Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Obama's Speech: Troubleling or Reassuring?


Yesterday, history was made in Washington. The first Hawaiin president was sworn into office. (Oh yeah, he's black too.) Anyway, his name was Barrack Obama. He was sworn into office and then gave the inaugural adress. But just because he gave a speech does not mean the viewers liked it or disliked it.
The first article I found had a negative stand point. They believed that with all of Barrack's talk of change, he had let the market fall. As it says, " Obama's Mountain of hope produced a disappointing and fearful mouse! Wall Street dropped more than 300 points because they saw no hope for real Change! Even after Obama got his wall Street 350 750 billions of "giveaway" Bail-out money, more in TARP money, and promised them 1. 3 trillion dollars of extra expenditure for road, bridges, infrastructures and Green Jobs to nowhere. As he was speaking instead of hope they saw despair and dumped their stocks because any one with economic 101 knows that borrowing from China to buy Chinese and Mexican industrial products and filling Wal-Mart with cheap goods at the expense of American jobs would lead to 13 trillion Dollars National Debt by the end of 2009, that in combination of budget deficit, Balance of Trade deficit would bring this great nation to is knees." From: http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/insurgentone/2009/01/obamas-inauguration-a-disappoi.php
Even though some citizens were unatisfied with Obama's speech, some were overjoyed by his new plans for America. The next article I found is suggesting that Obama was a brave soul for running for president. They also felt that his speech inspired peple to work for a better America. As it says, "Before a sea of people that stretched for over a mile down the Washington Mall, Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States and immediately set about steeling the nation's resolve for more hard days to come. It's a repair job, Obama suggested, that will require a little something from everybody - from Wall Street titans, to government leaders, to everyday Americans already struggling to make ends meet."
Taken from: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/01/20/2009-01-20_barack_obama_sworn_in_as_44th_president_.html

X-Rays: Useful in Medicine, Yet Harmful to the Body


They say today's medicinal technology is the best it as been. However, that does not make it 100% safe. For instance, X-ray machines enable us to see the body in a nonsurgical manner. But the radiation adds up over time. Even though there is not much in the amount o0ne is given for a broken bone, combined with the radiation in the air and matter we associate with, it can be harmful. The X-ray radiation can kill cells in your body. So, as a precaution, in dental x-rays, people wear lead vests to reduce exposure. So, even though x-rays are helpful in the medical field, thay must be handled with precaution.
Valuble Info From: http://science.hq.nasa.gov/kids/imagers/ems/xrays.html

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Black Holes



When a star explodes in a supernova, it seems like that is the end of it's billion year life span. However, some stars go on to be a black hole. A black hole is a vacuum in space that even light cannot escape. It sucks everything near by into its depths. Since cameras would be destroyed and crushed within a black hole, no one knows what happens inside one. Some say that it is a portal to another universe. But more likely it is just a region in space where everything is destroyed through mass compression. These holes are very mysterious, but what would life be without questions?