The Earth's History, a brief summary

THE HISTORY OF THE EARTH,

With fun summary at the end, to clean up all the details we missed;D

This also does not contain any information regarding humans, as we are rather insignificant on a time scale.

Approximately 4.6 Billion years ago, yes that is correct, BILLION, a massive cloud of space dust, created in the aftermath of a supernova, began spiraling and swirling together to eventually form a Mustafar like planet that was nothing like the planet that we call our “Big Blue Marble” today.  This lifeless rock was covered in oceans of magma, and the atmosphere toxic. Overall it was an unpleasant place to live, to say the least. However, over time, the planet cooled, and liquid water began to form. Slowly, oceans began replacing magma, and something almost magical was in the works.

Nearly 800 million years later, something miraculous occurred in these vast oceans, something completely alien began to form: the first life. Now these first cells weren’t anything impressive (each consisted of one cell only), but they were the start of a long chain of events that eventually lead up to the present day.

So about 3.05 Billion years later, after a long waiting time of  continental movement and lots of submerging and emerging volcanoes, the Cambrian Era arrived which brought evolved life into the world! About 544 million years later, the Fist of Science would be created, but that is currently somewhat irrelevant. So in this canvas of 544 million years, lots of quite literal ‘life’ changing events happened.

Okay, so to summarize in a poorly written sentence, star goes boom, Earth looks like Mustafar, First life, Life boom, FISHES, Land-life, DINOSAURS, Everything dies, Ice age, humans, FIST OF SCIENCE.

There are those who disagree with this “theory” to read the argument, and see their point of view look at this helpful Wikipedia article.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation%E2%80%93evolution_controversy

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A Summary and our Opinion of ITER and Fusion Based Energy

SUMMARY

Recently the cause of world concern has been the decreasing amount of available world resources, and with that the increasing need for power. However, within the past few decades there has been a group of scientists have begun work on the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor or ITER for short.

ITER when built will be over 100 feet tall and weigh nearly two times as much as the Eiffel tower. The structure, which sports an massive amount of magnets, holds a "magnetic bottle" in the center of the vacuum chamber. This Magnetic bottle is the only way thus devised to contain the nuclear fusion and the energy produced. no other material can withstand the heat.

Nuclear fusion is the process in which two atoms are forced together and then expel unnecessary particles producing massive amounts of energy. In the case of ITER, it will be using two isotopes of Hydrogen: Deuterium and Tritium.

The Energy released is non-polluting, and the atoms necessary for creating Tritium(lithium) is abundantly found in the ocean, we have a supply  that will last for close to  thirty million years. Though building the ITER is not cheap, it could eventually save the energy crisis by giving mass amounts of clean energy to the world.

Our Thoughts

The entirety of The First of Science lab team, namely two people, agree that the ITER should not only receive more funding, but also support from more countries. The ITER should be able to produce energy with little to no pollution. Not to mention the ITER can contain heat that is hotter than the sun. Fusion is the future of energy, and honestly what needs to happen is support on a global level, and together as a united world, we can solve the energy crisis.

Citation

Nuclear Fusion. N.d. Electropedia. Web. 19 Mar. 2014. <http://www.mpoweruk.com/nuclear_theory.htm>.

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The Experiment of Flame

The Experiment

It was a really cold day, mid-January in southern New Hampshire. Two students (our most wondrous selves) were testing their first experiment in Honors Science, little did they know, by the end, their hands would be incredibly cold. They clasped their frigid hands upon the cold metal bowl they were using as a container for the experiment.

The bowl was rested into a thin layer of ice. The variations of paper were nestled into their place betwixt a paperclip contraption, the contraption of holdiness. The flame of wrath, which came from the lighter of fury, was set to burn each of the small 3x4” pieces of paper. The flaming wrath consumed each piece of paper with the ferocity of a bear-lion-minotaur-naked mole rat-creature(basically the most demonic, horrific and violent creature that you can imagine multiplied by the largest number you can think of, infinity excluded).  

Each piece’s courage and flammability was whetted in a true test of temperature. The following results can be concluded and derived from such a tale.

Art Paper	1:26
Copy Paper	0:30
Lined Paper	0:15.5
Newspaper	0:12.8
Magazine Paper	0:10

Such results were in our mental grasp, as we had predicted that art paper could resist the roaring flames for the longest. However, our fortune tales could not make clear the fate of the other variations of paper.

If the gods would allow such practices as to retry time itself, and to attempt this experiment yet again in a more detailed analysis, we would try the same procedure, which entailed

1. Collecting the given resources
2. Cutting the paper into 3x4 inch pieces
3. Attaining a lighter

Now the fun begins

4. Place the art paper into the contraption
5. Hold a flame to it for a slow count of three
6. Measure the amount of time taken for the paper to burn completely
7. Record thine results
8. Repeat steps 4-7 with all other paper types until no paper is left

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