Mod releases UFO files

The British ministry of defense has released some of its UFO files. (see here for more)

weather

1:09 pm Oakland, California, USA

tendency: sunny
pressure: 29.9inHg
temp:78.9F
humidity:18%
wind:6.4mph to the NNE (22 degrees)

Perimeter and area

Figure perimeter area


square P=4s A=SxS

rectangle P=2l+2w A=lxW

parallelogram P=2b+2s A=BxH

triangle P=s1+s2+s3 A=BxH/2

Some compound probability advice

From Saxon math 8/7 (home school):

"The probability of independent events occurring in a specified order is the product of the probabilities of each event."

and:

"The probability of dependent events occurring in a specified order is the product of the first event and the recalculated probabilities of each subsequent event."

My mom likes to cencor clerihews

I did a clerihew earlier. I did it because I was board. It was about Ken Ham:

There is a man named Ken Ham.
He is such a ham.
His brain is so small
he could fit in a crowded hall.

My mom Instantly labeled it "Backbiting". Unless it is in the dictionary I won't listen to the word.
Oh it is. Waaaaaaaaaa.

My Vote

Being a minor, I can't vote. But if I did what I voted would be influenced by my mom,
the nice, caring, social worker. However, (and this is important) It is not what she would vote.
Prop. 1: YES, I care about our climate.
Prop. 2: YES, I want animals to be treated well.
Prop. 3: (further research needed)
Prop. 4: YES, but maybe NO (depends on circumstances).
Prop. 5: YES, our prisons are overcrowded.
Prop. 6: NO, (see previous)
Prop. 7: YES, I support solar, wind, etc.
Prop. 8: NO.
Prop. 9: YES.
Prop. 10: YES.
Prop. 11: ?
Prop. 12: YES.

I have settled it

Atomic number is the number of protons.
Atomic mass is the mass of an atom.

Big Bang poem

The Thing
(censored) (censored)
There was once a thing,
it was the only thing,
at least in it's universe.

Don't ask what it was.
I don't know.
All I know is that it was something,
who, what, where, I don't know.

The thing was small
and very hot
and not to mention,
unstable.

After I don't know how long,
it exploded.

When it exploded
it created everything,
from time and space
to the building blocks
of matter.

In the seconds after
the quarks came together
forming the protons
and the neutrons.

In those few seconds
there were things
that don't exist now
such as negative protons.
But by less than
a minute after
the big explosion
they didn't exist.

And thats how
the universe
may have started,
but theories
can be proven wrong.

The (cencored) Statement

Part one

People take their beliefs personally so it is only natural that people will feel like they are the ones being challenged when their beliefs are what is being challenged and will act accordingly.

Part two

It is preventable. If the person whose beliefs are being challenged takes into consideration the fact that his beliefs, not him, are being challenged he can bypass the first part of the statement. A Baha'ullah (the

Bahai prophet) quote say how to avoid the effects of the first part of the statement.

“Should any one among you be incapable of grasping a certain truth, or be striving to comprehend it,

show forth, when conversing with him, a spirit of extreme kindliness and good-will. Help him to see and recognize the truth, without esteeming yourself to be, in the least, superior to him, or to be possessed of greater endowments.”

Nearly one of seeds science blogs

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