Goldilocks and the 3 Bears, children’s story

I have been reading Michio Kaku’s non-fiction book titled Parallel Universe since August last year and not yet finished. It is not a fiction book, in fact, it is a science book about cosmology, so it takes me times to understand every written words in the book, though it has been delivered in such a simple way so the book could be understood by someone who can’t tell the difference between black hole and doughnut hole. I myself, have been interested in reading about cosmology since high school, and not so dumb about that, compared to normal people, of course.

Anyway, I have reached the part which is quite much the same thing that have ever told by my junior high school religion guru (or senior high, i forget). It is started in page 241, talking about how lucky is Earth placed by God so it can provide lives. Some scientists saw it as a God will, of course my guru did too, while, the others saw it as an accident that Earth is placed in very right position, or they say, the Goldilocks zone. The things I write in this article is mostly a blunt copy of the original article in the book.

So, what brings scientist into an argument saying that Earth is in a very right place to be lived?

Bunch of reasons. But I’ll only explain some of them (actually the book, not me). Hefty nerdy astronomy ahead.

First, the distance from Sun. It is just in a so right distance from Sun that water, the universal solvent, can exist as liquid to create the chemicals of life. If it were a bit further from Sun, Earth might become like Mars, dry as a desert as well as frozen as the poles. Water and carbondioxide are often found in Mars as frozen solid. Even beneath the soil of Mars, one finds permafrost, a layer of frozen water (as also found in most near arctic land like North Canada or Russia). If it were closer to Sun, then Earth might be more like Venus, the hottest planet in the solar system on average (no wonder that people say women come from Venus). It’s atmosphere is composed mostly by carbondioxide so it traps the heat it captures from the sun, make the temperature soaring up to 900 Fahrenheit degrees. With sulfuric acid rain, pressure hundred times greater than Earth surface, and scorching temperatures, Venus may be the hellist planet, where God place His hell.

Second, the size of Moon is also in the right size to stabilize Earth’s orbit. If the Moon were much smaller in size, even tiny perturbation in Earth’s spin would slowly accumulate over hundred of millions of years, causing Earth to wobble disastrously and creating drastic change in climate so as to make life impossible. Without a large moon (a third size of Earth), Earth’s axis might have shifted by as much as 90 degrees over a period of many millions years. Since scientist believe that it needs hundreds of millions of years of climatic stability to create DNA, an Earth that periodically tips on its axis would create catastrophic change in weather which makes the creation of DNA impossible.

Third, the presence of planet Jupiter is also fortuitous for life on Earth, because its immense gravity helps to fling asteroids into outer space. It tooks almost a billion years during the “age of meteors”, which extended 3.5 billion to 4.5 billion years ago to clean out our solar system of the debris of asteroids and comets left over from its creation. If Jupiter were much smaller and its gravity much weaker, then our solar system would still full of asteroids, making the life on Earth impossible, as asteroids plunged into our ocean and destroyed life. Hence, the Jupiter is also in right size.

Fourth, we also live in Goldilocks zone planetary mass. If Earth were a bit smaller, its gravity would not be strong enough to keep its oxygen. If it were too large, it will retain many of its primordial, poisonous gases, making life impossible. Earth has just the right weight to keep the air composition beneficial to life.

Likewise, the fifth, Earth also exist in a very right position in Milky Way Galaxy, which is about two thirds the way from the center to the edge of galaxy disk. If the solar system were closer to the center, where black hole lurks, radiation would be so intense that life is impossible to exist. If it were too far away, there would not be enough higher elements to create the necessary elements of life.

Scientists can provide many examples to show that Earth lies within myriad Goldilocks zones. Not only about the position of Earth in the universe, but also the right amount of ocean, plate tectonics, atmosphere composition, tilt of its axis and so on to create an intellegent life.  Of course, those other examples are not discussed here.

So, was Earth placed in the right position in the middle of Goldilocks Zones because God love it? Perhaps, if we need a deity reason, because, in my subjective oppinion, to create such a great accuracy to place Earth in a livable position is impossible to be as simply as coincidence. Well, of course there is a small probability that it is made of an accident, but it will be a one rare examples among millions of dead planets in the universe. Maybe, our Earth is just, special.

What do you think? Is it all Goldilocky things a coincidence, or that God has bestowed special blessing on  us? Leave a comment!

Run run brother run,

‘though it’s thundering outside

now your time has begun,

catch your dream and grab your pride

once rise the mid day sun,

dream higher as full moon tide

Smile smile brother smile,

innocent as a pigeon

smile even for a while,

keep visualize your vision

do not fear of His trial,

don’t let tears be your prison

Brave ‘lil Bro be brave,

kick the ball and make your goal

covered by body wave,

spectators and the drum roll

the triumph that you crave,

soon will satisfy your soul

Cry Bro don’t you cry,

thunders soon will be over

chin up and look up high,

sad cumulus still hover

soon turns into clear sky,

we’ll live in peace forever

Run run Brother run,

you’re too young to understand

run for miles Brother run,

I’m always your helping hand

]]> http://baygraphy.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/dear-brother/feed/ 0 bay http://baygraphy.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/when-i-have-to-press-four-times-to-type-an-s/ http://baygraphy.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/when-i-have-to-press-four-times-to-type-an-s/#comments Sun, 26 Jun 2011 18:14:04 +0000 bay http://baygraphy.wordpress.com/?p=259 ]]> Last week, I got snatched. My iPhone is taken.

My precious,

black and rectangle

not owned by many people

quite heavy for it’s kind

hardly believe it was mine

so shiny and glassy

and a little bit pricey

it exhaust my feet

to work to get it

so easy to use

that no one can’t refuse

so useful you were

now taken by snatcher

it was a Sunday morning

me and my friend were walking

through the crowds of man and load

through stalls in a side of road

snatcher got its prey

“pull it off”, they say

they take it from my pocket

front side of my yellow jacket

when they take it from mine

i was feeling so blind

then i chase them by running

but i only found nothing

couldn’t find those bastard

i felt such a retard

i stood and felt so stuck

really want to scream, fuck

my mind was trembling

i saw around crumbling

people say he was notorious

for his action that make me furious

a morning full of sorrow

something in me was hollow

i had to let it go

but not easy to do so

no money to buy a new one

so i have to borrow from someone

it’s all because i was careless

now I have to press four times to type an ‘S’

Now, check this picture out:

beautiful, no? Right, those are diamonds, the most precious stone, as well as the hardest material in earth.

Diamond is purely made of carbon atoms, the same material which forms graphite and coal. But what distinguish them?

The process of formation. Coal is made under low pressure and low temperature condition, while if it is buried deeper, it will be graphite (commonly used as pencil lead), and in most extreme condition, it will be diamond.

The key is the pressure. The deeper the depth, the higher the pressure, and it turns carbon to form diamond crystal. It is analogous with us, human beings. The more pressure we have, from jobs, family, schools, everywhere, will turns us to be stronger, harder, and more precious person, as diamond is. If a person does not get enough pressure, he will be coal: easily burned, cheap, and dirty.

Do you wanna be diamond or coal? your call.

I actually made this article as a requirement to be participant on Petroleum Engineering ITB field trip to Wayang Windu Geothermal Field in Pangalengan, Bandung Regency, but because today is Wednesday and I’m supposed to post something in my blog, so I post this. This article is usually a modification from Wikipedia page and my little knowledge about Hot Dry Rock technology. But, mostly from Wikipedia, of course.

Hot Dry Rock Technology

Definition

One of the newest type of technology in geothermal power utilization is Hot Dry Rock technology (HDR). This term is also known as Enhanced Geothermal Systems. The difference between HDR and conventional geothermal technology is that HDR does not require natural convective hydrothermal resource. This technology is applied where the rock has only naturally occuring heat but no fluids to transfer the heat to the surface. The rock also does not have sufficient porosity and permeability to store and flow the fluid, so, it is required to enhance the permeability of the rock through hydraulic fracturing, usually using high pressured cold water pumping.

Heat Extraction System

The rock which is good to be potential resource of heat that can be developed using HDR is usually granite, covered by thick layer of sediment rock ( 3 – 5 km) that can slow heat loss.

The heat is extracted by injecting cold water to the fractured reservoir and water will travel through fractures in rock, capturing the heat of the rock, until it is forced out through a production well as a very hot water to be converted to electricity either using steam turbine or binary power plant system. As it get cooled, the water is injected back to the reservoir and heat up again.

( As in picture) Enhanced geothermal system1:Reservoir 2:Pump house 3:Heat exchanger 4:Turbine hall 5:Production well 6:Injection well 7:Hot water to district heating 8:Porous sediments 9:Observation well 10:Crystalline bedrock

Development

There are HDR and EGS systems currently being developed and tested in France, Australia, Japan, Germany, the U.S. and Switzerland. The largest EGS project in the world is a 25 megawatt demonstration plant currently being developed in the Cooper Basin, Australia. The Cooper Basin has the potential to generate 5,000–10,000 MW.

The largest project in the world is being developed in Australia’s Cooper Basin by  Geodynamics. The Cooper Basin project has the potential to develop 5–10 GW. Australia now has 33 firms either exploring for, drilling, or developing EGS projects. Australia’s industry has been greatly aided by a national Renewable Portfolio Standard of 25% renewables by 2025, a vibrant Green Energy Credit market, and supportive R&D collaboration between government, academia, and industry.

Germany’s 23 cent/kWh Feed-In Tariff (FIT) for geothermal energy has led to a surge in geothermal development, despite Germany’s relatively poor geothermal resource. The Landau partial EGS project is profitable today under the FIT.

Another project in HDR/EGS technology is also developed in France, US, and UK.

More on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_geothermal_system

and http://hubpages.com/hub/Generating-Electricity-From-Hot-Dry-Rock-Technology

Of the powerful arms of destruction that man has been able to invent, the most terrible -and most cowardly -is the word. Fists and firearms at least leave some blood remaining. Bombs destroy houses and streets. Poisons can be detected. The master says: “The word can destroy without leaving a clue. Children are conditioned for years by their parents, men are impiously criticized, women are systematically massacred by the words of their husband. The faithful are kept away from religion by those who regard themselves as the interpreters of the voice of God. Verify whether you are making use of this weapon. See whether others are using this weapon on you. And prevent either of those from continuing.

Paulo Coelho- Maktub

This is interesting, and I’m certainly say that you will have yourself laughing as you see that those are true (especially for those ever had experience in love).

General provisions:

A – Whereas the saying “all is fair in love and war” is absolutely correct;

B – Whereas for war we have the Geneva Convention, approved on 22 August 1864, which provides for those wounded in the battle field, but until now no convention has been signed concerning those wounded in love, who are far greater in number;

It is hereby decreed that:

Article 1 – All lovers, of any sex, are alerted that love, besides being a blessing, is also something extremely dangerous, unpredictable and capable of causing serious damage. Consequently, anyone planning to love should be aware that they are exposing their body and soul to various types of wounds, and that they shall not be able to blame their partner at any moment, since the risk is the same for both.

Article 2 – Once struck by a stray arrow fired from Cupid’s bow, they should immediately ask the archer to shoot the same arrow in the opposite direction, so as not to be afflicted by the wound known as “unrequited love”. Should Cupid refuse to perform such a gesture, the Convention now being promulgated demands that the wounded partner remove the arrow from his/her heart and throw it in the garbage. In order to guarantee this, those concerned should avoid telephone calls, messages over the Internet, sending flowers that are always returned, or each and every means of seduction, since these may yield results in the short run but always end up wrong after a while. The Convention decrees that the wounded person should immediately seek the company of other people and try to control the obsessive thought: “this person is worth fighting for”.

Article 3 – If the wound is caused by third parties, in other words if the loved one has become interested in someone not in the script previously drafted, vengeance is expressly forbidden. In this case, it is allowed to use tears until the eyes dry up, to punch walls or pillows, to insult the ex-partner in conversations with friends, to allege his/her complete lack of taste, but without offending their honor. The Convention determines that the rule contained in Article 2 be applied: seek the company of other persons, preferably in places different from those frequented by the other party.

Article 4 – In the case of light wounds, herein classified as small treacheries, fulminating passions that are short-lived, passing sexual disinterest, the medicine called Pardon should be applied generously and quickly. Once this medicine has been applied, one should never reconsider one’s decision, not even once, and the theme must be completely forgotten and never used as an argument in a fight or in a moment of hatred.

Article 5 – In all definitive wounds, also known as “breaking up”, the only medicine capable of having an effect is called Time. It is no use seeking consolation from fortune-tellers (who always say that the lost lover will return), romantic books (which always have a happy ending), soap-operas on the television or other such things. One should suffer intensely, completely avoiding drugs, tranquilizers and praying to saints. Alcohol is only tolerated if kept to a maximum of two glasses of wine a day.

Final determination:
Those wounded in love, unlike those wounded in armed conflict, are neither victims nor torturers. They chose something that is part of life, and so they have to accept both the agony and the ecstasy of their choice.
And those who have never been wounded in love will never be able to say: “I have lived”. Because they haven’t.

(Free to share. Just mention the author, please!)

Paulo Coelho

Now, what happens to the cup next to my laptop right now, it doesn’t seem to move at all. It looks static, of course, because I am moving with it, and other things in my room: TV, books, Oxford Learner’s Pocket Dictionary, shoe boxes, and hanging jackets, rotating against the same earth axis so then me and my stuff will go through time until dawn, morning, noon, in the next day and so on. They’re just look static because they are moving at the same speed and direction against same frame of reference.

Look around! Everything is involved in processes. Every process is change. The change could be changing in position or spatial dimension (which is motion, as I described before), changing in state (pressure and temperature change), change in energy (energy transfer), change in mass (decaying), and others. The dynamics of change makes as if there’s something called time, and it also makes life, because life involved all those changing processes.

The point I want to deliver is, related to that physical thing called change, our lives also have to change as other things around us are moving. We should change our principles, ideas, thought, of anything, so that we realize that we are actually doing a life. Don’t stand on your opinion as long as you live, we sometimes need some inconsistence, and think about other’s perspective, or maybe change our mind, in searching of what is the best for our life. Life is about moving to change, if you are not moving, you are literally dead, or maybe not even exist, because dead body can still change (of course it gets rotten… no, this one is a joke, but at least I try to put my intention on how important moving is). In Islam, this act of moving is also called Hijra.

Keep moving! Because only movement can change your life better.

Intersections in our long life roads sometimes is not as a simple as a yes-no question, sometimes we have to deal with so many choices. The choices can be simply to be right way, straight ahead, and left way, which reflects that our decision can lead us to be in better life, the same, or worse, but we will never now which way is the best for us (of course we want the best one) because we can pick more than one road, and once we pick, we can’t go back to choose the other way. That’s when we need our heart, something that may guide us to pick which way we should choose to take us to our destination. But heart knows nothing, it’s only made of intuition, that’s why we need a map, which in our real life, could be a guidance book written by the Omnipotent.

Making a decision is something that has to be done carefully, considering the chances and consequences that are offered by decision we make. Even worse, the light is never red, we are always forced to move on.