Spring is upon us!

Hello everyone!

Spring is finally upon us, which means the weather is changing (for those in North America), the birds are singing and the trees are finally budding! I love this time of year, as I'm sure a lot of you do as well.

I just thought I would post this picture of a tree just beginning to bloom. It looks like this spring is slightly late, but it's definitely here. So let's enjoy it while we can! How is spring looking where you guys are?

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Happy Earth Day!

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    Today is the 43rd Earth day. A day, where people involved will try and conserve energy. Some things that people might do today is save electricity by turning off their air conditioners, or walk to nearby places instead of using cars. All of that is great, for the environment and it saves money as well! 

   1 billion people are expected to be actively participating today, trying to preserve the environment. It's a great movement to be part of, and it's not just a 1 day event. I believe it can be a starting point, or a practise. If there was an Earth day every month, our planet would be much better off. If regulating our emissions is practised, we could make our planet a lot greener.

  Anyway, I hope all of you are participating in some way, whether it's throwing away your garbage properly, or walking to your grocery store instead of driving. Thanks for reading!

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A Shocking Video!

Hello Earth-trotters!

     Yesterday, I was just scrolling through YouTube, when I came across this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekmMD8oYtJ0
I know it's a little old, but it still sends a powerful message. To summarize it, a large group of dolphins were stranded on the shoreline of Bataan (Philippines), because of a large wave which carried all of them over. Luckily, there were a lot of people on the beach that day to witness it, and if you keep watching the video, they actually help the dolphins go back into the water.

     When I saw all of them individually help each dolphin back into the water, I couldn't help but smile. I knew that something was abnormal about the water that day, because dolphins don't usually get carried to shore like how they did in the video. But think about this; if there weren't any people on the shore that day, all those poor dolphins would have been dead by now. However, all of them were there, and they decided to help. I think that we as a people are capable of great things, and seeing this amazing act of kindness really emphasized that. If we can help dolphins back into the water and save their lives, we can do so many other things to save other species lives!

I just wanted to post what I thought about that video, there are many more like that on YouTube, feel free to look around. I hope you really think about what you watch when you see videos like this. Thank you all for reading!

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Asteroid Mining Expedition?

Hello everyone!

    I have some really interesting news to share with you all today. A company in California, named "Deep Space Industries" has announced their plans of actually beginning a gold rush in outer space by mining asteroids! The company's chief executive David Gump says: "More than 900 new asteroids that pass near Earth are discovered every year. they can be like the Iron Range of Minnesota was for the Detroit car industry last century, a key resource located near where it was needed".

   "Deep Space Industries" plans to make a small group of spacecraft named "Fireflies" to go into outer space and get precious metals from the asteroids near Earth. They say the first trial run they will have will be in 2015, and if everything goes well during their trial run, they will go fully operational in 2016; estimated to be bringing back around 70 kg of gold, or any other precious metals.

   This is extremely interesting; I've only scratched the surface with information regarding this. I just briefly summarized one company's plans, there are other companies with plans of their own regarding asteroid mining. What do you all think about this, do you think this might be the next big thing in mining altogether?

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Life of Pi!

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    Just last weekend, I went to the cinema with my family and watched 'The Life of Pi'. It was a brilliant movie, right down to the actors, plot and the scenery. But I'm writing about it today because of the power of nature that is displayed in the film.

    This is a spoiler alert, but the movie is largely set in the Pacific Ocean, where the main character is set adrift because the boat that was supposed to take him to Canada went down in a storm. His family died with the sinking of that ship, so he is the only one left on a lifeboat with a tiger. It was interesting because the main character "Pi", had to live for days in the ocean with the tiger on the lifeboat. He eventually trained the tiger, and it eventually learned to respect "Pi" and not...kill him. 

    They come across many storms in the ocean, which just shows how humans are absolutely defenceless against nature. He comes across an island next, which is a natural haven during the day. But it becomes a huge digestive system over night. Basically the water on that island turns toxic during the night, so if he tried to drink or swim in that water, he would just dissolve. 

The tiger realized this during the day and ran back to the boat during the evening. Pi didn't realize why the tiger did this, but during the night he realized. So the next morning (Pi slept on a tree during the night) he set off back on the boat. It just shows how animals are so much smarter than humans in a way. They have a natural awareness over terrain which humans will never possess. 

    I'm not sure why I'm writing this, I just found the movie really interesting. I would highly recommend it to anyone who's looking to watch a movie!

Mind Blowing Global Warming Facts

Hello, My fellow Viewers!

        I was just browsing the web earlier today, and I came across some really startling information about global warming. I'll provide the link below this post, but for right now, here is what I found in a nutshell.

- Planet Earth could lose 50% of it's species by 2050 is we keep polluting the way we are currently.
- Around 27,000 species become extinct every single year. That is an alarming amount, and humans are the only ones to blame.
- We are losing about 40 million acres of forest areas every year because of deforestation, only 12% of our forests are in the state in which it originated from.
- In Greenland, 12% of the surface ice melted, which is a record amount! (in 2007)


There is a lot more great information on this website:
http://www.greenbizcheck.com/environmental-facts/

So check it out, it's definetely worth your time!

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Moon: An Alternative Energy Source?!

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I was just reading an very interesting article about energy we might be able to harness from the moon. 
Here is the link if anyone is interested: http://www.enn.com/

I'll break it down if anyone just wants to read a simple analysis. Basically, when Apollo astronauts return from the moon, they always bring back rocks from the moon's surface. Scientists have concluded that these rocks contain an element called 'Helium-3', which is a stable isotope of helium. The rocks are missing a neutron, which makes it possible for us to perform nuclear fusion. Using nuclear fusion, we can produce mass amounts of clean energy, which is what the earth needs. Sadly, our resources are in space and it takes billions of dollars just to get there.

Nuclear fusion at the moment uses fission reactors, splitting up uranium nuclei to release energy, and this produces heat. This very heat turns water into steam which spins a turbine to make electricity. But this system produces a lot of radioactive waste, which is why scientists need to find an alternative energy source.

I hope you found that post interesting, you can read the rest of the article on the website I provided you. Thank you for reading!

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