Friday, March 7, 2014

gold

The way they find elements for example gold. The way they find gold is  by looking in the quartz veins and which are located in granite. depending on the surrounding rock if there is gold in it then it will look like a stained rust mound. what you would see around the gold is oxides or sulfides which contain iron




http://www.mygoldpanning.com/wheregoldisfound.html

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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

How Video Games Are Beneficial

Some people may say that video games are a waste of time or that they aren't good for you. But German researchers have found out that video games help with spatial navigation, memory formation, forming a strategy and motor skills in your hands.
The researchers did an experiment asking 23 adults around 25 years of age to play super Mario 64 every day for 30 minutes for 2 months, and then a second control group didn't do any thing and they found out that the people who did play the game had increased motor skills and strategy formation.

This is accurate information because a friend of mine he doesn't play video games and his strategy formation and motor skills in his hands aren't that great. On the other hand I've been playing video games for a long time and my strategy formation and motor skills are great. For example I play paintball for fun and one time I was in the middle of a game and we could see that the other team was all around us so I came up with an idea. My idea was to get up in to the trees and have a decoy down on the ground as bait. And when the came to attack him we all started shooting them and we had won.
So what do you guys think are video games good for you?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/07/video-games-good-for-us_n_4164723.html



Monday, January 6, 2014

What is engineering?
Engineering is the branch of science and technology concerned with the design, building, and use of engines, machines and structures.

What jobs are there with engineering?
Jobs you can have are designing/buildings, cars, motorcycles, boats, etc...
With out engineers we wouldn't have the fast cars, the coolest cars, or cars with the best MPG.
All we will have are big bulky cars that will that won't be able to go that fast because there is to much wind resistances.

Engineering is a cool job because if you are a guy/girl that likes to design and build products you can be an engineer. Engineers get payed lots of money for designing the best cars, the best boats, the best motorcycles, etc...

With engineering you have to spent lots of hours working on drawing the design of a car and once you have done that you will have to put that drawing into a model and test the wind resistance of the car to see if it would be a good car for someone to want to buy it.

With designing a truck you have to design it first then figure out what type of suspension would be good to put on it. For example with the Ford Raptor it's technically the best truck in the U.S. Because it's suspension is great with off road and on road and it's not even aloud outside the country because it's so great off road that say the Iraq military were to get it they could tear it down and possibly make it better so that the could out run, catch up to, or even sneak up on our military.

http://youtu.be/_XrEcIDf5Q4