sadistic tone.I assessed the situation at hand‚ but couldn’t piece it together. A tall‚ middle-aged‚ colored man introduced himself as Dr.White and said an asteroid the size of Georgia was headed on a
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In the dystopian novel‚ Life As We Knew It‚ by Susan Beth Pfeffer the world looks like it’s coming to an end. An asteroid has hit the moon‚ knocking it into a closer orbit which completely throws off the weather and 17 year old Miranda Evans normal life. The asteroid causes all kinds of disasters that bring the world to a halt. Without grocery stores‚ heat‚ water‚ and limited food‚ Miranda and her family face problems together and struggle to survive. One theme I noticed in this book is things are
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4/23/13 Science & Society Space Exploration A Global Addiction and Its Impact on Society and Social Power The obsession and curiosity of space and the unknown has become a major factor in today’s society that continues to influence and affect other imperative issues that need to be addressed. New technology‚ space‚ and the unknown are things that everyone desires to learn more about and cannot get enough of. It is a fact that cannot be ignored whether one wants to or not. However‚ new space
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by paleontologists‚ could have brought an end to the dinosaurs and all the other species that died with them. Since there are many theories about this I will not write about them all. I have chosen the theory about death by Cosmic Collision (an asteroid). In 1980 Luis Alvarez and John Sepkowski Jr.‚ famous geologists‚ blamed the extinction of the
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cells machines farming methods oceans 2. Underwater earthquakes may cause which of the following? (Points : 3) hurricane volcano asteroid impact tsunami 3. Many scientists believe that the dinosaurs disappeared as the result of which of the following? (Points : 3) asteroid impact volcanic eruption hurricane tsunami 4. Why study earth science? (Points : 3) to understand how plants reproduce to reduce pollution
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The Dinosaur’s Demise About 65 million years ago‚ a huge asteroid about 10 kilometers (6 miles) in diameter supposedly struck the Earth and caused the extinction of dinosaurs (Than). But is it really possible that one meteor could kill over 700 different species of dinosaurs? Could the asteroid really have been so big that it devastated the entire world? Is there any explanation to why the asteroid hit in the first place? There is no way that scientists could truly find the answer to any of these
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were made for pure entertainment value. One such film‚ Armageddon‚ directed by Michael Bay‚ is a science-fiction‚ action movie that was solely used for entertainment purposes. Armageddon is about an asteroid coming toward earth that will totally destroy mankind and the planet. No one saw the asteroid plunging towards Earth until it was too late. “Well our object collision budget’s a million dollars. That allows us to track about 3% of the sky‚ and beg’n pardon sir‚ but it’s a big-ass
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The “planet” Pluto was discovered by scientist in 1930. Even then‚ there was controversy over whether this little ball of ice should be considered a planet. It was decided it should‚ mainly because since the gravity of the eighth planet‚ Neptune‚ was found because it was tugging on the seventh planet‚ Uranus‚ and then Pluto was found when its gravity tugged on the orbit of Neptune. Pluto was just a continuation in the time-tested practice of discovering the existence of planets from the behavior
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have been the cause of past extinctions. Professor Daniel Whitmire claims the ice planet will turn evil by hurling space rocks towards Earth. It’s 20‚000-year solar orbit will eventually pass through the Kuiper asteroid belt just beyond Pluto. When it does‚ the series of comets and asteroids could become weapons of death deflected towards Earth. Apparently‚ this isn’t the first time the murderous planet
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to ensure the future survival of humanity. NASA is currently in charge of detecting and tracking asteroids that could impact Earth and destroy life as we know it. Some explanations for extinctions and evolution include strikes by asteroids or comets. "While space may hold many wonders and explanations of how the universe was formed or how it works‚ it also holds dangers. The chance of a large asteroid or comet hitting the Earth is small‚ but given time‚ it will happen." Our technology is reaching
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