If the moon suddenly exploded into a million pieces from a massive impact from an asteroid what would happen to the earth?
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If the moon exploded from an impact what would happen on earth?
Posted in 2012
Tagged Asteroid, Earth, impact, massive impact, million pieces, moon
If Earth didn’t have an atmosphere, what would happen to its temperature?
A. It would go up about 100K
B. It would go up about 30K
C. It would go down about 30K
D. It would go down about 100K
E. It wouldn’t change
Why is the sky blue?
A. The reflection of the ocean
B. Blue is the color of oxygen gas
C. Blue is the color of nitrogen gas
D. The blue light in white sunlight scatters more than red light
E. Clouds
Would this be a surprising discovery?: A planet in another solar system has an Earth-like atmosphere with plentiful oxygen, but no life of any kind.
A. Plausible. Life requires far more than oxygen to exist
B. Plausible. The oxygen may have been transported there by cometary impacts
C. Implausible. Oxygen is highly reactive and its presence in an atmosphere suggests replenishment by a living organism of some sort.
D. Implausible. Oxygen is essential to life
Jupiter does not have a large metal core like Earth. How can it have a magnetic field?
A. The magnetic field is left over from when Jupiter accreted
B. Its magnetic field comes from the Sun
C. It has metallic hydrogen inside, which circulates and makes a magnetic field
D. That’s why its magnetic field is weak
Auroras:
A. are found on Earth
B. are found on Jupiter
C. Indicate a magnetic field is present
D. result when particles in the solar wind hit a planet
E. all of the above
Jupiter is about three times as massive as Saturn, but only slightly larger. why?
A. it is made of stronger material
B. it is made of weaker material
C. adding mass increases gravity and compresses gasses
D. because they are made of different gasses
E. none of the above
looking at a Jovian planet in different wavelengths of light allows us to:
A. see different kinds of clouds
B. see to different depths or levels in the atmosphere
C. see layers of different temperatures
D. all the above
E. a and b
Titan is the only moon with a thick atmosphere and its surface:
A. has never been seen
B. has been seen by infrared light and spacecraft
C. is warmed by a greenhouse effect
D. has oceans of liquid gas (methane and ethane)
E. all except A
Why do Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune all have rings?
A. Rings were left over from solar system formation
B. THey all captured particles
C. All four planets had a large moon that disintegrated
D. All have small moons and small orbiting particles that constantly collide and make rings
If you keep pushing a person on a swing with little pushes, at just the right frequency, they will swing very high. This is an example of:
A. Newton’s second law
B. Newton’s first law
C. Energy conservation
D. Resonance
E. Conservation of angular momentum
Orbits of asteroids in the asteroid belt
A. often intersect planets
B. are mostly between Mars and Jupiter
C. are grouped into patterns by resonances with Jupiter
D. are mostly inside the frost line
E. all except A
A typical meteorite is
A. about the size of a house, and makes a crater when it lands
B. about the size of a pea or grain of rice and is invisible when it lands
C. about the size of a pea or grain of rice and makes a bright streak in the sky as it burns up
D. made of ice
Why is there a meteor shower every year on August 10th, 11th and 12th?
A. Meteorites only enter the solar system on certain dates
B. Meteorites often have 1 year orbital periods
C. Each year at that time Earth passes through the orbit of a comet and hits the debris it left
D. none of the above
Why do comet tails always point away from the sun?
A. They are left behind as the comet moves
B. Newton’s third law: Comet goes one way, tail goes the other
C. The solar wind blows on them
D. They don’t; this is just a perspective effect of how we view them
Would this be a surprising discovery?: A mission to Pluto finds that it has lakes of liquid water on its surface.
A. Plausible. other icy bodies at great distances from the Sun may also have liquid water
B. Plausible. studies of Pulto’s surface show a long, narrow feature that has been suggested to be a lake
C. Implausible. water would be frozen at Pluto’s temperature and we know of no extra hear sources
D. Implausible. Pluto is mostly made of rock and metals not water
Apocalypse Now: Redux
Apocalypse Now: Redux
APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX – DVD MovieApocalypse Now / Apocalypse Now: Redux
In the tradition of such obsessively driven directors as Erich von Stroheim and Werner Herzog, Francis Ford Coppola approached the production of Apocalypse Now as if it were his own epic mission into the heart of darkness. On location in the storm-ravaged Philippines, he quite literally went mad as the project threatened to devour him in a vortex of creative despair, but from this insanity came one of the greatest films ever made. It began as a John Milius screenplay, transposing Joseph Conrad’s classic story “Heart of Darkness” into the horrors of the Vietnam War, following a battle-weary Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) on a secret upriver mission to find and execute the renegade Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), who has reverted to a state of murderous and mystical insanity. The journey is fraught with danger involving wartime action on epic and intimate scales. One measure of the film’s awesome visceral impact is the number of sequences, images, and lines of dialogue that have literally burned themselves into our cinematic consciousness, from the Wagnerian strike of helicopter gunships on a Vietnamese village to the brutal murder of stowaways on a peasant sampan and the unflinching fearlessness of the surfing warrior Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore (Robert Duvall), who speaks lovingly of “the smell of napalm in the morning.” Like Herzog’s Aguirre: The Wrath of God, this film is the product of genius cast into a pit of hell and emerging, phoenix-like, in triumph. Coppola’s obsession (effectively detailed in the riveting documentary Hearts of Darkness, directed by Coppola’s wife, Eleanor) informs every scene and every frame, and the result is a film for the ages. –Jeff Shannon
Hearts of Darkness
Hearts of Darkness is an engrossing, unwavering look back at Francis Coppola’s chaotic, catastrophe-plagued Vietnam production, Apocalypse Now. Filled with juicy gossip and a wonderful behind-the-scenes look at the stressful world of moviemaking, the documentary mixes on-location home movies shot in the Philippines by Eleanor Coppola, the director’s wife, with revealing interviews with the cast and crew, shot 10 years later. Similar to Burden of Dreams, Les Blank’s absorbing portrait of Werner Herzog’s struggle to make Fitzcarraldo, the film chronicles Coppola’s eventual decent into obsessive psychosis as everything that could go wrong does go wrong. Storms destroy sets, money evaporates, the Philippine government continually harasses the director, Coppola has romantic affairs, and he can’t write the story’s ending. Everything is captured on film. In the most disturbing scene, we watch Martin Sheen have a drunken nervous breakdown while his director goads him on (he eventually suffered a heart attack, but finished the film).
Other incredible footage is not visual, but aural as the film includes tapes Eleanor Coppola recorded without Francis’s knowledge. In them, he truly sounds like a madman as he confesses his fears about making a bomb of a movie. But while Hearts of Darkness is an amazing, voyeuristic experience, its importance lies in the personal reflections offered by those involved. Sheen, Coppola, and Dennis Hopper speak frankly without embarrassment, offering us an essential piece of film history. –Dave McCoy
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Do Christians Confuse You With These Too?
Here are two of the MANY things I find confusing/contradictory about Christians.
(1) Christians really confuse me when they say “We must preach and save souls. God wants all to be saved” yet on the otherhand they say “Only a FEW people will make it to heaven. NARROW is the path”. SO WHICH IS IT??? Because if in the end MOST will be in hell ANYWAY, according to Matthew 7:13 to 14 and Luke 13: 23 to 30 and God already knows who they are and he keeps them BLIND according to John 12: 40. Then winning GREAT numbers is actually counter-productive. Not so?
(2) Why do Christians complain when people do not like them or their religion? Why do they comaplain when popular culture is NOT christian biased? Then on the other hand say, ” “We are not supposed to BE part of this world because it is evil and to be destroyed”
So why care if other people like you or if you are popular with the world? Why does it matter so much to have the world include you? Why get offended?
is the world really going to end like the bible?
my family is religious and my native people have diffrent belifs so do i trust god or stay close to my native people.
natives been thru so much and everyone in this world wouldn’t understand. when it comes to the world changing around them i know it would be easy for natives to survive cause we have been through alot. i think if may of these contries were to world war and america lost would just be in the middle of everything and get treated the same way we have always been and continue to survive because we are savages.