NASA
By: Jared Sleeper
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/06/01/moon.nasa.ap/index.html
NASA’s
new administrator and House majority leader Tom Delay says that there will be
enough money to send astronauts to the moon and Mars. Delay spoke to flight
directors, astronauts and top administrators.
He said that there is enough funding for more spending and that there is
as much as when they first sent astronauts to the moon during the Apollo
program during the 60s and 70s. Delay
says that even if there is a war or low budgets this is a property and it must
be done. NASA’s ships have been grounded
sense 2003 when
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Airship
By Mike Placey
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Henri
Giffard invented the airship 1852. Unfortunately it was only a seam-powered
airship. It was made of a cigar shape bag that filled with gas. It has a
steering mechanism that steered it. It also has a control car that powers
propellers to make the airship move. It was invented after the hot air balloon.
The airships had three types to uses. They were used in World War II by the
navy. They were used in sporting events, where they called blimps. Another use
of the airships was that they also carried people to their destinations. The
airships can carry people, cargo, military and surveillance. In WW1 the Germans
used them for bombers. As you can see airships are a big part of history.
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Steven William Hawing
By Samantha Jenkins
Steven William Hawking was born in Oxford, England on
January 8, 1942. His father was a doctor; and his mother was active in the Liberal
Party. He knew from early on that he wanted to study science Steven Hawking
attended St Albans School at eleven. In 1958
he and some friends built a primitive computer that actually worked. In 1959 he
won a scholarship to Oxford University wanting to
major in Mathematics, but Mathematics was not available, so he majored in
Physics. After three years of college, Steven Hawking was awarded a first class
honors degree in Natural Science. He went to Cambridge, to be the first person,
in Oxford, to study Cosmology. When Steven Hawking got his Ph.D., at 32 he
became a fellow of the Royal Society.
In 1963 he was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease (amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis; ALS), he is confined to a wheelchair and is unable to speak without
the aid of a computer voice synthesizer. Yet he did not let it old him back.
In 1968 he
published the book, Large Scale Structure of Space-Time. In 1973 he left the
Institute of Astronomy and went to the Department of Applied Mathematics and
Theoretical Physics. Dr. Hawking has
held the post of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics since 1979. He was awarded the CBE award in 1982, and was
companion of honor in 1989. He has also
received several other awards, metals and prizes over the years. In 1988
Hawking wrote A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
Professor Hawking is most known for
proving Einstein’s Theory of Relativity implied space and time would have had a
beginning in the Big Bang and end in making black wholes, which weren’t really
black, they would send subatomic
particles (now known as Hawking radiation) and
eventually evaporate and disappear.
TELEPHONE
By mike Placey
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The
telephone was invented by Alexander graham Bell. The phone was patented in 1876
and 1877. The process was soft sound waves that would hit iron to vibrate,
making a disturbance to the magnetic fields. The phone would make it transmit
from the caller and receiver. Over time other people made inventions that
impoved use of the phone. The latest invention of the phone in modern times is
the cell phone. Some new features have been added to the phone. For example the
new features caller ID lets you know who is calling you before you answer the
phone. On some phone it also includes a
voice mailbox. Phone companies have invented the internet as a new way to send
messages and talk to friends. They have also started cable for television and
long-distance range for the phone. The radio was also another form of
communication, and entertainment. The telephone had one of the biggest impacts
on people in history.
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Luis Alvarez
By : Jared Sleeper
Luis Alvarez was a physicist with with a lot of
interest. He took classes at university
of chicago. He graduated in 1932 and
stayed at chicago fo work. Later he
married and had two children and moved to berkley, he stayed there till 1978. he did research on atomic nucleus, light,
electrons, radar, and more. In 1943 he invented a detinater for a atomic
bomb that was drop above Hiroshima, Japan.
He did not like what he saw, but beacause the war ended so soon he never
said any thing about it. In 1968 Alvarez
won the Nobel Prize. In 1988 Luis died
and was remembered as a great scientist.
Tsunami
By: Tiffinay Kinny
Tsunami: 
Definition: A very large ocean wave caused by an
eruption underwater, and or a volcanic eruption.
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Tsunami’s are very dangerous, exspecially to Coastal
area’s. Tsunami’s can be very
destroyable and they can hurt many people.
The tsunami’s are another term for tidal waves. Tsunamiu’s can occur by the downdrop or upthurst
on the earths crust which results in an earthquake. A submarine eruption of a certain
degree.
The
picture below shows a subduction earthquake (one where a denser plate moves
below its other plate). Energy is moved and the displaced water forms a wave.
As the wave travels and enters lower water in the area, it begins to increase in amplitude.
For example throwing a rock into the water is just the
same concept as a volcanic eruption an earthquake or a tsunami, but the rock is
in a smaller form.
For
example: 
In
conclusion I would be aware that the tsunami’s can be formed in just one drop
off of the earth’s crust.