low, low, low bitzzzzzz

boring, boring, boring...

2009-03-01T23:41:00.000-08:00

Hellllooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wow, ngayon lang uli ako magpopost dito sa blog... sobrang busy kasi sa school eh... deng... grabe, ano nga ba uli yung mga requirements for this month? grabe sobrang dami...
-Hell week this week
-Long test sa bio, phy, math, etc.... (basta lahat)
-STR compre exam...
-Physics hw
-maraming pang iba, nakakatamad lang eh...

Hell Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek

2008-12-07T23:26:00.000-08:00

Yehey!!! it's hell week again!!! s.h.u.t. u.p.!!

hell week na naman.... alam mo ba kung bakit? unang-una, this is the week before our periodic tests, and that means na lahat ng requirements ay dito ilalagay...

may 5 long tests kami this week!!! Sa wednesday, Filipino (Imagine! a filipino long test!!) at Biology... sa Thursday, Math at Com. Sci... then sa Friday, chem long test...

Grabe talagang gusto nila kaming pahirapan...

kailangan ko na mag-aral so kailangan ko na ring i-nd itong post ko, siguro ang picture ko of the day ay yung mga class pics ng Potassium... wala lang...

Red alert 3 whaaaa!!!!

2008-11-30T01:48:00.000-08:00

tae!!! gusto ko ng red alert 3!!! ang boring kasi eh.. kung sino mang makabasa nitong post na ito, kung ako sa inyo, mag install na kayo ng red alert 3... grabe sobrang ganda nung game na iyon... sobrang laki nga lang, 9 gigabytes.... hay naku... oh well, by the way, marami nanamang homework, pero at least walang pasok sa monday... hahaha... happy birthday andres bonifacio!!! oh welll.... download kayo ha..

Einstein!!!

2008-11-23T23:26:00.000-08:00

Hey! naprove na raw yung famous na theory ni Einstein of Relativity... Eto yung article tungkol dun, pwede rin kayo mag-search ng additional information tungkol dito...

Albert Einstein is perhaps the most famous scientist of this century. One of his most well-known accomplishments is the formula E=mc2Despite its familiarity, many people don't really understand what it means. We hope this explanation will help!

One of Einstein's great insights was to realize that matter and energy are really different forms of the same thing. Matter can be turned into energy, and energy into matter.For example, consider a simple hydrogen atom, basically composed of a single proton. This subatomic particle has a mass of: 0.000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 001 672 kg

This is a tiny mass indeed. But in everyday quantities of matter there are a lot of atoms! For instance, in one kilogram of pure water, the mass of hydrogen atoms amounts to just slightly more than 111 grams, or 0.111 kg. Einstein's formula tells us the amount of energy this mass would be equivalent to, if it were all suddenly turned into energy. It says that to find the energy, you multiply the mass by the square of the speed of light, this number being 300,000,000 meters per second (a very large number):

= 0.111 x 300,000,000 x 300,000,000
= 10,000,000,000,000,000 Joules

This is an incredible amount of energy! A Joule is not a large unit of energy ... one Joule is about the energy released when you drop a textbook to the floor. But the amount of energy in 30 grams of hydrogen atoms is equivalent to burning hundreds of thousands of gallons of gasoline!

If you consider all the energy in the full kilogram of water, which also contains oxygen atoms, the total energy equivalent is close to 10 million gallons of gasoline!Can all this energy really be released? Has it ever been?

The only way for ALL this energy to be released is for the kilogram of water to be totally annhilated. This process involves the complete destruction of matter, and occurs only when that matter meets an equal amount of antimatter ... a substance composed of mass with a negative charge. Antimatter does exist; it is observable as single subatomic particles in radioactive decay, and has been created in the laboratory. But it is rather short-lived (!), since it annihilates itself and an equal quantity of ordinary matter as soon as it encounters anything. For this reason, it has not yet been made in measurable quantities, so our kilogram of water can't be turned into energy by mixing it with 'antiwater'. At least, not yet.

Another phenomenon peculiar to small elementary particles like protons is that they combine. A single proton forms the nucleus of a hydrogen atom. Two protons are found in the nucleus of a helium atom. This is how the elements are formed ... all the way up to the heaviest naturally occuring substance, uranium, which has 92 protons in its nucleus.

It is possible to make two free protons (Hydrogen nuclei) come together to make the beginnings of a helium nucleus. This requires that the protons be hurled at each other at a very high speed. This process occurs in the sun, but can also be replicated on earth with lasers, magnets, or in the center of an atomic bomb. The process is called nuclear fusion.

What makes it interesting is that when the two protons are forced to combine, they don't need as much of their energy (or mass). Two protons stuck together have less mass than two single separate protons!

When the protons are forced together, this extra mass is released ... as energy! Typically this amounts to about 0.7% of the total mass, converted to an amount of energy predictable using the formula E=mc2.Elements heavier than iron are unstable. Some of them are very unstable! This means that their nuclei, composed of many positively charged protons, which want to repel from each other, are liable to fall apart at any moment! We call atoms like this radioactive.Uranium, for example, is radioactive. Every second, many of the atoms in a chunk of uranium are falling apart. When this happens, the pieces, which are now new elements (with fewer protons) are LESS massive in total than the original uranium atoms. The extra mass disappears as energy ... again according to the formula E=mc2!

This process is called nuclear fission.Both these nuclear reactions release a small portion of the mass involved as energy. Large amounts of energy! You are probably more familiar with their uses. Nuclear fusion is what powers a modern nuclear warhead. Nuclear fission (less powerful) is what happens in an atomic bomb (like the ones used against Japan in WWII), or in a nuclear power plant.

Albert Einstein was able to see where an understanding of this formula would lead. Although peaceful by nature and politics, he helped write a letter to the President of the United States, urging him to fund research into the development of an atomic bomb ... before the Nazis or Japan developed their own first. The result was the Manhatten Project, which did in fact produce the first tangible evidence of E=mc2... the atomic bomb!

So eto yung picture ko of the day: "The theory of Relativity"

It's Friday again!!!

2008-11-20T23:46:00.000-08:00

YES!!!! Friday uli!!! makakapagpahinga uli ako kahit, kakapahinga lang namin... nakakatamad kasi eh... Pero kahit good news nga yung makakapagpahinga kami, marami namang bad news, tulad ng may long test sa chem sa monday at may english project kami na due next week... tae naman, ang daming gagawin nerxt week... Bakit!!!!!??? oh no?!?!?! sana wala nalang gawin next week... pero okay lang yan, kailangan ko lang mag-aral ng mabuti para mapasa ko yung test... at kailangan kong maki-cooperate sa mga groupmates ko.... at tsaka masaya rin ako kasi, pasado ako sa chem probset namin, kaya okay lang yun... hahahaha... siguro ang pic of the day ko ngayon ay: isang screenshot sa Red alert 3... wala lang...

anong bang date ngayon?

2008-11-19T00:22:00.000-08:00

oh men... wednesday ngayon... alom mo kung bakit ako natatakot? kasi bukas ay thursday? alam mo ba kung anong meron sa thursday? meron kaming isang problem set sa chem at long test sa physics!! tae ang dami pang gagawin bukas... kinakabahan tuloy ako sa chem, kasi di ko maintindihan yung ibang tinuturo ni sir, ang gulo kasi eh... pero kahit, maraming test bukas, siguro ay magiging masaya pa rin ako dahil, masaya yung araw na ito... basta, di ko na sasabihin sa iyo... siguro ngayon, wala akong pic of the day, tinatamad kasi ako, eh, kaya lang ako nag post, ay dahil kailangan sa com sci eh... si sir kasi eh...

Sa wakas!

2008-11-16T22:57:00.000-08:00

Ngayon lang uli ako nakalagay ng entry dito sa blog ko... tinatamad kasi ako dati eh... uhmmm anu kaya ang nagyari ngayon na pwede kong i-share?? ay oo nga pala, last week, may mahaba kaming weekend... Super saya nung week end kasi nakapagpahinga na rin ako sa wakas... haaaay... pero kahit mahaba yung binigay sa amin na weekend, sobrang rami paring homework yung binigay sa amin.. may galit nga talaga yung mga teachers namin... ano ba naman yan... pero okay lang.. hahahaha... oo nga pala, marami paring homework bukas... o sige kailangan ko nang tapusin itong blog entry na ito, kaya lang naman ako naglagay dito kasi required ehhhh... so yung pic of the day ko ay yung: pic ni Akira Kurosawa na nakit ko sa internet... hahahah wala lang, kakaenglish lang kasi namin eh...

wala akong maisusulat eh...

2008-11-15T00:37:00.000-08:00

wala akong maisip na post ngayon, kaya siguro ay maglalgay na lang ako ng file... idownload niyo yung file na ito ha... nakakatawa siyang video.. wala lang...

Eto yung link ng video: extreme funny.flv

Yey!!!

2008-11-11T00:27:00.000-08:00

Tuesday, ngayon pero parang friday yung feeling ko kasi walang pasok bukas... mamimiss namin yung teachers (Weh?!?!?!)... :-)... Buti na lang walang kaming pasok for three days, kasi napaka-stressful kahapon eh, para naman magkaroon kaim ng rest day(s), at humaba yung weekend namin... ang bad news nga lang ay, tinambakan kami ng mga homeworks and a problem set... tae naman, may galit talaga yung mga teachers natin sa atin noh? isa pang nag-pasakit ng araw ko ngayon ay yung tungkol sa class funds awards... Marami pala ang nagagalit tungkol dun, pero akala ko, its no big deal.. pero nung tinignan ko yung survey, in my opinion, biased yung list, kasi parang sila-sila lang yung nag-voting... at parang jinajudge nila yung mga girls based on their appearance, sino ba sila para i-judge ang character ng mga girls based on their looks? dapat hindi nila pinost yung list, kasi siguradong maraming girls ang magagalit... dapat kung mag-post o gumawa sila ng ganyang survey, dapat hindi lang being pretty inside dapat kasama yung being beautiful inside also... siguro yung picture of the day ko na lang ngayon ay: "the CFAwards"

It's Monday again!!

2008-11-10T22:52:00.000-08:00

Grabe, ang tagal ko nanamang hindi nakakapost dito... Siguro para sa akin, ang araw na ito ay very stressfull kasi pagdating ko palang sa school, kailangan ko na kaagad mag-cram ng chem homework... Buti na lang umulan kaya wala kaming flag ceremony, salamat sa ulan!! hahahaha... Kahit stressfull yung araw na ito, marami pa ring masayang happenings, kasi kakaunti lang yung subjects namin so maaga kami uuwi, yey! pero malapit na yung ibang long test at meron pa kaming kailangan gawin for english, yung exhibit thingy... tae, kailangan ko pang magresearch tungkol sa Japan geography and everything... kung ikaw may alam, tulungan mo naman ako o, please... just comment, okay na yun! salamat! oo nga pala, eto yung picture of the day ko: tungkol sa "Happy Face Method" ni ma'am de Joya, pogi diba?

ang araw ng mga araw...

2008-11-09T20:41:00.000-08:00

So it's sunday today!! oo nga pal, lahat ng marunong bumasa nito... paki pindot yung button sa taas ng page... kung matapang ka ha... masaya yun, seryoso... kung na-pindot muna dati, kumusta yung test? comment ka naman... ay naku... ano kaya ang nangyari sa araw a ito... ang hirap mag-isip ng isusulat, sige ganito na lang... yung araw na ito is just like a normal day, pupunta kami sa church and uuwi... pero sigura ang masayang nagnyari ngayon ay nakapaglaro uli kami ng kapatid ko ng command and conwuer generals!! game siya, so kung di mo pa ito nalalaro, i-download mo na!! masayang laro ito!!1 seryoso ako... uhhhmmm ano pa ba... oo nga pala, naglaro rin ako ng openLieroX, game ito wherein nagpapatayan yung mga worms gamit ang mga weapons na sobrang advanced, masaya itong laro na ito, and exciting... hahahahahaha... kinakabahan ako para bukas, monday na naman kasi eh... back to the usual tests and quizzes... oo nga pala, com sci bukas, tae... oo nga pala, ito yung picture of the day ko: si Calvin na nag-slislide... wala kasi akong maisip eh...

my birthday today...

2008-10-30T01:14:00.000-07:00

haaayyyy nako....

birthday ko ngayon!!! batiin mo naman ako... (sulat ka sa comment box ha... wala lang...)

ang weird ng araw na ito... ewan ko nga kung bakit eh...
papunta ako sa school kanina, pero dahil siguro inaantok at may kinakakgalit ako na servicemate ko, di na ako nagsalita ng kahit isang word... tapos hindi rin alam ng mga busmates ko na birthday ko pala ngayon...

pagdating ko sa school, alam ko na maraming kaklase ko na alam yung birthday ko... pero kinakabahan ako kasi baka magpalibre sila sa akin, eh wala naman akong pera eh...
pero okay lang, binati lang nila ako ng happy birhday...
ang saya-saya ko ngayong ara na ito...
so sa huli, nagpapasalamat lang ako sa Diyos na 15 years old na ako, at hindi pa niya ako kinukuha... hahaha....

What do you want? coke or water?

2008-10-25T20:15:00.000-07:00

Would you rather have Coke ... or Water?

Nothing new here. Just a timely reminder.

Believable???

Very interesting!!!

WATER
#1. 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated.

(Likely applies to half the world population)

#2. In 37% of Americans,

the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is mistaken for hunger.

#3. Even MILD dehydration will slow down one's metabolism as low as 3%.

#4. One glass of water will shut down midnight hunger pangs

for almost 100% of the dieters in a University of Washington study.

#5. Lack of water,

the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.

#6. Preliminary research indicates that 8-10 glasses of water a day

could significantly ease back and joint pain for up to 80% of sufferers.

#7. A mere 2% drop in body water

can trigger fuzzy short-term memory, trouble with basic math,

and difficulty focusing on the computer screen or on a printed page.

#8. Drinking 5 glasses of water daily

decreases the risk of colon cancer by 45%,

plus it can slash the risk of breast cancer by 79%,

and one is 50% less likely to develop bladder cancer.

Are you drinking the amount of water you should drink every day?

COKE
#1. In many states

the highway patrol carries two gallons of Coke in the trunk

to remove blood from the highway after a car accident.

#2. You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of Coke

and it will be gone in two days.

#3. To clean a toilet:

Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl

and let the "real thing" sit for one hour, then flush clean.

The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous China

#4. To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers:

Rub the bumper with a rumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminium

foil dipped in Coca-Cola.

#5. To clean corrosion from car battery terminals:

Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.

#6. To loosen a rusted bolt:

Apply a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes.

#7. To bake a moist ham:

Empty a can of Coca-Cola into the baking pan,

wrap the ham in aluminium foil, and bake.

Thirty minutes before ham is finished,

remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix with the Coke for a sumptuous brown gravy.

#8... To remove grease from clothes:

Empty a can of Coke into the load of greasy clothes,

add detergent, and run through a regular cycle.

The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains.

It will also clean road haze from your windshield.

FOR YOUR INFORMATION:

#1. the active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid.
It will dissolve a nail in about four days.

Phosphoric acid also leaches calcium from bones

and is a major contributor to the rising increase of osteoporosis.

#2. To carry Coca-Cola syrup! (the concentrate)

the commercial trucks must use a hazardous material place cards

reserved for highly corrosive materials.

#3. The distributors of Coke

have been using it to clean engines of the trucks for about 20 years!

Now the question is, would you like a glass of water?

or Coke?

The diesel bacteria

2008-10-24T20:10:00.000-07:00

Hindi ba napaka mahal na nang gasolina sa taong ito? may nadiscover ang mga scientists na pwedeng ipamalit sa gasolinang ito...

The Gas Bug

Fill your car with eco-friendly bacteria excrement

from popular science magazine

Bacteria + Sugarcane = Diesel: Hybrid Medical Animation/Photo Researchers; Getty Images; Don Mason/Corbis

E. coli has earned a nasty reputation for upsetting stomachs and killing people. But now scientists at LS9, a start-up in South San Francisco, are putting the bad bug to good use, genetically engineering it to excrete biodiesel. The fuel "burns just like diesel," says Greg Pal, the senior director at LS9 [see Breeding the Oil Bug, about the rise of microbial biofuels].

In September, LS9 made headlines with the launch of a pilot plant in its hometown that turns out hundreds of gallons of the biodiesel a week. The plant mixes modified E. coli with sugarcane in large vats of water. The microbes metabolize the sugars and excrete fatty acids that have the same hydrocarbon configuration as petroleum. Unlike other biodiesel setups, LS9's fuel is easy to collect -- it floats to the top of the water and is skimmed off like cream from milk -- and can go straight into your gas tank.

Making fuel from sugarcane uses fewer resources than corn, and biodiesel doesn't require the major infrastructure upgrades that ethanol and natural gas call for. A gallon of fuel from sugarcane-fed bacteria could cost $50 a barrel, Pal estimates, compared with the current $200 price tag for a barrel of conventional diesel. And LS9 says it can further drop costs by feeding the bacteria wood chips and other biowaste. Pal expects a large-scale plant to be up and running by 2011.

Hybrid of the sky

2008-10-23T00:25:00.000-07:00

The Personal Tilt-Rotor

An ambitious aircraft concept combines the speed of a plane, the agility of a helicopter and the efficiency of a hybrid car

By Abe Streep

eto yun picture: paki-click na lang...

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Imagine a car veering off a lonely mountain road and tumbling down the embankment. Minutes later, a sleek aircraft zooms in quietly at 230 miles an hour, tilts its wings and rotors up, hovers, and sets down just feet from the wreck. The pilot and a medic load the injured driver into the aircraft and zip back to a hospital at twice the speed of a conventional helicopter ambulance.

Simon Scott, the owner of Falx Air, an aviation company based in Staffordshire, England, wants to revolutionize not just medevacs but all personal air transportation. A former communications specialist in the British Army's Air Corps, Scott has been designing Falx Air's hybrid-electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) craft for the past eight years. He's currently bench-testing components in the hopes of getting a single-passenger prototype ready to be certified in January by the Civil Aviation Authority, Britain's equivalent of the FAA.

The key to his design is a hybrid system that doesn't rely on batteries to do most of the work. The engine powers two generators, which directly feed two electric motors on each wing. A battery pack stores leftover power from the generator but kicks in only to provide a power boost during takeoffs, landings and the transition to forward flying. It needs the huge burst of energy to get extra lift because the rotors on a VTOL have a smaller surface area than those on a traditional helicopter. "If you want to fly your aircraft for two hours, you cannot do that on batteries," Scott says. "That's the reason behind having the engine supply electricity continuously."

The hybrid system keeps the craft small and light, and therefore fast and agile. By eliminating heavy mechanical parts like jet engines and gear boxes, Scott hopes to keep the single-passenger version under 1,000 pounds. And because an engine that only has to power generators can be smaller than one that has to drive rotors, the vehicle uses less fuel too.

Scott is finished with the design; now he just has to find parts that can make it real. Falx Air is testing a 104-horsepower, two-stroke engine, but it isn't flight-certified yet. And although Scott is looking into lithium-iron-phosphate batteries, similar to one of the battery chemistries being tested for the Chevy Volt [see page 50], his challenge is greater because the aircraft needs a bigger jolt of power than a car does.

Given the state of the technology -- and the additional $5 million Scott still needs to build the prototype -- Falx's January timeline seems unlikely. But it's not the only team trying to build an electric whirlybird. Last fall, officials at NASA's Ames Research Center looked into the feasibility of producing electric helicopters by using fuel cells or lithium-polymer batteries. Inderjit Chopra, a professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Maryland who led the design study, found that an electric version of a two-man Robinson R-22 helicopter could theoretically fly for only 10 minutes before the batteries ran down."I would like to see a hybrid helicopter in the next 5 to 10 years," he says. And tilt-rotors? "They're a lot further off, because the takeoff energy is so high." Scott, who has sunk $500,000 of his own money into the project, is confident that his hybrid setup skirts his critics' concerns. "They can be skeptical," he says, "and we'll hover outside their window."

Falx Air Hybrid Tilt-Rotor Chopper

Dimensions: 202 in. (nose to tail); 220 in. (wingtip to wingtip)
Weight: 980 lbs. (empty); 1,212 lbs. max. (including pilot)
Cruising speed: 180 mph
Top speed: 270 mph
Range: 435 miles
Cost: $1.5 million

Pictures

proof of the Heron's formula

2008-10-22T00:18:00.000-07:00

kailangan niyo ba ng proof para sa heron's formula para sa homework natin sa math?? eto yung nahanap ko na madaling maintindihan.... hahahaha, wala lang uli...

Proof of the heron's formula

A modern proof, which uses algebra and trigonometry and is quite unlike the one provided by Heron, follows. Let a, b, c be the sides of the triangle and A, B, C the angles opposite those sides. We have

by the law of cosinesFrom this we get the algebraic statement:

The altitude of the triangle on base a has length b sin(C), and it follows

The difference of two squares factorization was used in two different steps.

"What Filipino Bad qualities should we change to progress?" eto yung homework namin sa english na sinulta ko...

2008-10-21T01:38:00.000-07:00

“Stop for one moment and Think”

“Mabuhay Filipinos!” this is what we will always hear in contests and competitions held in places outside our country. Sometimes, this phrase that we chant every time we compete helps us win, and other countries think that we are progressing internationally. However, if we go back to our country, and study its people and places, we will see that it is is not really progressing upwards, but crashing downwards. So how can we say that we are progressing if our fellow citizens are drinking sewage water and eating canned sardines and noodles? We are not progressing, but falling. If we go back and study our history, we will see that the Filipino people always blame the leaders who run our country, if there is an oil crisis or the peso-dollar fight is worthless, we will generate rallies and shout to the leaders that they are not doing their job, that they are only using the money of the people for their own benefit. But the answer why we are still like this is not because of our leaders but because of our own actions and our own bad qualities.
These “Bad Qualities” are the main reason why there are hundreds of houses built in illegal lands and why a large part of our people is experiencing hunger. Maybe the chief of these qualities, is the “Bahala na Mentality,” why? Because our people does not work and cooperate in order to at elevate our country, but they only follow the principle “Come what may.” This quality of the Filipinos originated from our ancestors and is still living today, we only wait on God in what He is going to do, and sometimes blame Him because of the bad happenings in our country. This is clearly wrong, because we should work and join forces in order to achieve what we want for our country, we should follow the old saying, “I shall do my best and God will take care of the rest.”

Another quality that brings us down is what we call, “The Crab Mentality.” This characteristic of the Filipinos is one of the most devastating one. For example, if one of our neighbors rises and progress, we Filipinos tend to pull them down instead of feeling happy for them. This is the reason why our own country is not rising, we our pulling ourselves when someone is going to a higher level than us, the result is that there is no net rise in our country, we are still in the same level as before.

There exist hundreds of bad qualities of the Filipinos that we should change in order to progress. But we just cannot see them, or we do not want to see them. We should stop for one moment and think, “Why are we still in this place? Why are we not moving forward? Is it because of me? Maybe it is my fault, maybe I am the reason why we are not progressing. If I really am the main cause of all our sufferings, I should change myself not blame it to others or to God”

emo for one time in my life

2008-10-20T01:27:00.000-07:00

Wala akong mailagay na post eh.... so eto na lang yung ilalagay ko, emo pic ko... wala lang...

Saan

2008-09-26T01:37:00.000-07:00

Isa pang poem ko rin...

Saan

Alam mo ba kung saan ka pupunta?

Kung mamatay, ay sinong makikita?

Mabuti ba ang iyong pinaniniwalaan?

O baka nama'y nagdadasal-dasalan?

Kung anong ganda ng langit,

ay may lugar naman na kay pangit.

Doo'y sobra ang init,

apoy ay parang naninipit.

Tao roon ay 'di payaso,

kundi demonyong may hawak na latigo.

Uod doon ay 'wag maliitin,

'pagkat ikaw ang kanilang pagkain.

Masarap bumili ng juice,

ngunit doo'y asupre ang umaagos.

Kahit merong sandaang electric fan,

walang silbi, dahil walang saksakan.

Ibang tao'y 'wag sisihin,

si Hesus lan ang sambahin.

Makinig sa aking sinabi,

dahil habang buhay kang magsisisi.

Halik

2008-09-26T01:21:00.000-07:00

eto ng pala yung poem na ginawa ko para sa filipino namin....

Halik

Bakit parang malamig?

Ako ay nanginginig.

Idinilat ang mata,

at biglang napanganga.

Isang dalampasigan,

ang aking nasilayan.

Babaeng ang gaganda,

sa aki'y nagpasaya.

Kumaripas ng takbo,

sa tubig ay patungo.

Kumusta binibini?

Ang balat ay kay puti.

Puso'y tumibok-tibok,

sana ay 'di masuntok.

Ang dalaga'y ngumiti,

para bang kalapati.

Ako'y sabik na sabik,

matikman lang ang halik.

Ang labi ay sumipsip,

'to pala'y panaginip

THE HAPPY FACE THEORY

2008-09-25T01:47:00.000-07:00

nakikita niyo ba iyang nasa itaas? iyan ay isang drawing na ginawa ko... gumawa ako ng isang theory na kayang i-explain ang maraming bagay dito sa mundo at kalawakan... marami siyang na-eexplain tulad ng equation ni einstein na e=mc squared. basta... tumingin ka sa ibaba...

I-click niyo na lang para makita lahat...
isa pang pinuprove niya ay...
I-click niyo na lang para makita lahat...

marami talagan siyang ma-eexplain na bagay...

ano bang meron sa Pisay??

2008-09-24T01:35:00.000-07:00

alam niyo ba... na mayroong mga kababalaghang makikita sa pisay... hindi mo alam kung sino o ano ang kasama mo at tumitingin sa iyo, malay mo may mga espiritu sa paligid mo ngayon at tinititigan ka, pwedeng anghel o iba... ikukuwento ko ang isa sa karanasan ko eskwelahan ng mga matatalino...

library, library, library
Enrollment noon, tandang tanda ko pa. Kakabigay lang sa akin ng tita ko ng bagong cellphone, bilang premyo ko. Pumunta kami ng nanay ko sa eskwelahan upang mag-enroll, pang apat ako sa listahan ng nag-eenroll. Lumabas muna ako dahil inip na inip na ako sa registrar ar upang malibot ko ang pisay, nilabas ko ang cellphone ko at pinaandar ko ang stopwatch upang malaman . pumunta ako sa labas ang nagsimulang maglakad patungo sa gawing library. wala pang mga tao noon, kaya sarado ang library, madilim sa loob, tahimik. Pumunta na lang ako sa corridor malapit sa front landing, naglakad ako nang mabagal at inilabas ko ang aking cellphone upang gumawa ng video para kunwari ako ay naglalakbay. pagkatapos ng ilang segundong nagplaplay ang video... may isang imahe ang nabuo sa loob ng cellphone ko habang nagvivideo ngunit wala naman sa labas... tinignan ko kung ano ito, at inisip na ito ay kagagawan lamang nang araw ngunit, madilim dun sa lugar na iyon eh... kaya naisip ko na hindi na ito ilaw lamang, iba na ito, habang tumatagal, napansin ko na papalapit ang parang kumot ng larawan sa akin. pinatay ko ang camera at tinignan ang stop watch ko, laking gulat ko ng makita kong tumitigil tigil ang pag-andar sa orasan, para bang bumabagal ang oras. kumaripas ako ng takbo papunta sa registrar. pagkadating ko doon, nakita ko ang nanay ko...

top 10 pictures ng hubble telescope

2008-09-23T21:34:00.000-07:00

Spectacular Space Photos

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patay ka na.

2008-09-22T21:31:00.000-07:00

Learning From the Dead

Turns out that a body reveals more details about its death than once thought

Learning From The Dead: Photo by Medi-Mation

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Whether it’s the blue, ragged fingernails of a heroin-overdose victim or the scaly skin of someone poisoned by arsenic, a corpse bears signs that unveil the secrets behind its life and death. Right now, 40,000 John and Jane Does wait in morgues. Although accident and murder victims are 15 to 30 times as likely to be autopsied as those who die of natural causes, even run-of-the-mill autopsies can yield important information on how a person died. This data has important implications for public health and safety and the legislation that governs those areas of interest. Autopsy findings have led to tougher military gear, fire-resistant clothing, crashworthy fuel systems and child-safe toys. They have also helped reveal how HIV, tuberculosis and West Nile virus are transmitted. Medical examiners are always looking for smarter, faster and more reliable ways to uncover the truth.

Here are five technologies that epitomize the old morgue maxim Mortui vivos docent: The dead teach the living.

Hair:

Tracking a person’s movements
Hair illustrates the route people took before they died by revealing what water they drank. In February, researchers from the University of Utah and scientific-analysis company IsoForensics reported that the isotope ratios of oxygen and hydrogen in hair can link a person to regional water sources—sometimes down to sections of a given American state. Scientists can also track a person’s travels over long periods: The tips of the hair show older destinations; the roots, more recent ones.

Teeth:

ID’ing a body
Dental recognition goes back to the Romans. Last November, scientists from Kanagawa Dental College in Japan presented software that works 95 percent faster than manual methods. Within minutes, it locates three image matches from a database of dental records, which a forensic dentist then analyzes.

Brain:

Finding time of death
Establishing time of death is a notoriously dicey part of forensics and is usually accurate only up to three days postmortem. Scientists at the University of Bern Institute of Forensic Medicine in Switzerland are applying magnetic-resonance spectroscopy to “read” decomposition in the brain, making it easier to determine the time of death even three weeks after it occurs.

Heart:

Explaining the inexplicable
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota who study sudden, unexplained deaths in people under age 40 discovered last year that in up to a third of cases, postmortem genetic testing revealed that inherited heart-rhythm conditions contributed to death. These conditions, such as Long QT syndrome, go unnoticed by conventional autopsies. Finding them allows relatives to get tested themselves and seek out treatments.

Eyes:

Determining age
Carbon dating could help identify thousands of unknown bodies. All humans ingest small quantities of the carbon isotope carbon-14 through food. Most tissues constantly regenerate, but carbon-14 accumulates in teeth and the lenses of eyes. By analyzing the carbon-isotope ratios in lens tissue, researchers at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark have discovered that they can establish, to within 1.5 years, when someone was born—much better than the five years possible with commonly used methods.

From Popular Science mag

patay at binuhay na puso

2008-09-21T21:18:00.000-07:00

Ghost Heart

Reanimating lifeless organs brings new hope for the millions on transplant waiting lists

Born to Beat: a rat heart fused with rat cells incubates in a bioreactor at the University of Minnesota: Photo by Courtesy Emily Jensen

In late 2005, cardiac researcher Doris Taylor revived the dead. She rinsed rat hearts with detergent until the cells washed away and all that remained was a skeleton of tissue translucent as wax paper—a ghost heart, as Taylor calls it. She injected the scaffold with fresh heart cells from newborn rats. Then she waited.

What she witnessed four days later, once the cells had a chance to make themselves at home, was astonishing. "We could see these little areas that were beginning to beat," says Taylor, director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Cardiovascular Repair. "By eight days, we could see the whole heart beating. The first time that happened, it was like ‘yes!' "

The experiment, which was reported this year in the journal Nature Medicine, marked a watershed moment: the first time scientists had created a functioning heart in the lab from biological tissue. For the 62 million people living with congestive heart failure, a condition in which the heart is no longer fit enough to pump blood through the body, drugs and heart-repair procedures frequently fall short; 60 percent of patients die within five years of diagnosis. A recellularized heart like Taylor's represents the first real hope for a cure—and she recently brought it one step closer to reality by devising a way to populate it with blood vessels. "There's a lot of smoke and mirrors in this field," says Todd McAllister, the CEO of Cytograft, a California-based tissue-engineering company. "Some people say they can grow a heart from scratch in 10 years, which is ridiculous. But Dr. Taylor's approach is more realistic because it's so simple and elegant. By using an existing heart, she's taken away all of the structural issues."

Taylor's system involves flushing animal hearts of cells using a cleanser, at which point only the extracellular matrix remains and "the hearts look almost clear," Taylor says. The next step is to infuse the hearts with a mix of mature and progenitor cardiac cells, which can come from a patient's own body to ensure compatibility. Incredibly, for reasons the team still doesn't understand, the cells seem to know how to divide and proliferate into cardiac tissue inside the empty-shell hearts.

This year, Taylor has continued to forge ahead toward her goal of creating transplantable, made-to-order human organs. Soon after she published her rat-heart results, she started working on making recellularized pig hearts—closer in size and shape to the human equivalent—that could pump blood and generate electrical impulses. "Our hope is that someday we'll be able to take a cadaver or pig organ, decellularize it, and transplant your own cells into the matrix to make an organ that matches your body," Taylor says.

Before a reliable human donor heart can be grown from a matrix, however, scientists must coax it to do more than just beat. "A heart isn't just a muscle. It also needs arteries and other tissues," explains cardiologist Robert Bonow of Northwestern University. "Doris Taylor has replaced the motor inside the chassis, so to speak, but she's got to find a way to get the other parts in there too."

She's working on it. Taylor's team has washed away the cells inside a rat aorta, for example, which is about the same size as a human coronary artery, and successfully seeded it with rat endothelial cells. The blood vessels grown in the lab are strong enough to withstand 19 pounds of pressure per square inch, a high enough performance threshold to make them viable in transplant hearts.

Taylor is focused on starting human clinical trials in the near future; she envisions a transplantable organ becoming available in "years, not decades." But she's also looking at the incredible number of other possible uses for her cell-seeding procedure. "The coolest thing is, it's not just about hearts—we could do this with kidneys, lungs and livers as well."

From popular science magazine

a filipino homework

2008-09-20T01:44:00.000-07:00

pinagawa kami kasi ng teacher ko ng isang homework. sabi niya gumawa daw kami ng isang storya... eto yung ginawa namin... wala lang.. ang stupid niya pero maganda

“Ang Balde ng Tubig”

Hapon noon, at mainit pa ang kapaligiran, nang si Esteban, na isang magiting na mandirigma ay nakikipaglaban sa isang kulay bahaghari na dragon. Naglabanan sila ng humigit kumulang na anim na oras, hanggang sumapit ang gabi. Hindi niya na makita ang dragon dahil madilim, kaya hinabol siya nito at inangat siya sa ere. Niyugyog niya ito ng malakas. Ngumanga ang dragon at nagsalita, “Anak, anak, gumising ka na! Mahuhuli ka na!” Dumilat na ngayon si Eteban at nakita niya na niyuyugyog siya ng kanyang ina upang siya ay bumangon mula sa kama. Nainis si Esteban dahil pinutol ng kanyang ina ang maganda at Masaya niyang panaginip. Pinatayo siya ng ina niya mula sa higaan, ngunit dahil sa tinatamad at inaantok pa siya, hindi niya pinansin ang iniutos ng kanyang inay. Ngunit dahil sa nag-aalala ang ina sa kanyang anak, umalis ang ina upang maghanap ng paraan upang pilitin si Esteban ng bumangon sa kama. Nakita ni Esteban na umalis ang kanyang ina na para bang may binabalak na gawin sa kanya. Kinabahan si Esteban sa maaaring gawin sa kanya ng kanyang ina dahil sa kanyang pagsuway sa utos nito. Ngunit nanatili parin siyang nakahiga at takot na takot. Dahil sa inaantok siya, nakatulog si Esteban. Nakabalik uli si Esteban sa kanyang panaginip pero siya ay nasa kamay parin ng dragon. Si Esteban ay nagpumilit na kumawala ngunit dali-dali siyang binugahan ng dragon ng apoy at kumukulong asupre. “AAAAAYYYYY!!!!!!” ang sigaw ni Esteban na siguradong gising na gising at basang-basa pa.

Star ship

2008-09-20T01:40:00.000-07:00

eto yung picture ng star ship na nakita ko sa multiply... ang ganda niya no? wala lang epal ako...

Si mongol

2008-09-19T01:46:00.000-07:00

eto yung story na homework din namin...

“Si Mongol”

Roy ang pangalan niya, isang batang, tumatakbo sa loob ng National Bookstore. “Mama! Mama! Ang ganda nito! Ibili mo ako nito! Sige na!” hiyaw niya sa kanyang ina, sabay turo sa kulay berdeng bolpen. Marahang niyugyog ng ina ang kanyang ulo, at sinabing hindi sa kanyang anak. “Sige na mama, please!” makaawa ng anak, ngunit wala siyang nagawa. Bumili ang ina ng lapis, at sinabi sa kanyang anak na lapis na lang ang bibilhin niya dahil hindi naman kailangan ni Roy ng bolpen dahil bata pa lamang siya. Kahit malungkot si Roy, kinuha niya pa rin ang lapis.

Tuwang-tuwa ang lapis dahil matapos ang napakatagal na panahon na siya ay nasa loob ng plastic, sa wakas may bumili na rin sa kanya. Nagpaalam ang lapis sa mga kasama at kaibigan niyang mga lapis sa basket. Sinabi ng ina ni Roy na kailangan na nilang umalis dahil dumidilim na sa labas, itinaas na anak ang kanyang kamay at ito nama’y hinawakan ng ina, at sila’y lumabas ng bookstore. Sa daan, kitang-kita sa mukha ni Roy ang dismaya, ngunit sinubukan niyang maging masaya dahil ibinili pa rin siya ng lapis ng kanyang ina. Inip na inip naman si Mongol, ang lapis na nasaloob na pulang plastic, na lalagyanan ng ibang pang gamit ni Roy para sa eskwelahan. Kahit naiinip si Mongol, masaya pa rin siya, dahil meron nang nagmamay-ari sa kanya.

Hinubad ni Roy at ng kanyang ina ang kanilang tsinelas at nagmano si Roy sa kanyang itay. Tumakbo kaagad si Roy upang gamitin ang mga gamit niya para sa eskwelahan. Sinulatan niya sa itaas na bahagi ni Mongol ang letrang R, upang malaman na sa kanya ito nagmamay-ari. Kinuha niya ang papel, pantasa at si Mongol. Tinasahan niya ng malumanay si Mongol sa takot na baka masira niya ito kaagad. “Aray!” sigaw ni Mongol, nagtaka siya kung anong ginagawa sa kanya, nakaramdam siya ng kaunting lamig habang tinutuklap ang labas na parte ng kanyang katawan. Nakita ni Mongol na may maitim na bagay ang lumalabas sa ilalim niya habang tinatagal ang dilaw na kahoy. Pawis na pawis siya pagkatapos siyang tasahan dahil sa sakit. “Ano kaya ang ginagawa sa akin? At bakit?” tanong ni Mongol sa sarili. Dali-daling ibinababa ni Roy si Mongol malapit sa papel at sinimulang gumuhit ng isang letrang R at O at Y, na hindi gaanong maganda. Doon lamang napagtanto ni Mongol na tinasahan siya upang ilabas ang itim na bahagi sa loob na siyang gagamitin upang sumulat. Galak na galak siya ng makita niya na ginagamit na rin siya ni Roy.

Umaga noon ng tumatakbo si Roy upang pumunta sa una niyang klase sa araw na iyon. Tuwang tuwa siya dahil ginagamit siya ni Roy upang magsulat. Nakakita siya ng mga ibang lapis at nakipagkaibigan siya dito. Nilagay siya ni Roy sa loob ng kanyang bulsa. Sa sobrang tagal ng klase nakatulog siya sa loob, at hindi niya namalayang tapos na ang klase nang makarinig siya ng “Click! Click! Tick!” nagising siya at nakita si Roy at iba niyang kaklase na masayang nagtatakbuhan sa labas ng silid. Sinubukan niyang sumigaw upang siya’y makita nito ngunit hindi siya nito naririnig, nalungkot siya ng lubos. Umiyak siya ng umiyak. Bigla niyang naramdaman na umaangat siya mula sa lupa at may narinig siyang nagsabi, “Uy! May lapis! Tamang-tama wala akong lapis!” at nakita niyang may isang bata, Tod ang pangalan. Nagulat siya dito at sinubukan kumawala ngunit hindi niya kaya. Umalis na si Tod at pumunta sa kanyang susunod na klase.

Umupo si Tod, noong inutusan sila ng guro na kumuha ng isang pirasong papel dahil meron silang pagsusulit sa araw na iyon. Habang nagsasagot, binato ni Tod si Mongol ang lapis sa kanyang katabing upuan. “Aray!” sigaw ni Mongol nang malaman na binato siya ni Tod. “Ma’am! Nahulog po yung lapis ko kukuhanin ko lang po.” Wika ni Tod, dahan-dahan siyang yumuko at bumulong, “pssst, pssst, ano sagot sa 16?” “D” ang sagot, at umupo na siya sa upuan niya. Pagkatapos ang klase lumipat na sila sa kabilang klase.

Sobrang tinamad at inaantok si Tod at wala siyang magawa. Dahan-dahan niyang tinaas si Mongol patungo sa kanyang mukha. “Araaay!!! Ang sakit!!!” namilipit si Mongol nang makita niya na nginangat-ngat siya ni Tod. Halos mapaiyak siya sa sakit, ngunit wala siyang magawa.

Pagkatapos ng ilang mga paghihirap, nakapulot si Tod ng asul na bolpen at tinapon na si Mongol, na halos wala nang tasa at puno ng ngat-ngat. Umiyak na lang si Mongol, ngunit sa huli, masaya pa rin siya, dahil nabuhay siya at nagamit ng ibang tao bilang lapis.

mg haiku ko!!

2008-09-15T01:45:00.000-07:00

Cell phone

Pindot ng pindot,

Laging kinaka-usap,

‘di rin sumagot.

Electric Fan

Isaksak mo ‘to.

Maghintay ng sandali.

Hangi’y regalo.

Papel

Sulatan natin.

Kawawa naman ito,

itatapon din.

Langgam

Kami ay gutom.

Naghahanap ng pagkain,

lalo na ‘pag hapon.

Puso

Tunog ng tunog.

Nagbibigay ng buhay.

Kabog ng kabog.

Natatae

Pagod na ako,

tinatawag ng banyo.

Ang baho baho.

Inuman

Pare kamusta?

Ngayon lang ‘kaw nakita.

Isang beer? Teka.

Kalendaryo

May pasok ba ‘ko?

Ano bang araw ngayon?

Bukas ay Linggo.

Daga

May pagkain dun.

Halina’t kunin natin.

Ano kaya ‘yon?

Naglalako

May tao ba ‘to?

Wala pa tayong benta,

alis na tayo.

Pagsusulit

Pahinging papel,

sana hindi mahirap.

Bakit ‘di nagbell?

Chess

Tayo’y maglaro!

‘Eto ang ititira.

Natalo ako.

Prom

Malapit na ‘to.

Sino kaya ang prom date?

Ako ba’y gwapo?

Bata

Nagmura ako,

lagot ako kay mama.

Dila’y pinalo.

Buto

Ibato ito.

Maghintay at diligan,

merong tutubo.

Pisay

May pasok ako,

unang ara sa iskul.

Anong malay mo?

Ngipin

Nakakasilaw.

Pero ‘di nililinis,

tuloy, nanilaw.

Filipinong Haiku

Takdang aralin,

sabi ay limang tula,

Dapat isipin.

Large Hadron Collider

2008-09-11T21:41:00.000-07:00

The Fast Way Around

To get those protons up to speed, LHC engineers had to build 17 miles’ worth of the coldest, emptiest place in the universe

Large Hadron Collider: Photo by Kevin Hand

The purpose of the LHC is to get lots of protons moving very, very fast. The magnet system is the core piece of technology that makes this happen. More than 1,200 magnet sections, each weighing 10 tons, bend proton beams through vacuum pipes around the 17-mile-long underground tunnel near Geneva. Since these protons are going so fast—99.9999991 percent of the speed of light—superconducting coils of niobium and titanium must produce a magnetic field that’s about 200,000 times as strong as Earth’s to bend them. A power supply feeds these magnets with 12,000 amps of current, and a constant flow of liquid helium keeps the entire machine just 1.9 degrees above absolute zero. The conditions are both colder and emptier than deep space.

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In Defense of the LHC

As the Large Hadron Collider readies to be fired up in Geneva, Physicist Brian Cox explains what it might reveal about the workings of the Universe—and why the grandest scientific instrument ever built is well worth the $6 billion investment

By Brian Cox Posted 09.10.2008 at 12:31 pm 4 Comments

The Collider: Photo by Peter McCready

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Today’s most ambitious scientific instruments are modern-day cathedrals in their size and complexity, if not in their purpose—these are, after all, structures built to shatter worldviews, not to reinforce them. And the grandest of all, pictured on these pages and fired into action today, will take us on a journey to one of the least-accessible places imaginable: the realm of quantum particles, less than a billionth the size of a single atom.

This is CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, the most magnificent scientific instrument ever constructed. Nearly 17 miles in circumference, buried 300 feet below the city of Geneva and a succession of picturesque French villages, and costing in excess of $6 billion, the LHC will be a window onto a profound and unexplored world that we hope will hold the answers to some of the biggest possible questions: What are we made of? Why are we here? And how could objects as marvelously complex as human beings evolve to ask these questions in such a violent and inhospitable universe?

The LHC is designed to recreate the conditions that were present in the universe less than a billionth of a second after the big bang—and to do so again and again, up to 600 million times a second. It accomplishes this by accelerating protons, the atomic nuclei of hydrogen atoms, so close to the speed of light that they zip around the 17-mile ring 11,000 times a second, before colliding head-on with another beam of protons traveling in the opposite direction. Four giant experiments, ATLAS, CMS, LHCb and ALICE, “photograph” the resulting miniature “big bangs.” I work with more than 2,000 other physicists from 37 countries on ATLAS, a detector that’s been built from more component parts than a space shuttle and that fills a subterranean cavern bigger than the nave of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. The scale, ambition and unique international cooperation at CERN make it one of the greatest human endeavours of this or any century.

But I’ve found that for many people the focus is not on the sheer audacity and majestic possibility of the LHC, but on the cost. I recently gave a talk about CERN that appeared on the Web and attracted plenty of comment in this regard: “Have we gone out of our freaking minds? How much did this thing cost to build? . . . Billions of dollars, no doubt, and for what? To collide two atoms in the hope of discovering a new particle . . .” In other words, can’t we do something more useful with that kind of money?

Let me answer with an emphatic NO. Finding out how our Universe works has never been a bad idea. In fact, it is the quest for a deeper understanding of nature that has given us everything we now take for granted in modern life. In an eloquent speech to the U.S. Department of Commerce in 1966, the theoretical physicist and then Philips research director, H.G.B. Casimir, pointed out that virtually all of the great discoveries of the 19th and 20th centuries came from curiosity-driven research. The transistor emerged from the quantum theory of solids, not from a desire to build computers and televisions. Radio waves were not discovered by men in government-directed laboratories in order to connect the world together with better communication systems, but by Heinrich Hertz, a man whose overriding concern was for the beauty of physics. In his speech, Casimir went on to list many of the great innovations of the mid-20th century—from nuclear power to automobile starter motors—and point out that none of them came about as a result of some kind of pragmatic process of innovation. The lightbulb, as the saying goes, was not invented through research and development on the candle.

In Defense of the LHC

By Brian Cox Posted 09.10.2008 at 12:31 pm 4 Comments

It should not be surprising that a deeper understanding of nature leads to great benefits for humankind. History speaks for itself. So why, then, could anyone question the “benefit”
of projects like the LHC? I believe society undervalues exploration because searching for incremental solutions to pressing problems feels like a more pragmatic response to our problems than the quest for for a revolution. It feels like we know enough—and we should focus our energies on better exploiting what we know. But what is “enough”? If we had applied this logic to particle physics over the past few decades, then we would have no World Wide Web (invented at CERN in 1990), no medical imaging scanners (the P in PET scan stands for positron, an antimatter electron discovered in 1932 by observing cosmic rays) and no x-ray or chemotherapy treatments, all of which rely on miniature particle accelerators to create the short-lived radioisotopes required for medical use. The world would be a far less comfortable place because of the loss to medicine alone, and a poorer place for the loss to commerce.

Most importantly, though, the world would be truly impoverished without all the fundamental knowledge we’ve gained. And the LHC has been built to answer some very profound questions about the nature of matter. We know it will discover something because we have deliberately built it to journey into uncharted waters, reaching energies in its particle collisions never before achieved in Earthly laboratories (although routinely achieved by nature elsewhere in the universe—prophets of doom take note, we are not powerful enough to endanger the world with this thing by a very long shot!).

Computer Center at CERN: Photo by CERN

What might the LHC discover? Top of the list is the origin of mass in the universe. We strongly suspect that the particles that make up our bodies don’t just have mass—that is to say substance—but acquire it by some very subtle mechanism. The most well-established theory is the Higgs mechanism, which predicts the existence of one or more particles known as Higgs bosons that should be well within the reach of the LHC. We also hope to discover the nature of dark matter, which many theorists suspect consists of a new kind of subatomic particle that outnumbers the stuff that makes up the Earth, sun and all the stars in the sky by a ratio of 5:1. More speculatively, we could discover extra imensions in the universe, revealing, in a Copernican revolution of unprecedented proportion, that we’re crawling around on a four-dimensional sheet in a perhaps infinitely larger multi-dimensional cosmos like ants on a piece of paper. And last, but hardly least, we could discover something so strange and, possibly, so useful that nobody has yet thought of it.

I accept that we scientists will always be called upon to justify our voyages of discovery in economic language simple enough (dare I say it?) for politicians to understand. Sometimes, however, we should also be brash and bold and defend the search for knowledge simply because it is a noble cause in itself. The great physicist Robert Wilson, founder of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batava, Illinois, which houses the world’s most powerful particle accelerator (until the LHC switches on), was once asked by Rhode Island senator John Pastore about the value of Fermilab in support of national defense. “It has nothing to do directly with defending our country,” replied Wilson, “except to make it worth defending.”

Exploration always delivers, because striving to gaze over the horizon is the only route to progress. If our ambition fades, then our position in this dangerous and beautiful universe becomes more precarious. Let us, therefore, celebrate the endeavors of big science, marvel at its machines, and await its discoveries with wonder in our eyes—and not with our hands tightly clasped around our wallets.

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Breaking Open the Unknown Universe

The most powerful and complex science experiment in the history of the universe is finally—after 14 years and $10 billion—about to begin. There’s no telling what it may find, and that’s entirely the point

By Michael Moyer Posted 09.10.2008 at 12:16 pm 0 Comments

Big Smash: Atlas's eight giant superconducting magnets, together powerful enough to crush a bus: Photo by CERN

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The proton is a persistent thing. The first one crystallized out of the universe's chaotic froth just 0.00001 of a second after the big bang, when existence was squeezed into a space about the size of the solar system. The rest quickly followed. Protons for the most part have survived unchanged through the intervening 13.8 billion years—joining with electrons to make hydrogen gas, fusing in stars to form the heavier elements, but all the while remaining protons. And they will continue to remain protons for billions of years to come. All, that is, except the unlucky few that wait in a tank of hydrogen gas 300 feet beneath the small Swiss town of Meyrin, a few miles north of the Geneva airport. Those—those are in trouble.

By the time you read this, a strong electric field will have begun to strip the electrons away from the protons in that hydrogen gas. Radio waves will push the protons, naked and charged, forward, accelerating them through the first of what can reasonably be called the most impressive series of tubes in the known universe (Internet be damned, Senator Stevens). The tubes in this Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have one purpose: Pump ever more energy into these protons, push them hard against Einstein's insurmountable cosmic speed limit c.

And then, the sudden stop. Head-on, a single proton will meet a single proton in the center of a cage of 27 million pounds of silicon and superconducting coils of niobium and titanium. And it will cease to be. These protons will collide with such tremendous energy, so much focused power, that they will transmute. They will metamorphose into muons and neutrinos and photons. All of that, for our purposes, is junk. But about once in a trillion collisions—no one knows for sure—they should turn into something we have never before observed. These protons, these nanoscopic specks of matter that together bear the energy of a high-speed train, will reach out into the hypothetical and bring a little bit of it back.

We have some good guesses about what they will become. They could turn into a missing particle called the Higgs boson—thus completing, through actual observation, the Standard Model of the universe, which describes everything yet known. Or they might vanish into dark matter, and so satisfy the demands of the astronomers who have for decades observed that the universe is suffused with mass of unknown origin and composition. Or—and this is what everyone is really hoping for—these transmuting protons will defy our imagination. They will show us the unexpected, the unanticipated, the (temporarily) unintelligible. The humble proton, just maybe, will surprise us.

Blank Fate: Think of the 15-million-pound Atlas detector as a giant camera that can take pictures of dark matter: Photo by Maximilien Brice/CERN

Down the Rabbit Hole

"They turned on the retinal scanners yesterday," warns Steve Goldfarb, a particle physicist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN, by its French acronym), the home of the LHC. "I hope this will work." He steps into the security lock, and the green phone-booth doors slide shut behind him. A wall-mounted scanner matches the pattern of blood vessels in the back of his eyeball against the database of those allowed entry. The system ensures that every person is tracked, that mission control knows exactly who goes down into the tunnels. In a month, trips down will be rare. In a month, the beam will be on.

Access granted. We wait at the elevator with stocky contractors in T-shirts and dirty work pants—murmurs in Polish and French, wary looks at the reporter's notepad, the red hard hat reserved for visitors—then climb in, and hit the button for floor –1. We are going to Atlas. The detector. The center. The collective work of tens of thousands of physicist-years, which is still, it quickly becomes apparent as we emerge through the concrete corridor and hear the first sharp pings of hammers on steel that echo throughout the chamber, not quite finished.

Though it's often compared to the interior of Notre Dame cathedral, the chamber looks less like a gothic sanctuary than it does the phaser room on the Starship Enterprise. There's an 80-foot high, 15-million-pound rolling pin of silicon and steel parked in the center, and it looks ready to fire. Except down here, the firing happens in reverse. In a month, once liquid helium cools the magnets down to 1.9 degrees Kelvin above absolute zero (that's –456°F), beams of near-light-speed protons will race not out, but in, meeting in the detector's center. (There is another equally sensitive detector, CMS, five miles away across the French countryside. The two groups will double-check each other's work and provide a bit of friendly rivalry as to who can discover what first.) The collision will concentrate all that speeding energy in an infinitesimally small space. And then that ball of pure energy will become something else entirely. "By Einstein's E = m², you can make particles whose mass is less than the amount of energy you have available," says Martinus Veltman, a physics professor at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and a Nobel laureate. Energy becomes mass. This, in a nutshell, is why the protons need to go so fast—with more energy, the LHC can summon ever-heavier particles out of the ether. And the heavier particles are the interesting ones. The heavy ones are new.

Light Reading: Astronomers can make dark matter by tracking how it distorts the light from distant galaxies: Photo by NASA

Darkness Doubles Down

Here's what we know about what the universe is made of: We have the ordinary, common matter, like protons and electrons. In addition, there's all the stuff that transmits a force, like photons of light, or gravitons, which pull heavy objects together. That's the universe—matter and force—and physicists have spent the past 60 years or so uncovering the details of how all the matter particles and the force particles interact. The totality of that work is called the Standard Model of particle physics, and any particle physicist will tell you that it is the most successful theory in the history of human existence, powerful enough to predict the results of experiments down to one part in a trillion.

And yet the Standard Model is almost certainly not the whole picture. While particle physicists have been busy constructing the Standard Model, astronomers and cosmologists have been working on another task, a giant cosmic accounting project. What they see—or, more precisely, don't—is a clear sign that there are far more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by the Ph.D.s.

If you go out and count up all the stars and galaxies and supernovae and the like, you should get an estimate of how much total mass there is in the universe. But if you estimate the mass another way—say, by looking at how quickly galaxies rotate (the more mass in a galaxy, the faster it spins) or by noting how galaxies clump together in large groups—you will conclude that the universe has much more mass than we can see. About five times as much, by the latest reckoning. Since it can't be seen, we call it dark matter.

Here's the problem: These unknown dark-matter particles—there's no column in the Standard Model for them. Another problem is that not even the people who came up with it think the Standard Model is the whole story. "The theory raises so many new questions," says David Gross, who won a Nobel Prize in 2004 for his work on the Standard Model, "that we are convinced it must be incomplete in some way." Sure, the model correctly predicts the outcome of experiments. But it is not, in the deep way that physicists want it to be, pretty.

To make the Standard Model work, there needs to be much fine-tuning, a dirty word to physicists because it implies arbitrarily tweaking lots of little variables in order to make everything come out right. Much better, physicists would argue, to have everything balance out naturally. As Dan Hooper, a physicist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois, concludes in his new book Nature's Blueprint, "The Standard Model as we understand it is ultimately unstable and is in desperate need of a new mechanism to prevent it from falling apart."

Enter supersymmetry, one helluva "mechanism." Supersymmetry posits that every particle is only half the story—that every particle has a hidden twin. Remember how the universe is split into matter and force? The core idea of supersymmetry is that every matter particle has a twin force-carrying particle. Same goes the other way: Every force particle has a twin made of matter. Matter and force, in one sense, are just two manifestations of the same thing.

How does this work in practice? Electrons give rise to selectrons (as in, supersymmetric electrons), and photons beget photinos (don't ask). The extra particles, each heavier than its twin, automatically balance out the Standard Model, no fine-tuning needed. But perhaps more important, these particles, were they to exist, could very well be the hitherto invisible dark matter. The universe swarms with squarks, winos and neutralinos, and these supersymmetric particles are just heavy enough and just common enough to outweigh the "normal" stuff by a factor of five to one. Cosmology, meet particle physics.

Of course, for this to make any sense, the LHC first needs to find a supersymmetric particle. And here's the catch: Even if the LHC makes a supersymmetric particle—two protons come together with enough energy to make, say, a neutralino—that particle will still be invisible. It will pass through the walls of the detector and down into Earth's crust and back out into space. Invisible means it doesn't interact with ordinary matter, and ordinary matter is the only thing we can build detectors out of.

So what happens? How can we tell? Well, we look very closely. When two protons come together, they will generate a shower of particles. Most of them will be ordinary particles, and the detectors will catch these. Then the scientists will look for what's missing. "It's a bit like the Sherlock Holmes story where the most important clue is the dog that doesn't bark," says John Ellis, a theorist at CERN. If lots of stuff comes out going one way, there has to be an equal amount of stuff going the other way—it's just the law of conservation of momentum. Count up what you have, subtract that from what you started with, and voilà, you could find yourself with a fleeting glimpse of dark matter. Or at least, its absence.

Vintage Store: The quickest, cheapest, most reliable way to store all that data? Tape drives, same as in the 1970s: Photo by Maximilien Brice/CERN

The Data Junkies

Back in the cavern that holds Atlas, physicist/tour guide Steve Goldfarb stands on a gantry 50 feet above the floor and traces in the air an imaginary track of an imaginary particle that has just spawned from a collision. "The whole idea of building such a huge detector," he says, "is to be able to draw a very precise line." Tellingly, the line he draws curves across the room.

Both Atlas and CMS generate magnetic fields so intense that "if you drove a bus in here and if you turned on the magnetic field, you would crush the bus," says Phil Harris, a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who shows me around CMS the following day. (Graduate students are considered the do-it-all grunt workers of any enormous project like this. Harris's buddy Pieter Everaerts, another MIT grad student, told me that one of their main jobs was to "go down [into the detector] to look for the blinking lights" that may indicate a faulty connection. Harris, for his part, has spent months building a database to keep track of the thousands of cables that carry data up and out of the machine. The LHC: where America's best and brightest go to label cables.)

Bus-crushing, despite its indisputable awesomeness, is not on the agenda here. Rather, the point of all these superconducting magnets is to make everything curve. When the two protons collide, the shower of debris they create will not, unlike the cables in the detector, come with labels. Harris and Everaerts and the 2,000 other scientists who work on CMS have to figure out what each particle is. Since a magnetic field bends the path of a charged particle, you can measure how much each particle curves and how fast it's going and deduce its charge and mass. "We need to understand everything," Harris explains. "Where it was, how much momentum, how much energy." And do it over and over, for the hundreds of particles that burst from every collision, 600 million times a second.

This, in turn, presents a slight problem with data overload. "We'll produce about a World Wide Web's worth of data every day," says Harris, an excitable 25-year-old who wears his hard hat backward and his pants a good six to eight inches below his waist. Everaerts turns his eyes up, clearly checking the math behind Harris's boast in his head. "Yes," he solemnly intones, "though the Web is growing very fast."

It's one thing to undertake a massive (but finite) civil-engineering project like the LHC in the space of a decade. It's quite another to build a new Google every day. "There's no way that CERN can provide all the computing components," says Ian Bird, the leader of the LHC Computing Grid. Instead, scientists figured out two ways to get rid of all the excess data.

Fortunately (or not, depending on how you look at it), most of the data the machines collect will be junk. Old news, particles long discovered, phenomena well-explored. Electronics in the detector throw out any collisions that don't look interesting, which totals about 99.99997 percent of the raw data.

The remaining 200 collisions per second move upstairs to the main computing center, a warehouse with row after row of rack-mounted computers. This is "Tier 0," in LHC parlance. From here, dedicated fiber-optic cables send a copy of the data to 11 computing centers worldwide, the so-called Tier 1. (The cables comprise the famous "Internet2" you may have heard about a few years ago—all it means is that the scientists get to use these lines, not you.) The Tier 1 computers then calibrate the data and distribute it to hundreds of Tier 2 computing centers. These are individual server farms, the 100,000 PCs spread among universities like Cambridge and Berkeley and Osaka. This is where the eureka moments will happen. By using a distributed system, the collisions underneath a French village can branch out all over the planet to be pored over by 10,000 brains. It is through this structure, just as much as through the magnets or the silicon, that the impossible will be made real.

Model Student: Inside the office of John Ellis, theoretical physicist at CERN. "SUSY" is short for supersymmetry: Photo by Michael Moyer

Know It All

The history of science is one of hubris. We think we have the natural world pretty much figured out, we think that our theories are pretty darn solid—and then someone does an innocent little experiment, and much to everyone's surprise, reveals the unfathomable. Never have scientists so self-consciously courted the unknown as they are doing with the LHC. No one thinks the Standard Model will end up being the whole story of the universe, despite its innumerable successes in explaining the world. Physicists know there is more out there, just beyond our reach. "I think of things for the experiments to look for," says John Ellis, "and hope they find something different."

"I think we all want to know where we came from and how we fit into the world," says George Smoot, a cosmologist at the University of California at Berkeley and winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in physics, "but some of us need to know how it all works in great detail." The 14 years, $10 billion and 10,000 people it took to build the LHC may be taken as simple measures of human curiosity, of how much we're willing to give to explore where we came from and how we fit into the world. You might wonder why it matters whether supersymmetry is true or not, why it's important that we find the dark matter. But understanding the universe is power. "Knowing the laws of physics, you know what can be done and what can't be done," says Nobel laureate Gerardus 't Hooft. "Knowing the laws of physics lets you see the future."

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It’s Christmas for Physicists!

After years of construction and months of hype, the world’s largest particle accelerator goes online today

By Stuart Fox Posted 09.10.2008 at 10:59 am 2 Comments

Measuring the God Particle: The electromagnetic and hadron calorimeters [left] make up the center of the 49-foot-high, 69-foot-long Compact Muon Solenoid, an instrument designed to probe the nature of mass itself by finding the elusive Higgs boson particle. Scientists believe the Higgs boson causes mass to exist, and have nicknamed it “the God particle.” These calorimeters measure the energy of particles that fly off after a collision. Photo by Enrico Sachetti

If you somehow managed to avoid seeing the comic, listening to the rap or reading anything in the all out media blitz, then let me be the first to tell you that earlier today the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most power particle accelerator, began operation. Scientists hope that the experiments conducted in the $9 billion dollar accelerator will help them discover the mysterious Higgs boson. The Higgs boson, colloquially referred to as the “God particle,” is the hypothetical particle that imbues matter with mass, and finding it (or not finding it) will have profound implications on the world of physics.

Luckily, for those just becoming aware of this momentous event and those wanting to brush up on their LHC knowledge before tackling a cocktail party tonight, Popular Science has you covered. First, start by taking a virtual tour of the accelerator, courtesy of Peter McCready. Then let Paul Adams explain why despite the fears, the LHC will not destroy the world (as if your reading this doesn’t already confirm that. Afterwards, let Danny Freedman describe what might happen if you were inside the LHC, getting hit with 320 trillion photons moving at almost the speed of light. Get a sense of the energies involved with the collisions with yours truly. Track your investment in the discovery of the Higgs boson over at PPX. And finally, a Greg Mone classic gets the skinny on the International Linear Collider, the planned U.S. answer to the European LHC.

No doubt it will take physicists months if not years to analyze the data produced by the LHC. Regardless, continue to check back at PopSci.com for all breaking LHC news. Happy accelerator day!

How Long Would it Take to Walk a Light-Year?

2008-09-08T01:22:00.000-07:00

How Long Would it Take to Walk a Light-Year?

Foot Work: Photo by Eduardo Schumacher

If you started just before the first dinosaurs appeared, you’d probably be finishing your hike just about now.

Here’s how it breaks down: One light-year—the distance light travels in one year, used as the yardstick for interstellar distances—is about 5.9 trillion miles. If you hoofed it at a moderate pace of 20 minutes a mile, it would take you 225 million years to complete your journey (not including stops for meals or the restroom). Even if you hitched a ride on NASA’s Mach 9.68 X-43A hypersonic scramjet, the fastest aircraft in the world, it would take about 95,000 years to cover the distance.

You’ll need to bring a big bag, too; walking such a distance requires substantial supplies. The average adult burns about 80 calories per mile walked, so you’d need two trillion PowerBars to fuel your trip. You’d also produce a heap of worn-out shoes. The typical pair of sneakers will last you 500 miles, so you’d burn through some 11.8 billion pairs of shoes. And all that effort wouldn’t get you very far, astronomically speaking: The closest star to the sun, Proxima Centauri, is 4.22 light-years away.

2008-09-08T00:45:00.000-07:00

Farming in the Sky

Agriculture is broken. Traditional techniques use too much energy and produce too little food for our growing planet. One fix: skyscrapers filled with robotically tended hydroponic crops and lab-grown meat

By 2025, the world’s population will swell from 6.6 billion to 8 billion people. Climate simulations predict sustained drought for the American Midwest and giant swathes of farmland in Africa and Asia. Is mathematician Thomas Malthus’s 200-year-old prediction, that human growth will one day outpace agriculture, finally coming to pass? Advances in farming technology have kept us fed so far, but the planet’s resources are tapped.

The choice is clear—rethink how we grow food, or starve. Environmental scientist Dickson Despommier of Columbia University and other scientists propose a radical solution: Transplant farms into city skyscrapers. These towers would use soil-free hydroponic farming to slash demand for energy (they’ll be powered by a process that converts sewage into electricity) while producing more food. Farming skyward would also free up farmland for trees, which would help remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Even better, vertical farms would grow food near where it would be eaten, thus cutting not only the cost but the emissions of transportation. If you include emissions from the oil burned to cultivate and ship crops and livestock in addition to, yes, methane from farm-animal flatulence, agriculture churns out nearly 14 percent of the world’s greenhouse-gas emissions.

You can’t buy vertically grown groceries just yet. Most urban farming efforts have been small-scale experiments run in neighborhood parks. Despommier’s vision is bigger: a $200-million, 30-story tower covering an entire city block, stuffed with enough fruit, vegetables and chickens to feed 50,000 people. “With waste in and food out, a vertical farm would be like a perpetual-motion machine that feeds a lot of people,” he says. Most of the technology already exists, he adds, and with some refining, the project could be up and running quickly if granted 0.25 percent of the subsidies paid to American farmers in the past decade—a piddling $500 million.

Despommier is advising investors in Abu Dhabi and South Korea who are considering vertical farms for new eco-cities. Seattle and Las Vegas are investigating similar, smaller concepts. Turn the page to explore the farm of the future, inspired by cutting-edge research from agricultural companies and scientists. With any luck, it will help repel the Malthusian catastrophe for another 200 years.
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Farming in the Sky a floor by floor look

THE AQUAPONIC MERRY-GROW-ROUND: Photo by Graham Murdoch

Although hydroponics and fish farms produce high yields, they’re also high-maintenance. Soilfree hydroponic systems require frequent nutrient replenishment, and fish tanks need constant flushing of fouled water. But pair the two in one “aquaponic” system, and the flaws become virtues: The fish waste becomes plant fertilizer, while the plants clean the dirty water.

This automated “conveyor belt” system, conceptualized by
OrganiTech, an Israeli company that creates automated farming systems, takes aquaponics one step further. The tank’s slow current carries floating trays of plants [1] past nutrient dispensers [2] and, by the end of the weeks-long trip, the plants are ready for harvest. Below them swim high-protein tilapia [3], whose ammonia-laden waste sinks to a gravel bed [4], where bacteria convert it to nitrogen. The system pumps this nitrogen-rich water to the plants, which consume the nitrogen and return clean water to the fish.

CROP CIRCLES TENDED BY ROBOTS: Photo by Graham Murdoch

Farmers already score per-acre yields using hydroponic tactics that are 30 times as high as those produced by traditional farming. In a vertical farm, nutrient-delivery machinery and 24-hour light exposure would improve on that yield many times over.

But not all plants respond well to hydroponic methods. Some, such as potatoes and citrus trees, need to set root in a semisolid medium, like soil or coconut fiber. The design here, by the Canadian company Omega Garden, does just that. In this Ferris-wheel-like growing system, plants grow in porous, vermiculite-stone-filled trays [1] arranged in a cylindrical cart [2] that rotates to periodically dip each row of plants in a nutrient trough [3].

THE WHOLE THING RUNS ON SEWAGE: Photo by Graham Murdoch

The vertical farm is more than just a produce factory. It’s also a plan to rewire a city’s infrastructure to mimic natural-resource cycles. Nowhere is that more evident than in the tower’s basement, where sewage provides the farm’s most crucial resources: energy and water. The surrounding city’s sewage system would be redirected to the farm, where half of it would enter a “SlurryCarb” machine, developed by EnerTech, a green-energy start-up in Atlanta. The device heats and pressurizes the sludge [1], breaking it down into its base components—carbon and water. The machine extracts the water [2], and the solid, coal-like slurry burns to power steam turbines [3] that generate electricity. The rest of the sewage is treated with bacteria-killing chemicals and turned into topsoil through a heating and drying process developed by N-Viro, an Ohio-based biosolids-recycling company. Water extracted from both processes is filtered [4] through natural “bioremediators,” such as zebra mussels, cattails and sawgrass, that clean it until it’s suitable for agriculture, or further refine it for drinking. Any farming waste is composted to make fertilizer and methane gas, which can be burned for energy.

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Inside the Vertical Farm

Turbines

Photo by Graham Murdoch

Vertical-axis wind turbines are potentially 50 percent more efficient in low wind conditions than conventional turbines.

Elevators

Photo by Graham Murdoch

Farmers load harvested plants onto a central elevator to be sold at the grocery store below.

Monitors

Photo by Graham Murdoch

Ceiling-mounted systems monitor and control humidity, temperature, and nutrient distribution.

Robots

Photo by Graham Murdoch

Robotic arms equipped with mechanical noses “sniff” plants and harvest them based on the presence of specific alcohols, a more precise judge of ripeness than color.

Optimal Crops

Photo by Graham Murdoch

Plants don’t have millions of years to adapt to indoor hydroponic growth cycles, so botanists must select and breed the strains that perform best. Other scientists will blend specialized fertilizers for the plants so that they’ll contain micronutrients essential to the human diet, like selenium and zinc.

Security

Photo by Graham Murdoch

Even a few insects or pathogens could decimate the enclosed crops, so farmers entering the building must don containment suits and pass through airlocks. Scientists will coat plants with genetically modified bacteria that glow in the presence of a threatening disease or pest, alerting farmers to an outbreak.

Meat

Photo by Graham Murdoch

Raising cattle is inefficient—only 3 percent of the energy used to raise a cow ends up as protein on your plate. Instead, scientists will cultivate slabs of meat in the lab from chicken, pig or cow stem cells raised on a diet of water, glucose and natural proteins. To approximate the texture of meat, they will “exercise” the muscle with electrical pulses. The fatty texture of a porterhouse is too complex to replicate, but sausage and chicken nuggets should be routine in a decade.

Lighting

Photo by Graham Murdoch

LED bulbs save energy and can be tuned to the specific wavelengths favored by each species (only red for lettuce, for example).

Chicken

Photo by Graham Murdoch

Chickens require little space and yield one pound of meat per two pounds of feed—very efficient by farming standards.

Sewage

Photo by Graham Murdoch

The vertical farm converts 100 tons of sewage into 19 megawatts of electricity.

Market

Photo by Graham Murdoch

Neighbors purchase vertical-farm goods in the tower’s ground-floor grocery store, and electric trucks deliver food to local markets.

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