Something about Space Walk

Spacewalks technically called extravehicular activity or EVA are the finest examples of human innovation encourage. It is any activity done by an astronaut or cosmonaut outside of a spacecraft beyond the Earth's appreciable atmosphere.

Here are 5 incredible aspects about a spacewalk according to NASA:

5. You might get in trouble with a car for driving over 60 to 70 miles per hour; now matching going 17227 miles an hour, that's the average speed of the International Space Station astronauts get out of their protective environment inside the space station to perform a spacewalk.

4. The temperatures that astronauts face during a spacewalk could range from 250 degrees Fahrenheit to -250 degrees Fahrenheit depending on their position. What's the temperature like in your neck of the woods today?

3. For typical spacewalk astronauts may utilize anywhere from 70 to 110 tools.

2. It takes about 45 minutes to put on a spacesuit; before heading out the astronauts brief pure oxygen for more than an hour. BTW, putting on a species called donning and taking it off is called doffing.

1. Susan J Helms and James S Voss hold the current record at 8 hours 56 minutes for the longest spacewalk. How do you like the idea being out in space from most nine hours traveling at thousands of miles per hour?

As for writing, it reminds me about the movie Gravity. A lot of people like it, but it's hilarious to me somehow. For example, Stone is sent spinning into outer space after the debris hits the Explorer. Kowalsky uses his MMU to find her and bring her back to the shuttle. But in real life, during spacewalks, astronauts are required to wear a SAFER (Simplified Aid for EVA Rescue), which is a more basic version of the MMU. It is intended for emergencies only, and Stone would not have been repairing the Hubble without one. She may not have been able to get back all the way back to the Explorer with it, but it would have been her first line of defense against the prospect of drifting off forever.

That's all I can tell about space walk, and the critique for the movie Gravity: nah.... 

Fun Facts about Our Solar System

While we all remember some facts about the solar system - for example, there were night planets, but now are down to eight,  - there are many little things that many people do not know. So, here we go:

• Saturn Isn't The Only Planet With Rings
• Most of us learned that Saturn had rings made up of small rocks, ice, and other particles. Actua;;y, there are several other planets have rings around them! Such as all of the larger planets, and Uranus, but these are all too difficult to see due to their distance to earth.

• The Solar System’s Mass Is 99% Sun
• The sun makes up over ninety-nine percent of all of the mass in our entire solar system. Jupiter and some of the other large planets make up most of the rest, and Earth barely even registers in the equation.

• Seasons On Uranus Last For Twenty Years
• Uranus has an orbital tilt of eighty-two degrees, which means that it is practically on its side. The effect of this is that a season on Uranus lasts about twenty earth years, and causes all sorts of odd weather.

• One Day On Mercury Equals 58 Earth-Days
• Due to Mercury’s orbit around the sun, a year on that planet is the equivalent of around eighty-eight Earth days—which means that on Mercury, there are less than two days in a year. But that’s not all: due to the planet’s strange orbit, the sun actually seems to travel backwards and forwards in the sky.

• Venus Is The Hottest Planet
• Venus, on the other hand, has a notoriously thick atmosphere that traps the heat created by the sun. Interestingly, Venus is also quite the black sheep of the planet world, and spins in the opposite direction.

• There Are Five Dwarf Planets In Our Solar System
• There are actually five dwarf planets in our solar system; one of them is Pluto which has been reclassified few years ago. The other four are Ceres, Eris, Haumea, and Makemake.

• Jupiter Sucks Up Space Garbage
• Jupiter’s huge size and gravitational pull act as a protective barrier that shields the earth from space debris, pulling dangerous objects into its own orbit before they can reach us.

All about your "NEW" iPhone

Do you have a smart phone? Is it an iPhone? Nowadays, more and more people chose smart phone over regular phones because they are “smart”! I used to have a BlackBerry smartphone, but I changed it to an iPhone 4s just for the novelty, and then changed to an iPhone 5. And the new iPhone 5s just came out…. and I think I don't have much to critic on the new iPhone 5s…

When I got my iPhone 5, it was such a disappointment since all the rumors of new iPhone 5 will have a wider display; it came out just taller screen…. We all know Apple is really good at confidentiality, but that was way far from the rumors…

There have been fewer instances of wild rumors. Instead, it's been based more around pragmatism, using either tangible leaks or sources that have a solid track record. Think of the perennial leaks from the Wall Street Journal or the increasingly well-established sourcing from iMore and The Loop. Whether you're conspiracy-minded or not, it's been hard to ignore the sheer number of claims that have tamped down expectations rather than inflated them. It's as though there's a collective fear we'll see a repeat of the 2011 hysteria and deal with fans (or detractors) complaining about missing features that were never promised in the first place.

Well, since the new iPhone 5s and 5c have not changed a lot for their outlooks; let’s look forward for the new generations of our iPhones’ future, and what we can do with taller screen display! It seems so helpful!

What do people do with their longer iPhones?

What do we expect for the future iPhones?

3D Printing

Have you heard about 3D printing? It might not new to everyone. I’m an architecture student, we have a big 3D printer in our college, I’ve been using it for school project for years, and I can only say it is AWESOME! It works like magic! You need to create a 3D digital model with several different kinds of software, such as Rhinoceros, Grasshopper and AutoCAD. Then put the 3D designed files into the printer program, and let it run!

The way it works is using an additive process, the machine has a little pointer where successive layers of material are laid down in different shapes on the base. There are some different kinds of materials you can use for 3D printing, such as plastic, clay, and even brass metal. I believe there will be more materials we can use later!

The uses of 3D printing are very vast. It can be used in Architecture, Engineering, Construction, industrial design, aerospace, military, fashion, jewelry, dental and medical, education, geographic information system, and so many other fields. But the only problem is it’s too expensive right now! And it’s kind of time consuming, you need check on the status every few hours. The machine we have in our college is charged us based on the how much material we used and how long it took… it is smart to use, but too pricey.

Another little thing 3Dooler pen, it is also a 3D printing machine, just way smaller. The pen that melted the material inside the pen then cooled through a patented process while moving through the pen, which means you can make 3D projects by hand. Isn’t it cute and awesome!

Video link you can learn something about 3D printing: Leaders Of The 3D Printing Revolution
Video link for 3Dooler: 3Doodler Kickstarter Video - The World's First 3D Printing Pen

3D Printing vs. Engineer & Architecture

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Objects printed with a 3D printer

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3D printed bridge only a little bit larger than 1 Dollar bill

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3D Printed Hermit Crab Shells

3D Printing vs. Fashion

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Escapism, Iris van Herpen, 2011

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Exoskeleton, Janina Alleyne, 2012

3D Printing vs. Handmade

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A real time 3d image drawn with 3Doodler

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Future Technology

Our technology has been exploring rapidly, how is our future will be with high-tech products everywhere. I have been dreaming to live in a high-technology world like those ones in the movies. But how long will that take until we see something like that in the real life? I did some research of ‘future technology’, I found this company Corning that working on projects we have dreamed for years; and this will not take too long.

In our future, high-tech products will connect every detail of our living places with world and us. Almost every surface being a touch screen and having multi-function; it’s unbreakable, unscratchable, and dirt-free. You can cut the vegetables at the kitchen counter top in the morning, by the same time it’s playing the live news with weather display. You have a closet that has a touch screen mirror, where you can try your close on without really do it; this could be super helpful for clothes shopping. And so much more!

One of the most important things in the classroom, it can help teacher to get the students’ attention by having an interesting desk with display on it. Teacher can control the work on everyone’s “desktop” and also get data how long does each student focus in one class and what did they do in class. This is so much fun even think about it, it will apply to our life eventually; by that time is the high-tech going to help us? Or like in the movie, they will become too smart to fight back human? I’m going too far… XD anyway, I’m still looking forward to it!!!

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Working desk with touch screen surface

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Transparent computers in the classroom 

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Combined modern computer with the classroom desk

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2. "Future Interior Design And Technology - Is It Possible?". www.interiordesignliving.com. January 17, 2013

3. "pcStudio creates a digital environment in modern classrooms". www.designbuzz.com.