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    Brewery Investigation

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    Brewing Equipment and Brewery Profile 1 Pre-investigation #2 – BREWING EQUIPMENT AND BREWERY PROFILE Dennis Metz University of South Florida PRE-INVESTIGATION #2 – Brewing Equipment and Brewery Profile 2 Equipment: Airlock, Boiling Pot, Bottles, Bottle Capper, Bottle Caps, funnel, Bottle Brush, Fermenter, tubing, Siphon/Hose, Racking Cane, Stirring Paddle and a Thermometer. Recipe: • 5 pounds of Hopped Malt Extract syrup. • Water - 5 gallons. • 1-2 ounces of Hops

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    Joker Mission Crew

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    contact NASA. Mitch Henderson, the Ares 3 flight director, convinces Teddy Sanders, the NASA administrator to tell the rest of the crew about Watney’s survival. The crew feels happy and guilty at the same time. Due to Watney’s repeated use of the airlock, the canvas in the Hab tears. This decompresses the Hab, almost kills Watney, and kills his plants. Luckily, Watney is able to repair the Hab. NASA makes a probe to send Watney supplies but the rocket disintegrates after liftoff. In a second attempt

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    Physical Science

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    Physical Science I have learned from my twenty years of service in the U.S. Air Force, significant background knowledge of the history of the space shuttle. In September 1969, two months after the first manned lunar landing, a Space Task Group appointed by the President of the United States to study the future course of U.S. space research and exploration made the recommendation that "…the United States accept the basic goal of a balanced manned and unmanned space program. To achieve this goal,

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    Andy Weir's The Martian

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    Mars is only a tenth of the size of the Earth. In Andy Weir’s The Martian, the main plot is that astronaut Mark Watney is stuck on Mars. The main conflict is that he is struggling to survive in harsh conditions with little food and other resources. The theme is learning to survive and adapt with changes--maybe a drastic one, like getting stranded on another planet. The author of The Martian, Andy Weir, has led a very interesting life which allows him to embed great action and humor into his first

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    In the novel The Martian, Mark Watney is passed out and stranded on Mars alone, after being left behind by the rest of the crew after they witnessed him being impaled in a sandstorm, believing that he is dead they had no choice but to leave. As Mark is stranded on Mars alone he has no one to rely on, but he has his skillset to thank, being a botanist and mechanical engineer definitely helped him out. Throughout the novel we are able to follow Mark in this challenge to survive for four years until

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    Repair Work Under Way--Do Not Remove This Tag Without Proper Authority. That explained why the lifeboat was still there and not been used by the other crewmen. Collins mind was numb as he opened the airlock of the small craft. He didn't even attempt to think. All he wanted was to see exactly how the vessel had been disabled by the repair crew. He went inside. The lights were working in the lifeboat, showing that its power was still functioning. Collins

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    be done, so the main character called Stardust looking for a way for her to survive. Nothing could be done so she wrote some letters to her family and got to call her brother for the last time to here his voice. After the call she had to walk into airlock alone while the main character greaved, and had to open the door to let her go. The main character sulked back to his captains chair to finish his mission

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    crew. There is a sensor on the ship that tells if there is something radiating heat, the sensor came on and the pilot found a young girl, Marilyn, in the supplies closet. According to the rules about stowaways he was supposed to throw her out the airlock immediately but the pilot could not bring himself to do it until he absolutely had to. He talked to Commander Delhart about this situation but the commander couldn’t do anything other than give the Pilot a time of when Marilyn had to for sure be jettisoned

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    Oryx and Crake is a unique novel written by Margaret Atwood. It explores the United States, before and after the entire human race is wiped out by a viral infection, through the eyes of a man named Snowman who, before the outbreak, is known as Jimmy. While in high school, Jimmy meets another boy named Glenn and the two became friends. They bond over weird hobbies including watching an array of things ranging from open heart surgeries to pornography and online games. One day Glenn and Jimmy need codenames

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    Sphere Sphere is a science fiction, psychological comedy novel by Michael Crichton about a ship in the bottom of the ocean. When psychologist Norman Johnson is flown to the middle of the ocean,west of Tonga, where he is joined by Captain Barnes, Beth, Ted, Harry, Tina, Jane, Teddy, Arthur and Teeny Fletcher. The group goes underwater to investigate a ship that is 300 years old, but the technology is highly more sophisticated than the fairly new space crafts. The ship has no damage, and the heroes

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