Mercury Mountaineer

Oscar Wilde, in his quote that praises Icarus’ “fearless flight,” takes an opposing view to the lesson learned from reading the Greek myth of Icarus and Daedalus. In the myth, Icarus’ hubris, or extreme arrogance, in defying the Gods and ignoring his father’s instructions about flying too close to the sun, is punished by his wings melting and falling to his death. The theme is that one should respect rules and their elders and live within their limits. However, Oscar Wilde put a different spin on

Mercury's surface geology is much like the Moon's. Although, Mercury is a much denser planet and has a much larger liquid iron core. Mercury's surface is also covered in lava plains and impact craters. Some of Mercury's craters are also filled with lava from Mercury's interior. Although only 55% percent of Mercury's surface has been mapped by scientists. Craters can be bowl shaped or huge impact craters. The largest crater on Mercury's surface is called the Caloris Basin. There have been about 15

Mercury Mercury is a chemical element of heavy silver and white metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures. The main use of mercury is the making of thermometers and barometers. Sometimes mercury is used as an electrode in the production of batteries. Mercury can be very toxic and harmful to the human body. If inhaled it can cause destruction to the nervous, digestive, and immune systems and can even be fatal. Mercury is found in many natural sources such as volcanos, forest fires, and fossil

============================ Thimerosol is a “mercury-containing preservative...removed from most vaccines (Sears, 53).” The reason it was removed from most vaccines was due to the fact that “mercury in vaccines given to infants by six months of age was about 87 times the level thought to be safe (Sears, 53).” Thus the replacement for mercury in most vaccines became aluminum. Compared to mercury, aluminum is more common in the air, soil and food supply (Sears, 46). It is for this reason, presumably

Many of those who have begun to study astronomy have surely heard of Tycho Brahe—the brilliant, but eccentric whose observations would have gone to waste due to his supposed inability to give them a purpose—and of Johannes Kepler—that divine, inexhaustible mathematician. However, Owen Gingerich and Richard R. Voelkel argue that much of these stories are simply that—stories—and thus take it upon themselves to uncover what parts of the story of Tycho and Kepler can be shown as truth, and which parts

1 Asir Sinafe sat at his desk, looking over the reports of the new universe system his people, the Veltreni, had discovered. This new system had plenty of planets to evaluate for the next Culmination. The Veltreni were the perfect civilization. They had spent their entire existence terraforming prime planets to plant their genetic code, expanding their lineage. Their genetic code always evolved differently on each planet, given to the planet’s conditions. The Veltreni carefully watched over each

Johannes Kepler was born December 27, 1571, Weil der Stadt, Germany. He was a German mathematician, astrologer,and astronomer. He attended Tübinger Stift a university in Germany from 1587-1591 and would be a teacher of astronomy at the same university. He married Barbara Müller and had 5 kids 2 of those kids died as infants he would get a divorce and remarry in 1613. He would die November 15, 1630, Regensburg, Germany he would leave a large contribution to the science and math curriculum coming

Ray Bradbury in the story All Summer In A Day teaches the readers that we should be grateful for the things we take for granted, or do not acknowledge. In this case for the story, it is the sun. Ray created a world in which a sun only appeared for two hours every seven years, then making the readers realize how contradistinctive life in those childrens shoes could really be. Such as not being able to see colors, and when examined more closely, you can see that quite a few things can be

Imagine living on a planet with endless rain. In the short story, Ray Bradbury creates such a planet in “All Summer in a Day”. A group of scientist along with their children live on the planet of Venus. Margot is a character who is nine years old and has lived on this planet for sometime. She stands apart for the other children because she has a memory of the sun. She was not born on the planet Venus. She was born on the planet earth. The memory of the sun causes Margot to grieve the loss of

Ray Bradbury’s All of Summer in a Day is about denial in an unconfirmed truth and the disbelief and lack of trust that stems from it. Even when reputable sources predict events, most people are skeptical until they see it for themselves. In All of Summer in a Day, a frail girl called Margot lives on Venus after moving from Earth. On Venus, the sun only comes out for two hours every 7 years. In Margot’s school all of the other kids have never seen the sun before. Margot’s classmates have trouble believing