Entry # 17 - June 1 2014

NASA to test giant Mars parachute on Earth

Oscar Qi
June 1 2014
CBC News: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/nasa-to-test-giant-mars-parachute-on-earth-1.2661367

The NASA now builds a giant parachute that can land the spaceship on the Mars.  It is going to be tested on Earth. Many years from now, humans have sent many robotic instruments into mars and it was successful. But in order to send astronauts there, they will need a parachute to protect the astronauts from landing. Otherwise by the time the astronauts get there they will be turning into juice and pies already if you get want I’m saying. The idea is that when the weather is nice, the Agency will shoot the parachute 4 times the speed of sound into the atmosphere, and the viewers with internet can watch this wonderful moment. The Engineers do not expect success for the first time trying. However, if they got the data, they said they will be really happy, maybe just for their salary.

 

Step by step, people are closer and closer to the space traveling and space immigrating. This is very exciting as we which human move forward. 100 before we just invented the airplanes, but now, we are able to plan for where are we going to go. I hope the engineers really planned for what are those astronauts going to do when they get there. It’s going to be a boring time. Also, how can they go back? Or they just wouldn’t come back? Even though, if I ever got an opportunity, I would love to anticipate in something like this. This is so cool. I really looking forward to what is going to happen, will humans actually sleep on mars?

Entry # 16 - June 1 2014

Bodies of 6 Mount Rainier climbers may not be recovered

Oscar Qi
June 1 2014
CBC news: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/bodies-of-6-mount-rainier-climbers-may-not-be-recovered-1.2661257

There are 6 people who went to climb Mount Rainer and likely fall down from 1000 meters high and likely they were died and buried. But sadly, there is no way to find their bodies, because at that altitude and conditions, it’s not worth to put another’s person’s life in danger to hopefully find anyone alive down there. They received some signal from the equipment of the climbers. But it’s unclear what were they doing during the accident. An avalanche or a rock fall may cause them to fall. The signal is coming from under snow, which means that they are buried under the ground. This makes the recovery of the bodies even more difficult. This mountain is a very dangerous mountain; many climbers have lost their lives during way to the top.

 

This is very sad, my dad has a friend who actually was a very famous mountain climber, and fell to his death during a mountain climbing event. It was supposed to be an easy and relaxing one, however, he took it too lightly, and he fell to his death. Now, there is 6 people repeated what my dad’s friend did again. They tried to climb to this dangerous mountain with the most challenging route, and got themselves killed.  My dad loves mountain climbing as well, and he said it’s worth it to climb and challenge himself even with the risk of life. Actually I don’t care about what challenging and what the meaning of life that he’s talking about, all I care about is that whatever he do is good for the family.

Entry # 15 - June 1 2014

B.C. randonneur cyclist shot during Cache Creek 600

Oscar Qi
June 1 2014
CBC news: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-randonneur-cyclist-shot-during-cache-creek-600-1.2661218

On the last Sunday morning, a 59 years old Burnaby man was shot during a bicycle event. The location of this assassination took place south of Spence Bridge on highway 1. It happened about 1 am. The Police officers think that the assassin fled by a pickup truck after fire at this person. Burnaby man is now in a hospital and in a stable condition. The cyclist takes part in a 600 kilometer event, which is supposed to be finished in 2 days. The location is around the Spence Bridge.

I think this is a very good time to test the efficiency of the police officer. It will not be an easy job to find out who is the murder. The murderer happened in 1 a.m., which means that there will not be many witness out there. The information that polices get is very limited. They are only guessing that there is a pickup truck for the murderer. But since the victim is now in a good condition and stabilized, hopefully the police officer will able to get some information or clues from the victim. But why is he cycling in 1 a.m.? If I am him I will rather find an inn and get rest for tomorrow. Also, the event should have more police around the trail, in case of the murderer like this ever happen again.

Entry # 14 - Apr 10 2014

Heartbleed web security bug: What you need to know

Oscar Qi
Apr 10 2014
CBC news: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/heartbleed-web-security-bug-what-you-need-to-know-1.2603988

There is a huge bug that people just discovered. It’s called heart bleed bug. It’s not a bug we see every day on the ground, it’s an internet security bug.  This bug can cause people to see your email, personal information, username, password etc. This bug is called heart bleed because when it is exploited from the client to the server and vice versa. It’s pretty look like a bleeding heart. Many internet services are affected, like the Canada Revenue Agency site, yahoo etc. The users don’t know if their personal information is already been stolen or not. This bug can be fixed, but just not by us. In order to protect ourselves, we should change our passwords. Though this is not very useful, the bug is going to leak the information soon or later, but it can limit the people who already know your password.

 

This is a terrible bug. This bug will make people know the password of my LOL account, and then the things will become terrible. Even more seriously, my families’ information might be stolen, and our family might be in danger. No one want any personal information been leak out. Without any doubt, we want the people who are currently working on this fix this bug as soon as possible. Before everyone see everyone else’s personal information and password etc. For the people who don’t know computer very much, like us, it will just be a disaster for us.

Entry # 13 Apr 10 2014

Bullous pemphigoid: how it affects the body

Oscar Qi
Apr 10 2014
CBC news: http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/bullous-pemphigoid-how-it-affects-the-body-1.2605978

Jim Flaherty was Canada’s finance minister. He died of a heart attack at the age of 64, which is this year. He was also suffering from a skin disease called bullous pemphigoid.  He revealed in 2013 January that he has this disease. This disease affected him for many years. It might have a connection with his massive heart attack. This disease is formed when the antibodies attack on the skin even though there is no infection. The skin will usually turn red first and itchy. It then may cause muscle weakness, bone damage and irregular heartbeat etc. This disease is very painful. The patient usually will suffer from a burning feeling. However, this disease is very rare.

 

I think it’s unfortunate for this great man’s death. I also thinks that his death have something to do with this disease. But it’s not the main cause for sure. I think we should always protect our body from every detail, and learn lessons from the mistake that the other people have already made. The heart disease is known as the first killer in the whole North America. I believe in the whole world it’s a very deadly killer as well. My grandfather and maternal grandfather were all died from this disease. I hope people will stop suffering from this disease, and the medical system could develop quickly.

Entry # 12 - Apr 10 2014

Malaysia Airlines MH370: New possible 'pings' detected in jet search

Oscar Qi
Apr 10, 2014
CBC news: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/malaysia-airlines-mh370-new-possible-pings-detected-in-jet-search-1.2605073

The Australia research team recently found a “ping”. They might found the black box for the MH370. The MH370 have 239 people to Beijing on board. The Australia air units and sea units are all trying their best to find the black box or the plane’s flight recorder around the sea where the MH370 disappear. The airplanes drop the sonar around the sea. The area that’s been searching for is around the size of Los Angeles. The sea units send out the Bluefin subs to research on the area around the sea. The time they have is very limited, since the batteries can only last 1 month or so. The searching operation might fail soon.

 

In my opinion, I think this is so unfortunate. There are many Chinese on the plane as well, and they were just ordering drinks and lying on the seat just like we do when we were on the plane. But their air plane was crashed, we are not. I think this tragedy must have something to do with Malaysia. Malaysia must have some truth that was not published yet. But the most important thing is people should never give up hope to find the black box. Everyone wants to know what specifically happened in that plane. I hope we can defeat the time and actually find the black box and figure out what really happened.

 

Entry # 11 - March 16 2014

Canadian hospitals stretched as self-harming teens seek help

Oscar Qi
March 16 2014
CBC News: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canadian-hospitals-stretched-as-self-harming-teens-seek-help-1.2574316

A mental health service found out that the number of teenagers in the hospital who have suicidal thoughts and self-inflict injures has grown significantly. Dr. Hazen says, “We're seeing twice as many kids as we were 10 years ago”. Dr. Hazen mentioned that the kids who hurt themselves usually from cutting themselves with knife or anything that’s sharp and burn themselves for no good reason. Self- inflict injure could be caused by depression and anxiety. In 2009-13, the number of the kids who hurt themselves and shows up in the emergency rises significantly. Many factors can make Kids and teenagers to hurt themselves, like experience a break up, a death or a poor grade. The Doctors says about this situation “almost a fad to cut now”.

 

In my opinion, the teenagers are always feeling more stressed due to the fact that they are in adolescence. When people are in adolescence, they can’t really control themselves and they will always need to find something to vent their emotions and feelings. When they feel rock music and gaming isn’t strong enough, they will look for something like drugs and self- injuring. I think the solution of this is to teach the teenagers and the kids to control their feelings and mood. Sometimes they also hurt the people they love and the people who have nothing to do with the deal they involved in.