desolate place. The reason why we can’t see any other stars that are bigger than the Sun is because they’re to far away! The Sun is the closest star to us.
Again, many people think that the Moon is the Sun’s counterpart for the night-time. Well, once again, they’re wrong. The Sun, and only the Sun emits light.(Well, apart from the other stars in the Solar System.) The Earth, the Moon and all the other planets do not make light. So how does that explain the Moon looking bright at night? Well, the Moon actually has a reflective surface, so imagine the Sun is a giant torch.
If you switch that torch off, everything becomes dark and all you see is the other stars because they produce their own light. The Moon and all the other planets are plunged into darkness. Now imagine the torch being turned on. You can now see the Moon and the rest of the planets, because the light is shining on them. The torch is the Sun and exactly the same thing happens with it, except it doesn’t switch off. It’s just because the Earth rotates and you can’t see it, but it’s still there, facing the Earth and creating light that is reflecting off the Moon’s surface.
The phases of the Moon are caused by the Moon’s shadow. At any given time, half of the moon is facing the Sun, while the other half is looking away from it, and looks dark.
The cycle starts with a new moon and ends with a new moon, all within the space of a lunar month(or 28 days)-the time it takes or the Moon to rotate once around the Earth.
It looks like there is a different Moon every night.
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Umph...pictures...too much text...
Day and Night
Day and Night
DIAGRAM OF THE SUN MOVING FROM THE WEST TO THE EAST
IN THE SKY
This diagram shows the Sun moving from the east to the west. As it progresses, it climbs higher and higher. Eventually, when its midday or 12:00, the Sun is at its highest point in the sky. It then gradually descends until it disappears into the west.
When the Sun appears in the east, we call it sunrise and you know it’s morning. When the Sun disappears in the west, we call it sunset and you know it’s evening. The stick also shows the shadows which the Sun’s rays cast.
DIAGRAM SHOWING THE ROTATION OF THE EARTH AND THE MOON
AROUND THE SUN
Earth: Our planet is continually moving. It’s spinning on its axis. If you look at it from the North Pole, it’s spinning anti-clockwise and if you look at it from the South Pole, it’s spinning clockwise. Half the Earth always points towards the Sun and half always points away. When the part of Earth we are on faces the Sun we receive light and energy and we call daytime. As the Earth spins, we eventually end up on the side that points away from the Sun. That half becomes submerged in darkness and shadows and we call it night-time.
It takes 24 hours for the Earth to spin on it’s axis 360°.
It takes 365 days(not a leap year) for the Earth to orbit 360° around the Sun.
Moon: The Moon moves constantly too! Just the same as the Earth, it turns on it’s axis once every 27.3 days. This is exactly the same rate that it orbits the Earth. Some people call this a lunar month, as it’s not the same as a month which can vary from 28-31 days.
It takes 27.3 for the Moon to spin on it’s axis 360°.
Sun: The Sun is stationary and does not move at all. However, the Earth orbit’s the Sun, and the Moon orbit’s the Earth. Both Moon and Earth are spinning on their axis.
MAP OF DIFFERENT TIME ZONES IN THE WORLD
You can tell the time by using sundials, as the shadows made are completely accurate(even if you can’t read it completely accurately). The further west you are, the later the Sun rises and the later it sets. When the time in London says 12:00 one in Cardiff to the west will say 11:48! So the time shown by a sundial is called the local time zone. So how did we find out the proper time in the first place? Until 160 years ago, people usually set their clocks and watches using a sundial. Their watches showed the local time. Nowadays, everybody in a particular country or time zone sets their clocks and watches to the same time.
The world is divided into time zones. The time in each zone is normally one hour different to those on either side. Some large countries, such as Australia and the USA, are divided into several time zones. Others, such as China and India, use the same time for the whole country.
The world’s countries fit loosely into a grid of 24 time zones.
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Again...this looks even worse without pictures. I'll do them. I swear.
DIAGRAM OF THE SUN MOVING FROM THE WEST TO THE EAST
IN THE SKY
This diagram shows the Sun moving from the east to the west. As it progresses, it climbs higher and higher. Eventually, when its midday or 12:00, the Sun is at its highest point in the sky. It then gradually descends until it disappears into the west.
When the Sun appears in the east, we call it sunrise and you know it’s morning. When the Sun disappears in the west, we call it sunset and you know it’s evening. The stick also shows the shadows which the Sun’s rays cast.
DIAGRAM SHOWING THE ROTATION OF THE EARTH AND THE MOON
AROUND THE SUN
Earth: Our planet is continually moving. It’s spinning on its axis. If you look at it from the North Pole, it’s spinning anti-clockwise and if you look at it from the South Pole, it’s spinning clockwise. Half the Earth always points towards the Sun and half always points away. When the part of Earth we are on faces the Sun we receive light and energy and we call daytime. As the Earth spins, we eventually end up on the side that points away from the Sun. That half becomes submerged in darkness and shadows and we call it night-time.
It takes 24 hours for the Earth to spin on it’s axis 360°.
It takes 365 days(not a leap year) for the Earth to orbit 360° around the Sun.
Moon: The Moon moves constantly too! Just the same as the Earth, it turns on it’s axis once every 27.3 days. This is exactly the same rate that it orbits the Earth. Some people call this a lunar month, as it’s not the same as a month which can vary from 28-31 days.
It takes 27.3 for the Moon to spin on it’s axis 360°.
Sun: The Sun is stationary and does not move at all. However, the Earth orbit’s the Sun, and the Moon orbit’s the Earth. Both Moon and Earth are spinning on their axis.
MAP OF DIFFERENT TIME ZONES IN THE WORLD
You can tell the time by using sundials, as the shadows made are completely accurate(even if you can’t read it completely accurately). The further west you are, the later the Sun rises and the later it sets. When the time in London says 12:00 one in Cardiff to the west will say 11:48! So the time shown by a sundial is called the local time zone. So how did we find out the proper time in the first place? Until 160 years ago, people usually set their clocks and watches using a sundial. Their watches showed the local time. Nowadays, everybody in a particular country or time zone sets their clocks and watches to the same time.
The world is divided into time zones. The time in each zone is normally one hour different to those on either side. Some large countries, such as Australia and the USA, are divided into several time zones. Others, such as China and India, use the same time for the whole country.
The world’s countries fit loosely into a grid of 24 time zones.
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Again...this looks even worse without pictures. I'll do them. I swear.
Introduction *gasp*
Introduction
We only knew what our world was like since the 16th century. Before that period in history, the only thing people knew about the universe and our planet was what they could see with their own eyes. They didn’t know about the true shape of the Earth, nor the Solar System, the water cycle or the size of the universe. They believed in what the Bible told them, which was written long before the scientific age began, informed the people of the ancient view of the world.
The Earth was seen like a rectangle, flat, with four corners and each corner being supported by a pillar. It was believed that a dome that’s was called ‘heaven’ or ‘sky’ separated waters below and above the Earth. The sun, moon and stars moved about in the dome and there was a window or a floodgate at the top of the dome which could be opened to allow rain through. Apparently, hell, was the pit underneath the Earth.
The people thought that if you sailed too far, you would fall off the world, into hell. This was because the top of the water looked flat and where the sea and sky meets(which is called the horizon), you can’t see beyond that, thus gives the impression that the horizon was the end of the world.
If that was the case, what about the sun? Human beings often need to explain things that they don’t understand, so some ancient people tried to explain the enigma. Some people thought that the Sun was a golden flaming chariot pulled by magical horses that could fly through the air. Then, in the morning, the sun-god would get into the chariot in the east. He and his horses would fly through the air, reaching the top of the sky at noon, race downwards reaching the far western ground in the evening, and then somehow, the sun-god would get back to the east during night-time when his chariot stopped shining.
So how did we find out that the world was actually spherical? Well, it happened over a long period of time that involved many different people’s theory’s. In fact, the Greeks where the first people who thought about the problems of a flat Earth. One of them was a man called Anaximander. After looking into the night-sky for a couple of years, he concluded that the world was a cylinder. Although it answered some of the mysteries, there were still many flaws in it. In the end it was the explorers and sailors who discovered that the world was spherical. Ferdinand Magellan’s crew was the first to sail around the entire globe. After that, many other famous explorers followed, such as Christopher Columbus and Vasco Da Gama.
Earth is the third planet away from the Sun and is actually the fifth largest and densest eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the most habitable planets in the Solar System. This is because of it’s position away from the Sun-it’s the perfect temperature and contains liquid water, necessary for all known life, is not available on any other planet.
It’s Latin name is Terra.
The Earth is divided into four main layers: the inner core, the outer core, mantle and the crust. The core is mostly composed of iron and is so hot that the outer core is molten, with about 10% sulphur. The inner core is under such pressure that it remains solid. Most of the Earth’s mass is actually mantle, which is made up of iron, magnesium, aluminium, silicon and oxygen. At over 1000°C, the mantle is solid but can deform slowly in a plastic manner. That crust is much thinner than any other layers, and is rocky and brittle, so it can fracture in earthquakes.
Last counted on 24 April 2010, it is estimated that the population of the world is 6, 816, 7000, 000!The world population has been growing continuously since the end of the Black Death around 1400. In fact, the world’s population increases by 1.8% every year!
A continent is a large body of land, above water which has a natural geological border. Depending on how you look at it, there are 4-7 continents as some of them are combined. Here are the seven-they are(in size-smallest to largest): Australia, Europe, Antarctica, South America, North America, Africa and Asia. There are approximately 195 countries in the world as well! Earth is massive…but how big?
What is the surface area of the Earth? The surface area of the planet is 510,066,000 square kilometres and the land are of the planet is 148,647,000 sq km. There are 5 oceans(in order smallest to largest): The Arctic Ocean, the Southern Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. Altogether, the ocean area adds up to 335,258,000 sq km which makes the total water area 361,419,000 sq km. Did you know that 97% of the world’s water is salt water and only 3% is fresh water(drinking water)?
So thanks to the advancement of technology, we know now what our planet’s true shape is. Although we know masses of information about the Universe, there’s a whole lot more, just waiting to be discovered…!
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And..I got lazy, so no pictures for now. Sorry.
We only knew what our world was like since the 16th century. Before that period in history, the only thing people knew about the universe and our planet was what they could see with their own eyes. They didn’t know about the true shape of the Earth, nor the Solar System, the water cycle or the size of the universe. They believed in what the Bible told them, which was written long before the scientific age began, informed the people of the ancient view of the world.
The Earth was seen like a rectangle, flat, with four corners and each corner being supported by a pillar. It was believed that a dome that’s was called ‘heaven’ or ‘sky’ separated waters below and above the Earth. The sun, moon and stars moved about in the dome and there was a window or a floodgate at the top of the dome which could be opened to allow rain through. Apparently, hell, was the pit underneath the Earth.
The people thought that if you sailed too far, you would fall off the world, into hell. This was because the top of the water looked flat and where the sea and sky meets(which is called the horizon), you can’t see beyond that, thus gives the impression that the horizon was the end of the world.
If that was the case, what about the sun? Human beings often need to explain things that they don’t understand, so some ancient people tried to explain the enigma. Some people thought that the Sun was a golden flaming chariot pulled by magical horses that could fly through the air. Then, in the morning, the sun-god would get into the chariot in the east. He and his horses would fly through the air, reaching the top of the sky at noon, race downwards reaching the far western ground in the evening, and then somehow, the sun-god would get back to the east during night-time when his chariot stopped shining.
So how did we find out that the world was actually spherical? Well, it happened over a long period of time that involved many different people’s theory’s. In fact, the Greeks where the first people who thought about the problems of a flat Earth. One of them was a man called Anaximander. After looking into the night-sky for a couple of years, he concluded that the world was a cylinder. Although it answered some of the mysteries, there were still many flaws in it. In the end it was the explorers and sailors who discovered that the world was spherical. Ferdinand Magellan’s crew was the first to sail around the entire globe. After that, many other famous explorers followed, such as Christopher Columbus and Vasco Da Gama.
Earth is the third planet away from the Sun and is actually the fifth largest and densest eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the most habitable planets in the Solar System. This is because of it’s position away from the Sun-it’s the perfect temperature and contains liquid water, necessary for all known life, is not available on any other planet.
It’s Latin name is Terra.
The Earth is divided into four main layers: the inner core, the outer core, mantle and the crust. The core is mostly composed of iron and is so hot that the outer core is molten, with about 10% sulphur. The inner core is under such pressure that it remains solid. Most of the Earth’s mass is actually mantle, which is made up of iron, magnesium, aluminium, silicon and oxygen. At over 1000°C, the mantle is solid but can deform slowly in a plastic manner. That crust is much thinner than any other layers, and is rocky and brittle, so it can fracture in earthquakes.
Last counted on 24 April 2010, it is estimated that the population of the world is 6, 816, 7000, 000!The world population has been growing continuously since the end of the Black Death around 1400. In fact, the world’s population increases by 1.8% every year!
A continent is a large body of land, above water which has a natural geological border. Depending on how you look at it, there are 4-7 continents as some of them are combined. Here are the seven-they are(in size-smallest to largest): Australia, Europe, Antarctica, South America, North America, Africa and Asia. There are approximately 195 countries in the world as well! Earth is massive…but how big?
What is the surface area of the Earth? The surface area of the planet is 510,066,000 square kilometres and the land are of the planet is 148,647,000 sq km. There are 5 oceans(in order smallest to largest): The Arctic Ocean, the Southern Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. Altogether, the ocean area adds up to 335,258,000 sq km which makes the total water area 361,419,000 sq km. Did you know that 97% of the world’s water is salt water and only 3% is fresh water(drinking water)?
So thanks to the advancement of technology, we know now what our planet’s true shape is. Although we know masses of information about the Universe, there’s a whole lot more, just waiting to be discovered…!
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And..I got lazy, so no pictures for now. Sorry.
Rules
Okay people...
Here's what I'm going to do:
I'm going to post up all the documents about the Solar System.
PLEASE BE AWARE...I DID NOT COPY THIS OFF ANYONE ELSE!!!
I wrote with my own hands.
So here are the rules:
1. Do not copy my work. Or I will find out. I've made it so that everyone can assess this blog, so please..DON'T.
I will personally murder you. Take notes and rewrite it if you're doing this for homework. Thank you!!
2. Don't abuse it. Please.
3. Um...make sure you read through it carefully. It looks a lot, but there is so much about the Solar System. And beyond. And these are just some quick facts I did for a project.
4. Well..that's it. BYE!!!
*DON'T COPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
Here's what I'm going to do:
I'm going to post up all the documents about the Solar System.
PLEASE BE AWARE...I DID NOT COPY THIS OFF ANYONE ELSE!!!
I wrote with my own hands.
So here are the rules:
1. Do not copy my work. Or I will find out. I've made it so that everyone can assess this blog, so please..DON'T.
I will personally murder you. Take notes and rewrite it if you're doing this for homework. Thank you!!
2. Don't abuse it. Please.
3. Um...make sure you read through it carefully. It looks a lot, but there is so much about the Solar System. And beyond. And these are just some quick facts I did for a project.
4. Well..that's it. BYE!!!
*DON'T COPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
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