Monday, August 9th 2010

Treasure Hunt and Lecture review 3.

1.What is the weight of the world's biggest machine? How much did it cost to build?

The Bagger 288 is the biggest machine, which is from Germany used in the coal stripmine Hambach.
The Bagger weighs up to 45,000 ton and was built by Krupps in Germany. It is the largest land based machine built by humans.The bagger moves slow, moving up to 2 metres per a minute.

The bagger can dig up 240,000 cubic metres of dirt a day. The machine is so big because it strips mine coal of of the ground and transports it hundreds of miles on massive trains and take it to power stations where we burn it to make electricity.

Source: http://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/26/bagger-288-the-worlds-biggest-machine/

2. What is the best way (quickest, most reliable) to contact Ozzy Osbourne?

Source: http://famous-relationships.topsynergy.com/Ozzy_Osbourne/Contact.asp

 

Researching Ozzy Osbourne, it is found that it is best to contact him through his manager or agent, which is infact his wife, Sharon Osbourne.Ozzy Osbourne's Manager:Sharon Osbourne
Sharon Osbourne Management
9292 Civic Center Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Phone: 310-859-7761

Ozzy Osbourne's Agents:Ari Emanuel or Ari Greenburg
Endeavor Agency
9601 Wilshire Boulevard
3rd Floor
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Phone: 310-248-2000

Ozzy Osbourne's Music Agent:Rob Light
Creative Artists Agency
2000 Avenue Of The Stars
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Phone: 424-288-2000

Ozzy Osbourne's legal representation:Manatt Phelps & Phillips
11355 West Olympic Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90064
Phone: 310-312-4000

Contact information for Ozzy Osbourne is obtained from the internet largest contact database - Contact Any Celebrity.

3. When and what was the first example of global digital communication?

My research found that the first real evidence of Global Communication was Morse Code.Samuel Morse (1791-1872) demonstrated a series of short signals to communicate over wires in 1836.

Source: http://www.wrvmuseum.org/morsecode/morsecodehistory.htm)

4. What is the cheapest form of travel from the Gold Coast to Melbourne?

The cheapest form of travel from the Gold Coast to Melbourne for a single person is $59 if you can get a sale on Tiger Airways.

Source: http://www.webjet.com.au/

 

5. Who is Hatsune Miku? What company does she belong to? What is her birthday?

Hatsune Miku is a female anime character on a singing synthesizer application, she was developed and belongs to Crypton Future Media. Hatsune Miku's voice is sampled from Japanese voice actress Saki Fujita. The relase date and birthday of the female anime was August 31, 2007

6. Find a live webcam in Antarctica. Find a place to stay in Antarctica.
The Australian Government's department of The Environment, Water, Heritage & The Arts has 4 live webcams streaming at its Antartica project website:

http://www.antarctica.gov.au/

There are no official hotels or accommodation in Antartica. The The Frei Base (established in 1980 under the name of Teniente Rodolfo Marsh) is the only accommodation available.

Source: http://www.chipsites.com/Travel/Antarctica/i_antarctica.htm

7. What song was top of the Australian pop charts this week in 1980?
In the 1980's our current Aria Charts were called the 'Kent Report' the number one song on the 11th of August was "Funky Town" by Lipps Inc.

Source: http://www.wikipedia.com/








8. How would you define the term 'nano technology'? In your own words, what does it really mean?
My understanding of 'nano technology' is it is the science of building something from starting at it's smallest atom or molecule. This technology is becoming widely used by engineers, chemists, biologists etc.



How it works:

At the nanoscale, objects are so small that we can't see them -- even with a light microscope. Nanoscientists have to use tools like scanning tunneling microscopes or atomic force microscopes to observe anything at the nanoscale. Scanning tunneling microscopes use a weak electric current to probe the scanned material. Atomic force microscopes scan surfaces with an incredibly fine tip. Both microscopes send data to a computer, which can assemble the information and project it graphically onto a monitor

Source: Encyclopedia Brittanica

Useful links on nanotechnology:

http://www.nanotech-now.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanotechnology



9. What type of camera is used to make ‘Google Street View’?
The camera used was Dodeca 2360, a camera had the shape of a ball that his measurement almost was the same as the measurement of the ball softball.
This camera could take the picture in several angle (the corner) at the same time (consisted of 11 lenses) with the resolution 2400 x 1200 pixel with the speed until 30 frame per the second (fps).

Source: http://www.itechdiary.com/camera-to-make-street-view-technology-in-google-map.html

10. Translate these questions into Klingon.
Q1: nuq 'oH vo' 'ar ta'ta' 'oH Daq chen
Q2: nuq 'oH HochHom Daq
Q3: ghorgh 'ej nuq ghaHta' wa'DIch vo'
Q4: nuq 'oH vo' vo' SuD baS Daq
Q5: 'Iv 'oH nuq ta'taH ghaH Daq nuq 'oH Daj qoS
Q6: tu' yIn Daq tu' Daq Daq Daq
Q7: nuq bom ghaHta' vo' vam Daq
Q8:chay' SoH Daq lIj ghaj mu'mey nuq ta'taH 'oH
Q9: nuq vo' 'oH Daq chenmoH
Q10: Dochvammey Daq tlhIngan

Source: www.mrklingon.org/

Lecture 3 review- Short history of computing and the internet.

This week's lecture has been my least favourite.  I have enjoyed the course so far, however the history of computers and the internet have been a little boring for me.

However i did learn that the internet and the 'World Wide Web'are infact two different things. I always thought it was exactly the same.