which is why we like the Red Planet

I'll just skim over all of this later and absorb it even more watered down. The important stuff will stick

hahhaaha and note words like "concluded" and "believed"

hmmm. yes.

it has been thought that there was life on Mars in the past (see pages 8-10 for more details) and today we still look for evidence that life might have once been on Mars, or that there will be someday

because we have no definite answers, we must draw conclusions from what we do know using the scientific method (and I will pretend to skim the paragraph explaining what the scientific method is)

some theories have survived the scientific method long enough that they are now considered to be laws of nature. They have proven true, and can correctly predict what will happen in some situations. Newton's laws of motion are good examples of this

there is skepticism built into the method, therefore we as a whole do not believe something until it has been thoroughly tested and still stands. Even then it can be disproven, but it helps us to explain the universe and gives us grounds with which to poke at other ideas

blahblahblah.... Darwin.... Backed up by fossils.... Blahblahblah...

complex forms of life have only evolved in the last 1/6 of Earth's lifetime

Newton's laws of motion are good examples of this

 

*physics revision kicks in* :D

one way to find life would be to see how the universe evolved, and then figure out which other places and planets might have life now or in the future

a "conservative" approach at looking for life is to limit the search to being just in the Milky Way galaxy, and if we do find some other civilization, we will focus on ones that have technology such as the radio. Some life may be far less or far more intelligent, and in this approach we want to find life like ourselves

Newton's Laws of Motion (in a nutshell)

 

1st Law

A body remains at rest or constant velocity until an external force acts on it

 

2nd Law

Force is proportional to the rate of change of momentum

 

3rd Law

If body A exerts a force on body B, B will do the same to A. Same type and size, opposit direction.

 

(when the mass of a body is constant 2nd law becomes F=ma)

So I just took notes over 17 pages of text in.... 15 posts? :P

and that is Ch1 of my book :P

now I think I shall go back to my room for an hour because my laptop is going to die

but first a little more food

It was very quiet in maths today, when my teacher suddenly yelled SQUIRREL!

 

Most hilarious

 

seriously?

Amara's law – "We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run."

Asimov's three laws of robotics – Also called, more simply, the three laws of robotics or just the three laws, a set of rules which the fictional robots appearing in the writings of Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) must obey. There were eventually four laws when the Zeroth was added.

It was very quiet in maths today, when my teacher suddenly yelled SQUIRREL!

 

Most hilarious

 

seriously?

 

Yup :)

Benford's law – In any collection of statistics, a given statistic has roughly a 30% chance of starting with the digit 1.

It was very quiet in maths today, when my teacher suddenly yelled SQUIRREL!

 

Most hilarious

 

seriously?

 

Yup :)

 

are your teachers schizophrenic?

Cope's rule – Population lineages tend to increase in body size over evolutionary time.