Space Exploration (My Persuasive Argument)

Space Exploration
(My Argument)

I think that space exploration is extremely important and useful for multiple reasons. Here I’ll be stating all of the reasons why I think its important and giving you my honest opinions and thoughts.

My first reason is that if we don’t find new places to live and areas we could become extinct. Why’s that? And how? (you may ask) well in this world there are currently more than seven billion people that live on planet earth, which is quite a huge amount of people. But however we’re all crammed together on this single, individual planet. If something happened to earth like a meteor came crashing down or a huge asteroid happened, our species could be wiped out and humans could become extinct. Colonising other bodies in the solar system is a way to create “backup” of humanity that will survive no matter what happens to earth. This is just a thought, but maybe in the future humans will never be seen to take a step on planet earth again, perhaps they could be living on another planet, but hopefully they don’t become extinct. Space exploration is helping to address fundamental questions about our place in the universe and the history of our solar system.

My next reason is that space mining could save the world. New technologies are getting built and designed every single day, therefore the strain on our natural resources continue to increase. The extraction of valuable minerals has led to a host of problems, including environmental damage, and human exploitation, but there’s an amount of precious materials that are lying around in space. Startups like planetary resources want to mine asteroids instead of earth, which would mean an effectively unlimited supply of raw materials that are laid upon earth. In theory, hydrogen fuel that's been mined from asteroids costs significantly less than fuel from planet earth! Due to high costs of escaping earth’s gravity.

We also need to continue to explore and discover. It’s very important humans keep doing this or otherwise we are going to be stuck on planet earth until the day we might become extinct. There are more practical reasons for space exploration, but one of the principal reasons we must continue is that we are explorers. That’s why humans number in the billions from our earliest upright steps, we’ve endeavoured to learn more about the world around us, and this is to build civilisation. Exploring space is an opportunity not only to discover new worlds and build advanced technologies, but instead to work towards a larger goal irrespective of nationality, race, or gender. If we discontinue to explore then we may stop being a human race.

Most importantly the human race is increasing more and more by the day. Every day a child enter this world, which means are population goes up. Some countries make that having children is illegal. Our current population is 7.7 billion in August 2019. Our population is increasing 82 million per year! Our population is becoming more huge, and people are becoming homeless. There could be a few reasons for this. One not enough houses are getting built or two, the prices of housing are becoming more expensive for people to buy. We also really just need a backup because one day something terrible could happen to earth and what are we going to do then? Give up and just sit there until death falls upon us? No. We need to continue to explore and Nasa needs to continue to spend money for space exploration. Because population is expanding rapidly in huge numbers. There is hope to find a planet in space that can sustain life to human beings. I believe there are planets out there that include an environment that is safe for us to live on, but it must include the important resources we use on a daily basis like oxygen, water, trees to give us oxygen (plant life), food, shelter etc. As a team humans could build and create a new planet that is suitable for everyone to live on.

Another durable reason I have is space exploration can protect us by a catastrophic asteroid. This could be the cause of a possible chance on how the world might end. An asteroid hits our planet about every 10,000 years or so… shouldn’t we all be prepared? If we don’t want to end up like the dinosaurs someday, we need to start to protect ourselves against the threat of being hit by a big asteroid. According to Nasa, typically about once every 10,000 years, rocky or iron asteroids (which is around about the size of a football field!) could smash into our planet’s surface and possibly cause tidal waves big enough to inundate coastal areas. But we also have something else to fear about... there are asteroids that are about 100 meters (109 yards) across or bigger that we really have to watch out for. Such a collision would unleash a firestorm of heated debris that would fill the atmosphere with sun-blocking dust, which can easily wipe out forests and farm fields and starve the human and animal life that it didn’t immediately kill. All though there is this widely funded space program that enables us to spot a dangerous object long before it strikes earth, and send a spacecraft to plant a detonate nuclear explosion that could nudge it off its collision course.

My very last reason is that space exploration could help solve a really big question. A Lot of people believe that life exists somewhere else in the cosmos, according to a 2013 Huffing ton poll half of the american nation chose to believe it! And a quarter of them think that extraterrestrials already have visited our planet. But so far, sweeps of the sky with Earth-based telescopes for signals that might be beacons from distant civilisations have proven fruitless, possibly because the Earth's atmosphere interferes with such messages reaching us. That's why searchers for extraterrestrial civilisations are eager for the deployment of more orbital observatories such as the James Webb Space Telescope. That satellite, which was expected to launch in 2018, had the ability to search for the chemical signs of life in the atmospheres of distant planets outside our solar system (source: Kramer). That's a start, but an even more aggressive space-based effort to look for clues of extraterrestrials might finally help us to answer the question of whether we have company out there.

To sum everything up, In conclusion, I believe that space exploration is important and needs to continue. I have given decent reasons and explanations on why space exploration is important. I have explained the impact on how it affects our environment, population etc. I’ve also explained how its important we should keep exploring and overall how important space exploration really is. These are my reasons, opinions and thoughts on what I think about it. Overall, I strongly believe that space exploration is important and it should continue!

By Aimee

Solar System Art

Our classroom was assigned to make art using something to either create the solar system, or something related to space. Here I decided to create the solar system. I used black paper and pencil to first outline the planets, and then I used pastels. I then picked a pale, purplish colour to mount my work on the paper to use for the background.

Lunar Module Tasks (Topic)

Lunar Module

Task 1: Lunar Modules Tasks

Here this document was filled with tasks we had to complete in order. First we had to make a new document and include five station facts about the lunar module. 

Task 2: 

We had to make a plan / design of what our project would look like and the materials we would be using.

Task 3: 

Was to build our Lunar Module Project! Here is my project I have made! 

I made my project using different materials. During the process I did make a few mistakes and it did take quite alot of work to do, and I did most of it at home. I also included a few things inside of my model, like a control panel, a bed and a few other things. Overall I'm kind of proud of my project but there would be a few things I would do to maybe improve it. Now what we have to do is too test it by using two lego people (acting as astronauts) and they have to be able to stand inside of it without falling over and we have to drop it in the sand! we haven't done it yet, (due to wet weather) but I'm hoping mine works.

The materials I used:

- Ice cream container

-  Tin foil

- Plastic spoons

- Cardboard

- Gold tinfoil

- Random object I found laying in my house (To use for the radar)

- Pipe cleaners

Learning intentions:

For this term we are doing space / solar system work for our topic. We have had to make this project on recreating the lunar module that landed on the moon in 1969. 

By Aimee

Jake Bailey Poster

Task set: In my classroom we had a special guest named Jake Bailey (who is a cancer survivor) to come and talk to us about his Journey and positive, inspirational advice. We had to create something that includes what we learn't from him, some facts and information and our opinions and thoughts. Here I decided to make a poster using a site called "Easel.ly" 

Heres the link if you'd like to check it out:

https://www.easel.ly/

Learning Intentions: 

-To create something that showcases what we learn't from a special guess speaker named Jake Bailey.

-Here in my poster I've included what i've learn't from Jake Bailey

-There is some facts and information about Jake Bailey

-I've included my thoughts, and my opinions 

By Aimee

Pt.1 The Monkey Twins And The Evil Chicken Nugget Monster

Pt. 1 The Two Monkey Twins And The Evil Chicken Nugget Monster

Once upon a time two curious monkey twins were bored out of their minds. They were both sitting in their steel metal cage where the whole world revolves around them. The monkey twins were very suspicious towards the other animals. They were awfully quiet, and they didn’t really interact with any of their animal friends. They both wondered what it was like in the city, and how humans lived. One of the monkey’s had an very dangerous plan to break out of the zoo in the middle of the night were all of the animals would be asleep. They wanted to try some human food instead of eating rotten bananas for their three meals a day. So they both remained silent with only the sound of cars zooming through the city and the street lights beaming on the metal cage were the reflection of a glooming light shined through their brown hazel eyes. They both waited till the full moon was out…

Time flew by and all of the animals were asleep. Both of them waited a bit longer for the zookeeper's to go home, but one major thing they had to do was break the security cameras. So one of the monkey twins broke out of the cage, using her sharp rounded teeth chewing around the edges of the rusty metal. The other monkey was a bit hypo (this particular monkey gets very hyper at midnight) she started to jump around and wave her hands around like a loonnitick the other monkey paused with a puzzled look on her face. “Ummm monkey twin, I think you’ve had enough banana’s today” she whispered. The other twin was too busy swinging on the vines and the next minute she was out of the gates! “Wait hold up monkey twin!”. “Hurry up twin!” said the excited monkey. “I really want to try some of their delicious chicken nuggets they sell at the famous McDonald's restaurant!”. It had been ten minutes or so and they were both very sturdy and very conscious about what they were doing, well except for one… (now I would describe this monkey to be very coo coo). The other monkey was still jumping around like she was a kid on Halloween night that had too much candy. “Shut up”! Said the furious twin. “You’re gonna get us caught”! The twin continued on being a twat, and seconds later a police car drove down the street. “Twin!” both of the monkeys ran behind a pub and hid behind a dumpster until the police car was no longer to be seen. “Great you idiot”! “You nearly got us caught!!” “Sorry twin I’ll be a bit more careful” the monkey said with a quiet voice.

Half an hour later the twins both arrived at the restaurant. “Oh monkey twin, I’m starving” “Me too I really want to try their chicken nuggets so desperately!” “Me too!” both of their stomachs rumbled and vibrated like a earthquake. Both of the twins snuck in the bush and discussed their plan on how they were going to get inside of the restaurant. “Okay so you distract the three workers by pretending your homeless, and then I’ll make a run for it and I’ll karate chop them in the face!” “What, wait, why!” “Why do I get the lame job!” “Look we have no time for arguments, okay I promise I’ll make it up to you.. Some day”. “Okay whatever” the other twin said in a sarcastic voice. It had been 3 or 4 minutes and one of the twins jumped out of the bush and started acting very strange… (according to the “smart” twin). “Wait, what are you doing that wasn’t part of the plan!” “I can be brave and strong like you watch me I don't need no fun, fancy job” the twin said in a jealous voice. The twin started dancing and doing fortnite dances in front of the doors, the other twin shook her head with disappointment. One of the workers came walking towards the monkey, and slowly opened the door. “Woah check it out dude!” “It’s a dancing monkey, I’m definitely putting this on youtube and everywhere on social media!” the worker (named Jeff) pulled out his cellphone and filmed the goofy monkey. “Wow I’m going to get big million dollar bills!” the twin said in her head. The other twin eventually came out of the bush and the dancing monkeys one minute of fame was over. “Noooo!” the twin yelled with anger. The “smart” twin karate chopped the worker’s face. “Woah that was awesome”. “Yeah it was so awesome” the other twin said in a sarcastic voice. “I still don’t get why I didn’t get the cool job”. “Well I mean dancing like an idiot in front of a human is pretty cool too… but karate chopping someone’s face is twice the awesomeness”. “Yeah sure that’s a whole bunch of lies”. “Well let's face it twin you can’t do it” she said with a little giggle. Then a moment of silence came between them they then bursted out into laughter.

They both tiptoed into the restaurant and headed straight into the cooking station. “Now twin this is where the golden chicken nuggets are”. “Mmm I can smell them they smell so delicious!”. Their hopes for having a bucket full of chicken nuggets and becoming a millionaire wasn’t as what they expected. A shadow of a very strange creature that was very weirdly shaped, (as a writer, I could explain that the shape awfully looked like a chicken nugget).The peculiar creature was hidden beneath the french fryer of an overload of oily chips. The creature came crawling out towards them. What could this be? A monster? Could it be the monkey’s worst nightmare? Most importantly will they survive...

To be continued…

By Aimee

Communication And Pencil Work

Communication And Pencil Work 

~By Aimee~

This term my classroom has been working on communication work, as part of our topic. We all had assigned work about communication and had certain tasks to complete. I have finally finished all of my tasks/activities and I thought I would share them with you guys! To include all of my work, I created a site. Hope you guys enjoy! :)

The Link:

https://sites.google.com/blaketown.school.nz/communication-pencilwork-aimee/home

NYLD 2019!

Here is a slideshow I have made about my trip to nyld! (National Young Leaders Day). My slideshow includes what i've learn't, what we did, and everything about it! Hope you guys enjoy! :)