transportation article (final assignment)

I chose the topic of transportation. i found an article about a Mercedes car completely grown from seeds. The Mercedes BIOME concept was made in 2010 but never made it to production yet. The car weighs less than 1000 pounds and can carry 4 people safely in comfort. The whole body is grown from a single seed and each of the four tires are grown from 4 more seeds . The interior is also grown from 2 additional seeds. Energy from the sun is stored in chemical bonds called BioNectar4534. Mercedes has also developed technology to retrofit trees with receptors to harvest their excess solar energy into BioNectar4534. The material the car is made of is called BioFibre, it is much lighter than metal or composites but stronger than steel when mature. It is grown in the Mercedes-Benz Nursery through proprietary DNA. The customer’s specific desires are genetically engineered into the Star (LOGO) and the vehicle grows when this combines with the Seed capsule.  All Mercedes-Benz Symbiosis vehicles are grown in an ecologically sustainable nursery, using primarily organic materials. Mercedes Benz Symbiosis vehicles release pure oxygen into the environment, helping urban areas to meet air quality standards. The interior of the vehicle is to have high quality textures to suit the individuality of the owner but are fully compostable. 
link:http://www.diseno-art.com/encyclopedia/concept_cars/mercedes_biome.html

molecules

we made molecules using sets.
they are in this order
H2o
CH3OH
C CL4
NH3
C2H4
C6H12O6

make a tent

we tried to make a tent and were not successful in both of our attempts. our tents would not stand properly and were about a foot short. i did not take a picture as it did not meet the criteria.

colored flames / burning metal

I burned 5 metals in the burner including potassium, lithium, sodium, calcium and copper chloride.
lithium was red, potassium was purple orange, sodium was orange, calcium was pink and copper was green.

pasta tower

we built a tower that was 90cm flat and got second place.

pond water

we saw many interesting things in the pond water. we saw a type of crayfish and two worms. one of the worms looked like a caterpillar and the other looked like an earthworm.

microscope pics

we looked at 4 out of 5 slides under the microscope and noticed some interesting things. the first one had green lines crossing all over. the second one had green circles and it looked intresting. the third one looked very odd i could not identify what it looked like. the fourth one had a few smal red dots.

circuit pics

dumb criminals

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/police-man-pepper-sprays-himself-during-robber-attempt/2015/05/08/e2b264a8-f568-11e4-bca5-21b51bbdf93e_story.html
a man robbing a pharmacy sprayed pepper spray to take out employees and walked into the cloud of spray taking himself out.

http://metro.co.uk/2015/05/21/a-shopkeeper-fought-off-a-would-be-thief-with-a-bottle-of-champagne-5208558/
a thief is robbing a costcutter and the owner hits him several times in the head with a champagne bottle the fight went upstairs and a customer sprayed his face with a fire extinguisher.

bugs

house fly
they eat any food

They can check for the age of the maggot or fly because they reach the body within 10 min of death

They live up to a month. The eggs are white and are about 1.2 mm in length. Within a day, larvae (maggots) hatch from the eggs; they live and feed on (usually dead and decaying) organic material, such as garbage, carrion or feces. They are pale-whitish, 3–9 mm long, thinner at the mouth end, and have no legs. Their life cycle ranges from 14 hours to 36 hours. At the end of their fourth instar, the maggots crawl to a dry, cool place and transform into pupae, coloured reddish or brown and about 8 mm long. The adult flies then emerge from the pupae. (This whole cycle is known as complete metamorphosis.) The adults live from two weeks to a month in the wild, or longer in benign laboratory conditions. Having emerged from the pupae, the flies cease to grow; small flies are not necessarily young flies, but are instead the result of getting insufficient food during the larval stage.

Their thorax is blue or sometimes even black, with four longitudinal dark lines on the back. The whole body is covered with hair-like projections. The females are slightly larger than the males, and have a much larger space between their red compound eyes. The mass of pupae can range from about 8 to 20 mg under different conditions.

clothes moth

keratin protein

they can check the age of the larvae or the moth to determine the time of death

Females lay eggs in clusters of between 30 and 200 which adhere to surfaces with a gelatin-like glue. These hatch between four and ten days later into near-microscopic white caterpillars which immediately begin to feed. They will also spin mats under which to feed without being readily noticed and from which they will partially emerge at night or under dark conditions to acquire food. Development to the next stage takes place through between five and 45 instars typically over the course of between one month and two years until the pupal stage is reached. At this point, the caterpillars spin cocoons and spend another approximately 10–50 days developing into adults.

After pupation is complete, the adult months emerge and begin searching for mates. Females tend to move less than males, and both sexes prefer scuttling over surfaces to flying— some adults never fly at all. Adults can live for an additional 15–30 days

Dna picture

dna questions

1. carb deoxyribose, phosphate group and nitrogenous base.
2. thymine, adenine, cytosine and guanine.
3. adenine and deoxyribose.
4. cytosine to guanine and adenine to thymine.
5. one of four nitrogenous bases.
6. A always opposite T and C always opposite G.

parachute

for my parachute i decided to make a pillow with string at the bottom for the weight.
i made a prototype for the pillow and tested it but was not happy so i remade it with the bottom half of a garbage bag instead of the top and inflated it with more air. i then tested the weight and was sastisfied with the results. i then kept it ready for the test day. on the test day i added more air as it had lost most of it and got ready.  when i dropped it it took about 4.5 sec to make it to the bottom.
the pillow was big which slowed its velocity and because it was filled with air it slowed down even more. to transport a heavier object i would need to add pillows and tape them together to prevent air from seeping between them.

car safety for dodge challenger 2015

the 2015 dodge challenger is made with mostly steel, plastic, aluminum and rubber.

Advanced Multistage Front Airbags, Supplemental Front Seat-Mounted Side Airbags, Supplemental Side-Curtain Front and Rear Airbags and Active Head Restraints are standard on all models.

Electronic Stability Control, Hill Start Assist are standard on all models.

ParkSense® Rear Park Assist System and ParkView™ Rear Back-Up Camera are standard on most.

Technology Group is optional on most.

paper airplane

top is flight time bottom is distance. flight time
 was 6.2 sec and distance was 11.2 m

future of trasportation

http://www.citylab.com/tech/2014/09/honolulu-is-building-americas-first-fully-driverless-transit-system/380292/

in Hawaii many people don't think of traffic jams but in a city of over 1 million it is very common. It is rated as one of the worst in the US. For example one who flies in and wants to get downtown has to drive in a 7 lane highway going there and in rush hour it is bad. The Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation (HART) is now trying to change this by creating a fully automatic 20 mile elevated rail line. It will get people into the city in a fraction of the time to drive and will be fully automatic from opening doors to being driverless. The first trips are planned for 2017. It is planned to reduce congestion by 18% and take up to 40000 cars off the road and replacing them with a fleet of four car trains that can accommodate up to 800 riders, with racks for both bicycles and surfboards. This will also be the first fully automated wide scale transit system in the US.

Vancouver to toronto trip by greyhound

to go to toronto i would depart on tues march 24 at 6:30 am. i would arrive at fri march 27 at 5:50 am.
the total time would be 2days 20 hours and 20 minutes.
it would cost about $220.

It is convenient because it is not very expensive and gets you there in just under three days. 
it gets you there in a decent time and is only beaten by train or plane.

ocean acidification questions

1 when sea water absorbs carbon dioxide and turns acidic.

2 burning of fossil fuels

3 it has increased a lot in the past 100 years and should double in another 100.

 4 some animals make shells such as coral and some plankton and when the water is acidic enough it will dissolve the shells.

5 ptropods a main source of food for salmon are getting killed because of acidic conditions dissolving their shells.

6 their shells are dissolved and they die and collapse

7 a source of food (fish) will be lost

8 find an alternate fuel source

science and tech

science and tech