Space Day

The second week of Art Sci is here and today we started out our day with a quick astronomy lesson by Dr. Santiago Torres. Astronomy is considered to most as the bare science, complex science because of how there are mostly different kinds of types of sciences compiled into this specific topic. Some examples of different topics needed to be learned to work in this field are math, physics and other computer related programs. This makes astronomy a strong contender to be one of the most complex sciences, and the need to think ahead to millions of years of predictions for the stars that we will never see in our lifetimes about their deaths or their births. Most of these ideas are very reliant on imagination and so need help from everyone. After a small crash course on the different properties of planets and the many solar systems we went off into different groups for us to make a spectroscope and the other to go to the planetarium to look at our sky at night without the blocking of pollution glare. After finishing this activity and lunch, we went back to David Roy or Black Nasa. A Yale rocket scientist and artist already featured with works of his different rockets. He prides himself on using his rockets to send peaceful messages to the world through the misconstrued view of rockets. All of his works were hand made out of carbon fiber, but we did not use that for our rockets. Instead, we utilized cardboard, plastic bottles, duct tape and air pressure to launch our rockets to the sky.

One comment that got me thinking about how we are always living in the past, and even writing this, most of these words are in the past. It takes time for our eyes and what we previous to travel to our brains where we process what we are doing to make conclusions. Then the brain tries to compensate through predicting what decisions to make before hand to keep up.

This soccer/ football player is predicting his movements when he hits the ball away from the goal but this is because his brain is telling him to move to hit the ball away. Though, the ball will always be moving where the brain will not compensate for so if it were to rebound it would be almost too late for there to be a save. We live only a millisecond or less in the present but when it is realized we live in the present we live in the past.