The homework for this class was to design you own disaster warning system and create it on google slides to share with me. I believe most people have created their slides and have shared them with me. There were many interesting, useful, and well-thought out designs. I enjoyed reading them all, and will keep them to show next year's class! In the next class, I may ask a few people to share them with us at the front of the room. Are there any takers out there? I will make sure you get some extra points for your efforts!
One of the world's biggest problems in the is pollution. We can't escape polluted air, rivers, streams, oceans, forests, grasslands, and the like these days. Unfortunately, pollution has become more and more widespread with the advent of machinery, cars, trucks, tools, and factories, all of which came to fruition during the rise of the industrial age. All of these aspects cause pollution in our green world (making it more brown than green), so much so that it has become difficult to turn back the pages. However, that does not mean that turning back the pages is impossible. It will take hard work, careful planning, and eve ending attention to the way we manufacture, control, use, and discard waste at the end of the day.
In the next class we will focus on this very problem and the negative effects that can lead to bad health, low aptitude, body fatigue and problems that arise in many natural areas. Many negative effects can be harmful to health and hard on the environment as well. Even some things we do not consider pollution, such as noise or light, can be considered pollutants because they affect our health in negative ways. Too much noise and light can cause stress leading to coronary problems and high blood pressure.
Our next design will be a pollution measurement and control center, in which we will focus on how to determine the effects of pollution and how to adequately measure, control, and end pollution forever. Why? Because the first step in ending pollution is measuring it and its effects. Then we can take steps in controlling it, and finally in ending it altogether.
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Tuesday, July 4, 2017
Natural Disaster Warning System
About a year ago, we had a natural disaster in Kumamoto - the 2016 earthquakes. As everyone recalls, on Thursday, April 14th we were hit with what is now called the "foreshock," or the quake before the real earthquake. The real quake hit on Saturday morning of April 16th, and was very large and destructive. It harmed many buildings, shops, and homes, so much so that many had to be torn down. Well, a year later we are re-bounding from the earthquakes of last year. One thing that made the earthquakes so scary is the happened suddenly, as earthquakes normally do. They can't be seen, heard, or tracked. Many times they just simply, hit.
Actually, natural disasters come in all shapes and sizes, and we even had a hint of one yesterday - a typhoon, which was actually quite large. I saw many downed tree branches, fallen bicycles, and knocked over signs on my way to school yesterday. In fact, it was so powerful that morning classes were canceled at most universities in Kumamoto.
With the threat of natural disasters comes the need to somehow be warned of them in advance, if at all possible. Sometimes it is impossible to know of an impending earthquake, but researchers had known about the large fault lines in Kumamoto for many years. Other natural disaster, such as typhoons, are able to be seen and tracked across the ocean sometimes for many days. Hurricanes, or large typhoons, can be seen as well, as can storms, solar flares, approaching asteroids, and the like. Tsunamis can also be seen coming from a long way off, but this may not mean that escaping a tsunami is possible
Is is possible to make a disaster warning system? It must be, for the sake of all humankind. So, your task for this design topic is to create your own natural disaster warning system. First you must decide on what kind of disaster you want to create a warning system for. Then, you must think of all the possible elements that you need to include. For example, you must include a way to warn the entire area, not just one or two places. Then you need to think about how you will warn them, and what steps they need to make in order to escape or to stay where they are safely.
Actually, natural disasters come in all shapes and sizes, and we even had a hint of one yesterday - a typhoon, which was actually quite large. I saw many downed tree branches, fallen bicycles, and knocked over signs on my way to school yesterday. In fact, it was so powerful that morning classes were canceled at most universities in Kumamoto.
With the threat of natural disasters comes the need to somehow be warned of them in advance, if at all possible. Sometimes it is impossible to know of an impending earthquake, but researchers had known about the large fault lines in Kumamoto for many years. Other natural disaster, such as typhoons, are able to be seen and tracked across the ocean sometimes for many days. Hurricanes, or large typhoons, can be seen as well, as can storms, solar flares, approaching asteroids, and the like. Tsunamis can also be seen coming from a long way off, but this may not mean that escaping a tsunami is possible
Is is possible to make a disaster warning system? It must be, for the sake of all humankind. So, your task for this design topic is to create your own natural disaster warning system. First you must decide on what kind of disaster you want to create a warning system for. Then, you must think of all the possible elements that you need to include. For example, you must include a way to warn the entire area, not just one or two places. Then you need to think about how you will warn them, and what steps they need to make in order to escape or to stay where they are safely.
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