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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Procrastination at its best


OK, so nothing exciting has been happening in my life lately.  I got my test back.  On my Solar System exam I got a 94 an then on my Stellar I got a 101 *woot*!! I'm pretty sure that it's the highest grade in  the class, I'm excited.  
The guys from the construction company are going to be paying for a new hood on my car.  I need to ask my mom if I can borrow her car while mine is in the shop.  They people that gave me the estimate said that it would be a least a 3 day job...I figured since mom will be going to Hawaii to visit my dad for a week I can get it in then, that way the guys don't have to pay for a rental car...and i don't particularly want a rental car.  The people that did the estimate said that it looked like something metal fell on my car and then bounced...or as Oscar put it, someone sat on the hood...poor Charlie.
Hmm...other news...I got a fish today.  He's so cute in his 1 gallon tank, he's so tiny that the filter pushes him around. ^_^  I'll have to try and take a picture of him.  I was out looking/trying to get ideas for Jenny's Graduation gift.  I have Tipti's and Heather's all finished/figured out, all I need is Jenny's...and maybe Chris...Anyways I was near the Petsmart on 51st and decided to go in and look and see if they were having any specials on Harley's food and look at the fish...and then I ended up buying one and an orange tank to go with it...now all I need is a name for him.  He's a Black Moor goldfish.  Any suggestions?  

OK I've got nothing else interesting happening in my life,
XOXO kids
T

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Excitment...well maybe just for me ^_^


Today there were 2 extrasolar planets that are Earth like *sqee*  Here is the article from Yahoo!!


HATFIELD, England – In the search for Earth-like planets, astronomers zeroed in Tuesday on two places that look awfully familiar to home. One is close to the right size. The other is in the right place. European researchers said they not only found the smallest exoplanet ever, called Gliese 581 e, but realized that a neighboring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habitable zone for potential life.
"The Holy Grail of current exoplanet research is the detection of a rocky, Earth-like planet in the 'habitable zone,'" said Michel Mayor, an astrophysicist at Geneva University in Switzerland.
An American expert called the discovery of the tiny planet "extraordinary."
Gliese 581 e is only 1.9 times the size of Earth — while previous planets found outside our solar system are closer to the size of massive Jupiter, which NASA says could swallow more than 1,000 Earths.
Gliese 581 e sits close to the nearest star, making it too hot to support life. Still, Mayor said its discovery in a solar system 20 1/2 light years away from Earth is a "good example that we are progressing in the detection of Earth-like planets."
Scientists also discovered that the orbit of planet Gliese 581 d, which was found in 2007, was located within the "habitable zone" — a region around a sun-like star that would allow water to be liquid on the planet's surface, Mayor said.
He spoke at a news conference Tuesday at the University of Hertfordshire during the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science.
Gliese 581 d is probably too large to be made only of rocky material, fellow astronomer and team member Stephane Udry said, adding it was possible the planet had a "large and deep" ocean.
"It is the first serious 'water-world' candidate," Udry said.
Mayor's main planet-hunting competitor, Geoff Marcy of the University of California, Berkeley, praised the find of Gliese 581 e as "the most exciting discovery" so far of exoplanets — planets outside our solar system.
"This discovery is absolutely extraordinary," Marcy told The Associated Press by e-mail, calling the discoveries a significant step in the search for Earth-like planets.
While Gliese 581 e is too hot for life "it shows that nature makes such small planets, probably in large numbers," Marcy commented. "Surely the galaxy contains tens of billions of planets like the small, Earth-mass one announced here."
Nearly 350 planets have been found outside our solar system, but so far nearly every one of them was found to be extremely unlikely to harbor life.
Most were too close or too far from their sun, making them too hot or too cold for life. Others were too big and likely to be uninhabitable gas giants like Jupiter. Those that are too small are highly difficult to detect in the first place.
Both Gliese 581 d and Gliese 581 e are located in constellation Libra and orbit around Gliese 581.
Like other planets circling that star — scientists have discovered four so far — Gliese 581 e was found using the European Southern Observatory's telescope in La Silla, Chile.
The telescope has a special instrument which splits light to find wobbles in different wavelengths. Those wobbles can reveal the existence of other worlds.
"It is great work and shows the potential of this detection method," said Lisa Kaltenegger, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090421/ap_on_sc/eu_britain_new_planet

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Your car would be Happy to see you ^_^



Ain't it cute!  It's called "Peapod Mobility"  
Anyways here's the story that goes with it.
http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/peapod-mobility-arrives-on-earth-day/

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Soo..


So life has been pretty boring of late.  Didn't do anything exciting for Spring Break, except work for mom on soccer because all her coaches and people are stupid and either can't read or just don't listen.  

My 2 test from the week before spring break I got a 90 and an 89...yay.  Other than that life has been very boring, go to school, study, sleep...you know the norm.

I did decide that since everything has been kinda boring lately to watch Sailor Moon Live Action...and let me tell you, the live action version is WAY better than the anime, and almost as funny as the Musical(yes there is a musical, I can't watch it with a straight face!)  But I've decided that the guy that plays Mamoru has the best facial expressions, especially his range of disgusted faces(wtf pic) EVER! His pained face isn't bad either.  I wish that I could find more pictures of him, he puts a smile on my face, and I can't help but laugh!  What are your thoughts?  If you want to see the best facial expressions watch Act 48 (I think that's the number, it's the episode before the last act?) 
Ok here is part of the best facial expression episode, it starts at the end.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ELlfRgChXw

The beginning of this one continues the funny faces!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td0bPhD_de4

Go watch them, his outfit is funny, looks like he has a penis or something coming out of his shoulder, and he looks constipated!