Blue Life

By Selina

 YICHANG, is a small city in Hubei Province,China - Flood flow is set to peak again on Monday at China’s Three Gorges Dam on the swollen Yangtze River, forcing the water levels of the dam’s reservoir to surge again.

Engineers of the dam, located in Yichang City, central Hubei Province, said the water level of the Three Gorges reservoir, which dropped a few centimeters over the weekend, might now rise to break its record high of the year - 158.86 meters, or 13.86 meters above the warning line.

Authorities said a new round of flood waters would gush into the Three Gorges reservoir on Monday after days of rainstorms swelled branches of the Yangtze on the upper reaches.

On last Tuesday, the flow on the river’s upper reaches topped 70,000 cubic meters a second when it reached the Three Gorges reservoir, about 20,000 cubic meters more than the flow during the 1998 floods that killed 4,150 people and the highest level since the dam was completed last year.

Engineers said Monday’s flood flow is not likely to exceed last Tuesday’s peak.

Floods in China this year had left 742 people dead and 367 missing as of last Friday. Premier Wen Jiabo has told local authorities to be fully aware of the “grave flood-control situation” and to prepare for more serious flooding.

(The above text from China Daily)

Eight magnitude earthquake in Chile, Iceland volcanic eruption, Eight magnitude earthquake in China, 7.6 magnitude earthquake in Indonesia. Many disasters happened in recent years,many people are died in earthquake,lose their lives,their fanily,their house,their property,their friends why it happened so frequently? When people lose their happiness,but the disasters happened and rob their lives.

In the old time, people live in primitive environment,although they dont have beautiful house, and lucury life, but they live a in the world,which is filled with peace. In the modern time,peoples life style are give out s much carbon dioxide so that the temperature is getting higher and higher, the air-conditioner is everywhere, thus entered a vicious cycle. So we heard some places are happened what what what, the figure of death people is higher and higher day by day. What can we do for our environment? Here are some suggestions for you,I am sure you will do kind of our earth where we live.

1.when the air-conditioner is working, please turn on to 26℃. It not only do good to our body, save your money, protect you from getting a bad cold, but also do a big help to atmosphere. For example one air-conditioner reduce emissions of carbon dioxide 1ton in a year if turn one higher degree, so how about 100 million air-conditioners?

2.Low carbon travel. You can take a bus or ride a bike instead of driving a car.

3.Use e-mail instead of priting. And dont buy anything that you do not needed,such as cloth,make-up products and so on.

4.Dont use disposable wooden chopsticks and when you go shopping,please remember to bring a environmental protection bags

It stills many ways to protect our environment, I just list some ways that most related our life. You can persuade your friends,your family to join in this group. Protect our environment need to everybody togethers work hard, and its a long jounery,we cannot stop in midway, we should keep working harder and harder.

Come on, my friends! Do it together, please!

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Plato and Writings About Atlantis

By EstaR David

 Quite plenty are the movies not to mention books that have been attributed to the empire of Atlantis. The main questions include where it is and what it was. Such evidence is certain The interest of professional researchers and amateur sleuths when it comes to Atlantis remains as strong as ever, even when it was mentioned in passage in Timaeus and Critias, two dialogues written by Plato, a Greek philosopher in 360 BC. You can choose from 438 titles about it in an Internet bookstore. When it comes to full length features, Disney came up with Atlantis The Lost Empire.

According to the scholars who were believers of Atlantis, a sacred island that beheld the sunlight and brought about a wondrous abundance, it was impossible for Plato to fabricate such a tale. What will it take to find out the truth about Plato and Atlantis? What happened to Plato was that he died several years after without mentioning how factual Atlantis is.

It was Solon the historian who gave Plato the idea of Atlantis and he did exist. Stressed by the skeptics is how Solon made up a fable that Plato believed in. It has been said that Plato’s intellect could not have had room to provide for a highly detailed description of the island of Atlantis wherein a series of rings make up the empire with the royal palace in the center and dug out canals lead to the cities not to mention having surroundings of statues and intricate bath houses.

But it is still a lingering question of how long Atlantis really existed for it was an empire that could easily build nuclear bombs not to mention develop numerous flying machines however being destroyed by 9000 BC from the accounts of Plato. The location of Atlantis is another part of the puzzle. Devastated by a volcano in 1470 BC was Thira, the place said to have housed Atlantis.

In the Azores in the Atlantic is another location for Atlantis that is off of the coast of Spain. But almost any time parts of sunken temples or buildings are discovered in any ocean, some people believe they’ve found the real location of Atlantis. A number of European explorers relied on maps with Atlantis located in them for sailing the world.

Traveling with their flying machines, these were fabricated by using the elephant skins that they had. Off of the coast of Bimini was where Atlantis was also said to have been located. Considering the devastation that occurred, some lives were spared. It has been said that these survivors reached Egypt where they shared what they knew with the people there. Service as the storage for records of Atlantis in the Great Sphinx is a secret chamber.

Ice only covered Antarctica around 4000 BC. Prior to that, either an underground explosion happened or there was a seismic upheaval. Plenty of these generated energy that could destroy civilizations. There was an author who said that he did extensive research about Atlantis before he wrote about it and he discovered that it existed off of the Atlantic Ocean. The reason for its absence is a nuclear explosion in the past. Nuclear weaponry was also available there as they are now. During their civil war, the people blew themselves up via an exchange of nuclear explosions.

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Initial Footsteps on Antarctica

By AshleyJ Morrison

 Eighteen days had passed in the icy land of Antarctica, arriving at the airport according to the schedule have seemed to be the finest warm homecoming. After nearly three weeks staying at the bottom of the world, four members of the Antarctica expedition had returned home to a hero’s reception. For this reason, it was an extraordinary event and emotional and worthy record of history.

An awful weather condition retained the Antarctica’s scientific expedition for about 10 more days than anticipated, hence, as the arrival day finally came, the homecoming party was arranged. An hour before the plane was due, close relatives and friends sat in black plastic airport chairs peep in at the large windows on the landing field and glancing at their watches. Down the hall, 25 students gathered with teachers and parents, nibbling turkey sandwiches and preparing to pamper their teacher with hugs.

There were gifts such as heart shaped balloons, a dozen of roses and a welcome banner with images of penguins on it provided by the welcome troops. Four members of the team brought along two handbags of meteorites which will later be taken photographs, cut open and experimented and tales of a mission accomplished. The quest also included two expert astronauts who worked at NASA before, a NASA scientist and a resident of Chicago who contributed notably in funding part of the expedition. The trip leads the group to the Patriot Hills of Antarctica, South Pole and Thiel Mountains though it is not high as the Rockies, yet just as beautiful.

Back in the States, there was a team member who complained about the technology they had along the way. They had satellite phones that were no good. Providing them of memories of what they let behind were these. In no time he will be able to return to being a professor of astronomy and geology in a populated continent.

These people have been in similar escapades in unfamiliar territories like this one. Last summer was when two of them went to Turkey with a scientific team for the solar eclipse seen from the coast of the Black Sea. Over there they actually found themselves in a similar situation as that of their unanticipated stay in the Antarctic. At the time there was an intense earthquake and so they stayed long after the solar eclipse was over. The earthquake struck when the two were 200 miles away from its epicenter and so the magnitude they felt was only 5.5.

Camaraderie on the trip was what he considered to be the best part of the trip and he also said that there was less stress with images of blue fields and snow covered scenery. This team with a retired NASA scientist was seen to be an exclusive club. But they’re down to earth people no pun intended, very easy to talk to, very easy to be with. They favored fun over egos. Their days in Antarctica, even the unanticipated ones, were filled with reading, talking, cross country skiing, and snowmobiling.

It was about a month ago when a the 24 year old team member shared with reporters and staff members her outfit for the trip and it includes boots, goggles, heavy gloves, and an energetic smile. She wore a cheerful smile upon returning with some sneakers, jeans, and a sweatshirt. A trip to the Mars like continent became a possibility for she incorporated space science in her classes. It also gave students a once in lifetime learning experience. It is possible to learn as things are tied in. Much exposure for kids to science and history is possible with an explorer for a teacher.

For her experiments during the trip, they were about temperature, rocks, and gravity, much like what students back home are doing. Data were transmitted to students from 11 classrooms via satellite phone and email. For the questions as well as the answers, they were all pretty funny. To blame for the comedy were the differences among answers. Her experience taught the students that data can be a little different when performed in a snowy desert with temperatures plunging to well below zero.

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