Driven by Curiosity

The newest mars rover, curiosity, lifted off from Cape Canaveral in an atlas V, and NASA mission control received a signal telling them that the rover was on its way to mars.  It is looking for microscopic proof of life on mars, past or present.  Curiosity is the largest rover to land on mars' surface, being about the size of an SUV, and weighing about 1 ton, 5 times the weight of its predecessors.  The rover is nine feet across, seven feet high, and had a seven foot arm.  It has been described as "Rover on Steroids" by NASA officials, and it will join its fellow rover, opportunity, in analyzing rock samples on the surface of the red planet, replacing Spirit, the rover who died in one of mars' harsh winters. You can read more about it here.

Robotic Gold

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If you want to read about something besides ponies, liberal solar energy, or whatever the other guy is doing then my feature story is a definite must read. So when we were assigned the whole feature story project I was stumped on whom to interview. After pondering for a few minutes and listening to the awful suggestions of my peers, I remembered I had a brother readily available for an interview. You may be asking what my brother has to do in the grand scheme of technology, aren't you? Well without giving away to many details my brother is on the forefront of the future of the human workforce. My feature story will delve deep into the life of a technician working on the massive semiconductor fabrication machines. For you people who don't know semiconductors are microchips which go into mobile phones. These things cost millions of dollars, very high tech stuff. Besides just learning what my brother does for a living you will get a understanding of the future of the human workforce. Soon all of you will be in my brother's position, repairmen for the robotic workforce. Is this the sign of the coming robot overlords or a window into the future? While you’re going to have to read my future story to find out. If you are interested, this article provides further information on semiconductor fabrication.  

  

Upcoming article about a huge mystery!

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Will you read it? If you have been wondering why many people are suddenly watching a TV show such as the likes of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, then you will like to read my upcoming article in our magazine, Geekly!  Sure, it may seem like it is very similar to my previous blog post, but consider that just a teaser. The magazine article is much longer, more detailed, and goes into much greater depth than the blog post. 

Here, have a short excerpt to satisfy some of your curiosity:

"Occasionally, you will get some reasons as to why this phenomenon happened. The work and time spent on animation is great. When the ponies walk, their manes bounce and pebbles are kicked up. Plants sway back and forth in the wind. The backgrounds and scenery is not recycled, a new one is made for each and every scene that gets written. The style of animation is praised for how colorful, well-done and attention-grabbing it is. There are no dark black borders around objects, creatures, and other stuff; the borders are a complementing color on the same end of the spectrum. " 

I hope you enjoyed this glimpse of my upcoming story.

Behind the Coding

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The tech industry is rapidly growing creating better and faster technology that will improve and change the way we live. A major part of tech industry is made up by the fields that revolve around computer programming and computer science. This two fields have a major impact in the tech world because they are the core of what technology is build upon.If you want to learn more check out this article. Programming become a major hobby of mine when I realized how many things you can create just by learning a couple of algorithms and codes. As my interest about computers grew so did my curiosity to find out new things that will improve my understanding about the tech industry and the tech world. These curiosities lead me to a new project that I would like to share with you, my readers. In this project I interviewed a former computer science and computer programming teacher, Jake Stephens, at LASA High School (Liberal Arts and Science  Academy).  My interview covers a number of aspects about his life and his work in the tech industry and his experience working as a high school computer programming and computer science teacher. My interview will also give you a look behind the creator of the source codes that operates our everyday applications. This project made me view the tech industry in a new different way that has really helped me out and I hope it does the same for you .I hope you enjoy my story.

The sun, answer to global warming?

I am almost done with my feature story!  I chose to do it about solar power, and how viable it is and will become.  I interviewed stan pipkin of lighthouse solar.  It was very interesting, and I look forward to editing and finalizing my piece!  I really liked  being able to learn about whatever I wanted.  Solar power facinates me because it seems like such an appealing idea: taking energy directly from the sun, just like plants.  Plus, zero emissions are key to solve the global warming crisis. *cough* fabian *cough*  My interview was very long, however, so I had to spend an entire 3 hours transcribing!  That was annoying, but in truth I liked this project more than most writing projects because I got to talk about something that is interesting to me.  However, I disliked the fact that I could not give my opinion, only the sources.

Also related, a study group of the Paris-headquartered International Academy of Astronautics that was led by John Mankins, a 25-year Nasa veteran and the U.S. space agency's former head of concepts reviewed an outlandish concept: space based solar power stations to collect energy and beam it down to earth in a lazer.  Scientists want to have space stations where they can get the most sun possible: outside our atmosphere.  then, they beam the energy down to earth and we have a free energy supply!

an article can be found here.

DERAN WROTE THIS, NOT FABIAN!

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