Friday, June 6, 2025

Colony Day 5 -Bringing it all together



Complete the layout for your Colony.  You need to provide an overview either on paper or digitally of what the colony will look like.  Ensure your integrate the infrastructure concepts you researched on Thursday.  You will present you colony plan in class on Monday.


Colony Day 4 -Layout


What is Chemical Engineering?

How can Chemical Engineering help you in dealing with your colony design?

Finish Answering the problems from yesterday


´Divide your teams into the following specialty areas

´Transportation

´Internal

´On-world

´Off-World

´Communications

´Power Generation and Distribution

´Waste Management and Recycling

´Waste Collection and Treatment

´Water Production and Distribution

´Food

´Production

´Distribution

´Medical

´Facilities and Services

´Safety/Risk Management

´Security (internal)

´Fire and emergency services

´Economic Production

´Entertainment

Colony Day 3 - Infrastructure



´Divide your teams into the following specialty areas

´Transportation

´Internal

´On-world

´Off-World

´Communications

´Power Generation and Distribution

´Waste Management and Recycling

´Waste Collection and Treatment

´Water Production and Distribution

´Food

´Production

´Distribution

´Medical

´Facilities and Services

´Safety/Risk Management

´Security (internal)

´Fire and emergency services

´Economic Production

´Entertainment

Colony Day 2 - Life Support


In your groups answer the following Questions


´Identify how oxygen will be cycled and generated for your colony

´Identify how water will be cycled and generated for your colony

´Identify how food will be cycled and generated for your colony

Colony Part 1 -Unifying Efforts



Get together with the people who studied the same world as you.  You will be designing a proposed colony to allow humans to inhabit that world.  Your group will need to decide the following to get started


´Identify the purpose of your colony

´Why is it being constructed?

´How long is it expected to last?

´Fixed or expanding size?

´Identify the group, nation, organization that will establish your colony.

´Where is the funding coming from?

´What is the philosophy/ unifying purpose of the colonists?

´Identify your tentative location for the colony.

´Orbital, Surface, or Subterranean

´Justification

Monday, June 2, 2025

Space and Energy



Terra forming -Finding another home for humanity



What does it take for humanity to endure? 

Consider the following areas:
  • Land
  • Air
  • Water
  • Ecology
  • Economic Resources
What are the challenges and opportunities we will need to face?

Assignment:

You will do individual research to create a planetary profile to assist in the upcoming colonization project.

The choice of worlds are:

  • Mars
  • Moon (Moon of Earth) 
  • Europa (Moon of Jupiter) 
  • Titan (Moon of Saturn) 
  • Venus

Here is some of the information you need to determine about your world:
  • Land
    • Distance (Travel Time) from Earth
    • Suitability of soil for farming
    • Gravity (compared to earth
    • Soil Hazards
    • Seismicity
  • Air
    • Atmospheric Composition
    • Temperature variation
    • Air Pressure
    • Available Oxygen
    • Atmospheric Hazards
  • Water
    • Availability of water
    • How hard to access water?
    • Solid, liquid gas?
    • Water hazards
  • Ecology
    • Radiation Levels
    • What would it take to sustain Life?
  • Economic Resources
    • Solar Energy
    • Other Energy Sources
    • Mineral Wealth
    • Other Economic Reasons

Some useful videos



When you are done go to this page and answer the 10 questions on the list.


Exit question
Based on your research, what is the greatest challenge to colonizing your selected world?

Why Mars?


What is the speakers basic message?
Identify 3 points the speaker makes to support his conclusion

What is the speakers basic message?
Identify 3 points the speaker makes to support her conclusion


What do you think about colonization of mars?







Friday, May 30, 2025

Rare Earth, Great Filters and the Fermi Paradox

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  • What is the Fermi Paradox?
  • What is meant by 'habitable zone?
  • What is Kardeshev's scale based on?
  • What is meant by the concept of a "Great Filter"
    • Give three examples of Great Filters.  
    • Do you think the filter is front of us or behind us?  Explain.  




Monday, May 12, 2025

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Geography and Climate

At your tables, create a poster to describe one of the following geographic effects on weather (each is a link to an article you can used to get started):


Your poster should include a diagram and answer the following questions:
Where is your effect found?
How does the geography create this effect?
How does the weather change due to this effect?

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Two ages of civilization followed by ores in Washington

A pair of videos to get us started on Ores










  1. Go to this link and complete the Mineral Distribution in Washington exercise.  The image shows the location of ore deposits in Washington, and the questions require you to consider how the melting points and/or densities may affect the distribution here in Washington.

Monday, January 3, 2022

Energy


Questions
  • What is energy?
  • What does the phrase “children of the sun” mean?
  • How does electricity differ from energy?
  • How has energy use transformed civilization?

Other views of the changes