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Oil Spills And Pollution
Number of Words: 478 / Number of Pages: 2
... million gallons of oil from Prince William Sound over the cleanup period. The estimated number of dead birds was 33,126 along with 138 eagles and 980 otters.
Usually, when we are thinking of oil pollution what comes to mind is maybe a disastrous oil tanker spill somewhere in an ocean that ends up killing thousand upon thousands of wildlife living in that region.
One example of this is the Exxon Valdez which spilled oil from its tanker into Alaskan waters and dumped 1.5 million gallons of fuel. (maybe you’ve heard of this)
Many kinds of oil can be spilled into the soil causing it to pollute local gr ...
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The Lowell Observatory
Number of Words: 730 / Number of Pages: 3
... they have
located on Mars Hill.
There are a total of nine telescopes, eight which are at the
observatory, of these many of them are historic, such as the 24" Clark
Refractor that is 102 years old. The Pluto telescope dome and John Vickers
McAllister telescope dome, which is 16" long, are also telescopes you would
find at Lowell Observatory. The most modern telescope they have there is
the Anderson Mesa Telescope. Their ninth telescope is located in Western
Australia. Many of these nine telescopes are equipped with state of the art
electronic cameras, auxiliary instrumentation and spec ...
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Biology 2
Number of Words: 516 / Number of Pages: 2
... to be engineered for the ability to jump (to initiate flight) and also powered flight.
The prediction that was made for this experiment was that this experiment would follow the results that were observed by Altenbach in 1979, and 1988. That is, that the bat would indeed initiate its flight with a jump.
The tests that were imposed were the use of a force platform with twelve transducing elements. There were two horizontally oriented aluminum box beams holding up the platform. Short vertical beams at the end of each box beam attached to the supporting baseplate of the platform. An aluminum p ...
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Organ Cloning: The Future Of Our Lives…
Number of Words: 902 / Number of Pages: 4
... was not meant to walk on the moon. If they did, and the program did not succeed, then we would not have the technology that we have today. Cloning organs can only yield new technologies that will be beneficial to society.
Organ cloning is something that would be extremely beneficial to society. Imagine the ability to "create" a liver for James Earl Ray. He was the man that was accused in the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. After he died, new evidence was brought forth in finding that he might not have been responsible for King’s death. Imagine if the technology was available to clone his ...
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Diamonds
Number of Words: 1285 / Number of Pages: 5
... which makes it soft (Pough, 1991). The differences between graphite and are accounted for by the conditions in which they are created.
form over long periods of time, between 100 km and 200 km below the surface. At this great depth, carbon gets a chance to cool very gradually, forming diamond crystals. When volcanic eruptions occur, magma carries the up to the surface of the earth. Kimberlite lavas carrying erupt at anywhere between 10 and 30 km/hour and increase their velocity to several hundred km/hour within the last few kilometers. (Pough, 44) At the surface, this lava cools and turns into K ...
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Cosmology
Number of Words: 1156 / Number of Pages: 5
... it formed this huge mass? I believe that we may never know how the universe came about, rather have some idea as to what came directly before it’s current state as well as before that and so on. We could come up with ideas until we die, and someone would just continue in our footsteps. I do have one idea as to how this super mass which is the being behind the big bang theory came to be one mass. Scientists as well as philosophers and just about anyone you talk to can tell you that the universe is still expanding today, possibly because of the big bang. Though no one could tell you how this super ma ...
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Argumentative Environment
Number of Words: 2164 / Number of Pages: 8
... a part of us, part of the Great Spirit, changed them in a horrible way, so no one can recognize them" (Erodes 209). On the other hand, conservatives frequently label environmentalists as extremists who despise almost all of capitalism's practices regarding ecology. That is, some extremist defenders of the profit motive name call, terming environmentalists "vandals" (Huber2 1) who prefer "forests over jobs" (Huber2 1) that the industrial age provides. Clearly, the issue has been politicized. Nonetheless, no one can deny that the earth, while not on the brink of annihilation, has been polluted and ...
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Creationism Vs. Evolution
Number of Words: 2290 / Number of Pages: 9
... a universe and a multitude of worlds in a rather short period of time then deigns to lower itself into becoming a puppet-master and "pulling the strings" of the Earth and all of the people therein.
Since this paper touches upon many scientific terms, I feel that in order for the reader to correctly grasp the content I must first define three words: Theory, Law, and Hypothesis. The definitions will allow for a greater understanding of this essay and give us an even ground upon which to begin.
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Theory; noun
1. a. Systematically organized knowledge applicable in a relatively wide variety of ...
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Prions
Number of Words: 1715 / Number of Pages: 7
... have been in research for many years with experiments like the
one done by Stanley B. Pruiser and his team of scientists at the School of
Medicine of the University of California at San Francisco in which a study was
carried out on mice to see if he was able to purify the scrapie agent ,another
prion disease, in mice. But mice as humans took very long to develope the
disease, for example Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease or fatal familial
insomnia, which appear mostly on humans which have passed the age of forty and
only in very rare cases before, so the experiment was changed to hamsters as
these ...
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Mans Effect On The Environment
Number of Words: 2105 / Number of Pages: 8
... or offshore ridges cause devistating effects on the local environments. Oil is extremely dense which means it floats on top of the water and can kill fish and birds, ruin beaches but nothing as yet has been invented to deal with this major problem. Dangerous metals such as mercury, arsenic and lead are also dumped into the sea. All of these examples have the ability to kill and damage the environment around it.
Agricultural Environments : Unwanted plants or insects are nowadays killed with by herbicides and insecticides, in this case chemical rather than biological are used. Pesticides ...
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