boring, boring, boring...

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

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!!!!

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!!!

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!!!

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?

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!

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...

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!!!

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!!

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...

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...

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?

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

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

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.

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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

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