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The Face is just a natural landform. It happened 25 years ago. You can say its from aliens but it is not an alien! Iv'e seen pictures of Face. From reshearch only robots walked on Mars. Aliens are not even real. There are camras om thoes robots so they would know if they seen anything. Have you ever got a warning that an alien invation was about to occur?
I think that some dust and rocks made this shape occur. Scientist have thier studies. My question is how did this alien form this pop up form. If u say it was a alien does it live under the dust. I don't think so,because it adventually is going to die. This is nonsense to belive that aliens walked on Mars and formed a type of shape. It is just a natural form.
Why do you think this is an alien. One reason they would is because of it's shape. Do you have any evidence to prove to that this is an aliens shape. They probably would say no,because I do not see any antenas. That is a big hint to tell if that was an alien or not.
Were's the body all you can see is a face so why assum it's an alien. Perfect good sense would tell you aliens aren't real. It's just a from that was created by natual resources on the planet. Use your research and don't go believing anything crazy. Such,as aliens living on Mars with just a head. I mean use common sense. What do you physically see on an alien. A big head,antena's,body,and wierd looking feet.
This is not an alien people it is just a from that was created by natural resources. So don't go believing nothing foolish that we have aliens roaming different planets. Tust in NASA the greatest of all. Don't believe anyone who isn't and professional lke use. Nor trust a person with fause information,because they will have your mind,and you worried.
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My position on driverless cars are that they would be very efficent but would also have negative outcomes as everything does. I would be for driverless cars because i think that the pros of the driverless cars would outshine the cons of it. When it comes to technology there are always going to be negative and positive outcomes to things its just about how much more positive than negative it is.
As stated in the artical it would be very useful to prevent accidents and help drivers that arent in full control of there vehicle yet to learn how to better drive on the road. The rear veiw cameras that have been made to help cars notice when they are abou to hit something is a good start to helping people that might not pay as much attention as others but it can also be negative in other ways. The traffic jam assist could be useful as well as it helps people that are stuck in traffic maybe in busy cities or on a road where an accident has occured
To conclude i think that it would be a good idea and i fully support the driverless cars while also being aware of the downsides to them and trying to work around them. It all comes down to the laws and how the government can make our streets safer for our generation now and future generations.
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The use of technology to read peoples emotion is a good thing to have. While reading this article I found lots of good things about this computer, such as how if a teacher had one they could find out if their students are liking the lesson or just not wanting to listen at all. In the next paragraphs I will explain how the use of this technology is a good idea.
My evidence to supprt my claim is in paragraph six it says,"A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." I choose to use this evidence, because alot of teachers don't know if their lesson or what they are teaching is actually going to be a sucess or if the students are just acting like they are listening. At my school, alot of students don't listen to the teache teach. This new technology could detect if the students are confused or just plan old bored, and this could allow the teachers to maybe change the way they are teaching the lesson, maybe make it more interative.
The other evidence I found to support my claim is in the fourth paragraph where is says,"By weighting the the different units, the software can even identify mixed emotions." With this technology, it could help doctor, nurses, theraphist, and even school counselors, to see the real emotion that their patients are feeling at a certain time. I know that alot of patients at a doctors office like to hide what they are feeling so that they look tough, well with this type of technology any person that has a patient of some sort will be able to know the emotion they are feeling so they know what they could give them the help that they need. This might be the only use for this technology, but the help it could give to the people who are hurting, upset or have any other emotion, this new technology could help all them.
In conclusion, to my claim I think that this technology will be very useful to alot of people who like to hid their emotion instead of sharing it with the people they should really be sharing it with. So, overall this technolgy that can read people's emotion would be a great device that many people like doctors, nurses, and even school teachers can use to help the people they got their job to help.
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In the article "making mona lisa smile" it talks about being able to tell someone's mood. Is being able to tell someone's mood in a classroom valuable? I think it is very valuable. I think this because the teacher could be able to tell if you understand something or how you feel about it. Another reason is because You could be able to tell how your friend is feeling my last reason is because when a painter paints something you would be able to tell how the painter wanted you to feel when looking at it.
My first reason for why i think this is valuable is because a teacher could be able to tell how you feel about something new she is teaching. For example "a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored,Dr.Hung predicts"(paragraph 6). This is stating that the computer sofware would be able to tell when you are confused or bored and could help the teacher.
Another example is "she's 83 percent happy,9 precent disgusted,6 percentfearful, and 2 percent angry"(paragraph 1). This computer sofware and cell all of your emotions at once and there percent. This is how a teacher would be able to tell how you're feeling.
My second reason for why i think this is valuable is because you could be able to tell how your friend is feeling. For example in the article is states that " Of course, most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy,worried, ect (paragraph 5). This states that you cant exactly tell a persons every emotion by just looking at them so this would be able to help know their emotions. Another example would be "They even indicate the difference between a genuine smile and a forced one" (paragraph 7). This also means that if a friend is lying abou how thye feel or putting on a fake smile the computer would know its fake. These are soem examples on how the computer is valuable when it comes to friends.
My final reason is because when a painter pants something it would be able to tell how you feel when looking at it. One example I found in the article is "The Mona Lisa demonstration is really intended to bring a smile to your face while it shows just how much this computer can do"( paragraph 6). This is explaning how when looking at the Mona Lisa painting it is supposed to make you smile. Another example is "using video imagery, the new emotion-recognition sofware tracks these facial movements in a real face or in the painted face of Mona Lisa" (paragraph 4). This is explaning how it shows the real face or in the painted face. These are some examples of how this is valuable to paintings.
This new technology called Facial Action Coding System is valuable to students in a classroom. This new technology can help teachers undertsna dhow a student is feeling about the subject. It alos helps with friends and paintings.
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European countries such as Germany and France have been experimenting with their suburban districts by limiting the usage of car. In the suburban districts cars are forbidden. According to source one "70 pervent of families do not own cars, and 57 perent sold their cars" in order to live in the suburban areas. Some people may think that they cannot go a day with out driving their car but there are some advantages of limiting the usage of cars. Like limited car usage can reduce traffic. You can also stay healthier and stress free.
Due to over population, people will always need transportion. Cars are the primary source of transportation. There are so many people who are constantly on the move; backed up traffic is a result of this. As car become limited in some place the fewer traffic there is. No more getting to work or school late.
Places like the United States of America have always had to worry about it's citizen becoming over weight. According t the article "recent sutdies have suggested that Americans are buying fewer cars." Not having as many cars around can motivated Americans to walk or ride more bicycles. This can ultimately keep them healthier. By walking and riding bicycles it can help the citizen from becoming over weight. Not only will it reduce the risk of the citizens becoming over weight but it also helps the to stay in shape.
Gases prices and car repairs have also been an issue for US citizens. Worrying about these situations can get very stressfull. Some people may not be able to afford the high gas prices. Some people can't even afford to repair their cars when it has been damaged. The stress from worrying about gas prices and car repairs can cause people to have heart attacks of strokes. Both of which can lead to death.
There are many advantages of limiting car usage. Some of which i just named. Limited car usage can reduce traffic that means no more being late to work or school. It can also keep you healthy. Walking or riding a bicycle can help you stay in shape. Most imporantly in can be a big strees reliefer.
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Many people have tried to predict what are other people feelings with a look on their face, but usually we are not always correct or can't even describe what are feeling. Well their is a software that can tell what people feelings are with just a look on their face, which is called Facial Action Coding System (FACS). This software can read different kinds faces in imagines and real people like students in classrooms. I think it is worth the value of using this technology to read students emotional expressions.
The famous painting of Mona Lisa shows no kind of actual emotional expression, but the software can pick up different kinds of emotions. " She's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry, ( paragraph 1)." All of that, we could not describe without the machine and knowing that the machine works, they can use it on students. In classrooms, teachers don't usually know when students are confused, bored, or having other emotions, they can use those softwares in classrooms. " A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, ( paragraph 6)." That way teachers know what do when students ethier confused or bored, that new technology will help teachers and students at schools. Usually students don't tell the teacher if he is getting confused or bored, and I think that it is a great way to use the value of that technology to students in classrooms.
In conclusion, the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) would help with teachers and students in classrooms to work more together. I do think that this new technology is worth to read students' emotional expressions.
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The "Face on Mars" is a natural landform because of three things, one, the picture shows the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa. Two, shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth. Three, scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows.
The picture actually shows is the martian epuivalent of a butte or mesa. Landforms common around the Armerican West. Which shows that landforms on mars are just the same as on Earth. That means that there aren't aliens formations on cause there is no alien formations on Earth.
The rock formation's shadows gave an illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth. The formation resembles a human head. The shadows made it look like a face. Scientists said that is was a mesa, with unusaual shadows.
Scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows. The rock formation gave off shadows form its incaved areas. The shadows made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh.
The "Face on Mars" is a natural landform because of one, the Martian is equivalent of a butte or mesa. Two, the shadows gave the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth. Three, scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows.
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~ The Faces on mars are not created by aliens. How do i know this? Well for one i know that there can't be a bare human face under the planet of mars. If there were faces under mars then that person would had been dead. It looks like that them faces are justt a natural landform that just arrived on Mars.
~ The NASA wishes that there wree civilization on Mars. Why is that? The NASA is trying to prove that the aliens put them unfilmualr faces onto Mars. When Mars jsut had them faces grew onto there. The faces were not put there for the aliens.
~ The scientists also believed that the face that is on Mars arrived on Mars in September 1997. That was eighteen years ago when the Vikings missions ended. Jim Garvin also said they took a picture of it when they first heard about the faces arriving on Mars. The NASA program felt it was very important that they get a good picture of the faces on Mars.
~ April 5, 1998 when Mars Global Surveyor flew over the first time beinging. Miachel Malin had his Oribiter Camera. Miachel and his team took a perfect shot ten times. The picture was sharper then the Vikings original photos. The tem relalized that there were no aliens after all.
~ Even though the team had got the picture everyone was no so happy still. The camera that they had on board had peer wispy clouds. The aliens was hidding by the haze when the team had taken the ten pictures. Image 3 was way bigger then the pixel size they thought it would be. The lava dome takes a form of an isolated mesa which means its the same height as the Face on Mars.
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Venus is one the brightest points of light in the night. Venus is the closest to Earth. It's even referred to as Earth's twin. Astronaunts have traveled to planets, such as the moon. They've even studied the moon in various occasions. Venus is just as close to Earth than the moon, so why not study it?
Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may have once looked like Earth. NASA has a compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus. The solution to the extreme conditions on the surface would allow scientists to float above. Solar power would be enough and radiation would not exceed Earth levels. It would not be easy for humans, but it would be survivable.
Venus is just like any other planet. It's not fully liveable, like Earth. Astronomers would have to be creative and work around conditions like these to try and study planets. NASA wanted to study Venus, so now all they have to do is work on some equipment that can handle these extreme conditions with humans. Modern technology can make studying Venus easy.
This planet isn't as dangerous as it seems. Between the harsh conditions and hot weather, it's just like any other planet. It's even like Earth. Earth gets hot, too. Earth has harsh conditions, but we live here. Why do astronomers hesitate to study Venus, then? It's close to Earth, and it once was just like Earth. Sending the right technology to Venus could help it.
Venus is sometimes called the, "Evening Star."
Venus may seem very dangerous to some, but with some simplified electronics, studying it can be possible. Venus is just another planet. It may have hot weather and very extreme conditons, but so do other planets. Therefore, we shouldn't be limited to a few planets because of dangers.
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Many cities, states, and countries are trying to find solutions to our problem of pollution and smog. Many have established car free days or car free suburbs which have helped to better or environmet.
In Vauban, Germany there is a suburb in which has limited the usage of cars, seventy percent of the families living there do not own cars another fifty seven have sold their car to move there. "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way" stated by Heidrun Walter a resident and mother of two. This statement shows that by selling or not purchasing a car you can avoid stress however this may not be true for all people. Not owning a car allows us to save money by not having to pay for the car or car insurrance. "Passanger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe...and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States". Limited car usage would lower these numbers to take a step forward in bettering our environment allowing a better future.
As well as car resricted subburbs some cities have other ideas to reduce car usage. Paris had previously installed a plan to have drivers with even numbered license plates to leave their vehicles home and odd numbered plates to leave their vehicles home the next day "Congestion was down 60 percent". This shows that this idea to ban vehicals based on license plates can work, however 4,000 people were fined due to non cooperation. Paris was not the only capitol to try and lower personal vehical usage, Bogota, Colombia for three years has had a day in which cars have been banned only allowing taxis and buses, the goal is to reduce the smog in a capitol city of 7 million. Despite a rainy day most citizens participated in the car free day "It's a good opportunity to take away and lower air pollution" stated by Carlos Arturo Plaza. Foregin cities and countries aren't the only ones trying to lower pollution, "recent studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less ang getting fewer licensences as each year goes by." Although riding a bus or other public transportaion or an alternative to a gas or diesel vehical such as a bicycle may take longer than a car but it has shown to be worth the extra time.
There are pros and cons to limiting the use of gas and diesel vehicals. Many countries and cities are trying to promote car-less suburbs or car free days to help contribute to the reduction of smog and pollution.
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The Facial Action Coding System technology that let you reads emotional expressions of students. I strongly disagree with this statement because emtions is not some that you can just get a computer software to scan you to let you know if your happy or sad. How can a computer just express how humans feel emotions are some you feel when another person tell you that you are speacial, and not by letting a computer tell you. Computers are program to do what you wan them to do and help with things such as homework, research pappers and essays they are a software system bulit to help you with over the site needs.
Dr. haung and his collegue are experts at developing better ways for humans and computers to communicate. I feel like you can't just program a computer to pick what emotions you think students are feeling,a and what if the software system was wrong and thats not what the student was feeling. Emotions are a feeling you get when you feel like you don't have a care in the world , or when that special someone makes you happy because they smiled at you those are emtions they are inside you not on a machine that was bulit by man to tell you how you feel.
And in my conclusion the facial expressions for each emoion are univeral oberves,and even though individuals show varying degress of expressions. Each student have the own facial expression is compared aginst a neutral face showing no emotion in a student face. A machine that will let you know if a student is borde or confused is good but that's why we have are own voice to let our teacher know that we need help.
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I disagree, I feel that the Mona Lisa wasnt really expressing 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry, she looked like she was just posing for a picture or to be drawn, you cannot just look at somebody and tell what kind of emotions their expiriencing even if you do studies, it could just be thats how she is as a person all the time. The author uses facial feedback theory of emotion, saying not only does moving your facial muscles just express emotions , it may also even help produce them. They say that faces dont lie but anyone can fake emotions she was just taking a photo or was posing to be drawn they could have just made a conclusion stating she was 100 percent happy, I mean she was being drawn which means she must have been one of the best looking women around or something was good about her and only her, and her face drawing is now one of the most known pieces of art ever created. In the drawing it looks like shes outside so it could be the lighting or something around her that is causing her face to look like that. Its also hard to tell what kind of emotions shes having because she doesnt have eyebrows, the reason I say that is because most people raise or lower their eyebrows when they are trying to make their emotions noticable, so the main thing people can see about her emotions are her lips they look happy but its like a half smile, but the writer claims she is 83 percent happy, it seems much less than that. Her eyes look like she is staring at someone, not dissapointed.
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I think these cars could be dangerous because they drive on their own. Anything could happen with a driverless car. It could mess up a turn or anything and could crash. It sounds like a good invention but having a car you have no control over driving sounds a bit scary. I mean what would you do if you couldnt stop the car? These driverless cars they are making are controlled by a computer. What would people with driverless cars do if the computer controlling their car just crashed , or stopped working. These cars could put someone in danger all because they have no control over it.
In the text they talk about how the more smarter cars needed a lot of sensors for the startes to work. How would you feel about a car that starts itself? Think about it! Yes , it does sound nice but anything could happen to those sensors. If something were to happen to those sensors how would the car start? You'd pretty much be carless unless you took all that extra stuff out. There are alot of things that could come with having driverless car.
If I were a person who sells and advertises people to buy cars I most defintiely would not recommend them to buy a driverless car, it sounds scary and dangerous to me. The things they are coming out with now and days are crazy. It just doesn't sound like something thats safe to me. What if parents had there kids in the car and something just went wrong with the car all because they had control and it cause an accident? Their would be nothing they could do. In paragraph 7 it says " All driverless cars are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills , if its a driverless car which should function on its own why would it need human skills. It must not be too good to drive its ownself.
I would just reconsider it on a safety level, to be on the safe side. Some things don't sound right. Can't trust everything just because it looks and sounds nice, looks can be very deceiving. Just because they say the car is good doesn't mean it is. People always make things sound so good just to get you to buy them. That's just like the saying " everything that glitters isn't gold" meaning just because it looks good doesn't mean it is. It would be crazy riding in a driverless car if you were on the highway during rush-hour. How would the car know if you needed to get over or not? How would it know where to take you? I would feel more comfortable riding in a car where i can drive for myself. Maybe I'm just used to the normal driving , anything after that sounds crazy.
In the beginning of paragraph 8 they asked the question " Why would anyone want a driverless car that still needs a driver?" "Wouldnt drivers get bored waiting for their turn to drive?" I think many people would get bored sititng in a car they couldn't drive until it was needed. It just sounds pretty pointless to me. Your sitting behind a wheel and your not able to drive until it tells you to. If i had the chance I wouldn't ride in it. I wouldn't want a car telling me when I can and cannot drive.
In paragraph 7 they say how if you were in danger the car would alert the driver to be ready to drive, but if the car is so good like they say why would the car need to alert the driver to drive when its a driverless car. When I think of the word driverless I think of a no-driving car where you have to do no driving , all you do is sit back and ride. Theres something that is not to good about the car if you have to drive it why its driverless.
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A driverless car is a very useful thing in concept.
You would be able to complete objectives other than your own transportatin while being transported.
But that is only provided that you are being taken to your destination without haveing to worry about the transportaion.
The whole point of a driverless car is that you let the car do all the work while you atend to your daily acivities, but the car being adveratised is a half driverless car where any obsticals between point A and point B have to be handled by the user.
As of now, the "driverless" car is a wasted investment.
Despite not being very usefull, lets assume someone buys the half driverless car.
They would have to have an incredibly vast amount of welth to do so.
Then if they were the kind of person the advaratisers are adveratiseing to they would keep their eyes on the road and "enjoy" the ride, while still having to drive arond obstcals ocasionaly.
So they'd just be doing a more boreing version of driveing.
But not everyone is careful like those people.
Without a doubt, someone would not do their reserch and assume the driverless car is completly self-operated.
They would get in the car, start it, and then do something that advacates of safe driveing have been trying to stop for years.
Wether it be texting of drinking intoxicating substances, or even cautching up on sleep.
Even the safest person would completly loath the half driverless car due to how boreing it would get.
At least regular driveing allows some interaction between the machine and the driver so the oporator can stay engaged.
The half driverless car is too impractical to be used by anyone
So the half driverless car is out, but what if google or some other car selling establishment was able to succeed in making a completly driverlss car?
Well, it still wouldn't turn out okay.
Every taxi driver, school bus driver, public bus driver,and at some point, maybe even pilot, would be out of a job.
So thousands of people would lose their jobs becausen they were no longer needed to transport people.
This could portentally increse the homeless population and increse the number of people doing illegal things to get by.
In conclusion, the half driverless car would not work safey with most people today, and the driverless car would shrink the job market.
While not bad ideas, they are both incredibly innificent and cross-productive.
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The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus"
belives that exploring Venus is a worthy challenge despite its challenges. Based on how they have written this article I can say the that the author succeeded at laying out his claim and evidence.
The author starts off by stating facts about the star in our sloar planet from nicknames, temperature, as well as atmoshpere. The text states " Venus, sometimes called the "Evening Star" is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky". the author also states " on the planets surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmosheric pressure is 90 times greater that what we experience on our own planet".
Later on in the passage the author starts to ask the reader a
questions and provides answers to them. The text sates" If our sister planet is so inhospitable, then why are scientists even discussing further visits to its surface?". and answers with " Astronomers are facinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth. Today, Venus still has some features of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, moutains, and craters". This body paragraph is another eason why I believe that the author provided a good claim.
The author then continues to NASA's ideas on further exploring the harsh surfaces of Venus. The suthor states " NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray". Then gives more detail about the process. The text states" imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape".
The author then discusses the problems about the idea that NASA has come up with and the other possible solutions for exploring Venus's harsh surface. The passage states" peering at Venus from a ship or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limit insight on ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere, rendering standard forms of photography and videography ineffectve. More importantly, researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from a distance". The author also states" NASA is working on other aproaches to studying Venus. For example, some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have laster for three weeks in such conditons. another project is looking back to an old technolgy called mechanical computers".
Based on the information that i have presented from the author's claim and passage, shows that this claim and evidence is correct and is a valid statement to be made by the author.
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The author in "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" supports the idea that studing Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers and i'm going to tell you why. Each previous mission was unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. This explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades. Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any other planet, even though Mercury is closer to the sun.Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life. By comparison systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure,heat,and other forces. Our travels on Earth and beyond shou;d not be limited by dangers and doubts, But should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation. The author supported the idea of studing Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers very well.
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It is ridiculous that you think that this natural landform is created by aliens. It aliens would have created this why would they not leave a sign that it was them.
I believe this is a natural landform for many reasons. One is that the region of mars called Cydonia is filled with natural landforms like this one but this one just looks like an Egyption Pharaoh. Why would aliens go to Cydonia and make an alien artifact when Cydonia is filled with natural landform just like that one? On April 8, 2001 another spacecraft snapped an image of the face looking natural landform and found no trace of any sign of alien activity near the landmark. There were no people, airplanes, Egyptian-style pyramids, or even any small shacks anywhere near the landform. Why would aliens take the time to make this landmark if they were just going to leave and never come back.
It makes no sense why you would believe that aliens would have make this landform. You should believe me I am the scientist at NASA. In conclusion just trust me, the scientist at NASA, and just believe that this landform is natural not made by aliens.
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Do you think that a new technology called Facial Action Coding System an enables computer to identifyhuman emotions can tell your emotion.? I think that its true because you can look at someone and tell how they're feeling.
In my mind i think i can tell how a person is feeling. If it happy, sad man depressed, or even just trying to hid it. Even your friends and family . For example in the article it says " In fact, we humans perform this same impressive " calculation" every da. for instance, you can oribably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face. Of cours, most of us would hve trouble actually describing ech facil trait that conveys happy, worried, etc."
So yes i think that this technology can tell emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable. some students get bored easy and with technology like this it could helo that from happening.
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I think driverless cars are a really good idea to be hounist I'm going to tell you why I think it's a good idea. The first reason why I think it's a good idea is, because if the cars are able to dive themselfs we the people will see less crashes on the rodes. Lets take I-65 for an example we the people see the news and we see and hear about all the crashes that happen on there. We also can look at I-70 as well its not as bad as I-65 though.
Here is another reson I think everyone should have a driverless car. I am a driver of my own. I get scared sometimes when i am on I-65 going to indy or anywhere like that. The reason being I dont want to get hit just going to the mall with some of my friends thats not what I want. This is what i want though. I want to be able to go place to place without hlaf to think or WORRY about any of the stupid people on the rodes.
I mean take a moment to think about how much better the rodes will be if stupid people can not drive places where they want to go. If people wanted to go some where the car will drive them there all we the peopel have to do is sit there and talk and have some fun. wouldn't that be so much fun though. There will be a lot less crashes and people dieing because of it.
The last thing that I would want to say is, lets thinks about all the little kids that are in the car and all the little kids getting hurt form being in a car where some stupid person hit the car and the kids get ether really hurt or even die. Just think about that for a litte bit. and Thinks about it when you drive today or when you start driveing. Dont be a stupid kid and race peopel and do bren outs and stuypid stuff like that. All you have to do is drive to one place to another.
That is really all I have too, want too, and need too say. About all of this. So if you ask me how I feel just remebre this essay. So yes i think we all need too get one of the driverless cars.
Thank you,
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Decreasing car usage would serve as a benefit to our communities and enviorment. Many countries are already being influenced by the new trend. As proven that without cars we could provide ourselves with cleaner air, physically healthier bodies and a more pleasant social atmosphere.
With the purchase of a car comes the consequences to our only enviorment. In "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars", it is shown that "Passenger cars are responsible for 12% of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe... and up to 50% in some car-intesive areas in the United States". If we started to limit car usage these numbers could drop giving us cleaner air to breathe and a longer lasting enviorment. Some heavily populated cities such as Beijing, China are so polluted that there is a smog covering the entire city. The thick, grey cloud over Beijing is caused primarily by the greenhouse gas emissions from cars and various other pollution sources. Not only is Beijing to be held accountable but also cities in Europe such as Paris. From source 2, "Paris bans driving due to smog", it is said that "Paris typically has more smog than other European capitals", because of the over usage of diesel fuel vehicles Paris had to put a hault to motorists for a few days. If Parisians were not complient with the ban they were fined with 22.
Giving up your vehicle for a day or two may seem like an impossible task but if you were not to have it there would be health benefits. We created the car for a reason, to get places quicker, safer, and more efficiently. Now that we successfully done that and have been doing it for quite some time, we have become much too dependent on them. I'm not saying to completely give up the usage of our beloved vehicles but just become more aware of when and where to we use them. If people used their cars a little less and started walking places, biking, skateboarding, etc. we would have a much healthier community. People wouldn't be so lazy or unfit and it would create a more sociable community.
Limiting car usage would enhance the idea of being social with your friends, family, a neighbor, or anybody for that matter. You could see more people walking down the street as opposed to being inside a car with a limited number of people. It would break down barriers of being afraid if you are walking alone, instead you'd have plenty of around who are mostly aware of their enviorment.
Car usage should be decreased a bit more than it is now for a better community and enviorment. We only have one planet and we should do as much as possible to try and keep it as clean as possible for as long as possible.
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I think that driverless cars would be a very positive thing. Thre big reasons for this are that without drivers there would be less aciidents, they would be more efficient wih gas, and there would be no need for insurance. So overall a big improvement on todays society.
Firstly without drivers there would be less accidents. Now since since not everyone would be able to afford using them there will still be accidents butz the number will be drasticly reduced. Since the car is driving itself there is no way that the driver can drive recklessly therefore greatly reducing the number of car crashes. So even if one of the drriverless cars gets into an accident it would be the manufacturer's fault because they are the ones hat are really driving here. So overall a lot safer than what we have now.
My next reason is that these cars a lot more gas efficient. The reason I say this is that they would always obey the speed limit exactly. Doing this should cut down on the gas used and therefore be much more efficient. In the long run this sabes everyone money except the gas stations.
Lastly this should decrease the need for insurance. In the article they said that these would be more like a taxi service so if they are taxi than no need for people to have insurance on cars. If everyone used these than no more need for car insurance at all. Which in turn saves even more money for people. So overall very good cost wise for people.
So these driverless cars will be a very positive thing. They will reduce car crashes, be more gas efficient, and decrease the need for insurance. In conclusion these cars will be awesome.
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As time goes by, there are many things that change the world everymintue. The ideas of humanity has lead the world to a different direction. One example of this is the developement of the diverless cars. For years many creative people have always dream of making this real to help humans' enviorment, transportation, and safetyness. If this developement of these driverless cars is to help humans improve their lives than the developement should countinue.
If people are going to invent something that helps the humans they must as well invent something that helps the enviorment. In todays world we know that there is a lot of chemicals in the air and that many of us are affected. Actually everyone is affected be it. If the amount of gas is reduce in half and maybe we can safe todays' world. Wiht the reducement of contamination in the air the more safer is the air for humans to be able to breath it in.
In today's world transportation is assensional in our lives. Because today's society has made humans move and have faster lives than a human that lived in the 1700s would have we depend more on cars or anything that has four wheels and a motor. Just image being in New York City and not being able to get a taxi or always arriving late to imortant meetings. In this kind of problems the diverless cars are able to fix this since they offer far more flexibility than a bus and finally you are able to get to place on time without a problem.
The most important goal of creating the diverless cars is for the safety of humans. As the years pass people have created sensors. Sensors can causes the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce the power from the engine of the car, allowing far better response and control than and human driver could mange alone. But this is not the end of senors. People have made futher improvements on them and computer hardware and software to make sure to make driving safer also leading to cars that handle more and more tasks on their own.
Eventhough the invention of the drverless cars has a long way to be completed the difficulties are not going to be an obsticle for the people who want to see this dream become real. In conclusion the development of the diverless cars can be a positive outcome on the enviorment, transportation, and human safety.
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Why would there be a face on mars? It could be a computer image hicup.
The land erodes. There are a lot of things that are natural and look like faces.
But, it still might not be natural. No the rock formation is natural.
First off, it could be a computer image hicup. What I mean is That the camera that is moving takes different pictures of one area as its moving. I can relate to another "alien" sighting. A comet passing earth was thought to be a triangular UFO
but the telescope took three different pictures at once and gave it that UFO shape.
Secondly, The land erodes over time. The land could have eroded land could cause a "face" to appear. This "face" is nothing more than a simple act of nature and its way. In the top picture over time you can see it erode away, especialy the 1998 photgraph.
Thirdly, We see things that look like faces everyday, wether its clouds or land formations. We see our faces everyday, so its easy to compare. In the top picture you can see a land formation, but scince we know what a face looks like its easy to compare to. In the picture, yes we can see some definition but its still just a land form. For example the man in the moon, it looked like a face but wasn't.
On the other hand, it might be. Most theorists claim it appears to be an Egyptian Pharoh. The theorists also claim that the martians built the pyramids. It's a theory but it might be possible.
In conclusion, No it is a natural landform. It could be a computer image hicup.
The land erodes. There are a lot of things that are natural and look like faces.
But, it still might not be natural. If it is unnatural then there could be other life out there.
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The idea of driverless cars sounds so futuristic, but I wouldn't trust one. Something can go wrong with the car and there wouldn't be anyone to blame. Not that I'm looking for someone to blame, but someone could get injured or hurt very badly just because a car stopped working. A lot of people been in car accidents before, now imagine how bad it would be if the cars drove themselves! It would be nice to not have to drive and get drove to, but how can you TRUST a car?
An accident can happen using the driverless car and what would happen? The passengers can't be blamed, the car can't, and neither can the manufactors. A lot of technology has stopped working or can get broken and a lot of stuff can happen with one simple mistake. Now imagine that there would only be driverless cars, how ridiculous does that sound! How are the cars even going to know the laws?
Most people would say the car would have a computer that would know the laws. There's always new laws and how would the computer know the new ones? What if the computer gets the laws mixed up? A computer can stop working and you might not even know it! If a person mixes up the laws they can get a ticket or even get sent to court for not knowing them. It could keep the roads safer. The car messes up and what would happen? The car gets taken away? It goes to get fixed?
Most driverless cars that we have now, still need a driver. How pointless does that sound? Might as well just drive it yourself. Texting and driving is a big issue in the 21st century, people will think they can now text with the driverless car and won't even notice what's happening on the road. Driverless cars aren't going to make the world better and neither will they stop accidents from happening. Once a driverless car gets into an accident, no one will want one. I'm pretty sure it will happen someday and it would then be pointless to keep manufactoring them.
Driverless cars are just too much. It's like paying for a computer to drive you. You can't trust one! They might crash, break, and even do something you didn't tell it to do. Not everyone might agree with me, but I know for sure that no one would buy one after an accident happens. Please don't risk your life by buying a driverless car.
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The Electoral College is a process begun a long time ago due to the lack of educated and literate citizens in the United States, whom the government did not believe were eligible to vote for any president under any circumstances. Now that our literacy rate in the United states is now more than 80-90% (or so I believe), I don't really think that the Electoral College is useful anymore.
The Electoral College is a process describing 538 electors voted for by the state who will vote for the new president every four years. A majority vote of 270, one more than half, is required to elect the new president. The number of electors for each state equals the number of members in it's Congressional delegation; meaning one for each member in the House of Representatives that represents your state, and two for your Senators. However, I think that a popular vote, or having the citizens themselves vote for the president, may be more useful.
There is an off chance that electors may vote for a candidate that their citizens did not want to choose, or the chance that two slates of electors may be sent to Congress, etc. Another prospect is the idea of a tie in the electoral vote, which would mean that there would be 269 votes for both Presidential candidates. In the event of this happening, the election would be thrown to the House of Representatives, in which the state delegations would choose the president. This may be fatal, however, because states like Wyoming, which only have the population of 500,000, will have as much to say about the fate of the United States as a state like California, home to 35 million people.
A lot of people usually are in favor of the Electoral College due to certainty of outcome and swing states. Swing, or toss-up states are the states that are undecided until the very end, and could very well change the entire tide of the Election. "Voters in toss-up states," reads one argument, "are more likely to pay close attention to the campaign-- to really listen to the competing candidates-- knowing that they are going to decide the election." But should we really leave such a large and important decision up to such few people? A mere 538? And even less for toss-up states?
Overall, I think that the Electoral College is outdated due to it's lack of need anymore, does not fit the democratic and equal methods of the United States (for the most part), and leaves too large of a decision to too small of a group. Popular voting may just be the solution to this problem, and although popular voting may not be perfect either, it might help us figure out who we really need for our president, rather than leaving it to just a small group.
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I am certain that the Face on Mars is just a natural landform. It has many features, and it has many people concerned about it. The Face on Mars is a natural landform because it was spotted with shadowy likeness of a human, it resembles the human head, and it actually shows a Martian equivalent of a butte or messa.
This face has many features, including its shadowy likeness of a human. Just twenty-five years ago, something happened that was so hilarious. NASA's Viking one spacecraft were traveling around Mars, then it was spotted looking such as a human. It seemed to them that the face was just starring, just as if it was real. This suprised many of the analyzers.
After many experiments on the Face, they discovered that it is a resemblance of a human head. It is just like an illusion, of eyes, a nose, and even a mouth. According to some authors it would be a great way to engage the public and bring some attention to Mars. They finally realized that is has brung some attention! After that hilarious day it was featured in many magazines, books, and etc. This is a enormous way of saying that this face is very engaging and concerning.
According to Mars Global Surveyor, they flew over Cydonia and snapped a picture of the original Viking photos. The pictures showed that it was an actual natural landform. It wasn't appeared to be an alien monument after all this researching. Even after this stage, people still weren't satisfied with the evidence that they had came up with.
The Face shows a Martian equivalent of a butte or messa. After taking time and time again to review the face, it seems to just show a Martian that is equivalent to a butte or messa. " It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho, " says Garvin. Which is a dome with lava that is in the form of a set apart messa, but is the same height of the Face.
As a result, the Face is a natural landform. It has a shadowy likeness of a human, it resembles the human head, and it shows a Martian equivalent of a butte or messa. Research has shown that this isn't just an alien monument after all. There can be more thinking to this, can it? Its just a natural landform, which shows a Martian to represent Mars.
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I (being Luke) think that you should be a seagoing cowboy. It is a fun experience to have in your life. Plus you do not get chance like this very often in your life. It is great fun. Here are some reasons you should join me:
If you like helping others you should join. Thats basicly all we do. We as Seagoing cowboys ship or trans port animals to other countries in need. We partern up with UNRRA (the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) which by the way is an awesome team. That is one of the main reasons why I joined.
One other reason is that you get to see the marvels of the world. Like Greece. That place was sure amazing. You get so much extra time after you deliver the cattle.
Another reason is that all that free time my crew and I play games and such during our free time as well. That means that you bond together and have life-long friends that will always be there for you.
I know this speech is long but I have one more thing to say. That if you are an animal lover than this is the job for you. You get to be with animals 24/7. It is a dream-come-ture for animal lovers.
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I am against the development of driverless cars. Automotive companies have made some really good products and worked really hard, but i feel like it is pointless. There would be a few benefits of a driverless car, but as they said in the passage, no car is completely driverless. If you have to do the same thing in a driverless car that you would do in a regular vehicle, then I do not see the point. I feel like driverless cars are pointless, going to be expensive and promote lazyness.
If you have a driverless car, the passage states that you still have to pay full attention and be ready to grab the wheel at any time. If you have a regular vehicle, then you also have to pay full attention and hold onto the wheel as well. The only benefit you would get from this would be a break from steering for a few minutes until you are to take control. People have been driving for years, vehicles have been advanced to be safer and more efficient for years, so why do we need technology to do this driving for us?
Not only do I believe this is a rediculous idea, I believe driverless cars would be very expensive. In the very first sentence of the passage it reads "Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore?" If nobody is buying cars, how are vehicle companies going to make money? Their income will quickly decline, if not dissapear all together. I can imagine the price of these driverless cars would be threw the roof. Making these driverless cars calls for an abundance of advanced technology and the cost would be much higher than any standard car.
How hard is it to get into a car seat and steer a wheel? Teenagers begin driving at ages 15 or 16, if driving was too difficult I do not think people would start so young. Transportation is a big part of everyday life. We have managed to drive ourselves place to place for may many years and we will be able to do it for many many more. 2016 is a very big year for vast changes in technology. Businesses have created so many spectacular devices to do everyday things for us, such as, GPS, robots, hoverboards and many more. The society today is a huge promotor of lazyness. We do not need technology to do everything for us when we are completely capable of doing it ourselves.
A driverless car may seem very beneficial to many people, but I honestly believe it is just another waste of time and money. There are far more cons than pros in this argument. It is very dangerous, pointless, expensive and it promotes people to be dependent and lazy. There have been some very useful inventions but this is not one of them. I strongly disagree with the idea of driverless cars.
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The Advantages to Limiting Car Usage
Cars are a typical necessity for everyday life, not just in the United States, but worldwide. However, I propose a simple theory; are cars really a necessity? A question as simple as this, could possibly change the world. I believe that if we lived in a car-free world, we would have more advantages than disadvantages. That it would change the world as we know it.
To begin, the elimination of personal motorized vehicles will save a magnanimous amount of money. As a flooring illustration, in source one paragraph 9, the Federal Transportation bill is called out. Ashtonishingly, 80% of appropriations have gone to the manitainance and construction of highways. In addition, gas prices are at thier all time highest. On average, one of my parents spends eighty dollars a week on a single vehichle. A car free world will not only save an individual thousands of dollars each year, but will save our country millions of dollars which could be used in areas of more necessity.
As a second example, land is a precious resource that is currently endangered. Source one paragraph six has started a community that is practically, car-free. It packed 5,500 residents within a square mile. One might wonder how this is possible. The answer is quite obvious, with the elimintation of vehicles, the need for parking, driveways, and garages was unnecessary, therfore making it a possibility for so many people to live in a single square mile.
Finally, the elimination of vehicles will increase the healthiness of our enviorment. To illustrate, in Paris, the smog is so overwhelming, the decrease of car use was demanded. As a result of less use, the smog drastically decreased and on top of that, congestion was down 60% (Source 2 ¶14). It is also a common fact that transportation is the second largest source for America's emissions (Source 4 ¶34). Obviously, the elimination of vehicles will increase our enviroments stability drastically.
In conclusion, cars are over used and relied on too heavily. The peak for motorized vehicles has ended and it is time to fix the damage we created. We will save our envoirment, our money, and our precious resource, land by simply eliminating cars. So, is it really a necessity?
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Fellow citizens of mine I have life changing news for you. The advantages of limiting car usage. What can possibly be good about that you ask? By limiting your car usage you will be saving the Earths atmosphere. Cars today emit alot of Carbonmonoxide into the air causing smog in some extreme ways. Paris, France is a great example of how bad cars can be when it comes to harming the atmosphere. The smog in Paris was so bad that the had to ban peple with even number licence plates that day, then odd the next day. The smog that was created by cars in Paris was rivialing Chinas capital city Beijing, also know as the worlds most poluted place. The weather made the smog worse in France but was eventualy lifted after a wile. After that the ban on the Cars was lifted.
This however could of been avoided if they limited the use on cars in their country. So knowing this, will you limit yourself?
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Are driverless cars the right choice for our future? No i believe that they are not the right thing for our future, because they seem unsafe and our country is already lazy enough. Yes there are some pros to building driveless cars, but there are also cons as well.
In paragraph nine it states that "our traffis laws for our states are under the assumpiton that the only safe way for a car is to have a human under control", and thats beause our traffic laws are based on human error. So basically if a said law is broken then the human gets the bad end of the deal, but if its a driverless car who will get the blame for a traffic law being broken the company that made it or the owner of the driverless car? Also in paprgraph 7 it basically said the car can drive its self unless if it needs human help and that the driver must always has his or her hands on the wheel. Basically saying we are able to regain control if needed, but what if we couldn't because the car is acting up and then we get injured or get others hurt. So what I am trying to say is you never know if its safe.
So think about it. Do you think that driverless cars are right for our future or no?
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I am against that the technology doesn't have the support to make her smile because, it says "His new computer software stores similar anatomical information as electronic code" in the text.
I claim that the technology doesn't do anything with the Mona Lisa because, she is smiling in the painting because, it says " A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becomine confused or bores" in the text. While looking in a mirror, you see your own reflection of yourself because, it says "Raise your lips at the corners of your mouth bacause, technology can't do that. Then squint your eyes slightly, to produce wrinkling ("crow's-feet") at the corners of your eyes. Holding that, raise the outer parts of your cheeks up, toward your eyes" in the text.
I conclude that the technology can't support the smiles of people's faces because, there are muscles, tissues, and cartlige in the humans head. They even indicate the difference between a genuine smile and a forced one. In the real smile, the zygomatic major (muscles that begin at your cheek bones) lift the corner of your mouth. (That's our instruction #1).
Them Mona Lisa is 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry.
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I believe the face on Mars was not created by aliens. I believe the face is just a natrual land mass that looks like a face from far away. It's almost as if you were to see a person you think you know, but as you get close enough to see their face you dont know them at all.
I believe the face on Mars is a natrual land mass for many reasons. One main reason is that the face is just and elevated area of land. Over the past years many astroids and space debre have hit or landed I could say on Mars. So if astroids landed on the elevated space in places where the eyes, nose, and mouth should be making it look as if a face was on Mars. The article states that the rock formation was as if it was an illusion of the features of a human on the mountain of rock. Another reason is that in the past the "Face on Mars" could have been a mountain. Meaning that the winds, dust, and dirt could have worn down the mountain making it into a mesa. The article states that many mesa's have been spotted around Cydonia, making it possible for the "Face on Mars" to be just another mesa. The article staes that NASA have taken many pictures of the face and they all revealed "a natrual landform." NASA stated that there was no alien monument. Another reason is that Mars used to be an active planet. So if the "Face of Mars" used to be a mountain it could have got run down by lava flows in the area. Making it into a landform thta looks like a face.
In conclusion there are many facts and theories about the "Face on Mars." People who think the "Face on Mars" was created by aliens will have a much tougher time proving that it was created by aliens. Therefore there is many more facts about the "Face on Mars" being a natrual land mass. These are just some of the reasons why I believe the "Face on Mars" is a natural land mass.
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The author supports the idea on how studying venus is worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents, by includng how Venus is a challenging planet. Due to how no spacecrtaft has survived the landing on Venus for then a few hours. This includes on how a spacraft hasn´t touched down on Venus in more than three decades.
Another example on how the dangers of Venus creates challanges for others is that Venus has a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide covers Venus. What is even more challenging is how Venus has clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid spreading through it´s atmosphere. Venus also has the hottest surface temperature than any other planet in our solar system which averages to 800 degrees fahrenheit.
Venus has been through many stages throughout the years. Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may have been an earth like planet in the solar system. A long time ago Venus was covered with oceans and rocky mountains Venus also supported various forms of life just like Earth today.
Venus is sometimes named the ¨Evening Star.¨ Venus is named this because Venus is one of the most brightest points of light in the night sky making it super easy for an amture stargazer to spot in the sky. However this name didn´t match up because Venus is a planet and not a star. Venus is to simple to see from the distant but safe vantage point of Earth, it has created a very challenging place to examine more closely due to the dangers it has.
Researchers can not take samples of rocks, gas, or anthing else from a distance of Venus. Therfore scientists seeking a conduct through mission need to undestand Venus, they would need to get up and personal. For exaple NASA is working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaninfully to our knowldege of venus.
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In the article Makeing Mona lisa Smile they claim that she is mostly happy in the painting and that they can tell this by computor software.
I dont think that this is very vauluable for students because some people may feel that they are happy but the computor may say they are diffrent because of the way they controll there emotions.
The computor is supposed to read your mood by scanning facial exspressions but some people have difrent ways of reactiong to the way they feel.
What if the computor had read your mostly hapy but inside you feel that you are angry, sad, or confused. I do think in some places there could be something like this but do not see the use for it in a school.
Most of the time young kids and teenagers will say how they feel and explain why without asking them.
I dont see the need to hae a achine in school for students to be able to tell what there own or someone elses mood is.
The computor could be easly tricked into thinking that your mood is the opposite of what you are actually feeling.
If the computor goes by facial movement then someone could easly smile at the computor and make it think that they are happy. The computor may work in some situations but is thee proof that people cant make a diffrent face to maybe trick or comfuse the computor
into beliving that you are feleng something that you are not.
Although I dont find this computor helpfull in a persons life I do find it interesting.
The computor is obviously very persice when the picture or human displayed to it is actually makeng the emotion they feel or maybe not making any faces at all. But theres nothing saying that it wont read correctly if someone makes a didfrent face or acts a diffrent way thatn they usally do.
I feel that the computor will be pretty neat and may be usefull in some situations. As the technology progresses in the mzking of the computors I think things could possibly change and make to where you cant trick the computor as easly and the computor is always acurate. At this stage I feel it could be very usefull in some situations in the future.
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Limiting car usage could have many advantages on our planet. Many cities, such as Vauban in Germany, have given up on using cars to help the world around them. "Vauban's streets are completely car-free, except the main thoroughfare, where the tram to downtown Freiburg runs, and a few streets on one edge of the community." There is a movement going on called, "smart planning" and Vauban is just one example of a growing trend in Europe of limiting auto use. The article says that passenger cars are responsible for twelve percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe. It seems that the people in Europe are realzing that so much car usage is harming their environment, and they are trying to set a trend for other countries like the United States to follow to limit using cars.
How much people use their cars is very important. Polluted air is a very widespread problem in many regions of the world. Paris had days of near-record pollution, and decided to enfore a partial driving ban to try to help clear the air of the city. The article says that almost 4,000 drivers were fined, and twenty-seven had their cars impounded for their reaction to the fine. "Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five days of intensifying smog." The driving ban helped clear the smog, because it reduced car emissions. Paris has more smog than many other European capitals, which is why reducing how much citizens drive their cars is a good idea.
Some cities have days that are completely car free. Bogota, Colombia is one of them. They have been having a Day Without Cars for three straight years. Cars are banned for the day and buses and taxis are the only exception. The city holds about 7 milion people, and had a large turnout. "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution," said businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza. The mayor of Asuncion, Paraguay even said that, "These people are generating a revolutionary change, and this is crossing borders." The Day Without Cars has even helped stores and sports center come up throughout the city. Instead of shopping centers along a highway, those stores are now in the city and easy to get to without having to use a car.
Researchers have been studying America's ways of car usage and driving. America is home to the first cars like the Model T, or "Mustang Sally." Vehichles have always been a huge part of culture, but it seems now that that might not be the case anymore. "As of April 2013, the number of miles driven per person was nearly 9 percent below the peak and equal to where the country was in January 1995." Researchers are actually hoping that the pattern continues because it will have beneficial implications for carbon emissions on the environment. Transportation is the second largest source, behind power plants, of emissions. Many changes have now happened in America, which are making using cars not as important. "With all these changes, people who stopped car commuting as a result of the recession may find less reason to resume the habit.." The article says. If we could slow down the usage of cars and emission, maybe we could help the planet become a better place.
Since the percentage of car usage has gone down in America, so has the percentage of getting a license. There has been a large drop in 16-39 year olds getting a license, Mr. Sivak's research has found. Older people are also likely to retain their licenses as they age. Mr. Sivak and another man both have children of about the same age, 19 and 21, and live in busy cities where a car could be useful. Neither one of them has their licenses, even though they are interested, but they don't really see the need for one when they can use public transportation or car-pool with their friends. The article says that a study last year has also found that driving by young people decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009. Whether or not this changes as these young people grow older, these decreases in driving are proving that cars might just not be as important as they used to be.
Our planet is just continuing to get worse from emissions from cars. Some countries are starting to realize this and are working hard to limit car usage and have citizens rely just on public transportation, walking, or riding a bike. Bill Ford proposed partnering with the telecommunications industry to create cities in which, "pedestrian, bicycle, private cars, commercial, and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emissions, and improve safety." Citizens all over the world can work together to reduce car usage and better improve our planet.
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I can see why you can think that "the Face on Mars" is some form of proof that either alien life did at one time or is still cuurrently on Mars . The human mind is meant to think, imagine and wonder "what if". Let's say these "aliens" are in fact real and constructed "the Face" in order to communicate with us. Carving a giant face has got to be one of if not thee least effective way of dong so.
These "aliens" very well could have simply just put a peice of shiney metal on the surface and the MGS would have seen it and we would probaly think "hey, this unknown element is here on the surface of a planet where there are no metals". Not only would it make us think that there is indeed metals on Mars but then we would think "hey metals most usually form deep undergroud so there is no reason for this to be on the surface". THAT would be a valid way of letting us know "hey, we exist".
Also another thing, if "aliens" made "the Face" how is it no footprint s were found. And there's no wind on Mars they coulnt have blown away. Seriusly, that's a big project so you're gonna need a lot of your alien buddies to help you out with it and no footprints....hmm. Well hey,maybe they have got giant eagle wings and fly everywhere. Yeah, on a planet that HAS NO GRAVITY!
Let's face it though (ha, face, get it?) everybody loves a good "supernatural " story. I believe that this is nothing more. "Once in 1976 a NASA spacecraft was looking for a place to land, and there on the surface they found... a huge human's face carved out of the surface Mount Rushmore style....wooouuh"
In conclusion, The very thought that "aliens" somehow carved a face onto Mars is ridiculis . And the final nail in the coffin? When you hear "conspiricy theorist" you think of a frail, usually middle aged, pale becuase he hasn't stepped out of his trailer in weeks, guy with a aluminum cone on his head and always taling about how"The Man" is out to get him.
Also he is dirty becuase hasnt shaved or showered in like a year. His trailer that's in the middle of nowhere has got newspaper
Scoch taped on the windows and the inside is filled with shelves of "alien communicating devices" (Yeah well, tell E.T. I said Hi)
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Imagine a city empty of cars and the sounds of bicycles and the sound of chattering children drown out the sound of the occasional motor, This is the city of Vauban. This "experimental" district on the ouskirts of Freiburg. Elisabeth Rosenthal, author of
In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars stated "Street parking, driveways and home garages are generally forbidden in this experimental new district...Vauban's streets are completely "car-free" except the main thotoughfare, where the tram to downtown Freiburg runs. Car ownership is allowed but there are two places to park large garages at the edge of the development where a car owner buys a space, for $40,000, along with a home."
This action has inspired some other areas to do the same, As said by Rosenthal, "Vauban, completed in 2006, is an example of a growing trend in Europe, The United States and elsewhere to seperate suburban life from auto use, as a component of a movement called "smart planning."". Now these have been a bit more of pre-emptive measures against Pollution and economic inflation there are those who have taken actions after the fact, Robert Duffer, author of
Paris bans driving due to smog has said "After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city." Now here is where Paris decided to do something silly. "On Monday motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-eruo fine ($31). The same would apply to odd-numbered plates the following day." as stated by Duffer. Now alot of people may not of heard about this or thought it was a joke, Duffer wrote "Almost 4,000 drivers were fined... 27 people had their cars impounded for their reaction to the fine." To the people who had heard of this such as companies who their main function is driving from place to place had complained, "Delivery Companies complained of lost revenue, while exceptions for plug-in cars, hybrids, and cars carrying three or more passengers." said by Duffer. All of these exceptions that were given out sound as though they are personal transport vehicles that the passengers could just as easily take the public transport.
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I believe that this technology to read students' emotional expressions is a great idea.
"A classroom computer could reconize when a student is becoming confused and borde." "then it could modify the lession, like an effective human instructor."
the same technology can make computer-animated faces more expressive --- for video games or video surgery.
It would be a good change, it could cange our lives for the better. A computer that can tell our emotions could bring us so many opportunities.
i see why some people might not feel the need for it simply because , we have teachers and they can tell our emotions or some perople just might think there simply isn't a need for computers to know how me feel by our facial expressions, they may feel as if its pointless.
But i do truly feel as if is a good idea to have them, they seem fun and really cool . something that can benifit our lives in so many different way , and it could possibaly be used as a fun little toy on the side. but all together the idea is great.
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For me, I think it's crazy riduclous how the science nerds have the talent or so creative to invinte something like that (facial human emtion technology)FHET.
I claim , well i'm in between of agreeing with the new technology, but i'm also denying with it. So i'm in the middle! Why? Well for me I say " Who cares what Mona Lisa emtional face". It's already in the past. The past is history! According to the new technology. I think it's a great idea to use it in school, work, kids, and other so that way we can help and cummunicate with others. Meanwhile I just found out that muscles called orbicularis oculi, I just wanted to throw that out. Perhaps Mona Lisa is very important to others. But I think we should use the new technolgy in improve it even more in the future. Atleast according to some new computor software that can recognize emotions. By the way, did making a happy face in this experiment also made me feel slighhtly happy? Well, I guess yeah! I think it's funny how i never knew all about this. I haven't watched the news like years. It's diffenetly great that to know all this new stuff, because that way you know what is going on right now in the real world. " The world doesn't wait for you, you have to keep moving on ."
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Why should I sign up to be a Seagoing Cowboy? The following resons tell you all the wonderful things that come along with being a Seagoing Cowboy. I promise you will not be disappointed.
It is a once in a lifetime experience! Signing up could change your life for the better. A man by the name of Luke , made 9 trips in only 2 years. He also got to see Venice ,Italy . Plus on his was to China he saw the Panama Cannel ,and a excavated castle.
There is more fun to have on this wonderful journey. When they crew has finisheed unloading all the animals it is game time for everyone. They play baseball and volleyball in the empty animal holds. Plus they have a seris of other activities to do, such as table-tennis,fencing,boxing,and reading. They also have whittiling on board too.
In conclusion becoming a Seagoing Cowboy is just plain fun. I know you may think that you will not see your friends, but you can make new friends too. Know go and sign up today !
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Being able to read a students emotinal expressions with technology isn't valuable. Like most classes, lessons aren't done on a computer so whenit is time to use the computer what will the emotion recognition be for. Aslo spending
a lot of money on something that can't help with leaning can be the cause of many prolems. The money that would be used on the new technology, could be better use in other parts of the classroom or certain clubs.
Having to us a computer just to tell if someone is happy or sad, is a waste of time when you can tell with your own eyes, "...we humans perform this same impressive "calculation" every day" (D'Alto). Even though the software uses technology to calculate every muscle in the face and give a detailed response to that persons evey emotion, one facial emotion can tell a lot about a persons day or just they way they act. Many people throughout the day show one emotion to hide the other because it brings tension to the ones that care about that person. "...carefully reproduce smiling and frownign as a way of creating the emotions on stage"(D'Alto), this is an example of how facial expressions are used just to put on a scene.
Waisting time and money on 3D printers and computer software is useless when your main software is your own eyes. Schools always complain about they never have money for sports,clubs, and materials for classrooms, but alwys have time to update thier technology. Being able to tell how a person really feels is a cool way to learn more about them, but one emotion can be figured ut by that one persons facial expressiosn.
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The Facial Action Coding System is a very useful tool used to help tell what other peoples emotions are just by their facial expresions. Having this technology can be very helpful in the classrom. It can help define the mixed emotions of a student, how they feel of a topic they are learning, and if a student is telling the truth.
The first reason as to why this technology is useful in the classroom is defineing the mixed emotions of students. In the artical it says "The software can even identify mixed emotions" (paragraph 4). Being able to identify mixed emotions of a student can be helpful. Sometimes a student may be stressed and upset over something, making it hard for them to concentrate on their work. You can't just let them not work though, but knowing their feelings you may be able to take it more slow paced for them that day. The student may have felt angry and stressed before they came into class, explaining why they got so upset when they couldn't find their homework.
Another reason this would be useful in class is by defining how they feel about a topic in class. In this article it says "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored... Then it could modify the lesson" (paragraph 6). Having this tool say when they are confused is extraemly helpful. It lets the teacher know they may need some extra help, and the computer know to explain things in a different way. When a student becoms bored of what they are doing it becomes hard for them to concentrate, or causes them to want to rush through.
The final reason Facial Action Coding Systems should be in classrooms is because it can help tell when a student is lying. In paragraph 8 of the article it says "Muscle clues are sometimes used to spot when a 'smiling' politcian or celebrity isn't being truthful." This can help a teacher know when an anxious student needs help, but says they don't. Some students may be too anxious to actually speak up when they need help, causing them to lie when a teacher ask them if they do. This also comes in handy when a student has done something and no one knows who it was, like tearing down a poster or putting a tac on the teachers seat.
In conclusion, this technology would be very useful for classrooms to define a students emotions to improve work, help a confused or bored student, and spot out lairs.
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I'm against driverless cars and trucks. I'm against driverless cars on the road because everyone woud have to buy the car at the same time or this wouldn't work.
This wouldn't work because the first half of people who get the driverless car will be safer. But then the half that doesn't have the smart car will run to the smart car and we are still back to square one. As it says in the story "sensors are nothing new." Sensors are always going to fail there is no way to stop technolgy from failing on point in time. Everything is too new. When one of the parts need replaced on these smart cars its going to cost a fourtne to fix. You already see how with all the technolgy in our cars now its getting to expensive to fix. The problem is the flaw is that they are going to have to keep updating cars and maps in the cars so the car to know the fastest way to the destination. Also if there is unexpected road work it will be try to go right threw the road work and i dont see that working.
The next problem i invision is that all the laws will have to be changed to meet the critera of the car. This will in a way force the people who dont want to buy a smart car to have to buy one. As stated in paragraph 9 the car are not reliable enough for the laws to get changed.
This is not a safe idea at all because there will always be that one parent that who will program there car to do something for the child and they will expect the car to get to that destination safely. But the risk of a malfunction is very great. The parent doesn't see the risk until it is too late and the child is either hit by another motorist or the car malfunctions and the kid runs into something and the car has gotten wrecked. I also don't feel like it should be the manufacturers fault for the stupidity of the parent.
Another problem is that if a person wants to stop at some where or at a gas station for a snack or for a restroom break they can't. They can't because the car was only programed to go to that certain place. So in other words you would have to go to the destination then turn right around and go to the gas station or store.
As of right now i still think that humans are way more reliable than technolgy. I feel like there will always be accidents. There is no way of stopping people from running in to each other at least once in the cars lifetime. You need alot more research fome me to go along with the idea of having smarter cars. So that is why I think that car should not be smarter yet.
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Dear State Senator,
The Electoral College is a system that the United States has been using to elect its leaders for many years. A large number of people have come to believe that this method of voting is fraud because not everyone's vote is truely heard. The way the Electoral College works is every four years when people go to vote, people are not actually voting directly for their desired leader, but for a state elector. Although this sounds like it would work flawlessly in theory, in some cases the number of electoral votes have overridden the number of popular votes.
In the 2000 election between Bush and Gore, Bush ended up winning even though Gore received more popular votes. The nation did not know who the President was going to be until the next year becuase the election came down to only a couple of hundred votes. Although this is a rare occurance it shows how easily the Electoral College can wrongly choose a President. If the United States elected a President by taking a popular vote, this issue would not exist. All of the extra systems that are put in place are simply not needed.
If the Electoral College was removed and the United States voted in leaders based on the national popular vote, this means that there would also be more people voting. Many people, especially in one sided states such as Texas and California, believe that their vote does not count becuase they're state is guarenteed to favor one party every election. If the Electoral College did not exist then knowing that every individual vote counts and that it does not matter where you live, more people are actually going to listen to what candidates have to say and are going to go out and vote.
In Conclusion, although the Electoral College may sound good in theory, I believe that the United States voting system would be more legitimate if a national popular vote was taken so that everyone's voice is heard no matter where they live. Voters should be able to know that they're vote will count so that the right leader is chosen for the right reason.
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Limiting car usage has so many benifits not only for the earth but for us to. Getting rid of cars would make everyone in shape beacuse we would be walking every where. It would also lower car accident rates and the amount of pollution we breath in. If some of the worlds most polluted places like beijing and china stopped using car's their amount of smog would decrease greatly. France forbided cars due to the increase of smog and after five days without them the smog had cleared and France was back to normal. Bogota has a day without cars each year and all the people love it they say its a good way to lower stress and pollution. Recent studies show americans are buying fewer car's, driving less and getting fewer licenses each year. Part of the explination is some american's can't afford cars and some don't even have job's. Scientist belive if america keeps this pattern their pollution rates would drop greatly due to cars being americas second biggest polluter.
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Driverless cars are a work in progress and would be very useful in the near future. With driverless cars, we wouldn't need to drive our old gas ones. They will be able to take you wherever you want and you wouldnt have to dd pretty much anything. They would replace most human abilities with their sesnors and automatic driving. With these type of cars in developmetn, they will surely change the world.
With the sensing ability, the car would be able to sence objects around it, which it will be able to stop when there is something in the way. This is good because you won't have to do this yourself anymore. According to the passage, there will be GPS and a radar sensor; you might not have to at where you are going periodically. Since the car drives itself, there would probably be a small chance of getting lost compared to when you do have to drive yourself. For most of the time all you would have to do is sit back and relax while the car does all the work, until there is a situation where the car can't move because it can't do everything by itself.
There will come times where the car would not be able to move. This may happen when there is an accident and the car can't get around it; or when there are a lot of opsticals around like work zones. You would still need to be alert for when car alerts you to take over. This may be a reason why people might want to get a driverless car, but all you have to do is drive around the opstical or park which isn't a big deal. After you do that you wouldn't have to drive anymore. There could still be accidents when you are driving or not paying attention when you have to take over the wheel.
Having a driverless car may decrease accidents over all but they still could happen. When you are not paying attention to the car when it alerts you or driving recklessly when you do have to drive would result in an accident. In the passage it states that the car seat will vibrate to get your attention. All you would have to do is pay attention. Driverless cars are better than gas cars because there would be less accidents due to the self driving and motion/radar detection.
Driverless cars would be a more better choice than the gas cars. They might cost more but you would be saving money because you wouldn't have to get gas constanly. They can take you wherever you want with you doing the driving. There would be less accidents. These are the reasons why the driverless car would be better.
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Happiness, Surprise, anger, disgut, fear and sadness, Humans use emotions to
express and describe how they feel, and it is because the muscular actions units. You can tell when someone is happy or if someone is angry, when you are happy your body make your lips raise at the corners of your mouth but when you are angry your muscles around your mouth tightens, but why is important to know about humans emotions?
There is a new software
called " The Facial Action Coding System" and this software makes easy to understand the emotions of others, and this is all becuase of the innovation from Prof.Thomas HUang and Prof.Nicu Sebe, they have a goal to make humans and computers to communicate in a better way.
The procces starts with a computer that models in 3-D the muscles of
the face, they use only the 44 major muscles, and in the six classfied emotions something different happens, it can also be called " actio units" and it is when there is one or more movements in your face. " The facial expressions for each emotion are universal" - Dr.huang, and by this he means that even though everyone is different, we all do almost the same emotions when we are surprise or when we are mad, and in some of them are easier to recognize and in
some others in not that easy, you can tell how is your sister feeling just by looking at her face or if you want to ask for a favor the first thing you do is to look at their face, becuase if they show a emtion of being angry is better to ask another time, but in some others cases you can not tell how is that person feeling just by looking at her face, because some people express their emotions more than others and for this kinf od people the new software is really helpfull, everyday, we look at other persons emtions every day and maybe sometimes we don't even realize it, in some cases another persons emotions can change yours for example is you are really tired or sad and you see one person that it is super happy it can change your mood to a happy one.
I think that is it really smart to use the techonology for something good and this is one of them by reading students emotional expresions, it can help teachers to be better by knowing which type of lessons are confuse or bored and like this teachers can change it or make it better for students,sometimes some students are afraid to speak or say somethn infront of the class, when they have a question or they just do not understand, but with this software teachers can improve and by this students can also improve, " Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication" notes from Drr. Huang, so even if we try to figure out the emotions of someone we can't some of them keep them really well inside, this software makes it easy, i think they should use it in every school to help students that have to stay after school of pay tons of money for tutoring because maybe is it not that they do not understand, is it that the way some students learn in different, they do not learn the same ways, but with this kind of information the teachers can make it easier for everyone.
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A 17 year-old that just got out of high school graduation. Name Luke Bomberger has got a change to help people in need for food,shelter,and other things that people need after the World War ll.
This Aventure started by his friend Don Reist who told him to go to Europe on a cattle boat. Then Luke said YES,"why would I miss this opportunity of a lifetime.
Now he his join together with his friend Don to the UNRRA,and sign up to be a Seagoing Cowboys. Now he and his friend are the Seagoing Cowboys. Now his job is to take care of the horses,young cows, and mues that were shipped overseas.
Another thing that Seagoing Cowboys do is to go to other places that were destory over the World War ll. Like China,Europe the Acropolis in Greece,Italy,a city with streets of water,and also an excavated castle in Crete. You can see all them thing. I know because Luke saw them places. When your on a very long trip you can always play baseball,volleyball games,Table-tennis touraments,fencing,boxing,reading,whittling,and other awesome stuff,but baseball,andvolleyball games in the empty holds where animals had been housed.
See how much AMAZING thing that you can do. Don't just live a boring life. Go out and do something with your life, be a Seagoing Cowboy.
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Venus simple to see from a distants but very hard to see up close. Astronomers are very facinated by this planet. Before venus had an average temperature over 800 degrees fahrenhit and an atmostphereic pressure that is 90 times greater than ours is here on earth. Astronomers think it was alot like earth with big oceans and they think it could have supported forms of life like we have here. NASA is working on other approaches to study venus. "Some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been testeed in a chamber simulationg the chaos of venus's surface and have lasted for 3 weeks in these conditions"(venus 7). This is a challenge that Scientist and astronomers should definetly look into. "Striving to meet the challenge presented by venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors"(venus 8).
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Driverless cars have facinated the mind of many, old and young alike. Whether one like it or not, a future with driverless cars seems inevitable. In truth, many car companies and even Google, have started projects on driverless car. Then, what about the people, the customers? Can everyone accept the idea of driverless car?
I for one, am rooting for the developments of driverless cars. I believe that driverless cars can be and will be safer than traditional cars. Google's car for example, even though it can only run under specific conditions, have gone more then half a million miles without a crash. Even though the car still need human control under certain circumstances, half amillion miles with out a crash is impressive. For normal human, I believe it will be hard.
Moreover, we have been using machines to help us in everyday life. Too much in fact, that it has become our lifestyle. Be it Micro-wave oven in the kitchen to our computers, we rely heavily on machines. And these machines perform better than ourselves. The driverless car will also be like these machines. In fact, the advancement in sensors have allowed cars to be braked on individual wheels and engines with far better response and control. This show that machines perform better than humans.
There is also the economic factor. Google co founder Sergey Brin envisions fleets of driverless cars forming a public-transport system. He believe these would use half the fuel today's taxis uses and have far more flexibility than a bus. When the world is struggling for natural oil, these cars only need half of the fuel modern cars need. That is a huge econimical advantage for everyone.
Although driverless cars will offer many benefits, making one is a hard task. Driverless cars today still need human's attention. Still, automakers are thriving towards the goal of making a self-driven car. This goal may seems far away, but we are moving towards it everyday.
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In the article, "Driverless Cars Are Coming," there are several given arguments to support whether the development on these cars are positive or negative. In my opinion, I think that the development of this futuristic concept is more negative and outweighs much of the positives.
Beginning with paragraph two, it states that Google has had cars that could drive independently under specific directions since 2009. I have one question regaurding that statement and that is, if these cars have been around for seven years already, why are they not the main source of transportation yet? The only answer to that is that these cars are not the most efficient way of transportation. In paragraph three, the author states that the "smart-road system", the only way for these driverless cars to travel, would require massive upgrades to existing roads. If we are being practical, it would not be possible for every road to be rebuilt so that it is sustainable for these driverless cars to operate on. In addition to that, how would we travel in the meantime while the roads are being rebuilt? It is simply not practical to do that with our busy societies today.
In paragraph four, it states that manufacturers soon realized that the development of smarter roads weren't going to be possible, so they turned to smarter cars. Although this is a little more realistic, there are still several flaws in this idea. Technology is not always a reliable source, and that is exactly what these manufactureres are doing-trusting technology. They're trusting these sensors in the cars to drive and operate smoothly without any human assistance. No matter how high-tech these cars are, there is always a chance of risk. You might argue that humans driving have just as high of a risk, but if you look at paragraph seven, it mentions that although these cars do not need human assistance, the driverless cars can not detect crashes or road construction like humans can. They have installed a warning system that lets humans know when they need to take over, which means that the humans must stay alert of the driving at all times. I think that this defeats the purpose of having a "driverless car" if you have to be prepared to take over once your vehical is headed towards something unfamiliar. In paragraph seven, it also mentions that the cars will have cameras built in to watch the driver to make sure that they are paying attention to the road at all times. Yes, this is safer, but again, it defeats the purpose of having a car that doesn't require a driver.
With that said, in paragraph eight, the author says that sitting in a driverless car, not having anything to do, could get boring so they are planning on programming entertainment sources in the car. In my opinion, I think that if the driver is supposed to be paying attention to the road, then the sources of entertainment in the car could potentially be a distraction to the driver and take their attention away from the road.
Although there are a few positives to these "driverless cars", such as saving fuel, the negatives outweigh the postivies. I believe that our society is safer and better off with normal functioning vehicals than getting into a car that comes with more possible risks.
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To begin with, In the story Luke Bomerger traveled the sea and and went to many diffrent countries.His friend,Don Reist asked Luke to join the UNRRA with him.
Luke couldn't say no.
First,I would like to say who likes to go out on sea and visit every country to help out and solve their problems?I do that every day, when I got out of high school My friend asked me if I would like to join the UNRRA(United States Relief and Rehabilitation Administration).I said yes and my whole life changed right in front of me.Since then I been traveling the seas,caring for animals fedding them bathing them sometimes more than once.I work on a farm helping my aunt Katie.At that time I was going to China, It tooks two or three weeks for me to reach it.
Next,I had a fun time on ship,especially on return trips,I had the highest amount of trips than my partners.44 nations joined in to help the "Seagoing Cowboys"World War II ended in 1945 we had to fix every thing befor we can go out in sea I had two jobs before I Joined the UNRRA.I had slipped and almost fell off the side of my ship,but,I was saved by a piece of metal.
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Mr:Senator I am in favor of keeping the election by popular vote for the president of the United States. I think our country deserve the right to elect our president the person thats going to make the laws and better things for us. Some of the people yet can't vote but they watch the interviews the campains you make. What you are preparing for us for the future for our childrens parents and animals. For every single thing and we judge you the way we think is supposed to be we want our country to be better to be the best . We dont want some people we dont even know how they think to select something for us .Alright maybe sometimes we make wrong elections but we all humans and if we make the wrong decition later we can't judge you because we elect our president our ''saver''. Electoral collage is not a bad option but Im in favor of voting by popular vote for the president of the United State . Voting is a privilage we have it let us use it . Let us pick and make our mistake . Try to tell us by the campians congresist let us know you. The way you think so we can be sure in what hands our putting our futures our sons and daughters future. The electoral collage constists in 538 electors. A majoritiy of 270 electoral votes is requiered to elect the President. The presidential election is held every four years on Tusday after Monday in Novemeber. New year isn't a new life . The elections is new taxes , new laws, new benefits. Thats a new life .When you vote for a president you vote for your candidate you are actually voting for your candidate's electors. Democrats and Repunblicans they all had have ups and downs . But they still make their elections. Being in favor of election by popular vote give us the people the right to decide . The right to choose something good our bad the right to know what we need and want from the new President. If we choose by popular vote is that more people want somebody because that somebody offers something better. Because everyone or allmost everyone is confident about that man. About what his offering us . Elecitng our president by popular vote ill be a great idea . You will make the people happy. And you are giving us the place as citizens of the United States that we deserved. These is the greates country, this is the best country in the hall world everyone want to come here because of the equal rights you give us. Because the liberty of expretion. Thats a previlage . Aren't we allow to use it to the the maximun . This is a free country and we had to fight hard for that our ansesters. Electing our President of the Unirted States by popular vote is the best they could do . Im in favor of it and that's my opinion.
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In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the authoor suggests that studying Venus is a bad thing to do and is very dangerous. The author gives a few reasons on why it is dangerous.
First, Venus is a very hot planet. People would sometimes think the hottest planet is Mercury because it is closer to the sun but it isn't the hottest. In paragraph 3 is explains that on the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degreea, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet. For example, diving to the deepest part of the oceans would liquefy many metals.
Second, a long time ago, Venus was probably covered with oceans and could have supported various forms of life. But today, Venus has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters. So maybe a long time ago it would have been nice to visit but now, it isn't. Way to hot and it is covered all in rocks and valleys.
Lastly, in paragraph 5 it explains that "Hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way." So even if you wanted to try to go to Venus, you would die of heat. Your vehicle would not make it back.. you wouldn't either.
I think the author did good at supporting his idea with many reasons. The author gave many reasons why you shouldn't try to travel to Venus.
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There are many reason's people should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. Three of the reasons you should participatein the program is that you can go to different parts of the world, you can learn how to take care of animals, and you can still have fun.
One reason you should sign up for the Seagoing Cowboys program is is because you can go all over the world. Luke stated that he saw Venice, Italy. He also said he saw Acropolis in Greece. Luke also stated that he saw an exavated castle in Crete and the marveled Panama Canal on his way to China. Those are only some of the places you can go when you join the program.
Another reason you should join the Seagoing Cowboy program is because you can learn how to take care of animals. For example, you would have to take animals like horses, young cows, and mules. Luke had to feed horses oats and hay. They had to keep stalls clean. The animals had to be fed two or three times a day. Those are only some of the ways you had to take care of the animals.
The final reason you should join the program is because you can still have time to have fun. The text states that Luke had a especially fun time on thier return after the animals have been unloaded. They would play baseball and volleyball games. They would fence and box. They would read and whittle. Most of all, they would have table tennis tournaments. These are ways you can have fun on the trips.
These are reasons why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. They were because you can go around the world, you can learn how to take care of animals, and you can still find time to have fun. So, please join the Seagoing Cowboys program.
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Do the computers tell people emotions or what they think? why does the mona Lisa smile make people smile? There are three facts bout why the can not tell emotions or expressions.
The first piece of evidence is there are six different type of emotions and the software would not be able to figure them all out. The six types of emotiond are happyiness, sadiness, angry, disgust, fear and suprised(Dr. Paul Eckman). i believe that computers cant tell if the software can tell whether or not if people have the right or any emotion at all.
In the fourth paragraph Dr. Huang states that " the facial expressions for each emotion are universal," (Dr. Huang) "even though individuals often show varying degrees of expressions"( like not smiling broadly).I agree, each individual has their own exprssion that can happen anytime.
The Mona Lisa makes people smile because of how interesting the expression is on her face and how you dont know how she feels. Mona Lisa could be mad, happy, sad, scared, worried, any of these emotions can express how she feels in the painting.
The auther that wrote this artice is stating that software may or may not understand if you have emotions or any expressions. it can not tell because the software is not alive to tell if you are in a mood or not.
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In many classrooms around the globe, students are struggling to keep up with their work due to either confusion or boredom. If students aren't getting their work done, that leaves them at risk of getting left behind in a certain subject. This is why I believe that the use of the Facial Action Coding System to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable.
Just like in paragrapgh six, I believe that "a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor."
This could definitely help somebody with the determination to learn to stay on track of their work with that subject. Although, people who disagree with my claim may say something along the lines of, "But what if it accidentally predicts the wrong emotion?" And although I definitely agree with this claim, we cannot just forget the fact that a computer will make mistakes sometimes, and this is why I think that , with some serious upgrading, this computer technology could make something amazing and help others along the way.
My claim with this essay was that I agreed with the fact to let FACS into schools to help those having issues. I believe that this program could help many in need.
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Have you ever thought about what the world would be without cars? You're probably telling yourself how would I get from my house to the stores. Maybe you should try walking because cars tend to cause damage to our environment. We the people should try limiting driving because if we do we won't have pollution,we wouldn't have to deal with smog,and even better protect our environment. Greenhouse gas has reduced since automobiles were limited in the suburbs.
Limiting cars could have a great impact on reducing air pollution. Countries such as China are known as one of the most polluted countries due to th amount of gas it uses. A businessman Carlos Arturo said "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution,"this identifies that people actually care about pollution. Pollution can also be bad for us humans because not only does it affect our breathing but it can also led to death due to the types of chemicals that we take in. Paris is a city who has dealt with smog and took care of the situation really quickly.
Smog is a major factor why people all around the world are either limiting driving or even banning cars with in the region. An example of that would be Paris who had were near a record day setting of pure smog. The effect of this led Paris to enforce a partial driving ban to clear air of the global city. Motorist were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer the consequences by getting fined 22-euros. This difference led to a congestion which went down to about 60 percent in the capital of France. Animals have suffered the most since cars started to evolve or became more useful.
The environment in which we live in has suffered consequences as well. Organizations such as the Environmental Protection Agency are stepping in to help out within the community. They started to propmote car reducing due to the 80 percent of approprations by law have gone to highways and the rest towards other transportations.
Now you see why we should start walking instead of driving because its good for our health but the main reason is that it limits driving. It also reuces pollution as well as smog, and keeps the environment clean. Are you willing to sacrifice your driving addiction for the sake of human kind and our animals.
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The way they used there evidence have a lot of good points and details to support what they're talking about. If we can leran how to get sanppuls from Venus and know how to get it back in it old frome maybe one day some of us could can live on it.
How the author supports there idea is base off the facts of there little articaol is that Venus used to be like a twin to are Earth. So that could mean there used to be living organisum on the used to be twin planet. But there is a way to study it. It just,chaillageing you see Venus is now an unfrogiveabul planet and gos thuoe hieh tepuchers hardly any of the technoulugy NASA sent there alot of them can't even last for atlest severl hrs. But theres still a chanes we can laran more about Venus. NASA evean sent some of us there just not too close to the planet or we will tran in to chinken nugats, and no one wasts that.
Well base of what I said here my conclusion is that it is worth larning about Venus and even other planets. We need to know are soler systum... it going to be a challen, but we can do it.
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The people of America we are gathered here to day to discuss the face like object that we all saw on cyphonia. Now we as NASA are here to tell that it just a natural landform. The face that is on cyphonia is a just a huge rock that has a shadow covering it which resembles a human head giving it the illision of eyes, nose, and a mouth. Now to prove this theory NASA has put there picture on the enternet for all of to see. In 1997 NASA felt as that the this important to tax payers, so photographed the face as soon as we could get a good shot. The next year Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, so (MOC) snapped a picture ten times sharper then the picture took in 1997. With that picture revealed that face was just a natural landform and that there is no sign of alien monument. But the picture was nott satifieing enough yet. On April 8, 2001 the Malin's team captured an extaordinary photo, what the picture actually show is butte or mesa.
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I think it is very capable of being used in a classroom or elsewhere to use. In paragraph 3, it states that the technology scans 44 muscles in our face precisely, to determine how they have moved to show emotion. If a prinipal was talking to two students in his/her office who were in conflict, the prinicpal could hear both sides of the story, and then use that technology to scan the students' faces to see how they were feeling. If one felt 83% angry, and the other only felt 36% angry, he could talk to the kid that was more angry to try to get him to calm down. If he thought one of the kids was only pretending to be happy, he could scan their face as well and determine what emotions they were actually feeling.
In paragraph 7, the author explains how the technology can pin-point the facial muscle movement in order to precisely tell how the person is feeling. If a person was faking a smile, the scanner would detect that, because it says that when a person is not genuinely happy, their "smile" goes more sideways, and their cheeks don't move up. When a person is showing a real smile, their cheeks go up and their eyes squint, like crows feet.
So if a student and another student were in a principals office over a fight, instead of the principal asking them "How are you guys feeling?", he could just simply scan their faces' 44 muscles and let the software determine how they were feeling.
I like the idea of the facial scanning technology, but realistically, we probably won't have this in our schools anytime soon. It would cost too much and it isn't really a need. It is a helpful tool, but teachers and administrators don't need it when dealing with students.
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I belive that the development of driverless cars should be continued because they help those who are unaware of whats happening by giving them warnings and automatically stoping on their own.
Driverless cars would be agreat thing for us and even though you have to manually on your own, back in and out of the parking lot or deal with traffic issues, thats still just a small simple task. Lately Google has a modified a car named the Toyota Prius. This car has position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video mounted camera near the rearview mirror, four automative radar sensors, a GPS receiver, and an internal motion sensor. The most important thing about this car, is that it has a Dubbed LIDAR, which uses laser beams to form a constantly updating 3-D model of the car's surroundings. These appliances to a car are very helpful for the driver. It allows them to see whats behind them, sensors that lets the car no when something is coming, and it checks the cars surroundings.
Technology has been producing more and more ways for us to have driverless cars. So far, cars aren't completly driverless yet, but they can steer, accelerate, and brake all by themselves. They are all designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills. So, humans still have to be alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires them. GM has developed driver seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object. Maufactors are considering adding cameras to watch that drivers are focused on the road. While the driver
watches the road, the car watches the driver,
There are still laws that human driver must be in control at all times. if there are to be an continuation of driverless cars, they will have to make new laws so that they can cover liability.
So driverless cars are still continuing on the assumption that the problems ahead will be solved. Many car companies are planning new things for ther future, like Tesla has a projected in 2016 they will release a car capable of driving on autopilot 90% of the time, and Mercedes- Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have cars that drive themselves by 2020. So, the road to truly driverless cars continues on, and we grow closer and closer to our goal every day for the new age of cars.
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Peple think that the only way of transportation is by car, well that isn't true. There are many ways in which you can go from A to B without a car. The people have gotten to depenent on cars and it just can't be that way because the gas used to power the cars are whats causing so much pollution and we need to stop that.
For places like china that has the most population in the world since a lot of poeple use cars over there, it made china the most polluted country in the world, which is never good pollution can cause serious problem that we the people do not want. All people have to do drive less and walk more or just drive less you don't even need to walk, but the less we drive the less polluted our world can be the better it is. People in Europe who live in Vauban, Germany which is a suburbed area, most of the people there dont use cars; 70 percent of the families that live in Vauban do not use cars and 57 percent of the 70 should there cars to move there. A population of 5,500 people, more than half of them dont use cars; now that sounds crazy but it works the area is less polluted and that life style is being adopted around the world in attempts to see if we the people can be less dependent on our cars and use them less.
Places like paris have banned driving because of to much smog in the air, and people who cantinued to drive got fined for 22-euros ($31) and more than 4,000 drivers got fined and there cars impounded for their reaction to the fine. Also in places like Bogota, Colombia they have a day were people are not allowed to use there cars besides buses and taxis and violaters were to face a $25 fine. That helped promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. Other columbian cities have also adpoted this no car free day and are using it to also help with smog.
People do not need to stop driving all around but we need to start driving less to prevent smog and pollution, the less we drive the less polluted our world is, and it takes everyone to do that. In the United states there is a study were every year less people are driving and getting there liscens and that right there is a start. We the people must realize that we can not depened on car to much there are many alternitive ways of transportation we just need to learn to use those ways instead of cars.
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In source 1, Elisabeth Rosenthal is inform us about the low car usage in Vauban,Germany. In Vauban, the residents no longer use cars. They use other means of transportation such as bicycles and walking etc. It is shown in paragraph 3 that 70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars and that 57 percent sold a car to move there.
In Europe, passager cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas and up to 50 percent in some car intense areas in the United States, paragraph 5. Efforts in past 20 ears have been made to make cities denser and better for walking. Populated with 5,500 , Vauban may be the most advanced experiment in low car suburban life, paragraph 6.
Scarsdale and Levittown, New York suburbs has strong apppeal, Many new suburbs may look more like Vauban. Cities around the world where emissions from cars are choking cities, their developing a little bit of the Vauban life style now, paragraph 8. The Environmental Protection Agency in the United States, is promoting the "car reduced" communities. Many experts expect public transport serving suburbs to play a much larger role in a six- year federal bill. 80 percent of apporpriation have by law gonre to highways and only 20 percent to other transport, paragraph 9.
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In this passage there are several pros and cons about studying and examining Venus. Venus does not sound like a very delightful planet to visit although it has many Earth-like features. Although Mercury is the closest to the sun, Venus is way hotter. With all of the dangers and negative thoughts about Venus, it could also be very important to visit and get a closer look at the differences and similarities that Venus has with Earth. We could also think of exploring what Venus is like as a challenge and advantage that almost everyone are not capable of doing such. Studying Venus would be a worthy pursuit because in life getting past negative thoughts and all of the cons that go on, will lead to many advantages and everyone is capable of getting over them and challenging themselves to exceed their limit on whatever goal they might have in mind. There are also many ways of examining Venus in a safe and scientifically way such as, using common sense from the fact of wearing the right clothes to using the right thought process.
Studying something extrodinary and out of the Earth is something most people might enjoy. Examining Venus and what it is like there does not seem all bad. Yes, the planet does have a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent of carbon dioxide that blankets it, but we also have to think about the fact that it does have very many Earth-like features. Venus has things such as, a surface of rocky sediment, valleys, mountains, and craters. According to this passage, it could also be our nearest option for a planetary visit yet a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel. Venus has more cons than pros but if we think about what positive outcomes we could possibly get from the negativity, then I feel as if everything will end up fine. This could lead to arguments but in my opinion I feel like studying Venus would be a once in a lifetime experience that not everyone can get the chance of doing so even though it is a challenging place to examine.
Also in this passage it states that, our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation. Human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors and that means with everyone's wonders and curious mindsets, studying Venus could be a possible thing that happens in the future. If everyone were to not focus on every little negative thing or every bad thing that happens, then someone will eventually go big and beyond others mindsets and goals. Temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet, but in the end if something major were to happen to any human then that will be the only way of knowing the truth. People could sit here and talk about all of the negativity that Venus has but if only one person has ever done it how do we know that these "facts" are true? We don't nessciarily know if anyone has ever went out of their way to study Venus but if they did it probably happened a very long time ago. It will take at least more than one strong human body to explore and actually bring back the true facts but studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents and most people's negative mindset.
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Would it be amazing if you could read people's emotional expressions? Some people have emotions, but it is very hard to read because of that person. Professor Thomas Huang has came up with "this new software that helps develop better ways for humans and computers to communicate." Do you think it would be a good idea to have this technology which is capable of reading emotional expressions of people especially in a classroom? Yes, it is a great idea because now we can use it to our advantages. This technology can help us humans better students in a classroom because now they can better the students education. In the article it states that the process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles. When you read that, you can realize that this technology is way more advanced then the technology we have now. It can better the students in a classroom because what if the technology can tell that specific teacher that he/she is bored out of their mind and they do not care about the material that the teacher is giving them right now? The teachers could get that students data from that new technology and then come up with a better way to teach the material that is not boring the student out so like playing a game every once in a while. If that teacher does that, the student would be more engaged in class because who wants to sit in a boring classroom for 45 minutes and do nothing fun? NOBODY! In paragraph 6 it states that most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication. So computers need to understand that too says Dr. Huang. As you can see in this generation, people will have a smile on their face throughout the whole day, but are they really that happy in their mind? We as humans can only see the outside emotions of that person, but not on the inside. This technology can help us with that though because what if someone is for example very depressed, but they are smiling. The software could analyze their inside emotions so that for instance that person could get the help they need if that emotion is too dangerous for that person. In this article it states that according to the Facial Feedback Theory of Emotion, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce them. Just by this little sentence you can comprehend that "it can reveal so much about the science of emotions!" Just a happy person can reveal how they are feeling inside and out throughout the whole day most likely. This technology is very high tech, but it is worth it. It will probably be a ton of money, but it will pay off in the future because it can help students and/or anyone that is going through an emotional life. This can get students the help they need so that they can be successful in their lives instead of failing their schooling and/or jobs. This might even be the next big thing! Also this will change peoples lives right before our lives because the future is coming and we must be prepared for it because we do not know what it holds for us humans.
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Imagine a world where everything you need is within walking distance. This is what our society could become if we stop relying on cars. If we stop using cars we could largely cut down on greenhouse gasses and polluted air. No cars means no stress of dumb drivers, DUI, and car-related deaths.
First, if we stop using cars as the main mode of transportation, buildings would be closer to homes to accomodate people walking to them instead of driving. This saves money because you don't need a car, gas, or insurance. A closer and more condensed society means communities could be formed where everyone knows everyone, like back in the old days with city-states and villages.
Secondly, cutting back on cars means cutting back on air pollution and greenhouse gasses. Less greenhouse gasses equals a cooler and more healthy earth. Air pollution is a big problem in places like china, france, and some european countries. If we get rid of most cars, the air there will be much more pleasant and breathable. The sky would also become more clear.
In conclusion, cutting back on cars could be beneficial to the whole world, communites would be formed, everything you need would be in walking distance, there would be less car related deaths, and greenhouse gasses and air pollution would greatly decrease, making the earth and its people healthier.
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I think driverless cars are a great invention. Driverless cars would make everyone's lives easier. It would save lots of time, and even keep people safer. I think everyone should have access to self driving cars. This technology could help us improve our lives, and open a new world of technology for us.
I strongly agree with Google cofounder, Sergy Brin, on his ideas about public transportation. Public transportation systems that self drive would be amazing. It would indeed change the world. These cars would make transportation extremely easy, and replace old cars.
These cars could also make driving even more safer for people. The self driving cars have sensors that can auto brake. This could prevent many accidents in the future, and maybe save lives. Although this technology may help, it all lies on the driver. This technology may cause carless drivers. All in all, the technology of driverless cars could make driving safer than it is today.
Overall, I think that driverless cars are a good idea. They are safer for people, and young drivers. Also, they are just convienient for us. It would improve out quality of life. I would like to see these care implemented into our daily lives.
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Throughout the article, In German Subburb, Life Goes On Without Cars they are talking about certain advantages like, less air poluttion. The money running threw germany are going to better causes like placing walk aways on a main street. Cars produce a gasy smoke called "smog" which causes air pollution, which then forces plant growers to keep there plants in a green house to keep them out out of the polluted air. Emission from tail pipes not only hurt plants its also hurts animals, and if enough can hurt humans, "passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of green house gas emissions in europe, and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the united states". By cutting down on car usage it can make cities denser and better walking. Another advantage of cutting down the usage of cars is people can also get more exercise, witch will cause people to be happier and more healthy.
The smog from cars has forced paris to enforce a "partial driving ban" to clear the air. If you were to drive your car on a day you werent supposed to then you would have to pay a 22-euro fine witch is 31 american dollars. Over 3,500 drivers in paris were fined and 27 people got thier car repossesed. Due to this enforcement congestion was down by 60 percent in france. Without as many cars highways and streets we less packed and probably less car accidents. This movement will lower air pollution drasticly and encourage more people to take a walk or take a bike ride. As years go by the number of people getting licenses are decressing and more younger people seem to be less worried about getting one.
Between 2001 and 2009 the percent of younger people driving has decressed by 21 percent. Younger people dont really care about the features of the car as long as it gets them to point A to Point B. This is good because they can make more fuel efficent cars that don't have all the speakers and lights. They can just focus on the reduction of air pollution. If they start to make the prices of electrical cars more cheaper they can probably start a movement that will alot of people to switch from gas powerd to battery powered. Which will also decrease the amont of air pollution.
With the decression of cars being drove they can focus on improving things like bikes, bike trails, and smoother side walks. This will make more people to do things and the can advertise them on t. v. Another advantage of limiting car usage is you might not have to pay for gay anymore, they will probably switch to hybrids. There will be charging places instead of gas stations, and it will also decrease the amount of noise the cars make. This movement probably wont fully end car usage but it will probably bring light to the things that need to happen future wise.
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I THINK YOU SHOULD KEEP THE ELECTORAL VOTE BECAUSE IT HELPS THE PEOPLE VOTING AND HELP THE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO VOTE AND ALSO THAT THE ELECTORS STILL SHOULD BEABLE TO VOTE AND THAT IT WILL HELP ALOT OF MORE PEOPLE WHO VOTE
THE CANIDATES ARE ALL RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT AND ONE PERSON HAS TO CHOOSE FROM THE CANIDATES HOW IT WILL WORK AND THAT THEY WILL PICK THE ELECTORAL VOTERS TO VOTE AND THATS HOW THEY WOULD VOTE THEY SELECT A PERSON EVERY FOUR YEARS AND THEY ASSIGN THEM FOR THE ELECTORS THEY ARE OFTEN CHOSE BY CANIDETS YOU WILL ALSO HELP THEM VOTE BECAUSE THEY VOTE AFTER EVERYONE ELSE
AFTER THE PRESIDENT ELECTION THE GOVENER PREPARES THEY WILL ALSO DETERMINE THE ELECTORS THE PRESIDENTS COULD ALSO PICK THEM THEY HOLD OFFICAL RECORDS AS TO WHAT IS BEING VOTED THEY COULD ALSO ARGUE ABOUT IT AND THATS HOW THEY COULD ARGUE ABOUT IT IT WILL ALSO LET THEM SUCCSED IN WHAT THEY WERE GONNA DO THE ELECTORS WOULD ALSO BACK UP THE OTHER PEOPLE. SO EACH EVERY FOUR YEARS THEY VOTE AND THEN THEY GET TO SEE WHO WINS.
THEY CAN GET 500,000 VOTERS AND THAT GIVES A CHANCE FOR THE PRESIDENTS TO THEY WOULD HAVE 55 REPERSENITIVES TO BACK THEM UP AND GIVE THEM MORE ELECTORAL VOTORS SO THE ELECTORAL VOTERS WOULD HAVE A CHANCE TO VOTE AND THAT THE ELECTORAL VOTERS ARE THE VOTERS THAT VOTE AT THE LAST MINUTE AND THAT THEY BACK THE PRESIDENT UP AND GIVE HIM MORE VOTES THAN THE NORMAL VOTER.
YES THEY SHOULD KEEP THE VOTERS AND THAT THEY SHOULD KEEP THE VOTERS JUST INCASE THE VOTERS DONT NEED TO COMPARE THE ELECTIONS AND THATS HOW THEY WOULD MAKE THERE FINAL DECISION AND THEN THEY WOULD MAKE THE FINAL DECISION WHO TO VOTE FOR AND IT COMES UP BETWEEN THE STATES.YES THEY SHOULD DO A FINAL VOTE DECISION AT THE END OF IT.
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The "Evening Star" or otherwise known as Venus is a very dangerous planet. Despite the planet being close to us, we haven't sent any spacecrafts there in the past 30 years. The reason has alot to do with the fact that a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide covers Venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venuss atmosphere.
On the planets surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, which means that its alot of times hotter than the surface of our planet. The atmospheric pressure is also 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet. These conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth. Also Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system.
With all that being said, why would we want to go back there.
The reason is because Astronomers think that the Venus was once an earth like planet. They believe that Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth. Adding more into this is that today, Venus has some features such as mountains and valleys.
NASA has come up with an idea on how they would live in
Venus safely and productive. The idea is to allow scientist to float above ground. About 30 miles to be exact. With them hovering 30 miles above ground they should be safe from the ground conditions. With that, NASA is working on other approaches to study Venus; such as an device that was used in World War 2 that calculates under high pressure of heat and does not require electricity.
I love the idea of going back to Venus and exploring because we are humans and we have an unlimited imagination. If we want to truly be a civilization, We should be at least a two planet species. Innovating and learning is how we got here. 100 years ago we made the first car. Imagine what life wil be like in 100 years.
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Dear Senator,
We the people of the United States of America, desire a president who will not only care for the wellbeing of the citizens, but know what to do during times of crisis. The Electoral College is but one method of deciding this. There are many reasons as to why we need the Electoral College, and there are many reasons one can list of why we do not need it. If we were to get rid of the Electoral College completely and determine the win on the vote of the American citizens, chaos would ensue. Let's be honest, there are plenty of voters who have no idea what they are doing. If America were to base who would lead and call the shots of the country on the votes of everybody, then one person would end up being in office who is no better a ruler than a goldfish.
The Electoral College is noted as a process, not a place. This is correct. You don't just walk up to the Electoral College and say "hey, this is who you should put into office". Each state in the U.S. has a certain number of representatives(electors). For example, D.C.(is treated like a state) has 3 electors. People may say that the Electoral College is unfair and outdated. While in some aspects this can be true, but if the electors know what they are doing and are willing to stay true to their country, then maybe the correct person would be elected in. The EC is known to require a Presidential candidate to have trans-regional appeal. A trans-regional appeal is when one area of the U.S. is known to be in favor of the presidential candidate.
Among the other things the Electoral College is known as being, it has been widely regarded as an anachronism. An anachronism is a person or thing that seems to belong in the past and not fit into the present time. While yes, the Electoral College is very old, it does have its uses. It is perhaps one of the final things that will determine what direction this great country gets set into, be it forwards or backwards. The larger the population of a state, the larger number of electors it has. Most of the states in the U.S. have what is called a "winner takes all" system. This system will award all of the electors to the presidential candidate that wins the election.
Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, what is known as the AFL-CIO, and the U.S Chamber of Commerce all agreed on just one thing. That thing that they all agreed on was to abolish the Electoral College. Over sixty percent of the U.S. population would rather have a direct election over what we currently use. Out of all the arguments against the Electoral College, one of the "best" is the Disaster Factor. One of the other worrying views on the Electoral College is what would occur if there were to be a tie in the vote. If a tie were to occur, the election would thus be thrown in the hands of the House of Representatives.
While there are many reasons to like, and dislike the Electoral College, one of the most re-assuring should be that it (most of the time) will keep idiots out of the Oval Office. Among the reasons to dislike the Electoral College is that it is unfair, and keeps the majority of American people from using their voice. The Electoral College is the fine line between a country going backwards and causing the rest of the world to hate it, and a country going forwards, causing the rest of the world to hold it to a higher degree. If theres anything that the American people should want, it is a powerful and respectable leader who will do anything and everything they can for the citizens. Sincerely,
An American.
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Many people that think the face of mars was created by aliens but it was really just a landform here is why?.scientits say its just like a land formation that happens on earth this land formation are more common around american west the article says "it reminds me mist of middle butte in the snake river plain of idaho" says garvin. then garvine said "Malins team captured an extrordinary photousing the cameras absolute maximum resolution" each pixel in 2001 image spans 1.56 meters compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 viking photo in April 5,1998 (MOC) or mars orbiter camera team snapped a picture ten times shapper only for the thousands of anxious web surfers to see a natural landform on mars and not any aliens . but yet not everyone was satisfied on April '98 a cloudy time of year on the red planet the camera on boared MGS had to peer through the wispy clouds to see the face perhaps skeptis say alien markings were hidden by the haze. now many people dont talk about this topic alot any more because it has been proven that it was just a landform created by the plates moving on mars all though there are still many people who think that its not a landformation and think that it was bulit by aliens in the article it says that the land formation resembles a human face because of the shape of the head and giving the illusion of eyes, nose and mouth of the landformation experits have proven that it is just a landformation and was not bulit by any extra living beings that have lived there a longtime ago after relason the picture it was a pop icon back then it starred in hollywood films appeard in books magazines and even raio talk shows and hunted grocerys store checkout lines for 25 years.
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Dear state senator
Many people argue on weather or not of keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. U.S Citizens arguemented how the electoral college is unfair,outdated and irrational. On the other side of the arguement despite its lack of democratic,the electoral college has many reasons why we should keep it. the electoral college has all practical reasons,first thing first is it Certainty Of Outcome,second that Everyone's President,third the Swing States,fourth the Big States and Last Avoid Run-Off Elections. All of these reasons contribute into the Electoral College on why it should stay.
The certainty of outcome is that the winning candidate's share of the Electoral College invariably exceeds his share of the popular vote,because almost all states award Electoral votes compared to popular votes. The swing states uses a method called winner-takes-all by awarding Electoral votes which induces the candidates. Voters in toss-up now that they will now recieve the most info and attention from the candidates so the most thoughtful voters should be the ones to decide the election.
The electoral college stores the weight in the big states in the political balance. The large states gets more of the attention from presidential candidates in a campaign then a small state does because of population.
In the electoral college they avoid the problem of elections in which no candidate recieves a majority of the votes cast. there is pressure for run-off elections when no canadidate wins a majority of the votes cast. the pressure will be reduced by the electoral college which in variably produces a clear winner.
Many people argue that electoral college method of selectingthe president may lose potential voters knowing there vote will have no effect. voters in presidential rather than people who want express a political preference rather than people who think that a single vote may decide an election. Now that I told you my reasoning I hope you will understand why we should keep Electoral College from going away.
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Would it a be a great thing that a technology read your emotions? Based on the passage the Facial Action Coding System would be a great thing to use to discover other people emotions, but I am against the value of using this technology to read students' emotional expressions.The three reasons why I am against this technology is because most people don't want others to know, it would change the students' mood, and the others would have their attention to that person emotions.
This technoloy states the emotions mixed into one person but that person doesn't want nobody to simply notice their emotions. For example, students' that are excellent in school don't want their emotions be expelled and want to be a great example to others. People are weak when people found out about their emotions they feel in them. For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling by the look on their face.
The emotions being discovered could also put a mood to the classes or students. For example, if a student is feeling bad the other classmates would feel worried because they want to figured out what is going on. The emotions are for each individual to express not to spread around. Especially it could affect others from outside school which keeps the student from studying and staying focus in classes.
The emotions could get people attention. The emotion could get people wonder why this persons' emotion changed or like this. Students are would also want determine the characteristics movements of the facial muscles. For example in the passage states that the muscles above your eyes raises your eyebrows when you're surprised, and other thing is that the area around your mouth tightens your lips it will show anger. Another example is, if a student has a excellent emotions but reality nobody knows if they are happy or sad or the probabilities of being insane.
In conclusion, I am against the claim that the Facial Action Coding System to indentify the the human emotional expression in the school. The three reasons in because people don't want others to know, it could affect the others, and people would like to know the true expression of one emotions. Is this technology for the best in the human society or not?
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Would you like to see the world?If you would like to then join the Seagoing Cowboys program.In this program you get to see the world and expirience once in a lifetime things.While I was in this program that's exactly what I did.
As a Seagoing Cowboy you get to do amazing things that not many others get to.''Besides helping people I had the side benifit of seeing Europe and China,''that is what I said when they asked me what it was like being a part of this amazing program.I also got to ride in a gondola while i was in Venice,Italy.An awesome chance like this is something that I did not think would ever come my way, I was just a normal boy before joining but then turned into someone greater than I could have ever imagined.Yes,there is work involved but there is also fun and amazing opportunities that come with it too.
In conclusion,you should become a part of this program.When once in a life time opportunities like this come your way take them.I didn't think my life would change so quickly after I joined but it did.Your life could change drastically too and all because of one simple choice you could make right now.So go join the Seagoing Cowboys and take this oppotunity before it's too late,and I promise you won't regret it.
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The artical "Driverless Cars Are Coming" I'm am against the cars, because the car doesn't seem driverless if you still someone in the driver seat and at times you also still have to control the car. I feel as if, it was to be driverless no one would need to be included in the driver seat, unless the car is needed to be parked into a store parkinglot and if it was so driverless it still wouldn't need anyone to park the car into a parking lot. I feel as if Google, wanted better votes on the car they should out a little more effort into getting it to become more of a driverless car, without needing anyone to be in the driver seat or worrying about getting into any wreaks.
I would probably agree with the car if they knew who to blame a wreak on. Because, if your not incontrol of the car and just so happens the car starts to get out of control when you tried to turn the heat on but pressed the wrong button by accident. Is it the car owners fault or is it the manufactors fault for having another button by the heat and air conditioner? I feel as if the car would be safer if driverless cars had there a special road built for them, but the cost of that would be a over then a million dollars. i would agree with the driverless cars if thy had a road buildt just for the,m to drive on.
More reasons to why I don't agree with the driverless car is because, the car should be able to navigate it's self through roadwroks and they didn't really give much detail into the car and it not being able to fuction with the road work, baking out of drive ways and accidents. The article didn't explain much about the car it self, does the car take gas or will it be an electrical car.
I feel as if the car was to be electrical it would probably get more votes than what the car is getting now. I feel as if the car should be updated in many ways as in being able to drive no matter the condintion of the road. The article also didn't include if the car could drive through any type of weather. If the car was to slide on ice and crash into a pole whos fault it be the car owners fault or manfactors fault?
Positive things about the artical "Driverless Cars Are Coming" is that the cars have been driven more than half a million miles without a crash. Another thing is that in article it tells the reader about without the option of smarter roads, manufactors turned to smarter cars. I feel as both could of happened in a way and I feel that if we have smarter roads , manufactors wouldn't really have to worry about accidents happening or have to worry about the driver int eh car taking over in cause of a tight situation.
I feel the car would be a success because of the sensors the car has, i feel that with sensos on the car manufactors wuldn't have to worry about the car getting into wreaks, and i feel as if the car would be able to drive through raods that are being worked on. Another positive thing about the driverless cars is that they are willing to make new laws for the car.
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Venus has the hottest surface temperture out of all the plantets; even though, Mercury is close to the sun . Did you know that ? Well if not maybe you should read "The Challege of Eploring Venus". The article pours out information about this evening star;however, you obtain more then just knowngle from this article. To contuie, the article expresses emotions and the author's feelings about the dangerous pursit to explore this marvlous planet.
So, did you know planet could have babies? Well I don't know if that entriley true, but Venus is the Earth's twin. Which I don't think should be taken littralle, because they're own twins thanks to looks. Which is pretty segrgated, but oh well. So back on topic Venus is classified as Earth's twin, because Venus is the closest plant in density, size, and distance. Also did you know astromers have theory that Venus couldv'e been Earth-like. They're fascinated that Venus couldv'e been covered with ocean and couldv'e even supported life. The astrometer only belive this, beacues the features that are analogous to those on Earth. Venus has valleys, mountains, craters, and even a rocky surface. This really helped support why Venus is worth the risk, because look at all this inforamation we know. Yet, how are we suppose to belive it's true. You see humans are very heavy headed, which means we are not very open minded to knew idea. To contuie, people are going to fight weather it's true or not. Humans need to see it in order to believe it.
Consquently, you may not think that humans need to see it to believe it. So, to get into our next topic some of the things I'm telling you about Venus may not even be true. We need to head into this challnge head first and hope for the best. We need to stop being scared of the what if's and be more scared of that nots. Many reseachers are working on innovtion that can help us obtain the knowlege of Venus, which is such a succes. For example, NASA is working on an invention to help reseacher fload above the heated surface. On the other hand, forms of light can't penetrate dense atmosphere, which would be tough since Venus atmosphere 97% carbon dioxide. To contuie reseacher can't get rock,gas,or any kind of phyical samples, but that why we need to keep pushing. If we wanna find out Venus's secerets we need to get up close and personal despite the risks.
To wrap things up, Venus is a strange planet that we don't quite understand, but it we just stay strong we can find a way to discover the truth. Also who know what the knowlede from Venus could help us do. Venus has value weather you see it or not. The author shows his feeling swithout being so in your face about it. The pursit to Venus means alot to his as shown in the text. The author even talks about how the values of Venus are needed. They even bring why it's has value, innovation that make it possible, and pours tons of instersting facts about Venus to presrated you into seeing his point of view.
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In the article "The Challenge of Explorng Venus" the author discusses the Earth's neighboring planet closest to the sun, Venus. The author discusses the possibility of studying the harsh planet and why it is a worthy pursuit to take on despite the dangers that come along with exploring it. He supports this idea of exploring Venus by discussing how there is habitable area on Venus, presenting ideas that NASA is experimenting with, and giving background information on Venus.
In the article the author discusses how harsh and inhabitable the landscape of Venus is. Becuase the atmosphere of venus is "97 percent carbon dioxide blankets," has "clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid," the teperatures "average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit," and the "atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater"
than the atmospheric pressure of earth, humans could not live on venus, but the author presents how humans could study it. If scientists were to be in a "blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the rolling Venusian landscape" they would be in livible conditions of 170 degrees Fahrenheit and an air pressure close to the air pressure at sea level on earth; also, "solar power would be plentiful and radition would not exceed Earth levels." Venus may have very harsh conditions but there is an area where scientists would be able to safely study it's landscape.
Another point the author brings up to suport the idea that studying Venus is a risk worth taking is that NASA is alreday working on some things that they could try to use to study Venus. NASA has been testing "simplified electronics made of silicon carbide... in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and [they] have lasted for three weeks in such conditions." One other project NASA is doing is looking at mechanical computers, an old technology that was "first envisioned in the 1800s and played an important role in World War II." The author explains that mecanical computers, that can "be made more resistant to pressure and heat," that can make calculations using gears and levers ; unlike, modern computers that are more powerful but tend to be more delicate. These ideas that NASA is working on that the author brings up support the idea of safely exploring Venus very well.
Finally, the author gives the reader a lot of backround information about Venus that not only introduces Venus but also supports his claim. One thing he brings up is how all the previous missions to Venus have been unmanned, mainly becuse no spacecraft "survived the landing for more than a few hours. He also says that this "explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades." Because there are such harsh conditions on Venus no man has been there, but It wasn't always like this. Venus was most likely covered "with oceas and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth," and even today "venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth;" such as, the "rocky sediment... valleys, mountains, and craters." Venus was once like Earth so the discoveries tht could come from studying it are great.
In this article, "The Challeng of Exploring Venus," the author discusses the planet venus and its harsh conditions that he believes should be studied. He presents many supporting ideas such as how on Venus there is a livible area that could be used to study the planet, NASA is already working on inovations that could help push the exploration and study of Venus, and that Venus used to be very similar to Earth. The author supports his idea very well and presents very good examples of why scientists should explore Venus in the future.
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There are several advantages of limiting car usage. First and foremost, limitations will seriously reduce the emission of greenhouse gas and the production of smog caused by diesel fumes. Beautiful cities are being polluted as we speak, and that is something that could be so simply reduced. Limitations on cars will make the air cleaner.
If car usage is limited, as it has been some places, it shows to make the surrounding ares calmer. In places such as Vuban, Germany, where cars are almost completely gone, residents say they are much happier and less stressed out (Rosenthal, 2009-New York Times). Rush hours and traffic jams will be reduced, leaving more time to make cities beautiful again. Bike paths are being reconstructed in many places, in attempt to make as little imapct on the world as possible. Try a week without using a car. Use other commute options to get where you need to go. People see that they are less relient on using car commute (Rosenthal, 2013-New York Times).
Alternative transportation is encouraged. In places all over the world, people are stepping up and making a change in the way they transport themselves. Sidwalks are being remade in order to accomidate walking pedestrians (Selsky, 2002). Shopping centeres and diners are being located in closer ares, making it easier to walk or bike to them. Bill Ford of Ford Motor Company expressed his wishes for transportation by saying he wishes cities to have "pedestrian, bicycle, private cars, commercial and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emissions and improve safety," (Rosenthal, 2013).
Instead of spending so much time with car developments, limiting car usage would mean more time to other ares of development. David Goldberg of Transportation for America made and fantastic point by saying, "All of our development since World War 2 has been centered on the car, and that will have to change," (Rosenthal, 2009). Instead of spending so much time creating things that will ruin the world, why not use that time instead to try and better it? Construct something useful. People are doing it all over, and it's proving to work very well.
All in all, having a limitation on car use will be much easier and helpful than people realize. The more we actively work on changing the world from preventable harm, the better our surroundings will be. Even if a car is driven on occasion, it will reduce the greenhouse gas dramatically, making a positive effect on the way people live.
Sources:
1. "In German Suburd, Life Goes On Without Cars," Elisabeth Rosenthal, 2009.
2. "Paris bans driving due to smog," Robert Duffer, 2014.
3."Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota," Andrew Selsky, 2002 4. "The End of Car Culture," Elisabeth Rosenthal, 2013
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In a world of large cities and distant suburbs, transportation is crucial, but is personal transportation truly necessary? Shouldn't there be a way of getting from point A to point B without expending an unecessary amount of harmful gases that could one day bring around our demise? As specified by Elisabeth Rosenthal, Robert Duffer, and Andrew Selsky the answer to these questions is yes. Yes, there is hope for a healthier future without the use of BMWs, Toyota Corollas, Mercedes, and other modes of personal transportation that pollute the Earth. These answers have been noticed by our World's leaders and they are finally taking initiative to save our planet.
According to Elisabeth Rosenthal, writer for the New York Times, Germany is one of the many countries beginning to take notice. This is evident in the building of a small suburb called Vauban where "life goes on without cars". Although approximately 30 percent of the residents in Vauban do own a car, it is clear that the 5,500 people living in this small town are happier residing in a place where vehicles do not crowd the streets. As said by a mother living in Vauban "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way".
This idea of a "car reduced" community is not only seen in Germany but might very well soon be found in other countries such as the United States. These ideas today might just be seen by the public as what they are: ideas. However, serious action must be taken now. Although personal transportation might be seen as a necessity by your average citizen, it is not. Personal vehicles are a luxury that we use at, no only our own risk, but at the risk of everyone forced to breathe the intoxicating fumes of these polluting machines. According to recent data, 12 percent of green house gas emmisions in Europe come from passenger cars but this number is not nearly as shocking as that of the United States: 50 percent!
As stated by Robert Duffer and Andrew Selsky, writers for the Chicago Tribune and Seattle Times, Paris and Bogota have come to understand the consequences of the use of personal cars and are taking small steps to better the circumstances brought on to the human population due to the car pollution. In Paris, however, the city had to undergo a hard blow from reality for the french government to understand how crucial this change is. After suffering near record pollution, Paris enforced a partial ban on the driving of passenger cars in order to clear the air. If the ban was not respected by an individual, he/she would be forced to pay a 22-euro fine. Although there were a few who did not follow the terms of the ban, the majority of the people did comply and the smog soon cleared.
For Bogota, however, the ban of passenger cars for a single day has been seen as more of a holiday. The people of this city have come to enjoy this somewhat stress free day away from cars. According to the Bogota mayor, Antanas Mockus, event the rain has not stopped people from participating in this day. This day is not as small of a step as you might think however. For it is a program set to spread to various countries where, for a single day a year, people will bike, hike, roler blade, etc. In other words, everything they MUST do to get from point A to point B.
Finally, as countries around the world begin to take initiative towards the better of our planet, the United States, one of the world's super powers is starting on it's path towards recovery. In the past years, data has come to support the fact that there truly is a shift in the American "way of life". As seen in recent studies, Americans are buying fewer cars , driving less and getting fewer licenses as times goes on. Although the United States peaked in miles driven in 2005 it is evident that, with time, that amount gradually declined and hit a low in April 2013 where the miles driven per person was nearly 9 percent below the peak. As a cause of this sudden hit on the use of cars researchers are beginning to ask: could the United States truly be entering a new era away from the pollution of passenger vehicels or is this just another phase?
Passenger vehicles and the gases they create could very well be the demise of our existence on Earth. This is unless, as a human poopulation, we begin to take action now. Although scientists everywhere have stressed the negative impact on the Earth brought on by cars, people are blind to see that these vehicles are not a necessity but rather a luxury. For this, it is crucial that countries and leaders around the world follow what others have done and begin to enforce the protection of the planet's health and ensure our survival as a species.
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Luke is very courageous because he joined the World War II. He left his family to save other peoples lives. He is hardworking because he is doing what he is supposed to be doing. Even though he got hungry and tired he didn't quit. He discovered unique places in the world and meet other people.
Luke helped people that are in the war and people that does'nt have food, water, and shelter. He would want other men to join the war because it made him feel good about hiself because he repected his country. Luke didn't even think if he wants to be a a military he just said yes because he knew that it would be a oppurtunity of a lifetime.
I think that people should join war, so that we could have our freedom by getting it ourselves, by fighting in war and being courageous like Luke. Luke can inspire people and wanting themselves to join the military. Most military says that "We die with honor".
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The process of the electing the Presidenet is a topic commonly debated upon. This topic must be carefully examined because the President of the United States plays a major role in leading our country and must be chosen with care. The two ways of electing our president is by the Electoral College which dates back to the founding fathers, or by the popular vote which is a more modern process. The question is, should the electoral college remain the current voting process or should we change to electing the president of the United States through popular votes? Whether you are in favor of the Electoral College or against it there are consequences to both sides. Presidential election through popular votes may have disadvantages, yet the Electoral College must be changed becuase voters are not in complete control and reduce the probability of an elecotral tie.
To begin, according to Richard A. Posner the Electoral College is a fair accurate way to elect the president. The Electoral College requires the canidates to have a multi-regional appeal and allows the most thoughtful voters to decide the election unlike the popular vote. Richard A. Posner notes in his article that the Electoral College avoids a canidate that is a regional favorite to gain votes and win. The Electoral College requires the canidates to have a "trans-regional appeal" (Posner). If we used a process that allowed a canidate with only regional appeal to be elected as President this would increase the chances of electing an ineffective, successful president. Additionally, the Electoral College allows only the most thoughtful voters to decide who becomes President (Posner). Canidates will be chosen more carefully and thoughtfully. These voters will have gained the most accurate information and apply this to thier choice. Thus, the Electoral College has some beneficial outcomes, but the popular vote is a better choice for our system of choosing the President.
First of all, changing to electing through popular votes could fix the problem of voters not having a big say in who become the President. In Bradford Plumer's article he includes that voters can't always "control whom their electors vote for". All of the residents of the United States who choose to participate in the presidential election should be able to have their voice heard individually. Voters should not have to rely on their state electors to choose the right president. Additionally, voters not being able to have thier voice hears affects which canidate becomes elected. Sometimes the electors can go against the opinion of the people (Plumer). Electors should not be the only ones that are allowed to have responsibilty in picking the President of the United States. Electors could totally "defy the will of the people" and it is unfair that they are responsible for the whole process of choosing the President of the United States. Thus, the popular vote is a better choice because the people of the United States should have a bigger say in thier President.
Secondly, changing the electoral college to popular vote could not only help voters have their voice heard but, it could also reduce the probability of a tie in the electoral vote.
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The idea of new technology that can read your facial expressions to know how you're feeling sounds incredible. Who knew that technology could get this advanced. The idea of this technology does not bother me if it were to be used in classrooms. The computer could not just be used in school classrooms but can also be used for crime solving when the detective is trying to interogate a suspect or the actual crime commiter.
This computer can be used very effectively with friends or family. If you can suspect something is wrong with someone and you want to help them you can use this technology in order to help them or comfort them. If your friend or sibling acts like they are fine but when you use the computer and you realize they are sad or mad you can help them with their problems. A big problem in the world right now are students who are sad or depressed and dont open up to people and then they tend to be alone. This technology can help those who are in need and then counseling or just friends and family come into the picture to help those who are alone.
The computer was programmed to detect the little thigs that describe how our facial expressions would be like for every emotion. Expert say that the muscles around our face tend to move differently for each of our expressions but its hard to tell if you arent an expert because we tend to be decieved. Someone could be completely depressed but when in person they are the happiest person to you and are so possitive.
This technology only seems to have a possitive future is its already invented. Maybe sometimes it will calculate a persons a emotions sometimes but that can always be fixed by the manufacturers. Later on this could be used on phones to maybe but the camera of the phones will need to be changed in order to detect perfect muscles in your face. Other than that this would most definitely be smart to put in student classrooms to be tested out by many people.
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No way can that actually be made by aliens. The pictures don't lie, it is a natural mesa. We haven't even found life yet so how can we assume this is made by aliens.
The face is really just an illusion. It is just a Martian mesa with unusual shadows that, ironically, make it look like a face. We only released it to the public to get an attraction to Mars. The program didn't mean for all these conspiracies. All we wanted was some publicity for mars.
We even took another, better picture to prove it. I know not all people believe us that it isn't an alien monument. If you look at the picture though, it is clearly a natural landform. The picture was ten times sharper than the original. Still you doubt are findings about the landform.
Again, I think whole-heartedly that it is natural. You can believe what you think it is. We don't even know of life on Mars, how can aliens make it if none are even there. You can be a fool and think that it is a alien monument, but the pictures show it. It is nothing but a perfectly natural monument on the possibly populated Mars.
You may never believe me unless you go there and see it yourself. Personally it easily shows to be a natural landform. Many believe to this day that aliens made that structure and that it is impossible to have a natural sturctue of that likeness. Then again many more believe that it is perfectly natural and just an illusion.
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The author supports his idea on studying Venus despite all the dangers and doubts, in a understandable way.
The author states facts from The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and pursuade in a detailed way of showing that humans can go and study Venus.
The author also states that Venus was "the most Earth-like planet in our solar system," which means that Venus was similar to Earth and closest to planetary visit.
On paragraph 5, the author states that we can have blimp like vehicle floating above Venus fray or 30 miles above Venus's landscape, which is 170 degrees fahrenheit.
The author claim there can be air planes and jets flying over the storms of Venus. The author also claimed that the radiation will not exceed earths level.
At the end of paragraph 5, the author states "Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans." The author claims all these facts on paragraph 5 from NASA.
On parahgraph 7, the author states that NASA is working on approaches to studying Venus with mechanical computers that only use gears and levers.
The mechanical computers would last longer than modern computers with silicon carbude.
The mechanical computers were tested in a chamber simulating the chaos od Venus's surface amd lasted three weeks.
The mechanical computers were used in 1800s and an important role in the 1940s World War II.
At the end of paragraph 7, the author states " By comparison, systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces." which means that mechanical computers would be very important to studying Venus.
With these details and facts the author gave us, shows how the author was supporting his idea on studying Venus.
The author had facts from NASA and provided details on in a understandable way.
The author stated "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." this quote shows how his idea of studying Venus with all the chalkenges and doubts, can possibly happen.
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In the Article "Making Mona Lisa Smile", author Nick D'Alto claims that the United States should start using their new technology equipment called "FACS". This new technology FACS is a new computer software that allows computures to identify human emotions. In the text it states, "The facial expressions for each emotions are universal." Meaning that the computer will recognize almost any facial expression
that a person makes.
In the text it states, "The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face, all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles." This is how this computer all started and began in the making of a facial expression computer. This computer will one day be able to know how you are feeling that day based of off how your facial expression is.
The facial expression computer will also help college studies and labs all over the world. In the text it states, "By weighting the different units, the software can even identify mixed emotions as it did in Da Vinci's masterpiece, each expression is compared against a neutral face." By using this technology studies have came to the conclusion of how Mona Lisa was feeling in Da Vinchi's famous artwork piece.
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" Nick D'Alto talked about this newley developed technology, that allows computers to recongize human facial expressions. I am for the use of this new technology becuase it can lead to greater opportunities in the technology world and the whole world. This technology will unlock new ways on how people look and study the life of human beings.
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The mona lisa first is the most best masterpiece the painting of centery. She did not want to smile for the camra and so she did not she had mixed emotions.This story is telling about the program on the computer that gave mona lisa a smile, because she could not smile, she did not want to. That was the case she did not want to smile, so they had to come up with a way to give her a smile. So they came up with a way and got her a smile for the photo and now she is smileing thanks to the computer program. We would think that she would just smile but she would not have it and so they had to give her a fake smile.
So this story is them talking about how they made this program. When they put the smile on it was perfect. Mona lisa smile was not the greatest but could of fit the bill. Leonardo da vinci did not want her smile so they made a program and copywrited her smile and made it fake. Like they said "she was 83 percent happy,9 percent disgusred 6 percent fearful,and 2 percent angry."
The computers softwear that was created by thomas huang created the computer that can see peoples reactions to things. Her emotion was very inportant to leonardo da vinci her emotion was the part of the art because without the computer then she would be missing on things on her face. As in the mouth and her chin,nose and cheeks part of her cheeks. Like they said she was a little upset and they did not know how to get her is good mood so thomas huang created the computer that can notic emotion like as in sadness,anger,happy,nervisness,fear,disguest. All of the emotions every single one there are more emotions. So that means anybody gets there hands on this device then they can find out how anybody is felling. This device could mean the end of every thing.
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In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" the author, Nick D'Alto, provides information on FACS (Facial Action Coding Systems). I beilieve that this technology is valuable, because it could be used for educational, political, and entertainment purposes.
The first reason that the FACS system is valuable is that it could help students learn. D'Alto quotes Dr. Huang when he says "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. Then it coud modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor."(D'Alto 6). This technology would make sure that every student has the help they need if they are confused. D'Alto also says "The same technology can make computer-animated faces more expressive -- for video games or video surgury"(D'Alto 6). The FACS could be used for medical training as well as every day learning.
Secondly, the FACS could be used for politics. In the article D'Alto states " The can even indicate the difference between a genuine smile and a forced one."(D'Alto 7). This applies to politics, because politions who are ingenuine would be easily caught. D'Alto furthurs this thinking by saying "these muscle clues are sometimes used to spot when a "smiling" polititian or celeberty isn't being truthful."(D'Alto 8). This shows that this field of study is already applied to politics, but that the FACS will only inporove our ability spot the fakers.
Lastly, this technology could be used for entertainment purposes. D'Alto mentions that mimicking facial expression is used in the acting world. D'A;to say that an acting coach has his actors "carefully reproduce smiling and frowning faces as a way of creating these emotions on stage."(D'Alto 9). The FACS could help these actors more accuratly display the emotions their characters are feeling. Another way D'Alto says FACS could impove entertainment is by saying "The same technology can make computer-animated faces more expressive--for video games"(D'Alto 6). Making the characters in video games more expressive would have the same affect as making actors expressions more accurate. It creates a sense of realism and emersion to the audience, thus inproving the experience as a whole.
In conclusion I believe the FACS system could be very valuable in many ways.
It can help students study, call out fake celeberties or polititians, or make entertainment better.
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From Luke's point of view people should go to Seagoing Cowboys program. Because you get to go on adventures, visit many unique places, and to help the nation. In addition, in 1945 World War II was over in Europe, and many countries were in ruins. To help the nation Seagoing Cowboys had food supplies,and animals to help. You should go to Seagoing Cowboys because you can go on adventures, visit many unique places, and to help the nation.
People should go to Seagoing Cowboys because you can go on adventures,visit unique places,and help the nation. In addition, when you go to Seagoing Cowboys you can go on many adventures. For example, you can take a gondola ride in Venice,Italy, a city with streets and waters. In addition, you can also visit many unique places. In paragraph five, you can tour an excavated castle in Crete. On the other hand, the nation is in ruins from World War II so you can help the nation. For example, Seagoing Cowboys take care of the horses,young cows, and mules that were shipped overseas from the ruins. You should visit the Seagoing Cowboys because you can go on adventures,visit unique places, and help the nation.
People should go to Seagoing Cowboys for three reasons. One to go on adventures. Second you can visit unique places. Finally you can help the nation from the ruins. Seagoing Cowboys goes on adventures to different countries around the world. In addition, you can also visit unique places around the world too. Also you can help the nation from the ruins and help animals. You should go to Seagoing Cowboys to experience new things.
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The Face on Mars was not made by aliens because, Earth has land formations as well that have unusual forms because of the way our techtonic plates move. Also if there are any aliens on the planet that could have made the Face form on the planet don't you think they would still be there after all they made the Face form there so they should have been able to survive on the planet. The strange land form, commenly remind people of the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho because it have the same height of the Face on Mars. Plus, if it were made by aliens we wouldn't have found out about it NASA is really good at hiding things from us because they work for the government. Plus it is scientifically proven that nothng can survive in space because of the lack of oxygen and the coldness in space. Scientist have also found out that some planets have many features of the Earths inner layers, Plus in space there are many things such as metiorites thst could have hit the planet mars and amde that strange land form. The conspiracy theore is not true.
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In this article the author uses many examples on why Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The article not only talks about his side he also talks about the opposing side. As said in Paragraph two "since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than three decades." This is just one example of the article doing great in inlcuding his train of thought and the opposing side. Another example in the article where the author talks about the opposing side is "These conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth." This is commonly done by authors who are giving you both sides of the argument and then backing theres up with further explanation.
As you continue reading the article the author then supports the idea on why Venus is a worthy pursuit. He mentions that "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various froms of life, just like Earth" This is huge because another planet that supports life can lead to many maginificent finidings worth checking out is basically what the author is trying to get out of you. Further into the article the author brings up the idea that "a blimp-like vehicle could be hovering 30 or so miles above the rolling Venusian landscape" This gives a much safer and reliable option that the author mentions to study Venus and like said in the article "avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way"
To come to a consluion the author did a great way of explaining both sides of the topic "should Venus be explored despite the dangers it presents." The author supports his opinion with facts and safer options to study Venus. These safer options can get the reader to agree with Venus being explored. Finally the author made great connections between both sides but making his opinion stronger.
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In 1976 NASA scientists took a picture of a landform on Mars. Many people thought it looked like a human face. Some other people knew that it was just a landform that was common on Mars. I am here to tell you that is was just a natural landform. NASA has evidence that will backup this statement. In the following paragraphs I will tell you about the evidence, the camera technology, and how the media affected the responds of people.
Many people will argue that the mesa on Mars is a face. Although it may look like a face, it isn't. In paragraph 1 it says, "Scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa, common around Cydonia..." This quote tells us that the scientists were used to seeing these large landforms around the region. NASA wouldn't release these images if they thought aliens were involved. The object you see in the picture is simply a landform with shadows in just the right spot.
Back in 1976, the camera technology wasn't great. Many of the cameras had large pixles that made the pictures blury. In paragraph 10 it says, "Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo." This quote proves that the camera technology has improved greatly. Some conspiracy theorists aruge that even though the picture was not at high resolution, you can still see a face. This may be true,but you can also clearly see the shadows that made it look like a face.
The media had a significant impact on the Mars event. In paragraph 5 it says, "It has starred in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines, radio talk shows...and grocery store checkout lanes for 25 years." This shows that the media has made people believe that there is a face on Mars.
After going back and taking a picture of the face years after the original photo was taken, you can no longer see the face. In paragraph 10 it says, "Malin's team captured an extraordinary photo using the camera's absolute maximum resolution." This goes onto prove that NASA was right the whole time about the "Face" on Mars. This statement also shows that NASA was working on this mystery too.
After looking at all the evidence and photos you can clearly see that the "Face" on Mars is just a landform. If you think there is life on Mars, think again. The face has entertained many people for years, so it is nice to finally put this mystery behind us.
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Have you seen venus in the sky while your star gazing? although venus is often refered to as "earth's twin", it is challenging to explore. venus is one of the more challenging planets to explore for a couple of reasons. those reasons are, the caron monoxide, sulfuric asid, andand the severe temperatures.
venus is covered with a thick blanket of carbon monoxide. this is one of the reasons that makes it very dangerouse to go there. based on the article "the challenge of exploring venus", venus has " a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon monoxide" .this mutch carbon monoxide is very dangerouse.
the even more chalenging part is the sulferic acid.
the clouds on venus are filled with sulferic acid. not only is that dangerouse but the sulferic acid is,"highly corrosive". highly corrosif is almost like saying flamable.
and if the sulferic acid wasnt dangerouse/hot but the temperatuer alone is enough to kill you. here on earth we experience heat but on venus the heat is extreme. in the article it states, "on the planets surface ,temperatures average over 800 degrees farenhieght"
if you were wanting to try making it, good luck, but based on the information it seems like it is not recomended. so stay home on earth. enjoy the fresh air and life that awaits you. it is to dangerouse to waste your time on.
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On May 24, 2001 NASA's Viking 1 had taken pictures of Mars and saw a face like form, but sad to say this discovery is just another landform. Scientist have given many evidences that the Face is landform. The evidences is that they had taken better pictures of the Face. Many people do not like to hear the truth about something that they thinks is very interesting to them, so they do not believe what others say negative about it.
NASA had sent Mars Global Surveyor to fly or Cydonia
to capture better pictures of the Face. In Unmasking the Face on Mars it states, "... Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos." That means that they had taken a better look at Cydonia and the Face. In Unmasking the Face on Mars it states that, "Malin's team captures an extraordinary photo using the camera's absolute maximum resolution. Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo. As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size." So you could see what they were and it was a landform. Better pictures was a key to inform others that the Face is a landform and not created by aliens.
In conclusion, the Face on Mars is just another ordinary landform made by Mars. Scientists have given many evidences that the Face on Mars is a landform like Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. Scientists have taken many better pictures of Cydonia and the Face to prove that it is a landform and not something that was created by aliens. The landform in Cydonia that people think is a face created by aliens is just another ordinary landorm on Mars.
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Have you ever wanted to ride the waves? Well, I did. I was a seagoing cowboy. My name is Luke. I think you will like seagoing Cowboys because you can visit cool places, have fun with other crew mates, and see cool things. Here is why you can see cool places.
When you are a seagoing cowboy, that means that you get to move cattle around on a boat and visit neat places. When I was a seagoing cowboy, I went to places like China and Greece. It was pretty cool, and I think you would like it if you try it. Now, I will tell you how to have fun with other crew mates.
After you drop the cattle off, you have some free space. To use that free space, me and my crew mates did a lot of fun activities. We boxed, we played baseball and volleyball, as well as table-tennis tournaments. It was really fun. Now is why you will see cool things.
When you are visiting places like China and Greece, you get to see cool things in those places. In Greece I saw the Acropolis. I also visited Venice, Italy, and went on a gondola ride. It was wonderful. I will now start to end.
While being a seagoing cowboy, you can see neat places. As well as neat places, cool structures. And, you can always have fun while doing this. I think that you should be a seagoing cowboy, it'll be the most fun you've ever had.
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This article is abaut the platent of venus that are sometimes called Evening Star this is the secon planet from our sun,this planet is one that tje people can see from a large distance it has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely. this is the most dangerous for the people because the sun is like the fire the people can`t see and touch this in a short distance the sun and they light can be beautiful but is it most thing that is dangerous in the universe.
Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size ,and occasionally the closest in distance too, venus is a planet visit for the people,venus have many things that are interesting the people vistit this place for know somethings that they don`t know but they need know venus is one planet that are close with mart and earth venus is study for the humsn science.
A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon blankets venus. On the planet the temperatures average can be over a 800 degrees fahrenheit and the atmospheric pressure is like 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet,the conditions of the this planet can be more extreme than anything humans encounteron the planet earth venus is the only planet that have hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system,the other planet that are closer to the sun is mercury , beyond high pressure and heat.
Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting of volcanes powerful earthquakes and frequent lighting strikes to probes seeking to a lang on its surface. venus have nomerous factors that contribute reputation as a challenging platent for humans to study,despite its aproximity to us, venus should have a sulfuric acids in the venus atmosphera
In all of this we have a question Why are scientists even discussing further visits to its surface.? Venus is a fascinated planet for the astronomers because it may wellonce have been mthe most Earth like planet in the solar sytem venus is a planet know for the rocks and gas that there is.
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The arguement over if the driverless car is safe or not can be tested all around. These scientists are wanting more futuristic automobiles to try and make more effient ways for travel. Although, is it really that safe? In my personal opinion i think we do not have the technology to do it yet. These cars are not ready for the roads or anyone with the unsafe technology in them.
I don't think these cars are a good or safe idea for this time. The cars are proven to not be fully drivable unless on specifc roads created for it. What happens if someone is injured because the cars technology fails? The company would be responisble for this and most likely go into a lawsuit. It is just unsafe for the company, people, and surroundings for these cars to be on the road.
The whole aspect of a self driving car is amazing but creators shouldn't try to put these automobiles on the street until 100% proven to be perfect. If it isn't no one knows what kind of things can happen. There could be injures, tragic events, and all because these companies are putting unsafe technology into the hands of normal citizens that don't know anything about the possibility of these things happening. Therefore, i see it unsafe for these cars to be on the road around other citizens that can be injured from technology that isn't fully developed. All and all these driverless cars should not be sold or used for the public until they are 100% sure they will not have any technology fails, that is why i think they need to wait and mature every aspect and detail about this idea.
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