6. Apogee : the highest point of something
also the point in outer space where an object traveling around the Earth (such as a
satellite or the moon) is farthest away from the Earth
Wikipedia
8. Activity #1:
What’s your apogee or how high above
sea level have you gone?
What human do you think has the greatest apogee?
How high will you go? (What are your aspirations . . .)
10. 1,320,000 ft (270 miles)
126, 720 ft. (24 miles)
42,000 ft. (8 miles)
29, 029 ft. (5.5 miles)
approx. 462 ft.
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12. Carl Sagan
was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist,
author, science popularizer and science communicator
in astronomy and natural sciences.
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16. Activity #2:
Make your best educated guesses . . .
What does inquiry mean?
What does curate mean?
What does synthesize mean?
Watch the video and then revise.
21. Activity 3: Cinema Veriteen Evaluation Rubric
Rate Dr. Muller’s video. “Why are Astronauts Weightless?”
Rate Student Video, “How Does Pollution Affect Humans and
Agriculture?”
Critically evaluate Student Video #2: “How Does Global Warming
Affect the World-Wide Economy?”
32. 1,320,000 ft (250 miles) ISS
126, 720 ft. (24 miles) Felix Baumgartner
40,000 ft. (7.6 miles) Commercial Jets
29, 029 ft. (5.5 miles) Mount Everest
22, 837 ft. (4.2 miles) Aconcagua
20, 237 ft. (3.8 miles) Mount Denali
6, 684 ft. (1 mile and 1404 ft.) Mount Mitchell
2,722 ft. Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (highest bldg)
Approx. 500 ft. Reedy Creek Middle
Editor's Notes
Documentary
Total success. After many delays, Felix did it. He reached the highest altitude ever reached by any man in a balloon, more than 127,000 feet. He then jumped and fell faster than any man, breaking Mach 1 -- fastest speed of free fall at 1,357.64 km/h (843.6 mph
spiration is often associated with a whimsical sense of dreaming about the future. The Quaglia Institute for Student Aspirations, an independent non-profit organization, defines aspiration as the ability to set goals for the future while maintaining the inspiration in the present to reach those goals. When a student has dreams for the future and is actively working towards them, she’s in the “aspirational zone.” And in that state, student achievement increases.
http://iss.astroviewer.net/
November 9, 2012
Carl Sagan was a Professor of Astronomy and Space Science and Director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University, but most of us know him as a Pulitzer Prize winning author, the creator of the groundbreaking PBS series, COSMOS, and a tireless advocate for science and reason.
Sagan was that rarest of individuals. He was a scientist and researcher who was also adept at communicating scientific ideas to the general public. He was an example of how to blend healthy skepticism with a child-like sense of wonder. He was a teacher who routinely disproved the unfounded and often dangerous beliefs of his fellow humans without ever losing his belief in humankind.
Today, on what would have been his 78th birthday, thousands of people around the world are taking time out from their normal routine to pay tribute to Sagan, revisit his meaningful work, and revel in the cosmos he helped us discover and understand.
Check our Carl Sagan Day Event Calendar for activities near you!
Imagine a home speaker system that identifies everyone in the room and plays only the music they wanna hear.
Tapping into tiny RFID chips installed on people’s cell phones, this system would pinpoint each person’s Facebook profile, parse their music tastes by way of the streaming music service Spotify, and create a playlist on the fly. And as new people enter the room and others leave it, the system would adjust this playlist accordingly.
What you imagine is here today. Tim Ryan and a team of four other engineering students built such a contraption last year, as part of their senior capstone project at Olen College in Massachusetts, and if you like, you can build one too. Ryan and his team didn’t just create a new-age speaker system. They created a collection of hardware and software that let anyone build all sorts of physical devices that interact with the people around them. “We wanted to create a platform for building socially connected machines,” Ryan says.
In 2008, Professor Lee Berger—with the help of his curious 9-year-old son—discovered two remarkably well preserved, two-million-year-old fossils of an adult female and young male, known as Australopithecus sediba; a previously unknown species of ape-like creatures that may have been a direct ancestor of modern humans. This discovery of has been hailed as one of the most important archaeological discoveries in history. The fossils reveal what may be one of humankind's oldest ancestors.
Berger believes the skeletons they found on the Malapa site in South Africa could be the "Rosetta stone that unlocks our understanding of the genus Homo" and may just redesign the human family tree. Berger, an Eagle Scout and National Geographic Grantee, is the Reader in Human Evolution and the Public Understanding of Science in the Institute for Human Evolution at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Berger's discovery in one of the most excavated and studied areas on Earth revealed a treasure trove of human fossils—and an entirely new human species—where people thought no more field work might ever be necessary. Technology and revelation combined, plus a good dose of luck, to broaden by ten times the number of early human fossils known, rejuvenating this field of study and posing countless more questions to be answered in years and decades to come.
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