Solar cooker progress

For our solar cooker we have made some clear progress. We used to have an open box and the black jar inside but it did not carry enough heat. We thought of a plan to put a plastic bag around the jar to act as a mini greenhouse and it worked very well. The cooker got over 160 degrees in 2 hours and 200 degrees in 3 1/2 hours. Further updating will be tricky but we are thinking about putting clear plastic wrap over the top of the box for an extra affect and maybe adding a stand to the box. We have had a couple failures such as one of our group members getting moved to another class and our box having to be proped up on something because the wind blows it over. We aren't done yet but we are half way there.

Science and games

Today I am back once again relating something in a videogame to a scientific consept. So in the past few weeks the game "infamous: second sun" hit the shelves with a bang and me being a hardcore fan of this game I wanted to see if the type of genetic upgrade/mutation could be possible. Let me start out with the details of this game. The infamous series is a popular game created by Sony and in this game a certain gene has been discovered to once activated let the host control a certain type of matter and on from there. I did some research and found out that at the moment there is not a known gene to do anything like this. However, there is a possible upgrade to the human set of genes since it has happened in the past. In the past people have been upgraded naturally and on purpose for example, 200 years ago people were a lot shorter on average than they are today. People have been slowly upgraded over time so who would know if something like the gene in Infamous could be possible in the future. Bact to the game, this gene is not possessed by everyone and those who have it are very rare. The gene in infamous is either an active or recesive gene and those with the active gene develop their power naturally while others can get it from another person with the conduit gene is what it's called. Not relating to science but in this game there is a set of choices that you get to make affecting the storyline. You can choose to be good or evil and although evil gets some if the better powers there is a bad feeling you get when playing it and Sony makes the game in a way that you feel really bad when you become evil but you can't turn back because "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely". I am a big fan for this game but if science ever made this possible it could be the worst thing to happen to humanity. But genetically and naturally it is most likely impossible but you never know.

Source: http://www.bionetonline.org/english/content/ff_tool.htm

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