Project #12 - The Size of the Universe

The Size of the Universe: Trying God on For Size

At first when I watched a video clip of 'The size of the Universe', I was totally BLOWN AWAY!!

OMG... it was extremely amazing. I haven't imagined that there are much more bigger plants than the Sun around universe. Of course universe is huge... (Just HUGE? Come on........)


VV Cephei A is one of the largest stars known, and believed to be the second largest star in the Milky Way after VY Canis Majoris and third largest known after the hypergiant WOH G64 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. It is of spectral type M2 and is poorly estimated at approximately 1,600–1,900 times the Sun's radius, or approximately 2,227,200,000 to 2,644,800,000 km across. If placed in the center of the solar system, the hypergiant would likely extend past the orbit of Jupiter and approach that of Saturn. VV Cephei is 275,000-575,000 times more luminous than the Sun.

This star has adiameter of about 2,800,000,000km. CAN YOU IMAGINE??? I can't...
I really wonder what is out there.. it's really... What can I say....

Communication Project # 11

Modern Technology, Robotics, Robot Soldiers, Predator Drones

In modern society, the technologies are becoming much detailed and developed. Many countries are putting their efforts to develop technologies for Robotics, Robot Soldiers, Predator Drones. In fact, the South Korean government has managed to miss all of the Terminator films as they have announced a new program intended to develop robotic "soldiers" that promises to bring us one step closer to machine-led Armageddon. The joint project between the ministries of defense and information and communication will attempt to build an army of six- or eight-legged (or wheeled) killbots intended to do the dirty work that we humans are now too good for. These full-sized, insect-like robots will be used to scurry around battlefields, detecting landmines and unleashing a hail of firepower on unsuspecting, technologically-backwards enemies.

To me, sending robot soldiers or predator drones instead of actual human soldiers is a better idea. Human-beings have only one life and it ends, everything ends together. If there is a dangerous situation like digging up the landmine or bomb decommission, robot soldiers can be sent instead of human.

However, there can be a negative effect in Robot soilders or drones.

People are sending a nuclear weapon or bomb using these robots and killing others. Terror is not only defined as human behavior also killing mass people through any ohter process. Therefore, people should be aware to think about robotics and using robots.

PSY - Dust bowl

The most visible evidence of how dry the 1930s became was the dust storm. Tons of topsoil were blown off barren fields and carried in storm clouds for hundreds of miles. Technically, the driest region of the Plains – southeastern Colorado, southwest Kansas and the panhandles of Oklahoma and Texas – became known as the Dust Bowl, and many dust storms started there. But the entire region, and eventually the entire country, was affected.

between 1930 and 1940, severe drought coupled with decades of extensive farming without crop rotation, fallow fields, cover crops or other techniques to prevent erosion, led to major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands. Millions of acres of farmland became useless, and hundreds of thousands of people were forced to leave their homes.

PSY - SCM vs. Alien

Group Members : Julia, Caleb, Esther, Sally, Young

1. What do you think about this sentence? - Men can never be free, because they are weak, corrupt, worthless and restless....

In my opinion, men cannot be free, it doesn't mean that men have no right or freedom to talk, know, or live, but it means that people are not free from society. Basically men are pack animals. they like to belong in group and it could make them feel safe and comfortable. If men are free from everywhere they belong to, they will hasitate. Men need regulations and orders to keep the society stable and relaxed.

However, Caleb brought opposite opinion that human can be free. He said that everyone has a different perception of freedom and for some people, living in a society which law controls. and he thinks that people can be free or not depends on how they think and act.

2. When men cease to see miracles from God, do they lose their faith in God?

If you are a christian, when you experience something and you might think that is a miracle that God showed us. However, if you are not a christian, you will think that it is just a fortune that you have and never consider as a miracle from God. I think it depends on someone's belief, either believe in God and consider many things as miracle or just consider it as a fortune.

In addition, if you have strong belief in God, people don't have to see miracle from God because that strength which believers have for him could be strong enough to hold their belief.

The War of the Worlds

War of the Worlds

　　

When the Great Depression attacked modern American society, it affected not only economy but also emotion or thought of people who lived in the world.

people were depressed and afraid that entire economy or society was collapsed.

The War of the Worlds was an episode of the American radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on October 30, 1938 and aired over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. Directed and narrated by Orson Welles, the episode was an adaptation of H. G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds.

Some strange events happened at that time....

1. some listeners happened upon the CBS broadcast at the point the Martians emerge from their spacecraft.

2. Several people reportedly rushed to the scene of the events in New Jersey to see the unfolding events.

3. Some people, who had brought firearms, reportedly mistook a farmer's water tower for a Martian Tripod and shot at it.

4. Some people called CBS, newspapers or the police in confusion over the realism of the news bulletins.

5. Some listeners fainted while others grabbed their families to head into the mountains. Others headed for the hills to guard their moonshine stills. One was said to have jumped up out of his chair and, in bare feet, run two miles to the center of town.

References - War of the worlds, Wikipedia

Photo - Picture of Afghanistan

　　　

Sometimes it looks like there is not hope or happiness,

but there is hope and miracle in mind

PSY - Carrie Prejean vs. John Edwards

Carrie Prejean - Brave Girl in World

Caroline Michelle "Carrie" Prejean, born May 13, 1987, is an American model, author, former Miss California USA 2009 and Miss USA 2009 first runner-up.

Prejean has appeared as a model for Target, Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdale's, and Nordstrom. She has also appeared in Bliss magazine, as a model for E!: Entertainment Television, at the 81st Academy Awards, and in an interactive model search competition for the NBC game show Deal or No Deal. Prejean also works as an ambassador for the San Diego Padres as a member of the Pad Squad from 2006 to present.

Prejean received national attention in 2009 stemming from her answer to a question about same-sex marriage in the 2009 Miss USA Pageant. Prejean was later ousted of her Miss California crown for alleged breaches of contract. Contentious litigation between Prejean and the Miss California organization was settled in November 2009. Later that month, Prejean released a book defending her position on the controversy.

In my opinion, it's sometimes hard to explain or express own's opinion in public. If I were Carrie and someone asks me what do I think about same-sex marriage even at beauty pageant, I could lie for crown even if I think it's not appropriate and against God's saying. I read some article about her interview and I actually watched the video clip that she answered. It changed my mind that I should say what God wants me to say and live as he want me to live so.

John Edwards - Hidden Politician by Media

Johnny Reid "John" Edwards, born June 10, 1953, is an American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from North Carolina. He was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004, and was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 and 2008.

He defeated incumbent Republican Lauch Faircloth in North Carolina's 1998 Senate election. Towards the end of his single six-year term, he sought the Democratic presidential nomination in the 2004 presidential election. He eventually became the 2004 Democratic candidate for vice-president, the running mate of presidential nominee Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts. In 2010, Edwards publicly revealed that he had an affair with aide Rielle Hunter and fathered a child out of wedlock while his wife was fighting metastatic breast cancer.

After Edwards and Kerry lost the election to President George W. Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney, Edwards began working full-time at the One America Committee, a political action committee he established in 2001, and was appointed director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law. He was also a consultant for Fortress Investment Group LLC.

It was so awful. what on earth a married man had an affair with someone else when his wife was suffering from cancer! it's totally wrong. it's not a thing that human-being can do.

Difference between two cases

When Carrie mentioned about her thought, Media attacked her right after she said, however, when John was in scandal, media tried to cover it and didn't write so many article about it. I saw an article which title is: How Did Edwards Affair Stay Hidden?

Basically media try to stick and protect people who are in power. At that time, John was a candidates for President of the state and he was in power. Therefore, media didn't want him to be "bothered". Later, he failed to be a president, people could read so many article and criticise his immoral behavior.