NASA's Kepler Mission Announcment

Today I went to a web site called ScienceDaily and found out that NASA's Kepler mission announced the discovery of 715 new planets. These new planets orbit 305 stars, showing multiple planet systems much like our own solar system. Nearly 95 percent of these planets are smaller than Neptune, which is almost 4x the size of Earth. This discovery marks a significant increase in the number of known small-sized planets more akin to Earth than previously identified exoplanets, which are planets outside our solar system.

Black Snake Chemestry

Today I am going to do a chemical reaction called "Black Snake". So what's happening is that the sulfuric acid is removing all the water molecules from sugar since its a carbohydrate. Then your basically dehydrating the sugar which then your left with elemental carbon. Although the sugar is dehydrated, the water isn't lost in the reaction. Some of it stays as a liquid in the acid. Since the reaction is exothermic, much of the water is boiled off as steam.

C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁ (sugar) + H₂SO₄ (sulfuric acid) → 12 C (carbon) + 11 H₂O (water) + mixture water and acid

The way I'm going to do is by using drain cleaner (dehydrated sulfuric acid) and 'just adding water' , and of course sugar. It will still be like the above, but not as good as this video below.



(skip to 1:22 if you don't want to watch the whole thing)

Snow Time!

CorridorDigital has a new video, it's basically a snowball fight between two teams from the video game TF2 also known as Team Fortress 2. Well I actually have a favorite part, its when Pyro uses the Super Soaker. It's not full of dust, that's actually all the boiling water atoms freezing in extreme temperatures instantly. So what happens is that since the water is hot, and it's cold outside, it cools down very fast giving off steam.  My other favorite part is at the end when Demoman gets hit by Sniper with a yellow snow ball because he peed on it.

My Instagram

Even though I opened an Intagram account 29 weeks ago I actually started posting yesterday, I wasn't sure what it was. Its my now opinion that Instagram is used to express yourself, how you feel, funny stuff, great scenic views, awesome photoshop, and getting back to your friends. What I mean by getting back to your friends is to see how they are doing. For an example, I didn't know that my friend from elementary had to go to the hospital, until yesterday. We hadn't seen each other since last June now we are following each other. And now I'm following almost all of my friends. So if you don't have an instagram account get one and show how awesome you are! Go on, go.

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