Log #14

Carl's Sagan's Comos was interesting to me because there a billions of stars out there in the universe and maybe one of them might have intelligent life or  even life at all. This movie made me realize that life as we know it could be closer than we think and it is only a matter of time before they contact us or we contact them. Even though Dave's equation I believe is the name calculates what the possible source of life would be and it is over 10 light years away. But even if that planet is a long time away we will probably be so much more technological advance they might just be waiting to advance more in our technology. The theory of special relativity is hard for me to grasp because its hard to imagine that light can pass by you faster than the speed of light and close to you as well.

Log #13

Star Trek First contact was a good movie. There were some scenes that seemed somewhat unrealistic but it kept you very engaged into what was happening. The parts that seemed unrealistic was when they beamed the human women back to the ship, if all the crew members are aliens on the ship the wouldn't she not be able to breathe and I mean in the one part with the Borge. Because if there atmosphere is different from our then humans could not live in those conditions. Also when the leader Borge drilled into the green man head shouldn't have he died from that experience? because if a needle goes in your head you should have brain damage from that right? Maybe I'm making it a big deal or something but otherwise I thought it was a good movie. I liked how they traveled faster than the speed of light and it looked like they were going though wormholes to the next space, it was really cool.

Log #12

We watched the Sandkings movie and it was so much different from the short story. Instead of Simon Kress just being a crazy pet owner to a scientists that was bitten by the sandkings and now is a mad scientists. Hollywood turned this weird, but cool short story into another Frankenstein piece just so people would watch. And the actor that plays Simon is soo bad I mean like I would rather listen to the song that gets on everybody's nerves and write something on it than watch this guy. He is good in some parts and I'm not going to take that away from him, but the rest is so over dramatic and just not good. Some parts seemed like it was improvised into the scenes and yeah. Overall just not good. But you should read and then watch the movie and then will you see what I mean. You will be a little mad when you see that hollywood changed everything about this story.
https://forwearemany.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/sandkings.pdf

Log #11

The Thing is a good movie. If we were not watching it in class I might have watched it in my own group. It is all about an american group that is in the Arctic and a monster thing is mimicking Earth creatures so that it can blend in. And then the people are trying to figure out who else is like the alien because the doctor looked up the odds of someone being like that is 75% so we are at the part where they are choosing someone to take the key for the blood supply because someone took all the blood and ripped open some of the bags they were going to use to do a blood test. The one person that would have been a neutral party in the matter said that he did not want the key that is was too much responsibility so now we are at the part where they give the key to the leader of the group and they are doing things, but I can;t wait to see the rest of the movie because I really want to know who is the other person that was infected and who ends up surviving to the end of the movie.

Log #10

We are doing a video project for class where we have to watch two movies scifi movies that we have not seen before and do a project either a video or a poster or something comparing the movie's key elements and other things. I am thinking about doing The Martian the movie that just came out and Interstellar because the both have to do with some form of space travel and getting back to there families. There is some type of sacrifice either the people going to resurce the person in The Martian or how the dad help his daughter and the planet by going into space in the movie Interstellar. These movies are both very interesting because they both have a interesting appeal to them and follow the science fiction motifs. Like in Interstellar the dad is saving mankind from destruction and in all science fiction pieces it is always something about how mankind and technology destroys us or something like that. And in the other movie it is science fiction because mankind is in outer space and the people are needed to come save him after a storm on mars. Now even those I don't know to much about these movies (which is probably a good thing) I don't have anything to compare these movies to other science fiction movies so if these movies are boring I have to sit though them anyway because I don't know a better movie to switch it with/ I couldn't really give these movies horrible ratings too. So I think its a win win situation, but I might find a different topic to do the movies on we will just have to see.

Log #9

We were supposed to read to pg.119 this week and so far it is very interesting. Andrew Wiggin, is the main character he has an old brother, Peter, who he hates and a older sister, Valentine, who he misses and loves very much. Andrew (Ender) has been wearing a monitor for I believe is six years, so since he was born and out of the three of them he has it on for the longest. When they take off his monitor, Ender is scared by what would happen when he has it off. Then that day at school he is confronted by a school bully named Stilson, he starts the fight between them by calling him "third" because the country has a two children rule where the two children get free schooling and other things but if you have more than two you have to pay for all the things for the extra children that are not the first two. Ender beats up Stilson so bad that he puts him in the hospital and dies. The next day in the morning a I. F. (International Fleet) officer comes by Ender's home to meet with the parents and him. The officer wanted to know the reason behind why Ender beat up that kid and Ender said " because kicked won that one battle, I bet him up more so i could win the rest of them and so they would leave me alone." When the officer heard that, that's when he said that he wanted Ender to come with him to fight the bugger's in battle. That he would be perfect. Ender accepted the offer he though he was heartbroken about his sister. But before he left she said that she will always have a bond with him. He gets on the ship to take him to Battle camp, and another kid starts to pick on him. Ender get so mad that he breaks the kids arm.

And that's where i am at so far so I have to get back to you on the rest, but I lead you in pretty well right? Well this is one of the better school books that I had to read and so far I am enjoying it. I really just want to read the introduction so I can figure out what happens in the end but ya know I can't spoil the book for myself because I'm too much fun reading it. ;)

Log #8

I read the Sandkings short story for class and I official have to say that was the weirdest thing I ever had to read for a class. It wasn't like the books that teachers make you read and you just don't like them and you call the weird, NO THIS WAS NOT LIKE THAT. The story was interesting like I was engaged in reading it, but it was creepy. So this story is about this crazy pet owner Simon Kress, and he owns a ton of piranhas in his fish tank but they all died when he went on some kind of business trip. He went into town to look for more exotic pets to use for his amusement, and he stopped in this place called Shade and Wo's pet store or something like that, and that's he met Jane Wo and she showed him what sandkings were. They are this small creature, kind of spider like but back to the story Kress didn't want them because they were too small when he was at the store. She told him that they will grow bigger to fit the tank and that they war (because he like animal fights for his amusement this was good). he took them and he fed them regularly, then he gave them an image of him so that they can sketch it on their castles. Then he started to starve them, and started to fight over food and getting more and more violent and then broke out of the tank. then at the end the orange sandkings they eat Simon because he went into the house and they attacked him. (that was the shorten version). Any way it a weird story but it is very interesting and fits into SciFi well because the insects attacked humans.