Clown Fish Unable to Hear?

Are Clown Fish becoming unable to hear? according to a recent study that the waters of which the Clownfish live are becoming more acidic due to the more CO2 the oceans are absorbing. Scientists did a study earlier study back in 2009 that if the acidity levels get to high, the Clownfish stop being able to sense their predators.

They tested this by taking a group of Clownfish, placing them in a small tube where there was a speaker at one end, and an open hole at the other, allowing escape. They tested this at today's acidity levels (390 ppm (part per million)) and at acidity levels over the next century if the CO2 absorption rate continues (600, 700, and 900 ppm). At todays levels, most Clownfish swum away from the speaker, but when the acidity levels where high, they started getting confused and some didn't even move at all, seemingly unable to sense anything.

How ever, the researchers said, if it took a few decades to reach the higher level acidity, then the fish could be able to adapt. But, most likely, researchers say that most corals (which the fish live in or near) could be in trouble, within this century.

Here's the report I used, feel free to read it here: Link
~W

School

Ah... Great great... er... not so great school. I don't like the place, yet don't hate it either. It's a fun place for me. I love to learn and stuff but I'm not a big fan of doing work outside of school because school is where you learn, and you do homely things at home. But I don't exactly mind doing them...

Since I got nothing interesting or important else to say in this one
Woody

LOL Cats....

I dislike Lol Cats in general. Sure they're funny and I laugh but to think what the people have to do sometimes to get their cats to do the poses for the pictures is ridiculous... And where did the idea come from? It makes absoleutly no sense to me.

Video Game Playthroughs/Walkthroughs/Let's Play Shenanigans

So um... I watch a lot of these and i do a few of these myself (not that i'm any good) but uh... yeah here are some of the people i watch and who i watch; SSoHPKC, penguinz0, and other people like that. Uh I also do some of these, and I think i do an ok job. Not the greatest, not the worst. Somewhere inbetween. Oh well. Anyhow here's one of my videos. Enjoy I think... (P.S. this video was the first one i did ever)

And on that Bombshell, Good night.
Woody

Epic Rap Battles of History

Alright so those Up there (That way ^) are the latest and my personal favorite Epic Rap Battles of History. Which is made by nicepeter, a cool guy who plays music for a living. I find these entertaining and hilarious. It's pretty awesome... hehe....

Till next time

Woody

Minecraft

Alright so I thought I'd do a nerdy thing and explain Minecraft, or basically a very very very big sandbox game. There are all sorts of mods and texture packs and other stuff like that. The video I'm showing here is called Yogscast. It's about two guys (Lewis and Simon) playing Minecraft and doing Minecrafty things and they run into some er... difficulties. Any how if I get a video up I'll explain in that video. If not then I'll explain here too, so you start off in a randomly generated place in the world, with nothing. You have nothing at all and i'm very redundant. but anyhow you can build a house and go digging and go into dungeons! anyhow that's all for me.

See you 'round
Woody

Theft Shenanigans

Ok I'm not counting this as a post but this is something that bugs me slightly.

Someone stole my iPod. why? I dunno. It's not in my bag (unless it's a magical iPod that can dissapear (which it isn't)) or at my house, and i still have my earbuds that went with it... anyhow it just annoys me why someone would steal something like that. It doesn't make you look cooler, it just means you have something that you didn't used to have and you didn't pay for it. Ungreatful munchkins.... anyhow. my rant is over. and please return stuff you steal or borrow, everyone likes you more that way.

Multi-Talented Musician: Bruno Mars

Bruno Mars - 2011 TIME Top 100

Bwuno Maws....er Bruno Mars. My bad (long story). anyhow, onward and upward. He was a pick for Time's 2011 Top 100 Most Influential People, which you can read here. He's a singer-songwriter, and he plays everything live.

Mars was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and he always had music with him. Since he lived in such a diverse community, he learned a lot of different music styles, from the reggae and rock on the streets to the '50s classics his dad listened too in his house. His dad was a Latin percussionist who made a Vegas style venue that included all of his family. This included his mother, who was a talented singer, and Mars, who got one chance being on stage in his childhood, sung an Elvis Presley song.

After he graduated high school in Hawaii, He moved to Los Angeles in hopes of becoming a performer. Those dreams were put on hold however, when The Smeezingtons, the songwriting/production team he founded with Phillip Lawrence and Ari Levine, took off. The pair have written major hits in a variety of areas, like Flo Rida's "Right Round", Travie McCoy's "Billionare", K'Naan's "Waving Flags" (Which was used as a theme for the 2010 World Cup), and Brandy's "Long Distance".

After recording "Nothin' on You" and "Billionare" with them as a preview of what Mars has in store, he's released a 4-song EP with Elektrica called "It's Better If You Don't Understand", A lyric to "The Other Side" A song that teams Mars up with B.o.B. an Cee-Lo Green. He explained that The EP is a various collection of real-life experiences.

Bruno Mars is a cool guy with lots going for him, and I think he'll be a great man.

See you around,
Woody

NUCON

NUCON's a little nook in the wall (not really) which recieves my blog post because it looked like an awesome place. Now NUCON is a place over on Huntley Road inbetween Shrock Road and Worthington Galena Road (exact adress is 7000 Huntley Road, Columbus, OH, 43229-1022).

NUCON manufactures in specialty absorbents; site systems and instruments for testing HVAC abd filtration systems for leaks, system integrity, and airflow balance; engineering, designing, fabrication and testing of systems using absorbtion technology; Tracer Gas and Particle Size based migration and mapping; and the supply of activated carbon.

NUCON seems like an interesting place. Though I've never been there, I'm thinking about going there for Interim next year. Anyhow, onward to my other topics!

With pleasure,
Woody

Major General Margaret H. Woodward

Major General Margaret H. Woodward

The first woman to command an air combat campaign, Major General Margaret H. Woodward, started off in the military as a combat instructor. After graduating from Arizona State University, she earned advanced degrees at the National War College in Washington and at the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. When she entered the U.S. Air Force in 1983, women weren't allowed to fly. So instead, she trained other pilots after earning her own pilot wings.

Soon however, she moved on. After being a trainer, she worked on a KC-135 tanker, refueling other planes. She accumulated around 4,000 hours of flight time working as a refueler in the 1989 invasion of Panama, the 1999 in combat against Serbian forces in Kosovo and commanded the refueling missions during Iraq and Afghanistan.

For a time she was the Secretary of Defense, commanding the pilots of Air Force One. but anyhow, another topic for another day. Now she's the leading commander of the air strike force over Libya. In the 11 days after the she was positioned, U.S. aircraft in Libya have flown 1,400 sorties. They've only lost 1 plane to equipment issues, and they ejected and returned safely. For being the first woman to command an air strike force, she's doing spectacular.

oh and I got my information from here.

Space Having Dimmed Effects on Drugs?

So i read an article today about space and drugs (the legal kind) which you can read here.

Anyhow, So after reading this (being one of the very few articles that ever interest me) I thought about blogging about. so i did and here it is. So if you're to lazy to follow the link and read it, i'll sum it up for you. Basically what went down was that A research team (didn't say where it was from, so i'm going to assume it was from the Johnson Space Center) sent four boxes of drugs containing 35 different medications up to the ISS (International Space Station). They also kept four identical boxes of the same drugs at the Johnson Space Center. Then at periodic times, people on the ISS sent them back. One stayed only 13 days, another stayed for 28 months. That's 2 years! well. technically 2 years and 4 months, but whose counting? Anyway the peeps doing the research found that the drugs had a varying decrease in effectiveness. Most by the end didn't pass the potency requirement given by the US's Pharmaceutic group. But there is one upside to this. the drugs that are prone to oxidation, like adrenaline, vitamin c and vitamin a, would do well in the carbon dioxide rich environment. which i believe i failed to mention why the drugs were even degrading in the first place. So there are multiple reasons why these drugs are degrading as they are, varying from radiation to microgravity to changes in humidity and temperature. I hope you enjoyed this! if not then shenanigians.

~W

Racism and stuff like that

Hell it's a very broad topic. but i watched a video that got me thinking (check it out here), why is there racism. Just in general? I dunno but I thought the video was kinda funny... oh well. Until Next Time!

~W

Fake Money

Oh fake money... the world wouldn't be complete about it.
Any how, in the news, some people from BBC stated that there are 566,000 fake bank notes in the UK today. 95% of them are in 20 pound notes. and some rather intellegent people from some place in the UK said that our government should totally become cashless... seriously? wow. ok but i thought it was always a good idea to have a 20 on you just in case. but apparently that's bad for you? how? but you know just the usual shenanigans. but what're you gonna do? also it might cost the government some dough up front to get this program started