SPACE & ART
Overall in week 9's lesson, I learned that everything ties together through space weather it be nanotechnology, biotechnology, or robots.
An interesting subject of the power of 10 is what I found quite interesting in this lesson. It shows you how much your perspective could change in just 10 seconds. For example, the zooming out of a picnic in Chicago. After they zoom out, it zooms back in all the way to the skin of the mans hand and enters in lymphocyte. These are the nucleus of the white blood cells.
In lecture 1 the sky is seen upon a magnificent piece. Carl Sagan is who first sought of cosmos being popular and has a video called the pale blue dot.
Copernicus is an Astronomer who believed that the sun was the center of the solar system and the earth rotated around the sun on an axis. I thought that this was interesting because Copernicus was afraid that he would get in trouble with the church if he spread his idea of the solar system, so instead he remained quiet about it and later spoke.
I thought lecture 3 was interesting because it had to do with animals going into space. They first sent a dog Laika into space but it only lived 6 days. They wanted to monitor the dog in space to see how the body changes. Later on, the United States trained an animal that was more similar to the human body, a chimp, and took some to space. These were the largest animals to go into space.
In Lecture 5 it described the first non governmental space craft launched into space which was something new. The idea was to develop lower cost space travel even though more than 100 million dollars were invested to new technologies.
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Hi Gabby,
ReplyDeleteI also found lecture three to be interesting. As an animal lover it was sad to hear the dog never made his way home from space but it was also a hugely successful expedition into space for the Russian's as it was the first species on the moon. It is difficult to justify sending dogs and ape's to the moon but when we can monitor their bodies and learn so much about space it makes it worth it in the end.
Hi Gabby,
ReplyDeleteI also found lecture three to be interesting. As an animal lover it was sad to hear the dog never made his way home from space but it was also a hugely successful expedition into space for the Russian's as it was the first species on the moon. It is difficult to justify sending dogs and ape's to the moon but when we can monitor their bodies and learn so much about space it makes it worth it in the end.