Acceleration and Falling

Why is it

That in Sci Fi, when someone falls but doesn't hit the ground they can stop just before hitting the ground and live? What I mean is, if someone stops suddenly they should still feel like they would if they just hit the ground. After all it's not stopping that kills you, it's the rapid deceleration (or negative acceleration if you prefer).

Think on this a minute. If anti-grav tech is going to save you it will be because you stopped slowly, not just avoided hitting the ground.

Don't let your guts fall out people.

Python!

I've Decided..

I've decided to learn Python rather than HTML/CSS. My astronomy professor forwarded an announcement email that listed the intern opportunities at NASA. Yes that's a thing! One of the opportunities I glanced at happened to want someone who knows Python. 

It helps that I don't really care that much about web development. I'm not sure why I keep trying to care; there are plenty of websites that provide templates for that sort of thing. Hell, Blogger is kind of that sort of thing as well as Wordpress. Granted, Blogger is just for blogs but we all tend to specialize anyway.

So this will probably be how I spend my winter break.

I don't have a new moon picture yet (even though the sky was clear); it doesn't look much different than it did last night. Hopefully it will be clear when we get to full next week.

Here's another cool picture though:

Planetary Nebula

Here is a planetary nebula. In this one a medium sized star has run out of fuel and sputtered until the outer layers came off. The nebula itself is the outer layers. In the center is a white dwarf which is the core of the dead star.  The nebula will eventually dissipate while the core will glow on until it cools off.

That's it for today,

Ella

YAY!

I'm Almost Done...

Counting down the days at this point. I just had my last lab class. I'm done with labs for a while. There's no final in this lab. 

By the time this goes up, I will be on my way to campus to present my speech. I'm as ready as I'm likely to get. If I had another week to practice I probably wouldn't, so there's that.

After this week there's finals. The only one that remotely worries me is Calculus, but the more time goes on I think I'll do alright with it.

On that note, here's a cool space pic:

I didn't take this one, the address where I got it is at the bottom (I did take the one of the moon from yesterday). This is the Crab Nebula, which is a supernova remnant. There is a pulsar somewhere in the middle. The light from the explosion first got to us in 1054 AD. It's 6500 light years away which means that it actually exploded about 7460 years ago. 6500 light years is actually relatively close. Space is HUGE!

This has been a random space lesson.

See ya next time,

Ella