Chapter Eleven : A Ride Through Space

“2001: A space Odyssey” opens in the African Rift Valley, where a tribe of hominids encounter a stone monument which has obstructed on their domain. This stone monument transmits radio waves that end up expanding their IQ 's, teaching them weaponry and other tool uses to help them live, as they proceed to defeat a rival tribe. Four million years later, we see the luxurious space travel that the vintage science fiction of the 1960’s, with space stations for air terminals and such. Dr. Heywood Floyd is heading to Clavius Base, a United States lunar station. Along the way, he finds out about gossipy tidbits about an unidentifiable disease going around on the Clavius Base and his responsibility to study a four-million-year-old structure. Floyd

Claire stared in awe at the crystal clear water rushing down. She had been to this land many times, but this was the first time she had ever seen this beautiful waterfall. As Claire stood there watching the water, a giant sky blue dragon soared in front of the waterfall. She looked down at her watch, even though when she was in this world time froze in the regular world. Slowly, she turned to walk back to reality. As she slipped the golden key into the keyhole, the portal opened. Claire walked back into reality and set the beautiful ancient key into her desk drawer.

The shouting grows louder, and the smoke from the other building wafts into ours, forcing Polo to lay on his stomach. After a few hours, a loud grinding of metal on metal comes from above us, and the building begins to shake. For some reason, I feel the absence of solid ground. I fly out of Polo’s pants pocket and see that I am outside the building and falling toward the ground. The world seems to spin; one second, I see the pavement below, and the next I look up toward the smoke and flames emitting from the tower. Polo is falling too, only a few feet below me.

In 1965, NASA’s annual budget was $5.2 billion; this money was spent to heat up the Space Race (“Project Apollo”). The Space Race and its competitive nature is best illustrated in this passage from John F. Kennedy’s Address at Rice University on the nation's space effort, “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too” (“John F. Kennedy”). The launch of the Soviet satellite, Sputnik 1, was the event that began the Space Race (The First 13). It was launched on October 4, 1957 (Taylor, Roberts, and Bullock 2451; “The Space Race”). This metallic sphere created the panic of the Sputnik Crisis and the missile gap (Commager 628; Taylor, Roberts, and Bullock 2451; The First 13). Two products of the Sputnik Crisis were the National Defense Education Act and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (“A Brief;” Apollo to the moon 19-20; The First 25). From that point on, the race was on. Although the Soviet Union had a head start in the Space Race, the United States caught up with and surpassed them because of their advanced education system, the German engineers, technology from the Second World War, and their different types of government and economic systems.

As I rip a hole in the universe the guards start rushing in we all make a jump in the portal. The portal closed on the guard's foot. “Holy $h!t,” I screamed his foot on the ground still moving.

On Chapter 3.6 she reads about how light is a wave, massless, and able to travel through void. Progressing on to Chapter 3.7, Katie nearly completes this section before stopping and rereading a new definition for light. Light is a particle with mass, which can only travel through matter. Well fuck! She thinks before closing the book. Katie was feeling very eager and her mind was drifting toward thoughts of a young man named Francisco. Across the globe, a cigarette was burning cherry red in Francisco’s dry Mexican lips. He stood on a Paris balcony. He also did not exist outside of Katie’s mind.

“Dave, my mind is going, Hal says forlornly “I can feel it. I can feel it”. Nicholas Carr starts off his article with this line from the movie A space Odyssey basically using that specific line to unfold his argument saying that as over the years he can feel his mind deteriorate, no not because he’s getting old but because the usage and expand of using google has lead him to taking the easy way out which is followed by becoming lazier and lazier when doing or looking up certain things. Yes, he stated that the internet can be a big advantage for us, but defaults follow behind it also, it’s so quick to come up with a book online or come up with facts in two seconds which we have become so accustomed to doing instead of taking the time to go to

Nicholas Carr’s “Is Google making us stupid?” (2008) demonstrates on how the complex search engine can drastically change individuals reading habits. Google has been a leading search engine for well over the past decade, and continues to break down and distribute information so simple that a Neanderthal could understand. Carr has an uncanny way of bringing his point across by the use of symbolic pop culture refrerences that reinforce his unique way of swaying the reader. Carr’s reference to “Space Odyssey” portrays how Google can change our way of thinking, without actually noticing anything at all. Carr notes “ My mind isin’t going—so far as I can tell---but it’s changing” (Carr, 2008, P. 89) To further understand this revelation, Carr documents his conversations with notable professors in regards to how the so called “Information age” is forever changing our way of how we perceive and decode information

The main character is Beatrice “Tris” Prior and is the lead character and narrates the whole series. She is 16 and born to the faction abnegation but eventually transferred to dauntless and has to face the fact that she is “divergent” which is a combination of many factions and puts her life at risk because the government is looking for people like her. She has 3 other people in her family: Andrew prior (dad), Natalie prior (mom) and Caleb prior (brother) her mom and dad die earlier in the series, all that is left of her family is her and caleb. She gets into a relationship with Tobias Eaton, as the book progresses on they go through some conflict but still cared and took care for each other throughout, her friends and relationships include:

This novel is a story about a serial killer who kills serial killers. The beginning of the story starts off when Dexter is “dealing” with one of his “victims” and continues on to when a mystery murder takes place in Miami, where Dexter livesssion-oriented serial killers justify their acts as “ridding the world of evil”, which is exactly what Harry drilled into Dexter’s brain; “there are plenty of people who deserve it” was one of his more common phrases. The qualities that make him a sociopath are: his lack of remorse, superficial charm, lying coolly, lack of empathy, early behavioral problems, and fakes human emotion. His need to kill came from the traumatizing events that he blocked out of his mind; Dexter and his brother watched their mother

My team and I are heading to the Enterprise for just one day around, new years. The Star Trek will be demolished around late February. The January trip is so my team and I can prepare for what will be the last shoot on the set at stage nine. Some of my crew will be driving from Charlotte, NC, Columbia SC and Atlanta, GA. I figured you may be nearby seeing your parents. I have a seat for you if you like; all you have to do in return is take a few photos. It would be nice to see you again; I will likely already be on set before your drive down. It would also be nice because you could meet my Brother in Law, GF, cinematographer Pierce cook and possibly Erik Lee and his Fiancé will be there.

First I will be giving a brief synopysis of 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick. This movie start off somewhere millions of years ago. Where ape like creatures who could be the start of humans are seen in their natural habitat doing what they would naturally be doing. Then they come across something unusual a black structure known as a monolith, upon coming across this monolith the ape starts to change and this is when the the first sign of tool usage. By one ape being curious and finding the remaining bones of an animal and then starts using the bones as tools, starting to hit things with it which then set them apart from others. Here is where evolution appears and the change of men is seen. As time passes to the future, the movie

The main purpose of this chapter is to illustrate the reader on Charles man’s airplane expedition and the famous Allan Holmberg’s mistake. The key question the author is addressing to is the controversy between Holmberg’s mistake and Charles man’s diverse beliefs.

A Star Trek collection won't be complete without Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. This installment in the series concludes the story lines that began in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. In this installment the Enterprise must take a trip back in time in order to save earth. Watch as they head back in time to find a humpback whale, since there are no humpback whales left on earth. Once they find the whale they bring it back to the present and use it to help them save the Earth.

Synopsis of scientifically accurate sci-fi: The sci-fi will be a narrative of astronauts who are traveling in space on a mission. It will center around their worries of recent signs of their deteriorating health. It will discuss the damage radiation has dome to their bodies, and how that impacts their career as an astronaut. It will also discuss their attempts to decrease the damage space radiation does by increasing the protection level of their spacecraft, decreasing the amount of exposure they get by traveling faster in space, and decreasing the frequency of travel.