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one of the reasons it have een chalnging to use
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to reach mars becues it has an atmosphere of almost 97% carbon dioxide becues the cllouds of corrosive sulfuric acid in venus's atmosphere. and its also very hot there the temreture reaches "800f' and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater then what we experience on our own planet. these conditions are far more e...
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and thats why we need too study venus more becues if anything happend to earth we might have a secound place to live in.
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The advantages of limiting car usages
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it lowers green house gases,
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less traffic,
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a reduction in enviromental problems.
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Less lung porblems or other desieses. fresher air and less enviromental problems like global warming. Even smog in Paris or Beijing, even China.
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no lights to stop at for 10 minutes. The only thing that could make you late for work or school would be you walking to slow or taking a transit or subway. Also, people will be fined for parking in the wrong area, making people want to drive less.
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Like, global warming or green house gases. less trees would be cut down for parking lots or paved streets.
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The advantages to limiting car usage would be that it lowers green house gases, less traffic, and a reduction in enviromental problems. Such as global arming, green house gases, and smog.
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"The challenge of studying Venus" is a very interesting story. In the story the author tells us a lot about Venus and its harsh conditions. The title describes the story very well.
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Venus seems like it would be very challenging to explore and the author gives many reasons why it would be so difficult. For some reason though he doesnt really list any benefits to exploring Venus.
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Throughout the whole story the author is just making Venus sound like a horrible place.
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In the article he writes " Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere." Again he is describing Venus to sound like an awful place, so why would you want to explore it. Another good claim he makes is that, "since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hou...
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Throughout the story the author does list at least one benefit to exploring Venus. In the story he writes, " it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." Yes i can agree that would be a great reason to explore Venus,
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but here are the downsides to that. Venus now is not like Earth, it is more like a destroyed Earth.
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The author writes " on the planets surface tempatures average over 800 degrees fahrenheit." You cant even walk on the surface without burning up, how is this like Earth? The author also mentions," Venus was probaly covered largely with oceans." All those oceans that may have been their are gone now. Why would we explor...
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In conclusion the author does not give many benefits to exploring Venus. All he really did was list the benefits to why we shouldnt explore Venus. In my personal opinion if i where a scientest and somone read me this i would not want to explore Venus. In the end i do not believe the author makes a good case to explore ...
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" The reason that 44 nations joined the program was because, when World War II was over in Europe, and many countries were left in ruins, people around the world had got together from different nations to help these poor people, that got there town destroyed, house/apartments, and also helped the animals get taken care...
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Personal automobiles and cars have played a major role throughout the world since the invention of the car in World War 2. Cars have been a very successful invention and many people drive their own every day on their way to work, school or other places their feet cannot carry them. Though the car has fulfilled its duti...
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a revolutionary idea has been spreading around the world: using personal automobiles less.
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promoted a happier society
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a cleaner environment
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an open attitude towards alternative transportation.
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by establishing an agreement to decrease car use, people have been said to be happier and stress-free.
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The continuing congestion and traffic jams that are among most areas of the world, create an enormous amount of stress for the people driving. Many develop road rage or irritability and are unhappy after suffering from a long ride home because of traffic. Some believe that cities should become more like Vauban, a commu...
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With a smaller amount of people using their personal vehicles, less gas emissions are becoming a part of the Earth's atmosphere.
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Humans breathe in the gases that are polluting the air and can become sick from it. The environment suffers from the dirty air and may not be able to sustain life if there is not a stop to the large amounts of pollutants being emitted into the air. In the United States, passenger cars are the cause of "up to 50 percent...
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declining the use of cars creates an open attitude towards alternative transportation methods.
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Those who live in car-free communities discover new ways to reach the destinations they have reach throughout the day. Some will utilize their body and take advantage of nature by biking or walking from one place or another. Others might us public transportation or will car-pool with those who do own a car. As previous...
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a life without cars might be a life worth living since it contributes to a stress-free society, a healthy environment, and an acceptance of other means of transportation. By relying less on cars, people can eliminate the variety of negative impacts on the world. The Earth can become a happier, cleaner, and more accepti...
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The face on the planet is just a weird land marking. It was not made by aliens it was only just luck that it was there.
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The face that you think is there is just from the land was or an astroid
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It it was made by aliens there wouldn't just one face on the planet.
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The aliens didn't know what we look like or what a Egypion Pharaoh would look like.
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Why would the aliens just make the face and not the body too.
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When Michael Malin went up to take a picture of the the face they got a sharper snap for the picture.
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There was no alien monuments or landforms for the aliens.
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The people who want the face to be made by aliens are not very smart.
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If there are aliens and they find out who is watching and trying see if they are real, might come here to hurt or kill us.
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If we do find what do you think will happen, we "hi we are from earth we are the ones who spy on you". First they proubly won't know what we are saying. And they will most likely want to kill us.
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What we found was just a land marking that isn't something to we should mess with. What you saw was just a land marking that means nothing.
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There are no such things as aliens, and if there are such things as aliens we should just leave them alone.
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Venus can be a scary planet when it comes down to its features.
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The writer to this story certanly convinced me that we should not study Venus anymore
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We have tried to land spacecraft on the planet before, but none have last no more than a few hours
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how are we supposed to study it when it just keeps destroying our spacecrafts. We haven't tried it again in a decade. The reason to this is that Temperatures vary around 800 degrees fahrenheit. Venus has a thick atmosphere of 97% carbon dioxide. If us humans even take a step on Venus we get crushed. Venus has a 90% ato...
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We could use spacecraft to hover over venus about 30 miles or so above it.
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Even if we did that we couldn't take sample rocks or gas
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Are technology gets better throughout the years, so maybe one day well figure a way out to oustand that heat and pressure
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Even if we do that though, what would be the sense if we cant even live on the planet. Half of the stuff we use today will never outstand the heat or pressure that Venus has. Including phones,cars,and houses.
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This shows you that studying venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents.
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Cell phone use should not be legal while driving, it causes many accidents even fatalities. Drivers become careless while driving when using cell phones.
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Cell phones cause distractions while on the road. Drivers do not pay attention to the road, which causes accidents to happen.
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The most prevalent distractions are texting and talking on a cell phone while driving.
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Even the act of just dialing a cell phone can be dangerous. This increases the crash risk by 3 times. This is one of the worst distractions drivers can have, Due to the fact that you are not paying attention to the road. The driver's hands are not on the steering wheel which causes you to lose control of your car. This...
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This causes the same problems as just dialing a cell phone. Drivers are too busy focused on their screen to pay attention to the road. They are also too busy thinking about their responses and what to say to pay attention to other drivers on the road. Since it usually takes two hands to text, the drivers have no hands ...
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Drivers however, underestimate their risks of getting into an accident while using their cell phone on the road. Companies also have this break with reality. They promote things like hand free devices,
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even though those have been shown not to eliminate the risk of getting into an accident. "Device makers and auto companies acknowledge the risks of multitasking behind the wheel, but they aggressively develop and market gadgets that cause distractions. They acknowledge these things happen but they still market things ...
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Cell Phone use should be illegal while driving. The worst are texting and talking on the cellphone while driving. Both inhibit driver awareness and increase the risk of getting into an accident. Hands free devices do not eliminate the risk of getting into an accident; it's a horribly common misconception. Cell phone di...
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A boy named luke that graduated for high school and had worked two part time jobs in a grocery store . His friend had ask him if he wanted to go to Europe on a cattle boat ,luke said yes he said he couldnt have said no beacuse he doesnt like saying no to people. And he also said that it was a oportunity of a lifetime. ...
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This article tells us the challenges that venus has to lay for us but this auther has found the was we try to beat tose challenges like in section 7 last sentenes he say that if we can just fine the resouses to build somthing to hold that force that venus has we could fined a lot that we dont even know.
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Auther did a very great job finding his resouces and fact about his story he told
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He's a hard worker because of this topic this isnt a everyday topic people talk about I love how he talks about the trips at the end of the passages that we might be able to go the venus and look at what its like on that planet
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To support what ive been talking about in section 8 line 1 he says Striving to meet the challenge presented by venus has value I beleave that if we challenge are selfs hard and hard that we could be about to make it there and by him saying venus has values i bleave that if we got there we could possible be about to see...
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This article is good for people how like space and sciences to learn about venus and what we want to do as later missions it is possible that somthing once lived on venus thats probablly why we call it the twin to earth because it just like earth but just the first stages of earth.
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No one has ever landed on venus so the author is saying this because no space ship has survived landing for more than a few hours. maybe the issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on veunus more than three decade,
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venus really is a challanging planet for people to study.
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Venus has a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide covers venus, even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfric acid in the atmophere. On the surface, temperatures average over 800 degress F and the pressure is 90 times greater than our planet.
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The conditions are extreme than anything humans encounter, due to the pressure and th heat of venus.
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Beyond the pressure and the heat venus has geology and wather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to the land surface.
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It'll be dangerous even trying to live on venus but if you want to live on vnus be prepared for these desasters. Like for example our jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms, a vehicle hovering over venus would advoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way.
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This is why NASA is working on a wat to approach and study venus,
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like some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tsted in a chamber simulating the chaos of venus surface and have lasted for three weeks in the conditions of venus. Imagine a blimp like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the rolling venusian landscape, that'll be very cool and amazing to see and w...
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Just if you ever think about wanting to go visit venus..make sure you bring lots of water and a cooling suit that'll cool you when you attempt to walk along across venus.
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Advantage of limits on car usage and life goes on without car,car free cities in german suburb. these articles talks about how car is aint realy needed being use how now day peole and the article in german suburd,life goes on without cars discuss people given up on they car. there are only two places to park they have ...
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I think that people should participate in the 'Seagoing Cowboys'
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you will learn things, know things, and see things that are new to you. You would also be very amuzed by half of the things you see, such as long ago history buildings, and even musumes. This event that you will take, will open the world up to you. It will show you how other people do things, and how they get treated.
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If I had the chance to be a 'Seagoing Cowboy' I would take the chance, because there is so many opportunities that you will take such as lifetime events.
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You would see things and stuff that you probally have never seen before, I would love to see Europe an Africa. Like Luke went to a castle that was most likely beautiful and amazing. It would also be a good family trip or good friends trip, if you went with one of them.
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Many people are instrested in history so it would be a good trip full of amuzed things.
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You also could probally visit the history building, were special events took place. People would even ask you to try or do something and that would also be a lifetime event that you always wanted to do. Most people don't like doing this stuff because it 'takes to long to get there' or something, but like i keep saying,...
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In this story that i just wrote, it tells you good reasons to take the chance of becoming a 'Seagoing Cowboy' .The fact that it would be so amazing and cool, and it once a again, a lifetime event. I would like you to think about what you would see and adventure while you are going adventuring to these amazing places, o...
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The author suortts both ideas it the text he thinks that its smart that people whant to go visit Venus but at the same time he thinks that its very dangers to go too venus.
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Venus is like earths twin venus haves that same shape, and they even think that venus youse to look like earth. Venus just have diferint was of being its salf like the acid rain, hot temperatures, and even its crazy weathers.
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I still think that trying to learn about differient plants is not right becuses us as people doint even know adout are oun plant. I still think that we have a lots of time till earth becomes like Veunus.
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In the text the author is trying to tail us that " Venus is the closest planet to Earth is terms of density and size,and occasionally the closest in destance too. Earth, Venus, and Mars, our other planetary neighbor, orbit the sun at different speeds."
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Are people in NASA havent even found a way to land in Venu. From the text
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"Each preious mission was unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship had touched down on Veunus in more than three decades."
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Even for a perion to be there is too dangrues the planet's surface temperatures average over 800 degrees Fehrenheit.
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I even think that that we could not live there in Venus cuse of the climates.
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From the text shown that "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly surface acid in Venus's atmosphere."
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Venus's is plant is formed just like earth But just with too much on it. strate from the" Beyon high pressure and heat, Venusian geologgy and weather present additional impedimments like eruoting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to prodes seking to land on its surface." Some scientist thi...
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If im still living when there finaly find a way to arive safly to venus I would love to go. NACA is working on a way to to git to venus and to land on that plant safly.
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Many students dislike completing summer projects during their vacation time. After working hard in school, they look forward to relaxing and giving their brain a rest. It is vital that we do not mentally burnout, however, it is also important that we keep our brain somewhat active during summer break. This is why stude...
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some people may think that students would create less overwhelming assignments,
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teachers should ultimately design summer work
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to ensure that students are truly challenging themselves,
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not wasting their vacation time,
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