Initiation.

Much like my other blog, (check it out if you haven't already) this blog will be primarily devoted to ideas that have popped into my head whilst daydreaming in classes that do not pique my interest.  As an introductory, my name is Michael and more info will most likely be in the above description when I get time to fill it out.  However, the purpose of this blog is not simply just to write random ideas in my mind that pertain to absolutely nothing: my hope is that this blog will affect at least one person in this world to become an innovator.  I that fails, at least you'll get a kick laughing at my posts or at the very least, having a broader understanding of "the world" as opposed to the secular opinion/thinking you may have now. That is not to assume that you are any lower than myself, but this will be used as a tool to guide into a world that does not focus on using information you gain through school primarily as surviving in life, but the markings of a movement that our ancestors have also undergone in Enlightenment and innovation.  With that being said (I'll most likely explain the blog in more details later but I'll stagger it between these first few posts, I'll write down two things I thought about the other day.  To address one of the more immediate issues, there is rumor of a space project where people will be sent to Mars in order to begin colonization of the planet as a secondary resource in the event that Earth's resources run out.  Not a bad idea, correct?  On the surface, it is a completely sound plan (so was the Titanic) but one must think about Murphy's law: anything that can go wrong, will go wrong at the worst possible time.  Say that these people do successfully land there, what exactly is in Mars that will sustain these people? So we agree that resources will be coming from Earth to sustain them until they can begin a functional ecosystem on the planet.  However, like the biosphere project (I forgot when exactly they had begun it but it was in the 90's or something), creating a sustainable environment is a lot harder than people think.  Vegetation and equilibrium on our planet did not happen overnight, and the problem that the project had was over consumption of oxygen be the organisms within the biosphere which the vegetation could not compete with to maintain the CO2-oxygen balance, thus they had to pre-maturely end the project, or die without oxygen.  That being said, what will their source of oxygen be like? Based on the structure of space suits, I am unsure how long the colonists will be able to survive off of the air in the ship, for I assume that it does not provide a source meant for long-term stays.  Furthermore, what if the colonists have children? Not an unlikely thing to happen (come on, libido is hard to control) but that will lead to an unexpected increase in resource demand and an increase in population.  All in all, the idea may need to be thought out by the people applying to be colonists a little more, that is if they are worried about these issues.  Lastly, the other thing I thought about the other day was nuclear reactors and the process of fission.  Fission creates a large amount of  energy for it is the process of emitting heat and energy in the form of radioactive decay as the element breaks down into a more stable form. (May not be correct about this, but feel free to correct me if I am wrong)  The question I pose to you, is what is the mechanism for this process? How does it work? For if fission was driven entirely by heat, then the first thing to do would be to cool it down to prevent further fission from occurring.  But much like a chain reaction with positive feedback, the energy and collision of neutrons to create elements in their excited state is what not only leads to the radiation of energy in the form of heat as that element decomposes, but also the emission of that energy in the form of the more common gamma rays.  Since I'm too lazy to think about it, I challenge any one of you to determine a solution to this problem for I am merely a Biology student interested in medicine (as my other blog will tell you) and hopefully those who do discover a viable solution to these problems and innovate new technologies based on these ideas I have will change the future.

-JuzoInspired