Airy Discovery

An Airy Discovery
By Alex Watts
One chemical engineer with respect for nature called C. Jeffery Brinker
has made a breakthrough with science. This breakthrough is a man
made substance called Aerogel. This substance is 99 percent air and 1
percent silica. Silica is actually silicon dioxide. When made, it starts out
wet and squishy like jelly. Then it loses all its water and goes all dry and
stiff. Because of its weight, it feels like smoke in your hand. However,
like most ideas, this came from nature. Have you noticed how in
cartoons, a desert scene or a farm scene has a slow moving ball of hay?
What this actually is is tumbleweed! Brinker has some tacked to his
ceiling. What interested him was that it grew in a continuous branched
structure. Another thing is that its structure is strong and like the inside
of bones. Therefore, he created a bone like substance which is a great
insulator and does not conduct electricity.

Stephan Hawking Theory

Stephan Hawking Theory
By Alex Watts
Expert astrophysicist Stephan Hawking has put a lot of thought on the
question “Are we alone in the universe?” and came up with an
ingenious answer: probably not. Along with the answer, he has given us
a question. The question is “If there is alien life out there, why hasn’t it
stumbled across us?” He asked us on NASA’s 50th anniversary. One
reason is there isn’t life out there, or there is intelligent life out there
but when it figures out how to make radio waves, explosive nukes
aren’t far behind. The last reason is Hawkings favorite. He said
“Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare” he then
added “Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth”.

Should you worry about alien abduction? Some say that alien
abduction comes from weirdoes. However, alien life might have
different DNA. Hawking warned us: “Watch out if you meet an alien.
You could get a disease with which you had no resistance.”