The Potential for Life

Hello everybody! Today I have news of a moon of Saturn. Scientists say that under its ice shell Encladus has an ocean the size of Lake Superior. In the eyes of many scientists this little moon now has more potential for life elsewhere in that Solar System, even more than Mars. This is mostly due to the fact that this small moon of Saturn is in a celestial “tug-of-war” between Saturn and a neighboring moon named Dione. This battle of gravitational pull creates gigantic amounts of friction and heat. This heat makes the water warm. With the correct molecules this could be the starting place of new life in the Solar System. From gravitational calculations around the South Pole during flybys scientists can assume within reason that there is an ocean about 20 miles beneath the surface. This ocean would most likely reach from the South Pole to about halfway to the equator, and could be 6 miles deep. There is no way to know exactly how big this ocean is, it could stretch all the way to the North Pole for all we know.

            This fascinates me. The fact that we can reasonable agree that there is a high chance for primitive life on a moon of another planet in our own Solar System. The prospect of life on another mass of rock orbiting the same star as we are amazes me. What do you think? Do you think that there could be life on this moon? Or could it be a one way trip to human colonization of other celestial beings.

Thank you for reading!!

Matthew

See article HERE

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Ambition

Viktor F. Yanukovych was the President of Ukraine. He was driven out of the country 3 months ago and his luxurious estate has now been opened to the public. The Mezhyhirya as it is known is just north of Kiev, the capital city of the country. The public were not immediately worried about the value of what was on the inside and what they might take, but most looked and walk about the gardens and buildings with respect and fascination. Many were intrigued to know just how their former president had been living while the country was crumbling. The estate is now property of the state according to the Ukrainian Parliament.

I think that Mr. Yanukovych has taken his ambition too far. He lived with cars, animals, art, and icons galore while the people of his country were in turmoil. The man had his own private petting zoo, a large personal river boat with crystal decor,  and gardens the size of parks. When do you say, "I am happy with what I have. Now it is time to pay attention to the people I am supposed to be working for." I don't think that Mr. Yanukovych would have been happy until he had everything that he could obtain, and then he still would have wanted more. I think that it is horrible to be so focused on what you want to do that you forget who you are supposed to be helping. I think drive is good but being too ambitious is definitely a bad thing.


Here is a link to one of the articles that I found if you want to check it out yourself,

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Thank you for reading!!

Gotta Bounce,

Matthew

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Hello and welcome to my blog, Magical Matthew and the Miniscule Monkey Mambo. Here is a little bit about myself. I play soccer and sit around my house while playing Xbox. I listen to almost anything on the radio and like most genres of movies. On my Xbox I mainly play FPS games with some third person games mixed in. I like to play Pokémon and have finished a fair amount of the games. I used to collect Yu-gi-oh cards and have recently found the ones that I thought I had lost. I have a dog named Riley who is 5 years old and is still as excited as ever. I also have a brother in college and a sister studying to be a teacher.

           

I absolutely hate telling people about myself because I usually don’t know what to say and I usually start to ramble about stuff that nobody cares about. I have always been sort of shy to the “cool people” and have never had a very easy time making friends out of those from my scho9ol and the few extracurricular activities that I do. That said this blog will not be the most interesting. I don’t have a dramatic life with tons of problems from social activity. I don’t really fight with anyone and I have always been afraid of public speaking, so I have never actually said anything of substance.

           

Apparently not many people know that I am a vegetarian. I have not eaten meat since I was about 3 years old, and even then I only ate just less than half of a burger so that I could get the toy from the Happy Meal. I am an extremely picky eater and often cook for myself because my mom is busy fixing her and my dad’s dinner. I pretty much live off of frozen pizzas, baguette, and pasta.

 

Gotta Bounce,

Matthew

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