Essays on Astronomy

Introduction For achievement standard 91360, we were required to research a technological system in order to gain a depth of understanding in redundancy and reliability. I chose the Mars Curiosity Rover as a research subject. What is the Mars Rover? A car sized rover designed…

One of the most popular questions asked by scientists for centuries is: are aliens out there? Does life exist beyond earth? Where are they? There are many theories and research projects dedicated to finding an answer to this lifelong inquiry. Over the years, information discovered…

Mars one is an organization with the aim of sending humans to establish life on Mars, which is composed by scientists who have confidence that settling on Mars is feasible, they also believe that the humanity already have the technologies capable of sending the first…

In this globalization era, where are the building increasingly rapidly with a beautiful design. Like human too, they want to be beautiful just like the design of the building. How sad that as an Asian, the definition of being beautiful is to have a fair…

What are Zots and Xoodles you ask? Whelp I asked myself that exact question, prior to reading this out of the box, science fiction tale. It seems that Of Zots and Xoodles: Theodil Creates a Universe by self-proclaimed – self-published author, JW McLaughlin is simply…

The influence of the philosophers, Cicero, in De Natura Deorum (“Concerning the Nature of the Gods”), claims that he was the offspring of the ancient gods Aether and Hemera, Air and Day. According to the Orphic hymns, Uranus was the son of Nyx, the personification…

Introduction: Every human being comes with a specific set of expectations. Some have a very high set of expectations some very low expectations. There is also a group of people who have given up expecting from other people out of fear of disappointment. There is…

Zodiac signs and their respective dates tell a lot about the behaviour of people. There is a total of 88 constellations in the sky, but only 12 of them are known to play an active role in our astrological systems. These are called the zodiac…

In the novel Out of the Silent Planet, by C.S. Lewis there are many fascinating characters. If I were to choose anyone from the book to be my friend it would definitely be the Malacandra creature called Hyoi. He is from a race of creatures…

Google has made their outsider planet-chasing computerized reasoning (AI) program accessible to the overall population, so anybody can utilize it to mine Nasa’s Kepler information looking for exoplanets from the solace of their home. Last December, researchers could discover two at no other time seen…