Hubble has shown the world Trillions of things that are too far away to see with a regular, backyard telescope.
NASA invented Velcro and a ton of things we use everyday.
The International Space Station (ISS) brought several countries together to work on a very big, expensive, Scientific project. We have made a lot of Scientific discoveries in Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Geography, Astronomy and other branches of Science and Math on the ISS.
It's very expensive to launch a rocket into space. NASA has to spend over 1 Billion dollars every time they launch a rocket. That is money that goes to companies and people all over the US and the rest of the world. That's "trickle down economics".
NASA and other space agencies have proven from space that the world is not flat. Scientists can watch the weather from space. They can spot hurricanes, tornadoes, Tsunamis and other things long before they can harm anyone. They can see lightning hitting Earth. They have discovered that lightning actually strikes Earth between 50-100 times per second!
They have sent spacecraft's to every single planet. They learned that all the gas giants (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune have rings around them. The only one you can see with a regular telescope at home is Saturn's ring.
They've discovered signs of possible life on Mars and a few moons in the Solar system, but no proof yet.
They've put military satellites in space, as well as others for GPS, Astronomy, Geology, Google Earth, Weather, Earth's atmosphere, and other things.
They've sent signals to other planets, in hopes of aliens intercepting the signals a Million light years away. They are also listening for signals from aliens.
Metiors and other things are headed toward Earth. NASA wants to find a way to stop them from hitting us and preventing a mass extinction of humans. (That's what killed the dinosaurs.)
If we are no longer able to live on Earth, we must find somewhere else to go.
The government has set off nukes in space for Scientific and military purposes. (Maybe nukes can be used to save Earth from being hit with a Metior.)
A lot of new technology had to be invented to build rockets powerful enough to get humans to space and be able to survive up there. New, advanced technology had to be invented to communicate with Astronauts from the ground.
Voyages I and II are in interstellar space, going far away from Earth. They now know how big the Heliosphere is.
The temperature of space is close to Absolute Zero. Scientists have done experiments on the Space Station to get even closer to Absolute Zero than the temperature of space. They can get closer to that temp on the ISS than they can on Earth.
They have talked about sending regular civilians like you and me to space for vacation. I'd love to go up, but, it will be too expensive.
Scientists know the appropriate size and composition of all the planets.
Probes have been sent to Venus. They landed on the surface and they stopped working within a few hours. Probably because it's so hot that they all may have melted or the acid rain may have damaged them as well. Either way, NASA knows that they can never send humans up there.
Spy satellites have been sent up for military purposes over countries like Iraq. They also have some over the US for: Military, law enforcement and Science. (Who knows, the government of the US and other countries might be watching you right now!)
It is really a lot of fun to watch a rocket launch.
There's a lot of things that were built Thousands of years ago which nobody can figure out how to replicate them and build them the same way today, including the Great Pyramids. They probably had help from aliens.
Some of the Pyramids line up perfectly with Orion's belt.
This is only scratching the surface of all the good things that have come from the Space Program.
Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
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Monday, September 30, 2019
Thursday, October 25, 2018
Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear Weapons:
If we ever do have a WWIII,
it won't necessarily be a nuclear war!
If there ever is a WWIII, it will very likely start out, the same way as WWII and a lot of other wars started: Just a regular, conventional war. Two countries will decide they don't like each other. Those countries will grab their guns, tanks, troops, etc, one country will invade the other. Then, those countries will ask for help from their allied countries and possibly even places like the UN.
Once other countries join forces, someone will decide to attack an innocent country that doesn't want to get involved, just like in WWII, Japan messed with the wrong country and got their butt kicked!
If, however, all countries play fair and obey the laws that say you can't use nuclear weapons at all, unless another country launches one at you first, then, no nuclear weapons weapons would be used at all in the first place! In the US, we can use them in retaliation for the use of chemical weapons by another country, against the US.
In fact, ironically, the US and most other countries that have nuclear weapons, including: Russia, Canada, India and China, just to name a few, have them and keep them well maintained and ready at all times to PREVENT WWIII from ever happening in the first place! NOT so that we can fight a nuclear war!
The US invented both Atomic and nuclear weapons.
Atomic bombs ended WWII, but, those are no longer used. Soon after the war, the US invented nukes. Russia soon followed, along with other countries.
Since the US and Russia didn't get along at the time that nukes we're invented, they thought, " since the US has nuclear weapons, we need to have them to, so we can defend ourselves."
The US did not teach Russia how to make nuclear bombs, they had to figure that out themselves. They did!
Once the US found out that Russia had their own nukes now, the US no longer had an advantage and had that much power over the Russians. The Two governments had to have a talk with each other now and they both agreed on one thing:
Mutually Assured Destruction!
The US President told the Russian government, "If you ever launch a nuclear missile on the US, it's over, because, if you launch even one at me, I'll hit you with a whole bunch of nukes!"
The Russian government said, "I understand that. The same applies to you! If you launch one at me, I'll do the same to you! Launch several more than what you launched at me!"
Either way, they both agreed, it would be a bad day and possibly the end of the world! They called it: "Mutually Assured Destruction".
Eventually, other countries learned how to make them to.
Bill Clinton wanted to make some kind of a trade at one time with N Korea. So, of all things he could of chosen to trade, he gave them the plans of how to build a working Nuclear bomb!
Russia eventually created the largest and most powerful nuclear bomb ever: The Tsar Bomba. Much bigger than any US nuke!
Then most countries around the world signed a treat saying that they will no longer test nuclear weapons at all. This includes testing of nukes everywhere: Above ground, under ground, above or under water, suspended or launched into the air or anywhere in outer space.
The problem with a treat, however, is that it is just a piece of paper with signatures on it. Most treaties only last a certain amount of time and they have to be renewed. When one President signs a treat for anything, that ruins things for every President after them! If the next President wants to test nukes, for example, in this case, now they can't, because, a former President signed a treat, making it illegal. Now the next Presidents after the one who signed the contract can't do it. But, they are going to think, "I should be able to do it, because my signature is not on that treaty! I'll find a loophole in the treaty and I'll do it anyway!"
Treaties get violated all the time!
There is a treaty that protects Antarctica. It says that nobody can drill for oil or test nukes or do other potentially harmful things on that continent. Also, nobody, except: Scientists, government officials, military and a few other, similar people are allowed to explore the Antarctic Continent. There are probably a few places where regular, civilian tourists can step foot on the land, just so they can tell their friends they have been to Antarctica and walk around on the ice glacier.
However, the easiest way to win a nuclear war would be to launch 1,000 nukes on Antarctica! That would cause massive flooding, Tsunamis and severe, global warming, just to name a few problems! But, that would kill Everybody in every country, rather quickly!
When you see the President on TV, you often see one person staying close by, with a brief case handcuffed to his wrist. That is because, everything in that brief case is so important, so top secret and would be very dangerous if it got into the wrong hands.
I don't know what all is in there, but, one of the most important and dangerous things in there is: The codes to all the nuclear missiles in the US and all of them that the US has in other countries.
Other countries know that the US President has easy access to the nuclear missile codes at all times, 24-7-365! That is another deterrent to the commies and terrorist countries launching a nuke at us.
The most recent nuclear weapons test is suspected to of been in North Korea, just a few years ago. They deny having ever built and/or tested a nuke. However, the US and a lot of other civilized countries are constantly watching N Korea. We are watching them from outer space, on the and under the ocean, from S Korea and other countries, etc.
It only takes the International Space Station about 90 minutes to completely circle the Earth! Don't you think Astronauts and Russian Cosmonauts could see the big mushroom cloud out the window of the ISS? However, that would be only, if someone were looking out the window at the right time and when they were over N Korea.
The satellites in space could also see it and, in several different countries, including the the US, they have devices that can detect the radiation and other things that are a tell tale sign of a nuclear explosion anywhere in the world. All the nuke detection systems around the world detected a nuclear blast somewhere on Earth. Nobody owned up to it. So it was investigated and, the evidence showed that it came from N Korea.
These days, there are some people who don't like nuclear weapons. They are trying to fight to get rid of them and have every country sign a treaty to get rid of all nukes and never make anymore ever again!
That's not going to happen!
Like I said before, a treaty is just a piece of paper! It is not worth anymore than the paper and the ink that it was signed with!
People and countries violate treaties all the time!
Besides, with so many unethical countries out there that support terrorism and they don't like the US or a lot of other countries, we better have something to defend our country's with!
Some countries, I would never trust, Even if they did sign a treaty like that! They'd sign it, but, still keep some nukes. The US needs to keep some nukes, just to prevent those countries from attacking.
However, there are a few countries that have signed a treat saying that they, in their own country, will not have any nukes. The government and people of those countries agree with and support the ban. Maybe, they are near other countries that do have nuclear weapons. In that case, if a nuclear missile we're launched on their country, it could hit one of those neighboring countries. Even if it hit the intended target, the radiation, fallout, explosion itself, etc would affect the countries next to them, so, those countries would probably retaliate by launching their own nuclear missiles.
If we ever do have a WWIII,
it won't necessarily be a nuclear war!
If there ever is a WWIII, it will very likely start out, the same way as WWII and a lot of other wars started: Just a regular, conventional war. Two countries will decide they don't like each other. Those countries will grab their guns, tanks, troops, etc, one country will invade the other. Then, those countries will ask for help from their allied countries and possibly even places like the UN.
Once other countries join forces, someone will decide to attack an innocent country that doesn't want to get involved, just like in WWII, Japan messed with the wrong country and got their butt kicked!
If, however, all countries play fair and obey the laws that say you can't use nuclear weapons at all, unless another country launches one at you first, then, no nuclear weapons weapons would be used at all in the first place! In the US, we can use them in retaliation for the use of chemical weapons by another country, against the US.
In fact, ironically, the US and most other countries that have nuclear weapons, including: Russia, Canada, India and China, just to name a few, have them and keep them well maintained and ready at all times to PREVENT WWIII from ever happening in the first place! NOT so that we can fight a nuclear war!
The US invented both Atomic and nuclear weapons.
Atomic bombs ended WWII, but, those are no longer used. Soon after the war, the US invented nukes. Russia soon followed, along with other countries.
Since the US and Russia didn't get along at the time that nukes we're invented, they thought, " since the US has nuclear weapons, we need to have them to, so we can defend ourselves."
The US did not teach Russia how to make nuclear bombs, they had to figure that out themselves. They did!
Once the US found out that Russia had their own nukes now, the US no longer had an advantage and had that much power over the Russians. The Two governments had to have a talk with each other now and they both agreed on one thing:
Mutually Assured Destruction!
The US President told the Russian government, "If you ever launch a nuclear missile on the US, it's over, because, if you launch even one at me, I'll hit you with a whole bunch of nukes!"
The Russian government said, "I understand that. The same applies to you! If you launch one at me, I'll do the same to you! Launch several more than what you launched at me!"
Either way, they both agreed, it would be a bad day and possibly the end of the world! They called it: "Mutually Assured Destruction".
Eventually, other countries learned how to make them to.
Bill Clinton wanted to make some kind of a trade at one time with N Korea. So, of all things he could of chosen to trade, he gave them the plans of how to build a working Nuclear bomb!
Russia eventually created the largest and most powerful nuclear bomb ever: The Tsar Bomba. Much bigger than any US nuke!
Then most countries around the world signed a treat saying that they will no longer test nuclear weapons at all. This includes testing of nukes everywhere: Above ground, under ground, above or under water, suspended or launched into the air or anywhere in outer space.
The problem with a treat, however, is that it is just a piece of paper with signatures on it. Most treaties only last a certain amount of time and they have to be renewed. When one President signs a treat for anything, that ruins things for every President after them! If the next President wants to test nukes, for example, in this case, now they can't, because, a former President signed a treat, making it illegal. Now the next Presidents after the one who signed the contract can't do it. But, they are going to think, "I should be able to do it, because my signature is not on that treaty! I'll find a loophole in the treaty and I'll do it anyway!"
Treaties get violated all the time!
There is a treaty that protects Antarctica. It says that nobody can drill for oil or test nukes or do other potentially harmful things on that continent. Also, nobody, except: Scientists, government officials, military and a few other, similar people are allowed to explore the Antarctic Continent. There are probably a few places where regular, civilian tourists can step foot on the land, just so they can tell their friends they have been to Antarctica and walk around on the ice glacier.
However, the easiest way to win a nuclear war would be to launch 1,000 nukes on Antarctica! That would cause massive flooding, Tsunamis and severe, global warming, just to name a few problems! But, that would kill Everybody in every country, rather quickly!
When you see the President on TV, you often see one person staying close by, with a brief case handcuffed to his wrist. That is because, everything in that brief case is so important, so top secret and would be very dangerous if it got into the wrong hands.
I don't know what all is in there, but, one of the most important and dangerous things in there is: The codes to all the nuclear missiles in the US and all of them that the US has in other countries.
Other countries know that the US President has easy access to the nuclear missile codes at all times, 24-7-365! That is another deterrent to the commies and terrorist countries launching a nuke at us.
The most recent nuclear weapons test is suspected to of been in North Korea, just a few years ago. They deny having ever built and/or tested a nuke. However, the US and a lot of other civilized countries are constantly watching N Korea. We are watching them from outer space, on the and under the ocean, from S Korea and other countries, etc.
It only takes the International Space Station about 90 minutes to completely circle the Earth! Don't you think Astronauts and Russian Cosmonauts could see the big mushroom cloud out the window of the ISS? However, that would be only, if someone were looking out the window at the right time and when they were over N Korea.
The satellites in space could also see it and, in several different countries, including the the US, they have devices that can detect the radiation and other things that are a tell tale sign of a nuclear explosion anywhere in the world. All the nuke detection systems around the world detected a nuclear blast somewhere on Earth. Nobody owned up to it. So it was investigated and, the evidence showed that it came from N Korea.
These days, there are some people who don't like nuclear weapons. They are trying to fight to get rid of them and have every country sign a treaty to get rid of all nukes and never make anymore ever again!
That's not going to happen!
Like I said before, a treaty is just a piece of paper! It is not worth anymore than the paper and the ink that it was signed with!
People and countries violate treaties all the time!
Besides, with so many unethical countries out there that support terrorism and they don't like the US or a lot of other countries, we better have something to defend our country's with!
Some countries, I would never trust, Even if they did sign a treaty like that! They'd sign it, but, still keep some nukes. The US needs to keep some nukes, just to prevent those countries from attacking.
However, there are a few countries that have signed a treat saying that they, in their own country, will not have any nukes. The government and people of those countries agree with and support the ban. Maybe, they are near other countries that do have nuclear weapons. In that case, if a nuclear missile we're launched on their country, it could hit one of those neighboring countries. Even if it hit the intended target, the radiation, fallout, explosion itself, etc would affect the countries next to them, so, those countries would probably retaliate by launching their own nuclear missiles.
Sunday, October 7, 2018
What if NASA offered you a chance to go to Mars? Would you go?
DO YOU WANT TO GO TO MARS?
A lot of people, including myself, really love outer space. But, do you really want to go there? Probably not!
If NASA called you and gave you the chance to be one of only a dozen people to go on the first trip to Mars, would you go?
It sounds cool. I have always wanted to go to outer space. That would be so awesome to spend one day in space. If, it only took a few hours to get to Mars, that would be cool to.
But, be careful what you wish for, because, you might get your wish!
On the space station, they recycle water. In other words, the water they use to flush the toilet gets filtered and cleaned. Then it goes back into a tank and the Astronauts drink that water! Then, they pee it out into the toilet, it gets filtered again, goes back into the holding tank and repeats the process over and over again! Yuck!
They lose muscle mass, because, in almost 0 gravity, you don't get to work your muscles very much. They have to exercise 2 hours a day to prevent muscle loss.
Food doesn't taste the same in space as it does on Earth.
What would you do if you can out of food or if the food you have with you spoiled or rotted and it was no longer safe to eat? The nearest grocery store is about 35,000 miles away, on Earth.
It is a very small space on a rocket, space shuttle or the ISS. It would get boring up there in those cramped quarters. If there is someone up there with you that you don't get along with, that would suck for you! It will take about 5 or 6 months to get to Mars with today's technology. You'll be on the planet for probably 6 months to a year, then a 6 month long trip back to Earth. All that time, you'd be with someone you hate!
The closest Doctor to you will be on Earth! If you get sick or injured, you are on your own. You will be able to call the Doctor on Earth and talk to him, but, he can't give you any prescription medication, stitch up a wound, put a cast on a broken bone, perform surgery or anything like that!
Mars is much smaller than Earth. That means there will be less gravity. That will have an affect on your weight, the amount of pressure and stress on your Spine, how you walk and other things. Astronauts have no stress on their spine on the International Space Station. In fact, while their in space, their spine stretches out and the Astronauts are about an inch or two taller in space. After 6 months, they come back to Earth and the Earth's gravity pulls their spine down and puts stress on it again. That causes back pain.
There are a lot of dust storms up there. The wind blows the Red, Iron Oxide all around and it will be hard to see. The wind might even blow you around as well. You will be much lighter on Mars than on Earth.
(The surface of the planet is made up of Iron Oxide, which is basically rust from iron, just like on a car. That's what gives Mars it's red color.)
You'll have to wear a space suit everywhere you go. You might get a hole in your suit, which you can't just fix with duct tape. You could also run out of Oxygen or have problems with your O2 tank. Either one of those things: a hole in your suit or problems with your Oxygen, would be life threatening.
It is very cold and dusty up there on Mars. The atmosphere doesn't stop Metiors or harmful UV Ray's, Gamma Ray's, X Ray's, and other harmful things from space as well as the Earth's atmosphere does.
If your space ship breaks down, there's no one there to fix it and no way for it to be fixed. You would never make it back home to Earth.
I am sure you'd have to sign a waiver before you went to Mars, saying you know all the risks you're taking and if anything happens to you your family can't sue!
On the bright side, you would die famous. You would always be known as one of the first people to ever land on Mars. NASA would probably name a satellite after you, your birthday might become a national holiday, people would write books and movies about you and your name would be as famous as Neil Armstrong, Galileo, Stephen Hawking and Edwin Hubble.
A lot of people, including myself, really love outer space. But, do you really want to go there? Probably not!
If NASA called you and gave you the chance to be one of only a dozen people to go on the first trip to Mars, would you go?
It sounds cool. I have always wanted to go to outer space. That would be so awesome to spend one day in space. If, it only took a few hours to get to Mars, that would be cool to.
But, be careful what you wish for, because, you might get your wish!
On the space station, they recycle water. In other words, the water they use to flush the toilet gets filtered and cleaned. Then it goes back into a tank and the Astronauts drink that water! Then, they pee it out into the toilet, it gets filtered again, goes back into the holding tank and repeats the process over and over again! Yuck!
They lose muscle mass, because, in almost 0 gravity, you don't get to work your muscles very much. They have to exercise 2 hours a day to prevent muscle loss.
Food doesn't taste the same in space as it does on Earth.
What would you do if you can out of food or if the food you have with you spoiled or rotted and it was no longer safe to eat? The nearest grocery store is about 35,000 miles away, on Earth.
It is a very small space on a rocket, space shuttle or the ISS. It would get boring up there in those cramped quarters. If there is someone up there with you that you don't get along with, that would suck for you! It will take about 5 or 6 months to get to Mars with today's technology. You'll be on the planet for probably 6 months to a year, then a 6 month long trip back to Earth. All that time, you'd be with someone you hate!
The closest Doctor to you will be on Earth! If you get sick or injured, you are on your own. You will be able to call the Doctor on Earth and talk to him, but, he can't give you any prescription medication, stitch up a wound, put a cast on a broken bone, perform surgery or anything like that!
Mars is much smaller than Earth. That means there will be less gravity. That will have an affect on your weight, the amount of pressure and stress on your Spine, how you walk and other things. Astronauts have no stress on their spine on the International Space Station. In fact, while their in space, their spine stretches out and the Astronauts are about an inch or two taller in space. After 6 months, they come back to Earth and the Earth's gravity pulls their spine down and puts stress on it again. That causes back pain.
There are a lot of dust storms up there. The wind blows the Red, Iron Oxide all around and it will be hard to see. The wind might even blow you around as well. You will be much lighter on Mars than on Earth.
(The surface of the planet is made up of Iron Oxide, which is basically rust from iron, just like on a car. That's what gives Mars it's red color.)
You'll have to wear a space suit everywhere you go. You might get a hole in your suit, which you can't just fix with duct tape. You could also run out of Oxygen or have problems with your O2 tank. Either one of those things: a hole in your suit or problems with your Oxygen, would be life threatening.
It is very cold and dusty up there on Mars. The atmosphere doesn't stop Metiors or harmful UV Ray's, Gamma Ray's, X Ray's, and other harmful things from space as well as the Earth's atmosphere does.
If your space ship breaks down, there's no one there to fix it and no way for it to be fixed. You would never make it back home to Earth.
I am sure you'd have to sign a waiver before you went to Mars, saying you know all the risks you're taking and if anything happens to you your family can't sue!
On the bright side, you would die famous. You would always be known as one of the first people to ever land on Mars. NASA would probably name a satellite after you, your birthday might become a national holiday, people would write books and movies about you and your name would be as famous as Neil Armstrong, Galileo, Stephen Hawking and Edwin Hubble.
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