Camel Spider

Check out this Vlog HERE on the camel spider!  My sources I used were:Check out a vlog by Scientist EZR about this amazing spider!  The vlog series is called " Spiders 101".  The sources I used were: Spidersworld.com ( i would put a link but the website is for sale and it wont let me) Sophia.USCG.gov (once again would put a link but it wont work) and Ehow.com , if you are not sure how to get to the article that i used, or need to get there faster, or want to get there faster, go HERE

The Wolf Spider

Check out my Vlog HERE!Check out a vlog by Scientist EZR about this amazing spider!  The vlog series is called " Spiders 101".  The sources I used were: Spidersworld.com ( i would put a link but the website is for sale and it wont let me) Sophia.USCG.gov (once again would put a link but it wont work) and Ehow.com , if you are not sure how to get to the article that i used, or need to get there faster, or want to get there faster, go HERE

How We Measure The Distance To Stars

The closest star to earth is Proxima Centauri, and is 4.2 light years away. But how do we know that? Before I explain, move your head left and right. What you'll notice is that things start to move like your computer screen and your keyboard, even your hands. This effect is called parallax. But you may also  be thinking that it shouldn't work, because if you've watched the sun not move while you been in some sort of vehicle. Parallax actually does "move" the sun in this situation, but the difference is so small  because it's farther away and you don't notice it.

Astronomers measure the distance to stars by using parallax. To measure Proxima Centauri we first look at the star once, and then do so again in six months. Then we make an imaginary triangle. The angle opposite from the base is how much the star moves. The base is just the diameter of earth's orbit. Then using high school trigonometry, we can measure the distance to our star using the imaginary triangle.

I got my information here, here and here.

Binary, the First Coding System Ever

Binary to most people is just a way too complicated code that only uses ones and zeroes, but really it's a number system. The number system that we use regularly is called the decimal system, and is base ten, meaning that there are 10 different numbers to work with (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9). In binary, there are only two numbers to work with (0 and 1). There is also hexadecimal, octal, and the duodecimal systems. To write a regular decimal number in binary, lets take 17 for example. If we want to make 17 out of ones and zeroes, we have to see what divides into 17 that is 2 by a power. 2x2x2x2 (2⁴) is equal to 16, which goes into it once. If we have a simple eight bit system, then our number so far would be 0001- - - -. Eight can't be added to 16 to make 17, neither can four, or two, but one can, and we have 17. So our binary number is 00010001.

126  64  32  16  8  4  2  1

0   0   0   1   0   0   0   1 

(0 126s, 0 64s, 0 32s, 1 16, 0 8s, 0 4s, 0 2s, 1 1).

I found my links here, here and here.

Oh! No! Not The Hiccups! How Long Will They Last This Time!?

    

Do you know what causes hiccups to last so long? Hiccups are made because there is a spasm that contracts your diaphragm. Surprisingly this is not rare, but some people have their hiccups for more than 48 HOURS! Whenever your hiccups last more than 48 hours they are called persistent hiccups. This is not even rare but if your hiccups last more than a MONTH they are called intractable hiccups. Hiccups also can give you a sign that your sick and have a disease and sometimes you get hiccups because you have been stressed a lot or you have to much of the emotion you are having.

I got my information from HERE! 
If you need more info you can go HERE or HERE!

petrification

          Petrified does not mean scared it means that it is turned into a rock like substance. but it does not turn that way over night there is a full petrification process before it is totally  petrified, and this is to tell you what that process is like if you don't already know.
         Something that is petrified is actually a fossil it happens when some thing like opal or pyrite get into wood that is totally sealed off from air. Then, almost any mineral that you can think of gets into the wood starting the petrification process.
         Sometimes when it is totally petrified it still has every detail of a tree so people are surprised to hold it because it is so heavy that its almost unrealistic to think that it was once normal tree that grew and flowers.
         
      
    
       I got my information from live science.com
           and geology.com
           also Denver museum of nature and science


          

How Mountains are formed

I am on a trip to Utah right now, and every day while I am here, I look around and see mountains. Really tall mountains every where around me. I was wondering about how they were formed. I did some research and found that there are four main types of ways that mountains form.

1:There are things called tectonic plates under the ground. They are big pieces of Earth that surround the whole world. When two of the plates crash together, the collision makes the material from the plates shoot up and form mountains.

2: Sometimes the plates grind together. When they rub up against each other, one of the plates pushes the other one up to form mountains.

3: I'm sure everyone has heard of volcanoes. This third way is what I call the un-erupting volcano. It's when magma from the earth pushes up on the surface of the world, just like a volcano, but doesn't erupt. An example of this is the volcano Mount St. Helens before it erupted.

4: If there is a tall plateau, sometimes a river will erode away the rock on the sides to form a mountain.

Now these formations don't happen instantly. They can take thousands and thousands of years of to completely grow. Even some mountains are still growing!

http://www.universetoday.com/29833/how-mountains-are-formed/  http://wonderopolis.org/wonder/how-are-mountains-made/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/earth/surface_and_interior/mountain_formation