Swimming

1st meet of the season of coarse we won I hope to have an exiting season so good luck and may the best school win

So it ends

Well people we have returned to school and the first month is up yes. I hope to post diff. episodes of sci. shows on this blog before school ends so have a great year

Sciece Show

Star Trek Voyager

As Voyager is traveling at warp, an anomaly forces Voyager to drop to impulse near a Quantum Singularity's event horizon. Sensors detect a ship nearing the event horizon and Captain Janeway tries to hail them. Receiving no response, Janeway orders the tractor beam be used to pull the ship away from the event horizon. The attempt damages Voyager and it is decided help will be sought out on near-by worlds. However, after several attempts to navigate away from the quantum singularity lead the crew back towards the stranded ship, a startling discovery is made.

It transpires that they are the ship in the quantum singularity. They had first entered it when they dropped out of warp and are slowly falling deeper into the singularity. The properties of the quantum singularity are causing a 'temporal reflection' of the ship to appear. It is discovered that the only way out is to go back though the 'hole' in the event horizon that they made when they entered. However, the hole has since decayed, so Janeway and Torres leave on a shuttle to attempt to enlarge it enough for Voyager to fly through.

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The Fox and the Goat

I think moral of this fable is think before you leap. It is the moral because in the story the goat did not think about his choice and foolishly jumped in without thinking of the consequence. This relates to couple of quotes I've heard which are:

1-Think before you speak

2-Look both ways before crossing a street
These quotes relate to the moral because the general meaning of these quotes are to pay attention and think. To sum up I believe the moral of the story is think before you leap.

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The Crow and the Pitcher

I think the moral of this fable is will finds a way. This means that that what ever goals you set you always find a way of accomplishing it. The connection I have is that one goal of mine was to be faster in swimming and I set my mind to become faster and I accomplished that goal.

The Fisher and the Little Fish

I think the moral of the fable is a small gain is bigger than a big promise. This means that if you gained something even if it is a small gain it is better to keep that gain than trust in a big promise that is less likely to to be accomplished. A connection Ihave is that I keep that gain when it comes buy.

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The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

I think that the moral of this story is that looks can be deceiving. This means that you should not trust everything you see because what you see may not be what it really is. It is this because in the text it said the wolf took the mothers skin and tricked the sheep into thinking that it is a sheep. The connection I have to this story is the character Sherlock Holmes because he says you see but you don't observe. This means that we see the same thing but i see the meaning and purpose of it. To sum up I think the moral is looks can be deceiving.

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Wooden Bowls

This Story relates to cares because it shows empathy. The parents felt empathy when they realize that their kid would do what they are doing to their grandfather

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The Four Oxen and the Lion

I think the moral of the story stick together and you have a better chance of surviving because it in the story when the oxen stayed together the lion could not eat them but when the oxen separated the lion was able to kill them. This relates to the saying I heard which said the greater in numbers the more chance you have in surviving. This means that the more people you have on your side will watch your back.

Sciece Show connection

Augment is a term used to describe a group of genetically engineered Humans created by DNA resequencing in the late 20th century, a group of Klingons, and other genetically-engineered beings. (Those from the 20th century were also called supermen.) The Augments were designed to be stronger, faster, and more intelligent than a normal Human being. Even their resistance to energy weapons was improved, as it took multiple shots with a phase pistol to stun one. (ENT: "Cold Station 12")

Contents [show] 1 The Eugenics Wars 2 Soong's Augments 3 Klingon Augments 4 The Return of Khan 5 Known Augments 6 Background

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Dr. Stavos Keniclius, an Augment scientist involved in the Eugenics Wars

These Augments were five times stronger than the average person, their lung efficiency was fifty percent better than normal, their heart muscles were twice as strong, they possessed remarkable agility, and their intelligence was double that of normal Humans. (TOS: "Space Seed"; ENT: "Borderland") They, however, were aggressive and arrogant – one of the scientists behind their creation said that "superior ability breeds superior ambition." Doctor Arik Soong later theorized that a defect in the genomes of the Augments created a malformation in the base-pair sequences that regulate the neurotransmitter levels in their brains, causing them to be highly prone to aggression and violent behavior. (ENT: "The Augments")

In 1993, the Augments seized power in over forty nations on Earth, leading to the conflict known to them as the Great Wars, as they battled amongst each other and with "normal" Humans. The Augments were mostly horrible despots, treating their subjects like slaves. (TOS: "Space Seed")

They were finally overthrown in 1996; the last to be deposed was Khan Noonien Singh. After the end of the war some eighty Augments were unaccounted for, including Khan. (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan) Earth authorities collected the remaining Augment embryos and placed them into storage; by the 2130s they were stored on the Earth Starfleet facility Cold Station 12. (ENT: "Cold Station 12") As a result of the Wars, genetic engineering was banned on Earth; the first Human clone, Stavos Keniclius, was exiled from the planet. (TAS: "The Infinite Vulcan")

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Malik in 2154

In the 2130s, Arik Soong, senior medical director of Cold Station 12, managed to steal several Augment embryos from the facility, which he took to the Trialas system, where he raised the resulting children as his own. A decade later he was captured by Earth forces, but refused to disclose what had happened to the embryos. (ENT: "Cold Station 12")

In May 2154 the answer to this puzzle was discovered when Soong's Augments, led by Malik, seized control of a Klingon Bird-of-Prey, jettisoning its crew into space. (ENT: "Borderland") The Klingons recovered these bodies, and discovering the Human DNA on them, threatened war. The NX-01 Enterprise was launched to the Borderland to find these Augments and bring them back to Earth, and Arik Soong was recruited to assist the ship in doing so.

Unfortunately, Soong managed to escape on Verex III and rejoin his Augments, who then planned to use their bird-of-prey to "liberate" the thousands of other embryos on Cold Station 12. (ENT: "Borderland") All of these Augments were killed when Malik destroyed their bird-of-prey to avoid capture. Soong, who "defected" to Enterprise, decided afterwards to switch his focus to cybernetics. (ENT: "The Augments")

See also: The Augment Crisis

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A Klingon prisoner infected with the Augment virus

After the Augment crisis, the Klingons attempted to create their own augments to combat the Humans, believing that Humans would place Augments on their ships and put the Klingons at a severe disadvantage, despite Vulcan's assurance that Earth had banned such genetic enhancement decades ago. They were able to retrieve multiple embryos left over in the debris of the Augment Bird-of-Prey and implemented their DNA in certain Klingons. However, due to the aggressiveness of Augment DNA, the cranial ridges started to dissolve and the Klingon Augments completely lacked ridges on their foreheads.

These subjects did gain increased strength and intelligence, but they died when their neural pathways degraded. Unfortunately, one of the subjects was suffering from Levodian flu, which was modified by the Augment genes to become a deadly, airborne plague that spread throughout the Empire. An early symptom of this plague caused victims to lose the ridges on their foreheads and to look more Human. Other symptoms included irregular heartbeat, chest pain, and tingling in the cranial ridges.

A cure was eventually created by Phlox which halted the virus in the first stage, retaining the changes in appearance but with no enhanced strength, speed, or endurance. This left millions of Klingons without their ridges, an alteration that was even passed on to their children, though it was hoped that one day gene therapy would be developed to reverse the effects (ENT: "Affliction", "Divergence"; DS9: "Trials and Tribble-ations"; TOS et al.). The effects of this virus were reversed by 2273. (Star Trek: The Motion Picture)

The Klingon Augment situation was used to explain why Klingons in Star Trek: The Original Series had flat foreheads, showed fear more openly, and had straight teeth.

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Khan Noonien Singh in 2267

The fate of Khan and his Augments remained unknown until 2267, when the USS Enterprise discovered the SS Botany Bay, a DY-100 class class sleeper ship. Aboard the ship was Khan and 72 of his fellow Augments (twelve had died due to sleeper unit failure in the interim). At first the Enterprise crew was unaware of the true identity of Khan, but when it was discovered, Khan attempted to take the ship, though he ultimately failed.

Enterprise commanding officer James T. Kirk generously offered Khan and his followers voluntary exile to the uninhabited Class M planet Ceti Alpha V, and Khan accepted. (TOS: "Space Seed") Unfortunately, six months later the nearby planet Ceti Alpha VI exploded, causing the orbit of Ceti Alpha V to shift, which decimated the planet's environment. The dominant remaining lifeform was the Ceti eel, which claimed many of Khan's followers.

In 2285, Khan seized control of the USS Reliant, intending to use it to destroy Kirk in revenge for what had happened to him and his people. In the end, Khan died when Reliant was destroyed by the detonation of the Genesis Device after a heated battle in the Mutara Nebula.

Khan and his fellow Augments were presumably the last from the Eugenics Wars. (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)

Interesting Fact about Science

Symbiogenesis

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Symbiogenesis is the merging of two separate organisms to form a single new organism. The idea originated with Konstantin Mereschkowsky in his 1926 book Symbiogenesis and the Origin of Species, which proposed that chloroplasts originate from cyanobacteria captured by a protozoan.^[1] Today both chloroplasts and mitochondria are believed to have such an origin; this is the endosymbiotic theory.

In Acquiring Genomes: A Theory of the Origins of Species, biologist Dr. Lynn Margulis argued later that symbiogenesis is a primary force in evolution. According to her theory, acquisition and accumulation of random mutations are not sufficient to explain how inherited variations occur; rather, new organelles, bodies, organs, and species arise from symbiogenesis.^[2] Whereas the classical interpretation of evolution (the modern evolutionary synthesis) emphasizes competition as the main force behind evolution, Margulis emphasizes cooperation.^[3]

A fundamental principle of modern evolutionary theory is that mutations arise one at a time and either spread through the population or not, depending on whether they offer an individual fitness advantage. Nevertheless, this general case may not apply to all examples of evolutionary change. Indeed, genome mapping techniques have revealed that family trees of the major taxa appear to be extensively cross-linked—possibly due to lateral gene transfer.^[4]