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The article Cat Saves Owner's Life Just Hours After Being Adopted was very interesting because it was about a cat who was able to save her owner, who was having diabetic seizure by waking the owner and her son up in the middle of the night so they could get help. I didn't know that in general cats are more selfish, solitary animals. Considering this information I think it is really cool that the cat was one of few to care for their owner. If you were the owner, how do you think you would respond to this information, knowing that you almost died?

http://paper.li/238devink4/1327459028

In Flying Squid Rocket Through the Air I learned that Squids actually fly, but not only do they fly they fly faster than they swim. They take water in eject in from thier body which pushes them up into the air. As I was reading I thought to myself, If squid fly so well why haven't people noticed this before? Ronald O'Dor answered my question he thinks that most of squids flying takes place at night and so it's not as noticeable. I find this behaviour for Squids interesting because I thought squids lived deeper down in the ocean. I also like the research because it reminds me that there are still discoveries out there to make.

http://paper.li/238devink4/1327459028

I think that Bus Stop Ad Reacts Only To Women is a really funny article. The bus stop ad only responds to woman who stand infront of the face recognition technology, and plays a video for them. But for men it shows a link to the advertiser's website. The adveritisement is tring to  to raise money to help educate woman in 3rd world countries, so I think it is really weird how their is a definte group this non-profit organization is adversiting to.

http://paper.li/238devink4/1327459028

The Speed of Light

The fact that something could go faster than the speed of light blows my mind. Their was a nuetrino went traveled 60 nanoseconds faster than a light beam. Which is about.0025 percent faster than light. Einstein said " if you could send a message faster than light then you could send a telegram to the past." I believe light speed is somehow linked to time so that if you go faster than light you beat time. That why the speed of light is the cosmic speed limit because, up until now we didn't know of anything that could go faster than it.

The Cosmic Speed Limit

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/science/23speed.html
http://www.newsbiscuit.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Light-speed-limit.jpg

WIPP SITE

The WIPP site is a place to store radio-active Transuranic waste so that is can decay safely. Transuranic waste is known as materials mixed with U-233, nuclei's with an atomic number greater than 92, and isotopes of plutonium. This waste is a result of nuclear energy and, when it is inhaled or ingested can result in serious health hazards. It has an extremely long half-life, which means it will take hundreds of thousand years to completely decay. Which means it posses a threat to the health of everyone on the earth now and for future generations. There are storage devices to hold in the radioactivity but, there are no garantees that they will stay sealed. I think that nuclear energy is a good idea because it is a solution to the energy problem. I am cautious of creating too much energy because, we have not created a way to get rid of the waste very effectively, but we shouldn't just abandon this method, we should discover more about it so we can be sure it that we are not just creating another problem for the future. I think for now storage the Transuranic waste is okay but, we need to be careful of the future so that we know what we are getting ourselves into.

http://www.wipp.energy.gov/library/pioneering/LongRoad1.pdf
http://sheff.caeds.eng.uml.edu/hazwaste/sciadone/transura.htm
http://www.wipp.energy.gov/Photo_Gallery_Images/CH_photos/CH3.jpg
http://www.wipp.energy.gov/Photo_Gallery_Images/Photos/Sunrise%202.jpg

Blog Comments

I commented on these blogs...

http://soccer789.blogspot.com/2012/01/science-is-true-meaning-about-world.html#comment-form

http://maritzag15.blogspot.com/2011/11/nasa-making-mistakes-omg.html

http://maritzag15.blogspot.com/2011/09/real-science-what-does-it-mean-to-me.html

http://angelascienceblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/big-bang-this-week-in-science-we-have.html?showComment=1328502131576#c1517611422378234748

The things I responed to are about the metric system, what science is, and the Big Bang. I like commenting on blogs because, what I may have focused on the same prompt may be thought differently on another persons blog. I think it is cool to think about how other people think about things. No matter who you are, we all are different and are raised differently and I like to see the differenet ideas that come from another perspective.